MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smcin | 2025-11-01 22:25:10+00:00
What's a short explanation of the discrepancy in EU wholesale vs household electricity price changes, over the period 2019-2025?

Wholesale increased 30% YoY 2025 over 2024 but household didn't.

Realistically we should compare to 2019 (pre-Covid, pre-inflation, pre-Ukraine war).

Many individual EU govts implemented retail caps, (sales) tax cuts, and transfers. Where is this summarized at-a-glance, by country, by year? Anything better than:

eurostat: "Electricity price statistics" https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

"Winners and losers from the energy crisis: Policy lessons from the Iberian electricity market" - Fabra, Leblanc, Souza (2025) https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/winners-and-losers-energy-cri...
by cardanome | 2025-11-01 22:25:32+00:00
> Meanwhile, the ship is sinking.

No it is not. We have a lot of amazing and rock solid software written in C and C++. Stuff mostly works great.

Sure, things could be better but there is no reason why we need to act right now. This is a long term decisions that doesn't need to be rushed.

> What is left is pretty much only Zig and Rust.

We had Ada long before Rust and it is a pretty amazing language. Turns out security isn't that important for many people and C++ is good enough for many projects apparently.

There is also D, Nim, Odin and so on.

> Garbage collection is a huge dealbreaker

It isn't. We had Lisp Machines in the 80s and automatic garbage collection has vastly improved these days. So I wouldn't rule those out either.

In short, no the ship is not sinking. There are many options to improve things. The problems is once you depend on rust it will be hard to remove so it is better to think things through because rushing to adopt it.
by panick21_ | 2025-11-01 22:26:02+00:00
- Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) — $4.1B

- MySQL AB — $1.0B

- SeeBeyond Technology — $387M

Some more companies undisclosed and of course in 2000 Cobalt Networks for $2.0B.

But in general, just hanging around on SPARC far to long. Unfortunately the person put in charger of SPARC told Scott that he thought SPARC could be saved but it would need 4-5 years. And that's when they went into mulit-core, selling everybody on the whole 'threw-put computing' nonsense.
by neilalexander | 2025-11-01 22:26:37+00:00
This may not help if you can’t control your environment. You will often benefit from nearby routers hearing you and each other if you are forced to share a channel with them, as that is what enables the carrier sensing to work correctly. Otherwise neighbouring APs that can’t hear your quieter use of the channel may shout over your devices rather than backing off, creating collisions and resulting in retransmits.
by lmm | 2025-11-01 22:27:02+00:00
> Like, the laws are passed by governments.

Sure, but do you think the government writes them themselves? Without any input from the industry?

> How does this benefit said financial institutions?

One of the best ways to get ahead in finance is to get a regulation passed that's easy for you to comply with but hard for your competitors. That's what drives a lot of the laws.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-11-01 22:27:16+00:00
You picked the arguably most impactful AI/ML paper of the century so far, no wonder you don't find others with similar impact.

Not every paper can be a world-changing breakthrough. Which doesn't mean that more modest papers are noise (although some definitely are). What Kuhn calls "normal science" is also needed for science to work.
by dvtkrlbs | 2025-11-01 22:28:20+00:00
For starter it looks completely alien my real introduction to Ada was with this article comparing it to Rust on solving advent of code [1] but it gives me that feeling when I try to read Haskell code (not that extreme). I did not actually give it a real chance though but its user base even more niche than Rust so idk. It has really cool properties (being able to define n bit datatypes is nice) but it is also leans to more on the imperative side so that also does not interest me.

[1] https://github.com/johnperry-math/AoC2023/blob/master/More_D...
by cultofmetatron | 2025-11-01 22:29:25+00:00
there's an easy roadmap to make this popular.

make it so that I can dock it and use it as a full fat OS on a desktop. If they wanna market this as an open phone, they need to make it first class as a primary computing device. so far only samsung is willing to enter this territory with a glorified chromebook.

if I could install the rust toolchain and vscode on it and use it in a customizable desktop environemnt by plugging it into a USBC monitor, you bet I'd buy it. Id happily pay 1-2k+ euros for it.

