MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-07-17 11:45:05+00:00
FPTP tends to be the system that most reliably favours extreme candidates [0] - everything else promotes candidates who are most in tune community norms. Candidates who don't align with any of the voters tend not to get in under any fundamentally democratic system - someone who is willing to do what they're promising but more in tune with the voters have an easy time against that sort of candidate.

Although just from browsing the UKs AV proposal it does look like it'd be similar to IRV which has some wild results in certain tight races. Although I personally think that is fine; a little randomness is good for the system.

[0] http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
by rapsey | 2025-07-17 11:45:20+00:00
That is not true. Markets are moved by traders not economists. Professional traders have a very skeptical view of economists, because economists are simply wrong so often about the future. Economists from the world bank and such institutions are usually on the wrong side of forecasting for instance.

For instance Scott Bessent opinion:

"I will take the market-based indicators over the so-called 'experts' all the time! That’s how I made my 35-year career, was listening to the market."
by nkoren | 2025-07-17 11:45:22+00:00
So if you want to remember how to spell "phone", you first have to remember "puh-hon-eh"? I'm not sure that'd be an improvement. How do you even make a phonetic word out of something like "rough"?

The problem will always be that that English has a lot more phonemes than it does letters, so a 1:1 mapping will never be possible. That said, I do think it would be a good idea to have a 1:1 correlation. Which is why everybody should just learn Esperanto instead.[1]

1: Joking.[2]

2: Well, mostly joking.
by kryogen1c | 2025-07-17 11:46:36+00:00
> Any company that can take advantage of workers will do it, no need for "dominant/ monopolistic".

What a nonsense thing to say. This is not an opinion most people, and certainly not most economists, would agree with. It's a foundational pillar of regulated free markets.

Moreover in this instance, construction companies are not some sprawling international megacorps, they're locally oowned and operated.
by anonymous_sorry | 2025-07-17 11:46:40+00:00
> If adults were rational they'd use their communication skills to form broad coalitions

Yes. And in detail, with this model of a rational electorate, skilled influencers put the effort in to devise a policy platform and convince others that it is good for them. The majority pick a platform that they are convinced by.

It's worth it for the influencers, because they have an outsized impact. It's worth it for everyone else only if choosing a coalition is very low-effort. Or if they are entertained by the influencers.

Again, I'm an ardent democrat. I'm just pointing out the flaws in any argument that assumes rational voters are a good thing - because it's rational to not waste much time on voting. Instead, democracy works best when voters feel an arguably irrational sense of duty and civic pride.
by d--b | 2025-07-17 11:46:56+00:00
> That leaves me with the following options — C, C++, Go, Rust.

> Technically, there are a lot more options, and I wrote a long section here about eliminating them piecewise, but after writing it I felt like it was just noise.

Uh? I am guessing OP doesn't like virtual machines maybe, cause Java and C# sound like something that fits what they want. Both support AoT compilation though now...

Also the assumption about Typescript to Wasm being not "solid" seems wrong.

I mean I find it super weird that the author's only option for "native typescript" is Rust.
by ghaff | 2025-07-17 11:47:09+00:00
Being somewhat familiar with both, there are probably areas of both cities that are more and less safe. Without looking at numbers, there are probably areas of NYC that I'd be less inclined to wander into than areas of London. Though, as you say, bias. There are areas of London that were sketchy a few decades back that are pretty gentrified today, especially in East London.
by grishka | 2025-07-17 11:47:21+00:00
Dear battery technology claimant,

Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary battery technology. Your new technology claims to be superior to existing lithium-ion technology and is just around the corner from taking over the world. Unfortunately your technology will likely fail, because:

[ ] it is impractical to manufacture at scale.

[ ] it will be too expensive for users.

[ ] it suffers from too few recharge cycles.

[ ] it is incapable of delivering current at sufficient levels.

[ ] it lacks thermal stability at low or high temperatures.

[ ] it lacks the energy density to make it sufficiently portable.

[ ] it has too short of a lifetime.

[ ] its charge rate is too slow.

