MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jammaloo | 2025-09-04 13:27:38+00:00
It seems to me that it comes down to how the day of the week was picked.

If they picked a random day of the week, and there was only one boy, then there is only a 1/7 chance of a boy being born on that day.

If they have one boy, who was born on a Tuesday, and that is why they picked the day, then there is a 100% chance of a boy being born on that day, so no additional information is conferred.
by krapp | 2025-09-04 13:28:00+00:00
The US has blasphemy laws still on the books in a few states, although broadly speaking such things are unconstitutional (for now...)

And the US is trying to make it illegal to burn the flag, which is blasphemy against civic religion. And you can be arrested for blasphemy against Zionism and the American military industrial complex by protesting Israeli genocide and America's complicity in it.

I also consider laws banning abortion to be anti-blasphemy laws since Christian doctrine is the basis for those laws.

And as far as crosses go, numerous US states now require the posting of the Ten Commandments and incorporating the Bible into the curriculum, thanks to the Supreme Court essentially repealing the separation of church and state.

Not to say the US is at the point of sending someone to prison for a "blasphemous" t-shirt, but let's not pretend America isn't headed gleefully in that direction. It's bad when it's Islam but OK when it's Christianity.
by jlokier | 2025-09-04 13:28:14+00:00
If you can search (and do other operations) on a linked list, and the lists are long enough to matter, you can trivially speed it up to a fixed-size hash table with hardly any code changes.

This:

entry = list_search(key, list);

becomes:

entry = list_search(key, lists[hash(key) % (sizeof(lists)/sizeof(lists[0]))]);

This:

list_add(key, entry, list);

becomes:

list_add(key, entry, lists[hash(key) % (sizeof(lists)/sizeof(lists[0]))]);

etc.

A simple hash(), not high quality but good enough for non-adversarial inputs, can be a one-liner.

A good dictionary does more than this of course, especially dynamic sizing, but this simple change can radically speed up simple linked list code when the lists are long, you don't have a hash table implemention you can use, and you want to keep the code change very small.

The same principle can be used with other things than lists too.
by maroonblazer | 2025-09-04 13:28:28+00:00
What serendipity! The latest episode of "Philosophize This!" is titled "The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han".[0] I'd never heard of him before. Apparently his book "The Burnout Society" is recommended reading.

[0]https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jdvGsEdrpEEjMBJG5oRaH?si=g...
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-04 13:29:59+00:00
> tons of ID Buzz driving around here in Scotland.

In North America, VW only sells the long-wheelbase version and only the highest trim levels. And with worse charging equipment. And in the US specifically, they’ve removed the heat pump from the HVAC system and replaced it with a less-efficient heater (Canada still gets the heat pump).

It’s like VW wants it to fail. And I’m happy to let them fail alongside it. Nobody in the US should care at all what VW plans to do. When the car shows up at the local dealership, we’ll see what they have done.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-09-04 13:30:12+00:00
Clear example of privatization of everything... until its the big corporations who need to get something done - then its socialism in disguise. And of course they hide all the deals behind closed doors so their customers can't see who all, and how much they're subsidizing.

If there is a sudden increase in demand/supply issues due to large corporations they should be the ones to subsidize the bill. I'd argue in the communities this affects they should be forced to cover for everyone who lives in the area for materially making their lives worse.

Not to mention utility companies should be forced to be transparent in the pricing/deals they make with tech companies. They are likely just luring them in with a deal and passing off the rest to their customers so they still don't lose out in the short term. They want the best of both worlds - still making all the same profits short term by passing on to customers while getting the long term lock-in for these data centers.
by dvh | 2025-09-04 13:30:40+00:00
Term "eastern eu" or "eastern Europe" was always fuzzy to me. If deep down you were never sure where you belonged, use this simple test: when you were a kid and you went to your grandparents house during summer vacation, where did they had toilet? If it was inside the house, it's western Europe. If it was outside the house, it's Eastern Europe.

t. Eastern European. But Google is working here.
by rcxdude | 2025-09-04 13:30:50+00:00
>5GW consumption I assume is per day?

