MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-07 19:24:48+00:00
They also have limits on how much power they can transfer before the lines sag too much.

Here in Norway the limitations of our rather poorly connected energy grid has become very apparent last few years, with 100x price difference between regions that aren't that far apart physically.

While we've been paying "winter prices" during summer, up north they've shut down hydro plants since the prices there are so low it's less than operating costs.
by eqvinox | 2025-10-07 19:24:58+00:00
I mean, there is already "Quellen-TKÜ"¹ for the "with cause" situation… however bonkers that one might be on a modern secure Apple or Android device…

¹ Quelle = source, TKÜ = Telekommunikationsüberwachung = telecommunication surveillance. aka installing trojans on your devices.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-10-07 19:25:17+00:00
> but not as much as they would if they were putting all of their eggs into one casket, as the "AI companies" like OpenAI and Anthropic do (or do much more).

Microsoft invested over 15 billion in OpenAI.

You think they wouldn't have rather spent a fraction of that to have a SoTA model?

Limititing the "money burn rate" on AI is a political compromise that was made at the companies between various decision makers

Meta has no one to compromise with as Zuck is the majority shareholder (voting wise), Apple has so much cash they don't know what to do with it (cars, VR, etc),

This argument doesn't hold up for these cash rich top companies.

The companies hope that at the end even a not state-of-the-art AI model might offer business opportunities

I find it hard to believe that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all aren't optimizing for 'bang for buck' here.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-07 19:25:58+00:00
I commend you for saying this, but this is akin to saying you would gladly pay me tomorrow for a hamburger today. It doesn’t pay the bills. Perhaps a group could assemble on Patreon or other crowdfunding to acquire rights to make their own releases if they wanted to be part of a market-based solution.

Would you be willing to crowdfund such an enterprise? It’s one thing to say you’ll put your money where your mouth is in some hypothetical future economic situation that may never arrive (as it was never funded by you or by anyone else), whereas it’s altogether another thing entirely to actually do what you say you’ll do in hopes that your investment will come good.
by GrantMoyer | 2025-10-07 19:26:00+00:00
Like the author, I've also found myself wanting to recover an accidentally deleted file. Luckily, some git operations, like `git add` and `git stash`, store files in the repo, even if they're not ultimately committed. Eventually, those files will be garbage collected, but they can stick around for some time.

Git doesn't expose tools to easily search for these files, but I was able to recover the file I deleted by using libgit2 to enumerate all the blobs in the repo, search them for a known string, and dump the contents of matching blobs.
by mikestorrent | 2025-10-07 19:26:15+00:00
This is what we're hoping battery-style plants will supplant. I say "battery-style" because it turns out that filling a tank with compressed air, lifting a heavy weight with a crane, or pumping water up into a lake all have excellent energy storage potential while not requiring any kind of esoteric matter or construction techniques. It does remain to be seen if such activities can be profitable or not - but if you're effectively buying power when it's cheap / free / paid to take it, and you're selling it when it isn't, it should be possible....
by hashbig | 2025-10-07 19:26:21+00:00
Most of the reason I've started losing interest in Rails and the DHH cult is their insistence that their homemade JS solutions (Stimulus, Hotwire, JS import maps) should be the default choice instead of industry standards like Intertia and Vite.

I am maintaining a Rails app with Vite + Interia + Vue, and it's many times easier to manage, develop, especially when working with LLMs that haven't been trained on DHH's new frontend experiments du jour.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 19:26:21+00:00
> Difference between deportations under Obama vs Trump is they aren't coming right back over

“U.S. Border Patrol agents recorded nearly 238,000 apprehensions of migrants crossing the southern border illegally in fiscal year 2025” [1]. For 2012 to 2015, the chart shows about 360k, 420k, 480k and 330k, respectively.

So ICE is spending $330 to 580 thousand dollars per additional Southwest border encounter in 2025 versus 2012. ($250 to 440 thousand if we average Obama’s second-term numbers.)

These numbers 10x even San Francisco’s circa 2016 homeless-industrial profligacy [2]. Unless ICE is a ball of wormy corruption, they’re clearly not focused on immigration enforcement.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/icymi-illegal-cr...

[2] https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...
by NobodyNada | 2025-10-07 19:26:22+00:00
> I strongly oppose any kind of "panopticon" like ChatControl. What I would like to see, is, say, Signal [...] provide cleartext contents of communications to/from a cleary identified party

Those statements simply aren't compatible.

Right now, Signal is designed by cryptography experts to provide the best privacy we know how to build: messages are only readable by you or the intended recipient. "Lawful intercept" necessarily means some additional third party is given the ability to read messages.

It doesn't matter what kind of legal framework you have around that, because you can't just build a cryptosystem where the key is "a warrant issued under due process." There has to be a system, somewhere, that has access to plaintext messages and can give law enforcement and courts access. The judges, officers, technicians, suppliers, and software involved in building and using this system are all potential vectors by which this access can be compromised or misused -- whether via software or hardware attacks, social engineering, or abuse of power.

Maybe your country has "functioning rule of law", and every single government official and all the vendors they hire are pure as snow, but what about all the rest of us living in imperfect countries? What about when a less-than-totally-law-abiding regime comes into power?

You're proposing that we secure our private conversations with TSA luggage locks.
by thesz | 2025-10-07 19:26:30+00:00
One would be better off implementing cache-oblivious lookahead array [1] or even log-structured merge trees.

[1] https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~bender/newpub/BenderFaFi07.p...

Both structures exploit the fact that most of the data does not change much and can be packed as tight as one wishes. Even prefixes (and suffixes) can be factored out.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-10-07 19:26:46+00:00
I'm not sure that's relevant to Chat Control. What's at stake here is not a definition of 'acceptable communication' in public, but the possibility of all private communication being scanned.

That's not to say that private communication can't already be illegal; mere 'conspiracy' is a crime in many places. Yet the level of surveillance that would be enabled by legislation like Chat Control is greater than any other in history. Even notorious agencies like the Stasi had to pick and choose their targets based on prior suspicion, simply because of the logistics involved in traditional surveillance.

We don't fully know what effects this kind of unceasing, universal monitoring would have on society, and what little historical precedent exists doesn't bode well. Restrictions on public speech however are pretty well understood; we've had censorship in various forms pretty much everywhere in the world at one point or another. We can look to history for lessons about what happens, and can properly discuss (even if not agree!) about when censorship is good or bad for society.
by maxglute | 2025-10-07 19:26:53+00:00
Total historic emissions is the ONLY serious metric. Since it accounts for all capital buildouts, it takes centuries of emission heavy construction to get developed countries where they are. Countries are going to emit more when they're in steel and concrete phase of nation building.

Does climate care about emissions? Does climate care about changing? No. Climate doesn't care it cycles back to ice age.

Humans (hypothetically) care about climate change. It's a fundmentally a geo-political problem, which means the solution is geopolitically agreed on metric. Currently it rhetorically per capita, but arguably it should be historic per capita, because per capita itself is geopolitic concession metric that shifts responsibility away from historic carbon debt of developed nations towards developing nations.
by missedthecue | 2025-10-07 19:26:58+00:00
My day job and then family life consumes a lot of my time, but in 2025 so far I have shipped 8 personal tools and side-projects from zero, which is a record for me.(not to mention a lot of smaller stuff like custom browser extensions). That probably would have been 1 maybe 2 in a world without AI.
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-07 19:27:06+00:00
My Dad passed away two years ago, and for a time I thought it would be nice to have an AI of him just to hear his voice again, but then I realized that the reason I'd want that is because I don't have really any video or audio of him from when he was alive. The reason I'd want the AI is because I have no training data for it...

If I did have sufficient training data for an AI Dad, I'd much rather just listen to the real recordings, rather than some AI slop generated from it. This is just another dumb application of AI that sounds alright on paper, but makes no sense in real life.
by em-bee | 2025-10-07 19:27:16+00:00
i can explain it. (ok, i can't explain why someone would create a react monster instead of using a better suited frontend framework, but i can explain why i prefer to separate backend and frontend)

ever since i started using frontend frameworks for websites, the backend has become trivially simple. so simple that i have been able to reuse the same backend for all my websites built since. most websites do not need more than CRUD on the backend. and even for those that do need more backend logic, separating front and backend makes both parts easier to develop. they don't get entangled, and i can make drastic changes in either part without breaking the other.

frontend frameworks allow me to think of the frontend as an independent client application that runs in the browser. instead of having a complex application that displays here but runs over there, i have two simple applications, one that runs on the server and one that runs in the browser.

using a frontend framework makes development feel like writing a desktop application. i don't have to consider network latency, except to load and update data. but that can happen in the background. it doesn't affect the UI. it makes me think about loading data from the server efficiently. it allows me to preload data in the background. it allows me to cache it so that when the user switches between different views, the data doesn't have to be reloaded, yet it can still be updated.

you can do this with a server framework only too. but getting that working smoothly across multiple page loads is a lot more complex than having all views that share data in a single page application.
by DamonHD | 2025-10-07 19:27:36+00:00
We generally don't like to put our nukes (or coal plant) in the centre of cities even though that would reduce transmission costs, nor are major hydro resources often close to the areas that power from them goes to. So that is not unique to wind and solar even if sometimes amplified for them.

Separate reports in the last couple of days suggest that both Norway and Germany could get ~25% of their total solar power from viable rooftop spaces, IIRC.

And indeed one very positive feature of solar is that it IS safe to deploy AT load/demand centres, very much reducing costs and losses in the last 'distribution' mile.

Solar also works when there is no grid locally, which is useful from rural UK to Africa.

[1] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/03/rooftop-solar-could-g...

[2] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/rooftop-solar-housing-b...
by SpicyUme | 2025-10-07 19:27:47+00:00
How do you deal with running electricity through the house? This is not meant to be a fully serious question, but I'm replacing old wires in my home currently and it doesn't escape my attention that PFAS added to the insulation makes the new wiring easier to use and possibly safer from a fire perspective. I'm not certain about this but pulling cloth wrapper wires out of the ceiling makes me think where such chemicals have been used. I know I buy precrimped jumper wires with a teflon coating for work. I'm certain some people strip them with a heated tool. And I certainly melted some insulation while soldering them as a teenager.
by buckle8017 | 2025-10-07 19:28:05+00:00
CalISO is a weird entity. WECC has essential subordinated contracting within a subset of the Western grid to CalISO.

However it's not actually a separate grid. So when analyzing stability issues from inverter based sources of power (solar/wind/batteries) we can't use CalISO numbers since they can (and do) actually draw power from outside the CalISO grid area.
by Kreutzer | 2025-10-07 19:28:20+00:00
I don't think its quite reducible to that. Take a step back and look at how you have an Emperor whose power is offset by both the Landsraad and the navigator's guild. This arrangement has all come about because of a scarce resource only available on one desert planet which makes space travel possible, and which has a population who have been fiercely fighting a guerilla war for centuries. It was all bound to come undone whether Paul accepted his part or not.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-10-07 19:28:21+00:00
Do you like working? If you like working and solving problems, it sounds like you have some time to learn new skills and find a company that would value your contributions.

There are small companies/startups that would presumably trade your experience and a desire to not be overworked for a moderate salary.

You obviously can't act like you're looking for a 'chill' job in the interview, but you can be on the lookout for companies that are a bit more relaxed, and if you aren't trying to maximize your comp, they probably will be OK if you don't put in 'startup hours'
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-10-07 19:28:27+00:00
>>>Heck if the McDonald’s CEO and family were required by law to eat their own McDonald’s product for 80%+ of daily caloric/macro intake, then we would probably see things change quickly.

Hamurabbi's code: An architect, or equivalent next of kin, was put to death , if the building he had built killed the owner, or a kin of the owner.
by Theodores | 2025-10-07 19:28:53+00:00
With many products, every contact a customer makes with customer service is an opportunity to profit. However, it requires quite a mindset to appreciate this.

You can rig your product reviews by providing above and beyond customer service, for example, warranty claims dealt with in a day with a replacement in the post arriving as if by magic to surprise the customer. Hit them up for a review and they will write a review with meaning, explaining how you fixed their problem, exceeding all expectations. Unless you have done this then you would never know. Although most companies do collect reviews, they don't know the way to do it is to get reviews from the customers that complained rather than the ones that didn't. It is very counterintuitive.

You can always upsell. If the customer has problems with the product then maybe they need a different product or a whole suite of stuff. With software you can always give trials too. Complaining about what comes with Windows? Maybe you need Office. Here you go, a three month trial to tide you over.

Customer service should also be the eyes and ears of the company, to alert product and sales teams to any problems with new products so corrections can be made very quickly.

It is also about having customers for life. It is more cost effective to retain the customers you have rather than churn them.

All of this applies regardless of the company size. There are some caveats though. Nothing can be queued unduly, queues don't save time for anyone and you still have to get all of that queued work done. This means you need team members that work from both the front and the back of the queue, to have a clean queue by the end of day.

If you get it right then customer service is not a cost, it is the exact opposite, at the heart of marketing due to word of mouth goodness that can't be bought so easily. If you can get the upsells to work too, then a customer service department can pay its own way, to profit even.

You also have to recruit people that will go above and beyond. Lots of people have hectic lives with kids and other obligations that make their lives unpredictable. They will need days off, special working hours and other niceties, however, give them a job that they can fit around their life and they will show gratitude with loyalty and hard work.

There are cultural problems why this 'bring it on' approach is not so common. Usually customer service are down there with the pigeons in corporate pecking order. In reality, customer service needs to be at the heart of the company with more than lip service given to the 'customer first' idea.

With companies giving customer service over to AI chatbots, there is plenty of opportunity for companies of all sizes, including Microsoft, to resist the AI temptation and get serious about customer service.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-07 19:29:03+00:00
At this point it's like using the urinal when you're directly beside an ocean full of piss. Dealing with it at an individual level has mostly failed as it would take coordination 'before' people click on the link, and enough people to realize it's junk before they submit it to HN. Being that at least 91 people upvoted this it seems like that isn't working.
by dlisboa | 2025-10-07 19:29:04+00:00
You're not considering how scalable your simplified solution is to a team of 100+ people developing the same codebase.

Most of the problems of software engineering are not technical, they are social. Web development is simple for a team of 1-10. I love the idea of hand-writing CSS and relying on simple scripts for myself and a few teammates. Unfortunately it doesn't scale to large orgs.

It's not that people don't want to learn.
by status_quo69 | 2025-10-07 19:29:11+00:00
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you're interpreting this as if the rails app needs the same amount of is that exists in the described vite solution.

But in reality if you're using hotwire you can get away with almost no JavaScript at all comparatively. That's why stimulus is in vanilla js generally, it's meant for sprinkling behavior onto the dom vs controlling the dom.

So if you don't have a js framework that needs to control the whole Dom and doesn't need a gigantic optimization step or tree shaking or typescript or whatever, you can get away with a whole lot less than it you embraced those frameworks that _do_ want to own the dom wholesale.
by magnetar20 | 2025-10-07 19:29:11+00:00
What Is Neuroplasticity? Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s natural ability to change and adapt in response to experiences, learning, and environmental factors. Our brains are not static; they constantly adjust how neurons connect and communicate. When the brain receives irregular or missing input—like hearing loss—it tries to compensate by strengthening or creating new neural pathways.

In the case of tinnitus, this adaptation can be both a problem and a solution. The same neuroplastic processes that cause the phantom ringing sound can also be harnessed to help the brain tune it out.

How the Brain Creates Tinnitus Tinnitus often begins when there is a disruption in how the ear sends sound signals to the brain. For example, if the hair cells in the inner ear are damaged due to aging or noise exposure, the brain receives incomplete auditory input. In response, it tries to “fill in the gaps.”

Neurons in the auditory cortex—the part of the brain that processes sound—start firing irregularly, even when no external sound exists. Over time, the brain interprets this activity as a real sound, leading to the perception of ringing noise in the ear or buzzing in ear causes that have no physical source.

This maladaptive neuroplasticity is what turns a simple auditory imbalance into a persistent condition. However, the same plasticity that caused tinnitus can also be used to reduce it.

How Neuroplasticity Can Help Retrain the Brain The encouraging part of neuroplasticity is that it can work both ways. Through consistent and intentional stimulation, the brain can rewire itself to reduce the prominence of tinnitus. This process is sometimes called tinnitus retraining or brain retraining therapy.

One of the most effective approaches that leverages neuroplasticity is tinnitus sound therapy. By introducing specific sounds—such as white noise, gentle background tones, or customized frequencies—sound therapy helps the brain focus on external input rather than the phantom sound.

Over time, this consistent exposure helps the auditory system reorganize itself. The brain learns to categorize tinnitus as an unimportant signal and gradually filters it out of conscious awareness.
by wizzard0 | 2025-10-07 19:29:12+00:00
Wow that's great! Interesting if it's possible to use not just a folder but like a s3-compatible backend for photos and for db backups as well

(I don't think all my photo/video archives would fit on my laptop, though the thumbnails definitely would, while minio or something replicated between my desktop plus a backup machine at Hetzner or something would definitely do the thing)
by ruszki | 2025-10-07 19:29:13+00:00
It was one if not the most effective advertisement which I’ve encountered in my life. We got it freely every year with post, and I dreamed as a kid to have such houses and flats which could be seen in them. The brand stuck me so well, that it’s my go to furniture store, since I moved out from my parents. I wanted to read it again last year to have some ideas for my new flat, and I was devastated when I’ve figured out that it’s not printed anymore. Even as I’ve been continuously online for 24-25 years, a digital “version” of it will never be the same. I won’t ever read it just for fun, which we did back then so many times (my whole family), that it became utterly damaged until the next year’s edition came. I would easily pay for it.
by mgh95 | 2025-10-07 19:29:14+00:00
You're talking about roughly ~5T (the prior estimates I'm aware of) in costs for replacing the grid with a HVDC transmission line. That's a massive cost and undertaking. It's much more likely we see an incremental transition to point-to-point transmission in major industrial corridors (Los Angeles/Irvine to IE solar generation capacity in the future, Lousiana Basin, North Texas to the gulf, etc.) where major benefits can be cost effectively be realized.

A "full" transition is unlikely in our lifetimes due to the fact that the majority of the benefits can be reaped without needing such an expense.
by ecalifornica | 2025-10-07 19:29:26+00:00
I agree with Andrew, side projects are a great way to rediscover joy. From my own experience:

- Decompress and seek fun, instead of aiming to "get a project done". Follow whatever excites you. If nothing excites you, step away from the keyboard. Go for a walk, bring a notebook.

- The Artist's Way is great for processing burnout, and self-discovery. One does not need to consider themselves an artist to find the book useful. ( https://juliacameronlive.com/book/the-artists-way-a-spiritua... )

You mention hardware, have you made a silly hardware thing recently? I can recommend running Rust on an esp32, lots of fun.