MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lvl155 | 2025-09-04 10:33:33+00:00
Polars is certainly better than pandas doing things locally. But that is a low bar. I’ve not had great experience using Polars on large enough datasets. I almost always end up using duckdb. If I am using SQL at the end of the day, why bother starting with Polars? With AI these days, it’s ridiculously fast to put together performant SQLs. Heck you can even make your own grammar and be done with it.
by whyever | 2025-09-04 10:35:09+00:00
That's a good question! Especially after Frank McSherry's COST paper [1], it's hard to imagine where the sweet spot for Spark is. I guess for Databricks it makes sense to push Spark, since they are the ones who created it. In a way, it's their competitive advantage.

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...
by lelanthran | 2025-09-04 10:36:03+00:00
> I don't think it's true at all. Considering it only takes 2 to 3 years to rack up the 10,000 hours to "master" something, young people can get very good at a lot of things.

They can, if they practice with feedback 8 hours a day.

Typically, young people, as a group, are not famous for practicing something 8 hours a day.

This means, for the group as a whole, it is true.
by culturestate | 2025-09-04 10:36:22+00:00
I don’t mean to suggest that governments shouldn’t do things like this, I’m just abnormally delighted when I find them.

A multinational framework explicitly for the protection and restoration of eels would never have occurred to me (or most of the rest of humanity, I’d imagine) but nevertheless it occurred to someone and now there are civil servants who are paid real money to design and implement it.

To put it another way, I’m less interested in the policy than I am in the mechanics of governance that enable it to exist. One of my favorites is the National Cemetary Administration Operational Standards and Measures[1] program, which basically defines OKRs for U.S. veterans cemeteries.

1. https://imlive.s3.amazonaws.com/Federal%20Government/ID25151...
by CrossVR | 2025-09-04 10:37:13+00:00
> It seemed crazy to me that with all the amazing technological advancement we had, our efficiency in communicating via the computer wasn’t much higher than someone with a typewriter 150 years ago.

We're making electric super cars that still use a steering wheel and gas pedal. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's deficient. Humans haven't fundamentally changed in the past 100 years, so it is probably the most intuitive way to manually control a car.

The typewriter/keyboard is probably the most intuitive method to input alphabet characters. Of course that doesn't preclude entirely new ways to control our computers. But if you set out to simply replace the mouse and keyboard without fundamentally changing how we interact with a computer, then you're setting yourself up for failure.
by jraph | 2025-09-04 10:37:55+00:00
It'd be worth checking if these nodes are actually correctly mapped. For instance, historical wells that are dry, locked, etc should probably not be labeled with amenity=drinking_water. And the missing one should probably be updated to have it.

More on this at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Ddrinking_w...

In case you don't already know this and for others, you can use the editor at https://osm.org or the Every Door app on your mobile phone during your next tour for this (you'll need an OSM account to edit the map).

I'm not 100% sure the CoMaps "Water" category uses amenity:drinking_water, but I have relied on it for this many times during bike tours or hikes without much surprise :-)
by twalichiewicz | 2025-09-04 10:39:22+00:00
They’ve poured effort into replicating the feel of a notebook: restricted toolset, textured screen, stylus handwriting, etc., but I'm at a loss why this is worth hundreds of dollars plus a subscription instead of just using paper notebooks.

- Paper-like feel? Actual paper still wins.

- Undo, folders, search, tags? Flipping through a notebook and adding sticky notes gets you there faster.

- Templates? A $10 pad of graph or dotted paper gives infinite variety.

Handwriting-to-text and cloud sync is perhaps the strongest case, but even there it's probably faster to draft on paper and digitize with keyboard or speech.
by reedf1 | 2025-09-04 10:39:36+00:00
Weirdly my background is physics and CS and I am recently discovering a love of EE. I don't think it's as easy to pare these subjects apart as history suggests. Modern bleeding-edge solutions require a "full-stack" understanding. If you know maxwell's equations with your physics knowledge - then you can implement them numerically with your CS knowledge - build a hardware optimized version with verilog/FPGA with your EE knowledge.
by solarkraft | 2025-09-04 10:40:06+00:00
FWIW I didn’t like the Boox experience: For writing you’re limited to the stock notes app, which I didn’t find usable: You can’t even zoom in it (something I thought would obviously be possible when choosing the smaller Nova 2). It also has a full Android system, which comes with advantages for sure but invites distractions and leads to very disappointing battery life.
by stingraycharles | 2025-09-04 10:41:13+00:00
What makes you say that? Their page literally say that’s not the case.

