MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by M95D | 2025-07-28 18:11:38+00:00
> They have precognition and can see into the future and know that a house fire is going to start while they're out at a non-fire call in your country?

Do heart attacks and car accidents usually include fires in your country? I could only find statistics for Finland [1]. It seems that fires are so rare they're put in the "rescue and other authorities" category which has a total of 5% of calls requiring intervention.

In my country I know of only 2 or 3 cases of cars that caught fire in an accident in the last 10 years and they all caught fire immediately, not after ambulance arrived. They're so rare, it's a major news story every time. And I know of no heart attacks that were followed by a fire. /s

Let's assume that somehow a fire starts after the initial crew gets there. I'm sure everyone is trained to: 1) call for the fire truck (that's separate crew, nobody has to go back and fetch it), 2) use the fire extinguisher from the van and 3) as most emergencies are in cities, use the building's fire hoses and extinguishers until 1) arrives.

> extra 20-45min wait is no problem in a life/safety critical situation

That's not what the statistics show. [2]

> Either way you are in a serious, serious bubble.

No, I don't belive I'm in a bubble. I still belive it's a very very big waste of money and resources to call a fire truck if there's no fire.

[1] https://112.fi/en/-/statistics-on-the-emergency-number-112 [2] https://wifitalents.com/emergency-response-time-statistics/
by stronglikedan | 2025-07-28 18:12:21+00:00
I find that a good way to get out of some meetings is to ask for an agenda up front (since one is hardly ever provided). I can usually reply to the agenda items with 90% of the info they are looking for, and then that spawns a short back and forth to hammer out the other 10% over email. It works more often than not, but not as much as I'd like.
by pavlov | 2025-07-28 18:12:27+00:00
They’re not smart, but both of them have been cultivated by Russia for decades.

For a long time Trump has been repeating Russian talking points like he invented them. The best asset is the one who never sees how he’s being played.

Only recently Trump has realized that Putin doesn’t actually do what he says, and you can tell he is genuinely surprised by this revelation.
by ryneandal | 2025-07-28 18:12:31+00:00
I haven't done exhaustive testing of all top-performing models on the HF Embedding Leaderboard (https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard) but I have tested a number of them extensively in the past month or two. The two best API provider models I've tested are:

- JinaAI (https://jina.ai/embeddings/) v3 and v4 performed well in my testing. - Google's Gemini-001 model (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models#gemini-embeddin...).

Overall, both were surpassed by Qwen3-8b (https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B).

Note, this was specifically regarding English and Code embedding generation/retrieval, with reranking.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-07-28 18:13:40+00:00
You can only do the financialization trick a few times and each time it is more damaging than the last. The end comes when it is no longer possible to outrun the delayed negative consequences. There is an attribution problem, like the straw that let broke the camels back, but for the final straw the back may not have broken, but responsibility lies with the weight in its totality.
by diggan | 2025-07-28 18:14:10+00:00
> So, I hop off, run over, press the WALK button [...] the light turns green, the WALK sign says WALK and we're on our way.

You mean the button for pedestrians to pass the crosswalk I guess? Why would it say "WALK" (be green for pedestrians?) and also be green for a vehicle to pass? The crosswalks around me are the reverse, if pedestrians can pass, no vehicles can pass, and vice-versa. Or maybe I misunderstood something?
by graublau | 2025-07-28 18:14:13+00:00
The British political class has been collapsing for decades. The population just flip-flops between completely awful unpalatable options, Starmer is just reheated third way Blairism. Brits aren't this stupid and they want optimistic view of future not go on the war path or austerity.

They will slowly cycle out this historical group of parties resulting in painful economic results and poor social cohesion nationally.
by kube-system | 2025-07-28 18:14:34+00:00
Trump is simply a narcissist and socialite who has broad ideas about how he thinks the world should work, but like anyone at a high leadership position, surrounds himself with other people he trusts to execute on the details.

