MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by g9yuayon | 2025-09-28 21:14:40+00:00
I can attest how useful Bayesian analysis is. My team recently needed to sample from many millions of items to test their qualities. The question is that given a certain budget and expectation, what's the minimum or maximum number of items that we need to sample. There was an elegant solution to this problem.

What was surprising, though, was how reluctant the engineers are to learn such basic techniques. It's not like the math was hard. They all went through the first-year college math and I'm sure they did reasonably well.
by thrance | 2025-09-28 21:14:51+00:00
The "Left" has never held any meaningful power in this country. Blaming the Progressives for this sad state of affairs is not only completely wrong, it's extremely disingenuous.

If you're speaking of the Democrats, they've been following the Neoliberalist playbook to the letter for decades: deregulate businesses, defund social programs, reduce taxes. This (the housing crisis) is the direct result of their half-competent technocratic stewardship of the economy. (And let's not spare the actually malevolent Republicans from sharing the blame in turning this land from an actual country into a billionaire's playground).

This "Abundance" movement is to be taken as a rebranding of the same tired and destructive Neoliberalist policies, and nothing else. It is ported by the same old people and politicians that have been slowly running this country to the ground. There is absolutely nothing new to be found in their manifestos: deregulate businesses, defund social programs, reduce taxes.

Housing can either be affordable or an investment vehicle, but not both at the same time. Actual leftists understand this very basic premise, but the astroturfed Abundance "movement" remains blind to it. Left-wing populism is slowly gaining ground in the face of an extremely complacent and ineffective Democratic establishment, and Abundance is a last-ditch effort to sold democratic voters on the same garbage they've been eating since the 1980s.
by boomskats | 2025-09-28 21:15:04+00:00
And rightly so. The Swiss have direct democracy. We have a PM who is so jealous of Tony's 20 mil a year in post-Iraq 'speaking fees' that he'll do anything to figure out his own revolving door - in this case throwing an entire nation's worth of data under the Peter Thiel bus in the hope of some kickbacks.

What the Swiss just voted on and what the UK government are mandating are absolutely not 'the same'. Use of the swiss ID is voluntary.
by ChoHag | 2025-09-28 21:15:14+00:00
> But if you take my cookies, add sprinkles then resell them, I can expect a modest donation to keep the bakery running.

You cannot expect any such thing. You gave them away for free.

If you want to get paid, don't give your work away for free. If you give your work away for free, you cannot expect to get paid.

It's shocking how frequently people who deal in rigorous logic day in, day out are unable to understand this very simple principle.
by Blinky243 | 2025-09-28 21:15:21+00:00
Author here. This is a neutral, practical breakdown aimed at candidates and hiring teams. • Head-to-head: H-1B vs Canadian PR (not just fees) • Two playbooks (H-1B/OPT now vs hadn’t filed) • Province levers (Ontario/BC tech) • Appendices with landing + run-rate numbers

Not legal advice; verify with USCIS/IRCC. Happy to answer questions and note corrections from practitioners.
by shadowpho | 2025-09-28 21:15:49+00:00
>Smartphones already do this. They essentially measure the resistance of the cable by measuring the voltage and correlating it with the current drawn, and regulate the current accordingly.

No! Where did you hear this?

Smartphones usually either rely on type-c pd nowadays or do far less standard Samsung/Apple resistor on usb line check.

Some power banks also do terrible thing where they increase current pull until they see voltage starting to collapse but that’s to check for OC limits on load switch. However that’s really starting to go away because type c just works
by pessimizer | 2025-09-28 21:17:08+00:00
> Having a mental illness does not make a person violent. Step one of better mental health (illness or no illness) is reducing bullying.

Why are you saying something this silly in public? Bullying is not the primary cause of mental illness, and mental illness can cause violence. You must be caught up in having an argument, because you wouldn't deny either of these things if you took a moment.

You're just buying into the every school shooter is a victim argument that has been thrown around since Columbine. Those boys were not bullied, they were bullies. It's one of a cluster of vile narratives about youth that have been going around for a decade or two: telling children that 1) if they take a gun to school and start shooting people, that it's the school and the students who got shot who were at fault, and 2) if you kill yourself, you'll get revenge on the people who "made you" kill yourself; they'll be shown to be cruel, and punished.

People who spread that crap hate children imo. They will believe it, and can feel very helpless because growing up is tough.
by leptons | 2025-09-28 21:17:53+00:00
>Are people 75-and-older agile and flexible enough, mentally, to perform in these positions?

All of them? No. But I also could introduce you to plenty of 25 year old's that aren't "agile and flexible enough, mentally to perform these positions". And it's often not even "mental agility" that is the problem with people in power, it's corruption, greed, and just plain old hate that is the problem. Those things don't have any age limits except maybe below 6 years old, and even then I've met some pretty nasty, spoiled toddlers.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-09-28 21:17:54+00:00
> Easier to just remove yourself from a situation when anyone could be carrying a gun.

