MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by luqtas | 2025-09-03 18:33:46+00:00
first of all it's Bayer, second. going for a 2°/3°/4°... generation makes them lose their genetic resistance to specific pesticides; this is not viable economically, otherwise farmers would go for a second round out of the seeds they collected! they spend millions/billions of USD on seeds for a reason

i don't like monocultures or "closed source science" but this talk about Monsanto being evil is rather weak and kept by people who think organics are the solution to sustainability; meanwhile they use mores pesticides/herbicides/fungicides than GMO, they have authorization to even use synthetics by USDA (or whatever your country's forum) and they use more land... organic has much more less research on health outcomes and they have MUCH LESS specialized equipment to spray poison around in precise quantities down to 10 mililiters per 1 kilometer sq in some scenarios you find in GMO farms
by josefrichter | 2025-09-03 18:33:48+00:00
In Elixir/Rails (and newly React) world you can connect Clade Desktop to Tidewave, which gives you pretty close integration with codebase and CLI tools. That makes the experience somewhat similar to running Claude Code in editor's terminal, or now directly connected in Zed.

I think basically all these tools are trying to integrate all the stuff together and find the best way to do that, so that you don't need to be copy-pasting stuff around, jumping between tools, etc.
by tpm | 2025-09-03 18:33:57+00:00
Yes, I'm in the easy position of not perpetrating a genocide. I got into the position by not perpetrating a genocide. It's a good position to be in, I can recommend it to everyone. Whole humanity will be better off when everybody is in my position.

I would have Israel deal with the situation by, I think you can guess by now. And I'm pretty sure if Israel had a better leader, it would be in a better position too. But it is what it is, the trauma caused by pogroms and the holocaust is now propagated further upon the Palestinians and will cause much suffering now and in the future. And then the Israelis can look back and see clearly they chose the wrong leaders and the wrong way to deal with the situation, and it can't be undone now.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-09-03 18:34:24+00:00
Human developers by their very nature are probabilistic. Probabilistic is NOT deterministic. Which means the manager is never really sure if the developer solved the problem, or if they introduced some bugs, or if their solution is robust and ideal even when it seems to be working.

All of which is beside the point, because soon-ish LLMs are going to develop their own equivalents of experimentation, formalisation of knowledge, and collective memory, and then solutions will become standardised and replicable - likely with a paradoxical combination of a huge loss of complexity and solution spaces that are humanly incomprehensible.

The arguments here are like watching carpenters arguing that a steam engine can't possibly build a table as well as they can.

Which - is you know - true. But that wasn't how industrialisation worked out.
by rglullis | 2025-09-03 18:34:44+00:00
How is "Extinguish" part going for them in regards to Linux?

There is no "Extinguish" for open source applications, systems and protocols. The closest attempt at EEE that one could try to argue was Facebook/Google leveraging XMPP at first for their messenger apps (FB Messenger/Google Talk) and then closing them down, but even that would not be accurate, given that the number of people using "truly open" XMPP has not gone down.

Talking about "branded" software is nonsense. People use what is most convenient and helps them achieve their goals. If there are no significant vendor lock-in, the cost of swithcing from open source vendor to another is essentially zero. GrayJay has no lock-in, all they do is aggregation of different video platforms.
by rboug | 2025-09-03 18:35:05+00:00
Thank you for your msg. Short answers below; happy to go deeper.

> CO2 (PPAs/RECs)

- We currently use location-based grid factors (national/regional) and do not net out PPAs/RECs. That is the conservative choice for a public baseline.

- If a workload is known to be contract-matched (hourly/locational), we can apply a market-based view; I plan to expose a toggle (location- vs market-based) so both views are visible.

> Water (WUE & power-generation water)

- DC_water_per_kWh (WUE): when operators publish site/region values we use them. Otherwise we assign a cooling class (evaporative / closed-loop / seawater / air-only) and take a central value from published ranges. That gives order-of-magnitude accuracy without claiming site precision.

- PowerGen_water_intensity: technology-specific consumption factors (not withdrawals) by fuel/tech (gas, coal, nuclear, hydro, etc.), weighted by the grid mix of the region when it’s known; otherwise a conservative aggregate. Hydropower is treated as low consumption, high withdrawal.

