MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bob1029 | 2025-09-12 17:26:29+00:00
Ok let's try this. In this scenario you have access to a channel with up to 4x more information than what you otherwise would have access to. Exactly how the information is sampled is application specific and will introduce variability into the final result.

If we want to get very pedantic, the information gain per pixel could actually be far more dramatic than 4x under any super sampling strategy. Assume a pathological case like a very dark room where 100% render scale doesn't have a single pixel that picks up the edge of a prop in a corner. At higher render scale maybe you start to get a handful of pixels that represent the feature. Even if you blend these poorly, you still get better than nothing. Some might argue that going from zero information to any information at all represents an infinite gain.
by siliconc0w | 2025-09-12 17:26:33+00:00
I didn't say its free but it is about 90% cheaper. Sonnet is $15 per million token output, this just dropped and is available at OpenRouter at $1.40. Even compared to Gemini Flash which is probably the best price-to-performance API is generally ranked lower than Qwen's models and is $2.50 so still %44 cheaper.
by mk_stjames | 2025-09-12 17:26:37+00:00
That type of shape constraint would be called having a ruled surface with a Gaussian curvature of 0 everywhere, otherwise known as a 'Developable Surface'.

Fitting a -single- such surface to a set of points is nearly trivial; finding a way to best fit -multiple- such surfaces together to approximate a non-trivial shape (cloud of points) where they share edges in a way that could be joined like this paper model.... feels very NP-hard to me. This is a subset of the problem in the 3d-scan-to-CAD industry where you have a point cloud/mesh and you need to detect flat planes, cylinders, fillets, etc of a 3d scan and best-fit primitive surfaces to those areas and then join them into a manifold while respecting a bunch of other geometric and tolerance constraints.

There is a reason why there are only a few software packages that even attempt to do this, and it is almost always human-guided in some way. It's a fascinating problem.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-12 17:26:38+00:00
I implemented the simple greedy algorithm and immediately fell into the trap of the question: the greedy algorithm only works for "well-behaved" denominations. If the coin values were [10, 9, 1], then making 37 cents would take 10 coins in the greedy algorithm but only 4 coins optimally (10+9+9+9).

That's a bad algorithm, then, not a greedy algorithm. Wouldn't a properly-implemented greedy algorithm use as many coins as possible of a given large denomination before dropping back to the next-lower denomination?

If a candidate's only options are to either use a constraint solver or to implement a naïver-than-usual greedy algorithm, well, sorry, but that's a no-hire.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-12 17:26:44+00:00
I know that one-pedal has some ardent fans, but I’ve not been able to come around to it. The control it gives feels almost too direct which makes me feel like I need to be neurotic with my pedal control in order to be able to smoothly drive and not have “quivery” speed fluctuations when not leaning on cruise control. The more eased speed falloff that comes with a more traditional setup feels better.
by crooked-v | 2025-09-12 17:27:24+00:00
For whatever it's worth, that's been a consistent trend with other things Newsom has vetoed with statements that he considers the vetoed item to be already covered by other laws, including some purely technical legislative things. I think it's likely that he sees himself as trying to keep California bureaucracy from growing indefinitely, especially with his push for things like CEQA process reduction/simplification.
by jltsiren | 2025-09-12 17:27:24+00:00
Europe kept buying Russian oil and gas, because other sources could not come online quickly enough. Tariffs would have only made energy even more expensive than it already was. Now it's mostly Hungary and Slovakia buying Russian energy, as well as some LNG imports. Those two countries are not too keen on sanctioning Russia, especially in ways that would hurt their economy. Any attempts to impose tariffs on energy imports from Russia would have led to a major internal crisis in the EU.
by another_twist | 2025-09-12 17:27:28+00:00
Hiring people for the test is only valid for online assessment. For an onsite, its very obvious if the candidates have cheated on the OA. I've been on the other side and its transparent.

> It is akin to deciding if someone can write a novel from reading a single sentence.

