MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-24 01:20:30+00:00
Thanks. So from the video the biggest wins were

1. they way get the metadata for a package.

packages are in zip files. zip files have their TOC at the end. So, instead of downloading the entire zip they just get the end of the file, read the TOC, then from that download just the metadata part

I've written that code before for my own projects.

2. They cache the results of packages unzipped and then link into your environment

This means there's no files being copied on the 2nd install. Just links.

Both of those are huge time wins that would be possible in any language.

3. They store their metadata as a memory dump

So, on loading there is nothing to parse.

Admittedly this is hard (impossible?) in many languages. Certainly not possible in Python and JavaScript. You could load binary data but it won't be useful without copying it into native numbers/strings/ints/floats/doubles etc...

I've done this in game engines to reduce load times in C/C++ and to save memory.

It'd be interesting to write some benchmarks for the first 2. The 3rd is a win but I suspect the first 2 are 95% of the speedup.
by nialv7 | 2025-06-24 01:20:38+00:00
I don't know if you meant it but you seem to imply that that vocal minority only cried but didn't buy the small phones?

You know a minority is a _minority_, even if everyone in that minority bought a iPhone Mini, the sales number is still not going to be high.

(Edit: just checked, in 2022, 3% of iPhones sold were 13 Minis. not high but surely someone out there can run a sustainable business out of that 3% of mobile phones)
by voskresenie | 2025-06-24 01:23:17+00:00
Because she's attractive and has plenty of time to have kids, so he doesn't have to rush into getting married and having children with her. Your question also presupposes that there's some reason that he should prefer or limit himself to women his own age, but there's literally no reason to take that as the default.

The real question is, why do you care? What happened to not shaming people for their personal sexual and romantic choices?

One thing I've noticed--there are two types of people who get upset at older men dating younger women: young single men and old single women. It's almost as if the criticism is thinly-veiled jealousy, rather than any sort of principled critique.
by kumarvvr | 2025-06-24 01:25:06+00:00
Some waste is expected in govt. It happens even in private enterprises. That is down to human nature and other factors.

However, where is the critical thinking and debate on what actually the institution does, what can be improved and what can be changed?

Its all become X uses Y billion USD a year, so we have to make ti Y/2 to save the universe.
by supplied_demand | 2025-06-24 01:26:37+00:00
== I think a huge, huge amount of the government is wasteful but the CSB is doing incredible work==

It feels like there is some type of reverse Gell-Mann Amnesia that goes on with government spending and programs.

Those close to the subject matter typically view government spending in their area of expertise as necessary, even “incredible” as you state. When it comes to spending in an area they are not an expert, it suddenly becomes “wasteful.”
by p1necone | 2025-06-24 01:27:32+00:00
Shifting a cost forward a couple months interest free is a great deal for people who are financially responsible, especially if you have some other loan (like a mortgage) that you could be paying off more of instead.

It's no different to the practice of using a credit card for everything and then paying off in full a month later because the credit card interest is lower (often zero if you pay off within a month) than the mortgage interest.
by lmm | 2025-06-24 01:29:38+00:00
Python package management was notoriously awful. The problem wasn't that people were trying to do things better, it was that they weren't; every new Python dependency management tool just repeated the mistakes of all the previous Python dependency management tools. uv is the first one to break the cycle (and it's probably not a coincidence that it's the first one to not be written in Python).
by andrekandre | 2025-06-24 01:30:23+00:00
> once you voluntarily give your data to a third party-- e.g. when you sent it to OpenAI-- it's not yours anymore and you have no reasonable expectation of privacy about it.

sorry for the layperson question, but does this apply then to my company's storage of confidential info on say google drive, even with an enterprise agreement?
by thcipriani | 2025-06-24 01:30:46+00:00
Saw it this weekend, it's a solid Pixar movie. But I only learned about it because I was looking to go see a movie and Elio was the most original movie playing at the local theater; I'd heard nothing about it.

I have heard more about the two live-action remakes (Lilo and Stitch/How to Train Your Dragon) and the sequel (28 years later) that are currently showing.
by leakycap | 2025-06-24 01:31:08+00:00
To be clear, I have no issue with it, I'm just responding to you.

Incandescents can be bad in lots of categories but if they make you happy, that's a huge plus. Some categories are much more important than others.