> Electricity (IT load, utilization, PUE)

- IT_load / Training: bottom-up from reported compute for frontier runs + known fleet sizes; extrapolated to mid-scale using public training reports.

- IT_load / Inference: top-down from usage volumes (requests/tokens/images) × energy per unit by model class, calibrated from published perf/W measurements and vendor/benchmark data. We don’t simply sum GPU TDP; we use perf/W + utilization.

- utilization: ranges by workload class; we take a conservative central value (higher for sustained training, lower/peaky for inference). These are sensitivity levers and shown in the methodology.

- PUE: operator/region-specific when disclosed; otherwise we apply a conservative default for hyperscale vs. generic DCs (kept distinct). PUE is another sensitivity knob we surface.
by CharlesW | 2025-09-03 18:35:15+00:00
> Anyone who’s actually being in the room with people from Apple when talking about standards I’m sure would be more than happy to correct you on the fantasy you have constructed here.

FWIW, you're saying this to an ex-Apple person who has actually been in the room with people from Apple when talking about standards, both internally and during standards committee discussions and meetings.
by rboug | 2025-09-03 18:35:55+00:00
> On “sources”

Each of the above pulls from operator sustainability reports, industry surveys/benchmarks, grid datasets (national/regional emission factors), and academic studies for water/energy intensities and inference energy per token. Where multiple ranges exist, we pick a conservative central value and call out the range.

I’ll add a compact table of constants + ranges + citations in the Methodology page so it’s easy to audit and nitpick. If you have a favorite dataset for WUE by cooling type or per-region grid water intensity, I’d love pointers—this is exactly the kind of feedback that improves the baseline.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-09-03 18:35:59+00:00
I think in reality though what you're doing is asking people to grind out puzzles until they're good. It's kinda like saying high math scores equal financial sucess. It is true in general but you're basically proxying hard workers not that the basics you test for are right. Getting an A in calculus doesn't mean that calculus helped you be a top engineer I bet most engineers would fail their old tests.

The leetcode interviews to me basically signal: 1. This person is of minimal intelligence required 2. They work hard

The real problem I have is that this system requires an endless calculus test requirement. Most proffessions have one big test to get in then you're basically done. Refreshers are given but once you pass that initial bar no doctor is required to pass their entire medical exam for every interview.

Why not just have a certificate and be done?
by refset | 2025-09-03 18:36:26+00:00
tl;dr

CREATE VIEW IF NOT EXISTS world_facts_as_of_now AS SELECT rowid, txn_time, valid_time, e, a, v, ns_user_ref, fact_meta FROM ( SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( PARTITION BY e, a ORDER BY valid_preferred DESC, txn_id DESC ) AS row_num FROM world_facts ) sub WHERE row_num = 1 AND assert = 1 ORDER BY rowid ASC;

...cool approach, but poor query optimizer!

It would be interesting to see what Turso's (SQLite fork) recent DBSP-based Incremental View Maintenance capability [0] would make of a view like this.

[0] https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/tree/main/core/increm...
by difu_disciple | 2025-09-03 18:36:37+00:00
Dev budget under $25k: Statamic [1] or Wordpress (with ACF [2] & Acorn [3])

Professional work above that: Sanity [4] or Hygraph [5]

[1] https://statamic.com

[2] https://www.advancedcustomfields.com

[3] https://roots.io/acorn/

[4] https://www.sanity.io

[5] https://hygraph.com
by DonHopkins | 2025-09-03 18:36:55+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17998940

DonHopkins on Sept 16, 2018 | parent | prev | next [–]

Speaking of weird BASIC features, does anyone know why DECSYSTEM 20's BASIC had a "LISTREVERSE" command?

Yes, it actually did exactly what it sounds like!

Chalk one up for DEC and BASIC. What other programming languages support that feature, huh?

