MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cbondurant | 2025-06-23 13:34:46+00:00
The initial motivation of LaTeX compile times being slow is very interesting to me.

I use LaTeX as a tool for layout of books to print for hobby bookbinding and my current project - a 3 megabyte, 500k word beast of a novel - only takes around 10 seconds to compile.

I cant imagine what the friend of the author here had going on in his paper such that his compile times took such a hit. Required use of specific LaTeX libraries dictated by the journals he was submitting to that were written inefficiently? specific LaTeX features or packages that end up hitting significantly slower codepaths?

Makes me wonder if its not LaTeX itself that is the speed issue but instead the very maturity of the ecosystem that it has as advantage over Typst. It could entirely be possible that once Typst has the wide berth of features and functionality available through its ecosystem, that it would become just as easy to fall into compile time tarpits.
by viraptor | 2025-06-23 13:35:39+00:00
> and we don't need to know how exactly human thinking works to acknowledge that.

Until you know how thinking works in humans, you can't say something else is different. We've got the same inputs available that we can provide to AI models. Saying we don't form our thinking based on statistics on those inputs and the state of the brain is a massive claim on its own.
by biimugan | 2025-06-23 13:36:09+00:00
What you say may be true with respect to breaking laws. But illegal immigration is one of those relatively small infractions, and only now is there some sudden insistence to prosecute all of them and deport them. So this is a self-made problem.

All of the evidence available to us shows us that migrants, on average, commit less crime than U.S. citizens. The evidence shows us that they pay into social programs without reaping almost any benefit. The evidence shows us that they take jobs that the average American isn't interested in. An evidence-based political program would not target migrants as a first priority, except to provide some more straightforward way to become documented and legal.

The other issue is -- the U.S. has 300 million+ citizens. This argument that migrants will "clog up" the courts seems ridiculous if you also believe U.S. citizens deserve due process. If your court system can't handle a relatively small percentage of your residents committing the crimes you have on the books, then maybe those crimes aren't really serious crimes are they? Or else not funding the courts appropriately to satisfy the political program is purposeful. The goal is to avoid due process and accountability, for citizens and non-citizens alike.
by sharkbird2 | 2025-06-23 13:37:17+00:00
I think men are checking out of relationships because they feel they do not benefit them anymore. Not out of malice or even spitefulness (although there is some of that among some groups), but rather because so many things in our culture and society has been subtly altered to benefit women more and more over several decades to the point that men feel like getting into a relationship, or just investing in a woman at all, is a great way of getting screwed over, and I think there's something to that.

We need deep diving investigations to figure out the exact mechanics of it.
by watwut | 2025-06-23 13:37:18+00:00
But "hard work, loyalty, dedication" are literally in opposition against career and wealth as goals and were for years. Modern business environment is not rewarding these properties and people who want to have a good career or wealth can not prioritize them.

Loyalty especially directly makes you less successful and basically a sucker. And it has nothing to do with gender or women, it is business no valuing. Hard work is only loosely related. Hard work and dedication on itself are not what makes your salary go up or makes you promoted. Understanding office politics does a lot more.

My point is, this is not the case of young men not valuing career and wealth. People who value career and wealth cant afford to be loyal.
by stoneman24 | 2025-06-23 13:37:37+00:00
Sounds like a really interesting and delightfully frustrating game. Bit busy to join at the moment but it’s going on my list for the future.

The comments about the loyalty of the sub-commanders being very strong due to the extremely restrictive information environment reminded me of opposite within the history book Nemesis by Max Hastings.

He covers the end of the Second World War in the pacific. One veteran commented that it seemed that the different commanders and services within the US armed forces were more at conflict with each other than with the Japanese, all trying to get the resources and credit for the successes. (Especially MacArthur in the Philippines).

The radio and news reels of the days could both provide fast information about what is/was happening and also ensure fame and fortune in the domestic environment if your narrative could prevail
by kevin42 | 2025-06-23 13:37:42+00:00
My issue is that from a scientific point of view, physicalism is all we have. Everything else is belief, or some form of faith.

