MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by osigurdson | 2025-06-21 21:35:15+00:00
Many people seem to have this overly reductive take on performance in which you 1) wait until someone complains and 2) if someone does complain the problem will be readily identified by a hotspot and will be easy to fix. The idea is why spent time optimizing things that no one cares about? Usually there are some ROI and "root of all evil" arguments go along with this and perhaps some other unexamined phrases from 00s agile.

The problem is, sometimes profilers don't identity anything in particular or unwinding things to a point where they can be fixed is actually very har. A more realistic ROI argument should include this as it is a real problem.

I think code should be reasonably fast out of the box. I'm not suggesting vectorizing everything or even taking extreme steps to avoid allocations, etc. Rather, if an algorithm can easily be O(N), don't dumbly implement an O(N^2) or O(N^24) version. If O(1) is possible, do that unless you know the numbers are going to be very small. Don't make 500 DB calls when one will do and finally, don't program by unexamined phrases - particularly those than include "evil" or "harmful" or other such adjectives.
by znpy | 2025-06-21 21:35:27+00:00
> The convenience of a hypothetical cis peerson is worth more than the lives of 100 trans people it seems.

Complete nonsense. The ratio is generally the inverse: there are 100 cis people and 1 trans person. Those are just the numbers, otherwise trans people wouldn't be a considered a minority.

Actually you're the one arguing that the convenience of one trans person is worth more than the life of 100 cis people.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-21 21:35:40+00:00
> Despite your presumption that US policy is set "because it's popular" it empirically is not

Not what I claimed.

Vocal, motivated minorities who are willing to back a primary challenger, show or not show to off-cycle elections and potentially even switch parties over an issue command in American elections. What the majority loosely believes is irrelevant; this should be common knowledge given how our partisan primary system works.

The loose majority in American elections doesn’t care about foreign policy. A motivated minority does, and that minority has historically—in both parties—broken decisively in favour of Israel. This issue, moreover, was one that was important enough to enough of them to be a deal breaker. (And “them” doesn’t just mean American or even Israeli Jews. It encompasses a wide variety of liberal, neo-conservative and evangelical interests, for example.)

Not everywhere. But in enough places that if you’re a politician from one of the majority of places where Israel is a total non-issue, you don’t want to alienate your colleagues for whom it is an issue. Because there was no upside to fighting a battle against Israel, again, nobody in your district was going to reward you for going de Blasio on out-of-scope problems.

> Israel's sway has more to do with the power it holds over the political classes

Sure. The point is the “political classes” are those people who are willing to back a primary challenger, show or not show to off-cycle elections and potentially even switch parties over an issue. It’s far more similar to how NIMBY politics work than Russia’s election interference, which has a track record of backfiring more than helping.
by upghost | 2025-06-21 21:36:13+00:00
> The utility of optical flow (i.e., the instantaneous velocity of pixels [16]) toward this goal has long been obvious, yet it has remained challenging to upgrade flows into long-range tracks.

This sentence from the paper makes me feel a little bad that I don't understand why this goal is obvious. I am not tracking why we are tracking pixels.

Is this basically a competing technology with YOLO[1] or SAM[2]?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Look_Once

[2]: https://ai.meta.com/sam2/

Edit: added annotations, should've done that initially
by prmph | 2025-06-21 21:37:29+00:00
> And they adhere to international regulation and audits to make sure everything is compliant.

Sounds like you do not actually know what you are talking about. Here you go:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran...

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/delayed-inspections-jcpoa-...
by slt2021 | 2025-06-21 21:37:37+00:00
https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1934945918047998203/photo/1

aipac is boasting about funding majority of congress and is openly forcing candidates to pledge loyalty. If they dont pledge, they unleash the usual tools: funding the competing candidate, non-stop smearing campaigns via israeli-loyal media outlets and ethnically jewish journalists (==all mainstream media), bogus accusations of "antisemitism" and etc
Show HN: Good old emails and LLMs for automating job tracking
by adelowo | 2025-06-21 21:37:48+00:00
So I spent the last few days building Jobstack. The logic is quite simple. You apply to jobs and you get emails, you trade emails back and forth from interviews, questions and others until the role is either accepted or you are rejected.

