MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tialaramex | 2025-08-26 18:31:02+00:00
It's complicated:

https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/blob/main/wri...

The left chart there is the proposed (now current) Rust unstable sort, named IPN Sort and the right chart is the old (at the time current) unstable sort

That nice black triangle line going straight up and to the right is random input, a typical input for testing sort performance. Compare those essentially flat lines at the bottom in orange and green, for the easy ascending and descending inputs (sorting them is no work, or trivial as appropriate) and the distinct brown circle s95 which is markedly worse than the black line.

s95 is 95% sorted data, plus 5% random data, which is what you'd see if you:

1. sort container of N Things 2. do work which overall removes about 0.05 x N Things, maybe they're completed 3. add 0.05 x N Things, maybe they're new 4. repeat from step 1

Compared to the usual test workload this is actually more work because indeed it's mostly sorted but the non-sorted parts are far out of position.

The vertical on these charts is mean comparisons per item, that is if we can sort 100 items with total 1000 comparisons, that scores 10 on the vertical axis, the reason to do this is that it's independent of physical realisation. Because the horizontal axis is log size a horizontal line means the sort is O(n) for that class of input, a diagonal means O(n log n) which is what we're hoping for from a sort algorithm.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-08-26 18:31:44+00:00
The political pressure is budgetary and care related. Are you claiming MAID does not save money and decrease usage by ending expensive care earlier than it would otherwise be ended?

I would expect private care to uphold whatever I agreed to when buying insurance from them. You continue to miss the point that there is no other option in Canada because the government made the other options illegal, which is what creates the liability. They can't make care in any other form illegal and also not provide care. I am also talking about the specific case where the person is terminally ill, not the way more crazy version we have rolled out letting people with no impending doom opt for suicide. Limiting this to the defensible type of MAID limits the perverse incentive you are concerned about to almost nothing.

You trust the government to do the right thing when they have continually proven they will choose the wrong thing if it is convenient or the outcome most likely under incompetent management.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-08-26 18:32:00+00:00
It is absolutely 80%+. The majority of the time, it is a company looking to sponsor an H1B for a role or they have an H1B in the role who they want to sponsor for PERM status (Green Card) and the law requires them to post the job to prove there are no Americans available. The next most common reason is they have identified an internal candidate for the role but corporate policy requires all jobs to be posted externally to show they are looking for the best person. The next most common reason is HR conducting market research on compensation. In all cases, there is no intent to actually fill the role with an external hire.
by immibis | 2025-08-26 18:32:52+00:00
Too many people don't realize that it's not an open ecosystem any more. The Web is no longer an open collection of a large number of HTTP/HTML clients and servers. It's a singular platform, produced by control a centralised consortium of a small number of entities (browser vendors (mostly Google), ad vendors (mostly Google), and a few very large for-profit sites (mostly Google)) and since it is their product alone, they dictate how it works and they don't have your interests in mind. You not liking this fact doesn't make it untrue. We're not heading towards this endpoint - we're already there.

You will either obey the rules of the product (as dictated by mostly-Google), or you will stop using the product. It's no different in kind from either obeying the new Play Store policies or getting removed from the Play Store. It's no different in kind from either obeying the new Twitter terms or getting banned from Twitter. These are applications, centrally controlled platforms, not ecosystems.

If the Web decides that you need to meet some requirement but your corporate process is set up in a way that makes it onerous to meet, then you either change your corporate process or you get off the Web.

At least it still doesn't cost actual money or ID documents to be on the Web, like it does on the Play Store. I'm not very sympathetic to corporations who put roadblocks in front of themselves and then play the victim. The Web has demanded that you must have a streamlined fully automated process for certificate issuance and deployment, but, key point, this isn't an unreasonable requirement.

It's justified to keep a close eye on the rollout of new Web requirements, because unreasonable ones are surely not far behind. Google has just announced that in the next version of Android you won't be able to sideload apps that Google hasn't approved. It'd be folly to assume they aren't trying to impose something similar on the Web as well. But this isn't that, and can't become that.
by Gormo | 2025-08-26 18:32:55+00:00
> So what happened? Capitalism happened. More specifically, financialization happened. Everything US companies does comes down to simply cutting costs and increasing profits for short-term financial performance. There is (now) absolutely no long term thinking.

Blaming real-world problems on nominalized abstractions is quite unhelpful, especially when those abstractions are all-encompassing ones like "capitalism" or "financialization" which mostly represent patterns of behavior that have always been present.

Identifying specific shifts in incentives or intentions that resulted in different motivations or intentions becoming dominant is difficult, but there's really little point in engaging these conversations without at least making an attempt to do so.