Your example about relativity is good. It might have sounded insane at some point, but it turns out, it is physics, which nicely falls into the physicalism concept.

If there is a falsifiable scientific theory that there is something other than a physical mechanism behind consciousness and intelligence, I haven't seen it.
by tekknik | 2025-06-23 13:38:16+00:00
I stopped reading after 100 bombs capacity. They are purpose built bombs, we don’t stockpile them as we don’t hit iranian mountain target regularly enough.

The US spends more on military than most of the rest of the world combined. Every conflict there’s a contingent of people claiming the US will soon be out of munitions and can’t continue. Now the statement is made on the first attack. The US is oddly perceived as weak by this contingent, which flies in the face of reason.
by matwood | 2025-06-23 13:38:25+00:00
> The one where these people don't have work papers, so they can't work the kind of above the table jobs you need to work to fully support yourself so they wind up being a drain on our social safety nets.

Legal immigrants and many undocumented workers without employment authorization pay Social Security taxes, analyses show. Some undocumented immigrants use fake Social Security numbers or ones they may have had before their work permits lapsed.

In 2022, for example, undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local income taxes, including nearly $26 billion in Social Security taxes and $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank. (The report takes into account both employer and employee contributions to Social Security and Medicare taxes.)

But they are not eligible to receive Social Security benefits if they are not lawfully in the US.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/undocumented-imm...

> The average working American in my state can't afford "good" healthcare

You're going to blame the complete lack of affordable healthcare in the US on...immigrants? Ok.
by bitwize | 2025-06-23 13:38:36+00:00
One of HP's first X terminals ran on a 186. The same beleaguered 16-bit CPU that made the Tandy 2000 go, also powered X terminals in the early 90s (albeit at twice the speed).

For all its "bloat", X could support a very sophisticated GUI -- over the network -- on very limited hardware by the standards of 30 years ago, let alone today.
by archievillain | 2025-06-23 13:39:28+00:00
I've made sure to reference "historical significance" when referencing P&P and the Cabinet for this exact reason. I think every classic undergoes some amount of 'rot', but I've also found a lot of classic to be perfectly enjoyable if you allow them some slack.

And, not to insult fanfiction writers (I've been known to partake), but I would guess Jane Austen still writes a better broody man than most of them... although probably not all of them. That's a secondary consequence of simply having more people partaking in art to begin with: the more millions of artists you have, that many more one-in-a-million geniuses you're bound to find.
by msgodel | 2025-06-23 13:39:43+00:00
I'm absolutely convinced that with the exception of the most discplined and productive 5-10% of people smartphones are a massive net loss for most people.

Could a portable computer with all the radios sensors smartphones have be a net gain? Absolutely, we all knew this and it's why many of us were the first to replace our palm pilots with smartphones. The reality is though that all of the software (especially the system software) is designed to harm the user in pretty serious ways.

I don't own a phone and if I ever have kids they will be given a small laptop with Ethernet but no WiFi running Linux like my dad gave me when I was 10.
by gwbas1c | 2025-06-23 13:40:43+00:00
> If it's to be archived it's going to end up encoded as pixels.

You're missing the point. In this case, the point is literally preserving the experience of viewing actual film: IE, preserving the original viewing experience that the film was shown in.

It's kind of the same think as listening to a vinyl record from the 1960s, even though the digitally remastered 24/96khz flac is technically more accurate to what actually happened in the studio. IE, if I want to know how my parents enjoyed the Beatles, I pull out a vinyl record, even though the various digital remasters, including the recent 24/96 versions, are "more accurate" to what's on the master tapes.
by kcplate | 2025-06-23 13:40:58+00:00
> A $400 drone can now take out a $2B piece of equipment. That waters the mouth of any adversary.