I'm lazy and prefer not to change bulbs multiple times a year... but the warm light is lovely when I do use a classic bulb. I live in a warm environment and hate the heat they add, but in your climate perhaps it is nice much of the year.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-06-24 01:31:12+00:00
Sure, but here we're talking about 20euros for a PG Tips teabag and some water in a weird cup (eg )

At some point you ask yourself if it's worth it, and in both cases, for me, it isn't.

https://goat-story.com/collections/coffee-mugs/products/goat...
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by gus_massa | 2025-06-24 01:31:13+00:00
Not an app, but we used DVD with our older daughter, she could choose the language of the audio and also the languages of the subtitles. Young kids love to see the same movie again, and again, and again. The order for each movie was something like:

1) Spanish audio

2) English audio + Spanish subtitles

3) English audio + English subtitles

4) English audio
by gottorf | 2025-06-24 01:32:06+00:00
> credit is the only way they're surviving on something close to minimum wage. Or credit was the only "safety net" they had during a rough time

In my experience, the average American has no concept of saving money, and those below average even less.

It's funny to me that America gets flak from all over the world for having no social safety net; if this was actually true, you'd expect to see people put aside a bit of their income, however meager it may be, out of an expectation that they will need it. What do you see in practice? You see people dashing over to the nearest rent-to-own rims shop. (If you don't know poor people, you may not know such businesses exist.)

> Almost none of these people have the kind of collateral needed to use credit to truly transform their lives, and the government assistance for that is seriously lacking in the US

I doubt that greater availability of credit, perhaps facilitated through government subsidy, is what precludes the majority of such people from transforming their lives.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-24 01:32:45+00:00
PetaPixel has a decent article / video on the topic from a visit to the observatory:

* https://petapixel.com/2025/06/23/hands-on-at-the-vera-c-rubi...

Not super technical, but a little higher level (with decent analogies to photography, for their traditional audience).
by laurencerowe | 2025-06-24 01:34:03+00:00
I wouldn't dismiss lessons from Australia. It has slightly higher electricity consumption than Spain (273 vs 265TWh/annually [1].) And there are limited interconnections to France [2]:

> That problem may not have been entirely Spain’s fault, El País said. “Interconnections with the rest of the continent continue to be much fewer than the European Commission recommends, not because Spain isn’t interested, but because France has for years resisted expanding them.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

[2] https://www.theenergymix.com/massive-blackout-in-spain-shows...
by andrewflnr | 2025-06-24 01:34:47+00:00
There's epistemic humility, then there's indulging in unfalsifiable fantasies in the name of not ruling anything out.

> Humans tend to define intelligence, life, and communication based on our own structure -carbon-based biology, electromagnetic signaling, language, symbolic thought, etc.

I would posit that none of these properties are coincidences, and are in fact likely to evolve convergently in most if not all circumstances hospitable to life. In particular I very much expect ET life to be carbon based; I don't believe there's a true viable alternative outside scifi (hint: silicon ain't it).

> entire civilizations could exist in forms of computation or energy we can’t perceive.

Could they? Really? There aren't that many gaps in the Standard Model. The aliens could be made of dark matter, I guess, and remain forever undetectable, but that's not to far off believing in invisible fairy kingdoms. And it still wouldn't explain why the baryonic sector is so devoid of detectable life. Ethereal undetectable aliens don't mean regular ones can't also exist.

> Maybe they don’t care to communicate, see us as trivial, or operate on million-year attention spans.

This one I'll grant (sort of: what's the evolutionary path toward such entities arising?), but it's still weird that we haven't seen any sign at all of them. These entities live on million-year timescales but have no visible effect on their surroundings? Why?

And more importantly, why is that the only thing that happens? Because if it isn't the only thing, then the question remains of why can't we see anything else?
by jonnycomputer | 2025-06-24 01:35:03+00:00
Oh I have .ssh/config like:

Host vm3 User myusername HostName the-host-name ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p myusername@jump.host.address

So will jump through automatically using my ssh keys. Its very convenient. But Tramp doesn't seem to respect that configuration, or demands that I use a password instead of the ssh keys (its been awhile since I've last tried, so I kinda am dim on the details of what was the hassle)
by leakycap | 2025-06-24 01:35:19+00:00
It makes my eyes physically hurt, to where I can't think or focus on anything. It feels as if my eye is up next to the screen of a window and just touching it.

Not all PWM has issues: I have an LG Plasma TV and it has PWM, but the way the plasma glows compared to the rigid on/off PWM cycling on modern iPhones means the Plasma display causes no issues. Same with Samsung Note9, which uses OLED with a soft PWM ... no issues
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2025-06-24 01:35:52+00:00
> ...as it's a pretty bad look to upvote such a low-quality submission.

I had already just about dismissed HN as a place for any serious discussion of AI for a multitude of reasons. After seeing this I think I will be hammering in the final nail.