GW is already a measure of rate of energy use. You can talk about GWh per day (which is really just another way of saying 0.041 GW), but GW per day is only sensible in the context of a ramp in power consumption.

Assuming the original source of that number didn't incorrectly conflate GWh into GW, that puts your comparison as underestimating the energy usage 24-fold.
by zerkten | 2025-09-04 13:31:05+00:00
Secure browsers want interoperability and for there to be zero objections on those grounds. Companies want to offer a standard web browser, but they need to harden deployments for specific threats. You can see articles like https://aka.ms/EdgeSecurityWhitepaper/Docs for Edge which describe the extra layers of security you can apply while still using the same browser.

Atlassian would want integration with their backend products to increase lock-in and provide a place where their products are centered. IT control how products are presented to end users in organizations that matter (in terms of sales volume.) Establishing visibility and driving engagement is hard if the Atlassian tools are a niche and they want to attack SharePoint or other products. Being able to more efficiently use the tools the company has bought is attractive (even if not a reality.)

Making their browser incompatible is a bad outcome for them because it's an IT choice to adopt their browser. This carries visibility and risk for IT who could be embarrassed. Any backlash carries over to other Atlassian products or affects renewals.
by pxoe | 2025-09-04 13:31:09+00:00
Yes, which is what I also mention (as more usual streaming services, what someone would immediately think of and which is more geared towards that conventional kind of streaming - which bandcamp is kind of just not), it's just that culturally one is further down the line of being shitty to artists, and something like bandcamp has much lower fees on payments. However yeah, this thing is shitty to artists in about the same way, just relatively even shittier to artists on platforms that are better.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-09-04 13:31:27+00:00
> Why would a CEO or the Board gamble the company on an outcome they have no input on?

have you seen the behavior of CEOs?

the market is doing it, and there is no way for a CEO, CIO, CTO, CISO, et al, to not do AI in 2025. the gains to stock price from the hype alone could be worthwhile, and even if not "everyone else was doing it"
by mikewarot | 2025-09-04 13:32:03+00:00
> The main reason for the large energy costs of inference is that we are serving hundreds of millions of people with the same model. No humans have this type of scaling capability.

Using CPUs or GPUs or even tensor units involve waiting for data to be moved from RAM to/from compute. It's my understanding that most of the power used in LLM compute is taken at that stage, and I further believe that 95% savings are possible by merging memory and compute to build a universal computing fabric.

Alternatively, I'm deep in old man with goofy idea territory. Only time will tell.
by hbn | 2025-09-04 13:32:23+00:00
I've been trying to find a Chrome replacement since they finally cut the cord on manifest v2.

I know Firefox is the "right" option, and I'm fully in favour of chipping away at Chromium marketshare (even if the EU is determined to solidify it further with demands of Apple to allow non-Safari rendering in iOS) but I've used it in the past, and even if it's fine 99% of the time, there is that occasional website that has issues because web devs only test in Chromium. And it leaves me with an ever-looming sense of "is this broken because the site is actually broken or was it just not tested with anything but Chrome?" and then I'm obsessively opening Chrome every time I have an issue to test it there.

So I figured I'll just use one of the many Chromium-based alternatives that's going to continue supporting manifest V2, and I've generally heard good things about them anyway. Edge is off the table since Microsoft said they'd only support it as long as Google did, and I already swore it off after using it for like the first year after they switched to Chromium and it was okay, but it quickly got destroyed by the typical suspects at Microsoft, turning it into a Microsoft adware shitshow. Not to mention their quality control was clearly not up to snuff cause they frequently pushed terribly broken builds to stable, which I rarely experienced with Chrome in 15-ish years of using it.

I tried Arc a little bit but something about the onboarding process and browser experience feels more like their top priority is being cute and unique rather than just making a good browser.