Sadly as is, it functionally does less than my locked down iphone so whats the point?
by hyko | 2025-11-01 22:30:03+00:00
Backup snapshots of what though? The defects aren’t being introduced through code changes, they are inherent in the model and its tooling. If you’re using general models, there’s very little you can do beyond prompt engineering (which won’t be able to fix all the bugs).

If you were using your own model you could maybe try to retrain/finetune the issues away given a new dataset and different techniques? But at that point you’re just transmuting a difficult problem into a damn near impossible one?

LLMs can be miraculous and inappropriate at the same time. They are not the terminal technology for all computation.
by johnfn | 2025-11-01 22:30:04+00:00
Controversial take, but have we considered that possibly dating apps dont suck, and that this perception is driven by a vocal minority of the people who have the worst experience on them? (A sad fact is that dating will just suck for some % of the population. Is it possible that if there were no apps the same % would be saying how IRL dating sucks?) I know many people in stable LTRs or married who met through dating apps. But I don’t think you typically find these people participating in discourse about dating apps. If anything they’ve probably moved on to complaining why wedding planners and baby books or whatever suck.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-11-01 22:30:30+00:00
I'm a little ways through this and it's great so far, nice job.

One of the reasons people build one though is to learn. Most smart folks are quite aware that the reality of pre-training a real LLM is going to involve some head banging against the wall (ie, things don't go smoothly like "building an llm from scratch" book), and they want to go through the process.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-01 22:30:34+00:00
> For some weird reason LAN speeds did not improve at the same rate as the disks did.

When it comes to wired, sending data 15cm is a very different problem than sending it 100M reliably - that and consumer demand for >1Gbps wasn't there which made the consumer equipment expensive because no mass market to drive it down, M.2 entirely removes the cable.

I figured 10Gbps would be the standard by now (and was way off) and yet its not even the default on high end motherboards - 2.5Gbps is becoming a lot more common though.
by jacob235 | 2025-11-01 22:31:28+00:00
The problems, in my view, are bandwidth and behavior, but not for the reasons noted. In a dating profile, you can carefully curate every part of your first impression. This means that 1) you need to have basically a perfect profile (doesn't mean you come off as the hottest, just that it's all green flags) because otherwise you are not putting your best foot forward, and 2) the dating profile is not reflective of the reality of the person.

This leads into behavior, as you can spend however much time you want vibing and talking through text, but meeting and spending time together in person will invariably be different. This results in two major high-pressure, high-filter events as opposed to the one from initially meeting in person.
by threeducks | 2025-11-01 22:31:32+00:00
A few things come to mind:

- Games (400GB for Ark, 235GB for Call of Duty, 190GB for God of War)

- LLMs (e.g. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp at 690GB or Kimi-K2 at 1030GB unquantized)

- Blockchains (Bitcoin blockchain approaching 700GB)

- Deep learning datasets (1.1PB for Anna's Archive, 240TB for LAION-5B at low resolution)

- Backups

- Online video processing/storage

- Piracy (Torrenting)

Of course you can download those things on a slower connection, but I imagine that it would be a lot nicer if it went faster.
by grg0 | 2025-11-01 22:32:41+00:00
My Emacs setup typically involves:

- An LSP: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/tutorials/CPP-guide/ - Neotree to browse the file system: https://github.com/jaypei/emacs-neotree - Awesome-tab for tabs: https://github.com/manateelazycat/awesome-tab

If you want more, look at the extensions section of the LSP page and then go down the rabbit hole.

