MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2025-10-07 20:25:59+00:00
It's now passed peer-review, but hasn't yet been formatted into the journal's format as a PDF.

Abstract here: https://www.authorea.com/users/960972/articles/1329770-solar...

Which links to this .docx: https://www.authorea.com/users/960972/articles/1329770/maste...
by worik | 2025-10-07 20:26:04+00:00
As to the legality of ICE: The law suits are not being heard yet, time will tell

Legal or illegal what they're doing is wrong

As to capitalists and cheap labour: that is what drove the rise in the population of the undocumented community. I was addressing the cause of that problem

The need for a neo-facist to have an "other" to deamonise is what drives ICE

Capitalists and facists do not have perfectly aligned incentives
by glenstein | 2025-10-07 20:26:23+00:00
Well the Axis powers from World War II are the most obvious demonstrations of nationalism begetting authoritarianism. Germany, Italy, and Japan were nationalist in the extreme. And Italy from that time is such a clear example that it's basically the canonical example used to teach how fascism emerges.

Contemporary examples include the Philippines, Hungary, Poland's Law and Justice Party, and arguably Russia, Turkey and India. Modi is a Hindu nationalist. The United States unfortunately is shaping up to count as an example as well.

Extreme forms of nationalism tend to have a narrative of grievance, a desire to restore a once a great national identity, and a tendency to divide the world into loyal citizens, and enemies without and within, against whom authoritarians powers must be mobilized.

So there's a conceptual basis, in terms of setting the stage for rationalizing authoritarianism, as well as abundant historical examples demonstrating the marriage of nationalism and authoritarianism in action. There's nothing wrong with not knowing, but I would say there's an extremely strong and familiar historical canon to those who study the topic.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-07 20:27:19+00:00
The bigger factor is whether or not Linux phones that are reasonably nice to use (everything works, isn’t flaky, battery life is decent-ish) come to market or not. Developers aren’t going to be interested in a platform that for practical purposes is at best a curiosity or something to tinker with, no matter how many idealist checkboxes they tick.

Good North America market availability sure would help too. There’s been stuff like Sailfish that seemed interesting in the past but didn’t have easily purchasable devices available in the US, completely precluding development for the platform for a significant number of devs.
by whatever1 | 2025-10-07 20:27:31+00:00
> Alternatives like the Pi RP2040/2350 and Espressif's vast selection of boards can fill the gaps, but Arduino was what got me and many people I know into microcontrollers, so I have a special fondness for them!

Exactly. For the people who did not follow a structured educational program on embedded programming, starting with an SMT microcontroller was very hard.

Arduino made this fun and easy with their language & IDE combo. Typing some code and seeing the lights on the board reacting is a hell of a drug.

Once you mastered the IDE, you could either program other microcontrollers in the same IDE, or at some point you hit the limits and started digging into the vendor-specific toolchains.

If I started again today, I would again start with an Arduino.
by coredog64 | 2025-10-07 20:27:45+00:00
Out of curiosity, what makes "arresting citizens" illegal?

If I'm in a crowd in the presence of a number of other law breakers, why would I think that I couldn't ever be temporarily detained? I mean, yes, it shouldn't be indefinite and there shouldn't be a high bar to clear to prove actual innocence, but we have process for this. I can be arrested without much provocation at all. I then have to be charged, I have the opportunity to enter a plea, get bail, and then I get a trial. All of that can (and does) happen to people who are legitimately innocent.
by BizarroLand | 2025-10-07 20:27:51+00:00
Stagflation is the simultaneous appearance in an economy of slow growth, high unemployment, and rising prices.

Thousands of people are getting laid off every week, prices are higher than they have ever been for most goods and services, and while unemployment is low, the number of jobs available per person looking for work is less than the number of people looking for work, the government is shut down for now, and there are promises/threats of more jobs and positions being cut before it opens back up.