There are more guns than people in the US. Whole states have open and concealed carry laws. You'd have to live like a hermit.

The solution is blindingly obvious: make gun possession and ownership illegal. Yet we can't stop indoctrinating kids from a young age that guns are a human right, no matter the cost.
by cptnapalm | 2025-09-28 21:19:14+00:00
That's interesting. Off the cuff, I'll say it would depend on venue. Like on Reddit, you can easily have dozens of people saying exactly the same thing and other views can easily disappear in the muck. That's not even getting into the dominant view down voting all dissent. Still, everyone there can type out their thoughts in as complete a fashion as they so choose.

In person, things are different. The dominant side can and often enough does drown out dissent. In that case, the intent is to silence. So that would be "censorship" in a cultural, not legal sense which would be hostile to the freedom of speech in the cultural sense, not legal.
by lm28469 | 2025-09-28 21:19:25+00:00
OK so let's say it's ageism, why should I care again?

If your president can barely finish a coherent sentence and literally pisses in a plastic bag strapped to his leg I don't care how you call it but I want none of it

Same reason I don't leave my newborn baby alone with my 95 years old grandma who has dementia, call it ageism if you want, I call it basic common sense
by bearjaws | 2025-09-28 21:19:46+00:00
Totally fair to call out blanket “anyone 75+ isn’t all there” as ageist. But the governance point still stands: even sharp octogenarians are often out of sync with modern life (platforms, tech norms, digital risks). Only 8% of adults 65+ say they’re online “almost constantly,” vs 48% of 18–29 a proxy for how different the information environment is that shapes decisions.
by Edmond | 2025-09-28 21:19:58+00:00
Have not looked into it yet but sounds a lot like a PKI based certificate style scheme: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723418

The verifier is the entity you hand your information to for verification, ie the CA. The extent of your interaction and linkage with them is mainly at point of verification and issuance.

It is however possible to trace a certificate to it's issuer, which on the surface sounds like a bad thing, but is in fact good if the goal is to provide privacy while ensuring accountability.
by atmavatar | 2025-09-28 21:21:02+00:00
It's about more than just whether a congressperson is all there or not.

A bigger concern to me is that many of them are old enough that any long-term impacts resulting from bills they pass simply won't happen until they're gone.

And, I would expand that to include more than just Congress - I think major executive offices (e.g., President, VP, cabinet members, etc.) and the Supreme Court should have an age limit for the very same reason. Anyone in government office whose decisions can have long-lasting effects should be young enough they need to keep that in mind.

Anyone who (statistically) has only a few years left to live and especially anyone past the average life expectancy are welcome to hang around in advisory roles, but they should have limited (if any) power to directly affect future policy because they simply don't have any real skin in the game any longer.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-28 21:21:22+00:00
You have rushed into commenting without carefully reading what I wrote or knowing the context.

In the UK, by law employers must check that the people they hire have a legal "right to work", i.e. are citizens or foreigners with the relevant visa. In England, landlords must check that prospective tenants have a legal "right to rent", i.e. are lawful residents. Penalties are hefty fines and up to jail.

Hence "flunking the law".
by kiitos | 2025-09-28 21:21:28+00:00
ls sorts filenames strictly lexicographically, comparing character by character, so e.g. "055436307" is compared as the characters "0", "5", "5", etc. so it sorts before "121134" because "0" is less than "1". if all compared characters match and one string ends, the shorter one comes first. Symbols like _ are just more characters, and their position relative to digits depends on the locale’s collation table.

Google Drive uses ICU collation with the numeric option enabled, which treats each consecutive sequence of digits inside the filename as an integer. so "055436307" is parsed as the number 55,436,307, while "121134" is parsed as 121,134. and since 121,134 < 55,436,307 then "121134..." comes before "055436307..." even though lexicographic order would suggest the opposite. and i think when two digit runs have the same numeric value, the shorter run comes first; if runs are equal and the string continues, then normal character comparison resumes, including any underscores or suffixes
by cortic | 2025-09-28 21:21:35+00:00
Public Order Act 1986

"insulting words or behavior that cause distress to others"

Malicious Communications Act 1988 (Section 1):

"Outlaws sending messages, electronic or otherwise, with the intent to cause distress, or anxiety"

Communications Act 2003, Online Safety Act 2023, hate speech, terrorist legislation all made these many orders of magnitude worse in many ways.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-28 21:21:49+00:00
That would require Russia to move in a direction that it does not seem to be willing to move in. You can't have your officials with high regularity declare that you are going to annihilate all of the West just because you don't get to beat up your neighbor. You can't indiscriminately bomb, kill and abduct civilians and expect compromise. That's just not how this works.

