MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adriand | 2025-09-03 01:29:05+00:00
> I guess our cultures are simply too different, but it genuinely seems like people saw all animals as "things" until, like, the 1950s or something like that.

There’s a weird disconnect where people ignore or are wilfully ignorant of cruelty to animals in industrial food production but are sensitive to it in virtually every other context. I saw a woman the other day who was tending to an injured pigeon and had called animal welfare people to come tend to it. Meanwhile, millions of chickens live in appalling conditions and die horrible deaths en masse.

I am genuinely unsure where this disconnect comes from. I was the same for most of my life but a few years ago, I started thinking about the animals I was eating and then I couldn’t eat them any more.

I don’t begrudge people their compassion. A few nights ago I went outside to put some stuff on the barbecue and my wife was in the backyard, concerned for the fate of a female cardinal that had flown into our sunroom window. It was stunned and couldn’t fly. Its mate was worriedly flitting through nearby bushes. “That’s so sad,” my wife said. “Yes,” I agreed, and then I put her skewers of meat on the barbecue.
by rayiner | 2025-09-03 01:29:51+00:00
Gangs in Latin America strike me as similar to Islamists in Muslim countries. They are huge threats to the state’s monopoly on violence, and the best solution seems to be treating them as military targets.

In Bangladesh there was a terrorist attack in 2016 in a nicer part of Dhaka popular with expatriates: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50570243. I was very worried the country would descend into the situation you see in Pakistan where the state has a questionable level of control over the country. But the military mounted an extreme response against the Islamists, killing hundreds of Islamists. So far, there hasn’t been any significant terrorist attacks in the country since.

This may not be a viable strategy in places like Afghanistan, where you have a radicalized population with a deep well of potential combatants. But it seems to be a viable strategy somewhere that there’s a finite supply of potential combatants who are willing to die for the cause.
by fastball | 2025-09-03 01:29:57+00:00
There are no quips in my comments – you might be projecting a bit. There is only one person in this conversation using inflammatory/snarky language and providing little substance.

Your claims are entirely up for debate, as they are wrong. The chip in the battery (for power management) is not cryptographically signed with an Apple private key, unlike other parts of the device related to security (e.g. TouchID, FaceID camera, etc). You don't seem to know or understand this, which I think is required for a constructive conversation about Apple's behavior vis-a-vis security and user freedom. If Apple really did want to prevent any non-authentic parts from being used, they could apply this same process (the Secure Enclave refusing to interface with any component not signed by Apple). But they do not. If you have some evidence that this is the case, please link it. You are the one making the positive claim, so it is on you to demonstrate it.
by sheepscreek | 2025-09-03 01:30:07+00:00
I found the article’s premise intriguing. As I read through it, I noticed the author wrote:

> Hiring committees fear false negatives more than false positives.

If positive = a strong candidate, then a false positive = incorrectly labelling a candidate strong.

Conversely then I would think that a false negative = incorrectly labelling a candidate weak (when they were actually strong).

In my experience, hiring committees are more clear about who they don’t want than who they do. But there’s only so much insight you can gather from interviews. So when lacking more data, they are happy to pass over great candidates if that means their process avoids some bad ones.

It’s an imperfect system that optimizes for the employers’ convenience at the expense of the interviewer. So ‘auditioning’ under the circumstances is a great analogy.
by Ben5555 | 2025-09-03 01:30:37+00:00
If you’re new to Python visualization, the vast number of libraries and examples available might seem overwhelming. Some popular libraries for visualization include Matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly, Bokeh, Altair, and Pygal.

When visualizing a DataFrame, choosing the right library can be challenging as different libraries excel in specific cases.

This article will show the pros and cons of each library. By the end, you will gain a better understanding of their distinct features, making it easier for you to select the optimal library.
by reissbaker | 2025-09-03 01:31:02+00:00
Yeah $1k-1.5k seems absurdly high. The $200/month 20x variant of the Max plan covers an insane amount of usage, and the rate limits reset every five hours. Hard to imagine needing it so badly that you're blowing through that rate limit multiple times a day, every day... And if you are, I think switching to per-token payment would probably cost a lot more than $1k.
Show HN: Tallyit.co – Upload. Describe. Bill
by cat-turner | 2025-09-03 01:31:07+00:00
Are you a business owner doing it all? Did you go on a roadtrip with your roommates and haven't bothered to split gas costs?

