MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by svieira | 2025-09-22 21:48:37+00:00
Just a side note - reading https://tanstack.com/db/latest/docs/guides/live-queries#reus... I see:

const isHighValueCustomer = (row: { user: User; order: Order }) => row.user.active && row.order.amount > 1000

But if I'm understanding the docs correctly on this point, doesn't this have to be:

const isHighValueCustomer = (row: { user: User; order: Order }) => and(row.user.active, gt(row.order.amount, 1000))
by messor_ibericus | 2025-09-22 21:48:38+00:00
One of the author of the study here. Your scenario is very good. The reason why we believe that the second one is way more likely is because there are several other species of the Messor genus that need to hybridize to produce workers, so it's very likely that it's the ancestral state and that male cloning comes after.

Note that this second scenario doesn't necessarily imply that M. structor males are not some sort of parasites. Actually, because it's detrimental to M. structor males to father only workers (they don't transmit their genes to the next generation), it's easy to imagine selection to remove DNA of the mother so they can be cloned in a fertile caste (males). That being said, maternal DNA elimination prompted by the male genome would be nearly immediately also beneficial to M. ibericus (because having M. structor males at home is good for them), so this maternal DNA removing is something that benefits to both partners, which is why it's not that difficult to imagine that it evolved and has been succesfully selected. When something benefits to both partners of any relationship, there are good chances that it will be selected at some point.
by opliko | 2025-09-22 21:48:45+00:00
There are now thankfully more haptic trackpads on the market, and honestly while mac trackpads still seem a bit better than at least what I've used (some Synaptics solution on a HP laptop; no idea how they compare to e.g. Sensel which is allegedly closer to or even better compared to Apple) the difference isn't big IMO.

But yeah, going from a more standard trackpad to a decent, large haptic one is night and day and basically made me stop using a mouse on-the-go in most situations. It now genuinely seems crazy to me that you can buy expensive, "premium" laptops without one.
by ggm | 2025-09-22 21:49:37+00:00
Folate in pregnancy has been a thing forever. Folate reinforced foods, commonplace. Precisely because of neural tube development in pregnancy. I would add, across the period of time diagnosis of autism has risen, folate supplementation has been commonplace.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4933077/ for example.

I'm not an epidemiologist. I prefer advice on things to come with epidemiologists backing. I'm not getting a vibe if that's happening this news cycle.
by fao_ | 2025-09-22 21:50:08+00:00
As per the wiki article someone else listed — the compose key was available on keyboards back in the 1980s (notably it was invented only 5 years after the Space Cadet keyboard was invented!).

Some DOS applications did have support for it. The reason it wasn't included is baffling, and it's especially baffling to me that other operating systems never adopted it, simply because

compose a '

is VASTLY more user friendly to type than:

alt-+ 1F600

which I have met some windows users who memorize that combo for things like the copyright symbol (which is simply:)

compose o c
by shash | 2025-09-22 21:50:23+00:00
> So it's likely to become an arms-race.

And this is my real fear with the current crop of AI. That rather than improving the system to require less junk, we just use AI to generate junk and AI to parse AI-generated junk that another AI summarises ad infinitum…

Like, instead of building a framework that reduces boilerplate code, we use an LLM to generate that boilerplate instead (in a more complex and confusing manner than using a traditional template would).

Or, when dealing with legal or quasi-legal matters (like certifications), 1. Generate AI slop to fill a template 2. Use AI to parse that template and say whether it’s done 3. Use another to write a response.

Lots of paperwork happening near instantly, mostly just burning energy and not adding to either the body of knowledge or getting to a solution.
by arp242 | 2025-09-22 21:50:23+00:00
If you want to ban saying something false then you need to start with arresting everyone who loudly and aggressively claimed that the murdered of the Democratic politicians in Minnesota was a far-left extremist and all of that. People are still claiming this, I believe.

Or maybe start with all the people who kept on claiming that migrants are eating people's cats and dogs.

etc. etc. etc. I can go on and on.

