MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orwin | 2025-05-08 23:47:28+00:00
Yes, probably because the British helped the ottomans push back the Napoleonic army before they could enter 'true' ottoman lands (basically stopped them at Rafah or something, I have to check) then let the ottomans retake Egypt for free, without involving other regional powers (it was under ottoman rules in name only when Napoleon was sent there, and truly ruled by ottomans when he got kicked out). I have _not_ read about the English empire in this era, so I might be absolutely wrong. I mostly know French (and Italian somehow) 'modern' history (and only part of it, im not well read on the first Napoléonic empire, just on the moments before, the moments after, and the late second empire)
by EasyMark | 2025-05-08 23:47:35+00:00
We all know this, and most people I know are all for onshoring more stuff back here as well as with friendly nations around the world. What Trump is doing is insanity, zero business acumen, zero chances of success. To bring some (certainly will never be all) manufacturing back, we could have real business incentives, ending h1b visa program, tax relief for industries that "disappeared", target tariffs and trade agreements. Instead we get some kind of shitty AI math conjured up by DOGE boys that claims "trade deficits" are the same thing as "tariffs" and whispering it into Trump's ear.
by zahlman | 2025-05-08 23:49:58+00:00
We would love to change how SO gets advertised. But we aren't in control of it, and the truth seems to be counterproductive to having a site that makes money from ad revenue.

I recommend looking for alternatives, because this problem can't really be fixed and the site owners seem intent on making it worse. I personally use and recommend (and am a moderator at, full disclosure) Codidact Software: https://software.codidact.com/ . But at Codidact we're still fundamentally using the same "Q&A site" (I don't think this means the same thing you appear to think it means) model . We just have proper community involvement (the site is owned by a non-profit foundation and committed to community sovereignty; see https://codidact.org/), new site software, and newly conceived site scope.

> My suggestion would be to have two sites, one that is actually a general Q&A site like what everyone is after, the other is the kind of knowledge repository that SO wants to be.

The problem is that there are already countless sites "like what everyone is after". If you try to split a Q&A site like Stack Overflow that way without changing the actual UI, the problem just repeats itself: people try to use the knowledge repository part as if it were yet another traditional forum.

And it turns out, people often think they're after that model, then get fed up with it over time.

I think an idea like yours can be done, but it would require radically different site software. (In early 2023 - I think - I kept myself busy with contemplating a design for exactly this, but I didn't really write anything down.)
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by jrockway | 2025-05-08 23:50:15+00:00
It was weird. It makes me sad because the startup I worked at was really gelling despite the HPE interference. Then they just laid everyone off one day (multiple senior leadership changes later) for no apparent reason.

All the code is Apache 2 so I guess if I really cared I could just revive it... and as it turns out, I don't care that much. Other stuff to do.
by EasyMark | 2025-05-08 23:50:21+00:00
I hear this from MAGAs and I don't buy it. It seems to be their go to reason for the coming collapse of the economy from instead of the real reason of self induced stagflation caused by unhinged economic policy from a clown. I just don't buy it. Trump is deliberately attempting to bring on the 2nd Great Depression and he doesn't care because he has cash stored away enough to last several life times. He just likes playing God with the economy because cowardly republican congress members quiver in fear he might give them a thumb's down.
by calepayson | 2025-05-08 23:50:47+00:00
Completely agree with this.

I think my sense is that the zeitgeist around AI (at least in business circles) is much more “The only way to ensure our continued survival is by embracing ai in all our core competencies” than “your tire company is going to have some adequate hr for a great price.”

An example that springs to mind is the arms race between tech CEOs over who can have more of their code base written by llms.

It’s amazing tech and it seems like it’s being marketed for all the wrong things based off of some future promise of super intelligence.

I really liked the article posted on here a week or two back along the lines of AI is a normal technology. Imo, the most sane narrative I’ve read about where this tech is at.
by mrandish | 2025-05-08 23:50:52+00:00
With Walt, there's also the context that he was the founder and CEO of the company who chose to make himself a very public spokesperson for the company for many decades, including regular TV appearances on Disney's weekly national TV show - all in an era where few CEOs were public figures outside financial markets. And many of his appearances went far beyond the role of CEO to include playing host, product demonstrator and marketing spokesperson.