The EU, and Germany by way of Merkel in particular for the longest time believed in 'wandel durch handel'. It turns out that this was a massive mistake and in spite of the still lingering abberations (Orban, Fico) that seem to think that sucking up to the Russian mob is going to pay off for them in the long term the sentiment has changed quite dramatically from where it was five years ago. I don't think there is any high level EU politician that still believes that we are going to go back to 'the good old days', and that is in spite of the current course of the USA, which is best described as 'confused'. Just check out what Russia did in the last 24 hours to give you an idea of how far from any kind of compromise we are. I think escalation is more likely than de-escalation and that's not something I consider lightly. But Putin has dug himself into a very deep hole and he does not seem to have a way out other than to keep on digging, he's ignored each and every off-ramp offered so far thinking that they were offered out of weakness rather than out of an aversion to war.

If Europe is ever forced to go - reluctantly - to war against Russia it will be because it saw no other way out. Until then we will keep arming Ukraine and we will continue to build up our defenses. Russia's main plan: to decapitate Ukrainian leadership and to use Ukrainians to continue its operation in the South has failed so utterly it is incredible, and yet, here we are. Whether Russia will still exist in one form or another in a decade is now something you can legitimately wonder about. All they had to do was absolutely nothing, and they'd be in a far stronger position today. Just live and let live. But that idea seems to be very hard for Russian leadership to entertain: that you can create together rather than that you can only expand at someone else's expense.
by majormajor | 2025-09-28 21:22:01+00:00
Seems like a red-herring. Does a government need a digital ID to do that? Many do that with the "free market" of publicly-tradable information + pre-existing government IDs already used for certain things. I don't know for sure how much the UK government is purchasing all that, but there's a lot of cameras and tech tracking in the country already, like those of us across the pond also are watched with.

It won't reverse surveillance states but fraud is also a huge problem that deserves addressing.
by ianbutler | 2025-09-28 21:22:36+00:00
Well at least he said police will be on their best behavior too, but yeah unequivocally, fuck no and fuck this.

I don't trust any government to utilize power like that and I certainly don't trust any singularly powerful person to define "best behavior". I can't even trust my elected representatives to act in my best interest.

Even if you have a "good" government, those do not last and AI surveillance serves only to entrench existing power at the expense of freedoms of the general populace at best.
by moshegramovsky | 2025-09-28 21:22:40+00:00
It really makes me wonder why someone with that much wealth needs to go around making life worse for other people. At this point, it feels like a sickness.

It's interesting that the constitution prevents America from having a king, or at least it used to, but maybe the founders didn't think about other kinds of kings.

Because we're in a place, or we're getting to a place, where that's exactly what we have.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-09-28 21:22:41+00:00
Theoretically you’re right. But having read the book, I agree with the general thesis. Things just move so much faster in China when it comes to making or building anything. Like I know firsthand people whose towns were converted from run-of-the-mill village to a T2 city in the span of a couple of decades. When hundreds of millions of people experience major change in their lives in front of their eyes, it’s a nit different than waiting for 5 years to start a new bridge across the river. I’m not even talking about factories, or policy course-corrections, or long-term goal settings either.

You can make a lot of arguments in this debate, but in terms of speed and execution, there’s a clear winner.
by linguae | 2025-09-28 21:23:09+00:00
It depends on the progressive, however. Yes, I’m hearing more calls to build from progressives. However, for a long time between the 1960s until the past few years, there were two drivers of NIMBYism that progressives championed: (1) local control of neighborhoods and (2) environmentalism. The first was a reaction to urban development plans of the 1950s and 1960s that fundamentally reshaped neighborhoods, but often in ways that did not consider the residents of those neighborhoods. For example, San Francisco once had a historical Japanese American and African American district named The Fillmore with plenty of Victorian homes, but this was largely demolished in the 1960s and replaced with housing projects and a widened Geary Blvd. While I’m still on San Francisco, there were plans in the 1950s to build a network of freeways criss-crossing the city. This was deeply unpopular.

Unpopular plans to dramatically reshape urban cities led to “freeway revolts” (organized, grassroots opposition to freeway projects, which sometimes succeeded) and increased local input over planning. The second was brought on by environmental crises in the 1960s, such as badly polluted rivers and the famous oil spill near Santa Barbara. California, especially its coastal areas, was quite affected by both drivers of NIMBYism, and this became the dominant way of thinking from the 1970s onward.

Local control over neighborhoods sounds reasonable, but unfortunately it’s led to neighborhoods being museum pieces that do not scale upwards to meet demand, thus incentivizing urban sprawl. Restricting development had also significantly boosted the property values in those areas. However, urban sprawl directly conflicts with environmental goals, since it requires more transportation infrastructure and more energy to move people across longer distances than across shorter distances. Thus, we end up with situations where homes get built in far-flung exurbs whose politicians support growth (until the towns get large enough to where some residents want to halt growth to “preserve our quality of life,” thus pushing development to the next closest area friendly to development), environmentalists blocking road-widening and other infrastructure-improving efforts in an attempt to stop/discourage the sprawl, and NIMBYs blocking the construction of denser housing near job centers that could have provided affordable alternatives to exurban housing.

