MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DeathArrow | 2025-09-15 07:59:25+00:00
I am a slow thinker if I need to do some calculations that require a precise answer. For me, it's a memory thing. To be fast you need to memorize patterns, algorithms and data, whether you do it consciously or not. You also need to have a good working memory.

I have a terrible long term memory and about an average working memory.

As a work around, when I don't have to come out with precise answers I got quite good at making aproximations.

As another work around, my brain tries to use data that it can recall with ease such as very fresh data, instead of trying to remember things that might take some time to remember or not remember at all.

While I enjoy debating and long talks about tech, science, culture, history, art etc, I tend to concentrate on stuff I can deduct or think on the moment such as ideas instead of trying to remember stuff.

As a consequence, I tend to suck at job interviews when I am asked to recite things from memory. So before interviews I kind of have to review most asked questions.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-15 07:59:35+00:00
I was enjoying reading that until I hit this line:

> The potatoes were swimming in their own gluten, released during the granule-making process

Whatever the potatoes were swimming in, it wasn't gluten.

By the way, the discussion of mashed potatoes reminds me of the excellent old "Smash" adverts on UK TV that featured martians/robots and a tagline of "For mash get Smash": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBRCZLzn5pM

(Smash was surprisingly popular in the 1970s but then UK convenience food was abysmal back then)
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-15 07:59:41+00:00
I've never made anything from a mix, but I've baked brownies, cookies, sponge, tarts, biscuits and bread. They have all turned out perfectly delicious, without any need for the addition of whatever emulsifiers and what-not you'll find in the premixed packets.

Without having tried the alternative that's a pretty weak claim.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-15 08:00:03+00:00
You have experience with them and you are trying to pretend a guide written for them will work on MacOS. I’m glade to know you are not misinformed but actively disingenuous.

I stand by my point. Unix semantics don’t really exist in a meaningful manner. The SUS gives you very little.

To get back to the Windows side discussion, you can get a POSIX compliant shell on Windows in minutes nowadays be it Cygwin, gsh, git shell or WSL if you don’t mind using virtualisation and the C headers defined in the XBD are also minutes away. The days when developing on Windows was painful are long gone.

The rational for MacOS at this point for me is pretty much limited to “I want a MacBook as a status symbol”, same than the iPhone. They are nice machines. They are just far too expensive for what they do imho at least in Europe where Apple prices them significantly higher than in the US.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-15 08:00:33+00:00
Three reasons spring to mind:

1- the DOM APIs are very verbose, excepting perhaps replacing chunks by setting innerHTML, but

2- manual DOM manipulations aren't composable without also using web components

3- naive manual DOM manipulation can potentially be slow by way of triggering needless layouts/repaints or inefficient use of the APIs

Web components didn't exist when the major frameworks came about, and the ones before them handled composition rather poorly if at all (such as backbone). Angular, ember, react and company all sought to provide a cohesive story for code reuse and composition. Many had their own performance stories, though it was always a secondary concern to everything else.

I've done a bit of everything, including pure vanilla JS, just jQuery, vanilla + web components, all the way up to next, ember, angularjs and angular, and more. If you're building a web site, vanilla JS is fine. If you're building a web "app", you'll pretty quickly appreciate what a framework can bring to the table. If you don't, you'll also quickly find yourself building your own mini framework and runtime to manage things.
by ItsBob | 2025-09-15 08:01:37+00:00
> I think it should be OK for LMS to guess but only if it clearly tells the user it's answer is just a guess, when it is.

Or, alternatively, it shows us the confidence level of the answer, e.g. a value between 0 and 1, with 1 being 100% confident.

That would work for me.
by jampekka | 2025-09-15 08:01:52+00:00
Running GUI programs as root has been discouraged more or less always. Nowadays GUI programs that need root request it, via e.g. PolicyKit, for the specific operations it is needed.

I very much don't want to have some external device to have root access to my computer.

If iOS type sandboxing where I can't access most of the data at all is ahead, I'm glad to be behind.
by jrflowers | 2025-09-15 08:02:59+00:00
>what's an "incident"?

Those are valid questions.

I simply found the phrasing “[quote of a sentence saying 35% of the time]. 35% of what?” to be funny because you would either have to not read the sentence you pasted or be an English speaker that does not understand what “% of the time” means.