He clearly had no problem with representing the company and actively promoting Disney theme parks, movies and products with his image. Even while he was alive Disney Corp sold high-end memorabilia like large framed pictures of Walt working at his drawing board and including his distinctive signature. So he not only promoted products but turned himself into a revenue generating product. In some sense, he made himself a mascot for his company as much as Mickey Mouse and this was clearly by design. To me that's different than a CEO who mostly limited his public exposure to the usual earnings calls and shareholder's meetings.
by snickerbockers | 2025-05-08 23:52:14+00:00
That's an interesting thought but if they're actually that concerned about it then they'd wait longer than four months. It probably has more to do with America's predominant religion being protestantism by a very wife margin for most of the country's existence. We didn't have a Catholic president until Kennedy and even then proving to the common American that Catholics aren't insane Vatican mindslaves was considered a hurdle he had to overcome.

If there's a political motive in not choosing an American pope until now it's that for most of American history it wouldn't have granted them any influence over American politics. If there's a personal motive it's that until recently they felt insulted that America went for almost 200 years before finally electing a Catholic president.
by aurizon | 2025-05-08 23:52:55+00:00
There are a number of flow batteries, where they have large vats where charge is stored in 2 discrete charge state fluids in a redox reaction. They charge a vat through a cell and discharge it in the other direction. Limits are solubility of the charge states in the transport fluid = huge vats for total watt-hours and huge redox cells for rate of charge/discharge. Runs well and vats are cheap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
by matheusmoreira | 2025-05-08 23:53:01+00:00
Nobody allows money to sit. People deposit the money into banks. Due to fractional reserves, that's equivalent to loaning the money out so that others can efficiently allocate it instead. That's how money becomes more money.

Charities that aren't actually spending money to do good are just banks in disguise. Banks that don't pay out interest. Why would anyone donate even one cent to banks?
by sepositus | 2025-05-08 23:53:22+00:00
> That talks about reproduction, but it doesn't say anything about marriage.

Later in chapter 2, God is quoted as saying:

> Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and cling to his wife, and they shall become one flesh

Jesus himself then comes back and quote this exact verse in Genesis in the context of divorce being bad (Matthew 19). It's clearly referencing marriage within the context of creation.

You may not agree it's the central thrust of the text, and perhaps I overstated the position, but marriage between a man and a woman is certainly a major theme in these first two chapters. I'd be impressed if you can find Rabbinical texts that support a different theory.
by codingdave | 2025-05-08 23:53:23+00:00
Honestly, quit.

Anyone still sticking to Scrum is already behind the times on creating an enjoyable work environment. If they are pushing for shorter sprints, they are doubling down on what makes it bad, not what makes it good.

I'm all for trying to make a place better before giving up, but this is one of the few leadership decisions that are an exception to my ideals. I would just walk out the door, no hesitation.
by johnklos | 2025-05-08 23:53:41+00:00
The minimum requirements for a portable OS on 32 bit hardware really doesn't need to be anything more than:

* 32 bit CPU

* relatively recent toolchain support

* MMU

* memory, storage, I/O

In the last couple of decades, we've added as a requirement:

* atomic operations

The i80386 didn't have atomic operations, so after gcc 4.1.2, the decision was made to drop i80386 support from gcc. Dropping i80386 from Linux simplified MP code because of the lack of these instructions.

But other than these requirements, what does the i80486 processor not do that newer processors do? People who don't know any better like to talk about the amount of maintenance and testing that's required to support an older processor, but I think most of those people are either repeating old tropes or are misattributing issues. Sure, cleaning up pre-PCI code is one thing, but attributing that to the i80486 is a little misleading.

Do people really sit around and worry about whether their code will compile and run on SuperH, for instance? Heck, no. So does that mean we can't have a modern OS running on SuperH systems without all this testing and maintenance? Well, maybe this "maintenance" is a bit of a myth, because not only do we have a modern OS, but we have many thousands of open source programs that compile and run on SuperH, even without their authors necessarily knowing that SuperH even exists.

My point is that there may be good reasons for a commercial focused kernel / OS to no longer support older CPUs, but let's not buy in to the handwavy BS they use to try to justify the changes. They can be honest and just say they want to clean up and remove things that don't have many users.
by epistasis | 2025-05-08 23:55:23+00:00
Those numbers sound about right, but the real problem for solar in Germany is how it inflates the cost, and the intermittency. The capacity factor is just a readout of those problems.

Germany is one of the major economies with the very worst solar resources in the world. So it might actually make a lot of sense for them to build a bit of nuclear instead of stringing HVDC from Spain or Italy or wherever is sunnier. Or not, it's a very tricky projection! These costs are changing quickly, and any nuclear build is a bet not only on the current costs of technologies, but a bet on the future 30-60 years of costs.
by vo2maxer | 2025-05-08 23:56:01+00:00
Fair point. Side-channel attacks show how much signal you can pull from noise. But fMRI is a different kind of beast. It’s slow, indirect, and coarse. You’re not measuring neural activity directly, just blood flow changes that lag by a few seconds.