Also easy to apply to hundreds of roles and not being to know where you stand easily. With Josbtack, you sign up, get a unique email and forward emails to the url. And it uses LLMs to extract company details , tries to find information online about them and presents that to you.

Every email you forward becomes part of your timeline with the company.

It also tracks rejection, offers from the emails too and gives you a nice stats dashboard amongst others.

Using Gemini 2.5 pro right now. No data stored not in any way. After extraction, it’s discarded. Even “AI chats with the company” aren’t stored

https://jobstack.me
by olalonde | 2025-06-21 21:37:58+00:00
If I understand correctly, they were paid $150k for it.

> Aagaard, Dreiøe and their friend the late Poul Nørgaard Pedersen discovered nearly 1.5 kilograms of Viking Age gold artifacts near the modern town of Fæsted, including armbands that archaeologists have interpreted as oath bands [...] Aagaard, Dreiøe and Nørgaard received just over a million kroner for the oath ring treasure, the equivalent of about $150,000.
by bryant | 2025-06-21 21:39:37+00:00
Regardless of the point, this language is extremely unhelpful here, especially considering op tried with good intent to help people dealing with the issue.

And there are other analogies too, e.g with certain diseases being "functionally cured" vs "cured." Did the GP use the wrong word? Sure. But making that the sole focus of criticism misses the intent of the GP and the greater value of the whole comment, which instructs people on how to disable it so that it's functionally non-impactful.
by mikmoila | 2025-06-21 21:40:36+00:00
Very interesting tool; I've done something quite similar by implementing a CLI-mode interpreter to VS Code Rest-client (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...) files, with a support of executing a test-code (Javascript) against the result of http operations. The idea was to have a tool which could run .http files in batch mode, and also to execute the selected set of http operations concurrently.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-21 21:41:02+00:00
> aipac is boasting about funding majority of congress and is openly forcing candidates to pledge loyalty. If they dont pledge, they unleash the usual tools

Sure. The NRA does the same. There are various pro-Palestinian groups who also did the same last cycle; they may have helped swing Michigan for Trump.

Spending money doesn’t change minds, it helps activate latent sentiment. Particularly on low-priority issues, which foreign policy usually is for most electeds.
by UltraSane | 2025-06-21 21:41:39+00:00
You really need to define how much you are willing to spend on logging/observability as a percentage of total budget. IMHO 5% is bare minimum 10% is better. I've worked for a company that had a dedicated storage array just for logging with Splunk and it was amazing and very much worth the money.

Good automatic tiering for logs is very useful as the most recent logs tend to be the most useful. I like NVMe -> hard disk -> tape library. LTO tape storage is cheap enough you don't need to delete data until it is VERY old.
by rashsharma | 2025-06-21 21:42:31+00:00
There are so many people posting there. Does that help? I am in a terrible situation right now. I need a job desperately to survive. I didn't receive severance pay after working for over 4 years, and only got paid for this month for 15 days, despite having worked for 20 days.

It's a situation that can't be explained in comments.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-21 21:42:37+00:00
> Florida hasn't been a swing state in a long time, and yet we continue to embargo Cuba

Policy has inertia. There are practically zero votes to be gained by going pro-Cuba. If there were evidence of it existing, we might see a policy change. But especially against the background of anti-immigrant sentiment, going pro-Cuba doesn’t make rational sense. No oligarchic conspiracy needed. (Also, oligarchs like trade. Especially if it requires an extra-special White House exemption to participate in.)
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-06-21 21:43:39+00:00
The original report states:

"Model 3 was further adjusted for history of hypertension; dyslipidemia; diabetes; cardiovascular disease; depression; long-standing illness, disability, or infirmity; cognitive function (ie, reaction time); and genetic variables "

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
by klabb3 | 2025-06-21 21:43:57+00:00
> Forward secrecy and metadata privacy are table stakes in any modern secure messaging design

I think this is counter-productive, limiting the adoption of meaningful security improvements. The engineering and UX implications of PFS and full metadata encryption (in particular social graphs) are severe. Not even signal has that, and they are above and beyond for a mass consumer product.

