MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-06-30 10:20:17+00:00
So you interpret QM as just math, with no physical meaning or interpretation, that's fine. "Shut up and calculate", is old hat.

My point is similar but not quite so prohibitive. It isn't about cats, rather it is about shedding your large scale ontologies when you work at much smaller scale. At these scales we have observation and evolution according wave equations, that is the ontology. In between there is nothing to conceive of or there are superpositions and non-locality. There is no comforting continuous existence across time and you need to accept that just as in classical physics you accepted the opposite, perhaps unknowingly. Do you not think your intuition about ontology may fail you when scales change 9 orders of magnitude?
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-06-30 10:20:20+00:00
(ought to merge this thread, but thought this might be a good place to address your cults-of-personality concerns)

What better way to combat those than with cults-of-impersonality :) Emergent lexithymia* or even hyperthymia might be a bonus, because the bar would be so low for an otherwise unmotivated collection of individualistic emotionally-challenged...

*Staying in emotional sync with the rest of society, unlike X, like maybe the Jesuits :)

(Tangentially,but still syncwise, preppy team sports like crew/sailing or lacrosse >> music.. certain kids might have to be badgered into that)
by komali2 | 2025-06-30 10:20:50+00:00
What makes you think these companies can be toppled, considering they practically write our legislation? https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/apple-inc/summary?id=D00002...

What capitalistic mechanism allows a garage startup to compete with a company worth $3,000,000,000,000 ?

Surely you've seen this in Silicon Valley: the infamous way Google (or whoever) kills your startup by releasing your product for free, waiting for you to die, and then killing the product, just to ensure there's no competition in a field they may want to one day enter.

Or they just buy you. Great for the founder! Terrible for the consumer.
by jltsiren | 2025-06-30 10:20:53+00:00
Choose an algorithm that's reasonably efficient and easy to implement. Then parallelize if it wasn't fast enough. Then try to find a better algorithm. And only then vectorize. Pick the low-hanging fruit first, and only resort to options that require more work and make the code less maintainable if that wasn't enough.

Software engineers and computer scientists are often reluctant to parallelize their code, because they have learned that it's difficult and full of hidden pitfalls. But then they lose the performance gains from multithreaded loops and other simple approaches, which are often essentially free. Multithreaded code is not particularly difficult or dangerous, as long as you are not trying to be clever.
by alias_neo | 2025-06-30 10:20:57+00:00
If you had spent it, you might still be alive, and if you aren't, it's hardly wasted, since you no longer need it.

Jokes aside, I live in the UK, and occasionality I see vehicles here that are entirely too big and unnecessary for our roads.

There was a lady driving what I think was a Defender 130 (I don't know modern LRs too well), it was far too big for the parking spaces in the tiny car park we were in, she could only just see over the steering wheel, and she had no chance of seeing my 5yo child I was walking back to my car with; who's quite tall for 5 but didn't reach over the height of the bonnet.
by MagnumOpus | 2025-06-30 10:21:35+00:00
Denying it won’t make these loopholes go away.

The US’s CGT base cost uplift on death is insane, and only does not get repealed because it enables the super rich to never pay tax via the ‘buy borrow die’ strategy.

The US’s carried interest rules for hedge funds and private equity partners are insane and only exist because the affected individuals bribe lawmakers and presidents.
by arajnoha | 2025-06-30 10:21:59+00:00
Repo: https://github.com/arajnoha/phodo ultra minimalist web todo app (php+html+css). stores everthing in single JSON, has a day view, allows you only to mark as done, delete and add. list days back and forth + jump to today. When task is added while listing days, its added to that listed day. PHP and CSS are both below 100 LOC.