DECSYSTEM 20 BASIC User's Guide: LISTREVERSE command LISTREVERSE LISTNHREVERSE LISTREVERSE and LISTNHREVERSE print the contents of the user's memory area in order of descending line numbers. LISTREVERSE precedes the output with a heading, LISTNHREVERSE eliminates the heading. LISTREVERSE EQUIV 10:53 13-NOV-75 40 END 35 PRINT "THE EQUIVALENT CURRENT IS",I, " AMPERES" 25 I=E1/R 10 INPUT R 5 INPUT E1 READY

http://www.bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/D...
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-03 18:37:16+00:00
It sure is good being a foreigner in an autocratic country. You are most likely there there for business. You don’t really care about anything because you will leave anyway. Most of my coworkers in Singapore were all like that. Who cares about the mass deportation of bus drivers after their strikes for better working condition? Why look at what’s behind the curtain when you can enjoy the pool?

I have met people who have fled autocratic countries. Life sure looks ok there from a surface level. Unless of course you are from the extended family of someone who displeased someone better connected. Or you are in the way of someone. Or you happen to have said something which displeased someone. Then life is not ok at all and there is approximately nothing you can do about it.

Of course everyone there knows that’s how it works. That’s why everyone there shuts up and lower their head because they don’t want to be the idiot having a run up with the power that be.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-03 18:37:23+00:00
I have read the post about exceptions: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2018/09/05/exceptions-and....

I did not personally mind Odin's exceptions, to be honest. I prefer Odin's way, and Go's way, too.

> you'll have to dig for them yourself.

Yeah I was referring to such specifics, but I will take a look at Discord perhaps.

> "Code indentation that is anything but 2, 3, 4, or 8 characters wide, is objectively a bad style from a pure aesthetics standpoint"

Those are just opinions. I prefer 2 spaces, or tab with 2 column width. I tend stick to one style in my codebase, consistently. I do not like anything longer than 2, because I have a small screen and I think it is just simply redundant. I can follow 2 column width indentation just fine. This is just my opinion. If I use tabs, people can choose their own, it is up to them.
by gpm | 2025-09-03 18:37:43+00:00
> So this is essentially a Popcorn Time-type-thing

If I understand this software correctly, that's not a fair comparison. Popcorn time plays movies from sources that did not have the right to give you a copy (illegal torrents). This plays music from sources that did have a right to give you a copy (e.g. youtube).

An app for liberally licensed/public domain music would be neat, this isn't that, but it's also not obviously illegal piracy the same way popcorn time was.
by corimaith | 2025-09-03 18:38:04+00:00
Singapore is much less authoritarian than China. The PAP plays dirty in a legal way, but they very much obey rule of law as opposed to explicit Rule By Law in the CCP. They also don't effectively declare themselves God as the ultimate authority and moral arbiters of the nation.

Like, having mandatory bomb checks in your metro systems is already on the excessive and comical side of authoritarianism here. Most countries, even poorer ones don't do that.
by iLemming | 2025-09-03 18:38:18+00:00
> If you ever have a thought that you want to put into words but need to wait for your fingers

I'm not sure, I don't think that happens a lot to me, especially because I speak and type in multiple languages. I as well, feel bottlenecked by the brain, not typing speed. Even when I use voice-to-text software, I struggle to speak out loud my thoughts in a well-structured and well-paced manner, which somehow doesn't happen during normal conversations, only when I'm trying to write my thoughts down.

That being said, as someone who keeps their hands on the keyboard a dozen hours a day, of course I would love to find a way to type much, much faster and more accurately. I bet it comes in very handy when taking notes during Zoom meetings, etc., but my vim-muscle memory freaks out even thinking of having to rebind hjkl keys to something else. I wonder if vimmers who switched to Dvorak or Colemak can share their perspective. I've never gotten brave enough to give them a try, always felt like a waste of time for questionable benefit, but that's probably how most people think about vim-navigation, which has become an inextricable part of my keyboard workflow and I am very grateful for my younger self for learning vim-navigation.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-03 18:38:57+00:00
People have to manage their own risks. If they don’t want to take on the low risks associated with COVID (and they are low based on numbers), they should limit their own exposure by staying home (as opposed to forcing others to stay home) or wearing masks or whatever. It shouldn’t result in others being compelled to inject things into their body.