[ ] its materials are too toxic.

[ ] it is too likely to catch fire or explode.

[ ] it is too minimal of a step forward for anybody to care.

[ ] this was already done 20 years ago and didn't work then.

[ ] by this time it ships li-ion advances will match it.

[ ] your claims are lies
by latexr | 2025-07-17 11:47:25+00:00
> In other contexts the same people are complaining

How do you know it’s the same people? That type of wording insinuates this is a type of person who is a hypocrite, yet I have never once saw someone making that claim who also showed it really were the same groups making both arguments. It looks more like a way to discredit separate but tangential groups one doesn’t like by making them look like one big contradiction.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-07-17 11:48:24+00:00
I am short-sighted and when I take off my glasses, I can look at the other person because everything is blurry and I can concentrate better.

A French actor (Christophe Lambert) has a special expression when he looks at the camera. It is because he is short-sighted and does not look exactly in the typical spot other would look at. He could not use contact lenses so there was no way to change that. The people who fought with him in the Highlander series (with swords) said that it was always an adventure because he was not really sure where he was hitting.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-07-17 11:48:38+00:00
Sorry, I just don't understand the motivation for a chat app that is desktop only.

And while we're at it, I also don't understand the motivation for a chat app that is Android only.

Personally, I prefer Android but I have friends, family and colleagues who don't so a chat app that doesn't support half my acquaintances is a non-starter.

Am I missing something? Isn't the smartphone now the most popular computing and communication device on the planet?
by timhh | 2025-07-17 11:49:04+00:00
Explanation of Bradley-Terry here: https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/131270/60526

It's such a great and simple algorithm. I feel like it deserves to be more widely known.

I used it at Dyson to evaluate really subjective things like how straight a tress of hair is - pretty much impossible to say if you just look at a photo, but you can ask a bunch of people to compare two photos and say which looks straighter, then you can get an objective ranking.
by MrBuddyCasino | 2025-07-17 11:49:05+00:00
Just because everyone around you (which is academia) thinks this, doesn't mean its true. Because the data says the complete opposite: men drift towards the center/right, women to the extreme left.

Data by "German General Social Survey", Infratest/Dimap (an established and respected polling institute):

https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/ftc...
by bborud | 2025-07-17 11:50:38+00:00
Every single language enthusiast says that some of the biggest codebases in the world are whatever their favorite major language is. And here's the thing: it is completely irrelevant whether the codebase is small or large. What counts is what it is like to use and maintain programs.

Python isn't the only language that has poor tooling. C/C++ is even bigger than Python in terms of established code base, and its tooling is nothing short of atrocious.

What helps is people realizing where tooling and production readiness should be. They can learn a lot from Rust and Go.

The it's big so therefore it must be right argument is nonsense. Worse yet: it is nonsense that excuses lack of real improvement.
by CafeRacer | 2025-07-17 11:51:20+00:00
I wish there was a phone, preferably with buttons (bb q10 like), that can run WhatsApp, banking app and Apple Pay (or whatever android version is). Also it should be running these stupid government apps. And music please... preferably with 3.5mm jack so I can connect my nice headphones. This phone can have mediocre camera.
by user_7832 | 2025-07-17 11:51:37+00:00
> Authorities believe Once Were Nerd's activities may still run afoul of Article 171 in Italy's copyright law, which allows for up to three years imprisonment for violations. (Emphasis mine)

That seems... very excessive? Who's actually being hurt here? No one is buying 20 year old consoles and games that probably aren't even sold by the original company anymore. Seems pretty much like a classic victimless crime IMO.

> Agents accused the creator of promoting pirated copyrighted materials stemming from his coverage of Anbernic handheld game consoles.

Seems hardly something worthy of arresting, let alone jailing someone.

> Italy has a history of heavy-handed copyright enforcement—the country's Internet regulator recently demanded that Google poison DNS to block illegal streams of soccer. So it's not hard to believe investigators would pursue a case against someone who posts videos featuring pirated games on YouTube.