Im working on simplyfing the code further. I tried really all of the "productivity" stuff to stay organised. Got angry multiple times, went to pen and paper, was OK, but i felt i just need a slight glimps of tech to make it more functional. Something little more than plaintext file, but not much.
by pjc50 | 2025-06-30 10:22:25+00:00
This is one of those cultural transitions which is difficult for people on the other side to understand; it belongs to the forgotten era of personal honor. These days one would simply lie on TV, or hire a PR firm to do that for you, and of course put the blame on the lowest individual that can be found. Repeat when more mistakes are made, because low level employees are disposable accountability shields. (See, for example, the UK post office/Fujitsu Horizon scandal)

But it used to be the case that leaders were expected to take responsibility for the culture and systems underneath them, rather than just taking as much of a salary as the business will bear from it.

That is, if a low level employee makes a significant money-handling mistake on this scale, that's a systems failure. There should be checks and testing and a software development culture which makes this kind of error unlikely. This is what was lost with "move fast and break things". After all, it's only other people's money.

(edit: it seems not to have been an actual money-handling error, but a notification error. Still fairly serious in terms of angry customers)
by blueflow | 2025-06-30 10:22:51+00:00
> Also, have you ever dealt with kids?

I'm glad someone also saw the connection. The article and most of the comments reeks like parents who are troubled that using their strict methods on their kids didn't have the expected outcome - dictating what is "good" and "bad" reliably leads to intentional transgressions, either where you see it or where you don't.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-06-30 10:23:15+00:00
Haha yes, but it doesn’t last for more than 20-30mins now. Used to be 7-8hours for the first five-six years, then dropped off.

I also only buy used phones (I don’t have high requirements) and as with laptops, batteries are the “weak link” - as you correctly point out.

A brand new battery for my laptop, can be had for ~30-65 USD though, and the battery is easy to replace (doesn’t even require screwdriver). I never use it untethered anymore though, so I don’t bother..
by ClassicOldSong | 2025-06-30 10:24:10+00:00
A HN Reader PWA demo with my own framework rEFui

https://github.com/ClassicOldSong/refui-hackernews-demo

It started as a demo only but it looks slick so I added standalone PWA to it to be installable as a desktop app. Now browsing HN feels even better!
by sfn42 | 2025-06-30 10:25:41+00:00
I think that's more relevant with really large vehicles. An SUV is generally somewhere in the range of 1.5-3 tons whereas a loaded semi truck can weigh up to 40 tons. If a road is designed to handle 40 ton vehicles then i have a hard time believing that 2-3 ton vehicles make much of a difference compared to a 1.5 ton vehicle.

A semi truck with a trailer will distribute those 40 tons over a larger area due to more and larger tires, but I am assuming that it still impacts a larger ground pressure on the road than a personal car - at least when loaded.
by adwn | 2025-06-30 10:25:55+00:00
In addition, renting a large car for a few days is really expensive. If you have to do this 5-10 times a year, over 10 years of ownership, I'm not so sure that buying small and renting large make sense financially. Not to mention the inconvenience and loss of flexibility from having to collect and drop off a rental car, which typically isn't exactly right around the corner, especially in rural areas.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-30 10:26:12+00:00
I see, that's interesting. Initially sounded like a hair weight issue, so by wet washing it you remove enough sebum to not drag on your scalp too hard. But I'm not sure it adds enough weight for it to do that.

I wonder that over time your scalp produces enough of some chemical to give you a headache, and so you need to rinse it away before that happens? Especially since you mention that any wet wash helps, so the chemicals in the shampoo aren't actually relevant for it. Interesting issue though, don't envy you.
by Alex-Programs | 2025-06-30 10:26:21+00:00
I'm working on LLM translation research for my tool that teaches you a language while you browse by translating sentences at your level into the language you're learning (https://nuenki.app)

I've had some breakthroughs with LLM translation, and I can now translate (slowly, unfortunately) at a far far higher quality than Opus, and well above DeepL. So I'm considering offering that as an API, though I don't know how much people actually care about translation quality.

DeepL's customers clearly don't care - their website is all about enterprise features, and they appear to get plenty of business despite their core product being mediocre.

