MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jwr | 2025-09-26 14:57:31+00:00
I'm not sure why you are making this assumption, but assuming you are not trying to derail the discussion with the usual whataboutism argument, and taking your question at face value, the answer would be "yes".

A citizen of any country should feel responsible for the actions of their government, vote, and take action when things begin to get out of hand. Dictatorships are rarely created overnight, they usually begin slowly by gaining support within the population, with the opposing part of the population doing nothing (or not doing enough). And taking the United States example, we are at an interesting point where indeed it seems it is time to do more: organize opposition, demonstrate, organize strikes?
by gill-bates | 2025-09-26 14:57:38+00:00
Thanks! I'm used to looking at an argument and understanding that it comes with a set of presuppositions that must be accepted for the argument to follow (my academic background is in philosophy). I suppose the position I find myself in is at least toying with those presuppositions. I am finding the arguments that stem from them to be valuable and I can adopt the first principles while thinking about it and I'll leave the question of whether they themselves are right or worth holding for another moment.
by somelamer567 | 2025-09-26 14:58:19+00:00
This is a natural and unfortunate consequence of crime and foreign aggression getting increasingly borderless. As the world gets smaller, and as more and more of the world's population knows about the outside world, the more badness we face.

Like it or not, our high-trust society is devolving into a low-trust society as the world opens up. Our defences must evolve -- and the current free-for-all needs to end.
by sudosysgen | 2025-09-26 14:58:32+00:00
They likely would not, due to the curvature of the earth. The locations of the air defenses are known, and the cruise missile fly low such that the detection range is limited to around 20km by the horizon. So they typically only get detected once they are close to their targets.

This is why cruise missiles and drones fired from Yemen routinely hit their targets in Israel, in fact that happened just yesterday.

Israel used ballistic missiles in all likelihood because those are the weapons that Qatar needs American help to intercept.
by GordonS | 2025-09-26 14:58:46+00:00
It's quite possible that this whole digital ID thing is a red herring, to distract from recent revelations about Morgan McSweeney - who illegally took money from the Israel lobby, to fund a fake "antisemitism crisis" in Labour, with the goal of replacing Corbyn with Israel-aligned Starmer.

Some of the digital ID proposal documents published by UK gov even bear the "Labour Together" stamp - Labour Together being the Israel-aligned "think tank" that McSweeney used for the illegal funds!
by morkalork | 2025-09-26 14:59:10+00:00
Have you worked on a data team? I've seen that bs a number of times, it's how I mentally grade different managers and PM/POs.

Re the unavailable data: Smart people ask before a big change, get told what devs are missing and need to instrument/record and then leverage those new metrics for the before/after comparison. Not-smart people yolo the changes, ask for the metrics after and go whoops it's too hard or impossible to check.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-26 14:59:14+00:00
The king can reach any of 64 tiles. Rooks, queens, and knights can also do so, but they can also be captured, so 65 states for those 5 pieces. Bishops can only reach half of those tiles, so those two pieces get 33 states each. Pawns are interesting: they can promote into 4 pieces that each can move 64 tiles, they can be captured, or they can move into a somewhat variable number but 20-30ish positions as a pawn, or about 290 states per pawn. This means it takes 111.something bits to represent the board position of a color, or rounding up, 224 bits to represent the board positions of both black and white. En passant and castling restrictions don't add to the bit representations once you round up, since that's just 1 extra state for several pieces. That's probably the most compact representation for a fixed-size direct board representation.

For a sparse representation, note that both kings have to exist, so you can represent the live pieces with a base-10 number of n digits with n + 2 64-bit numbers representing piece position, and a little bit extra information for castling and en passant legality. If half the pieces are gone (a guesstimate for average number of pieces on the board), that amounts to about 180 bits for a board representation.

Move history requires about 10 bits per move (pair of white/black turns, with a ply of around 32 = 5 bits), which means you get to 18 moves, which appears to be somewhat shorter than the halfway point of an average chess game.

