MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway13337 | 2025-09-22 00:58:58+00:00
The EU's bank count per capita is tiny compared to the US. Their offers are never competitive if you compare to the US banks (e.g. interest rates, apps that actually work, customer service, etc). They lack competition due to over-regulation, which, if you understand the history of corruption within banking in europe, should not imply good regulation.

Regulating big tech is good. Kill gatekeeping platforms and engagement-driven newsfeeds that are tearing us apart. I wish they could do that. Big tech competition with banking, on the other hand, would be welcome.

It's too bad, too, because overall the EU in most places has a history of better representing their citizens. I wish that mechanism was more functional.

My experience is living in 3 EU countries as an American - the banks are similarly terrible and entrenched in each.
by elmerfud | 2025-09-22 01:00:51+00:00
I'm not sure where these people get the idea that some kind of thrust via the expulsion of mass is a requirement for moving and object. We know that gravity isn't really a force but an acceleration from the curvature of spacetime. The only way we currently know how to warp spacetime is with mass. There is no contradiction of conservation of momentum with our understanding that acceleration from the curvature of spacetime is a thing.

So, if there's some efficient way to manipulate the fabric of spacetime then it would allow for a propulsion method that doesn't need the ejection of mass. Far fetched? Absolutely. Possible that it might be discovered, it's possible.
by yowlingcat | 2025-09-22 01:01:33+00:00
I really want to like Mojo but you nailed what gives me pause. Not to take an anecdotal example of Polars too far beyond, but I get the sense the current gravity in Python for net new stuff that needs to be written outside Python (obviously a ton of highly performant numpy/scipy/pytorch ecosystem stuff aside) is for it to be written in Rust when necessary.

Not an expert, but though I wouldn't be surprised if Mojo ends up being a better language than Rust for the use case we're discussing, I'm not confident it will ever catch up to Rust in ecosystem and escape velocity as a sane general purpose compiled systems language. It really does feel like Rust has replaced C++ for net new buildouts that would've previously needed its power.
by homeonthemtn | 2025-09-22 01:03:57+00:00
As some one with a long winter, I assure you solar is not a cure-all, especially if you receive significant snow or low altitude cloud cover.

Batteries, as well, are impacted by the cold in their own ways.

Is a tiny reactor the answer? Probably not. But energy at a constant rate all year round that also self warms? That sounds pretty good to me.
by prawn | 2025-09-22 01:04:23+00:00
Southern Utah gives you a huge bang for buck. And you can spread a little further to add fantastic stuff in surrounding states. I'm not American but have flown from Australia several times to hike in Utah and its neighbours.

In 10-14 days, you can do an exceptional loop from Las Vegas taking in:

Bryce Canyon NP Byway 12 Capitol Reef NP Goblin Valley Dead Horse Point SP Arches NP Canyonlands NP Goosenecks SP Horseshoe Bend Antelope Canyon Zion NP Valley of Fire SP

That's all very accessible (besides The Maze in Canyonlands, which is superb but takes 4x4 and/or solid hiking to get into).

Then when you go back, you can do places requiring a bit more planning like Coyote Gulch (amazing), Buckskin Gulch (also amazing), and secondary spots like Natural Bridges, SR 95, etc. Hundreds of great places in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, etc, and all before you get to adding anything more remote or long distance.
by olivia-banks | 2025-09-22 01:04:42+00:00
They're also getting an aarch64 backend soon (or has it already landed)? Really looking forward to this one for development on my Mac!

My point was that Zig uses their backends (which includes their homegrown ones), but since `zig cc` is a wrapper around Clang, it always goes through the `LLVM` path and sidesteps the Zig backend(s).
by grayhatter | 2025-09-22 01:05:14+00:00
> If you didn’t go that route, you were still looked at as a junior. Your ego clouds your view.

your ego clouds your response.

He wasn't talking about if he was hired into a jr role, he was talking about the competency, experience, and skills acquired from the years of writing code for passion. If he could write better code, or debug problems faster than your average jr level employee.

