MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by libertine | 2025-07-21 14:36:15+00:00
I think it's more of a problem of how you perceive these statements.

I can't speak for the other people, but in my statement, there was no gotcha or hidden meaning. But I can rephrase it: there are more costs to break into a market other than a low price. That works, but only goes so far, and will depend on the type of product.

> We live in a globalised economy. I bet if someone was setting up a very large plastic manufacturing plant in Germany, there's a very high chance they'd hire Chinese experts to help set it up, or even to run it outright.

Yes. This is confusing because you're agreeing with me.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-07-21 14:36:25+00:00
I worked for that fecker. He would do anything to get himself (and therefore Ryanair) into the media.

One of the weirdest ones was him pretending to be a plane along our open plan hallway. Still don't understand what that was about.

(But yeah, i'm pretty sure it's Ryanair policy to say stupid crap to get free advertising).
by esafak | 2025-07-21 14:36:53+00:00
Why do worse products win out or have more mindshare over better products? It is an old question, and the answer is it depends. Use what you think is best, and tell others.

Here is a list of agents I've tried:

- Good: Gemini CLI, Opencode

- Okay: Jules (hampered by its limited sandboxed env)

- Bad: Junie (buggy), GitHub Copilot (dumb)

Here is a nice leaderboard: https://huggingface.co/spaces/galileo-ai/agent-leaderboard
by duncans | 2025-07-21 14:37:12+00:00
Feeling very nostalgic about getting interested in XML and XSLT circa 2000-2001 and all that Semantic Web stuff. Amazed to see that people were still taking it seriously nearly 10 years later https://www.flickr.com/groups/xmlsummerschool2010 and that they're still going! I hope they have a lovely time!
by nikolayasdf123 | 2025-07-21 14:37:20+00:00
> Did you find success by focusing on one project and giving it time, or by making lots of new bets?

lots of new bets are technically impossible. unless you doing something super trivial, you will hit roadblocks that require effort and time (e.g. Apple App Store reviews are notoriously slow and can take a month for a single new app).
by nobleach | 2025-07-21 14:37:35+00:00
I was an OMZ user pretty much since I adopted ZSH many years ago. I never really experienced much of the slowdown(s) that people tend to complain about. Even still, getting my dotfiles set up on a new machine was always a little bit of pain. I'd try to install OMZ from my OS' package manager, remember that that rarely worked perfectly, gone back to OMZ's webpage and copied the cURL command... the fought with FZF shell integration for about an hour. Finally one Saturday I just stripped it all out. I went with raw ZSH and Antigen for the few plugins I care about. Spinning up new machine is now painless. And I always like simplifying things.
by arethuza | 2025-07-21 14:38:03+00:00
A lot of "social housing" in the UK was perfectly decent and still exists - I grew up in a council house as did a lot of my friends. The main thing that has changed is that most of those houses have now been bought and are privately owned.

Yes, of course there were a lot of grim council housing estates (particularly tower blocks) that had to be knocked down but the causes were often a lot more complex than the concept of social housing being fundamentally flawed.
by boroboro4 | 2025-07-21 14:39:13+00:00
> 90% of people hate public transportation. They want to be in a private cabin that takes you directly to where you’re going.

Where do you get this number from? I used public transportation as a kid, and now as an adult and I always loved it. I like the feeling of people around me, that’s why I, for example, live in a big city. I also can’t imagine my life without walking, and this makes me hate cars oriented cities.

I also won’t be able to read on my phone while driving, and when taking uber I get sick (Waymo is better in this regard though).

But overall point it’s very clear pros/cons in my mind, partly because of the experience, partly because I understand it’s a lot of people around and we need to live together more efficiently. A lot of people advocating for public transportation on these threads are showing there are def more than 10% of people liking it.
by evanb | 2025-07-21 14:39:16+00:00
Many years ago [1] I was led to a marvelous site explaining many subtleties of human color perception, including the three cone primaries. The author called this pure-M-cone response "psychedelic aquamarine"; the page is offline but the archive has a capture [2]. I haven't seen this color referred to by that name elsewhere, but I think it's a good name.