I've settled on Brave for now. After disabling all their crapware, it's been... okay. But like Edge, it seems to have some quality control issues. I have very weird performance issues, like for a long time typing in the youtube comment box would be incredibly laggy. I think that's mostly fixed now? But I still get regular issues where the entire browser will lock up if I'm playing a video and I pull the tab into a separate window, and I have to kill the window to unfreeze everything. The bugs are annoying on their own but it also gives me concern about the skillset of the people making it. I'm trusting my browser with fairly sensitive data, and who knows how difficult it will be in a few years to continue supporting manifest V2. They got all that work done for them by Google/open source contributors. Wouldn't surprise me if Google maliciously made manifest V2 more and more difficult to support by moving Chromium in a direction that's increasingly incompatible with it.
by milkplus | 2025-09-04 13:32:56+00:00
> If you wanted to do something useful, you could just run while true; python client.py /tmp/hud/*.png; sleep 1; done and have cron scripts generating images that get dropped into /tmp/hud.

It's a wearable version of the clockwork orange movie player! Or maybe the parallax view.

For such a low cost I'm tempted to order one.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-09-04 13:33:03+00:00
> That absolutely is propaganda.

Of course it is, and so is the opposite claim.

But that wasn't what the parent post said. The word "merely" does work in that sentence - i.e. "This is not propaganda" has a different meaning to "This is not merely propaganda"

"merely" here makes the claim that it is not only propaganda, it is not just propaganda. It has substance beyond being propaganda. It is that and more.
by pengaru | 2025-09-04 13:33:05+00:00
> 1. US is the largest oil producer country in the world

[citation needed]

Here's mine, Saudi Arabia is by far the largest exporter:

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

Perhaps you're confusing oil production with refined petroleum (e.g. gasoline) exports?

Edit: Thanks for the correction, looks like for the last 8 or so years US has indeed occupied the top slot for production:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EIA_Oil_Production.png
by Mistletoe | 2025-09-04 13:33:31+00:00
Ah now I see why electric costs are increasing at double the rate of inflation. But hey I got to make some images of the Muppets in various movies using AI.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5502671/electricity-bil...

https://imgur.com/a/d14oNOP
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-04 13:33:48+00:00
And to further this point: PayPal tries to position itself as "another flavor" of credit, but has none of these protections.

In fact, PayPal binds you to their in-house mediation of fraud claims. I was required to ship $60 worth of merchandise back to the fraudster in China to receive a refund, but the cheapest shipping available to me was $50.
by boringg | 2025-09-04 13:34:17+00:00
I don't think engineering gets paid well compared to software. And by engineering I mean any physical forms of engineering that doesn't fall into "software engineering". The advice seems pretty accurate to me.

In that analogy it also works that in that the level of cognitive difficulty is most challenging @ physics theoretical work --> engineering --> software. Inversely proportional to pay check size. Though a physicist can probably figure out software whereas the other way is a tougher slog.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-09-04 13:34:54+00:00
> 5 years from now, the AI hype will be over, and employers will be short on grads*

alterative view: the AI hype is real, AI takes over, and no one has any jobs anyway

also a thought: in 5 years the boomers will be retiring in droves as will the first series of GenX and the market, in most fields, should be opening up anyway
by koliber | 2025-09-04 13:34:57+00:00
I consistently see marketing and advertising where I learn about events, products, or services I did not know about before. While researching potential products, I read through marketing websites (a form of ad) of different offers. I buy things on Amazon, which requires me to read through product descriptions, which are also ads for what the seller is selling.

Agreed that there is too much machine-gun advertising and you see more than you need. However, I learned to appreciate good advertising while at the same time not letting the irrelevant ads ruin my day.

source: personal experience and sample size of 1. At the same time, I am not some weirdo and other people see the same ads and marketing materials, and it's not unreasonable to think that they also derive some value from them.

> I'd certainly like to know when my favourite bands are playing or get an alert when something I'm after is on sale

If you ever had this happen, that's another case to cite for non-intrusive and useful advertising.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-04 13:35:06+00:00
> not a modern war though. It's asymmetric warfare

Modern (i.e. post nuclear) war is always fought asymmetrically. And great powers constantly fight asymmetric wars. (Israel isn't a great power, but it is an emerging regional hegemon.)