Aren’t you actually arguing for these kind of enhanced vetting measures with this realization?

If anti-US sentiment is high and if the barrier to sabotaging a $2B system is a meager $400…why wouldn’t you do everything you could to prevent people who might be inclined, supportive, or even publicly indifferent to doing your country harm from entering with your blessing?
by Nifty3929 | 2025-06-23 13:41:08+00:00
If you think the value of gold has remained stable, that's only because you're only measuring it during times and places of stability. See how much bread your ounce of gold buys you when there's no bread to buy. In a real crisis, the value of gold drops to near zero, just like fiat money does. No hungry person cares about electronic coating.

The best you can say is that gold is tangible, portable and universal. So you can bring it with you (often in the form of jewelry) as you flee, and it will likely return to value in some other time/place.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-06-23 13:41:20+00:00
Your tool is cool, but is solves a different issue.

Right now, background agents have two major problems:

1. There is some friction to getting the isolated environment working correctly. Difficulty depends on specifics of each project. Ranging from "select this universal container" to "it's going to be hell getting all of your dependencies working". Working in your IDE pretty much solves that - it's likely a place where everything is already setup.

2. People need to learn how agents build code. Watching an agent work in your IDE while being able to interject/correct them is extremely helpful to long term success with background agents.
by cma | 2025-06-23 13:41:24+00:00
Sometimes you have one border blocked from one side, and another not blocked from the other. For instance when the UN split up Israel they gave the Isrealites connectivity to the Mediterrean and the sea, only country other than Egypt to span both and enormously valuable. Huge value loss to the Palestinians: Israel has even had plans for a canal.

Worth noting the UN partition plan was never actually adopted in a binding way.
by msgodel | 2025-06-23 13:41:31+00:00
What the hell?

No. forcing someone to undergo a medical intervention is strictly more invasive than asking for their social media handle -> a policy doing such is strictly more oppressive.

>but we were facing a threat

Precisely the same argument is made WRT visa candidates.

You do get and have gotten specifics, you're either illiterate or don't want to read them.
by erokar | 2025-06-23 13:41:56+00:00
> but rather because so many things in our culture and society has been subtly altered to benefit women more and more over several decades to the point that men feel like getting into a relationship, or just investing in a woman at all, is a great way of getting screwed over

I'm a man, and I don't have this experience. Your comment makes me curious — what has changed and in what way to make it more likely that men will be screwed over by women? Is it that women are more likely to reject/leave a man once he has invested, or are you thinking about something else entirely?
by noelwelsh | 2025-06-23 13:42:48+00:00
My experience is the same as OP: Typst is significantly faster than Latex. My book has all of table of contents, parts and chapters, figures, code samples, tables, images, and bibliography. These are all going to require multiple passes to layout. E.g. you cannot insert page numbers until you have laid out the table of contents, as it comes before other content. However you cannot construct the table of contents before you have processed the rest of the document. A typical novel won't have most of these, and so I think it will be substantially easier to layout.
by hannob | 2025-06-23 13:42:57+00:00
> The Germans in this article all appear to be aligned to either BSW (populist far-left, pro-Russia, anti-US)

Picturing BSW as far-left, while not uncommon, strikes me always as very strange. While it's a bit unclear where to put them with their wild mixture of populism, the only reason they are by some seen as leftwing is because of the history of their founder. She was previously a member of the left party, but for many years, even while she still was a member of that party, has not held any views that could count as far-left.

The only reason some still put her in the far-left camp is that she was, looooong ago, a member of the communist platform in the PDS, the predecessor of the left party in Germany.
by fruitbarrel | 2025-06-23 13:43:11+00:00
I'm not sure how Apple Music does it on the backend, but if I had to guess it would be based off of genre and playlist/user activity (Some sort of statistical model which determines which artists are likely to be present in user playlists/listening activity together).

