MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rob74 | 2025-08-18 09:12:50+00:00
Eurowings (Lufthansa's low cost carrier) has also ordered 40 737 MAX (or rather has been "allocated" a probably pre-existing order): https://newscloud.eurowings.com/en/eurowings-sets-sights-on-... Notwithstanding the marketing BS, I wonder what the real reason behind this decision is - probably a combination between the length of Airbus's delivery backlog, a "sweet" deal with Boeing, cozying up to Trump, and some other considerations that I can't think of right now?

EDIT: after researching a bit more, it looks like the initial order was from 2023 (https://simpleflying.com/lufthansa-40-boeing-737-max-40-airb...), so "cozying up to Trump" was probably not a factor at the time. Also, I imagine that order being passed around like the proverbial hot potato between all the airlines in Lufthansa group, until it finally landed in Eurowings' lap: "Interested in some brand new state of the art 737 MAXes? No? Why? What do you mean, `You take them if you're so fond of them`? We would, gladly, but we have an all-A320 fleet and would like to keep it that way. Oh, you too, really?".
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-08-18 09:13:08+00:00
You're asking for them to set up a system that won't be effective.

>And that is up to parents to control their child's internet access to limit their usage to only these sites.

This is an entirely unreasonable expectation on parents. I control web access at home, but I can't control it at school, or at their friend's houses. Nor do I have time, nor do I have access, to exert control over all the systems they come in contact with (even without their own device).

>it's all the other "not suitable for kids" content

Like what? Explicit violence?
by jldugger | 2025-08-18 09:13:44+00:00
( replying to a now deleted post)

>> the uncertainty in the number of trials > Has no meaning to me.

What the author is trying to get at in the admittedly poorly worded question is that the trials are noisy measures of an underlying effect. Your job is to sort by effect size, while accounting for the random chance that a low sample size trial just got unlucky.

You might argue that the question is much harder than the author assumes, since your best guess at the actual effect size seems like it should still just be the success rate, even if the low sample size trials have wider error bars. You'd need to come up with some sort of heuristic that says why 7/9 deserves a lower rank than 50/70 using binomial confidence intervals.

Probably that heuristic is intended to be a bayesian approach? Like, if you add just two successes and two failures to each scenario as a prior, thats enough to put the 50/70 option ahead.
by liampulles | 2025-08-18 09:15:23+00:00
I think languages that favor an "expressive" syntax, which favor using and building syntactic sugar and macros, suffer from a nicheness problem.

That is they are going to have to appeal to people who want that style of programming, and they have the additional hurdles of A) having more stuff one has to learn to use the language, B) dealing with a community of people who all want the magic from their previous language ecosystem imported into this new one, and C) the additional burden on libraries to come about which use these features.

Note: I have not used Nim, so please take the above with a lump of salt.
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-18 09:17:57+00:00
> Firstly, one has to submit strong evidence, call them repeatedly, and wait for many months.

You should get an Amex. (I've had little issue with various Visa/MC issuing banks, though. Quick and easy.)

> Secondly, in the real world, any vendor like Amazon or Ebay or Uber or Lyft will immediately freeze the user's account if a dispute is initiated, barring the user from using the service.

In most cases, shady vendors are a one-off concern. If I'm charging back, I'm probably not buying from them again.
by __alexs | 2025-08-18 09:18:04+00:00
Take turmeric for example. It contains curcumin, a chemical that has quite good evidence for anti-inflammatory properties. However curcumin is not present in turmeric in clinically relevant quantities. People taking turmeric medicinally are not actually interested in the curcumin, if they were they would be taking a concentrated extract. They are interested in the ritual and cultural associations of turmeric.

In most cases when we do find evidence for something clinically relevant in traditional medicine we either discover that the effect is something other than it is traditionally associated with and/or that you need to take it at extreme doses for it to do anything at all.
by geocar | 2025-08-18 09:18:40+00:00
> near-zero telemetry usage (<0.01% of page loads),

Perhaps without realising it, you are still describing numbers in the hundreds of millions perhaps billions, which isn't even close to zero when you're talking about atoms:

Google does 200$ billion USD in annual ad revenue: At even a mere $1 CPM that's 200 trillion impressions a year.