I think I can see psychedelic aquamarine and the other cone primaries by closing my eyes and rubbing my eyelids while pressing in gently but firmly.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813656

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160306132951/https://casa.colo...
by someone_19 | 2025-07-21 14:39:50+00:00
> Second is an absolutely strict programming language, that incorporates not only memory membership Rust style, but every single object must have a well defined type that determines not only the set of values that the object can have, but the operations on that object, which produce other well defined types. Basically, the idea is that if your program compiles, its by definition correct.

That is Rust? This is how his system of types and traits works.
by miohtama | 2025-07-21 14:40:05+00:00
The linked statement from Europol is some weeks old, so this is old news

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cryp...

Europol does not disclose it, but it is likely related to Myanmar pig butchering aka romance scam centers

https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/europol-dismantles-540-mil...
by homeless_engi | 2025-07-21 14:40:10+00:00
Male chicks are not feed nor raised but rather fed into a device quite similar to a wood chipper shortly áfter birth. You can read more about it here [1] or find some quite graphic videos on YouTube. This is addressed in the article:

"In polling, only 10% of Americans correctly identify that male chicks in the egg industry are killed shortly after hatching. A plurality mistakenly believe these chicks are raised for meat, and another 10% even think that male chickens can lay eggs. Most people are surprised, and often disturbed, to learn the truth: in the United States alone, approximately 350 million male chicks are routinely culled each year, typically by methods such as maceration (being ground up alive)."

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling
by throwaway287391 | 2025-07-21 14:40:38+00:00
I guess it may be because I've only had a US passport but have primarily taken Ryanair to fly between the UK (where I live) and elsewhere in Europe, which is potentially an edge case they don't care to handle well. I recently gained UK citizenship / a passport so perhaps this will get easier for me going forward.

Either way, I stand by my main complaint about Ryanair letting late arrivers jump the queue even if I only have to "suffer" from it when I'm checking bags.
by dang | 2025-07-21 14:40:46+00:00
Related. Others?

The Sumerian Game is playable again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577752 - Sept 2024 (1 comment)

The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40896470 - July 2024 (19 comments)

The Sumerian Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30186688 - Feb 2022 (18 comments)

The Sumerian Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532122 - Dec 2021 (1 comment)

The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21045101 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)
by raphting | 2025-07-21 14:40:52+00:00
I think there's a bug in the sample code, because the claim is to have a "consistent log rate": In the example, "read_event_from_queue()" should be blocking. If there are no items read from the queue within the given time interval, the logging part will never trigger, so the time-based logging does not have a consistent log rate.

Besides the (potential) bug, it is a cool idea, if emitting metrics is not an option.
by mcv | 2025-07-21 14:41:49+00:00
There's lots of ways we could have metal in our body. A hip replacement, a forgotten piercing, old tooth fillings, maybe you accidentally swallowed some piece of metal.

If MRI scanners are this deadly, everybody should be really thoroughly screened and scanned to be allowed into the room. And even into the room next to it. How can the door of that room open while the machine is still turned on? (Edit: apparently the magnets in these machines usually can't be turned off, which changes the question to: how was he allowed to enter the room at all?)

But wearing such a heavy chain while accompanying your spouse to an MRI scan, is also not the best move.
by kyledrake | 2025-07-21 14:41:49+00:00
The main benefit of something common and well supported like VIX is that it's easier to transfer between companies without selling it, which for a brokerage account is a taxable event.

Fidelity has no expense funds or low expense funds, but if they change their mind or the company becomes bad for you, you can't move it to another provider without being taxed.

If you will never leave Fidelity or if it's not taxable anyways (retirement) then it's fine, but if you think you might have to move assets then it's a potential risk unless other providers also support them.

Being trapped is not worth the slightly lower expenses IMO.
by Const-me | 2025-07-21 14:42:05+00:00
I’m not sure it’s register allocation. VC++ is indeed less than ideal, but 2x performance difference is IMO too much to explain by register allocation alone.

