MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by immibis | 2025-04-28 11:56:54+00:00
Yep - the three-tiered pyramid.

At the top you have the top. At the bottom you have the bottom. You already know those. In the middle, keeping the top and bottom from colliding, you have the people recruited from the bottom by the top, for the job of keeping the top and bottom separated, in exchange for being elevated out of the bottom, but not all the way to the top.
by peppers-ghost | 2025-04-28 11:57:17+00:00
To me at least it's hard to imagine a good future because I understand climate change will ruin quality of life for most of humanity. I know what must be done to combat it will not be done due to the economic systems that dominate most countries. It's easier to envision the end of the world than it is to envision the end of capitalism.

Just knowing we do have the ability to slow things down, but actively choose not to in the name of profits and comfort is incredibly depressing and demotivating. The future looks bleak because it will be.
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2025-04-28 11:57:45+00:00
> Then how about empowering them to - speak?

The strain of anti intellectualism has been a constant thread... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge - Isaac Asimov

Being able to speak is not the same as having something to say. Knowing when to shut up is an important part of being a rational adult.

> I'm talking about the practice of democracy, by the way.

North Korea practices your democracy, they get to vote. Is that enough?

> he wikipedia article I linked

and I gave you a 3 paragraph explanation on the case. The police never said that, a neo nazi and a failing politician did. You are actively repeating lies while saying people are smart enough to never fall for them, are you just not aware you are being duped?

> You can't close your eyes on the evidence each time it doesn't follow your totalitarian narrative and expect that people will just shut up. Or you have to pass laws to do it, which ends up with the toxic situation of the UK, that has nothing to envy to the USSR.

yeah yeah if we dont allow racists to repeat lies then we end up like Venezuela. I get the vibe, but howabout we jail neo nazis, and hold youtubers to the same standards as news so we dont allow misinformation to spread so wide that people are repeating their narratives years later?

> Which is kind of funny given that you have laws to punish people who said something "creating anxiety", which is ... a feeling and totally subjective?

Those laws were passed by the "anti woke" party to have vague sentencing to punish people like Just Stop Oil and the black rights marches. It is not the kind of "cancel culture gone mad" you think it is, it is the exact kind of entitled, feelings > reality nonsense I am arguing against. You just dont like when the "woke" judges use the rules you wanted passed to hurt others
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-28 11:57:46+00:00
This comment is Dunning-Kruger effect in action…

Believe it or not, but maintaining an electricity grid is a massive undertaking, and the people in charge of it knows the topic much better than you do.

The problem isn't a market problem, it's a physics problem: having a synchronized grid of AC current with many producers over a wide area is a real challenge, even when the underlying issue is resolved it takes a lot of time to add the power plants (or renewable equivalent) to the grid because they must be synchronized.
by unconed | 2025-04-28 11:57:55+00:00
Where in your comment did you mention the IE angle? The effect of lack of dev tools? Where did you mention the boondoggle of CSS2 tables and how everyone had to learn a whole new way of making floats behave? Where did you mention the laundry lists of named hacks that people used to get around browser parser differentials?

You didn't. You wrote the story as it is being told instead of how it happened.

You just don't know what you're talking about.
by foldr | 2025-04-28 11:58:02+00:00
The TERF one was posted earlier but obviously doesn’t mention JK Rowling. As to the other example, thanks for posting a source rather than just expressing annoyance that anyone would be asking for one. I think it takes some Yogi-level stretching to reach the conclusion that the person holding the JK placard is “calling for the death of JK Rowling”, but it’s at least in the right ballpark.
by somelamer567 | 2025-04-28 11:58:11+00:00
Some more-unhinged ultranationalist elements of Russian societies loathe Western culture and what they see as 'decadent' Western values on their culture. This is not new. Xenophobia and hate of the Other has a long and sordid history in Russia.

Moreover, they are unable to just live-and-let-live and actively go out of their way to make other peoples lives miserable. This is due to pervasive zero-sum thinking in Russian strategic thinking. They are fixated on the idea that in order for Russia to 'win', others must suffer and lose.
by ben_w | 2025-04-28 11:58:28+00:00
Coordinate grids are arbitrary, for any system you can always put a different grid on the same physical reality.

It's just intuitively clear with a cartesian system that there's no net acceleration in a way it might not be for spherical coordinates. If you imagine a sphere, attach to all points of that sphere a normal unit vector pointing inwards, then all points on the sphere are "pointing inwards"; but as each point on the sphere has a corresponding point opposite it, where "inwards" means the exact opposite in cartesian coordinates, the sum of all those inward vectors is exactly zero. With spherical coordinates, you have to convince yourself that the vectors really do cancel. But they're the same vectors described differently.