In this case, all of the downsizing that has been happening is right out of the Heritage Foundation playbook, literally.

And those plans are largely a manifestation of Kevin Roberts' political beliefs. He, in his book, has said things such as:

> "many of America's institutions...need to be burned"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%27s_Early_Light:_Taking_B...

This executive has been criticized as using a hatchet and not a scalpel in their downsizing options precisely because their fundamental driving belief is that all of it is waste and abuse. They don't want any of it.
by p_j_w | 2025-07-28 18:14:36+00:00
>People would vote the same way now, most likely. The opinion hasn't shifted around much…

I don't know where you're getting this information, but it's in stark contrast to all of the statistics I've ever seen on the matter.

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51484-how-do-britons-...

Even Nigel Farage has called it a disaster.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-leave-...
by coryrc | 2025-07-28 18:14:39+00:00
The way you say that more supports the idea these people should have been laid off a while ago.

I bet plenty have that useful "unwritten institutional knowledge" that could help newer programs. (F.ex. instructions for a nuclear waste storage said to use kitty litter, but didn't say it was because it was a cheap source of bentonite clay; someone substituted some modern paper variant and caused a small nuclear incident).
by Muromec | 2025-07-28 18:14:54+00:00
Nobody voted for Dick Schoof either, yet he is a prime minister of the Netherlands. That just how coalitions work -- a lot of trades behind closed doors and then a vote in a legislature. The bigger the chamber the more stuff happens before the closed doors or in a commettee.

>She didn't run in a democratic process of any kind, so she isn't a politician

The word you are aiming for is "аппаратчік" -- carreer party member. Which is a fair point, but I don't see it as something fundamentally wrong. I want an experience faceless bureaucrat to do the very valuable faceless bureaucratic thingy -- the technicalities, of which are many. I like, it's great.

> and the Parliament can't propose changes to the law either

They sure can and they sure do it. Commission gives a draft, the chamber votes on the first reading, then a committee in of the parliament can do whatever with the text, including changing "approve" to "reject" making it the opposite of what commission proposed. Which is then voted again by the parliament and again by the council ( which is basically an upper chamber ). I'm not sure whether the chamber can bring back voted down amendments or introduce their own during second or third hearing, as I didn't read the procedural rules, but I suspect it's all there.

If anything, the whole thing is more resembling the original US double chamber parliament than the current US, because the EU of now is as fragmented (or you can say federated) than US was when it originally formed.
by throw0101d | 2025-07-28 18:15:49+00:00
> OpenBSD doesn't have to care about compatibility as much

FreeBSD did it in 2012 (for the 2014 release of 10.0?):

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/8f77be2b4ce5e3...

And has compat layers going back many releases:

* https://www.freshports.org/misc/compat4x/

* https://wiki.freebsd.org/BinaryCompatibility

So newly (re-)compiled programs can take advantage of newer features, but old binaries continue to work.
by schindlabua | 2025-07-28 18:16:42+00:00
Did the switch to NixOS a few months ago on my Thinkpad and ChatGPT worked wonders. I'm not very experienced with Linux distros and have been an Ubuntu user for a long time. I don't think I'll be switching away from NixOS anytime soon, it's great.

The learning curve is still extremely steep but after the initial 10 hours of googling it just all falls into place.
by AIPedant | 2025-07-28 18:17:02+00:00
The problem with chatbots as companions is that they don’t have feelings or desires, so you can be as malicious and selfish as you want: the worse that will happen is some temporary context rot. This is not true for dogs, cats, humans, etc, which is why we can form meaningful companionships with our friends and our pets. Genuine companionship involves dozens of tiny insignificant compromises (e.g. sitting through a boring movie that your friend is interested in), and without that ChatGPT cannot be a companion. It’s a toy.

