MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NoiseBert69 | 2025-11-17 18:41:26+00:00
If the US does less data gathering (balloon starts, buoy maintenance, setting up weather huts in super remote sites, etc.) it will affect all forecasts.

Models all use a "current world state" of all sensors available to bootstrap their runs.

Similar thing happened during the beginning of Covid-19: they are using modified cargo/passenger planes to gather weather data during their routine trips. Suddenly this huge data source was gone (but was partially replaced by the experimental ADM-Aeolus satellite - which turned out to be a huge global gamer changer due to its unexpected high quality data)
by yawaramin | 2025-11-17 18:41:42+00:00
> Solar panels are recycled at almost 100% of total materials.

That's very clever wording. If someone glances at this sentence they might interpret it to mean that almost all solar panels are recycled. But your own citation tells a different story: https://e360.yale.edu/features/solar-energy-panels-recycling

> Today, roughly 90 percent of panels in the U.S. that have lost their efficiency due to age, or that are defective, end up in landfills because that option costs a fraction of recycling them.

Let's compare to spent nuclear fuel, which we know for sure does not end up in landfills. I am talking about today, not some hypothetical utopian future. Today, NPP spent fuel is safely sequestered while solar panels are dumped into landfills.

> nuclear waste in the US does not have permanent storage or recycling solutions

It does, it's just not built yet because it doesn't make sense to do it now. In a few decades, maybe a century we will have commercialized fusion reactors. Once we do, we switch to fusion completely and build the deep geological repositories or whatever other solution makes sense then. Or we can even recycle the spent fuel–the only thing stopping us from doing that now is misguided US politics (as usual).

> we keep spending more the more we attempt to build it.

It's capex. We are investing in nuclear technology. If you have a proven design and build the reactors at scale, the costs will flatten or decline, which is obvious to anyone who knows about economies of scale.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-11-17 18:42:04+00:00
Even simple HTML pages may require Javascript and want to run code on your computer or phone. You need knowledge of the document, knowledge of its author, or constant keepup and awareness of browser settings (e.g. did some update re-enable Javascript) to mitigate this.

A .gmi is 100% certain not to need any extra code capable of potential unwanted external communications, not now and not in the future.

Also .gmi is extremely simple and can be rendered very simply (and thus more securely) because it can be processed nearly statelessly line by line, without need of a rendering tree or document model.
by Habgdnv | 2025-11-17 18:42:21+00:00
I remember back in the 90s that Squid was adding this header while acting as a forward proxy. This header was sent across the internet years before someone have ever dreamed of the concept of a "reverse" proxy. I have not fact-checked but I am pretty sure it is older than IPv6 and the original standard was to add this header at the origin and send it across the whole internet.
by atonse | 2025-11-17 18:42:56+00:00
Anyone know whether we can use this to simulate hurricanes/floods in particular areas, instead of looking at real existing data and helping model an existing hurricane as it's happening? (which is definitely more important and impactful, but the simulation angle is the one I happen to be curious about at the moment).

Like if I wanted to simulate whether something like Hurricane Melissa would've gone through a handful of southern US states, what would the effect have been, from an insurance or resiliency standpoint.
by mort96 | 2025-11-17 18:43:01+00:00
Not interested in going through the effort of setting up a DNS record, go through the whole DNS challenge process, and go through a periodic manual renewal process, for every stupid little thing (many even just temporary things which don't even have a static DHCP lease). There's literally no advantage for my use case, except that I'd be allowed by the web standard bodies to use their shiny new toys that they artificially lock away otherwise.

For the permanent installation case, it's typically easier to use mDNS domains since they're shorter. 'mediapc.local' is easier for guests to type than 'mediapc.local.mort.coffee' or whatever I'd end up with.

What would be a good solution is self-signed certificates, but that too is a non-option until all browser vendors downgrade the warning from a "Someone is trying to hack you!" style scare screen to a more informative "this is a self signed certificate, do you trust it?" style warning screen.
by airstrike | 2025-11-17 18:43:15+00:00
You're ignoring the obvious fact that you can use other browsers. There's no need to use Safari.

Also people choose Apple products for a variety of reasons that might trump their browsing preferences. It's still fair for them to want to improve their browsing experience.

You're trying to call out "Apple fanboys" but all you're doing is showing the biases of your limiting beliefs.
by pdabbadabba | 2025-11-17 18:43:24+00:00
Thanks. This is useful (in English translation):

> Russian factories are working at full speed, producing new tanks and repairing those that have been dusty for years," writes "Le Figaro". The French daily refers to its sources and data from independent study groups. On the other hand, experts also point to the fact that this year the losses of the Russians have decreased - this year it was only 200 tanks. According to the newspaper, this may be due to the fact that the participation of these vehicles in the fighting at the front has been reduced. This, in turn, is the result of greater use of drones.