Just to be clear though: these are still all euclidian geometry, just with different gridlines drawn on them. As yet, nobody has fully solved QM for curved spaces.
by apercu | 2025-04-28 11:58:30+00:00
I have no idea what they teach in MBA programs these days - I'm many years removed from the age that most people get theirs.

My dad got his MBA in 1959. When I was younger and considering one (I moved out of day to day tech work a long time ago because I wanted to "fix" the business problems I kept encountering because of their negative impact on the tech work), we reviewed curricula for several programs.

My dad was pretty astounded that in the wake of globalism and technology, they were still teaching the same tired-ass theories that he was taught in the 50's. Note that this conversation wasn't all that long ago in the grand scheme of things.

I get that this is a vulture capital site but all one has to do is look at what is happening in the world (Bain capital et al) and you see that all they are really teaching/practicing is wealth extraction, not wealth building.

Edit: sorry, my dad got his BS in 1959, his MBA in 1962.
by hsuduebc2 | 2025-04-28 11:58:31+00:00
I often have the same thoughts as you because, based on what I’ve seen, their actions aren’t strictly rational. For example, the damage to undersea cables will just be repaired, and it only end up angering everyone. Sometimes they also start local fires. I don’t really understand it either.

I do not really think that this needed to be a russians work tho. Spain and Portugal are really kinda far and it would be massively idiotic move even for them.
by rs186 | 2025-04-28 11:58:31+00:00
Was going to say about the same thing. I have some background in biomedical research a while ago, and I could tell that on the high level the main body of the work here is similar to the methodology used in tons of research that were already done many years ago. People have already been using various machine learning/deep learning methods for a long time, and this is definitely not something significant that the headline tries to make or how people are perceiving it. Not to discount their work, but really, not too much to see for the average reader on the Internet.

In other words, this is something that happens in the field all the time, most of which don't get any attention from people outside the field, were it not because of the "AI" buzzword in the article.
by avastel | 2025-04-28 11:59:01+00:00
I am working on a curated database of proxy IP addresses frequently used by bots: https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/product/proxies-ips

So far I have ~ 3M distinct IP addresses per 30 days, with a lot of fresh proxy IPs, 1.7M. The DB contains only verified IP addresses through which I've been able to route traffic. It DOESN'T rely on 3rd party/open-source data sources.

I also made an open-source proxy IP block list based on the data: https://github.com/antoinevastel/avastel-bot-ips-lists
by netsharc | 2025-04-28 11:59:31+00:00
Both the copy and the original wouldn't like to be destroyed, would they, it's like volunteering to end one's consciousness.

What if there's hardware to wirelessly combine the minds, and you can experience what your clone^W other-self experiences. A bit like having someone be in e.g. Iceland and facetime you a low quality sight and sounds experience of Iceland... would you then say "Ok, I don't mind having one of my input devices go offline".
by op00to | 2025-04-28 11:59:55+00:00
Lose your license? You get a ride, ride a bike, take the bus, get compassionate permission to only drive to work, etc. there are many ways to move yourself around. Then don’t mess up again once the suspension is over.

What about a child molester that works in a school? It makes sense to prevent them from being in contact with children. I think preventing people from driving saves the public from similar potentially dangerous harm.
by londons_explore | 2025-04-28 12:00:03+00:00
The current system is that everyone pays equally for X amount of stability, and for some people they don't get as much stability as they desire (eg. These people in Spain), whilst others pay more money and than they'd like when they would be fine with 5 minutes outages once a year.

That made sense before technology became available for everyone to make their own choice - but that is no longer the case.
by candu | 2025-04-28 12:00:56+00:00
A writeup about how I'm migrating large portions of my digital life away from Big Tech platforms. I'm not making as exhaustive or dramatic an effort as e.g. [1] - but in exchange, the goal is to show that this is something people can do (and should consider doing (and for the tech-savvy audience here, should consider helping other people do)).

Open to suggestions on platforms / tools, questions, respectful debate, etc.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-l...
by cedel2k1 | 2025-04-28 12:01:24+00:00
I'm working on an app for collectors that comes with an inbuilt, curated database where users can mark things as having, wanting and/or selling. It will have an invuilt marketplace soon, but currently I'm using links to external sales to cover the supply side. I'm also starting very niche by just covering Neo Geo games, systems and accessories for starters. https://sumthings.com
by unconed | 2025-04-28 12:02:04+00:00
Pop quiz: make a 3 columns layout with fixed width header and sidebars, with a sticky footer at the bottom of the page, and which reaches full height even if the main content is shorter than the sidebar, or vice versa... even if the whole page is shorter than the browser. It must work in IE6-8.