Tallyit! Using tallyit is easy. Just upload your docs - can be images, pdfs (like bank statements), csvs, anything. Describe how you want to bill. You can even add additional details, like a fee or split. You can even do it within a date range. Just tell it to do that. Hit submit, and tally will do the rest! An invoice with a shareable link is generated so that you can send to your customer or friend.

We don't save your uploads. You don't need to log in to use. Give a go! If you want a video to see how to use, check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t79iRV_9Eso
by sudahtigabulan | 2025-09-03 01:31:27+00:00
I used to appreciate it (on Wikipedia), but too often it gets triggered by accident and prevents me from reading what I actually want to read. So much so that I had to find some way to disable it (probably by blocking JS via uBO).

Similar story with GitHub "hovercards". They were helpful, but someone recently decided they have to work in the Issues/PR lists too and, again, it just prevents me from reading the very thing I want to read. Had to disable them (everywhere, unfortunately).
by hedora | 2025-09-03 01:32:07+00:00
The old policy was to just pull the boats over and search them.

I wonder if there are any practical law enforcement benefits with the new “kill first, ask questions later” policy.

The article doesn’t say much about this. Like were US Coast Guard getting injured in raids, or overwhelmed by the time it took to search the boats? How many suspected boats were innocent? How many that were turned loose showed up full of coke later?
by claw-el | 2025-09-03 01:32:30+00:00
> When EC2 launched, it wasn't really clear what people would do with it, but it was very cool and it was clear that it could be a big deal in some form, sooner or later.

Hindsight is 20/20, but how do you spot for “it was very cool” and “could be a big deal”? I often hear these used as justification to build something, but the projects often go nowhere..
by cat-turner | 2025-09-03 01:32:57+00:00
Backstory lore: After running a logistics business for a few years, I decided to pivot into fintech with a focus on billing. I built Tallyit as a simple way for business owners to add up expenses they've incurred on client projects. As a former business owner who managed a warehouse full of physical supplies, I know how easy it is to fall behind on invoicing. I created Tallyit to help people like me.

Best of all, no account is required to try it out! You don’t even have to be a business owner—you can use it for any kind of expense splitting, like gas on a trip or utilities with your roommates.

Tallyit does not save your uploads. It’s memoryless AI. All we do is itemize the expenses you want to break down. The only thing we save is the expense description.

Give it a go—Tally it all up!
by eviks | 2025-09-03 01:33:07+00:00
> categorically false. With even a day of practice you will massively overtake your numerical typing speed with a numpad.

Speaking of categorically false... How would you even know if you if you've been stuck with the default bad layout on 13 inch?

With a good layout your laptop would have keys laid out in a way that is even more comfortable than those of a standard standalone numpad (which ignores the difference in finger length), so your claim that worse layout is magically massively faster is just categorically implausible.

You're just likely confused because you compare numpad to the unergonomic horizontal 1234567890 number layer, but no, you'll have a bumps numpad layer at your fingertips, so count moving your hands right to a separate module and returning back left into typing speed as well...
by bwfan123 | 2025-09-03 01:33:49+00:00
My comment about euclid's elements was not intended to be taken literally - only figuratively, and perhaps with some humor (ie, instead of reading lots of texts, go back to a basic text and understand it well)

I meant that the foundations of what it means to do math can be found in as elementary a text as the Elements. Most importantly it shows how an abstract world (what we feel as space around us) can be modeled as Geometry with a set of axioms, along with a way to demonstrate statements without doubt. Just understanding this very deeply (in your bones) with a lot of problems would make you a better mathematician than if you read all the books listed above, at least in my view. Other areas of mathematics model different kinds of abstract worlds, but the activity is largely similar.