Would people here be interested in that?
by renegat0x0 | 2025-06-30 10:26:28+00:00
Projects

- https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - Database of Internet domains, links

- https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive - RSS client, web crawler

- https://github.com/rumca-js/crawler-buddy - web scraper, web crawler, with JSON interface

A project is like a pet. You cannot just "stop" caring about it. If it lives, then you have to look after it
by komali2 | 2025-06-30 10:27:23+00:00
It existed today, so, yes it has. Capitalism describes the global mode of production, not just the United States economy. We haven't already forgotten the anti-suicide nets at Foxconn, have we? Without the margins that cheap foreign labor provides, the insanely high growth target required to please investors in a Capitalist economy can't be achieved.

I think we're fixating too much on purity of the word "unregulated." If you'd like to offer a different one I'm open to it - to me, the closest example of "regulated capitalism" is the PRC's State Capitalism, however it's a poor example given the atrocious working conditions there and the massive wealth inequality.

"Unregulated" to me doesn't mean "literally no regulations." To me it means, the owners of Capital have a very large amount of power, to the point that every regulation on them is an uphill, nigh-unwinnable battle. See: pushes for 30 hour work weeks in Europe. Or, see: pushes for socialized healthcare in the USA. I think we can both agree that the USA will never have socialized healthcare so long as the health insurance companies wield so much power and influence!
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-30 10:28:05+00:00
>said Chan had grown distant in recent years as the school’s academic performance faltered

If you've invested the amounts we're talking about here, and made the statements they made about their investments at the get-go, and have the vast resources they have for tweaking and improving these programs, then you can, you know, put a bit more into making them work, instead of shutting them down in one very conveniently timed political climate. It's their money and they can do whatever they want with it, but the whole thing reeks of political expediency either out of spinelessness or shallow original motives.

>>The East Palo Alto project was the billionaire couple’s second major intervention in a city’s education system, after a controversial 2011 gift of $100 million to the Newark public schools. Some experts and community members claimed that the money was largely squandered.

Yeah, the dangers of investing anything in Jersey. Tony Soprano laughs in his grave.. Joke aside, that much earlier project seemed like one very inexperienced attempt that was mishandled right from the start. Giving that much money to a bunch of ambiguously honest bureaucrats is just asking for disaster. Especially when you as the donor have zero internal presence in or real experience with the system you're donating to.
by godelski | 2025-06-30 10:29:31+00:00
> No one is arguing against "improving code". What are you talking about?

This is actually a frequent occurrence. But honestly it usually doesn't come with that exact same phrasing. It usually comes with "let's spend our time on this other thing that isn't important but is new therefore important". It's true, sometimes you need to triage, but there's a clear bias that once something "works" (no matter how poorly) there is much less incentive to make it work not poorly.

Some food for thought: your comment entirely relies upon wisdom of the crowds. Which I agree is usually a good bet to go with. But there are conditions where it fails, even at scale. It's actually fairly easy to upend. All you need to do is remove independence of actors. Which, you can probably guess is fairly common in our field. The more homogeneous we become the less reliable wisdom of the crowds is.

Plus, people have different experiences and different environments. What has been true is your experience need not be true in mine or any others.

I'll give you an example of irrationality here. I was working at a big tech company and as part of breaking down my project I was playing around with another part of the code. I more then doubled the prediction accuracy on customer data and made the code run faster and use less memory. Objectively better. It even happened "for free" because the tasks involved were part of my original job, though the goal was not explicitly. What happened? Last I know, the PR is still open. Boss never pushed for it because they were more invested in their other work that was yet to be completed but had more buzzwords. That work was only a bit more accurate than mine but 100x shower and required 10x more memory. I even told them what I did would work for the other one too, yet it never happened.

I've seen many instances like this. Sometimes people just don't want things to be better unless it's better in a very specific kind of way (and not necessarily via performance). Sometimes it's just politics.