To be honest, it looks to me like getting more compact than the upper hundreds will require building impossibly large dictionaries.
by devingould | 2025-09-26 14:59:18+00:00
I pretty much never clear my context window unless I'm switching to entirely different work, seems to work fine with copilot summarizing the convo every once in a while. I'm probably at 95% code written by an llm.

I actually think it works better that way, the agent doesn't have to spend as much time rereading code it had previously just read. I do have several "agents" like you mention, but I just use them one by one in the same chat so they share context. They all write to markdown in case I do want to start fresh if things do go the wrong direction, but that doesn't happen very often.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-26 14:59:24+00:00
You know the crazy thing about this? For this application I think it’s similar to spam. AI can easily be trained to be better than a human.

And it’s definitely not a 0.05 percent difference. AI will perform better by a long shot.

Two reasons for this.

1. The AI is trained on better data. If the radiologist makes a mistake that mistake is identified later and then the training data can be flagged.

2. No human indeterminism. AI doesn’t get stressed or tired. This alone even without 1. above will make AI beat humans.

Let’s say 1. was applied but that only applies for consistent mistakes that humans make. Consistent mistakes are eventually flagged and shows up as a pattern in training data and the AI can learn it even though humans themselves never actually notice the pattern. Humans just know that the radiologists opinion was wrong because a different outcome happened, we don’t even have to know why it was wrong and many times we can’t know… just flagging the data is enough for the AI to ingest the pattern.

Inconsistent mistakes comes from number 2. If humans make mistakes that are due to stress the training data reflecting those mistakes will be minuscule in size and also random without pattern. The average majority case of the training data will smooth these issues out and the model will remain consistent. Right? A marker that follows a certain pattern shows up 60 times in the data but one time it’s marked incorrectly because of human error… this will be smoothed out.

Overall it will be a statistical anomaly that defies intuition. Similar to how flying in planes is safer than driving. ML models in radiology and spam will beat humans.

I think we are under this delusion that all humans are better than ML but this is simply not true. You can thank LLMs for spreading this wrong intuition.
by kube-system | 2025-09-26 14:59:27+00:00
That's exactly what the person above was getting at.

> They standardize rolling stock. The same stuff is used across the country. I think this is really important. If you think about how the US does things, every city will have its own procurement process.

Having everything ordered piecemeal in smaller custom orders is more expensive and gives cities a disadvantage in negotiation power
by LarsDu88 | 2025-09-26 14:59:33+00:00
I felt this article didn't really explain why a RISC chip with more ops could be as fast as a CISC chip with fewer ops.

I think the actual explanation is that the CISC ops are decoded to more or less the same or similar types of RISC ops, but requiring more physical hardware to do the decode, correct?

The tradeoff here being lower memory for instructions, but more silicon+transistors needed for decode hardware.
by motbus3 | 2025-09-26 14:59:40+00:00
I don't think it is only online. It is really a distopean future in US and UK right now.

I honestly understand the problem with immigration, but at the same time, I think this way of approaching the problem is just to create "the enemy" from 1984.

It seems that immigrants right now move something between 4B-10B a month in UK which is not a small number. Considering the costs elsewhere altogether, it seems quite small win for the risk.
by Lumoscore | 2025-09-26 15:00:13+00:00
The article is totally right about what will happen later—memecoins will become like official investments in the stock market.

But that only fixes how they are sold for big companies. The real problem is still how they are made.

It costs too much money and is too hard to start a token now. This makes the whole crypto area easy for scams and rug-pulls. We need to fix the start of the process.

The future of memecoins depends on building tools that let good people create tokens safely and super cheaply on all the big blockchains. Making it easy and safe for everyone to create tokens is the only way to clean up crypto before it joins the normal world of finance.
by Macha | 2025-09-26 15:00:14+00:00
Their strategy seems to be that they think their left flank is secure and they need to pull to the right to secure Tory voters who are now at a crossroads with how diminished the Tories are. Will they go to Reform? Will they go back to the Tories? The Lib Dems? It seems that Labour think some of the toughness without the undertones that Reform often has might grab them some of their voters. Maybe the implosion of Your Party gives them a feeling of more security on the left flank.

