MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danans | 2025-11-06 17:04:34+00:00
> And they actually charge you a fee if you generate. My brother in law unhooked from the grid because back feeding was charging him $100 a month. To give away power.

Which utility and plan is this? I'm not aware of any California residential rate plans that charge you for putting power back on the grid, much less $100/month.

That said, wholesale electricity rates are set by high frequency supply/demand markets.

Recent residential net metering rates are closely aligned with wholesale supply/demand based rates, so most utilities will compensate your brother in law near $0 when you are pushing power to the grid when wholesale rates are <= $0, because there are not enough buyers of the power he is generating.

He is using the grid as a battery, which comes at a cost.

This is of course changing as more grid connected storage comes online and creates demand for off peak electricity. In that case, you actually get paid for selling power back to the grid during high grid stress periods. I get paid a few hundred dollars a year in CA for doing that with my measly home backup battery.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-06 17:05:20+00:00
> This is an easy mistake in large organizations. Any project often already has so many stakeholders and politics that they are incentivized to avoid adding more stakeholders to the project if they are politically capable of doing so.

This person is already a stakeholder, you don't have a choice to add or not add them, you have a choice to include or not include them. And it's a gamble to not include them for this exact reason.

I'm all for keeping stakeholder counts as low as possible but you can't do it by just pretending some of your stakeholders don't exist, that's no good and in my experience, usually ends exactly like this.
by pavon | 2025-11-06 17:06:10+00:00
This might not be about copyright. I generally avoid these mirror sites because they seem like the perfect opportunity for watering hole attacks. The challenge with a normal watering hole attack is that you have to control the site in question either by hacking or infiltrating it. Imagine however if you were able to act as a middle man to the most popular websites in the world, and people would voluntarily post links to your site all over the internet, including very valuable audiences (like HN). You would have free rein to selectively inject malware to just readers at targeted IP blocks, minimizing chances of detection because most users would never be served malware. The possibilities are endless, government espionage, corporate espionage, activists, political opponents.

To be clear I have no reason to believe specific instances of these sites are malicious, but I would be shocked if black hats weren't trying to get into this space in general.
by plopilop | 2025-11-06 17:06:19+00:00
A long time ago I read "the good Brahmin" from Voltaire: https://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/4411/

Basically, the story goes that the good brahmin, for all his wealth and intelligence, is miserable, whereas the stupid beggar down the street is very happy. While the brahmin accepts that the beggar is objectively happier than him, he would never swap places with her.

It made me realise that the quest for intelligence is fundamentally different from the quest for happiness, and even to this day I still take the story in consideration when making life choices. I do not believe that intelligence forbids happiness, simply that if you spend too much time trying to be right, you don't spend enough trying to be happy. Of course trying to be right can make you happy, but in the general case you always need to remember to take a step back.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-06 17:06:21+00:00
>Googling for model keywords doesn't seem to provide any good sources

Shit, I think I lied! I think I may have just found a youtube video that opened it up. Maybe I found a manual, but you are correct that ASUS does not seem to easily provide those manuals!

>If you're referring to home/work area air filters I don't think its possible since the mentioned laptops are not mine

Duh, that make sense. I once worked tech support at our college and the state some people would get their laptops in was crazy. I once pulled a baseball sized clump of fur out of a small laptop fan.

Really sorry for misleading you. Working there gave me some amount of confidence to just open up random computers.
by ssdspoimdsjvv | 2025-11-06 17:06:37+00:00
The parent comment was talking about a deployed application, and making sure users can't modify the source code.

In that case, your image hopefully was built using source code from a VCS and no such changes will have been applied. This is not so different from building an app by pulling the latest version of the code from Git.

And if you did manage to commit changes that completely mess up your environment, you throw that image away, take a vanilla one and load your source code into it. Again, not so different from using Git.
by worldfoodgood | 2025-11-06 17:06:48+00:00
As someone who became vegetarian after reading a Glenn Greenwald article I found on HN about how the pork industry does awful things and gets the government to prosecute people trying to expose it, the key I've found is to look to world cuisine.

Many cultures around the world have awesome food that's easily convertible to vegetarian or is vegetarian already, where meat might be a luxury.

Central America and the Caribbean have tons of dishes with rice, beans, plantains, and flavorful sauces with flatbreads. Or a million ways to prepare corn. West Africa has peanut stew that's amazing. Across the rest of the continent jollof rice and githeri are good solid bases for a meal. Misir wot is a spicy hearty lentil stew. North Africa has a rich vegetarian tradition of soups, stews, and rice dishes. In the middle east there's falafel, hummus, mujadara, shakshuka and about a million ways to combine spices, onions, tomatoes, flatbreads, etc. South Asia obviously has a massive vegetarian cultural tradition, as does Southeast and East Asia.