They put 5 ads on every page and we're at 40 trillion page loads a year that Google knows about.

You tell me that even 0.001% of that is XML/XSLT and we're still talking hundreds of millions of page loads every year.

And that's just the ones Google knows about: Pages without Google ads like say https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr3617/BILLS-117hr3617ih.... should definitely not be included in that telemetry at all, indicating the value should be much higher
by matja | 2025-08-18 09:18:57+00:00
> You can't even clearly define what an "atomic sequence of glyphs" is.

Kinda. Grapheme cluster breaks are defined in Unicode, but they have all the baggage and edge-cases you'd expect from human languages evolving over time, so they can be encoded in as a few as a thousand rules : https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/tree/main/icu4c/source/da...
by jldugger | 2025-08-18 09:19:58+00:00
And I guess since they answer the questions at the bottom, it seems their intent is indeed the simplistic approach

> The lower bound of which can be used to order the fractions, and so control the risk of over-estimation.

It not clear to me from the question whether the cost of a mistake is in the over-estimating the underlying effect or in misranking the effects, and that seems like it would drive your heuristic selection.
by guenthert | 2025-08-18 09:21:03+00:00
Er, the parsing is done ahead of time. The BASIC interpreters then were byte-code interpreters; the one of the beeb a particular fast one.

I know nothing about the first ARM, but ARM2 of Archimedes (anno 1987) was significantly faster than a MC68k (both at 8MHz), both much faster than a 6502 at one (typical) or two (in the beeb) MHz.

A BASIC interpreter using the ARM 1 or 2 might not have been literally faster than machine code on a 6502 (certainly not for some silly micro benchmarks), but, the stated goal, allowing high level programming where earlier assembly was required, certainly was met.
by fowlie | 2025-08-18 09:23:39+00:00
This is just awesome! But seems like a closed source project, and the pricing page returns HTTP 404.

Are there any open source alternatives like this? First time I hear about this idea. However, I can imagine it wouldn't take much effort to implement the basics. Chromium even has a design mode you can activate by typing `document.designMode='on'` in the console. Then you would just need to write a little javascript that handles auth, a save button, and a backend to persist the altered html.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-18 09:24:14+00:00
Tesseract can do wonders for scanned paper (and web generated PDFs) both in its old and new version. If you want to pay for something closed, Prizmo on macOS is extremely good as well.

On the other hând, LLm5 are sl0wwer, moré resource hangry and l3ss accurale fr their outpu1z.

We shoulD stop gl0rıfying LLMs for 3verylhin9.
by brabel | 2025-08-18 09:24:16+00:00
You may want to look into OCaml and Dart. Both are highly expressive, have automatic memory handling, native compilation and excellent performance.

I like D, but it's a bit of a mess at the moment with the DIP-1000 (Rust-inspired stuff for memory management) half-baked changes, the new experimental allocators (probably coming from Zig), it keeps breaking (on MacOS at least). With the very advanced metaprogramming, it also suffers from lack of good tooling, just like Nim... Nim was going to "solve" that a few years ago, but as far as I can see from the outside, nothing really "shipped" recently to improve the situation. Without good tooling, I am quite sure I am more productive even in Rust (and I am no expert on it), let alone OCaml (tooling is decent, and the language is just really powerful) and Dart (which has absolutely awesome tooling), for example.
by TylerE | 2025-08-18 09:26:08+00:00
I've used nim a bit and am going to push back quite hard on this. The core of the language is really quite consise. No harder of a mental overload than say go, or python.

I'd also argue that high expressiveness actually allows you to avoid magic. The actual library implementations are rarely very scary. We're ahead of time compiled and type checked so it's not like some rails codebase where a clockwork goblin can just explode out of nowhere.
by usgroup | 2025-08-18 09:27:18+00:00
From the question:

“However, it is very important that the uncertainty in the number of trials is taken into account because over-estimating a fraction is a costly mistake.“

Seems fairly clear to me that you’re supposed to use a lower bound estimate to take into account variance on the fraction due to the number of trials in a way to bounds the chance of over estimation.