Oh well... didn't realize Italy was like that
by nerdjon | 2025-07-17 11:51:55+00:00
> It was just an analogy. My point is still that if you get 1 million nerds using Linux in 2006, and even if they remain 1 million as the whole market dies in 2028, that doesn't say much more about Linux than it did in 2006 when only 1% of desktop users used it.

Exactly this is the point I was trying to make.

If the percent goes up but the actual number of Linux machines stays the same that really isnt saying much about Linux it self. If that were the case there was no shift or growth.

Or it is possible that it is both of these which means maybe there was a growth and shift but not at as big of a number as the percent may imply.

5% of 2 million and 10% of 1 million are both 100,000.
by like_any_other | 2025-07-17 11:52:28+00:00
> This can lead to the paradoxical phenomenon of a party becoming increasingly successful while simultaneously inflicting negative outcomes to the majority of their supporters; or of "players" deliberately abandoning accurate sources of objective information about their current and future "game state", in favor of sources controlled by other players that are designed to offer narratives about those states that are factually inaccurate to the point of being detrimental as guidance, but nevertheless provide emotional payoffs such as a sense of identity, comfort, or being on a "winning" side.

Tao undervalues the importance of identity. As he says, it's not a single-player game, and as we all know, players will form teams. If you can convince your opponents to instead play solo (by, say, deconstructing their sense of identity), while you keep yours, you've basically won.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-07-17 11:52:46+00:00
This is arguably better than not having any tests.

This is why I reboot my server from time to time after having applied patches or made more significant changes, despite the fact that "it should not change anything". This is a good moment to realize that it did change something and you have the opportunity to fix the issue while it I sfresh in your mind, and possibly with more time.
by palmfacehn | 2025-07-17 11:53:10+00:00
"...when one assumes that all of the wealthiest people on the planet who share the least (and own the media, publishers, etc.) are all committed collectivist..."

I will not engage with "woke right" or all of your points, much of which appears to be sarcasm.

However, I will note that historically collectivist movements such as the early Progressives around the dawn of the 20th century, were championed by wealthy elites. Looking back it is easy to see how the centralization of authority in this era benefited the elite classes disproportionately.

So, yes, I agree that much of the messaging for collectivist movements does focus on the perceived victim classes. However, that is only the surface level marketing. When examining the historical record, critics generally cite the outcomes rather than the slogans.

Hope this helps to add perspective to this contentious issue.
by actionfromafar | 2025-07-17 11:53:18+00:00
Just because Itanium last as a bet, doesn't mean it was wrong to try it. They gambled that compilers would keep up - they didn't. Today it might work! Compiler technology is very much improved. (Dotnet/Java payloads? Dynamic recompiling...) It's a software problem and as such inherently easy to underestimate the complexity of it. Itanium also had its roots in a time when Big Iron was more relevant than it is today.
by diggan | 2025-07-17 11:53:22+00:00
It's new in the way that I couldn't proceed to use gmail web interface unless I made a choice. And the documentation link made it clear they won't just use the data between Workspace apps, it's for "improving the services for everyone" and "selected" 3rd parties.

Features I used to be able to use yesterday are no longer possible to use without agreeing to that new data sharing, it seems
by franga2000 | 2025-07-17 11:53:24+00:00
Of course, but that's why the bootloader is unlockable. A production device will ship with either a close-to-stock (== close-to-Pixel) ROM or a heavily customized one. If the ROM is closer to stock, it's easier to develop and maintain custom ROMs, so it makes sense to want that as opposed to the alternative.
by treesknees | 2025-07-17 11:54:05+00:00
If you ignore the incompetence that lead to this situation in the first place, it’s likely that the expiration date on the food items is sooner than they could reasonably ship it to the US and distribute it.

I also question whether Americans would eat it. Just speaking anecdotally from my volunteer experience, while the poor or hungry in the US appreciate a free meal, they still want things that are familiar and palatable. Dumping 800 tons of dry emergency biscuits on food banks would likely result in expiration and a ton of waste anyway. Not to mention the storage and handling requirements (dry environment, no direct sunlight.)
by mytailorisrich | 2025-07-17 11:54:22+00:00
Labour has an overwhelming majority in Parliament right now despite a relatively poor share of the vote because of FPTP.