Applying the most strictest of strictest interpretation of the law for your enemies while being exceedingly lax with the law for your friends is one if the key hallmarks of authoritarianism.
by tobyjsullivan | 2025-09-22 21:50:45+00:00
I think that last line is getting to the point more than most of the discussion I see.

The host of the show doesn’t really decide what he’s going to say. He reads the script the writers deliver (with his approval, I’m sure). He’s the talking head of a production team.

Jimmy Kimmel the person didn’t get taken off the air. Jimmy Kimmel the show did.

That makes it relatively easy to go back on the air, if they simply give new direction (constraints) to the writing team that satisfy the network.

If I were to guess, I doubt Jimmy Kimmel the person cares what the team is or is not allowed to write in the script.
by apimade | 2025-09-22 21:51:22+00:00
An 8% increase y/o/y is quite substantial, however keep in mind globally we experienced the 2022 fuel shock. In Australia for example we saw energy prices double that year.

Although wholesale electricity prices show double-digit average year-on-year swings, their true long-run growth is closer to ~6% per year, slightly above wages at ~4% during the same period.

So power has become somewhat less affordable, but still remains a small share of household income. In other words, wage growth has absorbed much of the real impact, and power prices are still a fraction of household income.

You can make it sound shocking with statements like “In 1999, a household’s wholesale power cost was about $150 a year, in 2022, that same household would be charged more than $1,000, even as wages only grew 2.5x”, but the real impact (on average, obviously there are outliers and low income households are disproportionately impacted in areas where gov doesn’t subsidise) isn’t major.

https://www.aer.gov.au/industry/registers/charts/annual-volu...
by legitster | 2025-09-22 21:51:36+00:00
This is incredibly hyperbolic and misleading. The Communications Act of 1934 was passed for a variety of very necessary reasons at the time, the most important being making sure broadcasters didn't hijack each other's signals.

Coughlin's show coincided with the creation of the FCC and they never really tangled. His show was pulled off the network a full 5 years after the FCC was established. FCC regulation may have had a part in that, but there is no reason to believe he in particular was targeted and certainly not that the law was passed to target him.
by brudgers | 2025-09-22 21:51:57+00:00
Worker’s Compensation insurance and Social Security taxes are things an employer commonly pays. In addition, employers have general liability for damage by their workers, are responsible for collecting payroll taxes, need to establish the legality of employment, and so forth.

Finally, $10k a year probably won’t buy loyalty or promote long term stability…you are competing for labor and not offering a living and not offering attractive opportunity…

…or to put it another way, doing the same work for a rich person has more upside.
by earthnail | 2025-09-22 21:52:22+00:00
Unfortunately the solution presented in the article is locked to a closed cloud offering. I have nothing against those, Firebase for example is like that, but I dislike the fact that it’s hidden. “It’s just an sqlite extension”, oh and it syncs with our commercial cloud offering only.

Other vendors like Powersync and ElectricSQL have a similar offering but are upfront about it. And at least in Powersync’s case (don’t know about Electricsql) you can also run their offering yourself.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-22 21:52:30+00:00
This isn't true.

Jones was defaulted before trial in both cases because he wasn't complying with discovery. The defense asked for documents and testimony which his company refused to provide. Documents like the finances for the company (totally normal). You are correct that he was given multiple chances to fix the problem. He'd literally fire his lawyers between almost every deposition so that they couldn't provide the requested documents.

But the actual fines came from the jury from the trial. civil cases have 2 parts, are you guilty and if so for how much. Jones lost the "are you guilty" by default and the how much was determined by a jury of his peers after a trial (and accepted by the judge).