It doesn't really touch on anything internal, but here is the documentation of the specific endpoint if you're curious: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/fetc...
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-23 13:43:18+00:00
As a case in point, GP refers to "the Healthcare system leveraged our own wellbeing against their profits"

That would point toward the business interests of actual provider organizations (like hospitals) or insurers, who have different incentives from each other and very different incentives from individual healthcare providers, who also have very different interests (and are very different people on a variety of dimensions) from those in academia who are "heavily defined by grant funding."

Perhaps you could share a concrete example of what you mean, because right now we're talking about 4 or 5 completely distinct, individually gigantic industries that all interact to produce "the healthcare system" and its behaviors.
by bionhoward | 2025-06-23 13:43:42+00:00
I always get blocked in using Claude Code by basic logic

What are you building that doesn’t compete with Anthropic? (Using your brain competes with Anthropic) — major legal risk

How do we justify accepting the lack of privacy on Claude? Is it just for people doing FOSS? You’re cool with them reading your business codebase to verify you aren’t using your brain?

Given it is logically impossible to not compete with general intelligence, and that I expect private github repos to remain private, I feel forced to think Claude Code is a nerd snipe / bad joke / toy
by WJW | 2025-06-23 13:43:47+00:00
I'd have to say some sort of B-tree. Though many bugs live in mine, I still like it. The amount of leaves it has throughout the seasons may very wildly, but I like it even if it has no leaves at all. I don't think I have ever framed a leaf from it myself, but I have definitely serialized it into binary and sent it off over the network, so it's possible that somewhere along the route it got stuck into an ethernet frame.

All in all an A-tier tree and I would definitely get a new one if I lost this version.
by uncircle | 2025-06-23 13:43:59+00:00
My thoughts lately have been bouncing between "they've finally killed the internet" and "there's no way to create an island for humans online anymore, is there?" and I figured this is a good place as any to see if anybody else has been exploring this question.

In an ever-larger Internet with ever-growing bullshit and regurgitated, useless data, social-media-driven madness, commercial interests, the odds of finding islands of naive and purely human interaction shrink by the day. Given the advances of AI, the hope of having a network of "unadulterated" users, however small, are practically nil. Add the fact that most of human affairs are now online - work, leisure, communication, paying taxes, shopping, etc. - there is not even a realistic hope of living without the net.

What are we to do? Do we only have the choice to assimilate the AI-driven, algorithmic future or to become complete Luddites living on subsistence farming? Are (open) islands of humans communicating over the internet possible? Can we connect three computers with the full guarantee they are all being operated by homo sapiens? Will "real-life, face-to-face interaction" become the new frontier for outcasts, weirdos and idealists, just like the internet was 30 years ago?

This is a serious question and request for comments. I do not particularly care to start a discussion on whether AI is good, the internet is fine and I'm being dramatic; there are plenty of other places to discuss AI optimism.

[My favourite tree is the birch. Majestic with its white bark, reminds me of cooler climates. Also pines, with the peculiar smell and the reddish, thick carpet of needles they leave on the forest floor.]
by throw0101b | 2025-06-23 13:44:13+00:00
> While I cannot agree nor disagree on the quality of BSDs (haven't used one in 20 years), I find it funny that in this case a design by committee is proof of quality.

I don't think "design" is correct word: organized, managed, or ran perhaps.

> The FreeBSD Project is run by FreeBSD committers, or developers who have direct commit access to the master Git repository.[1] The FreeBSD Core Team exists to provide direction and is responsible for setting goals for the FreeBSD Project and to provide mediation in the event of disputes, and also takes the final decision in case of disagreement between individuals and teams involved in the project.[2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Core_Team

There is no BDFL, à la Linux or formerly Python: it's a 'board of directors'. Decisions are mostly dispute / policy-focused, and less technical for a particular bit of code.
by noobermin | 2025-06-23 13:44:20+00:00
So, I understand that this is supposed to be a broad comment on society and romance in 2025 but it's very clear this also a piece of catharsis on the loss of a potential romantic interest of the author. That's fine, personal experiences can inform our view of more society wide trends, but they can also be somewhat of an extrapolation. For example, women dining alone at the establishment detailed at the beginning of the piece might not all be going out after being stood up, perhaps people are now just able to eat out on their own comfortably without feeling social pressure to be on dates for the sake of appearances.
by mminer237 | 2025-06-23 13:44:21+00:00
> Copyright law only restricts commercial activity

That is just not true. A copyright gives the owner thereof exclusive rights to make a copy of his work. Neither the creator nor the copier have to sell anything.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106

Noncommercial use is a factor to be considered for fair use if the copier is doing it for a protected purpose. (Creating a t-shirt for your personal use is not a protected purpose and can therefore never be fair use on its own though.)

The reason someone making a personal shirt doesn't get sued is because suing people is expensive, that harms goodwill, and Disney isn't getting any money from such a person anyway.
by eesmith | 2025-06-23 13:45:18+00:00
I don't think you realize how much water and power would be needed.

My back-of-the-envelope calculations says it needs the water of 30 Panama canals [1], in a region with very little water. It's possible to use seawater, but water is very expensive to pump, requiring the world's biggest power plant. You'll also have to build the world's tallest lock system, by far, with a dozen lockings, so passage will slow,

I can't even begin to calculate the cost of a sea-level canal.

[1] It looks like there are 36,000 transits of the strait per year, compared to under 14,000 for the Panama canal. The ships going through the strait are much larger than Panamax. The canal would be several times higher than the Panama canal. Each locking requires significant water. As a wild-ass guess, each is factor of 3, giving 27, which I rounded to 30.

That's about 60 billion cubic meters of water.

If I get it right, that's enough to cover the 310 km^2 of Oman with 20 cm of water, or since that water doesn't exist in the region, it's about 200 GW of continuous power to pump that water from sealevel - about 9x the power of the Three Gorges Dam, or 70 TW hours in annual electrical consumption - about that of Austria.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-06-23 13:45:31+00:00
Nothing convinces me of an impending thought crisis than defenses of AI centering around comparisons to calculators or cars.

The average person didn't take freedom from manual long division to unlock whole new ways of mastering math, they stopped doing math at the grocery store and became docile enough to allow the rise of modern consumer economics, Uber, Doordash, Klarna.

And I don't know what invoking the obsolescence of horses is supposed to achieve. Yes, there are fewer horses for roles today. No, the remaining horse population hasn't been uplifted to whole new ways of thinking about labor and transportation. (I'm probably leaving myself open to a counter that today there are many horses living lives of leisure as pets.)

You're not going to find a sufficient historical analogue to general thought being the skill we no longer have to practice, you have to engage in new thought about the qualitative difference of this situation.
by resource_waste | 2025-06-23 13:46:18+00:00
"Poets lie too much"

What is the goal of fiction? Escapism. What does it matter if its deep or shallow? The deep ones arent entertaining enough?

If you are expecting a character to enlighten you on a new problem, you are being corrupted by lies.

From Nietzsche to Plato, its agreed, fiction corrupts. Using it for anything outside entertainment is horrifying.
by coldpie | 2025-06-23 13:46:28+00:00
Great news! Nuclear is a critical component for the non-carbon energy infrastructure we're building. Yes, it's expensive, but the only way to make it cheaper is to invest in rebuilding the expertise we stupidly threw away over the past 5 decades. Paying for past mistakes always sucks, but it's better than not doing it and digging the hole even deeper.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-23 13:47:15+00:00
The industries don't matter. They are all subject to very broad and powerful government licensing rules that can overrule their own opinions at any time.

For example, during COVID there were doctors who lost their license to practice because they disagreed with the government stance on vaccines. Therefore, the remaining doctors spoke with one voice. The government used them as sock puppets, in effect. Whether you agree with this policy or not, it is an example in which the healthcare system became one system that "said" things in concert.