MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nosianu | 2025-08-04 19:52:11+00:00
But that is their business and not the EU. And I have no idea why you included the UK anyway - not in the EU.

Here is a list, by the way: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/overseas-...

Something else: Let's also ignore (or not) that the headline of the submission is waaayyy too grand for what's actually in the article. It's only about meteorological data collection. As important as it may be, there's a lot more science than that.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-04 19:52:21+00:00
The entire blog post feels formatted like AI output to me. Repeated checklists with restated points, tables and full blocks of code spread across the page in a very specific way.

I don't know if the author used AI to write this, but if they didn't, this is the person AI agents decided to copy the writing style of.

Edit: Reddit thread somewhere in the comments here to a post from the author pretty much confirmed my suspicions, this article is heavily AI generated and plain wrong in several cases. A good reminder not to use AI slop to learn new topics, because LLMs bullshit half the time and you need to know what you're doing to spot the lies.
by Kon5ole | 2025-08-04 19:53:00+00:00
Maybe so but none of those things replace the concept of a market, they are different ways to control a market, which is absolutely required and woefully neglected in many countries and many areas. But I don't understand the idea that markets themselves are the problem.

If you are a doctor and you want to practice medicine to get money to pay for fish, you are engaging with a market even if that market is single payer (ie the government).

If the single payer pays too little to get fish, you will start fishing instead of practicing medicine. If the single payer pays a lot the fishermen will start wondering why you get so much when they are the ones actually catching the fish. And they will increase the price of fish, forcing your one payer to pay more.

A very simplified view of things of course but my point is that it's still a market. I seriously can't imagine a mechanism better than a market so I was curious what the GP had in mind.

The problem with housing isn't markets, it's the lack of a proper market. The economic system in many countries is tied to mortgages in a way that various cogs in the financial machine can't under any circumstance allow housing to depreciate over time. Homeowners don't own their homes, they pay the banks. And the bank is valued based on the assets it has in the form of home loans.

So the value of homes has to go up. It's important for politicians, it's important for banks, it's important for existing homeowners. Which makes it a massive problem for non-homeowners.

If this was a proper market, houses would be built to meet demand. But as things are now, that would trigger a massive depression. We saw a glimpse of it in 2008.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-04 19:53:06+00:00
I have been married almost 20 years, and have seen the same. There's a whole lot of emotionally unhealthy people out there, which is understandable, but then they don't or can't get help to get healthy, which leads to relationship failure. Growing together requires collaboration and humility, which appears to be rare in the aggregate. Also, be lucky (which is unfortunately not actionable).
by RebeccaTheDev | 2025-08-04 19:53:29+00:00
My day-to-day work now is mostly Python and Vue, but PHP was my bread and butter for almost 20 years and to this day probably still probably one of my favorite languages just because I am still so familiar with it. There's something to be said for knowing all the traps and rough spots, and knowing how to avoid them.

The things that held PHP up in the early days, especially it being just dead simple to deploy, are not as big a deal in 2025 as they were in 2005. Shared hosting, while it still definitely exists, is kind of a dying model. Most modern dev I see these days even in PHP is nginx/PHP-FPM and containers, which is really not that terribly different from any other web framework. Even Wordpress, these days I recommend anyone who truly wants to go down that path to find a hosted Wordpress provider rather than trying to do it themselves.

Personally? I would never start a greenfield project now using just PHP. I don't know many people who would.

But PHP + Composer + Laravel? Laravel did for PHP what Rails did for Ruby, and what React/Vue/etc did for JS. Composer gave PHP real package management. It cannot be understated how important it was to have a framework and package manager to take care of all of the thoroughly unpleasant parts. That way you can focus on building the app, not reimplementing things you've done so many time before.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-04 19:54:36+00:00
It's only been a few hours and the demo is constantly erroring out, people need more time to actually play with it before getting excited. Some quantized GGUFs + various comfy workflows will also likely be a big factor for this one since people will want to run it locally but it's pretty large compared to other models. Funnily enough, the main comparison to draw might be between Alibaba and Alibaba. I.e. using Wan 2.2 for image generation has been an extremely popular choice, so most will want to know how big a leap Qwen-Image is from that rather than Flux.