I think with Jones it's important to get everything straight as he likes to claim that he was silenced and steamrolled. He was neither. He lost that much money because his actions were horrendous.
by hatthew | 2025-09-22 21:53:03+00:00
TFA isn't saying "DSA is useless", it's saying "intermediate/advanced DSA is not useful for most people". It's obvious that it's useful for some people, but I think even most people working on "large scale systems" should probably value general software engineering skills over DSA skills. The very few people who actually need DSA skills already know that the advice "you don't need DSA" doesn't apply to them.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-09-22 21:53:09+00:00
Yngve depth is how many things your brain has to keep open at once when reading code. More nesting and overlapping, center-embedded obligations in recursive code (especially side effects) raise that load, independent of Big-O. Recursion isn’t a hardware thing; it compiles to iteration, so the trouble comes from how the code is written, not recursion itself. Optimizing for Kolmogorov complexity can make code shorter yet harder to parse, so naming and linearizing steps adds bytes but lowers the mental stack. Which is why heavily recursive code get's less optimization attention in most instances than loops.
by kid64 | 2025-09-22 21:53:19+00:00
> What is the objective measure of usability to which you are referring? I'm not aware of any such metric.

Evaluators normally use scoring systems for this purpose, in which heuristic violations are rated on a severity scale (commonly 0-4). So when apps like Obsidian rack up many 3s and 4s, you have an objective basis on which to characterize it as unusable. Besides this, there are accessibility and security metrics consisting of pass/fail tests, which are countable.

I guess the best analogy would be a street vendor passing dog meat off as beef. You may think the dog is delicious, but that doesn't make it beef.
by cbradford | 2025-09-22 21:53:43+00:00
So now we know the reality. An employer, Disney, felt an employee, Kimmel, was damaging their business, let's not forget the point of an employee is to make money for their employer, and as a result took corrective action with the employee. Who was not fired. If a waiter at a restaurant was offending the customers, he would have been fired. Kimmel was treated very kindly and will continue to receive his paycheck. Looks like the wailing about free speech missed the mark
by rapatel0 | 2025-09-22 21:53:49+00:00
The real point of leverage for here is performance/size. Getting traction in the open weights space kinda forces that the models need to innovate on efficiency. This means the open weight models may get leverage that the closed weight ones don't think about.

If we had some aggregated cluster reasoning mechanisms, When would 8x 30B models running on an h100 server out perform in terms of accuracy 1 240B model on the same server.
by some-guy | 2025-09-22 21:54:10+00:00
I think rebranding happens so often because we are all out of lucrative ideas. It's just another tool in the "maybe this will work" pile of things that corporations do.

We have yet to see how AI will actually meaningfully change our lives and culture for profit. With the internet this was fairly obvious...the internet in our pockets at all times even more so.

So what are corporations to do? Offshore, stock buybacks, and rebrands. "Maybe this will work!"
by ryanrasti | 2025-09-22 21:54:12+00:00
> Not sure why this doesn't seem to be a common practice TBH, might be missing something.

Yeah... I've been deep in this problem space myself. The two big points of friction are: 1. Requiring a build-step to generate runtime code from the TS types 2. TS doesn't officially support compiler transforms that do it

That said, the two most promising approaches I've found so far: 1. https://github.com/GoogleFeud/ts-runtime-checks -- it does exactly what you describe 2. https://arktype.io/ -- a very interesting take on the Zod model, but feels like writing native Typescript

Congrats on the launch, really exciting to see a way to get capabilities into the JS ecosystem!
by zmmmmm | 2025-09-22 21:54:54+00:00
I've never yet accepted an AI written answer when responding to my emails all though I try it routinely. Mostly it just doesn't capture my style. But even when it does, there's some kind of essential spark missing.

I think a lot about the concept that the AI output is still 99% regression to a mean of some kind. In that sense, the part it can generate for you is all the boring stuff - what doesn't add value. And to be sure, if you're writing an email etc, a huge amount of that is boring filler, most of the time. But the part it specifically cannot do is the only part that matters - the original, creative part.

The filler was never important anyway. Physically typing text was never the barrier. It's finding time and space to have the creative thought necessary to put into the communication that is the challenge. And the AI really doesn't help at all with that.
by tptacek | 2025-09-22 21:54:59+00:00
I don't think he "is", present tense, and implying continuity, "pushing misinformation". I think he's an entertainer with basically my politics and a pretty good writing staff, and I think he made a mistake common at that moment to people with my politics. I don't find it disqualifying. But it was not, in and of itself, good.
by z3ugma | 2025-09-22 21:55:14+00:00
I really wish that authors of such projects would use a population-weighted cartogram instead of a land-area map. Some of the most-populous and culturally relevant "nations" would jump out on such a map instead of being tiny.