In this case, we have a proxy war between America and Israel, on one hand, and Iran and its proxies, on the other hand, with Gaza and to a lesser degree Yemen being the board's pawns.

> IDF and contractors are just enacting methodical slaughter and starvation techniques in an indiscriminate manner surely?

I genuinely can't figure out why anyone in this war is doing what they are doing.

Hamas' winning move is to return the hostages--they're greater leverage for Netanyahu at this point than the villa-dwellers in Doha. Tel Aviv's winning move is to end hostilities with a tight security cordon around Gaza to prevent Iran from resupplying Hamas. Tehran's winning move is to offer dropping support for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis if the Security Council agrees to (a) an independent Palestinian state and (b) dropping sanctions. (And, like, not bomb Australian Jews. Though Tehran's position makes the most sense, not because it's rational, but because Iranian hardliners gain domestic power when Iran is isolated. Sort of like Netanyahu.) The only folks without a winning line are America, the EU and the people of Palestine and Israel.

That said, detaining a Hamas member is not indiscriminate. Even if the paperwork says they're a librarian, it's reasonable to act on hunches in wartime provided they're treated like POWs.
by whartung | 2025-09-04 13:35:19+00:00
Just be prepared for the waiver you have to sign.

After all of the advertising about how amazing and safe and wonderful it is, the rubber meets the road with the release you sign.

Essentially “we’re about to shoot LASERS into your eye and if we manage to not BLIND you, that’s a good outcome.”

All routine, of course, but it’s still a scary form to sign.
by bargainbin | 2025-09-04 13:36:13+00:00
Anecdotally the company I work for is scuppered by bureaucracy when it comes to getting tools to work with, yet they want us to work at unhindered startup.

We’ve found it’s actually quicker to just recreate the app (Postman, Obsidian, Claude desktop) than it is to go through the rigmarole of getting the download/license approved.
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-04 13:36:27+00:00
> This point - that EMV cards have the effect of siphoning money out of many countries to the USA in payment processing fees...

Money isn't sent to the USA. It is sent to the banks that own your particular credit card. Many of these are certainly in the USA, but your statement makes it sound somehow patriotic/anti-USA to avoid using credit cards.
by shardullavekar | 2025-09-04 13:36:28+00:00
A workflow can have subjective parts too. For example, click on button A if it satisfies certain conditions I wrote in plain English, otherwise click on B.

These subjective elements can be defined with user inputs/prompts.

So a workflow is a literal script with embedded LLM calls for branching or even scraping details where literal script feels tedious.
by pxoe | 2025-09-04 13:36:43+00:00
Previews/free streaming on bandcamp is 128 kbps mp3 only. If you buy music there, you get the whole spread, lossy and lossless, mp3 320/v0, aac, ogg, flac, even wav. (Only thing notably missing at this point is opus, which would be fantastic to have, like for example, opus at 64k (space saving/space efficient) and 256k (quality), although vorbis or aac at whatever quality they have it set to is pretty good as a space efficient option)
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-04 13:37:25+00:00
> I just don't understand what's wrong with 6⋅N⋅D or 6ND

I think most people that read this would be confused and try to find out why there are some undisclosed vectorial operations applied to what looks like scalar numbers.

And yeah, mathematical notation is ugly and confusing. But the fix is not as simple as you think it is.

Apropos CQRS, it's a marketing name. It's hard to understand on purpose. Actual CS-made names tend to be easier.
by righthand | 2025-09-04 13:37:30+00:00
Does anyone here care though? Everyone using LLMs are directly supporting lower quality of life and high cost-of-living across the country.

No person can do anything except fund Zuckerberg's next island purchase and laugh about how they’re using LLMs to vibe code their next unreleased hobby app.

It is truly sad that we are selling out our quality of life for short term gain for tech corporations.
by strawhatguy | 2025-09-04 13:37:46+00:00
There’s too much regulation here to compete. Drones are all Chinese too because of all the FAA restrictions on the technology.