Not everyone fits into the tiny bucket you've imagined must hold everyone. The answer could easily be, we hired you because you ticked all the boxes, but no one doing the interview could tell they were completely out classed.
by defrost | 2025-09-22 01:06:36+00:00
Statistically it's all just a long series of one regrettable incident after another that far exceeds the usual death rate of journalists in every other conflict this century.

Masri's body was recovered alongside his camera in an external stairwell at the hospital, from where he had been broadcasting the view across Khan Younis when the Israeli strike hit, Reuters video shows. A second blast on the stairwell minutes later killed at least 19 people, including rescue workers and four journalists who had worked for outlets including the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others. One of the four, Moaz Abu Taha, provided visuals to Reuters and others. Reuters photographer Hatem Khaled was injured in the second attack while on the stairs filming the aftermath of the first blast. Israel's military told Reuters on Tuesday that the journalists for Reuters and the Associated Press were not "a target of the strike." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel deeply regretted what he called the "tragic mishap" at the hospital.

~ https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/obituary-huss...

Every individual case of journalists and rescue workers being killed in precision strikes launched with overwatch and followed through on to catch the responders can be quibbled about.

Overall - it's a shameful pattern.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-22 01:06:51+00:00
The Dutch have a lot of cars because they are rich.

The ugly truth (for public transit zealots like the parent poster) is that there is no amount of investment that can make a person with the ability to afford a car willingly choose public transit, unless they live and work in a place with extremely high population density.

They keep ranting about how cars are a luxury, and they are right, but basically want to change human nature to suit their preferences IMO.
by treetalker | 2025-09-22 01:07:23+00:00
I must disagree. The proposition that Trump prevailed even in part, let alone primarily, on account of Harris's, not Trump's, spewing of word salad is detached from reality.

That said, perhaps those who ended up voting for Trump found Harris too articulate, too endowed with a post-fifth-grade-playground vocabulary, and were unable to understand her at the level and register with which she spoke — and thus, to them, it sounded like word salad.
by bentt | 2025-09-22 01:07:55+00:00
I've always found that it's about defining win/win situations. Also, you should make real human connection in the process. If you don't like the person, that's a real issue. It may not be that the person is unlikeable, it may be that you aren't finding a perspective that aligns right.

But yeah, aligning incentives and making friends. Even if they don't go the way you want, you both still had a positive experience and can potentially find a way to work together in the future.
by pbronez | 2025-09-22 01:08:02+00:00
I really appreciate OpenSCAD. It’s my go-to whenever I need to quickly define a basic shape to 3D print. Unfortunately I predictably hit a wall every time the complexity increases beyond the basics.

The kernel is not robust to the stupid things I naively ask it to do. Often my code makes sense to me, but OpenSCAD refuses to create an object.

Performance falls off a cliff. You can work around it by pausing previews and adjusting resolution, but that’s a big UX compromise.

Still, I’ve tried a few other options and keep cycling back to OpenSCAD. The barrier to entry is very low, coding AI does a pretty good job, and there’s a decent ecosystem of community modules.
by olivia-banks | 2025-09-22 01:08:20+00:00
Interesting. OCaml cross compilation scared me the one time I considered it, so it's nice to know this is an option. I will be pedantic and say it isn't a replacement for a custom sysroot/binutils/whatnot, since it really just papers over those user-facing details by shipping a prebuilt collection of sysroots and using LLD. They sorta get this for free since they need it for cross-compiling Zig code anyways.
by baobun | 2025-09-22 01:08:26+00:00
Mitigations for cold wallets (step 0: don't carry the sole signer to millions in your pocket), from simple to complex:

1. Classic custody with offchain authentication ("rediscover banks")

2. Self-hosted cold/offline airgapped wallet with split shamir seedphrase backup

3. Multisigs and HTLCs (e.g. transfers only executed on 2-of-3 signatures of yourself and trusted third party, with a timelock/delay)

Those are all robust and tried-and-true patterns.

