MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2025-11-05 23:22:35+00:00
Wondering if any Aussies here know this.

I’ve heard that if you have a solar system and a battery system connected to the grid, if the grid goes out for whatever reason, your battery gets cut off as well. Meaning that it’s essentially useless as power backup.

Is this true? Can you really go fully off-grid in Australia?

I’ve heard this from rural people in Victoria, where they do experience blackouts and where an actual backup would be useful.
by pancakeguy | 2025-11-05 23:22:39+00:00
What about burla.dev ?

Or basically a generic nestable `remote_parallel_map` for python functions over lists of objects.

I haven't had a chance to fully watch the video yet / I understand it focuses on lower levels of abstraction / GPU programming. But I'd love to know how this fit's into what the speaker is looking for / what it's missing (other than obviously it not being a way to program GPU's) (also full disclosure I am a co-founder).
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-05 23:22:57+00:00
That's a straight up lie.

Please show me where any plan like that is published. And specifically which neighborhoods that every white person will pay more taxes. The actuarials say I should live another 25 years or so. I'll wait.

Or are you referring to the proposed 2% increase in income taxes for folks making over USD$1,000,000/annum, which has exactly zero to do with location (other than NYC as a whole)?

Such an increase, while suggested by Mamdani, is not within the purview of the mayor of NYC to implement. Rather, any tax increase must be passed by the state legislature and signed into law by the governor. The most NYC's mayor can do is ask the state.

Are you that uninformed? Do you even live in NY State?
by rmunn | 2025-11-05 23:23:08+00:00
I can no longer edit the parent comment, but I want to address one thing:

> Once my property tests were running overnight

This was happening because I was setting my test runner to say "Keep generating random data and running tests for 8 hours, no matter how many tests that is", not because the tests were slow. I was running literally millions of tests overnight (usually about 2-3 million), though later when I added some slow tests that number went down into the tens of thousands of tests overnight.

I may have given the impression that property-based testing is slow. It doesn't have to be. It can be very, very quick. But the more random tests you run, the more likely to are to uncover the really, REALLY bizarre edge cases.
by maxglute | 2025-11-05 23:24:36+00:00
Except you know, NOT internationally recognized except to manufactured misconception by headline scanning useful idiots. Reminder PH PCA ruling is not actual international law, as in recognized by UN/UNCLOS, ITLOS, ICJ. TBH its demonstrably stupid to even hold the position UNCLOS can rule on sovereignty claims - they fucking can't. To suggest PRC is infringing on others maritime entitlement in SCS is so stupid it's not even wrong because under UNCLOS it's not even legally possible. And also you know, who cares about a few butthurt fisherman, lol, like that's mild as fuck complaints on the spectrum of territorial drama. Every time people bring up muh fisherman they're just highlighting how generous PRC is behaving.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-11-05 23:25:19+00:00
It is entirely their fault. If no one agrees to do performative research, the problem will be solved.

The problem is some people prefer an academic lifestyle in exchange for doing performative research.

Yes there are other actors eg politicians demanding performative productivity, but mostly it’s the inmates running the asylum.

Academia is one failed western institution amongst many, and those failures are ultimately directed by the actions of the individuals that comprise those institutions.
by ninkendo | 2025-11-05 23:25:39+00:00
Also, I’m way too lazy to look it up right now, but I’m quite certain I’ve heard of dishwashers that run the hot water for a little bit before letting it fill the basin. Like, I’m pretty sure this sort of thing is commonplace.

It’s not like the engineers for heaterless dishwashers are just too stupid to realize there’s an obvious workaround for having to purge the line before filling the basin. Especially when the performance is so much measurably better when you do it.

Like I said though, it’s a guess. It’s also possible efficiency certifications ding you for the excess water use.
by SamBam | 2025-11-05 23:25:55+00:00
Yup. It's the colons after every paragraph's first sentence:

> It worked because it solved a real problem: Kenyans were already sending money through informal networks. M-PESA just made it cheaper and safer.

> Here’s why this matters: M-PESA created a payment rail with near-zero transaction costs.

> The magic is this: You’re not buying a $1,200 solar system.

> It gets even better: there are people who will pay for credits beforehand.

It's just again and again and again. It's sounds 100% ChatGPT.

Maybe this is 100% written by hand by someone who reads too many ChatGPT-generated articles. Possibly the author just spends a ton of time chatting with ChatGPT and have picked up its style. Or it's just more AI-written than OP wants to admit.
by woodpanel | 2025-11-05 23:26:08+00:00
I've micro-optimized my dishwasher setup to have all my 100+ pods and other in-bulk dishwashing-chemicals stored in a compartment between my two dishwashers.

I'm also firmly in the camp of having a flat cutlery compartment at the top and not that inefficient, and uncivilized, scarring, basket in bottom section.