Spoiler: you can't.
by ryao | 2025-04-28 12:02:21+00:00
There are typically no pedestrians on highways. Being a pedestrian on a high way is hazardous no matter what the speed limit is for any realistic speed limit.

If the cars move faster, they will get off the road faster. This means fewer vehicles on the road and the distances between the vehicles will increase. It is a linear effect if you adapt a flow equation to vehicles. Here is the equation off the top of my head:

V1*D1*L1 = V2*D2*L2

V is the average speed, D is the linear density, L is the number of lanes. If you care about safety, you want D to be as big as possible so that vehicles do not have distances between them reach 0. That implies higher speeds (or more lanes, but that is harder to do).

Finally, the gun analogy is inappropriate. It is essentially saying “the data contradicts our conclusions, so let’s shutdown any rational thought that might question our conclusions”. This kind of thinking is backward and should easily lead to nonsense such as the rationalization of square wheels to give an example of the absurdity it allows. Interestingly, much of what you said could also be said in defense of the forced adoption of square wheels.
by piva00 | 2025-04-28 12:02:37+00:00
It's not an issue of taxation but of efficient governing. There are many examples around the world where high taxation does lead to better public services, the USA is an outlier compared to its developed peers in that.

So now the question is: what are the differences between the US's model of government to its developed peers that creates such failures in governance? It could be the lack of trust in government (which is inherent in America, it's a government for people who historically don't want to be governed); it could be a failure of the two-party system not allowing a plurality of parties to have to agree on issues, becoming a tit-for-tat power play; it could be a general misalignment between the incentives of civil servants putting forth project proposals to be worked on, and politicians to act on those projects (they can be temporarily unpopular which echoes into their party's national sentiment), creating failed projects since they can't be popular and efficient at the same time.

It's easy to blame "the government" without looking deeper into what exactly creates this malfunctioning government in the USA, for the past four decades the only solution is "make it private" and even after four decades of doing that it seems public goods and services only worsened in the USA so it's not looking like it's the solution either.
by n4r9 | 2025-04-28 12:03:17+00:00
I thought the fallacy bit was tongue-in-cheek. They're not actually arguing from authority in the article.

The system you describe appears to treat programmers as mere cogs. Programmers do not simply write and iterate code as dictated by POs. That's a terrible system for all but the simplest of products. We could implement that system, then lose the ability to make broad architectural improvements, effectively adapt the model to new circumstances, or fix bugs that the model cannot.
by terom | 2025-04-28 12:03:35+00:00
It looks like the Iberian peninsula is relatively isolated from the rest of the CESA synchronous grid, with only 2% cross-border capacity compared to local generation. [1]

There's a map at [2]

> The Spanish electricity system is currently connected to the systems of France, Portugal, Andorra and Morocco. The exchange capacity of this interconnection is around 3 GW, which represents a low level of interconnection for the peninsula. The international interconnection level is calculated by comparing the electricity exchange capacity with other countries with the generation capacity or installed power.

[1] https://www.ree.es/en/ecological-transition/electricity-inte...

[2] https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/
by asdefghyk | 2025-04-28 12:03:49+00:00
Low bandwidth recollections I have Dialup modems , 2400 baud 33K and finally 56K Dialup connections early in morning, say 5 - 6 am would give very noticeably faster webpage loading times Mail client ( like Eudora email client) connect and just load email headers ( or titles) then select which emails I wanted to retrieve the bodies for... This would have been early 90s to early 2000s , when I stopped using dial up connection.
by soylentgraham | 2025-04-28 12:04:03+00:00
Ah, I've made the same! I made a very flexible turn-based framework - write the game logic on server in javascript, then state+options are given to clients, so platforms (swiftui, web, unity, webxr etc) "just" have to implement UI on top (Also means I have a default/debug view, which works for all games). The games can run offline (via javascriptcore on ios, natively on web etc) and supports bots for all games (they randomly choose options on their turn) which has a very simple opening to get some reinforcement learning in.

Then specifically I was making an app which let me customise rules for poker - extra streets, antes, throwaway cards, passing cards, multiple boards, multiple decks, etc to support as many variants as possible, and ideally, stumble across new ones.

As an aside, I posted to reddit for research of other home variants people play (Basically to stumble across more fun variants in our home games) there's a few good alternatives I've not heard of in here!

https://www.reddit.com/r/poker/comments/1i91mnz/what_are_you...