“ “For users who access Amazon Q Developer with the Pro Tier, your content is not used for service improvement, or to train any underlying foundation models (FMs). Unless explicitly opted out, content from Amazon Q Developer Free Tier might also be used to enhance and improve the quality of FMs. Your content will not be used if you use the opt-out mechanism described in the documentation. For more information, see Sharing your data with AWS.”

https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/faqs/#topic-1
by rishabh16 | 2025-09-04 10:41:36+00:00
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by voidhorse | 2025-09-04 10:42:12+00:00
Such a system redefines logical reasoning to the point that hardly any typical person's definition would agree.

It's Searle's Chinese Room scenario all over again, which everyone seems to have forgotten amidst the bs marketing storm around LLMs. A person with no knowledge of Chinese following a set of instructions and reading from a dictionary translating texts is a substitute for hiring a translator who understands chinese, however we would not claim that this person understands Chinese.

An LLM hooked up to a Turing Machine would be similar wrt to logical reasoning. When we claim someone reasons logically we usually don't imagine they randomly throw ideas at the wall and then consult outputs to determine if they reasoned logically. Instead, the process of deduction makes the line of reasoning decidedly not stochastic. I can't believe we've gotten to such a mad place that basic notions like that of logical deduction are being confused for stochastic processes. Ultimately, I would agree that it all comes back to the problem of other minds and you either take a fully reductionist stance and claim the brain and intellection is nothing more than probabilistic neural firing or you take a non-reductionist stance and assume there may be more to it. In either case, I think that claiming that LLMs+tools are equivalent to whatever process humans perform is kind of silly and severely underrated what humans are capable of^1.

1: Then again, this has been going on since the dawn of computing, which has always put forth its brain=computer metaphors more on grounds of reducing what we mean by "thought" than by any real substantively justified connection.
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-04 10:42:34+00:00
Surely if you want to reliably do some action when a user leaves your page then some persistent connection which dies is by far the most reliable option...?

I'm no frontend expert but cant you just open a websocket and when the websocket dies from the server's perspective, you have your cue to do whatever cleanup you wanted to do?

I also agree with the others here that there shouldn't really be a _need_ for this kind of feature.
by rishabh16 | 2025-09-04 10:42:57+00:00
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by lawn | 2025-09-04 10:43:06+00:00
> I think neovim would do better if they started integrating the core plugins like LSP, tree sitter

That's exactly what they're doing.

Both tree-sitter and LSP are built in and the primary LSP/tree-sitter plugins only bundle default LSP configurations and tree-sitter queries respectively. They're also planning to include tree-sitter query bundling into Neovim natively somehow, to make it even less reliant on the nvim-treesitter plugin.

They recently simplified the LSP configuration and to configure a new LSP you basically do this:

vim.lsp.config("expert", { cmd = { "expert" }, root_markers = { "mix.exs", ".git" }, filetypes = { "elixir", "eelixir", "heex" }, }) vim.lsp.enable("expert")

And then in the "LspAttach" autocmd you can define your LSP specific keymaps for example.
by stingraycharles | 2025-09-04 10:43:18+00:00
But you have to consider that AWS with all their enterprise customers is something entirely different than Alexa.

And yes, it’s literally written in their documentation.

https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/faqs/#topic-1

“ For users who access Amazon Q Developer with the Pro Tier, your content is not used for service improvement, or to train any underlying foundation models (FMs). Unless explicitly opted out, content from Amazon Q Developer Free Tier might also be used to enhance and improve the quality of FMs. Your content will not be used if you use the opt-out mechanism described in the documentation. For more information, see Sharing your data with AWS.”
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-04 10:44:37+00:00
It was a choice between two options in phones with bad batteries:

- Slow down the phone so that it still works - Crash phone immediately

Seems like the majority of people would've wanted option 2 for some strange reason?

They did fix it by giving people the option, but I wonder how many still opted for "yes, I want my phone to suddenly just die instead of slowing down".

And the fix for all this was a 50€ battery replacement.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-04 10:46:23+00:00
Good point, and it may. The site oddly claims that "taxes and duties included". But that would be an ill-advised move for them for a couple of reasons.

-No Canadian expects that. Our standard is taxes calculated in the final calculation.

-Tax rates differ by province. In Alberta it's 5%, while in Ontario it's 13%, for instance. Which is a big reason taxes are calculated in the final calculation.

So maybe they think they're simplifying prices, but it's not an advised way to do it it. And the "duties paid" for an electronics vendor is a super weird claim in 2025.
by imtringued | 2025-09-04 10:47:19+00:00
I personally would rather recommend people to just look at these architectural diagrams [0] and try to understand them. There is the caveat that they do not show how attention works. For that you need to understand softmax(QK^T)V and multi head attention being a repetition of this multiple times. GQA, MHA, etc just messes around with reusing Q or K or V in clever ways.