The best time to judge how good a new image model actually is seems to be about a week from launch. That's when enough pieces have fallen into place that people have had a chance to really mess with it and come out with 3rd party pros/cons of the models. Looking hopeful for this one though!
by CupricTea | 2025-08-04 19:55:08+00:00
Jemalloc added over a megabyte to every project for only questionable gains, and it was awkward and unwieldy to remove it. While there are good reasons to use a different allocator depending on the project, Rust defaulting to this type of behavior failed a certain personal litmus test on what it wanted to be as a language in that it felt like it was fighting the system rather than integrating with it.

It also does not give a good first impression at all to newcomers to see their hello world project built in release mode take up almost 2MiB of space. Today it's a much more (subjectively) tolerable 136kiB on Windows (considering that Rust std is statically linked).
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-04 19:55:19+00:00
>This is the problem with the whole "a woman's right to do what she wants with her own body" response: It's not her body.

It is. Or so I claim. Renders the rest of the argument moot.

Also, no woman is aborting fetuses for fun. The whole issue is a waste of time and just a way to get people riled up for no reason, at the expense of women losing rights because doctors now have to watch their back for even more liability.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/04/raw-data-abor...
by toss1 | 2025-08-04 19:55:26+00:00
Yes, that is exactly Tesla's line, and it is entirely beside the point.

The point is the EXPECTATION set by decades of basically flat-out lying about the capabilities of "Autopilot" and "Full Self Driving".

Hell, just the names alone entirely point to no-limitations full self driving. Plus selling $10k upgrades to use your car as a driverless taxi with the next software upgrade, which years later, has never happened. The fine print is BS; the message screams nothing but capable driving.

Add to that the instant data collection and real-time deleting it at the scene, and Tesla is 100% wrong. (and I used to admire Tesla and aspire to own one)

And this is 100% Tesla's own fault. They did NOT have to market it that way. Had they marketed it as "Advanced Driving Assistant" or "Super Lane-Keeping", or something, and left the data available to the driver, they likely could have won this case easily. "The guy wasn't even looking, we never even implied it could take over all driving, what the hell was he thinking?".
by js2 | 2025-08-04 19:55:31+00:00
I had been using Perl from 1995-2000. I was a fairly advanced Perl programmer (was there for the Perl 4 -> 5 transition), using it mostly for automating system administration tasks.

In 2000 I joined a new startup and was shown Python 1.5.2 by the startup's chief architect/scientists. He'd come from Infoseek where he'd used it there to help build parts of the company.

Now, I loved Perl. I was one of those annoying geeks with "RSA in 4 lines of Perl" T-shirt. I'd write JAPH programs for fun. But I appreciated how much "smaller" Python was than Perl. I was able to learn pretty much all of its rules in an hour? I didn't have to worry about all the crazy ways Perl programs could express themselves. (Is this scalar context or array context?[^1] Is this script using my or local? What the heck does this crazy line I didn't write do again? Oh wait, I wrote that line!)

So anyway, this startup was using Python and now so was I.

That startup is long gone, but I'm still using Python daily in my career.

And I've never used numpy.

Perl was/is great, but it's just too quirky to have the broad appeal of Python.

[^1]: "It's all about context": https://archive.ph/IB2kR
by anigbrowl | 2025-08-04 19:55:44+00:00
1000 year old temples

Well it depends. Very important shrines are dismantled and rebuilt every 20 years, eg https://japanwoodcraftassociation.com/2020/02/13/traditions-...