I likewise do not use Doom or any of the bundled variants because I want full control and understanding of my config. But those variants are still useful to learn what's out there and selectively add things to your mix.
by prox | 2025-11-01 22:32:52+00:00
From wikipedia :

On examination of photos and videos of weapons used in the conflict that were posted on social media, the rights group identified that companies registered in China, Iran, Russia, Serbia, and the UAE were associated with the weapons provided to RSF.[96] Human Rights Watch reviewed images of show crates with markings indicating they were manufactured in 2020 and initially acquired by the UAE Armed Forces in through a contract with Adasi, a subsidiary of UAE-based weapons manufacturer Edge Group. A January 2024 report by the UN Panel of Experts on Sudan deemed the UAE's alleged support to the RSF as "credible"

According to Business Insider, "The two generals helped Russian President Vladimir Putin exploit Sudan's gold resources to help buttress Russian finances against Western sanctions and fund his war in Ukraine."[108]
by DyslexicAtheist | 2025-11-01 22:32:58+00:00
> hey, tell me what are some of the recent laws in Germany that make it a crime to call politicians out on social media

in Germany, calling a politician certain derogatory names or mocking them in a way that is considered a "public insult" (and reasonably likely to impair their ability to do their job) can lead to criminal liability under §188 StGB. The scope includes online social media posts. The trend of enforcement appears to be increasing.

Section 188 of the German Criminal Code "insulting public officials" - This section makes it a crime to insult ("Beleidigung"), defame ("Verleumdung" or slander ("Üble Nachrede" a person in public life (politicians at all levels) if the insult is "likely to significantly impair the ability of the person concerned to perform their public duties"

Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) – social media platform liability; It obliges large social-media platforms operating in Germany to remove "clearly illegal" content quickly (within 24 h) and illegal content within 7 days, report transparency, store removed content for 10 weeks. This law creates an environment in which platform-moderation is under pressure. Content that may lead to criminal liability (such as insults under §188) may be more likely to be flagged/removed by platforms.

General "insult" (§185 StGB), "slander" (§186 StGB) and "defamation" (§187 StGB) apply to any person, not just public officials. Conditions and penalties are higher under §188 when public officials are involved. Also, laws on dissemination of personal data (doxing) (§126a StGB) were enacted in 2021. While not specific to insulting politicians, they add further online-speech liabilities
by jitl | 2025-11-01 22:33:15+00:00
Oops, I stand corrected!

What I remember about our evaluation of DuckDB in 2024 concluded that (1) the major limitations were lack of range-scan and index-lookup performance (maybe w/ joins? or update where?), and (2) the DuckDB Node.js module segfaulted too much. Perhaps the engineers somehow missed the ART index it could also be the restriction that data fit in memory to create an index on it (our test dataset was about 50gb)
by aurintex | 2025-11-01 22:33:26+00:00
You're right, the trust is at zero. My entire mission agrees with your core premise: "If the data is on a server, someone will find a way to abuse it."

That's why my entire architecture is being designed differently, based on two principles:

- Fully Functional Offline: 3-letter agencies can't access data that isn't on a server in the first place. The core AI runs on-device. - Open Core: You're right to expect a "bait & switch." That's why the code that guarantees privacy (the OS, the data-pipeline) must be open-source, so the trust is verifiable.

My business model is not to sell ads or data. I'm trying to design a system where trust is verifiable through the architecture, not just promised.
by imiric | 2025-11-01 22:33:30+00:00
On the one hand, I agree with this. The chat UI is very slow and inefficient.

But on the other, given what I know about these tools and how error-prone they are, I simply refuse to give them access to my system, to run commands, or do any action for me. Partly due to security concerns, partly due to privacy, but mostly distrust that they will do the right thing. When they screw up in a chat, I can clean up the context and try again. Reverting a removed file or messed up Git repo is much more difficult. This is how you get a dropped database during code freeze...

The idea of giving any of these corporations such privileges is unthinkable for me. It seems that most people either don't care about this, or are willing to accept it as the price of admission.