> As for the author, I suspect he represents the American corporate view that any kind of government intervention (beyond bail outs) cannot work because they don't want that long term. It would reduce profits and/or make a few people slightly less wealthy. They spend a lot of money on propaganda to convince ordinary people that corporatism is good and collectivisim of any kind is bad, that governments aren't capable of anything, etc.

"Corporatism" is collectivism, and much of the critique of these kinds of interventions stems from the correct recognition that political incentives (a) are deeply entwined with commercial ones, not a counterbalance to them, and (b) often have even worse failure modalities than prevailing economic incentives.
by lazyeye | 2025-08-26 18:33:07+00:00
Yes it was obviously a cut and paste from a previous comment for the simple reason that the same point was being made.

And honestly the idea that me putting forward a consistent point of view is somehow indicative of inauthenticity is kind of silly.

I'd say look at your own chat history. I am reminded that insufferable hypocrisy is a common thing online.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-26 18:33:22+00:00
Everyone loves subjective rules, as long as the benevolent dictator applies them more-or-less consistently, and as long as the community doesn't get so big that it doesn't scale.

Anyway, haven't finished reading the interview, but the word "asshole" or "rule" doesn't appear in it.

Edit: finished it, there's absolutely nothing like the headline in the entire interview.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-08-26 18:33:47+00:00
> Can we try to not fall victim to this sort of "us or them" rhetoric. It's obviously exactly what this is being framed as officially, but it's way worse than that.

I read it more as decentering the United States, which frankly I'm completely, 100% for. America's (lack of) culture has been our biggest export. We've sanitized vast swathes of the globe into our hollow consumerist self image at great cost to interesting and beautiful places. All products are designed with Americans in mind, because Americans were the center of global trade. If you wanted to make money, you had to sell your thing to Americans.

And, worse, Americans have grown accustomed to this deference and preferential treatment. It's time we got a reality check: that the world doesn't need us anymore. That we've become as old, dumb and worthless as the shitty president that so perfectly embodies our culture of consumption, waste, and useless greed.
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by didibus | 2025-08-26 18:34:14+00:00
The proposal I think is simply to force listings to have more details like hire and start date, if it's for a backfill, if it gives priority to internal hires, etc.

So the enforcement I think would be if you post listings without those details, you get fined.

How you'd prove if people added false details I don't know, but I think the idea is at least by giving more info on the listing it might deter some ghost listings or enable the applicant to determine if the listing seems legit.
by Sunspark | 2025-08-26 18:34:38+00:00
I booted into my 7 partition the other day because for whatever reason my frayed 10 partition wouldn't let me run an offline defender scan.

My suggestion is, install Microsoft Security Essentials (you can get a copy of the installer out of archive.org) and definition files are still published for it and are up-to-date. MSE is what became Defender in 10. The Defender in 7 is not the same and doesn't scan for the same things. MSE is needed to replace it.
by hnburnsy | 2025-08-26 18:34:48+00:00
Here is how the EU expects PCB imports...

>For PCBs shipped to the EU, a Certificate of Analysis is not typically required for determining tariffs, as tariffs are based on the HS code (e.g., 8534.00 for bare PCBs), country of origin, and customs value. However, a CoA or similar documentation (e.g., material composition report) may be needed for: Regulatory compliance with REACH or RoHS, especially if the PCBs contain restricted substances like lead or cadmium. Customs verification if the product’s classification or materials are questioned.
by crawfordcomeaux | 2025-08-26 18:34:58+00:00
One issue is your automated dehumanization of someone who doesn't match cultural norms as not being "basic human".

You continuing with culture that fundamentally dismisses/devalues humans is the main issue here. Culture change starts from within. He works as a spokesperson for me becahse I'm much more inclined to someone showing basic humanity, like eating off a foot, than someone showing basic inhumanity, like catering to preferences born inside a country (like the US) that was founded on genocide & enslavement.
by kjs3 | 2025-08-26 18:35:00+00:00
I think if the shipper can't determine the amount of copper in their products, then neither can customs.

Customs doesn't have to. They can simply decide you haven't followed the rules, and it'll be up to you to prove you haven't or face paying fines/losing a shipment/possible prosecution. And they can decide the playing field: can you be wrong by 10% on that copper estimate? 1%? 0.001%? Good luck.
by erulabs | 2025-08-26 18:35:05+00:00
Not trying to be snarky, but doesn't this mental model effectively allow you to ignore any/all things otherwise intelligent people have to say, simply because you disagree? If I met Einstein, and he had opinions about how to cook chicken that differed from mine, I wouldn't leap to "he's a complete moron in the kitchen!", i'd be inclined to really attempt to understand the difference of opinion.