On a personal level, I do agree it is logical and also nice to be vaccinated. But keep in mind, vaccination means something different now. You are not immune to covid and you are still able to transmit it to others. The chances may be lower - but we’re already talking about something that has a low chance of causing serious health issues. So if someone is truly concerned about their health, whether society is vaccinated or not doesn’t matter - they would need to stay home regardless. In which case, why force others to get vaccinated?
by slg | 2025-09-03 18:39:15+00:00
>The parent comment is putting it as nicely as it can be put. If you don't want people to pirate your music, your only path of recourse as a musician is to stop uploading digital copies of your work. There is no honor system in music or data and there never will be.

I'm just tired of this technolibertarian mindset of "it's not wrong because no one is stopping me from doing it". There is no "honor system" in life either and if you see that as permission to be an asshole, that just makes you an asshole. And if your best defense against being accused of being an asshole is some form of "they couldn't stop me", then you're tacitly admitting to being an asshole.
by hajile | 2025-09-03 18:39:27+00:00
I was somewhat surprised to find that Zed still doesn't have a way to add your own local autocomplete AI using something like Ollama. Something like Qwen 2.5 coder at a tiny 1.5b parameters will work just fine for the stuff that I want. It runs fast and works when I'm between internet connections too.

I'd also like to see a company like Zed allow me to buy a license of their autocomplete AI model to run locally rather than renting and running it on their servers.

I'd also pay for something in the 10-15b parameter range that used more limited training data focused almost entirely on programming documentation and books along with professional business writing. Something with the coding knowledge of Qwen Coder combined with the professionalism and predictability of IBM Granite 3. I'd pay quite a lot for such an agent (especially if it got updates every couple of months that worked in new documentation, bugfixes, github threads, etc to keep the answers up-to-date).
by sadiasaifuddin | 2025-09-03 18:39:54+00:00
You're right, incumbent SIS/LMS vendors are rolling out AI features. We’ve studied (and, in my past life at Salesforce, helped build) some of them. What we keep hearing from IT teams is:

- Integration tax: Each module still lives in its own data model. Schools end up exporting CSVs or building Mule pipelines to reconcile SIS+LMS+CRM. Our agent sits on top of all sources with pre-built connectors and a unified schema, so coaches see enrollment + Canvas grades + attendance in one call (like in the Triage Center)

- Operational burden: Products like Data Cloud or Agentforce are powerful but need admin capacity that smaller schools just don’t have. We ship a default ruleset for advisors + prompt library so an advisor can be productive immediately.

- Cost creep: Several platforms meter GPT usage or require new AI licenses. We price per active student so budgeting is predictable, which is a big plus for universities and their unique budget cycles.

Curious if you’ve found pain points around data normalization especially (this is the hard, very custom part of our work right now). Happy to keep the discussion here for the benefit of others, and if you’d like to dive deeper my email is sadia@risely.ai
by Foobar8568 | 2025-09-03 18:40:04+00:00
I was still playing my NES games when I had my SNES, and I guess I stopped playing once I got the N64, same for the SNES/N64. Actually I disliked the first gen 3d consoles, the lack of details and colors in textures was a large turn off, I never really understood indianapolis 500 on DOS, couldn't stand superfx games and all these games had such graphics.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-03 18:40:43+00:00
> * tetrapod (/ˈtɛtrəˌpɒd/;[4] from Ancient Greek τετρα- (tetra-) 'four' and πούς (poús) 'foot') is any four-limbed vertebrate animal of the clade Tetrapoda (/tɛˈtræpədə/).*

Huh. I always thought it was a more generic term for any four-limbed animal. TIL, I guess!
by flumpcakes | 2025-09-03 18:40:50+00:00
I think the general discussion is conflating censorship with age restrictions. Lumping the UK with China is very disingenuous.

The UK law is stipulating adult content can only be viewed if you are provably over 18. They are putting all of that responsibility onto the websites/platforms to enforce that.

If a child goes to a shop and tries to buy a pornographic magazine and they are denied, is that censorship?