I personally didn’t download the study linked in the article. It is interesting that they (must have, I’m assuming) did not include anything about their methodology in this study since they usually do with other things they publish.
by lentil_soup | 2025-09-15 08:05:11+00:00
ok, but I find this simplification to be what is lazy. Obviously the world isn't as clear cut as only those 3 groups as if they're not intertwined.

And what does "directly responsible for polluting the environment" even mean? If I pay someone to take my trash out and throw it in the ocean am I all of a sudden excempt because I'm not the one "directly" polluting?

Pollution comes from a complex system so it has to be solved as such. Blaming individual participants (specially the ones with less money and power) is reducing the responsability of the rest which is the perfect excuse to do nothing
by gwd | 2025-09-15 08:05:19+00:00
There are lots of tools that it's not reasonable to expect a random home kitchen to have -- expensive grinders and mixers, mortar and pestle, double boilers, marble rolling pin to press out pastry, etc. But a kitchen scale is just a huge win for any kitchen. They don't take much space, they're not at all expensive, and it takes less time to convert "half a cup of flour" into grams using your phone than it does to wash the measuring cup.
by Rastonbury | 2025-09-15 08:05:57+00:00
In college I interviewed at a commodity trader and they made us play a group trading game, I bombed because I wanted to make sure every trade I made was profitable/certain, people who made it to the next round moved quick even if they made somewhat questionable trades. That's when I realised I was not meant to be a commodity trader where decisions need to be made in matter of minutes. It was just so different from the business case interviews I was also doing at the same time where you build a thesis and stress test it and look for areas you missed
by madaxe_again | 2025-09-15 08:06:06+00:00
I use starlink and find it fast and reliable - far more reliable than any cabled connection I ever had elsewhere, and faster than the fibre that’s available around me, which is contended to hell and back. Yes, it’s gigabit in theory, but in practice you get 20Mb/s, and any time there’s a power outage, which is often, it’s down.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-15 08:07:42+00:00
No need for scare quotes, US customary units are a thing. A US customary cup is, at least, quite standard at 8 fluid ounces. This is more standardized than the unit of measure used in British recipes and whatnot. The issues surrounding volumetric measurements for dry goods is an entirely separate matter. 240 mL of apricots is just as useless as 1 cup of apricots.
by mutkach | 2025-09-15 08:07:53+00:00
How would you peer-review something like that? Or rather, how would you even _reproduce_ any of that? Some inception-based model with some synthetic data? Where is the data? I'm sure the paper was written in good faith, but all it leads to is just more crackpottery. If I had a penny for each time I've heard that LLMs are quantum in nature "because softmax is essentially a wave function collapse" and "because superposition," then I would have more than one penny!
by norome | 2025-09-15 08:08:05+00:00
The problem with "trust your gut" is that intuition is a skill which needs to be honed. Everyone has different levels of blockage to being genuinely in touch with their "gut". I think some people are more naturally synthetic thinkers and already live in a more body-guided way. For the walking heads like most of us here on HN we would need to spend time re-learning how to calibrate the body to give precise readings. So the advice needs some caveats.
Show HN: Instantly turn your LinkedIn into a personal website with AI
by FlorinDobinciuc | 2025-09-15 08:08:09+00:00
Hey HN,

We just launched https://paje.ai — a tool that takes your LinkedIn profile and instantly generates a live personal website.

Why we built it:

Most people never make a personal site because:

- They don’t know how to design - They don’t want to spend hours setting it up - They don’t want to maintain it

What it does:

Paste your LinkedIn profile URL → get a personal site in under 2 minutes

Make AI-powered edits to sections (about, experience, etc.)

[Example]: Publish instantly at https://paje.ai/site/baird

We’d love feedback:

Who do you think would find this most useful (job seekers, freelancers, indie hackers)?

What’s missing that would make it valuable enough to pay for?

Try it here: https://paje.ai

Thanks

- Florin
by munksbeer | 2025-09-15 08:08:13+00:00
>Is there any indication that Google will obey the laws of the EU when they have no vested interest in the outcome?

In this context it isn't EU laws. The upcoming Android change in 2026 will stop anyone installing a non-verified app on their Android devices. This seems to be something Google arrived at "independently". But I would bet the US and EU and whoever else have put pressure on them.
Show HN: AI SEO in WordPress with your own OpenAI key
by glennhv | 2025-09-15 08:08:38+00:00
I was an avid SEObot user, but I found the monthly cost too high. That's why I decided to build my own AI Seo tool for Wordpress, where you can just enter your OpenAI api key and get started.