Further, there is no need for a heuristic when there a several statistical models for this exact problem with clear properties. Some are given in the answer.
by keyle | 2025-08-18 09:28:40+00:00
If anything, a lot of the modern developer experience has suffered compared to the early Borland IDEs. One would easily say we regressed.

They were focused, immediate and effective.

If anything today you'd miss the code navigation features (go to definition, go back, go forward), and of course LSP is actually very useful and once you don't have it, it hurts (instant errors, ease of refactoring...)

Give me something like the Borland IDEs (FAST!) and some of the modern features (they can be slower, they're only as fast as the LSP server implementation anyway) and I'm there!

I did a proof of concept quickly, mostly while learning to write code editors, but I have not gotten it to a point of being useful [1]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/BexhJ12
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-08-18 09:28:50+00:00
I show flagged and show dead too.

Disappearing OT/ads/extreme ad hominems is a positive thing imo.

I vouch for things that I disagree with if they make good points. I have flagged things.

IMO the worst thing pg ever did for this site is to say that downvoting could be used for disagreement. I still bemoan the removal of downvote scores, and still wish for Slashdot-style voting, meta-moderation, and personalition of content scores.
by DanielHB | 2025-08-18 09:29:31+00:00
My partner got upset when I added a pihole to our network because she wouldn't see ads in google search. She said most of the time she doesn't mind the pihole but when she is actively looking for things to buy she wants the ads.

What I ended up doing is setting up two separate wifi networks, one with the pihole DNS server and one without it. So she can opt to turn it on.

But yeah overall I agree with you, the ads skew the research by whoever is paying the most for marketing BUT they also work as a filter so you only see stuff that people actually spend money to market on. For _some_ types of products the "barrier to entry" in the ad space can guarantee a certain level of quality (or at least reduce the change for scams).
by apples_oranges | 2025-08-18 09:29:44+00:00
I like this message, that we could choose love but we give in to fear, etc, but it seems that he means every writer has something to say that is important to be said.

IMHO that is a very optimistic take. Often it's self-serving "just write" mentality and the results are not very interesting or useful, some use writing as a thinking tool (pg comes to mind), others, most?, do it to sell something, perhaps themselves. And all this stuff that comes out that sounds good, is convincing, but misleading (aka lies or wishful thinking). And the rest is derivative or a few good (old) ideas mixed with lengthy fitting examples.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-18 09:29:58+00:00
> probably a combination between the length of Airbus's delivery backlog

It's likely this. Airbus has a backlog of ~7500 A32x orders right now, and produces about 75 a month, so if you order one today, you're looking at eight years.

Though also some budget airlines like the 737 because it's _short_; it's not as high off the ground as an A320, making access via airstairs more feasible.
by gool321 | 2025-08-18 09:30:58+00:00
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by rsynnott | 2025-08-18 09:31:21+00:00
> My whole life I saw them as an unshakable example of U.S. engineering superiority.

I mean realistically in this particular category (narrow-bodies) they've essentially been playing catchup for the last _40 years_; ever since it was released they've really had trouble competing with the A320. Their inability to do basically anything right feels newer, but the 737 has long been a weak spot.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-18 09:33:55+00:00
Indeed, but the practical result in this case is that the A320 is _much_ more expensive, because demand is far higher. Ryanair's big purchase of 737 MAX-10s a while back was at, at most, 50% of list price; that degree of discount isn't really happening for the A32x at the moment, I don't think.
by d_tr | 2025-08-18 09:34:12+00:00
Arch + i3 is what I used until a couple years ago, then decided to move to Wayland, and Sway was buggy on my system so I went vanilla Gnome. It does all I need and also I get to have my settings in a simple script file which is just a bunch of gsettings calls.

I still think that the i3 way of managing windows is amazing, but I actually rarely needed lots of windows in the same workspace tiled.

I only have one extension installed from the package manager for the tray and that's it. Also on Fedora now only because of some proprietary software I need to run, but I also like the distro.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-18 09:34:26+00:00
I think that humans do executive decision making better than LLMs.