The problem I see is the focus on gathering knowledge without properly assimilating it (ie reading a lot of books). By assimilating I mean, being able to explain how something is constructed from the very basic first principles of how the conceptual structure was built.
by atrettel | 2025-09-03 01:33:54+00:00
I had the same experience when I first learned linear algebra. I don't have any book recommendations, but I did want to say that for some topics, it is better to learn it by applying it than by using a book. Linear algebra was like that for me, but oddly enough I was able to learn tensor calculus from a book later (after doing a lot of problems).

Thanks to everyone recommending books too!
by Jensson | 2025-09-03 01:33:59+00:00
That capital gains is not adjusted for inflation, so if you buy something and it keeps its inflation adjusted value and then you sell it, you have to pay capital gains tax as if that inflation was your profits.

As for risk, if you buy something, then you go bankrupt so you lose it all, the state doesn't pay you the negative capital gains tax from your losses. That is the risk part that workers never have to deal with, there is no such thing as negative salary but negative capital gains happens all the time. You can't cancel out those losses if you didn't make profits elsewhere.
by nixosbestos | 2025-09-03 01:35:47+00:00
Heard, felt, strong agree. It's like trying to explain how irrationally upset I am that Liberty Mutual is sending physical mail to my parents house. I do not reside there. I do not reside in the US. I am neither a candidate nor even able to take advantage of any of their products.

But they bought my info, and so now USPS is delivering this trash into "my" mailbox (my mom texts, opens it, scans it, etc). I will NEVER buy anything from a flyer.

So I'm going to idle, every working hour next week, on the phone with Liberty Mutual sales staff. If they can harass me and waste my time, why can't I do it right back?

It's like last year when 3 different airlines opted me into text alerts. I was already getting them in-app and in-email.

Honestly I think people are so absent minded, distracted, ADHD-Y that they don't even realize how intrusive and annoying this deluge of consumerist capitalist sludge is to your mental state. Of course people also think I'm crazy when I tell them my phone stays in DND mode.
by alsetmusic | 2025-09-03 01:35:55+00:00
> I wish I could will myself into one obsession or another.

I understand. Not sure if you’re in the same boat, but for me, it’s a combination of age, energy, time, and becoming jaded. I used to spend late night hours poking at new things to learn about new hobbies and the like. The older I get, the less time and energy I’m willing to excerpt. This has been great for my getting back to reading books, but it’s been a sinkhole for self-learning and new skill development. The dopamine is lacking.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-03 01:36:20+00:00
And hopefully you've not done anything that is "problematic" there, or ChexSystems will be along to make sure your new bank might want to know not to do business with you, like they did to me, after KeyBank tried to hit me with $405 in overdraft fees in a single day for a series of transactions that, if played chronologically, would never had had me with a balance below $0 at any point, due to "transaction reordering". Chex refused to remove the derogatory note, even after there was a lawsuit and legislation, until I kept escalating with them.
by lz400 | 2025-09-03 01:36:40+00:00
That’s probably what the companies spending the money think, that they’re building a huge moat. There’s an alternative view. If there’s a bubble and all these companies are spending these huge sums on something that ends up not returning that much on that investment, and the models plateau and eventually smaller, cheaper, self-runnable open source versions get 90% of the way there, what’s going to happen to that moat? And the companies that over spent so much?

This article is a good example of the bear case https://www.honest-broker.com/p/is-the-bubble-bursting
by Viaya | 2025-09-03 01:36:48+00:00
Nano Banana AI is a new tool for text-to-edit image editing — instead of generating new images, it focuses only on modifying existing ones.

What’s different

Image-to-Image only → Edit photos directly, no need to regenerate

Fast → Optimized inference on Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash

Simple UX → Type “remove watermark” or “change background to beach” and get instant results

Why it matters

Most AI tools are slow and geared toward creation. Nano Banana aims to be the fastest way to edit images with text, for creators, designers, and anyone who needs quick changes.

Looking for feedback

What real-world editing use cases would this solve for you?

Where do current AI editors fail?