There are lots of old houses in use and for sale in Japan, but many people prefer building a new house to renovating or maintaining an old one - partly for practical reasons, partly because newer structures are more likely to be earthquake-resilient, partly due to haunting.
by tharne | 2025-08-04 19:55:53+00:00
Lol, I'll believe it when I see it. Is this the same Europe that despite everything going on in the world is:

- Still buying Russian gas

- Dependent on U.S. Military bases for their own security

- Dependent on Chinese manufacturing for consumer goods

- Dependent on the U.S. for software and cloud infrastructure

- Dependent on the Chinese for computer hardware

Best of luck Europe, you've had a good run, but you've gotten yourself into a fine mess here.
by Hikikomori | 2025-08-04 19:56:16+00:00
Still killed a million. It is clearly the fault of Britain as Ireland produced much more food than it needed itself but peasants mostly only got to eat potatoes as most of all good food was exported because Brits owned most of the land so peasants didn't own what they produced. When they didn't have acces to potatoes anymore they had no food, and free market advocates in Britain argued that they shouldn't even try to help them.
by djoldman | 2025-08-04 19:57:01+00:00
> Rank polymorphism means that a function can be polymorphic in the additional dimensions of arrays. For example, if you write a function that takes a 2x3 and a 4x5 array, it can also work on 10x15x2x3 and 10x15x4x5 arrays by broadcasting.

Thanks, this is what I was ineloquently attempting to describe with "A function that can take as input a 4x2x8 matrix or a 3x7 matrix."
by CraigJPerry | 2025-08-04 19:57:18+00:00
I think i'm misunderstanding, rank is explicit throughout this example but i'm not familiar with this syntax (ruby maybe?) but whatever the case i don't see the rank polymorphism.

If i'm reading the syntax correctly, this would translate in kdb/q to a raze (flatten) on the 3 dimensions (regions, offices, employees). Probably more likely to be expressed as a converge but in either case, the calculations here are not possible in a rank polymorphic way.
by sram1337 | 2025-08-04 19:57:48+00:00
Some context from the dev's blog (https://highrise.digital/blog/building-offline-kids-a-direct...

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"Within the last few weeks, Mark and I have built and launched Offline.Kids.

It’s a website to help parents reconnect with their kids and for kids to reconnect with the world around them.

Offline.Kids is directory of screen-free activities for all ages. Each activity is categorised so that parents can find appropriate activities for their situation.

For example, you can find:

quick, clean activities for a 6 year olds outdoor kids activities that take 1-2 hours low energy indoor crafts We built the site off the back of our new directory landing page plugin (catchy name still in progress!). It instantly creates thousands of SEO friendly landing pages for the activities. It’s early days, but Google is successfully indexing the pages and we’ll see how the rankings change over time.

So, if you’re looking for screen-free activities for your kids, check out the website, and share with anyone you think might find it useful!"
by danaris | 2025-08-04 19:57:55+00:00
No one's asking you to.

But you call it out as "garbage", claim that you—personally—have "plenty of other issues" besides the ancient history you specifically cited, but do not elaborate and expect us to just take your word for it.

You're asking us to value your low opinion of it, but you're not giving us any good reason to do so.
by nostrademons | 2025-08-04 19:58:14+00:00
The Vietnam war killed close to a million Vietnamese between North and South Vietnamese civilians and the Vietcong [1]

The Afghanistan war killed about 3500 U.S. & allied soldiers, and about 300,000 Afghans. [2]

The Iraq war killed about 5000 U.S. & allied soldiers, and about 1 million Iraqis. [3]

U.S. military power since WW2 can basically be summed up by "We can't win, but we can still kill you." If you end up dead, your side may win, but that's cold comfort (literally) for you.

The root of the discrepancy is the difference between winning as in annihilating your opponent and winning as in getting them to do what you want. Oftentimes, military force and lots of deaths actually just entrenches opposing ideology. Nothing like a common enemy that's trying to kill you to get people to band together. But you can still end up with a lot of dead people that are ideologically victorious. Always more people where they came from, and people may switch over to your cause.

Also, the huge irony of the Vietnam war is that by 1989, 15 years after the North Vietnamese "won", Vietnam was one of the most intensely capitalist countries on Earth. Because they realized that communism didn't work, and they'd all be better off with free trade and markets. Given the US's stated goal of preventing the spread of communism in southeast Asia, they would've been far more effective just letting the communists win and run the country for a few years and then dealing with the consequences of that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20241203211818/https://ucdp.uu.s...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
by Ray20 | 2025-08-04 19:58:16+00:00
> High trust is prima facie incompatible with capitalism

Quite compatible

> If you want a high trust society, you don't want capitalism.