This has been the story of California since the 1970s, and the obscene housing prices and unsustainable mega-commutes are a result of this. Thankfully more people are seeing the consequences of 50 years of broken housing policy, and we’re finally seeing some efforts, even if they’re baby steps, to address this.
by themafia | 2025-09-28 21:23:27+00:00
> People who have used it are generally supportive, if they think about it at all.

What are you basing this assertion on? Have you considered China? Do you know if you can get accurate representations of citizen sentiment on this issue?

> HN being HN, is almost entirely in the latter camp regardless of where they live.

Ostensibly we're hackers. We understand how good technologies can be put to inhumane uses. We see it quite often. Many of us hack on software in an effort to eliminate these often unintended consequences.

> Still, it would be interesting to know what argument the Yes campaign used that resonated with > 50% of voters.

You should know this isn't the first time the vote was held. In previous referendums the proposal was defeated and this time it only narrowly passed. You might be better served in doing a comparison between the two.
by glenstein | 2025-09-28 21:24:02+00:00
And to your point, a lot of the time people will say it's just a gun county it's hard to disentangle from that. And in a sense, I agree: gun culture is the problem, and identifying it as such and dismantling it needs to be part of the program, not just laws.

Though it's often intended as a defense, I think it's most appropriately interpreted as a policy recommendation.
by lukax | 2025-09-28 21:24:10+00:00
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by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-28 21:24:25+00:00
> We have no business judging others`s beliefs when we have enough trouble keeping our own sane.

A kinder way to say "judging" is perhaps discrimination. As humans we must discriminate between the good and bad opinions of others, and even good and bad people, or we are doomed.

If you were to learn only from your own mistakes, or try to pretend that there is no such thing as a bad person, you would live a short and brutal life of victomhood.

We must judge kindly, but we must judge.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-28 21:24:41+00:00
You are just repeating the same idea without further analysis. As a German born in USSR I do know something about oppression too, however I also understand the difference between socialism, imperialism and Russian flavor of neoconservatism - 3 different ideologies that existed in Russia in last 300 years. They are very different in operation and expansion modes and those differences are very important for external observers, especially when there are few trillions of taxpayer money at stake. Russia stopped being an imperial project with colonies in 1917. Period. Soviet Union wasn’t Russian nationalist project at all, so mixing it up with contemporary history or seeing it as an extension of empire is just incompetent. Contemporary Russia of Putin’s period is claiming to extend both, but it’s just propaganda legitimizing the regime, when the motives, the goals, the government structures are very different.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-28 21:24:52+00:00
>You think it’s impossible for anybody to have an informed opinion that disagrees with yours. You literally think yours is the only possible valid opinion. If that doesn’t set off big warning bells in your head, you are in dire need of a change in attitude.

I mean do you think we should have a fair and balanced discussion about the merits of child molestation and rape? We should respect other people's opinion and not tell them they are wrong if there opinion differs? That's what I think of your opinion. I think your opinion is utterly wrong, and I do think my opinion is the valid opinion.

Now that doesn't mean I disrespect your opinion. That doesn't mean your not allowed to have a different opinion. It just means I tell you straight up, you're wrong and you lack experience. You're free to disagree with that and tell me the exact same thing. I'm just blunt, and I welcome you to be just as blunt to me. Which you have.

The thing I don't like about you is that you turned it into discussion about opinions and the nature of holding opinions. Dude. Just talk about the topic. If you think I'm wrong. Tell me straight up. Talk about why I'm wrong. Don't talk about my character and in what manner I should formulate opinions and what I think are facts.

>This conversation is not productive, let’s end it.

I agree let's end it. But let's be utterly clear. YOU chose to end it with your actions by shifting the conversation into saying stuff like "you literally think yours is the only possible opinion." Bro. All you need to do is state why you think my opinion is garbage and prove it wrong. That's the direction of the conversation, you ended it by shifting it to a debate on my character.
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-28 21:26:42+00:00
MosFET's or IGBTs are likely what failed. And, capacitance is something you do not want on a string of PV.

DC starts getting really nasty to deal with somewhere between 36-52v, with 150v of panels not being something joe-blow should be able to buy on amazon. Designing these systems to be safe is difficult.
by _alternator_ | 2025-09-28 21:27:09+00:00
The reason to use type hints is simple: it vastly improves scalability, making LLM agents much less error prone. Try it: tell Claude to type hint every function (e.g., in your Claude.md file) and see how much easier it is to scale your agents.

This also works for humans, but many python programmers who learned python before type hints can't be bothered. :sad_panda: