MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyjeans | 2025-05-02 15:36:04+00:00
In my view, it was won because the Elder Council underestimated the threat. Had they known how the defense of Sicily was going to go, they could have easily afforded to hire 50,000 more celts and turned them out onto the Italic peninsula to raise absolute hell. But hindsight is 20/20.

The Romans bet big and stretched their logistics to the absolute limit to march every conscript they could muster down to Sicily. The Italic peninsula was completely undefended. If word had reached the army (many of whom were gang-pressed enemies of the Latins) that their villages were burning, the overwhelming majority would have revolted and fled to try and make it back to their homes. There would have been no recourse for the Romans, they spent literally everything they had coercing their army together and getting them down south.

The Canaanites are a resilient kind of people, the Greeks created the Phoenix as a metaphor for their civilizational tenacity. They can bounce back from anything. But the Elder Council made a very grave mistake. After the first Punic war they did bounce back, but they never had a chance to stop the Roman barbarians ever again. Their imperialism of the other Italic tribes had become ingrained, and it allowed them to grow too strong for a non-martial culture to castrate. The grave danger of underestimation is the most important lesson to take away from the Punic wars, imo.
by jofer | 2025-05-02 15:36:08+00:00
>"I'd like to look like the guy on the right, but I'd rather be friends with the guy on the left"

This exactly. But I think the photo itself plays into that as well. It's not just a "safety" thing. (I'm not disagreeing that that's an aspect of it as well, though.)

The pose in the photo on the left comes off as more casual. "Hey, okay, I'm at the gym. Sure, let's do this before photo thing". The pose on the right comes off as "look at me! I'm showing off!". I mean, sure, nothing wrong with that in this context. I'd be proud too. But it's harder to relate to the person photographed as explicitly trying to be a show off than to the same person in a more casual (but still posed) position. The photograph on the left just comes off as a bit more humble and relatable just due to the pose / general vibe.
by Tagbert | 2025-05-02 15:36:26+00:00
Does this still load as fast. I have found that, after you have run the app once, it will load very quickly for a day or so and then load more slowly again. I believe that there is a cached state which does not run the slow check and which expires after a while and a new check must be run.

It has been two days since I ran Affinity Photo, latest version, and it took about 30 sec to load.
by rs999gti | 2025-05-02 15:36:34+00:00
> Trump is being handed EOs that he doesn't have a clue about.

Probably like every president before him.

No president like CEOs can know everything about the organization they head. They are mostly the face and mouthpiece, and depend on chiefs and VPs to tell them what needs to be done according to the agenda that CEO or president has put forth.
by 14 | 2025-05-02 15:37:30+00:00
Who cares? My kids asked me for skins for years. As the one who owned a credit card and would be the one needed to pay for it I laughed them out of the room. Maybe parents should learn to parent and tell their kids no. My kid now older and with a job now tells me how he remembers when he used to ask for skins and I would say no damn way. He also says now that he makes his own money and buys things himself there is no way he would spend his own money on clothing for a video game while his own shoes are falling apart. It’s a waste of money and he said it not me. So parents need to parent. Typically kids until older have no readily access to money so if a parent acts like one they can tell the kid to forget it.
by surgical_fire | 2025-05-02 15:37:34+00:00
Funny you say that, I think user reviews are the only useful reviews for me to measure if a game is worth playing. I find professional reviews less than useless - those are essentially trash.

Start with a quantitative analysis. A game has a 7. Is it a bunch of scores around 7? A bunch of 10s and some zeroes? Those will inform you some.

Then do some qualitative analysis. See what people are praising or complaining about. Check if the complaints matter to you. If they don't, you should try it.

> My point is that if a game gets exceptionally good critical reviews then a 0 is almost always a hissy fit, not a serious assessment

Hard disagree. Critical reviews are pure marketing. I played games that are aggressively mediocre that were critically praised before.
by dminuoso | 2025-05-02 15:37:51+00:00
Bandwidth costs next to nothing these days.

And it is also rarely if ever measured in petabytes. Commercially percentile based (in terms of speed) billing is the norm, but that only applies to businesses that act as downstream customers of ISPs

Apple has global IX presences and generally maintains open peering policies, which means it only costs a few bucks monthly to maintain any given PNI (e.g. 10Gbit), and they are also available on those open routing server ports. IX presence is dirt cheap.
by devinbhushan | 2025-05-02 15:37:59+00:00
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by WillAdams | 2025-05-02 15:38:07+00:00
Trying to focus on intellectual things --- practical skills invites the list becoming an extension of my various interests (note the extant shelves on archery and woodworking) and their various intersections, e.g.,

https://www.lumberjocks.com/showcase/archery-case-ascham-of-...