When I started, I found it hard. I kept thinking "beans and rice... I guess?" Once I started going, "ok, I'm going to pick a small region of the world and see what they eat there and try it" I had WAY more success. The first time I made tteok-bokki or sushi or vareniki I suddenly realized just how much of the world is really already preparing vegetarian meals for many of their meals.
by dripton | 2025-11-06 17:06:56+00:00
It varies a lot depending on how much you have enabled. The distro kernels that are designed to support as much hardware as possible take a long time to build. If you make a custom kernel where you winnow down the config to only support the hardware that's actually in your computer, there's much less code to compile so it's much faster.

I recently built a 6.17 kernel using a full Debian config, and it took about an hour on a fast machine. (Sorry, I didn't save the exact time, but the exact time would only be relevant if you had the exact same hardware and config.) I was surprised how slow it still was. It appears the benefits of faster hardware have been canceled by the amount of new code added.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-06 17:07:13+00:00
And good for them honestly. This seems disrespectful as fuck, to just have their work overwritten by some fuckass bot nobody asked for, and have their feedback ignored. I'd tell Mozilla to kick rocks too.

Corpos have a nasty habit of, after so many years, feeling very entitled to the efforts of what are, at the end of the day, volunteers.
by dunb | 2025-11-06 17:07:16+00:00
This isn't rsync, but you can integrate a-Shell[0] with iOS Shortcuts. You would need to make the syncing happen in the script instead of in the background though. I use a Python script to create aliases for my email this way, so I don't have to turn on wildcard addressing to my inbox.

[0] https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell
by fwip | 2025-11-06 17:07:23+00:00
With regards to your last point - in-person, you have more opportunities to connect with people at times that they're clearly not in the middle of something. Whether that's at the coffee machine, or right after a meeting, or just by reading their body language to see if they're concentrating.

When you're remote, you don't have that context, so everything you need from somebody has to be either scheduled (with the overhead and delay that entails), or potentially randomizing. When you need 5 minutes of somebody's time, it can be hard to do that in a respectful way. (Personally, I do try to do a "do you have some time today that we could talk about X," and try to handle stuff over text with coworkers who prefer text.)
by unglaublich | 2025-11-06 17:07:51+00:00
US fossil fuel subsidies: 757B$ [0] US solar subsidies: 7B$ [1]

[0]: https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-proposals-to-red... [1]: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/rene...
by markburns | 2025-11-06 17:07:59+00:00
1-3-5-7-2-4

I would imagine that would be red(1), orange(3), yellow(5), green(7), blue(2), purple(4)

But it seems you have white(1), green(3), grey(5), yellow(7), red(2), purple(4)

I can't quite see what going over the rainbow in thirds here means, but I can see why a fifth would be neutral. Could you expand upon this?
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by immibis | 2025-11-06 17:08:42+00:00
With your analogy, they aim to keep the "bad guys" out of all homes, which is the same thing as saying those guys can't have homes. Also the "bad guys" group you're referring to includes, like, my cousin Jake because he accidentally crashed his pushbike into a car once when he was 6, but doesn't include Adolf Hitler for some reason.
by simonw | 2025-11-06 17:09:06+00:00
uv tool install llm llm install llm-moonshot llm keys set moonshot # paste key llm -m moonshot/kimi-k2-thinking 'Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle'

https://tools.simonwillison.net/svg-render#%3Csvg%20width%3D...

Here's what I got using OpenRouter's moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking instead:

https://tools.simonwillison.net/svg-render#%20%20%20%20%3Csv...
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-06 17:09:13+00:00
> So you really believe they are just murdering random fisherman for fun?

I believe they are murdering geographically-selected fisherman and painting them as traffickers targeting the US (even though this is implausible for multiple reasons) as propaganda to manifest justifying “escalation” in a war they have been claiming even before they started those publicized murders was being actively fought between Venezuela in the US as a pretext for bypassing due process and moving toward direct executive fiat and militarization of civilian life within the US, starting with the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act on March 15.
by ragnese | 2025-11-06 17:09:17+00:00
> Are there any good resources on optimizing python performance while keeping idiomatic?

At the risk of sounding snarky and/or unhelpful, in my experience, the answer is that you don't try to optimize Python code beyond fixing your algorithm to have better big-O properties, followed by calling out to external code that isn't written in Python (e.g., NumPy, etc).

But, I'm a hater. I spent several years working with Python and hated almost every minute of it for various reasons. Very few languages repulse me the way Python does: I hate the syntax, the semantics, the difficulty of distribution, and the performance (memory and CPU, and is GIL disabled by default yet?!)...
by duxup | 2025-11-06 17:10:18+00:00
>The law would apply to any site that “knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors.” It then defines that material as anything lacking “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.”