First check that you’re passing correct flags to VC++ compiler and linker: optimized release configuration, correct /arch switch, and ideally LTCG. BTW if you’re using cmake build system it’s rather hard to do, cmake support of VC++ compiler is not great.

Another thing, VC++ doesn’t like emitting giant functions. A possible reason for 2x difference VC++ failed to inline stuff, and your function has calls to other functions instead of a single large one. Note the compiler supports __forceinline keyword to work around that.
by vunderba | 2025-07-21 14:42:20+00:00
Tarantulas covers A LOT of spiders (around 1100 different species). You still have to at least be a bit careful around them since they have urticating hairs.

> Poisonous snakes, on the other hand, tend to be much less chill. Much like wasps, they seem to enjoy causing pain and suffering.

Eh, I don't know about that. For example, sea snakes, despite being incredibly venomous, are actually pretty timid creatures.

Also:

https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-betwee...
by orwin | 2025-07-21 14:42:29+00:00
It is if you find criminal intent. They probably won't find any, so the probe won't end up in a lawsuit.

Basically it's a discovery process before a litigation. I'm 99.99% sure it won't end up in a lawsuit.

My bet is that the probe will end up saying: 'criminal intent can't be proven'. Then either the parquet (basically DOJ but less political) or customer protection will say "this probe showed that your algorithm wasn't neutral, you choose which content to show and which not show, you're a publisher now" and Twitter will have to prove it's not, or be treated as a publisher.
by lxgr | 2025-07-21 14:42:46+00:00
If you don't trust your own government, but the US government and financial institutions, couldn't you just open a US brokerage account?

And conversely, if the US government doesn't want you as a shareholder (and by extension US financial institutions can't serve you), good luck to anyone trying to (knowingly or negligently) redeem any VOO that you've touched.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-21 14:43:27+00:00
My rule of thumb for any big organization (like a hospital) is that nothing changes until there's a body to explain away.

Yeah, sometimes enough fractional close calls add up (usually to a big lawsuit) and policy changes without and death, but don't bet on it.

But, on the other end of the spectrum, having all sorts of absurd policy and procedure because someone might die so incredibly rarely we can't quantify it is terrible too.
by homeless_engi | 2025-07-21 14:43:39+00:00
The US culls 350 million male chicks per year, per this article. Wikipedia says billions of male chicks are culled worldwide, which seems plausible when accounting for EU, China, India, SA, SEA etc. The citation on Wikipedia looks legit to me as well.

Edit: Wikipedia does indeed cite several different figures, including a "billions" number which does not seem plausible. Thanks monster_truck for pointing this out, and apologies for my misunderstanding!
by kees99 | 2025-07-21 14:43:45+00:00
It's not just SO. Pretty much every site running git-scm, has caved under pressure from AI bots and is now inaccessible without javascript - kernel, openwrt, etc, etc...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...

https://openwrt.org/
by mbreese | 2025-07-21 14:43:52+00:00
The process itself can require multiple submissions for the same grant. From my reading of the article, initial submissions, revisions, or renewals will all count as a “submission”. Additionally, if you are part of a collaboration (program project), that will count too. The concern here is that with these caps in place, you’ll see a pull back from collaborative efforts (which are normally looked on favorably).

The main gripe isn’t the fact that there is a limit, but rather that the threshold is too low. If you doubled the threshold to 12, I don’t think you’d see much pushback and still be able to limit over submissions. This being NIH, I’m a bit surprised there wasn’t more data presented to show why 6 was a reasonable limit.
by gruez | 2025-07-21 14:43:58+00:00
>This is a slippery slope fallacy. Besides, the current powers-that-be are actively suppressing free speech already, banning books, teachings, erasing LGBTQ+ and Black history. You don't get freedom of speech either on platforms like Twitter, where for example the word "cisgender" gets actively suppressed. That's known, what isn't known is how certain topics get boosted or suppressed by their algorithms, which is why there should be transparency.