What features would make this essential in your workflow?
by toofy | 2025-09-03 01:36:51+00:00
yep, for me, the wild overemphasis on grunts, huuuhs, hmmm, uhhh, errr, etc drives me absolutely bonkers.

it isn’t at all the animated aspect, i do love a few anime’s but the good ones don’t do that weird noise huh thing. the stories can be incredible i just wish i could watch them without ripping my hair out every time the characters do that.
by reissbaker | 2025-09-03 01:36:56+00:00
Pretty much everyone I talk to prefers the opposite, and feels like Claude performs best inside the Claude Code harness and not the Cursor one. But I suppose different strokes for different folks...

Personally I'm a Neovim addict, so you can pry TUIs out of my cold dead hands (although I recognize that's not a preference everyone shares). I'm also not purely vibecoding; I just use it to speed up annoying tasks, especially UI work.
by EGreg | 2025-09-03 01:37:54+00:00
If I were hiring engineers for a big company, I’d simply ask to see the interviewees’ chat transcripts with ChatGPT or Claude from the past 6 months. I can learn so much from that, for how they go about actual modern coding.

If I see them arguing with the LLM and nudging it to fix cases, I can see how they’d actually have to code, and the more nuanced their fixes the better. I can spot their attention to detail, how they think thru architecture and software design, the works. If they just take the code given and accept it, that’s a red flag.

If word gets out about how we interview, I’d simply ask for even older chats.
by FartinMowler | 2025-09-03 01:37:58+00:00
Lot's of comments here at the "micro" level: about the comfort of an individual pedestrian. There's also the "macro" view: how best to quickly and safely move a large number of pedestrians in a short window of time. The PATH mostly connects Toronto's financial district full of office towers and 9-5 workers with a transportation hub, Union Station, at its south end. Union Station gets around 300,000[0] passengers a day, most but not all are office commuters. Without the PATH, the sidewalks would be absolutely (and dangerously) jammed between 8-9am and 4:30-6pm.

[0]https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/venues-facilities-b...
by bryanlarsen | 2025-09-03 01:38:06+00:00
It didn't help that there were some very influential and sympathetic constituencies that were getting hurt by it, like farmers.

The carbon tax is supposed to be a three tier system: tax, rebate & tariff. There's supposed to be a tariff on the carbon content of all imports from any jurisdiction that doesn't have comparable carbon policies. It's the "carbon club" that William Nordhaus won the Nobel Memorial prize for. It sounds like Canada was close to setting this up with Europe, but the sticking point was the US -- nobody wanted to piss of the US by putting a tariff boundary with the US. Of course hindsight is 20/20 here. We should have slammed it in place the instead Trump starting being Trump, but by that time the carbon tax was gone. With the carbon club system, Canada's exporters wouldn't have been hurt by the carbon tax so badly.
by sneak | 2025-09-03 01:38:16+00:00
You seem to be a minority. Consider for a moment that the default behavior of the gmail app is to make a notification for each and every incoming new email.

Look at a normal person’s email inbox sometime.

Most people use default settings and are barely even aware that it’s configurable. They just put the info in the boxes until it stopped giving red exclamation marks and smashed the big button at the bottom without reading the field labels, the checkbox labels, or even the big button label.

Users don’t read, and most people aren’t as busy as us. They spend 3 hours a day watching television, a few more playing video games, have never heard the term “inbox zero”, and don’t know any of the steps to make that red bubble that says “65,535” on the gmail icon go away.
by vel0city | 2025-09-03 01:39:53+00:00
If you did your scheduled maintenance on your own by the book, you would have done the right button combo to actually clear the maintenance notification. Or if you took it to a competent shop they would have done it for you.

I'd highly recommend doing the scheduled maintenance on your car. Whether at a dealer, at your trusted shop, or on your own. For your own safety and those around you.
by chneu | 2025-09-03 01:40:52+00:00
Google has systematically shittified the internet with Chrome by pushing bunk standards that other browsers are forced to adopt.

Just recently they got fed up with ad-blockers so what do they do? Yeah. Then what just happened with android apps? yeah.

Google is not good for the internet. Anyone saying this is just sucking google's dick and siding with a major corporation.