Until seeing that video I thought I was crazy. I've found my master.
by apsurd | 2025-11-05 23:26:17+00:00
What's interesting to me is how all of it is true. You were and are in an elite tier, the measure is purely how we care to slice it.

Reminds me of the aphorism "whether you think you can or can't, you're right." I find this saying really insightful and true. Others may find it flippant and void of any meaning.

The sports analogy of what you shared is: "there are levels to this". At any given level-child, minor, high-school, college, division of college, semi-pro, overseas, pro, olympian, elite-pro, champion- it seems legitimate that the praise is bound to the context.

And getting to the next level requires more growth and effort to think it's even possible. Maybe you won't, but whether you think you can or can't...

Just some thoughts.
by tonymet | 2025-11-05 23:26:21+00:00
even the cheap costco pods are 3x the cost of powder. And his point is that the pods undermine the dishwasher because they don't let you control when and how much detergent is deployed during the multiple washing cycles.

powder deploys during rinse and wash. pods deploy only during wash (or only rinse if people put the pods into the tray, which is common)

And the dishwashers are designed with a hardness index in the hopper . you're supposed to line up the soap with your local hardness level to avoid residue.
by cyberax | 2025-11-05 23:26:27+00:00
This is pretty much bunk. There really is _very_ little space for manual unqualified work in solar panel manufacturing.

Does the supply chain contain less-than-free labor somewhere? Likely. Most probably somewhere in the raw material production, but it's not something that is a deciding factor in anything. These materials just as well likely go into making of iPhones and Lenovo laptops.
by rodarima | 2025-11-05 23:26:35+00:00
Many reasons, in no particular order:

- It is extremely slow and resource intensive. Opening any link/page takes at least 3 seconds on my fastest computer, but the content is mostly text with images.

- It cannot be used without JS (it used to be at least readable, now only the issue description loads). I want the bug tracker to be readable from Dillo itself. There are several CLI options but those are no better than just storing the issues as files and using my editor.

- It forces users to create an account to interact and it doesn't interoperate with other forges. It is a walled garden owned by a for-profit corporation.

- You need an Internet connection to use it and a good one. Loading the main page of the dillo repo requires 3 MiB of traffic (compressed) This is more than twice the size of a release of Dillo (we use a floppy disk as limit). Loading our index of all opened issues downloads 7.6 KiB (compressed).

- Replying by email mangles the content (there is no Markdown?).

- I cannot add (built-in) dependencies across issues.

I'll probably write some post with more details when we finally consider the migration complete.
by lurking_swe | 2025-11-05 23:26:58+00:00
if you have powder crumbs under your sink you might need to improve your technique.

This reminds me of how some of my house guests will accidentally splash water all over the bathroom counter and even the mirror when they wash up in the morning. I don’t say anything, to be polite, but they clearly lack technique lol.

This works for me:

0. store the dishwasher powder (box) under sink.

1. Open dishwasher door

2. grab box, place OVER the opened door.

3. dispense powder into cartridge in door (with spoon, tilting box, etc)

4. put spoon back in box OR fully tilt box back upright. “Crumbs” will drop onto the door, that’s OK.

5. move box back under sink.

Even if I was messy, I personally couldn’t make myself spend 5x on pods to avoid cleaning crumbs under the sink once a month. When i think of convenience i think of a dishwasher saving me hours every month. Not saving 10 seconds a month to wipe crumbs under the sink. :-)

We clearly all have different preferences and ideas of “convenience”. I respect that.
by 20251105 | 2025-11-05 23:27:07+00:00
There was an actual pied piper, there were 130 actual children and they really did went missing on June 26, 1284. Landslide or sinkhole in one of the koppen (hills) around Hamelin. The remains of all of those people are probably still there, buried.

It is a literal account of a real life tragedy.
by yodsanklai | 2025-11-05 23:28:00+00:00
Locating: For my last job, got contacted out of the blue by a couple of big tech companies (I was recommended by an acquaintance for one for them).

Interviewing: lots and lots of practice. Took me 3 attempts to pass, 3 consecutive years.

Surviving: one half at a time. It's hard at times but not that bad that I want to resign.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-11-05 23:28:10+00:00
I read a lot more sci-fi / fantasy compared to other people. Sometimes 5-10 books a week in high school when others wouldn't touch a book unless they had to (and this was before the internet was generally accessible!). Maybe that's a lot less than others here.

I have read about a lot of (fictional) societies that make many decisions, some good, some bad, but usually somewhat well-reasoned. And then you realize that the average person voting/making a decision is either "ok, that's what the tv says" or "god told me so" or "I am mad at XYZ" or "I don't actually care" with no long-term thought or planning.

I think we all have an idea of, based on our current situation, our expected level of happiness 1 year, 5 years, 25 years from now if things continue in a similar manner, etc,

Nov 5, 2024 dropped my "expected level of happiness" for various times in the future by a LOT. I don't think the happiest day of 2025 has been as happy as an average day of 2024 (pre Nov 5).
by rawgabbit | 2025-11-05 23:28:16+00:00
> Might be useful to ask a different question: What makes people happy?

This is the age old question. For me at least, the quest for meaning lead me to reason. Reason and logic, then led me to two choices. First is there is no meaning, no purpose, and life is what you make or not make of it; this is more commonly known as nihilism. The second choice is a literal leap of faith; this argues that humans are incapable of understanding of the purpose of life and we need to have faith in the existence of a benevolent God. The leap of faith ultimately leads me back to the question of what is God? Catholic tradition defines God as the source of caritas also known as agape.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-05 23:28:36+00:00
>It seems a bit simplistic when stated that way, but I think there is something to it.

I think this is pretty uncontroversial and you can observe it everywhere. Even in music, if you want the beat to hit harder, take it away for a short period, and when you bring it back it will feel like it hits harder and with more energy even though it's exactly the same volume as it was before.

Though it doesn't really explain how some people are continuously more or less happy. If the brain only cared about change, you could only ever be an average amount happy. Clearly something about continuous discontent and negativity still impacts you even if it might dull.
by wahern | 2025-11-05 23:28:37+00:00
> That's far from the only way to get that framework. By analogy, you can pray without attending church.

Institutional religion lets dedicated people practice full-time. It's why in Asia there's the culture of donating food and money to monks--the whole community supports those who dedicate their life to preserving, developing, and practicing these methods.

Religion in America is more free market religion--much more dependent on big donors and the small subset of very dedicated lay practitioners. There's no appreciation for the wider benefit provided by religious to the community. In theory even atheists could appreciate the benefit. There are arguments for why this is a better system on-the-whole, but there's a loss nonetheless. Religion is literally the only area where community systematically supports people who have zero profit interest or motive in practices like mindfulness, charity, etc. For all the corruption and self-serving one sees in institutional religion, whether Buddhist, Christian, etc, it's even greater in the "non-profit" secular charity space. (I'm in SF where the city shells out hundreds of millions to organizations that do social work, and where we blew past the point reasonably diminishing returns hundreds of millions ago.) Secular charity just doesn't scale without having to pay salaries and wages; compare Buddhist or Christian religious, who usually take vows of poverty.

It's like the debate about public funding of open source. It's very difficult to do systematically without inviting alot of corruption and freeloading. The interesting thing about religious charity is that the primary motives of the religious are separate from the social/charitable benefit. Institutional religious communities, especially those with vows of poverty, self-select in ways secular institutions haven't figured out how to do, yet. Communists and anarchists never figured it out; if they had capitalism probably wouldn't be as dominate as it is today. And it's why people like Richard Stallman standout--though an atheist, he's committed to Free Software in the same way monks are committed to their religious dogma, and while Stallman is hardly infallible, it lends tremendous credibility to his arguments, and he serves as a personal model regarding his commitment to the cause.

I think separation of religion and state is a good thing and benefits all parties, but Western culture went beyond that into denigration of religion. Oddly we do provide public support to artists, whom are often similarly dedicated and self-selected, though we justify this by exaggerating the social benefit of pure art.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-11-05 23:28:47+00:00
you're right - really, it's in the opinion of all copyright / IP lawyers & thinkers in this country that Google lost, because it didn't get to do what it wanted to do, even if it "won", it is Pyrrhic.

the balance of comments in Hacker News about a topic like this: it tips towards the wrong understanding of that case. There's Gell Mann Amnesia in every comment section.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-11-05 23:29:32+00:00
It sounds like you should never trust any medical advice you receive from ChatGPT and should seek proper medical help instead. That makes sense. The OpenAI company doesn't want to be held responsible for any medical advice that goes wrong.

Obviously, there is one piece of advice: Even if LLMs were the best health professionals, they would only have the information that users voluntarily provide through text/speech input. This is not how real health services work. Medical science now relies on blood/(whatever) tests that LLMs do not (yet) have access to. Therefore, the output from LLM advice can be incorrect due to a lack of information from tests. For this reason, it makes sense to never trust LLM with a specific health advice.
Ask HN: How different is compute orchestration for AI?
by alpb | 2025-11-05 23:31:01+00:00
If there are folks here that work on LLM providers on managing the compute server/workload orchestration on training or inference side, I'm curious what's the state of the art in this area is.

I understand Kubernetes has a fair amount of frameworks for training and serving, but I assume it's not the best tool for running large-scale GPU clusters (at least not out of the box). Many cloud providers started providing ultrascale but low-pod density Kubernetes clusters for this. I also assume there are still many orchestrators like Slurm still around for these kinds of job, and I remember Open AI trying to build their own orchestrator for training jobs.