So, yeah, your "Meeting a dragon" story was about a single point - an attempt at a humourous twist ending; you built your story around that.

My approach would be having the Dragon in the title be a metaphor, for something powerful, dangerous and scary:

1. Comedy: new g/friend meeting MiL (the Dragon) for the first time

2. Thriller: guy finds out what his wife (The Dragon) really is like, basically the plot to Gone Girl

3. Drama: An alcoholic anthopormorphising the addiction (The Dragon) as an uncontrollable beast within himself

4. Historical: An author examining the events of the Tuskagee Syphilis experiment in the legislated-racism (The Dragon) period of the time.

5. SciFi: "The Dragon is a Harsh Mistress" (enough said)

6. Action: The dragon is a legendary elder of a mystical martial arts sect ("Enter the Dragon" stuff)

7. Fantasy: An actual, literal Dragon!

This is before I've considered a single line of plot, a single character, or character motivation. It's before I considered tone and presentation (Narrative? First-person narration? Dialog-driven narration?)

I mean, before getting to actual plot, characters, setting, tone, etc ... I've already got my message figured out. That's executive decision making.

The LLM will not, when given the directive "Write the story 'Meeting the Dragon'" perform any executive decision making. You have to baby it through every step. Basically micromanage it.
by appstorelottery | 2025-08-18 09:34:36+00:00
Back in the iPhone 4 era, I had a simple app on the App Store called "3D Coin Toss" that I wrote in a day. With zero promotion, it brought in a predictable ~$700/quarter from ads and an IAP to disable them.

Interestingly, all my discoverability came from Google. My app was on the first page of search results, which drove users directly to the App Store.

Then, Google decided to compete. Searching for "coin toss" started returning Google's own top-of-page inline coin-tossing app as the very first result. Users could now toss a coin without leaving search results. Unsurprisingly, my user acquisition tanked.

It was my first experience with this, and I remember thinking, "Is this fair? Why is Google competing with me?"
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-18 09:34:43+00:00
> The rest sounds more like operations and customer relations to me.

Marketing is not advertisement.

It definitely has a significant overlap with operations. I mean it’s in the name really: it’s about how you go to the market.

Every time someone wonders if they would make more by going for a subscription or a lump sum payment and how they should structure their pricing tiers and what should be put in them, they are unknowingly doing marketing.
by unnamed76ri | 2025-08-18 09:34:46+00:00
I’ve been on meds that wreck my immune system and so I get sick a lot. Every time I start feeling the smallest tickle of an upper respiratory virus I start doing the following: 1. Gargle with salt water 3x a day 2. Use saline nasal rinses 2x a day

I still get sick a lot, but haven’t needed antibiotics in all the years I’ve kept to this routine.
by kruffalon | 2025-08-18 09:35:16+00:00
I wrote the deleted comment you are replying to.

The essence of my comment was that this text/test is not for me (one person of the general public) but more like a few leetcode-style questions for statisticians.

Your attempt to explain what I didn't understand just proves my point as I don't really understand what you are saying either.

And that's ok: this is just not for me! (And that's why I deleted my original comment)
by ben_w | 2025-08-18 09:35:19+00:00
The form of capitalism that existed when Marx wrote his thing, stopped being used in most places around the Great Depression era.

Capitalism as we have it today is (roughly speaking) to laissez faire capitalism as modern China is to Maoism.

Marxism isn't as wildly flawed as some want it to be — but it is very, very out of date, a response to a world which we no longer live in.

Turned out there were a lot of ways to regulate capitalism besides all-in on Marxism.
by KingMob | 2025-08-18 09:35:32+00:00
Everything you quoted is based on percentages of the responders, not absolute numbers. Changing in-group proportions don't say anything about overall usage. E.g., if responder work usage goes up 10%, but 40% fewer people use Clojure, that's still a drop in absolute numbers.

Look for the number of responses, and you can see a decline each year after 2020.

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It's possible that the survey may not have been advertised as well, but afaik, it's still posted the same way it always was: announcements on Clojurians, Clojureverse, reddit, etc. I haven't heard of any reason that survey numbers would have been artificially depressed for several years running.
by mcteamster | 2025-08-18 09:35:37+00:00
Been doing something similar with save files for my game. Line 1 is "<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><script>const rawData =" and line 2 is all the state.