For most decent companies, the hiring process involves multiple rounds of these challenges along with system designs. So its like judging writing ability by having candidates actually write and come up with sample plots. Not a bad test.
by EnPissant | 2025-09-12 17:28:30+00:00
The slowdown is far more than 15% for token generation. Token generation is mostly bottlenecked by memory bandwidth. Dual channel DDR5-6000 has 96GB/s and A rtx 5090 has 1.8TB/s. See my other comment when I show 5x slowdown in token generation by moving just the experts to the CPU.
by jprotopopov | 2025-09-12 17:29:28+00:00
(I thought that the announcement has completely faded, so haven't even checked the replies).

I'll immediately reveal some issues with the project. On the compilation speed, it is unfortunately atrocious. There are multiple reasons for that:

1. Initially the compiler was much less ambitious, and was basically generating stack-based threaded code, so everything was much simpler. I have managed to make it more reasonable in terms of code generation (now it has real code generator, optimization pipeline), but there is still huge legacy in the code base. There is a whole layer of stack-based IR which is translated from the AST, and then transformed into equivalent SSA-based IR. Removing that means rewriting the whole translator part, for which I am not ready.

2. You've outlined some appealing points (standard compliance, debug info, optimization passes), but again -- this came at the expense of being over-engineered and bloated inside. Whenever, I have to implement some new feature, I hedge and over-abstract to keep it manageable/avoid hitting unanticipated problems in the future. This has served quite well in terms of development velocity and extending the scope (many parts have not seen complete refactoring since the initial implementation in 2020/2021, I just build up), but efficiency of the compiler itself suffered.

3. I have not particularly prioritized this issue. Basically, I start optimizing the compiler itself only when something gets too unreasonable (either, in terms of run time, or memory). There are all kinds of inefficiencies, O(n^2) algorithms and such simply because I knew that I would be able to swap that part out should that be necessary, but never actually did. I think the compiler efficiency has been the most de-prioritized concern for me.

Basically, if one is concerned with compilation speed, it is literally better to pick gcc, not even talking about something like tcc. Kefir is abysmal in that respect. I terms, of code base size, it is 144k (sans tests, 260k in total) which is again not exactly small. It's manageable for me, but not hacker-friendly.

With respect to marketing, I am kind of torn. I cannot work on this thing full time, unless somebody is ready to provide sufficient full-time funding for myself and also other expenses (machines for tests, etc). Otherwise, I'll just increase the workload on myself and reduce the amount of time I can spend actually working on the code, so it'll probably be net loss for the project. Either way, for now I treat it closer to an art project than a production tool.

As for compiled code performance, I have addressed it here https://lobste.rs/s/fxyvwf -- it's better than, say, tcc, but nowhere near well-established compilers. I think this is reasonable to expect, and the exact ways to improve that a bit are also clear to me, it's only question of development effort

P.S. JKU is a great school, although by the time I enrolled there the project has already been on the verge of bootstrapping itself.

EDIT: formatting
by another_twist | 2025-09-12 17:29:44+00:00
> My biggest problem with leetcode type questions is that you can't ask clarifying questions.

Yeah this one confused me. Not asking clarifying questions is one of the sureshot ways of failing an interview. Kudos if the candidates ask something that the interviewers havent thought of, although its rare as most problems go through a vetting process (along with leak detection).
by ta1243 | 2025-09-12 17:29:54+00:00
Everyone is talking about it.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/photos-trumps-drooping-face-9-11-p...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/trump-sparks-health-fe...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/glob...

> Biden got taken down by the the "crippling senile dementia" meme because it's only a problem when it's Democrats

Democrats felt both Biden and Trump were far too old and senile to be in charge. And they were right.

The problem is that Republicans only felt it was Biden.

Remember when having a "consensual" blowjob from an intern was almost enough to get a president fired? Remember when presidents resigned when the public found out they were involved in organising a break-in?