If a child tries to see an 18 film at the Cinema and is denied, is that censorship?

The fact is both of these were freely and easily done on the Internet as most websites do not verify a users age.

I do not like the online safety act as it is, but it is not "censorship".
by dboreham | 2025-09-03 18:40:58+00:00
> upon whose work this is based

Erum, none of your references show this (or come remotely close).

MS did base NT on DEC work, and settled a court case as a result. Perhaps you're thinking of that story?

BASIC the language pre-dates the DEC implementation (it came from Dartmouth College), and nobody would reasonably think that seeing the code for a high level language BASIC interpreter implementation for Machine A, then writing an assembler implementation for Machine B means you "based it on their work".
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-03 18:41:04+00:00
I don't know where it got that idea because I only see a few people using the term "true fish" and they're using the normal definition of vertebrates. If you want to be extra restrictive then there's multiple options. If you really want to exclude tetrapods you might use rayed fish. And there's also bony fish if you think sharks aren't quite right having only cartilage. Who uses jawed fish in particular?
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-09-03 18:41:12+00:00
That threat model for Signal worries me.

If I was the US government, I'd push Google Play to offer compromised updates of Signal silently to a few people I was interested in. Even among the highly-technical, who is going to be inspecting binaries installed on a phone regularly?

Does Signal even have reproducible builds? How do I know the code matches the binary?

I'd make my own messenger.... but I don't have the money for that at all.

I wish these risks could be split up and handled separately - Suppose I run a private dark network for me and my friends, and then the GUI for chatting over it runs in a sandbox where it can only message servers that I control, using public/private keys that I control.

Conflating a million lines of Java GUI code with "Noise is a simple and secure protocol" seems like a big attack surface.
by codedokode | 2025-09-03 18:41:17+00:00
I read about this multiple times, including authors of the channels complaining that their channel became not accessible in iOS version of Telegram. Sorry I don't have official link - Telegram seems not to tell about it on their site, as well as Apple - but if you google, you will find users sharing workarounds like [1] [2].

Also, (according to Durov, who is not very reliable source) Apple forced Telegram to remove animated eggplant and peach emojis [3].

Also, while little unrelated, Apple complied when it was requested to remove VPN apps from app store for Russian users, and if I remember correctly it complied with similar censorship requests from Chinese government.

[1] https://techspace.africa/how-to-enable-sensitive-content-on-...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/ejdjyg/unblock_te...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/r3ijtf/apple_comp...
by rectang | 2025-09-03 18:41:22+00:00
Financial exploitation of oppressed culture by the dominant culture. Fetishization of minority figures as exotic and mystical. Crowding out minority voices when establishing critical narratives around minority art and culture.

These sorts of things happen in music industry, music criticism and music journalism. As I said, I don't think this is a good example, but as someone who has benefited greatly from Black American culture, I see bearing these issues in mind as one way to pay back my benefactors.
by iamleppert | 2025-09-03 18:41:39+00:00
This is always the straw man A/B testing people reach for. When in reality, this only works on the worst possible designs or bizarre layouts, that no one really uses. It's a myth that you can somehow ring out extra few % by making tiny changes to fonts and colors -- in every case, they simply stop the experiment when the results tip in their favor.

The ONLY time I've ever seen it used successfully was to make changes to the layout of ads, making them look like more organic content or likely to be accidentally clicked. You can see this at work if you've ever clicked on an ad by mistake, or maybe you were trying to close the ad and noticed someone has "optimized" the close button placement using one of these A/B tools.

There it is, that's the market for these tools. That represents the vast majority of the these companies use-cases, revenue and usage. Anyone else who implies an innocent intent is either ignorant or inexperienced.
by EliRivers | 2025-09-03 18:41:47+00:00
"Having run this “proxy” process for years now, I can tell you it is, in fact, the most accurate indicator I have seen of software engineering capabilities."

Genuine question; how do you know? Presumably you have some good feedback on the accuracy of your process when you hired the candidate, but do you have any measure of how accurate your process was on the ones you turned down? I'm sure some of the ones you turned down would have been bad hires, but some would have been good hires; is there a measure of that?