But yeah, this abandonment of the issues they traditionally represented to try and attract the soft centre right voters might not cause their traditional base to vote for the Tories. But it might send their centrists to the Lib Dems, their lefties to the Greens/SNP/etc and their "I just want change, any change" supporters to Reform. Along with increasing apathy and reducing turnout on their former core. Polling certainly seems to indicate that this is happening.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-26 15:00:35+00:00
> This is the kind of thing that is "hard and tedious" for only about five minutes of LLM query or web search time

not even! if you don't need to go super deep with tablespace configs or advanced replication right away, pgtune will get you to a pretty good spot in the time it takes to fill out a form.

https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/

https://github.com/le0pard/pgtune
by jwr | 2025-09-26 15:00:47+00:00
> If your government started doing something you don't agree with, would you renounce your citizenship and move to another country?

Yes — and I even thought about the specific red lines that would make me do it.

> Using Iran as the salient example here, do you truly believe that some 30 year old living in Iran is responsible for a regime that was installed before they were born?

Iran is not a good example, because as many have pointed out, sanctions are often mandated by law, not imposed voluntarily.

But there are other examples, where if we follow this line of reasoning ("but regular people are not responsible!") we end up with business as usual while people get murdered. See Russia for an up-to-date example. Being a citizen of a country that murders civilians must have consequences, we can't just do business as usual. Seems unfair? I bet the people who have been murdered would consider the state of things unfair, too.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-09-26 15:01:02+00:00
> Some people probably don't want that "deep interpersonal bonds" though. I know I don't want. I know some people who don't say they don't want but act in every way that they don't want.

It's not my position to tell someone what to want. But the evolutionary firmware your body runs on is tuned for interpersonal bonds. If you want to go against that, nobody will stop you, but it strikes me as needless suffering in a world that already has a considerable amount.
by epcoa | 2025-09-26 15:01:43+00:00
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28060228/

MI, HF, sepsis, pneumonia, respiratory failure are among the most common reasons for inpatient admission, not fringe.

Equating acute decompensation of chronic illnesses requiring inpatient admission to "knocking on death's door" is a bit simplistic.

No data has been provided showing how the relevance of outcomes based on institution of first presentation (not definitive management) for breast cancer, that is usually managed outpatient on an elective basis, has anything to do with outcomes for the "overwhelming majority of things people to go to the hospital for".

Even pre-pandemic the life expectancy of Hispanics was not as high as billionaires. Speaking of "deaths door" perhaps at least QALY, or something else is a more appropriate metric.
by myrmidon | 2025-09-26 15:01:47+00:00
I disagree with this.

You are basically asking taxpayers to fund an uncompetitive (i.e. wasteful) local industry.

I think that's justifiable when you have high local unemployment (making the thing a job program, really), or when you really need the industry for strategic reasons (food and weapon manufacturing), but when that is not the case, doing this raises labor costs in general and hurts your actually useful and globally competitive industries, too.
by mormegil | 2025-09-26 15:02:03+00:00
While this is an upper bound for a "board position", it should be noted that it is not an upper bound for a "game state". That includes the (unbounded) whole board position history because of the threefold repetition rule. If you ignore that (and the fifty-move rule which can alternatively be kept using a six-bit counter), you also need the castling state and the en passant state. Plus one bit of the player on move, obviously :-)
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-26 15:02:13+00:00
Personally, I'm not opposed to bus service; quite the opposite. Especially if I could bring an eBike.

However, buses can and should feel safe for everyone, whether you're 5 years old or 95 years old, a US citizen or a visitor from Japan, whether it's 2 PM or 2 AM. In the United States, they absolutely don't. This can be fixed, but nobody has the political will to be perceived as a little mean.
by octo888 | 2025-09-26 15:02:29+00:00
> Some of the digital ID proposal documents published by UK gov even bear the "Labour Together" stamp - Labour Together being the Israel-aligned "think tank" that McSweeney used for the illegal funds!