I experimented with Aider and a self-hosted model a few months ago, and wasn't impressed. I imagine the experience with SOTA hosted models is much better, but I'll probably use a sandbox next time I look into this.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-11-01 22:34:06+00:00
The state of nature would have been preagricultural and nomadic, not a village with permanent buildings. I don’t like this over-application of an entropy metaphor to human society. Cosmopolitan cities are centers of production because they’re as disordered as they are ordered. They constantly reorganize their production processes, which is why they’re always the places discovering the new source of economic growth. A farming village is ordered by contrast. It’s only a “bubble of flourishing” because, like any process of experimentation, the city produces waste products which have to be handled somewhere, and it shunts them off to get them out of the way of its continual reorganizations.
by WillAdams | 2025-11-01 22:34:25+00:00
I still wish that Apple had just licensed Wacom EMR --- as it is, I have to use a Wacom One w/ my MacBook so that it will fit in w/ my Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, Book 3 Pro 360, and Kindle Scribe (all of which use the same Wacom EMR stylus technology).
by dvtkrlbs | 2025-11-01 22:35:00+00:00
I mean sadly even though I hate the bans the exclusion is really insignificant in the grand scheme of things and the benefits Github brings most of the considered acceptable for the tradeoff. I am sadly one of those people I am fairly young (25) and my introduction to git happened with Github so I am really used to it. Though I am also developing a codeforge as an hobby project and maybe something serious in the long term.

There is also another crowd that completely aligns with the US foreign policy and also has the same animosity towards those countrie's citizens (I 've seen considerable amount of examples of these).

For the license part I really don't get the argument how can a coreutils rewrite can get rugpulled this is not a hosted service where minio [1] [2] like situation can happen and there is always the original utils if something like that were to happen.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665452 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136108
by shrubble | 2025-11-01 22:35:08+00:00
The app is not activation-locked to a remote server, from what I can tell.

There is nothing stopping the author from buying a 2013 Mac Pro "Trash Can" with 64GB RAM, and running it in perpetuity. RTF import/export won't stop working, documents won't bloat beyond what 64GB RAM can handle, etc.
by gwking | 2025-11-01 22:35:29+00:00
One tidbit that I don't see mentioned here yet is that ATTACH requires a lock. I just went looking for the documentation about this and couldn't find it, especially for WAL mode (https://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html mentions the super-journal, but the WAL docs do not mention ATTACH at all).

I have a python web app that creates a DB connection per request (not ideal I know) and immediately attaches 3 auxiliary DBs. This is a low traffic site but we have a serious reliability problem when load increases: the ATTACH calls occasionally fail with "database is locked". I don't know if this is because the ATTACH fails immediately without respecting the normal 5 second database timeout or what. To be honest I haven't implemented connection pooling yet because I want to understand what exactly causes this problem.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-11-01 22:36:09+00:00
That would be nice, plug in usb-c to a display and keyboard.

But there's another way, can't someone implement their own implementation of the core google services apis and then you can just load a regular app off the app store and run it? Google would absolutely want to block this as their control and monopoly depends on it. But it shouldn't be against the law.

It's obvious, so it means someone must have tried and it was not reasonably possible.
by card_zero | 2025-11-01 22:36:29+00:00
I was thinking about the meaning of "acceptance" recently. It means you feel some injustice or frustration about something. Morally, you think the problem should be fixed, but strategically you think you shouldn't try.

Everything we do has limits and obstacles. If you don't feel frustrated, then that's a completely ordinary situation and there's no point in highlighting your "acceptance", is there?

I suppose in tech terms it could be equivalent to "won't fix", but such matters should be swiftly forgotten. If you're experiencing ongoing acceptance, consciously, that's suboptimal and implies you'd still be right to complain.

Thus recommending acceptance to somebody is recommending defeat. The term acceptance entails bottled-up frustration or injustice. It may still be strategically right, but it's a twisted, contingent choice.
by stevenwoo | 2025-11-01 22:36:57+00:00
Small enough particles can easily pierce the blood brain barrier. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10141840/ They also appear to interact with human gut microbiota. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11056917/

What they do there is up for further study.

Many studies show a high correlation with childhood respiratory defects and living near roads (or even attending school near roads) specifically a road with diesel truck traffic, and a recent study showed a decrease in effects when air filters are installed in the schools. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6949366/
by om2 | 2025-11-01 22:37:07+00:00
Fetch API is a pretty recent addition to the web platform. Back in the day, you could absolutely embed images of stylesheets from ftp: URLs. You could even use it with XMLHttpRequest (predecessor of Fetch). Even further back, gopher: was integrated with the web. URL schemes were invented for the web with the idea that http: is not the only one. These other protocols were really part of the web until they weren’t.
by thadt | 2025-11-01 22:37:18+00:00
Can you expand on what you find to be 'bad advice'?