The paper [0] doesn’t pretend otherwise. It trains a model (PAM) to learn which brain regions carry useful info for reconstructing images, and applies this to both fMRI data from humans and intracranial recordings from macaques. The two signal types are handled separately.

If you want an analogy, it’s less like tapping power lines and more like trying to figure out which YouTube video someone is watching by measuring heat on the back of their laptop every few seconds. There’s a pattern in there, but pulling it out takes work.

[0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.04.596589v2....
by thegeomaster | 2025-05-08 23:56:44+00:00
Absolutely stellar for 0-to-1-oriented frontend-related tasks, less so but still quite useful for isolated features in backends. For larger changes or smaller changes in large/more interconnected codebases, refactors, test-run-fix-loops, and similar, it has mostly provided negative value for me unfortunately. I keep wondering if it's a me problem. It would probably do much better if I wrote very lengthy prompts to micromanage little details, but I've found that to be a surprisingly draining activity, so I prefer to give it a shot with a more generic prompt and either let it run or give up, depending on which direction it takes.
by tomhow | 2025-05-08 23:56:54+00:00
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by willis936 | 2025-05-08 23:57:03+00:00
There is no need to ask for speculation. It's the top item in their mission statement.

https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/what-is-nif

>NIF is a key element of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s science-based Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the reliability, security, and safety of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full-scale testing.
by chambers | 2025-05-08 23:57:45+00:00
I was also raised by a loving catholic mother, who let me go my way, out of the church. I eventually found my way back in, and feel similar to you as you do now.

IMHO, the GP has a right to share his experience here as we do ours. A thread on the election of a pope, with a subthread on the beauty of church, is a fair venue for sharing. There's no need for prejudice, disguised as policing, on either side.
by epistasis | 2025-05-08 23:57:56+00:00
I don't think that's an accurate depiction of NRC for builds like at Georgia's Vogtle. Even in California, entire reactors have been installed backwards and the regulatory problems were not the big problem.

Given that France's builds in both Finland and France itself have been similarly disastrous as the US builds, I don't think the NRC seems to be the likely cause. And France is much better at building big things than the US is, their infrastructure costs are a fraction of US costs. IMHO there's something deeper to the lack of success of nuclear as a technology. It's a mainframe trying to compete in the cloud era.
by slrainka | 2025-05-08 23:58:05+00:00
So, relying on a large context can be tricky. Instead I’ve tried to get to a ER model quickly. And from there build modules that don’t have tight dependencies.

Using Gemini 2.5 for generating instructions

This is the guide I use

https://github.com/bluedevilx/ai-driven-development/blob/mai...
by hansvm | 2025-05-08 23:59:50+00:00
This is a great post, very approachable, with excellent visualizations.

We use a variation of this sort of thing at $WORK to solve a related problem, where you want to estimate some percentile from a running stream, with the constraints that the percentile you want to choose changes from time to time but is generally static for a trillion or more iterations (and the underlying data is quasi-stationary). If you back the process by a splay tree, you can get amortized O(1) percentile estimates (higher error bars for a given RAM consumption than a number of other techniques, but very fast).

You can also play with the replacement probability to, e.g., have a "data half-life" (denominated either in time or discrete counts) and bias the estimate toward recent events, which is more suitable for some problems.
by rlpb | 2025-05-09 00:00:21+00:00
Your understanding is just outright wrong. The `apt` command has an unstable interface so that it can improve the CLI without worrying about breaking scripts. The `apt-get` command is the stable interface for scripts. `apt` was created after `apt-get` became ossified exactly because the developers work hard to keep the interface for scripts stable.

> In fact they themselves tell you that their commands are not stable and should not be used for scripting, despite no alternative mode or application existing.

No, that's just the apt command, not the apt-get command, and the manpage for apt tells you exactly how to do this instead. It's clearly documented, so your "despite no alternative mode or application existing" claim is simply ignorant.

Please read the documentation and learn how to use the tooling before criticizing it and misleading others with claims that are outright wrong.
by SR2Z | 2025-05-09 00:00:36+00:00
I can't even begin to understand this logic.

Why do you think Pakistan orchestrated the last attack? Do you think those reasons had anything to do with the expectation of retaliation from India?

The default is that Pakistan's motivations do not change and they keep doing what they've been doing. Ergo, another attack.

Yes this is stupid and worse for both sides, but it only takes one party to start a fight.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-05-09 00:01:57+00:00
It's very possible that some people sheltered him outside of the official policy or whatever. It's even possible that it was ISI / Pak gov't official policy, but again there's no proof of any of these things.