That world has long gone, social media saw to that.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-12 17:30:15+00:00
You do realise that when people settled somewhere has actually nothing to do with the act of committing a genocide. Genocide is characterised by the intention to destroy a national group. It doesn’t matter if one group thinks that’s justified.

“We were here before and they are corrupting our land” is pretty much as common as it goes when it comes to reasons brandished to try to justify a genocide. The Nazi would be proud.

Anyway, given this first disgusting comment and your second post actively misrepresenting how Jewish people are treated in Arab countries and what’s currently happening in Gaza, I have little doubt that I’m talking with the void.
by thunderfork | 2025-09-12 17:30:53+00:00
Not that I don't agree emotionally on how much better single-frame rendering is than multi-frame on a spiritual level... I do find the whole "game dev quackery" thing kind of a funny perspective?

Real-time graphics is all about tricks and fakery, and it's been that way since we've been racing the beam. Did people think that deferred rendering was a dirty trick when those Shrek devs figured it out and everyone stopped doing forward rendering?
by leptons | 2025-09-12 17:31:11+00:00
My holy grail of computer monitors is an 8k 55" curved screen. Not a shorty, but a full 55" or 65" 16:9 (or similar) screen with 7680 x 4320 resolution, but curved.

I currently have three 4k 32" screens in portrait arranged in a sort of curved configuration. I love it, except for the bezels. It's something like this: https://i.sstatic.net/YocaE.jpg

I was almost ready to purchase a flat 8k 55" TV for my workstation, but decided to try a flat 4k 55" TV I already had, and the flatness just ruined it for me. I need a slight curve when using such a large surface area only a few feet from my eyes. I guess I'll have to stick with my three 4k monitors for now.
by infamia | 2025-09-12 17:31:22+00:00
1. Move the deductions from the employer to the individual. That unlinks health care from your employer. It will also inject market forces and discipline to our health care system, since the person paying for the care is now in charge of the insurance.

2. Repeal the ACA mandates and enact interstate laws which permits low-deductible, low mandate policies along with reintroducing catastrophic insurance. The current status quo forces young people to pay for old people and those less responsible with their health. What we have now is prepaid medical care, not insureance. This also removes the insurance monopolies states and companies have created together.

We have the worst of all possible systems at present.
by dahart | 2025-09-12 17:31:36+00:00
“Agricultural emissions” are coming from and regulated based on the machines involved, and animals, not really plants. We don’t require fossil fuels to feed humans, obviously, since humans didn’t use fossil fuels before a hundred or so years ago. We now have a system that happens to use unnecessary amounts of fossil fuels, and as always companies will externalize their impacts and and cut corners whenever possible. If we want to survive, it is looking more and more certain that we need to reduce fossil fuel based machine CO2 emissions.

BTW the cows vs bugs thing is because raising the scale of cattle we have is also completely unnecessary, and cows emit methane, which is way worse than CO2 and why cattle does count as ag emissions and is a concern.

Armchair climate science aside, it doesn’t actually matter where emissions are coming from, what matters is whether we can reduce them. We can’t really choose to stop breathing, and even if we did it cannot solve the problem we’ve created at all - human CO2 emissions is too small of a portion of total emissions. We can, however, choose to reduce fossil fuel and red meat consumption, and those things can make a real difference.
by Peritract | 2025-09-12 17:31:37+00:00
> Critically, problem solving questions should have ways to progressively increase and decrease difficulty/complexity, so every candidate "gets a win" and no candidate "dunks the ball".

Absolutely agree. When I interview, I start with a simple problem and add complexity as they go. Can they write X? Can they combine it with Y? Do they understand how Z is related?
by krferriter | 2025-09-12 17:31:37+00:00
"Acts" as they are passed by Congress are usually a huge collection of additions/deletions/modifications to existing law. And those changes can be unrelated and scattered across hundreds and hundreds of sections of existing statutes, each of which can have their own sunset clauses. So some of the things included in "The Patriot Act" expired, but parts are still active.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-12 17:32:13+00:00
I assume you're referring to the Catherine McCoid decolonizing gender stuff from the 90s? That is still talked about, but I'm not aware of it being taken seriously as a theory.