It has already been known for decades that arbitrarily precise approximations of mathematical formulations of AGI are computable. I was expecting nothing less than a refutation of that work from this based on the title. Unfortunately the first page alone makes it apparent that it is not, nor likely even a serious work of mathematics.
by voskresenie | 2025-06-24 01:36:37+00:00
No point arguing with them. These people are just the puritans of the past -- they've just flipped what constitutes purity. I'm a younger millennial and it's hard enough for me to understand the supposed 'logic' of leftie morality police, and I've been surrounded by them my entire life. If you're a boomer (judging by you having a 38 y/o son), you're unlikely to ever understand the way they think, and it's not worth trying. Just reassure your son that there's nothing to be ashamed of for asking out an adult woman, and encourage him to brush it off rather than trying to justify it to anyone. They can smell weakness, and attempting to defend yourself against accusations is (somewhat validly) perceived as vulnerability. There's nothing you can say that will change their mind, and if you show them that it bothers you, they'll just double down on the attacks.
by Arainach | 2025-06-24 01:36:40+00:00
When everything around suggests that the system is rigged against you and care against you, it's no surprise that many people live for the moment and try to find some small bit of pleasure or joy in the moment without planning for a future that may not come.

It's easy to say "why don't they save more?" from an upper or middle class stability, but when the price of everything keeps going up, the police are out to get you, and healthcare is just a fast track to debt that will take away any savings or assets you managed to have, what's the point?
by keernan | 2025-06-24 01:38:44+00:00
After reading the actual Order, it appears the defendants filed an application to the Court expressing concern that plaintiff, OpenAI, was potentially destroying evidence and to prevent a spoliation claim (relief due to destruction of evidence), the Judge Ordered OpenAI to stop destruction of anything (eg to preserve everything).

A person not a party to the action then filed an application to intervene in the lawsuit because the Judge's Preservation Order constituted a breach of the terms of his contract with OpenAI regarding his use of OpenAI's product - more specifically that the Intervenor entered into usage of OpenAI's product upon the agreement that OpenAI would not preserve any portion of Intervenor's communication with the OpenAI product.

The problem, as I see it, is that the Judge did not address the issue that her Order constituted a breach of Intervenor's contractual interests. That suggests to me that Intervenor did not expressly state that he held contractual rights that the Court's Order was violating. I would think the next step would be to file an Order to Show Cause directly against the Magistrate Judge claiming the Magistrate's Order constitutes an unconstitutional government taking of property without Due Process.
by rglullis | 2025-06-24 01:39:09+00:00
I will repeat again what I'm saying since they announced the Fairphone 4: being able to repair the phone is good, but what I really would like to see is for them to go the framework route and design a phone with a standardized form factor. It doesn't need to be crazy modular, I'd just like to be able to upgrade mainboard/camera/display/storage/battery independently, and I'd like to push product development around these components instead of coming up with yet another iteration of an ethical-but-full-of-compromises device every two years.

Promising 8 years of upgrades is only useful if your hardware is not sub-par. The Fairphone 3+ I bought was already "meh" when I bought it, after 3 years it felt sluggish. I wanted to upgrade parts of it, not a whole new device.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-24 01:39:16+00:00
I’m old enough to remember when ATM machines were free; across all banks.

Back then, though, we knew it was the Heroin Dealer “First One is Free” Faustian bargain. No one was surprised, when the fees started up. It was only a matter of time.

> Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

-William S. Burroughs
by janalsncm | 2025-06-24 01:41:26+00:00
Not sure what you mean by the “average person” here but the biggest kinds of debt are mortgages ($12T) and cc debt, student loans, and car loans (roughly 4T total).

Is your position that taking debt to buy a house is bad unless you can sell it for a profit? Is working for the mortgage lender to accomplish that not worth it?

You can avoid it by renting, but then you’re just working for the landlord, so there’s no avoiding it.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-06-24 01:43:27+00:00
I don't ever see it being a good deal for the car owner. Too much of the cost and responsibility falls on them.

Income potential at the individual level is likely limited. There could be a honeymoon period where early adopters are getting paid for a good number of rides at good prices. That attracts more people to do it, putting more vehicles out there. This leads to each vehicle getting less rides.

There's too many situations that leave me without my vehicle when I need it, either because it's actively delivering someone to their destination across town or it's out of service while being repaired / cleaned / etc.

I am sure a lot of people would try it, but it's a sucker bet for the vehicle owner over time. They get all the risk and much of the cost, but only a part of the revenue.
by leakycap | 2025-06-24 01:43:34+00:00
> after we "got into it"

This is the cause. I don't recommend extended chats with these bots if you're ever easily confusing this as intelligent conversation... even a few messages in a thread and you're giving the AI endless information to go off of, which easily plays into the idea it is getting "into it" with you

> accused it of gaslighting me

Worse than gaslighting, it doesn't even know what it's trying to do. Please check out how Gemini works - it's easy to fall into your own reflection here and not realize what you're "talking" to.
by cayley_graph | 2025-06-24 01:44:16+00:00
I'm not a China defender, but sidelining the concerns and needs of its citizens isn't why China is able to do things like high speed rail or build high density infrastructure in general. Lots there view having their property taken by the government and relocated as a good thing, because it almost always happens way above market rates. There are exceptions, of course, but my impression is that it is not the norm. Feel free to correct me. This isn't a defense of China in general, but it is totally possible to have good public transit in the United States.