Really walking the razors edge here, lol.
by AndroidKitKat | 2025-10-07 20:28:26+00:00
These cars exist purely to be a rung in the price ladder to get you to spend $5,000 more on a car with actual features. They did the same thing with the RWD Cybertruck and I don't actually believe they ever shipped any before cancelling it.

If people do end up buying these I really hope they know what they are giving up. Something as simple as "seat controls" were deemed too costly and are now driven by software on the touch screen. I used to give the "software defined car" a bit of leeway on some of the omissions / transition to screen, but these cars are the extreme and I wonder if legislators are going to allow this. For example, I checked on the Tesla Japan and Tesla Europe websites and it doesn't look like these are for sale.
by sshine | 2025-10-07 20:29:20+00:00
Using LLMs as an extra backup buffer sounds really neat.

But I was trained with editing files in telnet over shaky connections, before Vim had auto-backup. You learn to hit save very frequently. After 3 decades I still reflexively hit save when I don’t need to.

I don’t forget to stage/commit in git between my prompts.

The new checkpoint and rollback features seem neat for people who don’t have those already. But they’re standard tools.
by latexr | 2025-10-07 20:29:26+00:00
> I don’t think it’s as clear cut as you’re indicating.

I’m not saying it’s clear cut. On the contrary, I’m saying it’s not. Unlike the person who responded to me, who claimed “the American worker is much better off than the European worker”, I am not claiming “every worker in every European country is better off than the US American worker”.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-10-07 20:30:00+00:00
"Neoliberalism" became a dirty word for lots of reasons (mainly because it caused a ton of people in developed nations to lose their jobs, as manufacturing capacity shifted to developing nations and developed nations leaned into the information economy), but there was a time when the word wasn't tainted and the pro-market Democrats of the Clinton era absolutely self-identified as Neoliberals.

They liked competition and markets, delivered strong economic growth, and brought the deficit down, but they fucked up by not funneling some of those efficiency gains into education and training, and toward building a robust social safety net to help the economically displaced.
by tombert | 2025-10-07 20:30:01+00:00
I feel like your knowledge is a little out of date. Drivers on Linux are generally pretty decent now, especially if you use AMD or Intel graphics.

I had to do some recovery stuff on my mom’s laptop recently, which has an Intel GPU, and I just had it boot off an Ubuntu flash drive into Ubuntu desktop, and it worked fine, including WiFi.

On my main “game console”, I have an Nvidia card running in an eGPU case, and that was a pain in the ass to set up, so fair enough I suppose.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-07 20:30:21+00:00
Well it might be emotional if you're one of these people about to be sent to South Sudan

It's either right or wrong for ICE to run a dragnet through a city, cuffing everyone, checking their papers, as they hope to find someone undocumented.

Either human beings have rights and deserve due process, or they don't.

People are reduced to the point of keeping airtags on them so loved ones and their lawyers can find them because the administration wants to hide them away.
by keernan | 2025-10-07 20:30:29+00:00
To a billionaire, hundreds of thousands of dollars is similar to 25 cents to the average person. Do you think a billionaire would not spend 25 cents to hire an army of people to post on social media to advance their position?

It would be pure lunacy to think Musk would spend billions to control twitter but wouldn't spend a few hundred thousand to hire armies to monitor all social media references to him.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-07 20:30:40+00:00
> No, they position themselves against it, because they have a narrative similar to the (former) “deep state” narrative in the US, but you can be assured that they will reverse course as soon as they can afford it.

We seem to have a general problem with people not understanding that democracies have regular elections and the other party is going to get back in at some point. So then whenever one party is in power, instead of thinking ahead by five minutes and realizing that adding new constraints on the government and adding rather than eroding checks and balances will help you the next time the other team gets in, everybody thinks of them as an impediment to doing whatever they want immediately.