There is nothing at all in capitalism that would prevent a high level of trust in society.

> Capitalism is inherently low trust

But that's not true. The thing about capitalism is that it's RESILENT to low trust. It does not require low levels of trust, but is capable of functioning in such conditions.

> If the penalty for deceit was greater than the penalty for non-deceit

Who are the judges? Capitalism is the most resistant to deception, deceivers under capitalism receive fewer benefits than under any other economic system. Simply because capitalism is based on the premise that people cheat, act out of greed, try to get the most for themselves at the expense of others. These qualities exist in people regardless of the existence of capitalism, it is just that capitalism ensures prosperity in society even when people have these qualities.
by mtlynch | 2025-08-04 19:58:56+00:00
I agree you should document the decisions and discussions around them. I never said you shouldn't, just that the discussion shouldn't be entirely written. But you can discuss live and summarize the discussion in the doc after.

Relatedly, I don't think full discussions about the design doc should live forever in the design doc. When I was at Google, I hated reading design docs where every line had a convoluted, 20-message comment thread attached to it in the margins. When I owned a doc, I'd drive those comment threads to a resolution, write up a concise summary of the debate in the appendix, then resolve the thread.
by lurk2 | 2025-08-04 20:00:06+00:00
> The model of an eight-hour, unbroken sleep is a modern and western one, coinciding with the advent of electric lighting and the new routines of the workday, and achieved through class struggle in the emerging industrial workplace.

The scholarship on this isn’t good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/zutvcs/comme...
by darthoctopus | 2025-08-04 20:00:48+00:00
As an intermediate alternative between a hardware keyboard and a graphical symbol picker, I use an .XCompose file with contents that look like this:

# GREEK <Multi_key> <g> <A> : "Α" U0391 # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA <Multi_key> <g> <a> : "α" U03B1 # GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA <Multi_key> <g> <B> : "Β" U0392 # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER BETA <Multi_key> <g> <b> : "β" U03B2 # GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA <Multi_key> <g> <D> : "Δ" U0394 # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA <Multi_key> <g> <d> : "δ" U03B4 # GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA <Multi_key> <g> <E> : "Ε" U0395 # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON <Multi_key> <g> <e> : "ε" U03B5 # GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON ... # Math Symbols <Multi_key> <i> <n> : "∈" U2208 # IN <Multi_key> <f> <a> : "∀" U2200 # FOR ALL <Multi_key> <t> <e> : "∃" U2203 # THERE EXISTS <Multi_key> <a> <n> <d> : "∧" U2227 # AND <Multi_key> <o> <r> : "∨" U2228 # OR <Multi_key> <less> <parenleft> : "⟨" U27E8 # MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET <Multi_key> <greater> <parenright>: "⟩" U27E9 # MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET <Multi_key> <d> <d> : "∂" U8706 # DEL <Multi_key> <n> <b> : "∇" U8711 # NABLA

I've used this for perhaps the last 10 years now and I don't think I could go back to working on a machine without configurable compose key functionality at this point.
by 9rx | 2025-08-04 20:01:07+00:00
> Good quality healthcare providers, or sometimes even any healthcare providers that will schedule an appointment before you die, for one.

Yeah, specialists aren't commonly found in small towns. But it is not like cities are walled off. What's the practical difference between driving for 30 minutes across town to get to hospital vs. driving 30 minutes into the city? From anything I've ever observed, the specialist hospitals are generally located on the arterial entranceways into the city, no doubt for good reason.

If you need urgent specialist care, they have helicopters that can fly astonishingly fast. I'd love to see actual numbers, but I'd venture to guess in an average scenario you could actually get to the hospital faster if you were in the rural area as the helicopter can land more or less right beside you instead of you having to navigate city obstacles to either go to somewhere where the helicopter can land or go directly to the hospital.