I'm not disagreeing that intelligence can be domain specific, but I'd be careful going to far with this. It is _not_ obviously the case that "anyone who can think critically leans towards the Democratic party", and putting that forward seems like an exceptionally dangerous bubble to build.
by trilogic | 2025-08-26 18:35:54+00:00
Replying to: * Clicking 'Explore' on the top of the page opens a pop-under to office.com for some reason? I also clicked the text of one of your articles, and it sent me to kaspersky.com, probably another ad.

I don´t know what you talking about, all in the website works quite well (beside the ugly articles page that is a work in progress). The page is under heavy traffic and some users click HGMI (that is a hypergraph in 3d with clickable links and memory demanding). Then changing page under heavy traffic takes longer and users are still clicking the hypergraph links.

How easy you missing the point of the article which is: No matter the good will certain paths are meant to be walked. Then I offer a choice with HugstonOne App to whom may be interested. And yes, credits to legendary TIM COOK for his great contributions to society.
by esoterae | 2025-08-26 18:35:56+00:00
Reading this as a pilot, this thing reads like a primer for How Not To Think.

The author might think they're being a meta-pirate by saying "oh these are all possible actions proscribed by most organizations" implying that the proscription itself is a sign of ossified incompetence, instead of identifying the underlying one-true-savior fallacy that underpins it all.

The general danger here is human error. The point of leveraging a collaborative environment is to design process to detect and remediate human error before it radiates outward into more cost. The farther it goes, generally, the higher the cost, non-linearly. It shouldn't be "never do this", but instead "if you're going to do this use every tool at your disposal to make sure it's done correctly." Siloing the entire decision tree to yourself is exactly how not to do it.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-26 18:36:32+00:00
I know what you mean, I always used the built-in Excel wizard when I was ingesting general CSVs, and I did take advantage of the ability to babysit the conversion process in steps, to make sure everything was coming out alright, since in this case everything needed to be perfect.

But it has been years and I don't know if there was perfect consistency between different Excel versions.

For structured CSVs which conformed to international standards, I wrote my own code to parse the CSVs with extreme reproducibility so I could avoid manual intervention, but that was a lot more straightforward than the general case would be.

Now I only have Excel on one PC and it's Windows and that one doesn't go on the internet.

If I needed to convert again it would be better to have it in the browser than ever before, especially if it's a CSV that I downloaded on a Linux PC or Mac.
by pear01 | 2025-08-26 18:36:49+00:00
yes, quality of life is a very difficult thing to measure objectively, because of the subjective component, as you state. are you under the impression the "reviews by independent experts" mentioned in the comment above the one you cited would only be meaningful if the person narrating their subjective experience was found to be outright lying? you are clearly familiar with some of the nuances, thus i'm not sure why you would not also be interested in independent reviews of the subject. his personal story is worth a lot, but it's not everything. i would think the more people reviewing it seriously, the more benefit to people like your father (and countless others)
by tptacek | 2025-08-26 18:37:19+00:00
The controls summarized in the CNBC piece seem reasonable, or, if not that, then at least not all that onerous.

The controls in the actual proposal are less reasonable: they create finable infractions for any claim in a job ad deemed "misleading" or "inaccurate" (findings of fact that requires a an expensive trial to solve) and prohibit "perpetual postings" or postings made 90 days in advance of hiring dates.

The controls might make it harder to post "ghost jobs" (though: firms posting "ghost jobs" simply to check boxes for outsourcing, offshoring, or visa issuance will have no trouble adhering to the letter of this proposal while evading its spirit), but they will also impact firms that don't do anything resembling "ghost job" hiring.

Firms working at their dead level best to be up front with candidates still produce steady feeds of candidates who feel misled or unfairly rejected. There are structural features of hiring that almost guarantee problems: for instance, the interval between making a selection decision about a candidate and actually onboarding them onto the team, during which any number of things can happen to scotch the deal. There's also a basic distributed systems problem of establishing a consensus state between hiring managers, HR teams, and large pools of candidates.

If you're going to go after "ghost job" posters, you should do something much more targeted to what those abusive firms are actually doing, and raise the stakes past $2500/infraction.
by kg | 2025-08-26 18:37:19+00:00
The USPS is a really good example. Most of its modern problems are exclusively the result of politicians sabotaging it - given the constraints it operates under it's wildly successful. Even some foreigners I know have a positive view of the USPS because of their interactions with it (shipping goods to the US).

It offers good service to everyone in the US - even people living in the middle of nowhere - with fairly good delivery speeds and strong reliability. I can't remember the last time I had a package or mailpiece get lost, and I think I've had a package get damaged exactly once in my entire life.
by panzerboiler | 2025-08-26 18:37:28+00:00
Yes, you can. As long as one finger is "pressing hard-ish" a second finger can command the drag position, but if the finger that is pressing (you do not need to press very hard to trigger a click) is not the one that is also moving, then you will have issues when also scrolling with two other fingers, because at that point you have 4 fingers touching the trackpad, and by default you get anoter gesture registered (probably a zoom out to see all the windows in the workspace, called "expose"). If the fingers touching the trackpad are "only" three, you can drag and scroll, with the window that receives the scroll being the one under the pointer/item being dragged.
by throwanem | 2025-08-26 18:38:23+00:00
I'm surprised, but maybe I shouldn't be. And maybe if I put more work into picking a motherboard for a new Windows 7 build, I could even have working USB-C ports! It can't be as hard as a Hackintosh, probably...

Still, it's hard to see Windows excelling at anything but gaming, and if it's possible to get DX12 support on Win 7, I've never been able to find a working explanation of how. Compute loads I already have targets for.
by trelane | 2025-08-26 18:38:30+00:00
I don't think Linux users would pay for it. It would pretty much be a loss (support isna form of insurance--you have a pool of covered users, and they need not in aggregate cost more than the company takes in). And System76 needs to also change the firmware to support Linux (is why buying the Clevo model they co-designed and throwing Linux on it won't work like you hope.)

Plus, I suspect System76 would want to have a lot of control over the design that they would end up on the hook for.

If you want PopOS and/or System76 support, they're right there. You can just buy and use their kit.

Maybe Framework could be another System76 ODM, though.
by oersted | 2025-08-26 18:38:48+00:00
I don't disagree with the general premise, but it's not so clear-cut with regards to raw materials.

For example, the US has some of the largest lithium deposits in the world, but it's not being exploited because extraction is dirty and polluting, generally the compliance for opening a new mine is very complex (takes 7-10 years), and catching-up on refinery capacity will take an enormous investment (China does almost all Li refining now).

Similarly, developing the techniques to boost oil extraction (fracking, EOR...) took significant and sustained government support of different kinds until it became competitive, it's unclear if market pressure alone would have done it. This made the US again into the largest exporter rather than the largest importer of oil.

There are many such cases.

Note: I'm not from the US, and I'm not particularly pro-US, I'm not saying that tariffs are a good mechanism to support these industries, and I'm not necessarily in favour of such anti-environmental policies. But those are the facts as I understand them.
by immibis | 2025-08-26 18:38:55+00:00
Have they? All I see is a little message saying "not secure". They've backtracked from trying to impose a scare screen, and they've even backtracked from displaying a red line through the letters "http".

They've also blocked JavaScript access to things like cameras and microphones if you're not using HTTPS. If it were up to me they'd always block them and you'd have to install an app, but still.
What company discovery/Intel features would you want in a tool like this?
by myzie | 2025-08-26 18:39:05+00:00
Solo founder here looking for some input and feedback from the HN community.

I'm building a SaaS to help with discovering and researching businesses. So far I have information on about 1M US companies, including URL, name, description, associated stock symbol, etc etc.

This could of course support different workflows for a number of possible ICPs. I'm working with one person in private equity now to do geographic filtering for target businesses and deal sourcing, for example. In this case, the important thing is breadth of coverage rather than depth of coverage, interestingly.

However I'm not yet sure that represents the best market for me moving forward. The reason I'm soliciting feedback here is I'm curious if more technical people would find a related API (and likely a corresponding MCP server) useful. As an example, this API would support quickly looking up matching companies by keyword, among other things. It could also simplify enrichment workflows by gathering deeper intel.

Of course there are related companies out there like Clay (https://www.clay.com), Exa (https://exa.ai), Inven (https://www.inven.ai), and Coresignal (https://coresignal.com) to name a few.

However there seems to be plenty of room for a unique take on this. I'm curious if anyone else here on HN is looking for a provider or partner as a data source on companies like this. If so, what capabilities are you looking for? What would make you consider partnering with a company for this and paying for access (even a modest amount) rather than building it yourself? Are you helping with data enrichment or something else?

I also like the idea of building a free way to build and share lists of companies, both privately and publicly. Thinking of all the people that like to share lists like "here are my top 10 companies in <sector> that I keep an eye on".

I greatly appreciate any and all feedback!
by AIPedant | 2025-08-26 18:39:30+00:00
I wonder if part of this is that the Switch 1 was hurt by Unity/etc slop and lazy AAA ports, so Nintendo wants to manage that better for the Switch 2. The Switch 2 doesn't have many games but it is also refreshingly free of hentai match-three games. Likewise Cyberpunk on the Switch 2 is dazzling, but even the trailer for Star Wars Outlaws seems to have performance issues. It would make sense that Nintendo wants to limit the number of unflattering comparisons between AAA games on the Switch 2 vs the Steam Deck.

I don't think Nintendo is going to go "Seal of Quality" but it would be nice if the Switch 2-filtered eShop was not full of cynical trash. The ease of publishing for the Switch 1 was new for Nintendo, and it was welcomed at the time, but in retrospect they went too far.