Edit: did add a first aid book, as well as the 7 volume edition of "The Gingery Books".
by jesse__ | 2025-05-02 15:38:57+00:00
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Technologies : C, C++, SIMD, OpenGL, WebGL, WASM, JS, TS

Interests : compilers, language runtimes, 2D & 3D graphics, performance

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I'd describe myself as a competent generalist and a lifelong learner. I'm pretty much always working on something I've never done before.

My most recent professional experience has been about a year at a semiconductor startup where I wrote prototypes for a compiler and a cycle simulator.

One of my personal projects of ~10 years is a 3D game engine. Working on it has taught me a great deal about systems and graphics programming. It runs on Windows, Linux and Web (WASM/WebGL). I chose to build it without any libraries (barring the CRT for startup), which began as a learning exercise, but has taught me the value of simplicity.

In more recent history I've been working on a metaprogramming system for C. Think C++ templates/constexpr, but significantly more ergonomic. It turns out I have a small passion for compilers. I was also recently contributing to Oil, a new bash runtime and POSIX compliant shell.

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by nyrikki | 2025-05-02 15:38:57+00:00
This paper works because it explicitly is a problem domain that was intentionally constrained to ensure safety in the Amateur high-power rocket hobby. Specifically with constraints and standards that were developed for teenagers of various skill to do with paper and pen well before they had access to containers. While modern applications have added more functions, those core constrains remain.

It works explicitly because it doesn't hit the often counter-intuitive limitations with generalization in pure math.

Remember that Boolean circuit satisfiability is NP-complete, and is beyond UHAT's + poly length CoT expressibility, which is capped at PTIME.

Even int logic with boolean circuits is in PSPACE.

When you start to deal with values, you are going to have to add in heuristics and/or find reductions that will cost your generalizability.

Even if you model analog circuits as finite labelled directed graphs with labelled vertices, similar to what Shannon used; removing some of the real world electrical impacts and focus on them as computational units, the complexity can get crazy fast.

Those circuits, with specific constraints (IIRC local feedback, etc..) can be simulated by a Turing machine, but require ELEMENTARY space or time, and despite it's name ELEMENTARY is iterated exponential: 2^2^2^2^2^...^n with k n's.

Also note that P/poly, viewed as problems that can be solved by small circuits is not a practical class and in fact contains all of the unary languages that we know are unsolvable by real computers in the general case.

That apparent paradox that P/poly, which has small bool circuits, also contains all of those undecidable unary languages is a good starter into that rat hole.

While we will have tools and models that are better at math logic, the constrains are actually limits on computation in the general case. Generalization often has these types of costs, and the RL benefits in this case relate to demonstrating that IMHO.
by FlyingSnake | 2025-05-02 15:39:21+00:00
TBH Dr. Ambedkar’s Buddhism is very different from what the other traditions preach. It was an answer to the prevailing jātivada, but unfortunately it didn’t manage to make the dent he envisioned.

I’ve grown up around Navayana and have many friends from Kagyu, Theravada and other traditions.

(All this to say I know Bauddha Dharma intimately)
by danudey | 2025-05-02 15:39:28+00:00
When Astro Bot won GotY, a bunch of idiots who thought that Black Myth Wukong should have won started review-bombing BG3; since Astro Bot is a PS5-only game and you can't review games on PSN, they decided to go after BG3 since their CEO was the one who presented the GotY award to Astro Bot.

You don't often see people review-bombing games positively that they've never played, so the skew is going to be towards the negative and not the positive.

> If a game sees a bunch of 10s and 0s it means that something in the game is polarizing. The fact that Clair Obscur has such a high rating means it pleased everyone across the board. Nowadays that is quite a feat.

100% this. Clair Obscur, by every metric I can think of, is going absolutely nuts. I find it hard to imagine many upcoming games which might compete with it for GotY.
by timcobb | 2025-05-02 15:39:30+00:00
It's not an issue from time immemorial. it's an issue from the late 19th century, if not post WWII. the child consumer class did not before that. Toys hardly existed before that. Even an adult consume class with disposable income had hardly existed. Kids spending hours every day zonked out at screens is a distinctly new phenomenon on top of that
by topkai22 | 2025-05-02 15:39:53+00:00
From the title, I thought this article was going to be about how Hannibal won an incredible number of victories in the Second Punic War, but Carthage still lost the war and had to take devasting terms of surrender.