Wow straight out of the Tory playbook (see eg Rhys-Mogg "lying [down] in Parliament" to poison search results for lying to parliament). They are so incredibly similar
by crazygringo | 2025-09-26 15:02:48+00:00
Agreed. Having such a tiny amount of text per page is an antipattern -- scrolling is more ergonomic than finding and clicking a link to go to the next page.

And the columns are painfully narrow which impedes readability. Overly wide body text is often a problem people recognize, but overly narrow is equally problematic.

It's a very strange experience to have to scroll to read all the text, even when there's barely any text to begin with.
by xenobeb | 2025-09-26 15:02:50+00:00
It is so outrageous to value Tiktok USA at $14 billion.

Forget Meta's market cap, does anyone think Zuckerberg wouldn't have paid 20 billion for Tiktok USA ?

Just so corrupt and to even call it a sweetheart deal is outrageous.

I thought it should just be banned in the US. The idea we are basically strong arming a whole nation and stealing a company at a bullshit valuation is completely insane.
by nxobject | 2025-09-26 15:04:06+00:00
As an illustration of where housing laws left SROs, I highly recommend this fantastic documentary on the last SROs in downtown Chicago - “Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels” (2018). It turns out that a lot of the residents are elderly retirees… which says a great deal about how changes in housing laws can follow a generation ‘til they die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YbjKxdfE8Q
by astonex | 2025-09-26 15:04:28+00:00
You don't currently have any National ID. You have forms of ID, which others might not have, but none are national mandatory ID that every citizen and resident has. As such many benefits in streamlining and simplifying processes cannot be achieved when everyone has a UID as such. Imagine making a system where you used various ID formats, and you couldn't guarantee anyone had one in particular, and some people had none.

Your NI card literally says it's not identification. A NI number is not linked to a passport as it's not mandatory to have a passport, so that would not work for many people. It is just a number used for tax accounting.
by Nasrudith | 2025-09-26 15:04:41+00:00
That whole dumb trope which amounts to projecting your desires to kill the upper classes to bring about a utopia onto "the other" again? It is a projection-propaganda meme accusing the enemy of planning violence to justify your own, mixed with trying to recruit a revolution they feel entitled to.

Even a complete cynical Machivellian with no morals would have better uses for masses post automation. Even keeping them on the dole just to have a conscriptible population to do the massive amounts of logistical gruntwork would make sense. Populations are a variable in military power, even as war machines mean fewer boots on the front lines and more in the logistical support. Only a complete idiot would throw a large population advantage away.
by leobg | 2025-09-26 15:05:11+00:00
Ron Reagan, My Father at 100:

> Many victims rapidly developed an especially viscous pneumonia and then, as one physician put it, “died struggling to clear their airways of a blood-tinged froth that sometimes gushed from their nose and mouth.” Medical science of the day was helpless before the onslaught. There was nothing Nelle’s doctor could do for her. Jack, who ordinarily attended mass on an intermittent basis, began lighting candles daily at the altar. The boys hovered anxiously, waiting for the doctor to pronounce the end. Instead, in desperation, he advised the family to feed her as much moldy cheese as she could stomach. There is no medical reason that a virus would respond to what the doctor may have supposed was a crude form of antibiotic. But Nelle recovered nonetheless, her indomitable will refusing to submit to a mere pathogen. For the rest of his life, my father would credit the cheese.
Show HN: iOS Client for Claude Code SDK
by rkotzy | 2025-09-26 15:05:43+00:00
I just released an iOS app that lets you start a new Claude Code instance from your phone.

There are a lot of apps to transfer or resume Claude sessions from laptop -> phone but I wanted something that worked 100% from my phone and wasn't dependent on a connection to my laptop.

How it works: spins up a virtual machine for each user (on fly.io), clones a GitHub repo, and spins up a Claude Code instance. The VM spins down after 2hrs of inactivity.