There are multiple theories yes, but they aren't substantially varied.

We also have a whole lineage of art from the prehistoric age to today and more figures than we did in the 1990s. Art from every period includes nude representations of women. The more recent art (which we are able to say more about)have connections to goddesses and fertility/reproduction/sex. The continuity of art suggests there should be a continuity of explanation. But the McCoid theory handles the oldest art as a special case different in kind from art that didn't come long after.

Even among the competing hypotheses, they're more closely related than many people realize. This is because religion, sex and fertility were more closely related in the ancient world than they are today. See, for example, temple prostitution.

The one outlier among the current theories I'm aware of is that the figures are supposed to show you what obese people look like. The evidence for that isn't great. For example the 2012 Dixson paper is based on having college students rate the statues for attractiveness, which seems like it's going to tell you nothing useful about the statues. But even they say the statues were about survival and reproduction, e.g.

> They may, instead, have symbolized the hope for survival and for the attainment of a well-nourished (and thus reproductively successful) maturity, during the harshest period of the major glaciation in Europe.
by joshcsimmons | 2025-09-12 17:32:54+00:00
So grateful to see this being picked up by mainstream news outlets. Anecdotally I know quite a few engineers with experience ranging from small startup to long FAANG tenures that cannot even get an interview. It makes no sense to source outside of the US when qualified American workers cannot get jobs. At some point that became a radical stance and I'm sure I'll be flamed for it here.
by silisili | 2025-09-12 17:33:22+00:00
It is and isn't. I'd argue it's not memorizing exact solutions(think copy paste) but memorizing fastest algos to accomplish X.

And some people might say well, you should know that anyways. The problem for me is, and I'm not speaking for every company of course, you never really use a lot of this stuff in most run of the mill jobs. So of course you forget it, then have to study again pre interview.

Problem solving is the best way to think of it, but it's awkward for me(and probably others) to spend minutes thinking, feeling pressured as someone just stares at you. And that's where memorizing the hows of typical problems helps.

That said, I just stopped doing them altogether. I'd passed a few doing the 'memorizing' described above, only to start and realize it wasn't at all irrelevant to the work we were actually doing. In that way I guess it's a bit of a two way filter now.
by MBCook | 2025-09-12 17:33:46+00:00
A separate point they made on the same episode is that when Apple releases a foldable phone (rumored for next year) it might significantly increase the number of foldable sold for all brands.

It would give the idea of foldable phones a big visibility boost so more people would know they exist, thus perhaps more would buy them.

Think about how popular MP3 players were before the iPod, and how popular they were after even for non-Apple ones. It raised a lot of awareness.

It’s an interesting idea. Personally I have a hard time seeing a foldable phone being something I would be interested in. But I’m curious to see Apple’s take.
by idiotsecant | 2025-09-12 17:34:12+00:00
That 'fantasy' is not ridiculous. Teachers are quite often (nearly always) in a financially precarious situation with management that doesn't support them and parents that abdicate all responsibility. All it takes is one spoiled kid with rich parents to manufacture a complaint (teacher stole my phone and broke it). That complaint could seriously derail their life. My wife taught for years even though I made enough that she didn't need to because she loved helping kids learn. She left the profession entirely because the death by a thousand cuts that is the American education system was giving her actual medical issues from the anxiety, at great detriment to the kids she would have helped.

We treat teachers like second class citizens at our own peril.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-12 17:34:39+00:00
> willing to walk before running. Have to start somewhere

It doesn’t walk anywhere. It’s another handout to finance and law. The B2B carve-out and lack of border adjustments makes this a regressive tax on consumers and manufacturers to fund tech, law and finance. (The only jobs this would materially cover are those in call centres for consumers. Which in practice, means voice LLMs.)