This actually strikes me as fairly plausible: it suggests that Russia has decided that tanks are not ideally suited for the current drone war in Ukraine. So they're continuing to ramp up production, but aren't (at this point) sending them to the front.

This doesn't necessarily mean that they have a long-term plan to invade NATO, however. I can think of many other scenarios where it would be in Russia's strategic interest to have a large modernized tank force in reserve.
by _dain_ | 2025-11-17 18:43:35+00:00
if they want to go to the concert they should pay the fair market price for a ticket. and in addition, they should refrain from murdering people, because murder is wrong.

the high ticket prices incentivise the creation of new venues and the entrant of new artists into the market. they indicate that the music industry is not supplying concerts in sufficient quantity/quality as the market demands, or perhaps not in the right places or at the right times. prices are a signal; you outlaw them at your peril.

this is a case where the monkey-brain fairness intuition is simply flat out 100% wrong. scalper economics has been studied for decades; it is known that banning these trades exacerbates shortages. lot of ppl in this thread who would not pass introductory microeconomics.
by lawlessone | 2025-11-17 18:43:37+00:00
>resellers exist because the listed price is much lower than the price people are willing to pay.

This is such a copout, resellers inflate the price.

>yookay government's crusade to outlaw all useful economic activity continues apace.

How is scalping a useful economic activity?

What new value is created for concert goers or artists/venue by for example buying up loads of Taylor Swift concert tickets and selling them at a marked up price?

No value is added by paying a huge extra margin to rent seeking scalpers.

Not everything in the world has to be a stock market.

>SCARCITY IS A FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC FACT.

>scalpers are economic heroes.

Lol, the tout is crashing out.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-17 18:43:41+00:00
> If France–a country known for its strong labour laws and unions–could transition to nuclear in the '70s, any Western country can do it.

France had to nationalize EDF because they could not afford the costs associated with their nuclear fleet. The 70s are 50 years in the past, and are not what the future will look like.

This is also why Spain plans to retire its remaining nuclear generators, and go all in on renewables.

EDF fleet upkeep will cost over 100 billion euros by 2035, court of auditors says - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edf-fleet-upkeep-wil... - November 17th, 2025

French utility EDF lifts cost estimate for new reactors to 67 billion euros - Les Echos - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/french-utility-edf-l... - March 4th, 2024

Explainer-Why a French plan to take full control of EDF is no cure-all - https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/07/07/edf-nationalistion - July 7th, 2022

Spain’s Nuclear Shutdown Set to Test Renewables Success Story - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-11/spain-s-n... | https://archive.today/4fB7K - April 11th, 2025 (“Spain is a postcard, a glimpse into the future where you’re not going to need baseload generators from 8am to 5pm” with solar and wind providing all of the grid’s needs during that time, said Kesavarthiniy Savarimuthu, a European power markets analyst with BloombergNEF. Still, she said, there is a reasonable chance this goal may take longer than expected and “extending the life of the nuclear fleet can prove as an insurance for these delays.”) (My note: As of this comment, Spain has 7.12GW of nuclear generation capacity per ree.es, and assuming ~1GW/month deployment rate seen in Germany, could replace this capacity with solar and batteries in ~28-36 months; per Electricity Maps, only 17.25% of Spain's electrical generation over the last twelve months has been sourced from this nuclear)

Tangentially, Europe has enough wind potential to power the world, for scale.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-17 18:44:20+00:00
Okay, that's your call. You can't phone Craig Federighi for the straight dope, so you're stuck hearing it from internet douches or product leads on prescription SSRIs.

And yes, your statement was a cutesy catechism with no actual evidence provided. A big reason why Apple tech doesn't work like a normal computer is Apple's rejection of standards that put hardware and software in-concert. ACPI is one such technology, per my last comment.
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-17 18:44:32+00:00
I think this is net-positive for venues, local economies, and the artists. All this money is effectively getting sucked out of local economies and moving to multi-national marketplaces.

We also know prices can go up on the raw ticket and we know that consumers can bear that given where they were before this legislation. That additional money will go to Venues, Artists and Labels who will, ideally, create more and better shows for the all of us.

If you imagine today that a ticket is $45 (speaking US) and customers pay $450, eventually for it. That $405 doesn't go to the Artist or the Venue, it goes to a middle layer which adds little to no value for the eco-system beyond supporting a transaction. Moreover, when you spend all the budget on the ticket, you're less likely to buy merch and food at the venue.

Something most on this site could easily build with the help of stripe, a few database tables, and an API to the venue's ticketing management system.
by dang | 2025-11-17 18:45:04+00:00
Related. Others?

Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857836 - Nov 2025 (34 comments)

Aisuru botnet shifts from DDoS to residential proxies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741357 - Oct 2025 (59 comments)

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574393 - Oct 2025 (142 comments)
by matthewdgreen | 2025-11-17 18:45:23+00:00
Seller agrees to sell ticket at PRICE. Monopoly intermediate provider sells it at $PRICE+$markup. Monopoly intermediate provider sells it to a reseller, which artificially limits the supply available to buyers at any given moment. Buyers have to go to resellers, who then pay $markup2 back to the monopoly provider to transfer the ticket to the ultimate buyer. This may even repeat several times, resulting in the monopoly provider reaping more in markup fees than the seller receives for the actual product.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-17 18:45:40+00:00
> Outside of hobbyist things, performance-critical code is the only responsible use case for a non-memory safe language like C in 2025, so of course it does.

Maybe; I sometimes write non-hobbyist non-performance-critical code in C.

I'm actually planning a new product for 2026 that might be done in C (the current iteration of that product line is in Go, the previous iteration was in Python).

I've few qualms about writing the server in C.
by 0_____0 | 2025-11-17 18:45:46+00:00
Looking for context here: how do Swedes view their government? Do they feel represented by, it, trust their governments etc.?

My perception as a USian in a coastal, progressive state, is that trust in government is quite low. Municipal and county governments do OK, but federal and to some degree state governments seems to have priorities that are wildly divergent from our own.
by hpdigidrifter | 2025-11-17 18:45:54+00:00
I assume it's generally unbecoming to reference 4chan posts for an academic but surprised the Shopping Cart theory didn't get a mention given how close it was to the subject matter.

>“The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore, the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it.”

>“No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you, or kill you for not returning the shopping cart. You gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct. The Shopping Cart Theory, therefore, is a great litmus test on whether a person is a good or bad member of society.”
by csours | 2025-11-17 18:46:09+00:00
> By making implicit knowledge explicit ...

I feel like this translation is easier to misunderstand that it is to understand in many cases.

I think the effort is still good, but I also feel like people give up after a few tries. I know I do - after the third re-phrasing or re-framing you have to let things settle.

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Once someone is "grown up", no one can raise them again.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-17 18:46:10+00:00
> During this time, us-east-1 was offline, and while we only run a limited amount of infrastructure in the region, we have to run it there because we have customers who want it there

> [Our service can only go down] five minutes and 15 seconds per year.

I don't have much experience in this area, so please correct me if I'm mistaken:

Don't these two quotes together imply that they have failed to deliver on their SLA for the subset of their customers that want their service in us-east-1? I understand the customers won't be mad at them in this case, since us-east-1 itself is down, but I feel like their title is incorrect. Some subset of their service is running on top of AWS. When AWS goes down, that subset of their service is down. When AWS was down, it seems like they were also down for some customers.
by kixelated | 2025-11-17 18:46:17+00:00
SCTP and by extension, WebRTC data channels, are supposed to use the same congestion control algorithms as TCP/QUIC. But I don't know which CC libsctp does these days.

WebTransport in Chrome currently uses CUBIC but the Google folks want to turn on BBR everywhere. It uses the same QUIC implementation as HTTP/3 so it's going to be more battle hardened.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-17 18:46:33+00:00
> Google Reader deprecation probably hurt RSS more than anything else

And, indeed, if the protocol was one killer app deprecation and removal away from being obsolete, the problem was the use case, not the protocol.

(Personally, I don't think RSS is dead; it's very much alive in podcasting. What's dead is people consuming content from specific sites as a subscription model instead of getting most of their input slop-melanged in through their social media feeds; they don't care about the source of the info, they just want the info. I don't think that's something we fix with improved RSS support; it's a behavior issue looking for a better experience than Facebook, not for everyone to wake up one day and decide to install their own feed reader and stop browsing Facebook or Twitter or even Mastodon for links all day).
by cxr | 2025-11-17 18:46:37+00:00
> My original point is that you can write a compiler for any language in any language.

A perfectly fine observation on its own—but it's not on its own. It's situated in a conversational context. And the observation is in no way a counterpoint to the person you posted your ostensible reply to.

Aside from that, you keep saying "bootstrapping" as in whether or not this or that compiler implementation strategy "requires bootstrapping". But writing a compiler in different source language than the target language it's intended to compile and using that to build the final compiler doesn't eliminate bootstrapping. The compiler in that other language is just part of the bootstrapping process.
by greedo | 2025-11-17 18:46:37+00:00
How is a small drone, with limited power and a small sensor suite going to detect the quietest ships in the ocean? And then transmit tracking data? SOSUS is basically gone since the USN hates AWS work (much like the Air Force hates CAS). IUSS never went anywhere as far as I can research (see above why), and really isn't the same as a drone system.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-17 18:46:49+00:00
Original seller is free to sell it with the stipulation that original buyer is the only person that can use the ticket.

However, entertainers have an image problem that conflicts with the desire to maximize profit. Entertainers are often times in the business of appealing to the broader public. But if they restrict their ticket sales to the highest bidder, then the broader public's appeal is limited.

Having a third party engage in the price discrimination allows the entertainer's image to remain intact, while also collecting higher prices (perhaps not from the ticket sales directly, but the third party willing to pay more for the entertainer if the entertainer allows them to resell tickets).
by NoGravitas | 2025-11-17 18:46:58+00:00
> Whereas, after a century of productivity gains, the average American middle-class household can comfortably manage a new car lease every two years, but needs to split the cost of a single nanny with their neighbors.

...

> Why it costs $100 a week to walk your dog (but you can afford it)

Two signs this article is coming from too-privileged a point of view for its observations to be meaningful or useful to 99% of the population.
by pragma_x | 2025-11-17 18:47:25+00:00
Yup. This is why I have a pretty hard set of rules about introducing code generation and DSL's into a team project:

0. Code generators are to be used hand-in-hand with the coding process.

1. Code generation must happen pre-build, using tooling supplied or documented thoroughly in the project repo.

2. Code generator code and its most recently generated output are checked in alongside the rest of the project.

3. "No humans allowed" inside generated code areas/files.

4. Direct and intermediate output (if applicable) from code generators must be human readable. Proper code formatting is strongly advised.

5. This does not apply to lightweight templates, generics, and other first-class language features. It _does_ apply to DSL implementations and heavyweight template designs that are not already provided by a 3rd party library. Even then, please consider the above path instead.

The above, while restrictive, flattens the project ecosystem down to human-readable and fungible parts. If the worst happens, generated code can still be hotfixed/hacked back into service, without having to fuss with generator internals.
by kakacik | 2025-11-17 18:47:25+00:00
Not sure about your situation, but the only situation I ever experienced out there were scalpers getting ridiculous amounts of tickets beforehand, sometimes via shady contacts and then reselling them for profit.

What about some middle ground - allow sale for and below the purchase price and punish severely any profiteering? The only reason scalpers do it is for money - if the punishment and risk are big enough it solved itself.

Where I live, the biggest festival in whole country (Paleo @Switzerland) explicitly bans resale for some time and nobody real is complaining, its fair and tickets are sold within minutes of becoming available.

The last point - if some psycho is starting to shoot others because they can't go to some fucking concert then the underlying condition needs to be targeted, not sweeping reality in front of them so they never trip on some obstacle in real life. 'Eat the rich' trope is stuff immature frustrated kids tell to peers, nothing more.
by fl7305 | 2025-11-17 18:47:49+00:00
>> the presumption that reasoning skills cannot evolve

> I don’t know how to address the evolve part. LLMs don’t directly mutate and have selective pressure like living organisms.

Sorry, that was poorly worded. I meant "can reasoning skills not be evolved through the neural net training phase?"

Sure, once you deploy an LLM, it does not evolve any more.

But let's say you have a person Tom with 5-minute short term memory loss, meaning he can't ever remember more than 5 minutes back. His reasoning skills are completely static, just based on his previous education before the memory loss accident, and the last 5 minutes.

Is "5-minute Tom" incapable of reasoning because he can't learn new things?

> They appear completely brain dead at times

Yes, definitely. But they also manage to produce what looks like actual reasoning in other cases. Meaning, "reasoning, not pattern matching".

So if a thing can reason at some times and in some cases, but not in other, what do we call that?

An LLM is a lot like a regular CPU. A CPU basically just operates step by step, where it takes inputs, a state memory, and stored read-only data, puts those into combinatorical logic to calculate new outputs and updates to the state memory.

An LLM does the same thing. It runs step by step, takes the user input+its own previous output tokens and stored readonly data, puts those into a huge neural network to perform processing to generate the next output token.

The "state memory" in an LLM (=the context window) is a lot more limited than a CPU RAM+disk, but it's still a state memory.

So I don't have a problem imagining that an LLM can perform some level of reasoning. Limited and flawed for sure, but still a different creature than "pattern matching".
by hexator | 2025-11-17 18:47:56+00:00
I find it to be a dangerous ideology since it can effectively be used to justify anything. I joined an EA group online (from a popular YouTube channel) and the first conversation I saw was a thread by someone advocating for eugenics. And it only got worse from there.

> A paradox of effective altruism is that by seeking to overcome individual bias through rationalism, its solutions sometimes ignore the structural bias that shapes our world.

Yes, this just about sums it up. As a movement they seem to be attracting some listless contrarians that seem entirely too willing to dig up old demons of the past.