And then like clockwork they get butthurt when they checks they eroded or failed to put into place aren't there after the next election, as if they had nothing to do with it.
by halayli | 2025-10-07 20:30:41+00:00
Strictly speaking, in the C++ object model, malloc allocates storage but doesn't create objects. Accessing that memory as if it contains an object (even a trivial one like int) without properly giving it object lifetime is technically UB. For trivial types, this is rarely enforced in practice, but the standard says to use placement new or std::start_lifetime_as (C++23) to properly begin object lifetime.
by gowld | 2025-10-07 20:30:49+00:00
Can someone explain this?

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration...

> The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.

I don't understand the argument.
by bediger4000 | 2025-10-07 20:31:01+00:00
With all due respect, observing a lack of consistency usually means that a "hidden variable" remains to be discovered. Perhaps if we take a holistic view of recent SCOTUS decisions, we could apprehend a hidden variable or two.

I conjecture that conservative culture war topics are the hidden variable(s) and that the Roberts Court is forcing a conservative view on all these issues, whether there's a constitutional, logical, or precedent reason or not.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-10-07 20:31:08+00:00
I think you’re missing the real-politik of rooftop installations. The person installing the panel has a few square meters of empty and unproductive space, over which they have exclusive construction rights. And which is already connected to a grid, with capacity to absorb its production, physically close to the consumers of its output.

That combination of factors is fairly rare in most of Europe & North America - especially when you’re looking for multiple contiguous kilometres of land for utility scale solar. There’s a lot of that type of land out in Texas and Australia, but there’s much less of it in the Scottish Highlands.
by silexia | 2025-10-07 20:31:10+00:00
Destroying gifted programs is an insidious form of socialism. Socialism seeks to take from those who work hard and give to those who do not. Socialism inevitably collapses into dictatorship. That is the end goal of those who push it (other than fools who believe in an impossible utopia that ignores human nature). Destroying gifted programs is just another attempt to make everyone poor and under government control.
by ericmcer | 2025-10-07 20:31:12+00:00
I definitely draw a distinction between like... famous medieval leaders and generals being well known versus what we do with people like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Kim Kardashian etc. I am sure they had local celebrities back then but there is no way they extended much beyond a small region or a single nation.

In my ideal world generating content becomes so easy that it loses all value unless you have some relation to the creator. Who cares about the new Avengers movie, Rick from down the street also made an action movie that we are gonna check out. Local celebrities return. Global figures are generated because why would Coke pay 100m for Lebron to dunk a can of coke on camera or some dumb shit when his image has been absolutely trashed by floods of gen content.
by wolfram74 | 2025-10-07 20:31:18+00:00
Fortunately other chemistries are making their way down the learning curve lithium's been on, and after a few moment reflection it would be astounding if the same types of storage that are optimal for mobile consumers also happen to be optimal for grid balancing, as daily grid balancing can be done pretty reasonably with a c rating[0] of about .2 or even .1, and as long they aren't so heavy they need to be placed on massive foundation piles, weight is not really a factor. Just need to make it as cheap as possible.

[0] battery c rating is what fraction of the battery can discharge in 1 hour https://wikibattery.org/en/wiki-us/battery/charging-rate-cha...
by nxobject | 2025-10-07 20:31:32+00:00
> Being arrested by the feds for breaking the law has usually been a fairly unpleasant ordeal.

> This really doesn't have to be an emotional issue.

I think you're misreading the OP and/or ignoring recent news. OP's contention is that the way it's being executed deserves an emotional response -- everything from ignoring judges to send people to El Salvadoran mega-prisons, to roaming streets in masks with creditable allegations about racial profiling. [0]

I'd like to know more about your claim about feeding, housing, and providing care to the whole world.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/politics/supreme-court...
by numpad0 | 2025-10-07 20:31:36+00:00
Solar panels are photodiode arrays. Photodiodes are made by lacing mid-purity Si with ultra toxic metals. More neurotoxic the better is the basic rule of all high-performance opto-electronics semiconductors. The less toxic you make, the worse they get, and less they responsive to longer wavelength lights.