It's about how Rome was defeated at Cannae due their overconfidence and inability to adapt, but doesn't examine how Rome ended up winning in the end. It is interesting how dependent on framing case studies are.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-05-02 15:39:58+00:00
Here is the layman's article of the paper linked: https://www.popsci.com/science/algebra-oldest-problem-solved...

On the Catalan number wikipedia page, scroll down to "A convex polygon with n + 2 sides..." to see the polygon dissection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_number
by a7fort | 2025-05-02 15:40:01+00:00
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by allears | 2025-05-02 15:40:07+00:00
From the perspective of an 80-year-old who has been through numerous "serious" relationships, and finally found my match at the age of 55, you seem to be unusually mature. Best of luck in your adventures -- and don't be desperate. Even a relationship with a finite lifetime can be incredibly rewarding, you will definitely develop relationship "skills" that will make the next one even better, and when you find someone with as good an attitude as yours, you have a good shot at a lifetime together.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-05-02 15:40:14+00:00
They don't give a fuck. Just like Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about casual users running older software, or Apple doesn't give a fuck about power users who don't need their hands held through everything on their goddamn computers.

All these gigafuck companies have a minimum viable user in mind: someone who has disposable income, free time, and wants to use their phone to shop for shit or endlessy scroll on whichever social they happen to like most, and that's what their products are designed to do. Everything else is ancillary.

Spoken as someone who works on a niche app for both platforms that works with hardware we make: we get NO support. Arbitrary system changes fuck up our app constantly, without notice, and we have no recourse but to fix it ASAP and tell people to not update.
by Veserv | 2025-05-02 15:40:21+00:00
Any price advantage, even if we assumed a fully mature ecosystem with equivalent processors and systems available, is massively overstated. ARM had a total revenue of just ~3.7 G$ in 2024 over ~29 billion chips [1].

In contrast, Qualcomm, just one of many large suppliers of ARM-based systems, had a total revenue of ~39 G$ and a operating income of ~10 G$. ARM's entire revenue would easily fit into Qualcomm's profit and only increase costs by ~12%. And that is just one supplier. You have Samsung, Apple, Broadcom, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, TI, NXP, etc. to help round that out.

The total impact of ARM licensing and IP costs is almost certainly less than 1%. And given that RISC-V does not currently have a fully mature ecosystem, you get to trade that for a 1% cost improvement; not really a winning strategy right now.

It is likely the main advantage in the long run for RISC-V is that not requiring a license might enable a more vibrant ecosystem due to removing the licensing barrier which might enable better designs at comparable costs (because, again, the cost differential should only be on the order of 1% in the long run) rather than just creating comparable designs that just chip off the licensing cost. That or RISC-V could win because the giant manufacturers feel like putting the squeeze on ARM to drive 1% off their BoM.

[1] https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/how-arm-became-the-worlds-d...
by Someone | 2025-05-02 15:40:29+00:00
> So, when we assume ∛7 "exists" in a formula, we're assuming that this infinite, never-ending decimal is somehow a complete object.

> This is why, Prof. Wildberger says he "doesn't believe in irrational numbers."

OK. I’m with you.

> His new method to solve polynomials also avoids radicals and irrational numbers, relying instead on special extensions of polynomials called "power series," which can have an infinite number of terms with the powers of x.

So, he believes this other infinite, never ending thing exists? Isn’t that a tad inconsistent?
by AlchemistCamp | 2025-05-02 15:40:32+00:00
Maybe Alibaba is a better example. Why should Alibaba increasing its global revenue through growth in the Chinese market mean that Ireland should fine it more? If it's because earnings in Ireland or even maybe the entire EU went up, then I can see the justification. But if Alibaba's revenue is going up because of Alibaba improving logistics within China, why should Ireland get anything for that?
by eitally | 2025-05-02 15:41:14+00:00
I would argue that Trump only exists as President because Congress has abdicated its lawmaking powers for the past twenty years (give or take). With a functional legislative branch it's not nearly as problematic to have an extremely liberal or conservative president, or textualist Supreme Court justices. We need a refresh of rules governing congress (age & term limits, better pay, disallowing equity trading, elimination of gerrymandering at the state level, and perhaps nationwide adoption of ranked choice voting, which would open the door to viable third parties & ruling by coalition).
by feoren | 2025-05-02 15:41:24+00:00
All models are wrong; some models are useful. I'm not sure I'd say I "believe in" the number 7, either. But the number 7 is very useful. It's reasonable to debate how useful irrational numbers are. That is: there are models of math where irrational numbers are "outlawed" in some sense, and it sounds like Prof. Wildberger studies those models. It's a "fringe" model though; most of math is better off simply accepting irrational numbers as they are. Clearly some of the most widely useful math involves exp(x), sin(x), and pi, all of which are either completely outlawed or require laborious workarounds if you're not allowing true irrational numbers. Still, it's a good idea to have some people studying these fringe models to get a better understanding of math as a whole.

In this case, I find the argument "but you can't calculate it!" unconvincing, since every computer will have rational numbers they can't exactly calculate as well. Our computers can't calculate the exact value of 1/3 either; so what? If we're worried about computing things, we should consider whether we can calculate things to arbitrary precision or not within reasonable time. In that sense, pi behaves no worse than 1/3.
by mindslight | 2025-05-02 15:41:43+00:00
This feels like the exact kind of thing Chinese vendors/marketplaces are going to be figuring out at scale, but that still won't stop them from doubling their prices even if they do avoid paying many of the high tariff taxes. Market disruptions are an excuse to raise prices (see the first round of Trump inflation from the completely inappropriate economic response to Covid), and I wouldn't be surprised if the shipped-direct-from-China business drastically grows because of the recent tariff tax changes.

Another perverse incentive is that to get items sitting in a US warehouse (eg Amazon), the seller has to pay the high tariffs before they can even start selling them, while also hoping that tariffs aren't lowered before they can sell them all (and the expectation is that Trump is going to have to dial back this idiotic "plan" of his some time). Meanwhile the seller of a direct shipped item has a confirmed sale and cash-in-hand by the time the shipment gets to the border. So I expect the selection of US-stocked items is about to drop dramatically, and the poor economic conditions and abjectly poor leadership is going to leave many people not feeling too bad about (or even gleefully embracing) shopping direct.
by startupsfail | 2025-05-02 15:42:09+00:00
Yes, it’s particularly bad when the information found on the web is flawed.

For example, I’m not a domain expert, but I was looking for an RC motor for a toy project and OpenAI had happily tried to source a few, with Deep Research. Only the best candidate it had picked contained an obvious typo in the motor spec (68 grams instead of 680 grams), which is just impossible for a motor of specified dimensions.
by sofixa | 2025-05-02 15:42:43+00:00
> The central structural issue is that by and large, both sexes now unquestioningly accept the flawed premise that men and women are the same. It is, after all, a special case of the central liberal delusion that all people are the same: a dogma so central to the modern world that elaborate systems of law and social dogma exist to encourage compliance.

This is interesting coming from someone in the UK (who I'd expect less to have such an American view of "liberals").

No, the point is that women and men should be treated the same wherever physically possible, to get as close as possible outcomes. Not that men and women are the same, which obviously isn't true. Part of it is biology (which can be changed, before any transphobes jump in), part of it is education and expectations.

As an example, the average woman is weaker than the average man. That doesn't mean that a random non athletic man can win a fight against a female boxer, obviously. But it doesn't make women less human or less worthy of whatever or incapable of being firefighters.

Pregnancy is also an obvious example - women obviously need more time around birth than their partners do. That doesn't mean that only they should do all childcare.

Honestly, none of this is rocket brain surgery, I'm shocked anyone still struggles or manages to misunderstand what feminism (by and large, not fringes) wants, or what "liberals" (I'm assuming this to mean social progressives) have as a worldview with regards to women and men.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-05-02 15:42:44+00:00
I feel like the way they communicate is very understandable from a male perspective despite it normally being something somewhat frustrating or confusing. Liberals used to be (theoretically) hellbent on equality to such a degree that sometimes it opposed common sense. It is still somewhat controversial to say in a liberal circle that there are some differences in the genders (and the ways they think) that are sometimes significant, but that it's okay and that we don't have to force people to be unnatural to be more "equal" to an infinite extent. There is an innocent sadness to the thought that a significant other will never 100% understand every neuron in your brain, but there's probably positives to that too.
by JasserInicide | 2025-05-02 15:42:50+00:00
It's not just newer unsustainable companies. There are plenty of businesses that have been around for decades that are now engaging in these enshittifying practices (for dearth of a better term). Big box appliances like washers/dryers, fridges. Vehicle manufacturers (BMW and their subscription service bullshit), we're fast approaching a world where even doing an oil change will have to be done by the dealership/authorized 3rd party.

These Ivy League MBAs have been getting taught how much money companies have been leaving on the table and they are infecting every industry.