[0] https://huggingface.co/blog/vtabbott/mixtral
by api | 2025-09-04 10:47:27+00:00
Isn’t this stuff mostly rendered by the GPU, and pretty efficiently?

I remember eye candy Linux desktop stuff like Enlightenment doing stuff like this back in the 90s and early 2000s. Not as pervasive or flashy but similar: lots of translucency, skins, themes, etc. Ran fine on a 400mhz machine, though at a much lower resolution.

It’s not free but I’m curious to see how significant it is. I also wonder if you can turn off the animated stuff.

The biggest gripe I have with the Tahoe shots I’ve seen is thst they seem to show it wasting more space with larger margins, etc. I hate that trend. I have a huge ultra wide monitor and often find myself wanting even more screen real estate while I’m working. Stop wasting my pixels.
by dangus | 2025-09-04 10:48:05+00:00
I'm not sure where censorship comes in with this discussion, it seems like cloud models are censored as well? And local models are frequently created that are abliterated? Correct me if I'm wrong or misunderstanding you.

Either way, it's just an example model, plenty of others to choose from. The fact of the matter is that the base model MacBook Air currently comes with about half as much RAM as you need for a really really decent LLM model. The integrated graphics are fast/efficient and the RAM is fast. The AMD Ryzen platform is similarly well-suited.

(Apple actually tells you how much storage their local model takes up in the settings > general > storage if you're curious)

We can imagine that by 2030 your base model Grandma computer on sale in stores will have at least 32GB of high-bandwidth RAM to handle local AI workflows.
by cassepipe | 2025-09-04 10:48:57+00:00
To me, alienation is philosopher's toy and they like to put what they don't like behind that word. It's been mostly used by Marxist philosophers rediscovering the "young Marx" to deal with the fact that the workers actually didn't seem that interested in a socialist revolution anymore (they have false consciousness !)

I am not saying this to invalidate what you are saying but would you care to explain how you think the problem described by parent (richer societies allow for more alone time thus loneliness) is better described by Arendt's concept of alienation ?

> In the modern world [...] Is it any surprise?

To me you are just describing a poverty and ideological tribalism but that still doesn't tell me what Arendt can do for us here
by solarkraft | 2025-09-04 10:49:20+00:00
I predict it will be sneaky enough and the ChatGPT brand is strong enough to take it. Your switching cost is low - but you’re likely a tech enthusiast who likes researching and trying alternatives. Most people aren’t like that. The one competitor with anywhere close consumer recognition is Gemini and I’m sure Google would love to push ads too. Maybe not yet as they’re in the reputation building phase, but if it makes money I’m fairly sure everyone will end up doing it.
by TrufiAssoc | 2025-09-04 10:49:32+00:00
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Volunteers ride buses and map routes. Universities and civic groups improve the base map. Trufi converts this into GTFS so apps can use it. Open data here empowers riders and city planners alike.
by jcgrillo | 2025-09-04 10:50:06+00:00
> their apparent success

Yeah so the thing is the "success" is only "apparent". Having actually tried to use this garbage to do work, as someone who has been deeply interested in ML for decades, I've found the tools to be approximately useless. The "apparent success" is not due to any utility, it's due entirely to marketing.

I don't fear I'm missing out on anything. I've tried it, it didn't work. So why are my bosses a half dozen rungs up on the corporate ladder losing their entire minds over it? It's insanity. Delusional.
by todd44 | 2025-09-04 10:51:18+00:00
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by drej | 2025-09-04 10:51:40+00:00
Having done a bit of data engineering in my day, I'm growing more and more allergic to the DataFrame API (which I used 24/7 for years). From what I've seen over the past ~10 years, 90+% of use cases would be better served by SQL, both from the development perspective as well as debugging, onboarding, sharing, migrating etc.

Give an analyst AWS Athena, DuckDB, Snowflake, whatever, and they won't have to worry about looking up what m6.xlarge is and how it's different from c6g.large.
by voidhorse | 2025-09-04 10:52:02+00:00
That linked comment was so eye-opening. It suddenly made sense to me why people who are presumably technical and thus shouldn't even be entertaining the notion that LLMs reason (and who should further realize that the use and choice of this term was pure marketing strategy) are giving it the time of day. When so many of the enthusiasts can't even get enough math under their belt to understand basic claims it's no wonder the industry is a complete circus right now.
by jwlit | 2025-09-04 10:52:50+00:00
Also - obviously annual not weekly - don't forget the Reith Lectures (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9): long-form lecture series by (often) the most brilliant people of their time. Back catalogue available from 1948 in podcast form. Recommend starting with Bertrand Russell in the inaugural lectures - he's fantastic to listen to, even now.
by ordu | 2025-09-04 10:52:56+00:00
There is one problem with prediction markets, they will influence the processes they are predicting. It is like betting on sports events: if bets are high enough, then athletes would like to get a share. Professional athletes have high salaries, so they will be expensive to buy (hopefully), but what about cultural events? Who will get an Oscar prize? How much bribe money is needed to win an Oscar prize?