In, Ga, As, P, Si, Zn, Se, Ge, Cd, Te, Pb, etc. The duh materials. Sometimes the whole panel is thin crystals of GaAs. You have to melt that down to recycle.
by Neywiny | 2025-10-07 20:31:48+00:00
This is particularly impactful to me. My family was on sprint for so long we had employee discounts. Every so often they'd raise the plan's data cap and cost. Whatever. Eventually they merged. All was fine. Then, t-mobile started hounding us to switch phones. They all worked fine but they insisted they were getting rid of 4G. I just kept saying "no you're not". Eventually they forced a phone switch (at least it was free). That was 2.5 years ago. And still they're threatening it but haven't done it, and still their 5G coverage isn't everywhere I've been. Every time I see my phone flip to 4G I think about my trusty old phone decaying in a drawer
by thephyber | 2025-10-07 20:31:50+00:00
Obama’s deportation numbers were juiced compared to post-2015 numbers because there was a change in the definition of that term.

Obama’s deportations were mostly border patrol apprehending and pushing people back across the border, not ICE being super efficient at rounding up people in the interior of the country.

A good primer on immigration enforcement before and during the Obama admin:

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deporta...
by jjcm | 2025-10-07 20:31:59+00:00
It's a long-term gamble but a short-term win.

In almost all scenarios, a setup with this incentive structure will lead to massive adoption. It's too tempting, and with most jobs / political positions being short term (<5yrs) ones, people optimize for their time in that timeframe, not longer.

Boards will pursue stock buybacks (short term growth, long term may cause trouble if there's a downturn), banks will lend out subprime mortgages (hit your sales numbers in the short term, at the cost of long term risk), etc etc.

This situation is no different. There's money flowing in and there's less red tape since everyone is being pressured to allow it. It might work out in the long term, it might not, but it will 100% benefit those who push it in the short term. People will get promoted for driving a new data center, politicians can promote more jobs being added, everybody wins... for now.

The future economic aspect becomes irrelevant when the short term candy is sweet enough.
by deepsun | 2025-10-07 20:32:27+00:00
Then autoshops are exposed to the risk that mechanics report/sue them for "employee misclassification" and unpaid wages. Employers are better always pay at least minimum wage, even for 1099s, otherwise more incentive for workers to report them.

Of course many are ok being exposed to that risk, depends on the jobs. Also there's tips that help employers avoiding the unpaid wages. However, worker must report the tips received, and if they received less tips to cover the minimum wage, then employer must pay employee the difference (so the total pay would be at least min wage).

I saw that restaurant owners pay at least min wage even to illegal workers who don't even have SSNs. I assumed that unpaid wages is more serious than hiring illegally.
by nevertoolate | 2025-10-07 20:32:29+00:00
it is not a philosophical debate against the auto-squash. It is just auto-squash deletes potentially useful data automatically and provides zero benefit? Or what is the benefit?

1. pr message doesn't contain _all_ intent behind each change while the commit did cover the intent behind a technical decision. would you put everything in the pr message? why? it will just be a misleading messy comment for unrelated architectural components.

2. you branch from a wip branch - why? just. - now when the original branch is merged you can't rebase as github/lab messed up the parents.

3. interactive rebase before merge works fine for the wip wip wip style coding. But honestly wip wip wip style happens on bad days, not on days where you are executing a plan.

4. most importantly: you can read the pr message stuff if you filter on merge commits, but if you auto-squash you lose information.
by Finnucane | 2025-10-07 20:33:16+00:00
None of this is new, it has been this way for decades. It just gets worse as the industry gets more concentrated, and the publishers are more tightly controlled by media conglomerates and equity investors who treat them as black boxes for the extraction of value. I haven't worked on the acquisitions side in a long time, but practically everything in this article could have been written thirty years ago. The midlist where you'd try to grow a new author's audience was already being squeezed out.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-07 20:33:27+00:00
I would have to cut down so many trees around my house to get effective sunlight on the roof more than a few hours a day. Plus my roof is pitched east/west so at best I have half the roof in sunlight for half the day. I do have quite a bit of clear space behind the house, so I could consider a system that sits on the ground.