My favorite mapbuilder of this sort is using https://pitchinteractiveinc.github.io/tilegrams/
by ericdotlee | 2025-09-22 21:55:19+00:00
Hi, I'm looking to transition from renting GPU's from RunPod to hosting some models locally - specifically qwen-2.5 and some lightweight VLM's like Moondream. It looks like the RTX 3060 12gb is a relatively good option but I don't necessarily have a lot of experience with pc hardware, let alone used hardware.

Curious if anyone here has a similar config of 1-4 RTX 3060s? Trying to decide if picking up a few of these is a good value or if I should just continue renting cloud GPU's?
by naasking | 2025-09-22 21:56:04+00:00
I gave you all of the links you need to read if you want to know more. Suffice it to say that all you're describing is what you care about, which is about as logically compelling an argument about what is good as telling me what deity you believe in. Your random foray into philosophy is not going to solve 3,000 years of ethical debates in a simple quip.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-09-22 21:56:07+00:00
It boggles my mind why you (and others) think that Westerners are straightforward. Have you ever interviewed for a job, asked someone for a date, or asked for a raise? Let alone fields like commerce or money trading where the whole point is to be as dishonest as possible to reap the most gains.

I think people simply forget their everyday behaviour like fish forget the water they swim in.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-22 21:56:47+00:00
It's worth remembering that Disney is a mega-corporation and all their calculus is like this. They aren't "on our side" (or, for that matter, particularly against LGBTQIA+ interests); they're on the side with money. A company that size doesn't have morals; it has assets and liabilities.

That's why the Disney+ boycott / cancellation response mattered: it forced them to put losing their ABC network affiliate broadcast rights from the government on the T-sheet against losing their expensive bet on Disney+ (and all the consolidation power and direct-feedline money that brings in). If the viewers hadn't acted to put something on the other side of the T-sheet, it'd be an easy choice for the company.
by mrandish | 2025-09-22 21:56:53+00:00
Yes, but the FCC has existing procedures for communicating concerns and warnings to broadcasters about possible regulatory enforcement and an entire rule-making framework beyond that. The new FCC chair so directly addressing a specific incident off-the-cuff on a podcast and making threatening statements about FCC action against a specific broadcaster over a specific incident was extremely unusual and a troubling precedent. And, to be clear, I'd say the same thing if it were the Biden admin's FCC chair issuing semi-veiled threats against Fox News. We don't want federal agency chairs from either party using podcasts to conduct official business or as a conduit for plausibly deniable (but nonetheless real) specific threats.

As a separate matter, it's long been clear the FCC was created to serve a very time, context and needs - most of which either no longer exist or have changed substantially. Most media no longer travels through the limited shared resource of "airwaves". The agency's whole charter is in need of a major rethink.
by dang | 2025-09-22 21:57:39+00:00
We've banned this account for using HN primarily (exclusively?) for ideological battle and ignoring our request to stop.

(This is not a comment on the current topic. It's about a pattern of account usage that we don't allow here, regardless of topic and regardless of political affiliation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.)
by kingstnap | 2025-09-22 21:58:32+00:00
Make it long enough that it's not worth any human's time reading it. Like full-on balls to the walls slop. Pass it between different LLMs to add additional conclusions and subheadings.

In fact, do it in parallel where one chatbot is adding another few pages here, and simultaneously and independently, another is adding different pages somewhere else and concatenate the results together.

Once you get about 25 pages of dense slop, just conclude that AI made writing this report 1000x more efficient.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-22 21:58:38+00:00
Two points:

1. There are a lot of times that Trump says things that people take for granted that what he meant was... but that isn't strictly what he said. It seems to me that maybe 60% of the time, what people are up in arms about are things they're sure he meant, but strictly speaking he didn't actually say.