I believe there is a second issue: disinformation. The more money in the prediction markets, the bigger incentives to start a disinformation campaign. Like we have not enough disinformation already.

I really like prediction markets and their ability to predict, but these issues seem fundamental to me, they are inseparable from prediction markets.
by bilekas | 2025-09-04 10:53:03+00:00
> I'm no frontend expert but cant you just open a websocket and when the websocket dies from the server's perspective, you have your cue to do whatever cleanup you wanted to do?

If I'm not mistaken, and I very well might be, it's kind of the same, however a WS connection here may be less reliable, infact if the user has a spotty connection, when you think "That user left", in the case of a local cleanup, okay that could run on the client side, however this beacon seems to be aimed at sending data back to the server when you leave, in the case of a dropped connection, you wont be able to send the data back anyway to the server.

For this 'browser' based implementation under the hood, the browser *should* have more insight into the real intention of the users exit.
by phoronixrly | 2025-09-04 10:53:50+00:00
Remind me, was the slowdown communicated in any meaningful way, and were the affected users directed to service their phones at the nearest apple store?

'Hey, there's an issue with your battery so we've slowed down your phone to prevent it going off. Please visit your local apple store to address this.' As opposed to misleading them that their phones are old and slow/crashing and they need to buy new ones?
by darcien | 2025-09-04 10:55:38+00:00
I get where you're coming from but React Native(RN) is a bad example. RN is actually native and uses native components. So any native view will be supported, including Liquid Glass. e.g. https://expo.dev/changelog/sdk-54-beta#ios-26-and-liquid-gla... or https://github.com/callstack/liquid-glass
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-04 10:55:46+00:00
The issue was always that of communication and trust.

Communication: at no point has Apple tried to communicate "your phone's battery has gone bad, the device now suffers for it" to the user. Even though they obviously knew that this was what was happening.

Trust: with how openly anti-repair Apple was at the time, how can you trust that this was a honest oversight, and not another malicious action designed to prevent people from repairing their devices?

Apple has improved upon both since. But they're still not anywhere near perfect - and it took a lot of getting their shit kicked in by the media, the public and the regulators for Apple to get even this far.
by conartist6 | 2025-09-04 10:56:11+00:00
Zed spent their innovation budget on Rust and GPUI, and as a result they have no energy to question the status quo of IDEs as a whole. Git and LSP are antiquated but form the bedrock of their plans for the future.

Essentially at this point they can only do spaghetti enigneering: adding more and more complexity on top of the complexity that already exists. IDEs have been through so many iterations of this process already that all the real wins are in refactoring: moving the whole system (and ecosystem) design sideways, which is he one thing they dare not try to do (though it happens to be my forte).
by lordnacho | 2025-09-04 10:57:20+00:00
It's the internet. When you talk to people online, it often descends into pettiness. When you talk to people in the real world, that rarely happens. But it's much easier to talk online, so people get the wrong impression.

You should talk to strangers. It's never gone wrong for me. Most people have a warmth and agreeableness that comes out when you are there with them, talking about stuff. There's also the interesting effect that people will give you their innermost secrets, knowing you won't tell anyone (I actually met a serial killer who did this, heh). For instance I was on a long haul flight earlier this year, and my neighbour told me everything about her divorce. Like a kind of therapy.

I also find when I have a real disagreement with someone, it's a lot easier when you're face-to-face. For instance, I have friends who are religious, in a real way, ie they actually think there's a god who created the earth and wants us to live a certain way. Being there in person keeps me from ridiculing them like I might on an internet forum, but it also keeps them from condemning me to hell.

So folks, practice talking to people. Much of what's wrong in the current world is actually loneliness, having no outlet for your expressions.
by r_lee | 2025-09-04 10:57:29+00:00
This goes for other stuff as well, like if you're "ungrounded" by not actually observing/communicating with the thing you're judging, you can kind of just make up the perfect villain in your head and hate that

I guess same thing would go for extreme fears, like, you are so scared of something that you get even more scared of it because you know it's the scariest thing in the world, until you actually meet the thing you're scared of