On the other hand, I've seen very good teams where there's the exact opposite experience. It's a very common thread that those teams openly discuss and explain why a seemingly good idea is actually bad. Frequently, they'll let you have a go at it too, because it's a no lose situation. If you're right, we all win. If you're wrong there's an important lesson about the code that's leaned because there's hidden complexity that makes the seemingly good idea bad and it's often hard to explain. But you end up with a lot more knowledge about the code, which helps you in the long run
by sofixa | 2025-06-30 10:30:39+00:00
> You don't need recourse to GDP, you can just look at household income which really is higher.

Income would include the money being immediately spent to cover debt (be it student loans, mortgage, medical, car).

> Most things do _not_ actually have inflated prices relative to European countries

I'm struggling to think of things which aren't inflated. Only one I can come up with is gas/petrol/fuel, because there are much less taxes on it. Everything else I can think of is more expensive in the US - healthcare, transportation, food (groceries, and absurdly so for restaurants, for worse quality at that), various types of recreation (cinema, theatre, netflix and co, cable, watching live sports, concerts) internet, phone bills. Electricity is way too location dependent so I'll skip that one.

> But that doesn't invalidate "people have more money available to spend on cars and easier access to credit to finance that purchase over five years at favorable interest rates" as part of the reason why Americans choose to spend more money on cars.

Are interest rates favourable? There are multiple concerning trends (like car payments being one of the top household expenses and people struggling with that, people owing more on car loans than what the vehicle is worth, etc. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/15/american-consumers-are-incre... )

> You really don't have to take every point of discussion of difference between the US and European countries as an obligation to rant about how much better Europe is on tangential topics.

I'm not ranting, I'm correcting a wrong comparison using a wrong metric incorrectly. I don't know what is it with Americans reassuring themselves with GDP metrics, but it's very confusing why anyone would throw in GDP numbers when talking about disposable income and the car market.
by BanterTrouble | 2025-06-30 10:30:59+00:00
Yep. There a bunch of minor issues with my vehicle that I was procrastinating on, but the brakes lights not working is very illegal and unsafe, so that had to be fixed before I drove it. Was really pleased once I realised what the issue and managed to fix it.

All the newer cars feel like iPods with wheels and the driving experience is horrible. I am not interested in them.
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-06-30 10:31:03+00:00
Google tries to maintain a large user base as well.

The problem Google has is that they’re dependent on phone OEMs to release OS updates, but OEMs mostly don’t make money off software.

They ‘solved’ this by pushing a lot of security and OS features into Google Play Services, so they can update them independently of the OS. Today, you can get new apps and OS features even on older Android versions.
by Etheryte | 2025-06-30 10:31:12+00:00
The risks related to glycemic spikes are a widely accepted fact in the medical community, it's not even remotely close to being a controversial opinion. See [0], [1] and [2] for a start, but really, there's a very wide body of research on this matter along with ample evidence.

[0] https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12933-02...

[1] https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/38/12/2354/29088/L...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026156142...
by wainguo | 2025-06-30 10:31:56+00:00
Building https://gemlink.app, gemlink is an Internet content collection management platform, which collects efficiently through browser extension, flexibly organizes through websites, and forms a value content network through social sharing mechanisms. It can also be used as a "Read Later" product alternatives. In a Twitter-like experience, save a content is equivalent to "tweeting" (if it's public), and if it's private, it's only visible to yourself.

Project Website: https://gemlink.app/ Companion extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/snapreader/pickciba...
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-06-30 10:32:01+00:00
I was born in a socialist country, with red stars, a dictator, government owned everything, and smuggling jeans and coffee across the border. I'm still here, but the country doesn't exist anymore. Now, our parts over here makes us a small and pretty OK doing EU country with a relatively nice living standard.

I don't trust the government. Why? Because they can't properly operate with the money they're given by us, the workers. Same goes for many recepients of that money, especially the ones outside of "social help".

Yes, we fund art, we have public tenders, artists apply, they get a few thousand euros, produce something to fit "the current political theme" (eg. everybody is talking about ecology, let's make a performance where they throw trash at eachother), 10, 20, maybe 30 people see that, mostly family and local homeless people coming for the free wine, papers are stamped, checkmarks on all the right places, and money has exchanged hands. I would much rather live in a system where workers get to keep that money and spend it for art in whatever way they want. Even in a "semi-mandated" way (eg. tax benefits if you spend X euros yearly on art stuff).

And that's just peanuts compared to other stuff our government spends money on, our healthcare system is beyond broken, forcing you to pay government healthcare insurance (deducted by your employer, at 14.92% of your gross pay + 37.5eur extra, around 5keur yearly per average worker) but when you need an ultrasound for possible kidney stones... well, the waiting times are 6 month, but if you pay out of your pocket for a private clinic, somewhere around 100 eur, you can get one today or at the latest, tomorrow. If you're sick for up to 28 days, your employer covers your sick pay (80% of normal pay), if longer than 28 days, the government pays for that... sounds ok, right? We have people on sick leave for two, three years (24-36months * 80% of ~2500eur average monthly gross) waiting for eg. a knee surgery, that costs 3-5k eur at a private clinic, even less at a government one, but because our government insurance decided to pay only for 20 such surgeries yearly, and the waiting line is 70 people, you're screwed.

So yeah, I don't trust the government. I trust an average homeless alcoholic more with money management, especially because he's operating with his own money for his own benefit, and he'll make sure to get the most booze for whatever he managed to gather and not spend more than he has.
by adidoit | 2025-06-30 10:33:09+00:00
Working on a Professional Upskilling AI Coach: https://www.socratify.com/

We're headed into an era of massive white-collar reskilling.

How you think > What you know.

Critical Thinking skills will be the most important skills as we AI expands throughout the economy and we're surrounding by LLMs that are highly fluent

Socratify is a Critical Thinking Coach that sharpens How You Think and Speak by Debating AI

It proposes interesting questions (currently business related) that you debate in 2 min conversation and get feedback on how you think and speak

Right now its most helpful if you're interviewing for a job or aiming for a promotion in a business related profession
by pjc50 | 2025-06-30 10:34:10+00:00
It can get much worse: https://voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/pour-enc...

You don't hear the phrase "pour encorager les autres" very often these days, but it's one of the classic justifications for punishment: not just for the punished, but also for everyone else in a similar position. Sometimes called "skin in the game" these days. If there's no penalty for failure, there's no incentive to pay attention to the routine operations of the business.

Conversely the naval tradition of the Captain being the last person to leave a ship in distress embodies the idea of the responsibility of staying to deal with the problem. See recently the Costa Concordia incident.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-30 10:34:33+00:00
What a counterproductive comment in a world where the average SUV is something a lot closer in qualities to a traditional car than a traditional SUV.

Ford's linup is a great example how you people harping on SUVs actively detract from the discussion. What you call the Flex, the Ecosport and the C-max doesn't really matter. They're obviously by virtue of their attributes much closer to a "car" than they are to a traditional truck-ish SUV.

Every OEM's lineup has examples of this (Honda Crosstour anyone?).

The OEMs could make these things very cheaply if they wanted, look at the Maverick, a brand new model debuting at 25k. But they don't, why?
by fainpul | 2025-06-30 10:34:48+00:00
Ok, apparently there were different ways this was implemented. I remember a friends old TV as a child, where it worked exactly as I have described.

This is similar to what I mean, although it's a radio, not a TV and the buttons I remember where taller and had ridges on the side so they could be turned easily.

https://herculodge.typepad.com/herculodge/2011/06/as-i-walke...
by jampekka | 2025-06-30 10:34:53+00:00
JS's shorthand property syntax is lovely and elegant. Python can't really adopt it though as it clashes with the set syntax (which is such a niche use case it really shouldn't have a special syntax).

You could do something like f(**{x, y, z}) with just that. Not the prettiest, but at least it would be DRY.

But in general Python devs seem to prefer "explicit" ad-hoc syntax for each use case instead of composable "primitives". Which is approaching a kind of C++ situation where relatively few users know the syntax comprehensively.