> ...has no good quality restaurant when I don't want to cook, as another thing we could consider being infrastructure. And so on.

The original comment was about moving to "a small town", not moving to "a specific small town". Absolutely there are small towns that lack infrastructure, but there is no reason you have to choose those specific ones. If you decided you were going to move to a small town, you'd pick the one that you like.

> Worth noting I live in Slovakia.

And, sure, it is possible that every small town in Slovakia lacks infrastructure, but is staying in Slovakia a hard constraint?
by MutedEstate45 | 2025-08-04 20:01:10+00:00
Really like your approach of using existing Postgres/MySQL instead of dragging in Redis. It feels genuinely drop-in, but still Sidekiq-class. I know it's a bit early to ask about production patterns, but I was curious: if the worker thread flood hits the same Postgres that serves the web API, how do the job-fetch queries avoid contending with OLTP traffic? Does Sidequest follow Oban's advisory-lock approach or use a different throttling strategy?
by surebut | 2025-08-04 20:01:32+00:00
That’s their self selecting goal, sure. Fortunately for humanity the main drivers are old as hell, physics is ageist. Data centers are not a fundamental property of reality. They can be taken offline; sabotage or just loss of skills in time to maintain them leading to cascading failures. A new pandemic could wipe out billions and the loss of service workers cause it all to fail. Wifi satellites can go unreplaced.

They're a long long ways from "protomolecule" that just carries on infinitely on its own

CEOs don't really understand physics. Signal loss and such. Just data models that only mean something to their immediate business motives. They're more like priests; well versed in their profession, but oblivious to how anything outside that bubble works.
by axus | 2025-08-04 20:01:36+00:00
I thought FedNow was for settlement between banks, not a consumer-facing service. That would be a "Central Bank Digital Currency": https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...

There were some bills on the subject, Republicans opposed to a CBDC to demonstrate their libertarian credentials:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1919...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1430...

HR-1919 passed the house, but it's not clear if "they" intend to bring it up for vote in the Senate.

People have submitted comments to the gov for using XRP as a mechanism, but AI tells me that FedNow is not killed or being replaced.
by godelski | 2025-08-04 20:02:19+00:00
I'm not quite sure I understand your pattern. Can you explain it more so I can better understand? Maybe I'm missing something and I'm always looking to improve my workflow.

Locally, I don't get the point. I can do tabs and splits. A session? That's another window. I can also hide that and use keyboard shortcuts to navigate towards it. Am I missing a local benefit?

The session is the thing I use, and I do use tmux every day, but I exclusively use it when in ssh as on a local machine I have everything I need. You mention the hybrid, but isn't the point that the connection is ephemeral? We don't exactly want to keep it alive unless we are actively using the connection, right? This is what I'm not understanding about your mixed scenario. What is the difference between what you do and me just opening another pane in ghostty and doing the ssh there. I can't detach from ghostty, but I can save the window state (or move to a different window in a different workspace or just cycle through windows like I would a session) so when I quit it it resumes, but honestly, I rarely quit it. Keeping a remote connection alive while there's no active usage seems like a waste and it's just going to disconnect when I walk away from my machine anyways. So what is the difference?

I do find sessions tend to get unruley easily, and more easily than windows just do to being hidden another level deeper. It's not too bad when single user, but I'd still suggest organizing tabs over multiple sessions, in most cases. That's because it is easy to just leave something like an editor open and accidentally overwrite files. Someone just logs back in after awhile and types :x into vim (or :x!) without thinking. It's also just too easy to let sessions stale. I haven't worked with a single person (myself included) who did not have a tmux session that was inactive for at least a month more than their last login time. (Better than all the hanging VSCode sessions though) That's like people using srun to run slurm jobs instead of submitting a batch job into the queue. That's totally fine to do when you're sitting in front of the sim but if you walk away and the code errors or just ends before your session ends then you're just hogging a machine that could be used (there wasn't even a benefit to this either!). Locally, it's pretty much the same thing except locally I can do all my tabs and splits and sessions without tmux.