On smart contract chains like Etherum there is a jungle of "smart wallets" backed by smart contracts doing the above and more. Obviously those are earlier days and not without their own class of risks but they should illustrate what is possible.

> And, the crypto exchanges will be of little help.

You'd probably be surprised. Exchanges tend to collaborate and be quick in responding and acting to reports of theft or other criminal activity going through their platforms. Including those which otherwise tend to skirt the darker shades of the regulatory gray zones.
by serf | 2025-09-22 01:08:33+00:00
you're never going to construct a lightweight pack with cylindrical (18650/21700, whatever) cells.

a real light weight battery construction isn't going to have redundant casings and fuses; it'll be the bare minimum pouch/plate style construction, the bare minimum fuses at main junctions, and as light a protective shell as can be produced to house it all in. It probably won't have a BMS of any kind on board, with the functions handled up-stream from the battery.

here's something close, although with plenty of weight compromise for reliability and safeties' sake. : https://global.honda/en/tech/motorsports/Formula-1/Powertrai...
by al_borland | 2025-09-22 01:08:49+00:00
I have a feeling a lot of people are comparing where their parents ended to where they are starting, which isn’t a fair comparison. They should probably talk to their parents about what it was actually like. When my parents got their first apartment it didn’t even have a shower. They had to take baths and use a mug to fill it with water and wash their hair.

People also just love looking at averages for salary and home price, but they ignore that the average home has more than doubled in size. The average car today is also much faster, safer, and more luxurious than the old ones.

I bought a house from the late 1940s. What would have been “average” in the time everyone seems to want to compare themselves to. By most modern standards, it’s small, but it was also half the price of the “average” home today.

In terms of waiting for financial stability, I’d argue that it’s better not to wait. It eliminates all those prenuptial agreements, as neither person has anything. Then they can grow and a couple together. Wait too long, and they enter the relationship with too much that they’re worried about losing, and also more set in their ways.

The obsession with keeping up with the Jones’ has gotten out of control. The Jones’ aren’t just the most well-to-do on the street, now people are trying to compete on lifestyle with the most well-to-do in the country. Just a couple days ago I had someone knock on my door to sell fiber internet and he tried to tell me I need it to keep up with the Jones’. That’s where we’re at. It’s not about what you actually need, it’s what you can brag about. It’s so backward.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-22 01:09:52+00:00
Thank you, that was much more comprehensive than typical HN responses so I'd need a bit of time to add further nuance or tie back to the "point"

>The lesson which Swiss social insurance administrators have learned from the insurance business generally is that client behavior usually changes in response to administrative actions--and that benefit levels should be structured to account for these changes.

From the linked pdf, but of course being a direct democracy with sustainable cross-tribal communal traditions probably helps.

Partially towards your point: the swiss (municipal) governments have strong yet uniquely mutually beneficial ties* to the private sector--that often result in "corruption" in other democracies--

As mentioned, would need to think further with special regards as to how one should persuade "crap-artists" towards more rational "world-models". the idea of internality seems productive for that.

*personnel and knowledge and competency exchange without uh "mission exchange"

(Tangentially: the Swiss take of pan-Germanic "spiessig" ("karen") probably suggests that they are not conservative in the normal sense of that word)
by eru | 2025-09-22 01:10:18+00:00
Could as least use Coulomb (or just count electrons), instead of taking Current = Charge / Time and multiplying by charge again.

For what it's worth: 1 mAh ~ 2.25 * 10^19 electrons. Or with SI-prefixes: 22.5 exa-electrons (= 2.25 Ee).
by fuzztester | 2025-09-22 01:10:41+00:00
>The whole point of Mars (or any other second planet) is redundancy.

No. It's some combination of cowardice, greed and ego, by those involved.

You can bet your ass those guys are not thinking about saving the species. Lol. Furthest thing from their minds.

Solve the Earth's problems on Earth instead, no need to run off to Mars.