I also assume spatial locality between servers, infiniband/RDMA also matter a lot more than Kubernetes provider native support for, and server health story must be completely different since GPUs fail a lot more often, and they have a lot more interesting metrics to monitor on top of standard OS metrics.

What are some articles or blogs to read in this space to come up to speed on how GPU/ML compute orchestration happens in the state of the art today?
by tonymet | 2025-11-05 23:31:12+00:00
his dishwasher detergent videos are a good example of an "improved" product being more expensive and less effective (like disposable razors).

With better understanding you can achieve far better results. I no longer rinse or even scrape dishes. with the right approach my dishwasher performance has been stellar. The user manual also includes proper tuning to local water hardness levels.

Poor dishwashing also discourages people from cooking at home, which leads to less healthful diets. So it's an important thing to get right.

Dishwashing is fascinating.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-05 23:31:20+00:00
The anxiety about having actual problems with my tooth eventually overrode the anxiety about going to the dentist and I started going regularly (after a pause of 26 years).

I'm pleased that I found a good dentist and I've been able to overcome my anxiety. I recognize that I'm lucky in this regard.

I was also lucky in that, aside from this one problem tooth, my oral care regimen in my 26 years of not having regular dental care were sufficient to prevent any further issues. I expected to come out of that first checkup with massive problems (even though I'd never had any pain or issues) and I was pleasantly surprised.

All in all I think I'm very lucky. I tried to take care of my teeth on my own, and largely succeeded, but I do wish I'd taken care of this one problem tooth before it was too late.
by analog31 | 2025-11-05 23:31:27+00:00
>>>>> I expect the moment unsolicited data collection becomes a liability manufacturers will drop it like a hot potato.

Possession of the data needs to be illegal.

Here's how it could work. It's similar to how copyrights for music are enforced. A person whose data are found in someone's files or server can sue for "statutory" damages, which are levied on a per-offense basis.
by larusso | 2025-11-05 23:31:37+00:00
Don’t know if I would describe it as much better. I see it similar to the whole SQL -> NOSQL -> let’s add all the feature and end up with SQL. JSON undergo a similar story with the difference that we didn’t go back to XML. What I mean is to simplify and then realize what was actually missing. But I agree for the smaller services and state transfer especially in web XML was just too damn big and verbose. But conceptually it was great.
by amatecha | 2025-11-05 23:31:44+00:00
I like your post, as it exhibits a sentiment I can relate to (though I have had a FAR smoother existence than what you've experienced, thus far, I think). I hope you have a rewarding future and I hope that luck is on your side with that upcoming risky surgery.

To me, optimism is a form of acceptance of whatever may come. I will deal with whatever comes my way, and in the meantime, I will expect and work towards "the best" outcomes. Assuming/expecting the worst just adds friction and stress to my consciousness which serves no practical purpose. Why experience the bad things before they even happen? I face stressful "could go either way" situations with the mentality that it will work out, but I am fully ready to deal with the situation going as badly as it could. I prepare mentally for the bad outcomes, but don't dwell on it like many people seem to. It's just not worth it. I figured this out as a kid and developed that way of thinking throughout my life, refining and reinforcing it over time.

I've now outlived a number of friends who I just assumed would always be there to talk to. They died totally unexpectedly, heart attacks and stuff like that. The journey could be over at any moment. I recognize and accept the temporality of everyone in my life including myself, and I actually use this acknowledgement to motivate myself to embrace the opportunity of life and not waste time on stupid bullshit, including thinking negatively or dwelling on fear-based lines of thought. It's like a basic judgment I apply to almost everything I think about, just passively, and it's a great filter to optimize for spending time on things that I think enrich my life (or future life) and that of those around me who I care about.
by imiric | 2025-11-05 23:31:46+00:00
> Property based testing involves defining the conditiosn and properties, writing code that generates the conditions and for each property writing a bit of code that can refute it by passing if and only if it is true of the subject under test for a particular set of inputs.

You're downplaying the amount of code required to properly setup a property-based test. In the linked article, the author implemented a state machine to accurately model the SUT. While this is not the most complex of systems, it is far from trivial, and certainly not a "bit of code". In my many years of example-based unit/integration/E2E testing, I've never had to implement something like that. The author admits that the team was reluctant to adopt PBT partly because of the amount of code.

This isn't to say that example-based tests are simple. There can be a lot of setup, mocking, stubbing, and helper code to support the test, but this is usually a smell that something is not right. Whereas with PBT it seems inevitable in some situations.

But then again, I can see how such tests can be invaluable, very difficult and likely more complex to implement otherwise. So, as with many things, it's a tradeoff. I think PBT doesn't replace EBT, nor vice-versa, but they complement eachother.