I've been using it to open small PRs for new ideas or ask questions about my codebase when ideas pop into my head on the go. lmk what you think!
by bluGill | 2025-09-26 15:05:55+00:00
Sure, but a bus lasts 12 years in service (depending on use slightly different, but 12 is a reasonable number for discussion). You should be buying them on a longer contract to deliver 1/12 of your total fleet every year for several years. This means that you only need to ask what to train the mechanics on at the end of the contract and in turns there are not that many different buses you need to train on. Keeping the same manufacture does reduce training costs some, but it isn't like every bus is different.

Even ignoring the above, all but the smallest agencies can dedicate mechanics to each make. A mechanic can maintain so many buses per year - lets say 10 for discussion (I have no idea what the real number is), so if you have 100 buses you need 10 mechanics. if you have 4 trained on brand A, 4 on brand B, and 2 on both you are fine.
by somelamer567 | 2025-09-26 15:05:56+00:00
> No more anonymous internet usage

And given the torrent of inauthentic "right wing" commentators nudging public opinion on the BBC's Have Your Say, the Daily Mail and Reddit, I'm not entirely sure this will be a bad thing.

Recall that Iran cut off the internet for university exams, and the volume of posting by Scottish pro-independence accounts on Twitter/X dropped 98%. Food for thought.
by zzbzq | 2025-09-26 15:06:21+00:00
Postgres nationalists will applaud the conclusion no matter how bad the reasoning is.

Don't get me wrong, the idea that he wants to just use a RDMBS because his needs aren't great enough, is a perfectly inoffensive conclusion. The path that led him there is very unpersuasive.

It's also dangerous. Ultimately the author is willing to do a bit more work rather than learn something new. This works because he's using a popular tool people like. But overall, he doesn't demonstrate he's even thought about any of the things I'd consider most important; he just sort of assumes running a Redis is going to be hard and he'd rather not mess with it.

To me, the real question is just cost vs. how much load the DB can even take. My most important Redis cluster basically exists to take load off the DB, which takes high load even by simple queries. Using the DB as a cache only works if your issue is expensive queries.

I think there's an appeal that this guy reaches the conclusion someone wants to hear, and it's not an unreasonable conclusion, but it creates the illusion the reasoning he used to get there was solid.

I mean, if you take the same logic, cross out the word Postgres, and write in "Elasticsearch," and now it's an article about a guy who wants to cache in Elasticsearch because it's good enough, and he uses the exact same arguments about how he'll just write some jobs to handle expiry--is this still sounding like solid, reasonable logic? No it's crazy.
by Hikikomori | 2025-09-26 15:06:35+00:00
Can't use your passport online. In Sweden we have bank id, its used for everything from validating purchases, logging in to banks, government or other websites, to sign documents, get a loan, etc. To get it you would need to go to a bank and present a proper ID, the ones using bank id for auth or otherwise only get your name and personal number.
by mindcrash | 2025-09-26 15:06:39+00:00
With Envoy (https://www.envoyproxy.io/) and Contour (https://projectcontour.io/) being official CNCF sanctioned projects in the Service Proxy space, Istio (https://istio.io/) and Linkerd (https://linkerd.io/) being official CNCF sanctioned projects in the Service Mesh space and Emissary Ingress (https://emissary-ingress.dev/) the same in the API Gateway space, just to name a few, naming yourself a standard are some pretty big words...

... Traefik is pretty good yes, but a standard? Hell no.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-09-26 15:06:55+00:00
Consumer tech tilts toward those with poor impulse control because that ensures survival for the creators of said tech. Eventually, it becomes less of a means to an end, and more of an end in and of itself. This is a problem because it reinforces addiction.

I'd argue the iPhone crossed that line at some point within the past five years, though, admittedly, it is the iPhone + social media services working together. I doubt Jobs would have approved the gaudy, Myspace-aesthetic-level Messages backgrounds that iOS 26 was proud to launch with.