For EVs, there were the EV mandates, and there are several restrictions on mining the rare earth metals here like lithium and cobalt that China does not do.

Also, the US is physically very large and spread out, with more long distance driving, which plays more into an ice vehicle’s advantages. Sometimes even cheaper and definitely quicker than fast charging on a road trip.

Personally I think plug in hybrids could work better, especially EREVs. My concern is governments leaping to the conclusions that full EVs, mandate them, and in so doing lock out promising technologies from improving
by phyzome | 2025-09-04 13:37:52+00:00
If you think Firefox is the right choice, and it works 99% of the time, and you're worried about lack of competition... you should probably be using Firefox. That will support its marketshare (by definition).

If you see bugs, you can probably assume they're just regular ol' bugs most of the time. A lot of the web is just plain broken or badly designed.
by patapong | 2025-09-04 13:37:55+00:00
Yep agreed... It's a bit like sifting gold, most of what it produces is crap, but if you stay with it long enough and put in enough effort you will eventually have something that works well.

Part of the issue is that it is so fast to get to a working prototype that it feels like you are almost there, but there is a lot of effort to go.
by sureglymop | 2025-09-04 13:38:19+00:00
I recently had to create a reproducible version of incredibly complicated and messy R concoctions our data scientists came up with.

I did it with pandas without much experience with it and a lot of AI help (essentially to fill in the blanks the data scientists had left, because they only had to do the calculation once).

I then created a polars version which uses lazyframes. It ended up being about 20x faster than the first version. I did try to do some optimizations by hand to make the execution planner work even better which I believe paid off.

If you have to do a large non interactive analytical calculation (i.e. not in a notebook) polars seems to be way ahead imo!

I do wish that it was just as easy to use as a rust library though.. the focus however seems to be on being competitive in python land mainly.
by duxup | 2025-09-04 13:38:29+00:00
Full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/business/john-deere-tract...

I think this really drives home the problem with these kind of arbitrary tariffs / taxes:

>One of the country’s largest manufacturers is worse off now than it was six months ago. Last month, John Deere said net income in its most recent quarter was down 29 percent from a year earlier. Higher tariffs, primarily on steel but also on aluminum, have cost the company $300 million so far, with nearly another $300 million expected by the end of the year. This summer the company laid off 238 employees across factories in Illinois and Iowa.

>Yet John Deere is just the sort of manufacturing powerhouse that Mr. Trump says he wants more of in the United States. The company, based in Moline, Ill., has made farm equipment since 1837. Its green-and-yellow tractors, combines and sprayers help farmers feed the country and produce billions of dollars’ worth of crops for export.

As the article goes on it notes that the tariff fights have extended to hit US agricultural exports and of course that means farmers not bringing in money won't want to spend more on new equipment.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-04 13:38:43+00:00
I get the impression that VW may be deliberately going for weird branding and styling precisely _because_ the eUp and eGolf (apart from the names) were _too_ car-like; they really looked almost identical to the petrol variants, and I think for about a decade people didn't realise that VW made electric cars at all. A lot of people thought the ID.3 and 4 were their first EVs.

Hyundai also seems to have done well with their notably-weird-looking Ioniq series. It seems like, at least for the moment, the markets actually want electric cars to be a bit weird.
by viraptor | 2025-09-04 13:39:15+00:00
> Companies want to offer a standard web browser,

I don't believe that in a long term. If atlassian creates an enterprise-managed browser they can charge for, there will be a big incentive to making their suite work better in that browser only. Or JIRA/Confluence features will be released using APIs only available there. It will be their EEE.

If they really cared about actual security, they'd optimise their services enough to use them with JIT disabled. And maybe push the industry to do the same. And publish some SSO auth standard that integrates with the browser.

> Any backlash carries over to other Atlassian products

Atlassian doesn't care about users and what they think. If they did, markdown textboxes would still be there and JIRA wouldn't be a slow abomination. But they sell to businesses, not users. So instead of fixed issues or QoL improvements, I get an AI button.