Also fuck AMP.
by jackvalentine | 2025-09-03 01:41:15+00:00
I bought a 5 year old Lenovo x13 and installed Debian on it, haven’t used linux in years but wanted to play around.

Installed, logged in for the first time and got the ‘welcome to KDE’ screen, dismissed it and then… nothing.

Every time I log in… nothing.

It just sits there waiting for me to do something. It doesn’t tell me to do anything. I’ve been mostly using it to play Civ2.
by toast0 | 2025-09-03 01:41:20+00:00
Going from 1 core to 2 hyperthreads was a big bonus in interactivity. But I think it was easy to get early systems to show worse throughput.

I think there's two kinds of loads where hyperthreads aren't more likely to hurt than help. If you've got a tight loop that uses all the processor execution resources, you're not gaining anything by splitting that in two, it just makes things harder. Or if your load is mostly bound by memory bandwidth without a lot of compute... having more threads probably means you're that much more oversubscribed on i/o and caching.

But a lot of loads are grab some stuff from memory and then do some compute, rinse and repeat. There's a lot of potential for idle time while waiting on a load, being able to run something else during that time makes a lot of sense.

It's worth checking how your load performs with hyperthreads off, but I think default on is probably the right choice.
by satisfice | 2025-09-03 01:41:59+00:00
No one commenting here wants to be left alone.

No one reading the piece in the first place wants to be left alone. If you wanted that, you wouldn't say to yourself "I wonder what this guy has to say" and then click his thing.

I read and leave comments on Hacker News for two reasons: I want to know I'm not alone, I want to be helpful.
by sroussey | 2025-09-03 01:42:19+00:00
Eh, what’s a thread really? It’s a term for us humans.

The difference between two threads and one core or two cores with shared resources?

Nothing is really all that neat and clean.

It more of a 2 level NUMA type architecture with 2 sets of 6 SMP sets of 2.

The scheduler may look at it that way (depending), but to the end user? Or even to most of the system? Nah.
by chermi | 2025-09-03 01:42:32+00:00
What's the counterfactual? Where would the world be today? Certainly the present is not an optimal allocation of resources, uncertainty and hysteris make it impossible. But where do you think we'd be instead? Are you assuming all of those dollars would be going to research otherwise? They wouldn't; if not for hype "ai" LLMs, research funding would be at 2017+/- 25% levels. Also think of how many researchers are funded and PhDs are trained because of this awful LLM era. Certainly their skills transfer. (Not that brute forcing with shit tons of compute is standard "research funding").

And for the record I really wish more money was being thrown outside of LLM.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-09-03 01:42:50+00:00
Personally I like the idea of passkeys. However, it needs some sort of easy to export like 2FA seeds, or even BIP39 that some cryptocurrency wallets uses.

The seemingly non-transparent (or was there none?) way to backup to a cold storage (e.g., printed and locked in a physical safe) turns me off.

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> lack of identifying passkey provider attestation (which would allow RPs to block you, and something that I have previously rallied against but rethinking as of late because of these situations). [1]

There is a possibility websites will only allow approved password managers to create/interact with passkeys with attestation, something that is not a problem with the common TOTP + Password or other authentication methods.

Attestation (perhaps targeted for enterprise usage?) but should be a separate spec/extension or something.

[1]: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...
by theamk | 2025-09-03 01:43:10+00:00
Let's stop re-defining the terms please.

> You can open the link to the source because it is open source. Open, as in a book or computer file. Source, as in the unicode (or whatever) textfiles...

No. "open house" does not mean "someone's house with door unlocked". And "open market" does not mean "a farmers market that is currently selling stuff". And "open problem" does not mean "a textbook that was left on the table with pages spread".

Phrases have meanings, and the meaning of "open source" has been pretty clear for a decade.
by Jensson | 2025-09-03 01:44:12+00:00
> The way we calculate risk is inherently extremely biased towards the wealthy.

We are talking money here, we tax money so we talk about how money is risked.

We don't tax your health or wellbeing, it is true that those are serious risks worse than monetary risk, but it isn't something the tax office should deal with so it isn't a part of this conversation.