I've run out of steam a little bit (burnt out & seeking work isn't great for own projects), but has been an excuse to learn swiftui. I'd be tempted to team up with people to keep the project alive...
by pmlnr | 2025-04-28 12:04:47+00:00
> "I currently don't have any internet service and just €15 in my wallet - I can't withdraw any money from the ATM," she added.

from: https://news.sky.com/story/large-parts-of-spain-and-portugal...

This is literally the whistleblowers about cashless society have been warning everyone about for well over a decade now.
by moooo99 | 2025-04-28 12:05:10+00:00
People seem to love those expensive solutions though.

I know so many people who invested in overly expensive battery storage systems for their solar. Power in Germany is expensive, but even with that expensive power many of those battery systems will never hit a positive ROI. But they’re still happy for the feeling of being „independent“.

I’ll turn 26 in a few months. The first time I experienced a power outage in my life was two weeks ago when a construction worker in our basement drilled into the wrong wall…
by brohee | 2025-04-28 12:05:15+00:00
Edit : I was misreading the confusing Rte site... Entsoe actually a lot more readable. France went from importing to exporting around the incident.

https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/les-echanges-commerciaux-...

https://transparency.entsoe.eu/transmission-domain/physicalF...
by ghc | 2025-04-28 12:05:31+00:00
> Texas has more Biotech opps now than MA, thanks to crazy high lab space rents.

For anyone confused by this I looked it up. The number of life sciences (biotech + biopharma) employees in the state of Texas is less than 50% the number of life sciences employees in greater Boston. The amount of venture funding is roughly 10%. the venture AUM is comparatively tiny. The total number of big pharma research HQs is significantly smaller. I'm not sure the whole state of Texas would even outrank the research triangle.
by vel0city | 2025-04-28 12:05:48+00:00
Why not? Maybe because I'd rather not have to spend that much of my own capital on something I'd generally never use. I'd rather not spend the maintenance on that thing I'd generally never use. And finally, I'd rather not take up the space in my home with a large thing I'd generally never use.

I'd prefer for the power coming to my house to just not go out. The grid operator can install batteries in places other than my home. The grid operator can maintain them for me. The grid operator can get cheaper loans than I can for installing them, they're staffed with supposed experts in this stuff, just have them handle it on their premises.
by netsharc | 2025-04-28 12:06:20+00:00
Amazing/curious that all the infrastructure to feed news to your phone still works. I can imagine a poorly-built systems would have some infrastructure without UPSes, and in all that chain of technology, there'll be an element or more without power. Not saying Spain/Portugal would necessarily be more prone to have poorly-built infrastructure, I assume the whole world runs on half-assery.
by Expurple | 2025-04-28 12:06:58+00:00
> I can imagine some performance concerns in the real world.

A friend has pointed out that, for performance reasons, games already tend to sidestep the filesystem and bundle everything into container/archive files, like .pak [1]. It also reminded me of how compile times are often noticeably faster on Linux vs Windows, because its filesystem is better optimized for handling many small files.

Honestly, it's weird and makes me kind of sad. Filesystems are such an important, convenient and (mostly) standardized and portable abstraction. But to this day, it's often a bottleneck and too slow for some domains. It seems like there's a lot of missed opportunity here.

> when the "tree" is actually a sequential array of nameless elements, there's some extra overhead involved with writing and storing made-up file names, as well as sorting by name when reading. This could be remedied by some new API.

As I keep thinking about it, the fastest approach is still a sequential binary blob. It avoids indirection, fragmentation and needlessly storing separate metadata for each element. A VFS mount could still be implemented on top, for accessing elements through a filesystem interface (something like `my_array_file/0`, reporting the same medatata as the parent).

But if storing separate FS-level metadata for each element is actually desirable and indirection+fragmentation isn't a critical problem, we could use folders for arrays. As a partial optimization, we could introduce a special "ordered" folder type. It requires explicitly ordering the subfiles on write, so that later listing the children is sorted and fast by default.

Option 1. The ordering is a separate metadata in the folder. Subfiles still have unique names that are not related to the ordering. This could be useful for the app, or could be unnecessary. POSIX apps (that don't know about "sorted folders") would still re-sort the subfiles by name and could get a different ordering as the result.

Option 2. The subfiles don't have user-provided names. For POSIX-compatibility, the VFS supports "artificial" file names like 0000000, 0000001, 0000002 (the number of digits according to the FS limits, sorts as text correctly) or 0, 1, 2 (prettier, independent of the FS limits and portable, but doesn't sort correctly as text).

In some sense, this special folder type is against the spirit of the original article. It has special write restrictions that prevent treating every inode the same way (as an arbitratily writetable folder). But it's still in the spirit of the original in the sense of reusing the standard FS abstractions and features as much as possible.

[1] https://quakewiki.org/wiki/.pak