Like, I made money from tariffs. I will do well from the OBBA. I will do well from this bill. But American consumers and workers will keep getting screwed, and I’m not sure how this playbook keeps working.
by 76SlashDolphin | 2025-09-12 17:34:45+00:00
At least in its current state we just use an LLM to categorise each individual tool. We don't look at the data itself, although we have some ideas of how to improve things, as currently it is very "over-defensive". For example, if you have the filesystem MCP and a web search MCP, open-edison will block if you perform a filesystem read, a web search, and then a filesystem write. Still, if you rarely perform writes open-edison would still be useful for tracking things. The UX is such that after an initial block you can make an exception for the same flow the next time it occurs.
by rcd2 | 2025-09-12 17:36:11+00:00
Portugal also has a bit of the culture of working long hours. People joke when you leave at 6pm/7pm and ask “are you taking the afternoon off?”. We also have the “manager + 5 minutes” rule to leave work. Most of the time, when I worked in these types of companies, I was killing time and feeling depressed. After moving to the UK the culture changed. Less working ours so I started attending meetups and doing Udemy courses (most are all 60/70% finished but still!). I’m much more productive here.
by tonymet | 2025-09-12 17:36:44+00:00
mind you it's one of a number of patterns that subtree let's you fan-in and fan-out from a single repo. It's helpful if you want to manage multiple directories and machines from a single repo.

1. git init /etc

2. git init /home

3. (in home) git remote add s/etc /etc

4. (in home) git subtree add -P etc s/etc master # adds a prefix etc , from remote s/etc . This starts the subtree syncing

You can now edit files in either place. to pull changes from /etc: git subtree pull. to push changes to etc: git subtree push. git is now managing the commit shas and diffs for both directories.

The home repo is the "canonical" one that you backup , push to github/gitlab etc. /etc can just stay local for "deployment".

You can take it a step further by editing the home repo on another machine. this pattern lets you fan in and out to multiple machines and etcs so you can manage all of the variations from a single repo.

describing it is more complicated than just doing it. It's really just push/pull which triggers a normal merge over multiple directories.
by OzanEnginsal | 2025-09-12 17:36:45+00:00
Thanks so much for the kind words and this excellent feedback!

Pricing: You were absolutely right! Based on this feedback, I've just pushed an update with a full pricing section. It highlights the free plan and the 50% discount for early beta users. On top of that, I'm running a reward program for the most engaged users who help with feedback.

GIF/Video Demo: That's a great idea and definitely on my to-do list. A video would make it much clearer. For now, the User Manual gives a detailed breakdown of all the features.

Signal Examples: I completely agree. I'm working on a way to feature these directly on the site. In the meantime, I post regular examples of recent signals on Twitter (@OEnginsal) and Reddit (u/ozanenginsal).

This is all super helpful and exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. Thank you again!
by oliwarner | 2025-09-12 17:37:34+00:00
There's obviously a lot more real world than they can codify into laws and examples but I think if you can get consent, you should get consent. The ICO:

> Private-sector or third-sector organisations will often be able to consider the ‘legitimate interests’ basis in Article 6(1)(f) if they find it hard to meet the standard for consent and no other specific basis applies. This recognises that you may have good reason to process someone’s personal data without their consent – but you must avoid doing anything they would not expect, ensure there is no unwarranted impact on them, and that you are still fair, transparent and accountable.

Session tracking, storing account information, addresses, etc all seem obvious in any e-commerce system but you still have every opportunity to notify and consent that data collection.

I think you and I both think that data protection is a good thing, I'm just a little more wary of leaning on legitimate usage* as a way to skip formal consent.
by didibus | 2025-09-12 17:37:45+00:00
If you work at "product manager" level, that would be vibe coding, as you prompt for functional and non-functional changes and you review the behavior and characteristics of the program, not the code generated.

I believe the author was trying to specifically distinguish their workflow from that, in that they are prompting for changes to the code in terms of the code itself, and reviewing the code that is generated (maybe along with also mentioning the functionality and testing it).