The author uses an LLM to find bugs and then throw away the fix and instead write the code he would have written anyway. This seems like a rather conservative application of LLMs. Using the 'shooting someone in the foot' analogy - this article is an illustration of professional and responsible firearm handling.
by wiseowise | 2025-11-01 22:37:37+00:00
> You don't need to think too much about anything or have too much of self-awareness. Just be real, with neutral expression, relaxed, not emotional etc.

“What a creep”

“Is everything alright?”

“Why are you so gloomy all the time?”

It’s easy to not care about others opinion when your life wellbeing doesn’t depend on it, for most people it’s not a luxury they can afford.
by ho_schi | 2025-11-01 22:37:53+00:00
SailfishOS and the Jolla One were good (awesome usability) But the integration of Android was a horribly failure. It is like WINE, half working applications preventing native ports of quality. I left the boat.

After that Jolla failed with the tablet. Then they didn’t deliver a successor device for Jolla One and provided SailfishOS only as aftermarket OS. You remember the Android problem from above? The hardware of others, without official support? That is calling for problems.

And to make everything worse Jolla started a cooperation with Russia in 2015. According to Wikipedia they quit it in 2021.

Hint about compatibility and APIs

Never try to be compatible to an environment which doesn’t want to maintain interoperability with you.
by jezek2 | 2025-11-01 22:38:08+00:00
Unfortunatelly DMA is the reason Google is doing this. It allowed Apple to require notarization for "security". Google is just copying the same approach as it's now clear what the requirements by the governments are.

Before it was unclear so it was better to allow installation of apps without any verification to appear as more open.

Remember any regulation/law has unintended consequences. At one point Apple decided that PWAs would no longer be supported in EU so they don't have to provide equal capabilities to implement them in alternative web browsers, fortunatelly they changed their mind by obtaining an exception. PWAs is the only alternative choice for making "proper" apps on iOS (no hacky sideloading methods).

I think overally DMA is more a loss than a win (good on paper, terrible in practice). It codified worse things. The EU app stores are still fully controlled by Apple (harder to install, they can just decline or drag notarization of any apps or revoke your license to dev tools, you need to still pay them, etc.).

For various apps the EU market is too small (esp. for things that need to be global) to invest into the development so while you can for example theoretically develop a real alternative web browser to Safari/WebKit (forbidden by App Store rules) nobody is willing to do it.
by subscribed | 2025-11-01 22:38:50+00:00
Okay, but who cares to be honest? :)

If the general public prefers unsafe phones, they can chose literally any else brand. This is never going to be a mass market phone because of the tradeoffs that are perfectly fine for the intended recipients (eg people who believe a torch/calculator app REALLY doesn't need internet access, or that their Instagram REALLY doesn't need to have access to ALL the photos/videos.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-01 22:39:31+00:00
> A major factor in my world: the coolest people don't use dating apps because [...] they have no problem meeting people in real life

> The spicier version: dating apps select for personality disorders, and as such, being on a dating app in the first place is a negative signal

I guess a lot of people you would call "cool" I would rather call "annoying self-centered people who are often very concerned about their public image (i.e. narcists)".

Yes, this people may have a much easier time finding dates in real life, but if you are rather into different kinds of people for a relationship and are more on the introverted side, I guess dating in real life is not the best idea for success.
by ferrouswheel | 2025-11-01 22:39:52+00:00
While I agree LLMs have forever changed the interviewing game, I also strongly disagree with deeming slop code as "perfect" and "optimal".

There's a lot of shitty code made my LLMs, even today. So maybe we should lean in, and get people to critique generated code with the interviewer. Besides, being able to talk through, review, and discuss code is more important than the initial creation.