That's just kicking the can down the road.
by nipperkinfeet | 2025-09-22 01:11:01+00:00
I am not a fan of smartphones or tablets, and I only ever use my phone when necessary. I stopped using tablets when I realized that I was always trying to use them like a laptop, which made me see that they are not as useful as I thought. I only use my phone for calls and texting. My laptop is perfect for travelling or bedtime, while I use my desktop for getting things done.
by rglullis | 2025-09-22 01:11:13+00:00
> You guys are talking past each other.

Agreed.

> but it isn't reality right now, so I own a car.

This means that you at least consider a possibility of living without a car. You at least understand that there is nothing about the US making it impossible to work towards car independence. I have no reason to argue with you or people who share this sentiment.

I do get upset at the people who think that this situation is static and that it can not be changed, ever. But I get more upset at the people who complain at the North American reality only when they are directly suffering from it, and act like when the systemic problem doesn't exist anymore just because they manage to "solve the issue" for themselves.

> As an aside, the Dutch aren't nearly as car free as you are presenting.

They have high rates of car ownership, but they are not car dependent. Even the people who have to drive for work use cars only for longer distance trips, and walk/bike/use public transport for shorter ones. In Greece, much like in the US, people assume that you have to have a car to do anything.
by lqstuart | 2025-09-22 01:12:25+00:00
Comments like this view the ML ecosystem in a vacuum. New ML models are almost never written—all LLMs for example are basically GPT-2 with extremely marginal differences—and the algorithms themselves are the least of the problem in the field. The 30% improvements you get from kernels and compiler tricks are absolutely peanuts compared to the 500%+ improvements you get from upgrading hardware, adding load balancing and routing, KV and prefix caching, optimized collective ops etc. On top of that, the difficulty even just migrating Torch to the C++11 ABI to access fp8 optimizations is nigh insurmountable in large companies.

I say the ship sailed in 2012 because that was around when it was decided to build Tensorflow around legacy data infrastructure at Google rather than developing something new, and the rest of the industry was hamstrung by that decision (along with the baffling declarative syntax of Tensorflow, and the requirement to use Blaze to build it precluding meaningful development outside of Google).

The industry was so desperate to get away from it that they collectively decided that downloading a single giant library with every model definition under the sun baked into it was the de facto solution to loading Torch models for serving, and today I would bet you that easily 90% of deep learning models in production revolve around either TensorRT, or a model being plucked from Huggingface’s giant library.

The decision to halfass machine learning was made a long time ago. A tool like Mojo might work at a place like Apple that works in a vacuum (and is lightyears behind the curve in ML as a result), but it just doesn’t work on Earth.

If there’s anyone that can do it, it’s Lattner, but I don’t think it can be done, because there’s no appetite for it nor is the talent out there. It’s enough of a struggle to get big boy ML engineers at Mag 7 companies to even use Python instead of letting Copilot write them a 500 line bash script. The quality of slop in libraries like sglang and verl is a testament to the futility of trying to reintroduce high quality software back into deep learning.
by eru | 2025-09-22 01:12:52+00:00
> There's bonus information too. If a commit is not mentioned in the report, then it only changed files that didn't change in any other commit. That means that in a rebase, I can move that commit literally anywhere else in the sequence without creating a conflict. Only the commits in the report can cause conflicts if they are reordered.

This is only true in the textual level.

Semantically, re-shuffling commits like this can still cause conflicts. Ie it can break your tests. Not at the end, but for the intermediate commits.
by mcswell | 2025-09-22 01:14:09+00:00
An interesting problem, particularly with handwritten documents. And not limited to what they worked on, from their conclusion: "...the number of clustering levels is not limited to two, since document layout tasks are extremely diverse in nature. Paragraphs can further be clustered into text columns or sections, which may belong to even higher level blocks. Figure 16 shows a physical paragraph, or part of a semantic paragraph which spans across multiple text columns..." Not to mention text wrapping around figures.

The general field is called "document structure analysis" or "document layout analysis." There's been lots of work--at a cursory glance at this article, I'm not sure they've discussed that literature.