Oooofff

>The headline feature is a rule penalizing anyone who uses a VPN to access restricted material. VPNs encrypt internet traffic and disguise user locations, which lawmakers apparently see as a threat to order.

It's interesting how much the focus is on the user, who may be an adult, that they can't use a VPN on their own to access matieral ... to protect minors?
by btilly | 2025-11-06 17:10:21+00:00
And yet, they left the mouth of a human.

The point that he was explaining when I saw the quote was why the hiring process at Zappos had a "culture fit" part of the interview process. Because you can't maintain a culture, if you have employees who aren't aligned on values. Maintaining this requires passing up on opportunities to hire people who will be productive, because you think that they will undermine the culture.

The importance of culture as a value to the organization is demonstrated by passing up on opportunities that would undermine it. Even if those opportunities are otherwise good.
by talyuk | 2025-11-06 17:10:26+00:00
Hey HN! I built Relay after getting frustrated with existing tunnel tools.

I've used ngrok for like decade - great tool, but custom domains cost money. I tried ~10 open source alternatives to self-host.

Every one had issues: - No authentication (if you expose tunnel.example.com publicly, anyone can use your bandwidth/domain) - Random unmemorable names (tunnel.com:43891 or abc123def.tunnel.com) - No way to request persistent subdomains - Missing Docker images or requiring complex config files

I just wanted: self-hosted, private (only I control who connects), simple setup, readable URLs.

So I built Relay: - 3-word subdomains: quiet-snow-lamp.tunnel.example.com - Optional custom names: myapp.tunnel.example.com (persistent!) - Secret-based auth (only people with the secret can connect) - Single Docker image, two env vars: HOSTNAME + SECRET

That's it. No config files, no database, no bullshit.

Built with TypeScript, native Node.js APIs, only 1 dependency.

Would love your feedback!
by tguvot | 2025-11-06 17:11:35+00:00
amount of water used in washing cycle is +/- same, not dependent on size of load. reducing amount of powder will create weaker concentration and reduce cleaning capabilities of machine/detergent.

in reality, reducing amount of powder won't change much most of the time, because majority of cleaning happens due to physical action of (hot) water. there were multiple times when I was forgetting to put detergent and dishes went out clean. it mostly makes difference for some very dry/backed on stuff.
by jimt1234 | 2025-11-06 17:11:58+00:00
A friend of mine is trying to build a house in a remote area of Southern California. He's planning to be completely "off-grid", generating power exclusively from solar. However, local regulators insist he hook up to the local electric utility. Further, in order to run the electrical cables to his property (from the substation), the local fire department insists that the brush is cleared around the new electrical cables. All in, he's looking at around $100K for something he doesn't even want or need. He said he's tried explaining this to local regulators, but they're not hearing it.

Oh yeah, yes, after paying all the money to get the electrical hookup he doesn't want or need - yeah, he's gonna be on the hook for around $100/month.
by fifthace | 2025-11-06 17:12:13+00:00
The non-thinking Kimi K2 is on Vertex AI, so it's just a matter of time before it appears there. Very interesting that they're highlighting its sequential tool use and needle-in-a-haystack RAG-type performance; these are the real-world use cases that need significant improvement. Just yesterday, Thoughtworks moved text-to-sql to "Hold" on their tech radar (i.e. they recommend you stop doing it).
by CraigJPerry | 2025-11-06 17:12:24+00:00
>> optimizing python performance while keeping idiomatic?

That's impossible[1].

I think it is impossible because when i identify a slow function using cProfile then use dis.dis() on it to view the instructions executed, most of the overhead - by that i mean time spent doing something other than the calculation the code describes - is spent determining what each "thing" is. It's all trails of calls trying to determine "this thing can't be __add__() to that thing but maybe that thing can be __radd()__ to this thing instead. Long way to say most of the time wasting instructions i see can be attacked by providing ctypes or some other approach like that (mypyc, maybe cython, etc etc) - but at this point you're well beyond "idiomatic".

[1] I'm really curious to know the answer to your question so i'll post a confident (but hopefully wrong) answer so that someone feels compelled to correct me :-)
by m4rtink | 2025-11-06 17:12:59+00:00
Why not both ?

Like really - most people don't realize that Moon and Mars present very different environments with unique opportunities and challenges, such as:

- hard vacuum vs thin atmosphere - different communication latency to Earth - more vs less solar energy - 14 day day vs 25 hour day - abrasive dust vs less abrasive dust suspended in the atmosphere - 1/6 g vs 1/3 g

If we want to make use of the worlds of the Solar system, we will need to learn how to thrive in both sets of environments - many asteroids and space station operations in general are closer to the Moon while various gas giant moons (like Titan) and to a degree Venus are closer to Mars.
by dingnuts | 2025-11-06 17:13:13+00:00
AI visual output mimicks art sufficiently that it is now more difficult to identify authenticity and humanity, which are important for the human connection audiences want from art.

AI outputs mimicking art rob audiences of the ability to appreciate art on its own in the wild without further markers of authenticity, which steals joy from a whole generation of digital artists that have grown up sharing their creativity with each other

If you lack the empathy to understand why AI art-like outputs are abhorrent, I hope someone wastes a significant portion of your near future with generated meaningless material presented to you as something that is valuable and was time consuming to make, and you gain nothing from it, so that you can understand the problem for yourself first hand.
by mothballed | 2025-11-06 17:13:16+00:00
I believe they are murdering people they have convinced themselves are probably drug traffickers, for fun and geopolitical tensions.

For instance, the CIA was following the preacher Roni Bowers cessna plane as suspicious for drug trafficking. And then she was shot down, and her family killed. Because intelligence is often wrong.

Now you'll point out, after they were shot down, magically it was uncovered the CIA actually suggested the people that shot them down not do it. Even though the CIA was the one sticking them on them in the first place.[] If they had actually been drug traffickers, or just nobodies, of course, we'd hear precisely what we've been hearing about these vessels, which is jack squat from the government other than they killed the "drug traffickers" and we'd never hear about the voices that recommend they not.

If they end up killing a preacher or a scientist in the future, you can be sure they'll magically find the same evidence. "We warned them not to this time, but they did it anyway."

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Peru_Cessna_185_shootdown
by duxup | 2025-11-06 17:13:19+00:00
The frustrating thing about this is how SCOTUS decided that the president can't be inconvenienced by lower court rulings ... so his illegal tax stands and reaches into the pocket of every American.

Then after letting the president have a free hand (probably just because he's the same party as the SCOTUS majority's party) and putting it off for a long time, now SCOTUS worries about "Wait what happens if we decide this is illegal and they have to give the tax back!?!?!"

It's almost like you shouldn't let an autocrat do illegal things for a long period of time to the American people in the first place...

Maybe even SCOTUS should take the position that protecting the rights of all Americans should come first vs the most powerful man in the country's convenience.
by Razengan | 2025-11-06 17:13:44+00:00
> Even if you find electronic music "boring", these people are absolute masters at taking you on an emotional journey. The best way to experience this is at one of the top festivals. The second best way is at a club. The third best way is at home

Hell I LOVE The Midnight, Com Truise, Essenger, Empire of the Sun, Robert Parker, Gunship, FM-84, Молчат Дома (Molchat Doma) and other Slavsynth groups I can't even pronounce the names of..

but the best way to jam out to that is to go on an actual journey ^^ a long drive, an open road, no stops.. Being stationary even if dancing just doesn't fit in with the images those sounds give me (picture those synthwave/outrun posters with purple suns and ringed planets in the background sky)

I really wish there were some modern games and movies made around that vibe.
by latentsea | 2025-11-06 17:13:48+00:00
Regional grids are connected via tie-lines, and I heard international grids are also starting to become more connected in this way too. Though, I'd imagine it's complicated to send power from one side of the planet to the other. For starters grids can have different frequencies that need to be converted between. Also all transmission lines are subject to loss factors. In addition all the intermediary transmission companies have to route the power and avoid congestion on their grids, Then you have deal with all the financial settlement of the wheeling charges, which if you have to go through multiple grids and multiple currencies sounds like fun to deal with.

My understanding of the intentions of connecting international grids is for things like emergency supply of electricity to a different grid to stabilise the frequency and prevent blackouts.
by yencabulator | 2025-11-06 17:14:27+00:00
> would take a TON of ramp-up and expertise we don't currently have to manage and maintain

But you think you have resources to maintain a distributed strongly-consistent replicating block store?

The edge cases in RDB are literally why Ceph takes expertise to manage! Things like failure while recovering from failure while trying to maintain performance are inherently tricky.
by nicole_express | 2025-11-06 17:14:29+00:00
Trump's definitely referring to the United States with his pointless renaming attempt because it's singular and not plural, but I'd be careful accusing him of thinking about anything. I doubt he does that very often.

I guess the Organization of American States exists. But usually it's pretty unambiguous which sense is being used; like, I guess you could call Mark Carney an American head of government but it's basically just being obtuse, unless it was in the context of, say, a meeting of Carney with other heads of government in the hemisphere, and then it'd be unambiguous what was meant.

Even "United States of America" is not unambiguous in the most pathological case; Mexico is also a country consisting of united states existing in the Americas.