Then the save button downloads document.documentElement.outerHTML with line 2 replaced by the current state. No server required.

https://github.com/mcteamster/white/blob/main/src/lib/data.t...
by Jedd | 2025-08-18 09:36:04+00:00
Excellent info - thank you.

Yes, I've been through solarquotes.com.au a few times but haven't looked in earnest for some time. This is encouraging information.

I know my usage can easily be 15-20kWh in a day, and I can get a week of overcast though it's not common.

The 'free' electricity offers presumably are in return for a guarantee to feed-in to them outside sunlight peak, I suppose?

I assume the power providers have come up with ToU and FiT tariffs based on a LOT of data, so we here with our spreadsheets and one or two datapoints aren't likely to come out far ahead, but it sounds like break-even within a few years is feasible.
by avar | 2025-08-18 09:37:40+00:00
> it does get most of its index from Bing

Its "index from Bing" makes it sound like they're paying to rsync-ing over the raw results of Bing's crawler from Microsoft or something. My understanding is that they're simply running a Bing search through Microsoft's API, so Microsoft is getting your search queries in real time.

But you (supposedly) get the added anonymity of that going through DDG's servers, and their promise not to do some of their own tracking to put the two together, and they combine Bing's results with their own crawled results.

Isn't that how it works?
by lproven | 2025-08-18 09:38:33+00:00
What if someone doesn't want KDE or GNOME, or any tiling WM?

What if we want some of the other desktops out there?

Examples:

I like Macs and macOS, with a global menu bar. I like Ubuntu's Unity desktop. It doesn't work on Wayland and won't. Unity8, AKA Lomiri, does but it is intended for handhelds with touch and is badly compromised. No global menu bar, for instance.

What if we want something NeXT-like? I like GNUstep. Neither GSDE nor NEXTSPACE supports Wayland.

I like Xfce. It has an experimental version but keyboard window management is broken. Xfce's compatibility with standard Windows keystrokes is one of the reasons I like it. It seems to me Wayland folks don't know these and I've yet to see a Wayland environment that supports them. E.g. Alt+Space, X to maximise. Alt+Space, N to minimise.

I want full title bars, so I can use the scroll wheel on them to roll them up, as in Windowshade.

E.g. https://www.windowmizer.com/

I also want to be able to middle-click the title bar to send that window to the back of the stack. Once _every_ Linux desktop did this, but GNOME started software rot by getting rid of title bars in favour of "client side decorations" and the feature started to disappear.

What if I want one of the lightweight Windows-alike desktops? MATE, Trinity, EDE, XPde? No Wayland support.

What if I want a Chinese desktop with a bit of Win7 bling? DDE and UKUI both don't support Wayland.

What if I want a different trad Unix environment?

CDE, nsCDE, Maxx Interative, OLWM... none work on Wayland.

Amiga style: amiwm doesn't work.

Classic Mac style: mlvwm doesn't work.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-18 09:40:41+00:00
As is traditional with these weird complaints about diversity in modern movies, most of your good old days classics examples are in fact "slop based on established IP".

I know kids in the target demographic have a place in their heart for them but Star Wars prequels given as a positive example while complaining about 30 year old IP slop?

You may also have missed the subtle subtext in Star Wars about fascism.
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-18 09:40:41+00:00
There is a null hypothesis which isn't ruled out: it would take two weeks plus 3-4 days for your sore throat to resolve itself, but you were waiting only two weeks each time, taking your timings at face value.

Still, that doesn't explain why the symptoms return sooner after antibiotics than with homeopathy. The body is complicated and there are many variables.

Do you drink alcohol? I'm wondering whether you consciously or subconsciously adjust how much you drink more during or after an antibiotics course than the homeopathy, or whether there's some similar confounding variable. Strong alcohol of course has some anti-bacterial properties (as well as some well-known side-effects which aren't so beneficial), but I don't really know what I'm talking about, just a thought that occurred