Look, I'm not a Trump apologist. But if you're going to condemn Trump for what it sure looks like he's saying (but he technically didn't quite say), then don't be surprised when other people get condemned by the same standard.

2. If I understand correctly, the shooter's family was fairly conservative. So the right's reaction of "no, he was left" was, at the time, a baseless deflection of baseless accusations.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-22 21:58:54+00:00
It's funny. Circa 1990 I think calculator enthusiasts were much more likely to be into HP, particularly devices like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series

but TI really took over most of the market and has most of the enthusiast interest. I have an HP Prime but I think I'm the only one, it's a really nice calculator but the algebraic mode is better than the RPN mode which makes not feel very 'HP' and at the core it is another ARM device.
by xp84 | 2025-09-22 21:58:55+00:00
That would certainly fit the pattern we've seen. I'm always floored by how small the grifts are. Like, if I were a 'morally flexible' President and had at least a billion dollars already, I sure wouldn't consider being influenced by 9 figures or less. Come talk to me when it's going to enrich my 'team' by at least 10 billion. For anything less than that I'd be determined to appear straight as an arrow. For Trump you can approve a new golf course for him and he'll just executive order whatever you want.
by hypeatei | 2025-09-22 21:59:14+00:00
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/media/brendan-carr-jimmy-kimm...

When Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr suggested Jimmy Kimmel should be suspended and said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” ABC and its local affiliates were listening. On Wednesday afternoon, Carr tapped into preexisting MAGA media anger about a Monday night Kimmel monologue and used a right-wing podcaster’s platform to blast Kimmel and pressure ABC’s parent company Disney.

Those are the actions he took as an official at the FCC.
by 2THFairy | 2025-09-22 21:59:47+00:00
AI criticism and pushback.

When you say "AI cannot do my job, [insert whatever reason you find compelling]" Execs only hear "I am trying to protect my job from automation".

The executives have convinced themselves that the AI productivity benefits are real, and generally refuse to listen to any argument to the contrary. Especially from their own employees.

This impedes their ability to evaluate productivity data; If a worker fails to show productivity, it can't be that AI is bad, because that'd mean the executives are wrong about something. It must be that the employee is sabotaging our AI efforts.
by sonofhans | 2025-09-22 22:00:54+00:00
I feel your pain here; I remember my transition from Debian to MacOS. I’ve used DOS, Windows, Linux, and MacOS — each full-time for more than a decade. The switching pain is real, and some things still feel wrong to me after I got to love them on a prior OS.

E.g., in Windows apps, menu items are keyboard-addressable by default. This is brilliant for accessibility, and for accustomed power users. MacOS has no _by default_ equivalent.

E.g., managing virtual desktops in Linux are exactly as flexible and powerful as you want them to be. MacOS does it One Way (more or less), and you’d better like it.

I still love MacOS the most. Some of the things you list are real misses (#1). Some of them, I believe, are things you haven’t found yet (#11, #15, #16). Some are MacOS-specific metaphors which I’ve come to love compared with the alternatives (#4). Some I don’t understand but would be happy to discuss with you (#17).
by zahlman | 2025-09-22 22:01:33+00:00
> he didn't speak on the motives of the shooter only on magas insistence he wasn't maga. He didn't say he was maga, merely focused on the performative finger pointing of Republicans

The only thing that could have validated such finger pointing is a belief that the shooter actually was "maga". In the absence of such a belief, to say that "maga" was disavowing the shooter is not an accusation of wrongdoing. But the claim was prefaced with an assertion that "we hit a new low" in the form of this disavowal; therefore Kimmel did see it as an accusation of wrongdoing.
by mothballed | 2025-09-22 22:01:36+00:00
I think there's a very large segment of criminals that express remorse at sentencing as pure theatre, the courts know but they give brownie points for humbling yourself before the court.

Honestly it's refreshing to hear the truth. I thought something similar at sentencing when Weev told the judge he hoped she'd give him the maximum so people would "storm the docks" and that he not only didn't regret it but wouldn't be so nice next time, which only made it all the more sweeter when the bitch's sentence got totally vacated.