What does US culture war issues have relevance to what's going on with France? Moreover what's the implication here? Are you trying to imply that because Americans are doing right-wing censorship, it's fine or even required that France engages in left-wing censorship?
by libertine | 2025-07-21 14:44:31+00:00
Well, you're taking what I said out of context, because it was YOU who brought the conspiracy theory stating that France/EU illegitimately serves the interests of billionaires, whereas I compared it to countries such as Russia/Iran.

So don't try to spin your irrelevant bad takes on me, own up to them.

> What we are seeing...

What you're seeing is that a billionaire is being held accountable, and for some unknown reason, you don't like it. You don't represent the opinion of anyone but yourself.
by hansvm | 2025-07-21 14:44:52+00:00
McDonald's was negligent. The coffee was hot enough to cause immediate lasting damage, having it that hot didn't benefit any party involved, reducing the temperature would have fixed the problem, been as simple as turning a knob, and increased customer satisfaction, and they knew about the dangers and repeatedly chose to do literally nothing about it.

If you tweak elements of the case then you can imagine the restaurant winning. As it stands, it's not surprising McDonald's lost.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-21 14:44:53+00:00
It's hard to know without reading them, and perhaps 40 is too much for a innocent explanation, but ...

It's common that the head of the laboratory submit the applications for each project, so 40 application may mean 40 subteams with 2-6 minions each (where each minion has a Ph.D. or is a graduate student.) Usually when the paper is published, the head of the laboratory is the "last author".

Now it's getting common to make an AI cleanup, like fixing orthography and grammar and perhaps reduce the text to 5000 characters. Without reading them it's hard to know if this is the case or it's nonsensical AI slop.
by rgavuliak | 2025-07-21 14:45:12+00:00
> Publishers have just decided to put all their eggs in one basket

Isn't that just the ecosystem provided by the Big Tech ad platforms? Publishers at some point very much wanted to sell ads directly as the CPMs were 10x of what they are now. Then FB and Google took over as the middlemen, pushed CPMs down, added sophisticated targeting and set the precedence for how things are implemented.

Sure the tech giants could team up with the publishers to take back control but they'd need to share more of their revenue in exchange which I am doubtful they'd go for. Not just because it means losing control but also it creates the hassle of having to deal with a fractured landscape of publishers of very varying technical acumen.
Show HN: Instantly Handle SQL Commands from Natural Language
by xvpdev | 2025-07-21 14:45:19+00:00
Hey HN,

I built an open source SQL editor w/ AI to take the pain out of writing complex MySQL queries and learning syntax or repeatedly prompting ChatGPT, which doesn't fully understand your DB's schema. This app has an AI chat that understands your database and can act with context, executing complex tasks.

For example, I can ask "What's the last user that signed up? Can you set that user's paid status to TRUE?", and it will create a plan and execute it after you confirm.

The AI can run SQL commands and execute complex, multistep tasks, when prompted.

The app features a window to run commands, panel to view the tables and AI chat to prompt for changes or get info.

I created this to help me use SQL without needing to prompt ChatGPT very verbosely every time. The app understands the context of the DB, so no need for that.

It's all open source on GH. Would love for some people to check it out.
by michaelmior | 2025-07-21 14:45:50+00:00
The Wikipedia article clearly has some errors, but I'm not sure where since I'm not an expert. In one spot, it says 7 billion chicks are culled annually worldwide, in other it says 8.5 billion just in the US. I assume these are likely estimates taken from different sources or at different time periods, but still, I wouldn't assume Wikipedia is accurate.
by tzs | 2025-07-21 14:46:14+00:00
Romania really needs to fix their election system.

They are using a system where the winner is whoever gets more than 50%, but if nobody gets more than 50% they hold a run-off vote between the top two from the first vote.

The problem is that Romania has several viable political parties, which would be great if they used an election system designed to handle that like ranked choice, but in a top two run-off system has a high chance of electing someone that a large majority of the voters rank near the bottom of the candidates.