It is also possible, that he just was able to hide from the entire world close to an army base in a compound he never exited from, never approached a window near, and never accessed internet from.

Everything is possible, there's no proof either way. And I don't see what the govt or army or ISI would gain from harboring him as a policy matter. If someone is crazy and personally helped out, that's not what most people are even implying is it? That's much more reasonable and doesn't really have much to do with the current conflict and the claim that the latest terror attack was sponsored by Pakistan (again, possible but not proven)
by LukeShu | 2025-05-09 00:01:59+00:00
> What is happening if you can't email your boss/upper on the regular like that ?

In a 40 person startup or small company, sure. In a 400 person company, the guy at the top is a few levels removed from "your boss" to be emailing with "on the regular".

OP had Jobs as his CEO for 20 years (hired in 1991, until Jobs passed in 2011), and says this was the only time Jobs directly emailed with him (of course, 400 people in 1991 was the smallest the company would be during that time, it would only grow from there).
by jbellis | 2025-05-09 00:04:13+00:00
this is true as far as it goes, if you don't use it you do in fact lose it

but i've convinced very very good engineers to switch from vim to a "real" idea and their productivity went through the roof

do they have a worse memory of the stdlib? absolutely

are they spending those brain cycles doing something more productive now? also absolutely

where is the line? idk but for me personally I haven't found it yet.
by johnklos | 2025-05-09 00:05:42+00:00
I used to belong to Reddit's r/Diesel subreddit. I own a 40+ year old car with a small Diesel engine, and I hoped to trade advice, parts sources, tips, and so on.

A good number of the posts are about people squalking about "freedom" to "delete" the emissions systems, about how they have a "right" to pollute as much as they want, and some of them even think rolling coal is cool and is OK to do.

I personally take good care of my engine, and in spite of the fact that it predates most emissions solutions by decades, it's well tuned enough that I can't see smoke out the back even if I floor it and wind up the engine. After all, a properly tuned engine is one that properly burns all the fuel you put in to it.

So I left that subreddit, and I'm glad for it. That stupid worldview where we are intentionally ignorant of our impact on the rest of the world is uniquely ugly.

Now on to motorcycles: all those motorcycles with no mufflers or with mufflers that don't do much to quiet their engines piss me off. People claim the noise makes them "safe", but that fails to address the fact that if there were lots of motorcycles on the road and all of them were super noisy, the noisyness would lose all value. In other words, it's a solution that can only help a small number of people to the detriment of everyone else, and can't be applied fairly if more people did it. It's selfish.

Also, gasoline engines run better and burn fuel better with a proper amount of backpressure. All those motorcycles that idle like shit are wasting fuel and polluting the air, even if they don't put out black smoke like deleted Diesels do.

It all sucks. I just wish people would be a little less selfish and less self centered.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-09 00:05:56+00:00
> The problem is that this is $100/mo with limits

Limits are a given on any plan. It would be too easy for a vibe coder to hammer away 8 hours a day for 20 days a week if there was nothing stopping them.

The real question is whether this is a better value than pay as you go for some people.
by osigurdson | 2025-05-09 00:06:02+00:00
Maybe we need to tease "community" apart from language. Let's have Java / C# "A" people (who need at least 10 levels of inheritance, gotta use DI, insist on every character of SOLID (and actually remember and care about the Liskov substitution principle - and insist that it wasn't chosen simply because it starts with "L" and makes the acronym sound better) and have never written any code that added any value - only frameworks. Then we can have Java / C# "B" people that care about allocations, hate DI, avoid inheritance, know when they are messing up cache line hits and even feel slightly bad a about using generics.

Something like that, pick your tribe or, even better, be an individual and do whatever (TF) you want.
by Izikiel43 | 2025-05-09 00:07:16+00:00
For the pope, La Nacion and Clarin, the 2 largest newspapers in the country, are referring to him as "Norteamericano"(north american), and "Estadounidense" (USAian?/from the USA).

In general, we use north american when referring to the USA. America is used to note the continent, like the south american soccer teams cup, "Copa Libertadores de America" (liberators of America cup).
by epistasis | 2025-05-09 00:08:17+00:00
> But they never got enough funding to build it.

It's worth examining why they never went forward with builds. In 2023 their cost estimates for power went from a manageable $55/MWh to a barely-managable $93/MWh. And that was before all the additional cost increases that are typical for first projects.

They were unable to paint a story that was financially compelling.

Nuclear's problems are not TMI, it's Summer, and other failed builds. The government will insure catastrophic damages. It will not insure against construction cost overruns, and those may not kill people but they kill companies dead.