As long as Reform UK splits the Tory vote FPTP will continue to be in Labour's interests.

In fact, at the moment moving away from FPTP would mostly benefit Reform UK and the Lib Dems, possibly the Tories, too as this point.
by poulpy123 | 2025-07-17 11:54:37+00:00
I had a look at the document of the kit, and it's like the one I have: it doesn't even explain what is a current and a tension, or what is the relation between resistance, tension and current, althought it is the basic of the basic of electronics

The fact that the author uses the word heterojunction that is at the same time not useful at the first level for a beginner and not used or explained in the document shows that he was either already knowledgeable or spent a lot of time with other ressources to learn.

I'm not saying that these kits are bad, or that nowaday you cannot do many great thing with just an arduino and plug and play components, but they don't teach electronics.
Show HN: Easy alternative to giflib – header-only decoder in C
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-17 11:56:33+00:00
Hi HN, I made a lightweight, header-only GIF decoder in C, inspired by stb-style libraries. No dynamic allocation, portable, and optimized for embedded devices.

GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/TurboStitchGIF-HeaderOn...

Would love feedback or suggestions.
by philjohn | 2025-07-17 11:56:37+00:00
> Once HA includes the Matter credential store in backups/restores, the experience will be the same

It was more a comparison of how quick and easy adding a Zigbee device is compared to adding a Matter device. Hit "Enable join" and the new device just shows up. For Matter it's either scanning a QR Code, waiting, hoping your phone is close enough for the initial bluetooth handshake - or hit "share" from an existing smart home platform (e.g. Apple/Google Home) which in my experience takes around 30s at a minimum.
by tomrod | 2025-07-17 11:56:58+00:00
Substantiality is not limited by length. Depth and emphasis can weigh as substance, as is the case here. Though , ironically, ephemeral judgements regarding a post's substantially are themselves lacking in substance. Perhaps by discussing why a post lacks substance, a misplaced reprimand itself can gain substance. As for the originally critiqued post, adding additional emphasis through the unmitigatate plurality of exclamation points would paradoxically negate the potential for substantiality.

Yet such meta-analysis avoids discussion of the issue at hand, in this case where the culture and engineering of an up and coming company are put on display in a positive light.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-17 11:57:40+00:00
I cannot disagree more, having hand waved away economics for 20 years, actually learning it has totally transformed my world view into a dramatically clearer and far more functional one.

The pandemic era fiscal and monetary policy was pretty much a 5x speed (because of the scale of everything) display of economics at work, and understanding all the levers while they were pulled made it clear that no, economics is not bullshit, people just really don't like what economics has to say.
by seunosewa | 2025-07-17 11:57:50+00:00
Economics can be practised as a science or not, depending on the individual. Austrian economics, for example, is more of a religion while mainstream economics is more scientific.

Economics is a science of human behaviour, which is not exact. Economic models are like weather models. They cannot be exact because what they are modelling (weather, human behaviour) is incredibly complicated with millions of parameters.

Science is about observing something, forming a hypothesis about why it is that way, and then testing the hypothesis to determine whether it is correct.

Many Economics researchers do all of the above, so they are scientists.
by nlitened | 2025-07-17 11:58:07+00:00
> To paraphrase Norvig's Latency numbers a programmer should know, if we imagine a computer that executes 1 CPU instruction every second, it would take it _days_ to read from RAM.

I think the author probably misread the numbers. If CPU executed 1 instruction every second, it would take just 1—2 minutes to read from uncached RAM, no need to be overly dramatic.