I just like paying the utility every month and not having to worry about owning, maintaining, and repairing my own infrastructure though. As it is now, if anything goes wrong upstream of the meter, that's not my responsibility.
by cowteriyaki | 2025-10-07 20:33:33+00:00
Coming with a Lidar out of the box seems nice.

Does the MARS hardware really remove the hidden extras (computer with a gpu) mentioned as the downside of HF SO-101 or LeKiwi? While a jetson is good for inference, I feel like to train VLAs you would need access to a powerful GPU regardless. For Lerobot based hardware training ACT was relatively low profile if you use low resolution for the camera feeds, but with increased resolution or with more than one camera I already saw needing more than 8GB of VRAM. If VLA is on the table, finetuning something like the open sourced version of pi0 should already necessitate access to more than one 4090 or above I think.

Also, do you have plans for community-level datasets? I think Lerobot sort of does this with their data recording pipeline and HF integration.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-07 20:33:36+00:00
> Falsely quoting

What's the acceptable notation for paraphrasing? I typically use > for quotes.

Agreed, most of this is an unnecessary argument over terminology when I was simply calling them Temu Stasi.

We'll see about the secret police thing, for now they seem to be just about getting their deportation bounties.
The CRM personality mismatch (and a fix)
by vedranXYZ | 2025-10-07 20:33:59+00:00
CRMs are built for detail-driven people, but sales runs on conversation-first extroverts.

///

I've closed 6-figure deals and still hate updating the CRM.

It's not laziness. After a great sales call, my brain is buzzing with next steps and strategy.

The LAST thing I want to do is open another tab and fill out fields.

Here's what's wild: Research shows top performers score high in relationship-building but LOW in detail-oriented tasks.

We built systems that fight against how our best people actually work.

I'm building something to fix this. Imagine updating your CRM the same way you update your team in Slack or in person... by just typing or talking.

Working on an MVP now. If you've ever felt this pain, drop a comment. What's your biggest CRM frustration?
by DamonHD | 2025-10-07 20:34:08+00:00
For the UK there is more wind in the winter, solar in the summer.

Intraday anti-correlation is there, but it's more complicated:

https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/generation-forecast-for-wind-and-s...

The US picture varies a lot over the contiguous states, I think, but often, again, there is anti-correlation in general.
by Kon5ole | 2025-10-07 20:34:10+00:00
It's not as bad as all that.

Solar "subsidies" are almost universally tax credits, meaning the only money involved is the money paid by the homeowners. So, for society, rooftop solar is by far the cheapest option. It costs the rest of us nothing, the homeowners pay for it.

Money is also not limited, it is in fact created by the banks when someone takes a loan, for example to put solar on their roofs.

Meaning there is no money lost from society that could instead be used to build utility solar, just because someone puts solar on their roofs. If your county borrows money to make utility solar, that money is also created by the bank then and there.

Also note that you are quoting last years Lazard report. Solar is way cheaper in this year's report. It will probably be even cheaper in the next one.
by ghthor | 2025-10-07 20:34:22+00:00
go list can tell you that pkg1 imports pkg2.

At work, go list was too slow and depended on a git checkout so we wrote our own import graph parser using the go std lib parser and operate on byte slices of the files we read directly from git. It’s speed of light fast and we can compute go import graphs in parallel from multiple commits to determine what has changed in the graph so we can reduce the scope of what is tested.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-07 20:34:30+00:00
>or example, a cross-country power transmission with the USAs grid would result in ~36% losses (napkin math at about 20% loss per 1000km).

wait, is that it? I can get my electricity from a solar panel in Nevada, middle of winter, far longer than I have local sunlight for,

for about 40 cents a kwh?

And that's treated as an existential problem?

Solar panels are so cheap we should be extremely overprovisioning anyway.