I am not opposed to chatbots for people who are so severely disabled that they can’t take care of cats, e.g. dementia. But otherwise AI companions are akin to friendship as narcotics are akin to happiness: a highly pleasant (but profoundly unhealthy) substitute.
by juxtaposicion | 2025-07-28 18:17:10+00:00
I had to look at that carefully, but I think that "save you $57.65 on 33 fl oz" is both technically and meaningfully correct. It compares our best choice to the most popular choice -- we use the product with the most ratings as a proxy for that. Nizoral 2-in-1 has a crazy 100k reviews, but it is in fact almost 20x more expensive per fluid ounce! And it is the most popular product@

If you hover the text it explains the logic (you can see that in this screenshot https://imgur.com/a/hO7fiWR). But to replay the logic here:

Equate 2 in 1 Dandruff Shampoo 28.2oz is 21¢/fl oz (for 33 fl oz it costs $6.99) is the Popgot choice.

But the most popular (e.g. most reviewed) product is "Nizoral 2-in-1 Anti-Dandruff Shampoo" and that costs a whopping $1.96/fl oz (33 fl oz it costs $64.63)

So yes, the most popular anti-dandruff shampoo (which I used to use, until I saw this shampoo list https://popgot.com/shampoo?attributes=scalp_concern%3Adandru...) is literally 20x more expensive, so you can do a lot better by picking alternatives at the top of that list.

Not sure why you didn't see toilet paper, but it is right here: https://popgot.com/toilet-paper
by rfwhyte | 2025-07-28 18:17:30+00:00
While I'm sure lower construction costs would provide some positive benefits for society, all I see when I look at these sorts of efforts to transition to factory built modular housing is yet another massive wealth transfer from the working class to the capitalist class.

I live in a relatively rural place in Canada where residential construction is on of the primary drivers of the local economy and one of the last bastions of well paying local jobs. You start shipping in a bunch of these "Microfactories" or transition to prefab construction done offsite in some "Megafactory" somewhere, and you put a heck of a lot of people who are supporting families and spending their incomes in my local community out of work.

Rather than a whole town's worth of construction workers swinging hammers making a decent local buck, you now have a scant few foreign billionaires capturing most of the profit in the residential construction value chain. We're being sold the concept on the bullshit promise "Cheaper houses" but all we're going to get is the enshitification of the construction industry, as like with everything else, once startups and VCs get involved in an industry, a few people make billions, but everyone else ends up worse off.

The framers, dry-wallers, concrete pourers, etc. aren't "Retraining" to be "AI prompt engineers" or whatever bullshit we're being fed will be the "Jobs of the future" either, they are going on government assistance or taking minimum wage retail jobs, never financially recovering from the loss of stable, relatively well paying local jobs, and ultimately pulling their families and entire communities down with them.

Meanwhile 1/100th as many people as have been put out of construction jobs around the world are now employed in a few factories owned by billionaires, who then use their wealth to influence public policy to engage in regulatory capture of their industry, and entire swathes of communities become soulless cookie-cutter corporate suburbs of identical, shoddily built pre-fabricated "Homes" that were designed to maximize corporate profits, not for people to actually enjoy living in.

I see the writing on the wall here, as between robotics / automation, economies of scale and VCs pouring billions into businesses that will operate at a loss while they gobble up market share, I definitely think we're going to see a pretty rapid transition to factory built pre-fabricated homes in the next couple decades, as traditional local scale builders just aren't going to be able to be cost-competitive, but from where I'm sitting this is a terrifying rather than hopeful proposition, as at least where I live, it's not going to make housing any cheaper, but its definitely going to put A LOT of people out of work, and we don't really have anything else for those folks to do, so while it is almost certainly inevitable, the transition to pre-fabricated construction is going to absolutely decimate my community and a great many communities just like it around the world.
by nosianu | 2025-07-28 18:17:56+00:00
There is worse going on in other areas, for example "China Recruiting Former R.A.F. Pilots to Train Its Army Pilots, U.K. Says"

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63293582

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/world/europe/china-recrui...

https://asiatimes.com/2024/12/what-uk-fighter-pilots-did-and...

And finally, the official response: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/former-armed-forces-perso...

It comes down to money and private interests dominating Western politics. It has bad but also good sides. Human conflict used to be about extermination a few thousand years ago, that is what I think of when I read such headlines, such things can actually also be seen as progress. We now have priorities other than our tribe or nation, that has good sides too. I like the Napoleonic war story where Napoleon gave a medal to a British scientist, Humphry Davy.

While bad for the nation, I try to see it as a mixed bag that people from the top down are... flexible.

The price we pay is, possibly, worse outcomes in conflicts. What we gain is that after conflicts end we get back to normal life - with one another - very quickly and relatively easily.
by zaking17 | 2025-07-28 18:18:10+00:00
My coding flow today involves a lot of asking an LLM to generate code (blue team) and then me code reviewing, rewriting, and making it scalable (red team?). The analogy breaks down, because I'm providing the safety and correctness; LLMs are offering a head start.

I'm optimistic about AI-powered infra & monitoring tools. When I have a long dump of system logs that I don't understand, LLMs help immensely. But then it's my job to finalize the analysis and make sure whatever debugging comes next is a good use of time. So not quite red team/blue team in that case either.
by righthand | 2025-07-28 18:18:22+00:00
The way we’re already hacked by giving megacorps our data and have PII data leaks, we don’t need to wait until 2035 for vibe based security. I’m guessing 90% of security/IT orgs don’t really know anything about security but could evangelize/upsell a security company’s software for you.

I had to take 5 anti-phishing training videos in the last year because my IT org kept improving “security”. This was before LLMs gained popularity.
by bluGill | 2025-07-28 18:18:26+00:00
Kids are mentally not ready to read before some age, and once they are able to learn it takes a lot of training. you cannot assume a 7 year old is a good reader - even if they are the best for their age they are still really bad at it.

if you want quick usage a good graphic is faster than text for simple concept even in the best readers. if you have complex concepts eventually text is better but for the majority of ui text is worse than good graphics for the great reader, and many adults are not great readers.

you also shouldn't assume any language. a little effort with non text based and your app doesn't need expensive translation.

of course a learn to read app needs to provide text. However for most apps text is a sign that you didn't spend enough time in ux design.
by jotux | 2025-07-28 18:18:29+00:00
>specifically, getting a purpose-built ISS taxi (the Dragon) built, tested, and launched.

I still don't understand this. NASA funded the development of dragon and a few other companies through their Commercial Resupply Services (CRS 1 and 2) contracts. It's right in the name, Commercial Resupply. NASA isn't building anything in these contracts, just defining requirements and overseeing execution and spending.

>In some ways, this isn't wrong. It's easier to get a private company to do that than to get NASA to do it

But this is wrong. NASA came up with requirements and awarded money to multiple companies (which is how high-risk contacting works -- hedging development by funding multiple companies), one of the companies they funded has been pretty successful, some of them unsuccessful, some are still in development.

The whole argument and perception that NASA and Spacex are somehow competitors just makes no sense to me. It's like saying something like, "The US Navy needed a new frigate and funded the development of it from HII and NASSCO. HII made an amazing new frigate, and NASSCO failed. OMG HII is so amazing why don't we just pay them to be the US Navy?"
by alias_neo | 2025-07-28 18:19:19+00:00
It comes at a problematic point where at 100,000 you also lose your personal allowance. It means that when I received a pay rise from whatever to exactly 100,000 I lost £4000 in tax-free childcare meaning I actually earned less.

Nobody is expected not to use it if they earn below the point it is taken away, it's just an arbitrary tax on parents who earn 100,000, while at the same time a few other paper cuts are piled on.

I know Americans always do tax returns, sounds like a pita for you guys, and I believe until recently you had no choice but to use some sort of service and couldn't DIY it?

Here if you're PAYE (salaries), it's dealt with on your behalf, the tax is deducted before you're paid and you don't have to deal with it, unless you're self employed. It's not necessarily a huge issue, but it's a time cost and that has to have a price, and if you get it wrong, HMRC are notoriously hard and will demand full payment immediately, if you're lucky and they accept your "excuse" (their word), they might let you split it over 3 months.

At this point it's best to make sure you have £10,000+ in savings aside just in case.

I've not had to do a tax return yet, but I've frequently seen tax bills in the tens of thousands from family and friends because their accountant got it wrong, and holds no liability.

I don't think it's as big an issue for me people have taken from my original wording, that's fine, poor choice of words on my part perhaps, but it has certainly been blown out of proportion including some minor jabs at me and (incorrectly) at my political leanings etc. Despite this really all having nothing to do with politics or news and quite clearly as I pointed out at it's direct effect on my family finances.

As the saying goes here in England, "I'm sorry I mentioned it".
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-28 18:19:29+00:00
If you wanted to play around with retro hardware the KIM-1 is a fine machine. Actual KIM-1's go for $1K or so on eBay, but fortunately there are a few clone kits out there. For the most part too they use the same chip set as the original.

I have both the PAL-1 [1] and PAL-2 [2] kits and enjoy them both. (For the price difference, I would recommend the PAL-1 if you are just wanting to play around with a retro 6502 computer.)

There are even online KIM-1 emulators if you can figure them out [3][4].

The best jumping off point though is probably Hans' report computer pages [5].

[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/kim1/pal-1-a-mos-6502-powere...

[2] https://www.tindie.com/products/kim1/pal-2-a-mos-6502-powere...

[3] https://maksimkorzh.github.io/KIM-1/

[4] https://maksimkorzh.github.io/KIM-1/

[5] http://retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/kim-1-manuals-and-softwar...
by teamonkey | 2025-07-28 18:20:02+00:00
It’s kind of the opposite. The North is underfunded and often ignored by central government, but it’s also cheap.

There have been an influx of Londoners who have discovered that they can actually afford a house in the North and enroll their kids in decent schools and maintain a good standard of living, especially those who are able to move while maintaining a London salary.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-28 18:20:07+00:00
Maybe the other routes simply weren't tested for. Sex is how most people get HIV, so it makes sense to start from here. The second most common is by sharing needles, usually by drug addicts, and I can't think of an ethical way of doing a trial in such conditions. The rest is mother-child transmission, which is irrelevant as the drug is not intended for fetuses, and the odd accident which is probably too uncommon to make meaningful statistics.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-28 18:20:11+00:00
Oh hang the economy. I don't care about money, I care about people. I care about the incalculable number of folks who have suffered and died from the politics of austerity, in my country and the UK. I care about government services that no longer function because of this case of brain worms that tells people when a government office doesn't work, the solution is to cut it's funding because that's definitely going to help. I care about the alienation of everyone from everyone and everything, all of us trussed up in our little homes, completely disconnected from the effects we have on our communities because of this libertarian fantasy of you being and island and accountable to nothing and no one but your own piddly, small notion of what moves you forwards.
by unethical_ban | 2025-07-28 18:20:14+00:00
The US guarantees ER health services regardless of citizenship or ability to pay. They also get free public education (with all the burdens of being non-english speaking).

They pay taxes (in Texas) through gas, property and sales taxes which fund much of the state.

Yes, immigrants are a critical component of several industries like healthcare.

Legal permanent residency/work visas should be easier for skilled workers who want to work in high demand jobs. And all wealthy nations should be more wary of unlimited, unchecked economic migration by poorer populations.

(IOW it's complicated)

I think social media is at least as big a cultural weapon against us, and if I had to choose between deport/imprison a small number of business and political leaders who abuse that weapon or four million undocumented US residents, I would choose the former.