Overall, this reads to me like a very young programmer trying to convince themselves to learn Rust because he heard it's cool, not an objective evaluation. And I'm totally on board with that, whatever convinces you, just learn new things!
by leereeves | 2025-07-17 11:58:15+00:00
It's an oversimplification to be sure, but based on solid science. There's no hard line "with seemingly magical properties" at 25, but there are enormous changes between 16ish and 25ish. The author you cited agrees, on the same site, in a different article:

> A growing body of research strongly suggests that brain development continues well into people’s 20s and beyond. ... There is strong scientific consensus that people’s decision-making abilities can evolve between their early and late 20s

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/teen-brains-neuroscienc...
by oreilles | 2025-07-17 11:58:30+00:00
Even if was a small % of the Apple lineup, the iPhone mini was one the best selling smartphones all brands considered. I for one switched to iPhone in 2020 specifically because there wasn't a single current-gen small form-factor Android phone anymore. I have a few friend that also made the switch with the 12 / 13 Mini for that reason.

The real reason the iPhone mini failed is not related to screen size, it's because its segment was canibalized by the cheaper alternative, the SE. The 2020 and 2022 sold like hot breads, wherehas their screen was almost an inch smaller than the iPhone mini. This is the proof that there a significant market for people who don't care about size and would gladly take the smallest option at a $100 discount from the regular one.
by cubefox | 2025-07-17 11:58:31+00:00
Exactly. Stated and revealed preferences are sometimes very different. Interestingly, preferences can also change slowly over time. For example, the Dell Streak in 2010 had a 5 inch screen size, which was considered ridiculously large at the time (people called it a "phablet"), and it didn't catch on initially. But years later, average phones did actually reach and even exceed that size. Nowadays the Dell seems relatively small.
by satyrun | 2025-07-17 11:58:48+00:00
Have you ever stopped and thought maybe there really is no Epstein client list and maybe he really did commit suicide?

Maybe the Epstein client list is the propaganda?

Why would Epstein keep a "client" list? What criminal goes out of their way to document their crimes? What service was he even offering? I don't think even the local drug dealer is stupid enough to keep a written list of clients.

If some shady forces killed Epstein in prison why didn't they just kill him before he got to prison? The shady forces can get to him in federal prison but don't know he is being investigated to go back to prison? Why didn't Ghislaine Maxwell die in a mysterious car accident?

Why do people care about a client list that makes no sense and not all this supposed video evidence?

Your post just shows you spend too much time on social media reading bullshit that you think is real and it is not.
by sjw987 | 2025-07-17 11:59:09+00:00
Just a heads up, when I contacted Google Support about this, they insinuated that this is something slowly being rolled out across Pixel 5 devices, so while it may work now, it could stop at any moment.

The issue I received when tapping to pay was "Your phone doesn't meet software standards". It did mention it can be due to rooting (my phone wasn't rooted) or "uncertified software" (of which I didn't have any).

I'm sure you might already do so, but I'd advise not to rely on the phone to pay going forward. For me, I was caught off guard in a shop without any other payment method. There was no warning or notification about the change until I tapped to pay at the card terminal.

I tried a few more times afterwards with another payment method as backup, and it never worked again, even after rebooting, toggling NFC off and on. I never received an email, notification or warning in the app itself. It was quite disappointing as I reckon I could have run that phone for a few more years as a minimal phone.

Google did offer me about £100 off of a new Pixel. So if this happens to you and the lack of Google Pay is a dealbreaker, I'd give that a try.
by jml78 | 2025-07-17 11:59:14+00:00
I am 6ft tall and feel like my hands are above average in size. I have a regular iPhone 16 pro. I still don’t understand how people use bigger devices.

Do they like using two hands? I can’t single hand a phone any larger without having to shift it in my hand.

I don’t want to use two hands on my phone outside of typing.
by eskibars | 2025-07-17 11:59:18+00:00
Man this hits home. I'm a reasonably sized human, but there are almost no devices on the market outside of iPhones where I can reach from bottom right to upper left with 1 hand without shifting the phone around in my hand. I hate it.

I'd be willing to take less battery life to get something like this, but nearly everything that's anywhere close either has no NFC (which means mobile payments are out the door) or doesn't have 5G or just has such an awful camera/processor as to be basically unusable for many every-day tasks.