From the physical world, it’s like saying that having addresses on the letter is the same as the government opening and scanning the contents of every letter. Of course I don’t like the indiscriminate metadata collection, but there are worse things.

If you’re a spook or dissident, by all means, take extra precautions. You’re gonna need to anyway, in many more disruptive ways than your messaging app. Personally I just want to share shitposts with friends and speak freely without second guessing if I’m gonna be profiled by a data broker, or someone is gonna scan and store the pictures I send forever. Keep in mind that the status quo (Gmail, DM on social media) is incredibly bad.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-06-21 21:44:17+00:00
>> The UK is broke and in debt.

This is nonsensical. Public debt is nothing like private debt, you can't apply prudent financial advice from the context of an individual to that of a currency issuer. The difference being that they are a currency issuer. The Bank of England is a great starting point: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/how-is-money-crea...

Key points:

You can't save in a currency you issue. If a state issues its own fiat currency, it does not need to save in that currency because:

- It cannot run out of its own currency. - It can always credit accounts via fiscal or monetary operations. - “Saving” in the conventional sense implies a constraint that doesn’t apply to sovereign issuers.

Every single pound the UK gov spends, is a brand new pound that's never existed before - NB: it wasn't collected by tax. From the Bank of England: “The central bank can create money in the form of central bank reserves by lending to the banking sector… or by purchasing assets. This money is new—it did not exist before.” https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-... - that is to say, government spending results in the creation of new money, rather than the recycling of pre-existing tax revenues.

The limits to pay attention to are real resources in the economy, not money; you can have all the money in the world but if you can't procure steel then you simply can't build that bridge.
by pydry | 2025-06-21 21:44:26+00:00
>Not what I claimed

Yet what you directly claimed hinges upon this fallacy.

>Vocal, motivated minorities who are willing to back a primary challenger

Or foreign countries.

(is Russia also a "vocal, motivated minority" in Moldova...? or is it just plain and simple foreign meddling? Russia believes it's motivated minorities).

>What the majority loosely believes is irrelevant

Sure. But, this would make your clain of "Israel has had unique sway in America because for most of its history it has been uniquely popular" uniquely self-contradictory.
by slt2021 | 2025-06-21 21:44:56+00:00
you don't elect the leaders in america.

Two major party leaderships nominate their candidates, backed by hundreds of millions of corporate and special interest funding. Then some process called electoral college (that has some vague resemblance of the plebiscite) weights two candidates and picks a winner.

The candidate then has to obtain approval for every cabinet position from the congress (which is also getting funding in hundreds of mils from major corporate and special interest lobbying groups), that ensure that people occupying cabinet positions have policies aligned with their financial donors
by arandomusername | 2025-06-21 21:44:57+00:00
> Israel is the wedge and leverage to eliminating governments of Iran, Pakistan, China and then India and weakening Russia further.

China and India? and Russia? Israel doesn't care about them.

Israel is using America and Europe to gain control of the middle east, so they want to eliminate Iran (and just like with Iraq, they want the US to do it for them).

Pakistan is somewhat friendly so not really a threat to Israel's control over the middle east.

US and Europe do not benefit from this. Europe actually suffers as instability in middle east causes a refugee crisis in Europe.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-21 21:47:27+00:00
> auto pruning logs that no alert ever looked at

I'm sure someone somewhere is working on an AI that predicts whether a given log is likely to get looked at based on previous logs that did get looked at. You could store everything for 24h, slightly less for 7d, pruning more aggressively as the data gets stale so that 1y out the story is pretty thin--just the catastrophes.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-21 21:47:32+00:00
> what you directly claimed hinges upon this fallacy

No. It doesn’t. It’s why I never cite general popularity for Israel. Only strong favour for and against.