I worked on a similar problem a decade or so, although our work was done mostly by hand. We were trying to not only read in (bilingual) dictionaries using OCR, but turn them into dictionary entries, and then parse each entry into its parts (headword, part of speech, definitions or glosses, example sentences, subentries...). I won't go into details, but to our surprise one of the most difficult parts for the machine to get right was recognizing bold or italicized text.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-22 01:14:21+00:00
There is a major difference between Western Europe and the US: The former has a population density of 184 people per sq km, whereas in the continental US it's 43 per sq km. Moreover, the major cities in the US have more distance between them.

The result is that even if you increase the density in some US city, the people in the surrounding areas will still need cars, and then will come to the city in their cars because it's the only city within reasonable distance of them.

The subset of the US where that isn't the case is basically the New York Metro Area.

If you draw a 250 mile radius around Rotterdam, it contains Paris, London, Frankfurt and the entire countries of Belgium and Luxembourg. If you draw a 250 mile radius around Portland, Oregon, the only major city is Seattle some 175 miles away and mostly it contains a lot of trees. And then even though they're the sort of people who like mass transit and build it, the large majority of people there still don't use it.
by michaelsbradley | 2025-09-22 01:14:38+00:00
> how does the presence of many similar human-like figures without those two dots match the same phenomenon

Toroidal instability and shape-evolution is given considerable attention in the paper. The toroids fold and warp and what the human eye perceives will depend on the viewing angle. If you're looking at the toroid edge-on you get the "dot" effect, cf. Figure 31 in the first paper. The "double-dot" squatter petroglyphs are rarer, as that paper points out.
by platevoltage | 2025-09-22 01:15:51+00:00
If by that, you mean that the law won't be obeyed by Trump's little secret police force, you're probably right.

I think the law is to start a fight with the Federal government. All they need to do is arrest 1 of them and then it's on.

Will it do anything? I dunno, but I'm tired of watching Dems do nothing.
by chrislattner | 2025-09-22 01:16:35+00:00
Thank you for the kind words! Are you saying that AI model innovation stopped at GPT-2 and everyone has performance and gpu utilization figured out?

Are you talking about NVIDIA Hopper or any of the rest of the accelerators people care about these days? :). We're talking about a lot more performance and TCO at stake than traditional CPU compilers.
by nextos | 2025-09-22 01:17:15+00:00
DeepMind and top firms from the City of London have recruiters chasing Oxbridge students in CS, Math, and Statistics before graduation, sometimes even a year or two ahead. You hear more about MIT or Stanford because you are based in the US. Ranking or prestige-wise, in case that matters (I think it's just a lazy filter), they are indistinguishable: https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2025
by bpt3 | 2025-09-22 01:17:35+00:00
You seriously point people to one of the most biased and obnoxious sources for public transit info and expect people to accept his conclusions?

The first minute is nothing but conjecture and personal opinion full of misinformation, and it just continues from there.

Strong Towns is a good source, but they don't make or support most of the claims in this video because they have no basis in fact.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-22 01:17:54+00:00
That's a bit too far in the other direction.

I know plenty of people who choose transit even though they own a car.

My in-laws live in Rotterdam, and cycle and transit for most day to day stuff. But they also own and use a car, when appropriate (they do have big box stores and suburbs in - gasp - bike crazy Rotterdam).

People will use transit if it is pleasant, fast, and affordable. When I lived in Vancouver, you would be nuts to commute by car if there was a train line near you. It was cheaper and faster to take transit, especially during the working hours.

But as you stated, most people who can afford a car do end up with one, even if it isn't their primary mode of transit.
by a_bonobo | 2025-09-22 01:18:53+00:00
>I know people running vibe coded startups. The software quality is garbage. But it does what they want. And that’s all they care about for now. Until a time when software quality impacts their business more than losing control does, they’ll keep vibe coding, rather than hiring a software engineer who bastardises their ideas.

Well, IKEA's furniture quality is garbage yet they make billions. It's cheap and fast. That's capitalism for you. (not implying that communist countries produced amazing products...)