And mind you that China isn't unique in bootstrapping its industrial revolution by mass theft of IP. If I were you, I'd look into the stunts us Americans pulled during our industrialization. The sad fact of the matter is that the government of this country no longer works for its own people, and that's why so many things are far below par. For many things, we _could_, but simply _don't_.
by abelanger | 2025-06-24 01:44:22+00:00
(we haven't looked too deeply into agent-kit, so this is based on my impression from reading the docs)

At a high level, in Pickaxe agents are just functions that execute durably, where you write the function for their control loop - with agent-kit agents will execute in fully "autonomous" mode where they automatically pick the next tool. In our experience this isn't how agents should be architected (you generally want them to be more constrained than that, even somewhat autonomous agents).

Also to compare Inngest vs Hatchet (the underlying execution engines) more directly:

- Hatchet is built for stateful container-based runtimes like Kubernetes, Fly.io, Railway, etc. Inngest is a better choice if you're deploying your agent into a serverless environment like Vercel.

- We've invested quite a bit more in self-hosting (https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting), open-source (MIT licenses) and benchmarking (https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/benchmarking).

Can also compare specific features if there's something you're curious about, though the feature sets are very overlapping.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-06-24 01:45:23+00:00
If you're using credit to buy a car, most people do so in order to get to and from their place of work for the majority of their driving time. In that way, using credit to buy a car still fits into their theoretical model. For example I know plenty of people who completely got rid of their cars when remote work became more common, or at the very least consolidated to smaller cars or to less cars for a family.

Similar thinking for a house. A lot of people when buying a house go into it with the assumption that it is an appreciating asset that will gain value over time. Yes there are other factors of course like wanting to live closer to schools or in the suburbs/good areas, etc. But regardless this is commonly to facilitate a life that lends itself to you continuing to be able to make money comfortably.

Regarding vacations, no financial expert recommends using a card without the intention of not paying for it. If your plan is to book the vacation on credit for anything other than the benefits of your credit card points systems you might as well not use it at all. And all recommend not using credit cards and instead an emergency fund if you lose your job.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-06-24 01:45:38+00:00
Hear my rationale for Catholicism-infused Daoism (or Daoism-infused Catholicism, but the equivalence proof thereof shall be postponed to a later margin :)

If the pontiff is chief designer*, and bean counters the cardinals..

*In other contexts, I'd have used the term "Designor", to inspire interest in Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel)

>Hesse frequently mentioned his understanding of the Taoist philosophies of Laozi (老子) and Zhuangzi (庄子) in letters to his friends, and Taoist ideas such as 'Tao' (道) or 'One' and 'polar opposites and unity' recur across his work.

Another worthy ref: https://isonomiaquarterly.com/archive/volume-3-issue-2/the-u...

(What jumped out at me was that author considered Poland to be smaller than Switzerland)

Edit: the Godfather ref in TFA also worthy of consideration https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1i74th9/seth_ma...
by varikin | 2025-06-24 01:45:45+00:00
Think of uv more as like npm or other thing like that. The new Python pyproject.toml is similar package.json. It defines the project description, list of dependencies, and other hooks. Uv is a package/project tool using pyproject.toml. It is easy to manage dependencies, build and publish to PyPi, add hooks to run tests, linters, or whatever, again much like package.json. It also manages the virtualenv automatically, though you can manage it yourself.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-24 01:46:06+00:00
> By analyzing isotopes in the spiders’ tissues, the scientists determined the bacteria weren’t just hitching a ride from an eight-legged friend — they were also being eaten.

> “This is really the beauty of the symbiosis between the two: The bacteria get that perfect Goldilocks zone with everything they need,” Dubilier said. “Even if 80% of the population are eaten (by the spiders), it’s worth it for the 20% to keep surviving and reproducing.”

Sure, but there's a more conventional term for this kind of symbiosis. Usually it would be called "farming". Humans have the same kind of symbiotic relationship with pigs, or wheat.
by okanat | 2025-06-24 01:46:30+00:00
Nothing surprising there. The US-led social media finally achived its biggest success. It made weaponized ignorance viable at an enormous scale.

Not just in the US but all over the world. The fight now is anybody with some critical thought ability vs willfully and violently ignorant. The former is getting fewer in the numbers and the latter is out for blood. We need to be very efficient to disarm and passivize the violent ignorants otherwise they will slowly kill us and the humanity.