> this would make your clain of "Israel has had unique sway in America because for most of its history it has been uniquely popular" completely untrue

Nope. Israel has a vocal minority that loves it. It has not had, until last last year, a vocal minority that hates it. Most people don’t care, and when they gave a view on caring, it was mild support. That’s a unique popularity profile that I don’t think any other country, other than maybe Cubans, have held.

Even today, very few voters would trade pocketbook issues for a pro-Palestinian policy portfolio. Several would for a pro-Israeli one.

It’s a tempting tale, and simplifying model, to assume unilateral causes of policies. Sometimes that is true. In this case, the theory requires a level of coördination across decades and the American public that borders on anti-vaccine levels of delusion. (It’s also, again, a self-defeating mythology. If Israel’s influence is untouchable, it isn’t worth touching.)
by adelowo | 2025-06-21 21:47:38+00:00
There’s a faq section on the website where I dive deeper.

tldr: Nothing is stored in any way, shape or form. Only the status/sentiment of the email content, and company name is being extracted. And others discarded.

The problem isn’t a checklist, it’s keeping it up to date when you apply to tens and 100s of jobs.

It’s a job tracker - whether by email or another SaaS type, you still put in the data regardless. But the policy on my end is not to store anything.

Even the chat feature doesn’t store. You type and it’s fired to the LLM for response
by zck | 2025-06-21 21:49:42+00:00
> there's also the dubious, or trivial, or dunno (gotta generalize this pattern as well) of the first "consecutive" twin prime but they overlap which is 3,5 and 5,7.... which reminds me of how only 2 and 3 are both primes off by one; again, I need to generalize this pattern of "last time ever primes did that"

For the triplet n, n+2, n+4, exactly one of those numbers is divisible by 3. So the only triplet n, n+2, n+4 where all numbers are prime contains 3: 3, 5, 7.
by freeopinion | 2025-06-21 21:49:43+00:00
"America" is a lot of things. Of course it is a sovereign nation. But let me here propose to you a different idea of America.

I was raised inside the United States. I have a very deep love for America. But the America I love is not a place. It is a collection of principles. It is an ideal. In as much as that ideal has been realized in the place I grew up, it makes that place America to me. But America the place and people have not been perfect executing America the idea. What group of humans ever were perfect? One of the beauties of America the place, and one of the things I cherish most about it is the constant willingness to put itself and its ideals on trial. I love an America that asks "What is right?" before asking "What are you going to do about it?"

I believe it is un-American to refuse to ask the first question, but constantly ask the second question without considering the first. Using the second question to intimidate all those who ask the first question is repugnant to me. It threatens the America that I love.

America is on trial whether you like it or not. The America I love will always be on trial as long as it exists. To end the trial would kill that America.
by eesmith | 2025-06-21 21:50:13+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin#Roman_era_to_Migration_Pe... says "The earliest clear reference to Odin by name is found on a C-bracteate discovered in Denmark in 2020."

So, "written mention of Odin" seems to mean written as "Odin', and not as "Mercury".

It also mentions some debate over if the Goths actually worshiped Odin/Mercury, but I am too ill-informed to make sense if that's relevant.

I did manage to find a scholarly reference to the topic at https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/c11e69e... ("Pre-print papers of THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL SAGA CONFERENCE SAGAS AND THE CIRCUM-BALTIC ARENA. Helsinki and Tallinn, 7th–14th August 2022")

> The problem of Mercury

> Despite lack of Germanic evidence for the existence of a cult of Wodan/Óðinn before the fifth (or perhaps even the sixth) century, as presented above, many scholars maintain ancient roots. For example, disregarding critical scholarship on various individual sources, Schjødt reiterated that “taken together, they strongly indicate that Óðinn, although not exactly the same as the god that we know from the Nordic sources, has roots reaching far back in time, probably as early as the Indo-European era (at least 3000 BC)” (Schjødt 2019: 67). ...