In the election you are referring to there were candidates from 10 different parties plus 4 independents running. I believe 6 of the parties were right-wing and 4 left-wing. The right-wing parties got 47% of the votes, with the top 3 of them getting 19.18%, 13.86%, and 8.79%.

The left-wing parties got 20% with the highest part getting 19.15%.

Independents got 33% with the highest individual getting 22.94%.
by wyclif | 2025-07-21 14:46:26+00:00
Thing is, a lot of how OMZ affects your zsh usage is based on usage patterns. For instance, I usually have zsh running in a terminal that is always open and running. Now, if I close my terminal and restart, then I notice that OMZ is kinda slow and it irritates me, even if it's only for a second. But that almost never happens.

Anyway, I'm going to be revisiting my zsh config soon and I'll be looking for ways to make sure I'm only using plugins that I absolutely do need. My principle in the past with workflows in zsh and Neovim is that I only add crucial plugins and try to keep my config minimal. Maybe I've gotten away from that a bit and need to regroup, so I find threads like this one useful to keep up with what's current.
by elehack | 2025-07-21 14:46:35+00:00
Describing this as a limit on "CS programs" is a common, but erroneous, understanding of the proposal limit.

This specific solicitation — CISE Core Programs — has a 2-proposal-per-year limit. However, that only applies to this solicitation, and only counts proposals submitted to this solicitation. CISE Core Programs is an important CS funding mechanism, but there are quite a few other funding vehicles within CISE (Robust Intelligence, RETTL, SATC, and many more, including CAREER). Each has its own limits, that generally don't count or count against the Core Programs limit.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-21 14:47:02+00:00
There is "down" in terms of price and then there is "down" in terms of "the system is down".

The latter problem is looming for Bitcoin. Even though the Bitcoin price remains high, the volume of outstanding transactions is falling

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/mempool-size

People are still interested in Bitcoin as an investment, but not that interested in trading Bitcoins on the chain -- particularly not using them to buy things.

Right now miners are rewarded with Bitcoins for signing blocks, but that reward is halved every four years and will disappear by 2140 or so

https://www.investopedia.com/tech/what-happens-bitcoin-after...

in theory after that it will be well established and people will be willing to add a "tip" to have their transactions processed but that requires a high transaction rate.

2140 is a long time away and a lot can happen -- over all if the price of bitcoin doubles every four years mining rewards stay the same in terms of being able to pay your expenses, but to do so 29 times means it has to expand 536,870,912 times which will outrun the economy.

At some point in the future Bitcoin mining might not be profitable, and if that's the case for a sustained time, Bitcoin is cooked.
by rtkwe | 2025-07-21 14:47:07+00:00
Normal stocks exist in a similar way for 99% of people. You don't own them directly you're the 'beneficial owner' and your ownership is just a database entry in your broker's database backed up contractually. It's the legal hack that lets you just press buy or sell and have it happen almost instantly instead of taking days to move around the paper stock certificates from one vault to another. Even if you go through the trouble of direct registration it's still basically a database entry.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-21 14:48:23+00:00
Hrrm. Let's see.

The boom levels experienced at these sites caused no greater response than the environment (weather, people, traffic).

At two of the sites no boom damage was observed, however at Castleward house on two occasions a few roof slates were cracked and loosened. No conclusions could be reached as to the cumulative effect on a building of a large number of booms.

Just from the abstract. No mention of altitude, could still have been relatively low, still climbing. Which always could be avoided by climbing slower.
by incomingpain | 2025-07-21 14:48:31+00:00
Jordan Peterson has been talking about this for many months. OP and him arent wrong.

It's not new, politics is by definition controlled by these psychology traits.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/2...

But the breakdown in participation recently is the failure on social media. If you give dark triad people the ability to silence their political opponents, they will. Downvotes, flagging, reporting. They'll abuse these features.

This is what X does differently under Elon, he understands this abuse.