> The reading of interpretation romana maintains that Tacitus’ famous description of Germanic deities, Deorum maxime Mercurium colunt, should be understood to signify Wodan/Óðinn. Of course, it has already been shown by Karl Helm that this was a historical trope copied from Herodotus, and/or Caesar’s Commentarii de bello gallico (Helm 1946: 7-12). The fact that Caesar was talking about Celts, and his description of religion among the Germani mentions worship of the sun, moon, and fire, does nothing to secure the reliability of such ‘historical’ sources. Either way, the argument that the foremost deity interpreted by Tacitus as a ‘Mercury-type’ must be Wodan/Óðinn is a projection of the latter’s supremacy in Old Norse material onto a Germanic society several centuries older. This becomes a circular argument and cannot be leading.
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-21 21:50:56+00:00
Well we did this for the bags (put a high price on them) and banned some others (e.g. straws). My fear is that taxing plastic items more (let's say of VAT is 20%, plastics could get 35%). Then our dear politicians on Year4 will pass a law to "redirect the extra collection for blah blah blah" and it will end up _not_ to the effort of mitigating the plastic pollution, and we will be stuck with one more tax _and_ the pollution!!
by boricj | 2025-06-21 21:50:59+00:00
I recall reading in Just for Fun that Linus described VMS as horrible and reading in Showstopper that Dave hated Unix (allegedly quipping "Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte" when asked about its I/O model).

I can only imagine the awkwardness around the table if the topic of operating systems came up during the dinner.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-06-21 21:51:08+00:00
I worry that once I've done all that I won't have time for my actual work. I also have to investigate all these new AI editors, and sign up for the API's and work out which is best, then I have to learn how to prompt properly.

I worry that messing with the AI is the equivalent of tweaking my colour schemes and choosing new fonts.
by redml | 2025-06-21 21:51:11+00:00
Funny, until now I assumed the "buffering" was just something shoddy with the google infrastructure. Youtube has a reputation for pushing buggy/undesirable changes and already has slow javascript widgets on it so at this point I expect it and "just deal with it". It didn't even occur to me they were trying to poison the well with regards to adblockers.
by enragedcacti | 2025-06-21 21:52:57+00:00
To what end? You have to segment and order the document (i.e. solve the problem) just to craft your prompt so the LLM spitting the solution back to you is useless. The experiment uses these tasks because test cases can be algorithmically generated and scored, but it's not very interesting that one can structure the input to solve this specific, useless task with LLMs. It is interesting, though, that this limitation could carry over into tasks where traditional algorithms fail. LLMs improving at this would be legitimately useful which is why a benchmark makes sense, but cheating the benchmarks by augmenting the input doesn't.
by IshKebab | 2025-06-21 21:53:09+00:00
Wrong. Take the LSP example: a) I don't have time to add LSP support to Vim, Emacs, KDevelop, etc. and write language servers for Python ok n, C++, Rust, Go, etc. and b) those projects would not accept my contribution if I tried. They would say "what is this LSP thing that nobody uses? Come back when it's popular".

The latter is where you need the coordination. In a company someone high up can say "we're doing it's like this" and everyone has to fall in line.
by Jtsummers | 2025-06-21 21:54:41+00:00
This author is taking the analogy to silos too literally, and constructs a weird argument around it that makes absolutely no sense.

The silo analogy is not about protecting academic integrity (in the way grain silos are meant to protect grain), it's about isolating teams from each other. If the physics department never spoke to the math department, that would be an example of what people mean by "silo" and a bad thing. It weakens both departments to be so severely isolated.

I have seen this in real academic disciplines, not just hypotheticals. CS academics have done a lot around modeling formal systems. Then you go over to systems engineers and they have done the same thing (especially around critical systems and safety properties of systems). Both have good ideas, but both domains operate largely in isolation from each other. This impedes their work, it's a pair of bad (though naturally occurring, rather than forced) silos.

If the author actually understood what people meant when they said silos need to be torn down, they wouldn't have written this bizarre blog post.
by markisus | 2025-06-21 21:57:47+00:00
Back in my earlier days working on autonomous vehicles, I dreamed of something like this.

The issue with bounding boxes is missed detections, occlusions, and impoverished geometrical information. But if you have a hundred points being stably tracked on an object, it's now much easier to keep tracking it through partial occlusions, figure out its 3D geometry and kinematics, and even re-identify it coming in and out of occlusion.