It's the release of the first version, where you can: - generate articles in your tone and preferred intent - generate headlines to give you fresh ideas - scan your website & get an idea for keyword clusters - generate, expand and rewrite text

Right now there's support for 4 languages (English, French, German & Dutch), but I can add new languages when requested. All OpenAI models are supported, so you can choose how much you want to spend on your content.

Happy to hear your feedback!
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-15 08:08:45+00:00
Nope. The costs comes from being absolutely enormous civil project.

Construction workers haven’t gotten meaningfully more efficient while the salaries have risen based on industries with efficiency gains.

It seems like nuclear power has an extremely tiny sweet spot in countries development curve where it is only very expensive.

Right where salaries are still low but the knowhow for advanced technology has started to burgeon. For example India and China. Although China has been cutting back their nuclear program in favor of renewables for a while now.
by uecker | 2025-09-15 08:09:56+00:00
Come, please do not repeat all this nonsense from the tabloids. First, you need to specify what prices you talk about. If you talk about household prices, then yes those increased. This, btw, was also intentional. The system was designed in this way to encourage energy conservation. It certainly got too far, but this is largely a political issue. In France prices were kept low artificially (which did not help the nuclear industry!). So these prices do tell you exactly nothing about the merits of the technology, and more about politics.

That reliance on Russian gas was increased is complete BS. Only a very small amount of gas which is imported is used for electricity production (10% or so) and it is certainly not true that this (relatively small) amount increased. In 2024, 80 TWh of electricity were produced from gas. In 2010 it was 90 TWh. In that time frame, renewables increased from 105 TWh to 285 TWh. 1.

CO2 emissions went down with roll-out of renewables exactly as expected2) Coal use for electricity production went down from 263 TWh in 2010 to 107 TWh in 2024. In fact, CO2 emission went down faster than planned which is the reason Germany still managed to meet climate targets despite other sectors (heating and transportation) not meeting their targets. That Co2 emissions for electricity production are still higher compared to some others is that there is still a lot of coal in the system (and electricity from that was already exported a lot until recently). But once coal is pushed out completely then this will be gone. The only real conclusion here is that the energy transition was started to late and is not fast enough. The past, nobody can change, but it would certainly be much slower when building nuclear plants now.

France wants to double down on nuclear for political reasons and my prediction is that they will fail because they can not afford it. They have huge fiscal problems and they did not invest enough to renew their nuclear fleet in the past, sold electricity too cheap (so could not build up reserves), and would now have to invest a lot, but their nuclear industry is in a horrible state and their state dept is out of control already.

1.https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/STR... 2.https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/co2-emissionen-pro-kil...
by account42 | 2025-09-15 08:10:46+00:00
People fear what the media tells them to fear. I still remember the (publicly funded so not really independent from government) TV here having someone refer to a beech near Fukushima as "possibly one of the most dangerous places on earth" while holding up a Geiger counter that showed radiation levels barely above background levels.

Nuclear accidents have been a nothing-burger compared to all the deaths and health issues caused by coal and gas - but those are more spread out over time and don't make for as exciting news so no one cares. Shutting down nuclear instead of coal was never a rational decision but an emotional one.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-15 08:11:57+00:00
Depends on the language maybe.

I have had considerable trouble getting C99 code from any LLM that adheres to some basic safety conventions present in all my code. The biggest issue is generated functions have multiple return paths making it more difficult to visually spot cleanup errors.

My usual code has a single cleanup label that frees all resources and, if error is still set to true, cleans up the return value as well. Even when tired this convention makes it dead simple for me to spot errors.

So I've been writing most of my C projects by hand.

SQL otoh, LLMs are great.
by WJW | 2025-09-15 08:12:07+00:00
Solar flares are not anywhere near their peak. The NOAA indicates the peak activity was actually in August 2024 with a total of ~245 "flux units". Activity for this month is predicted to be only around 167 units, so almost a full third down from the peak. Total numbers of sunspots is also down dramatically from their peak in August 2024.

See the graphs of https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression for more info.
by newpavlov | 2025-09-15 08:14:25+00:00
It's great to see PeerTube development, but I think it will continue to be extremely niche until a good solution for decentralized monetization is found. For both content creators and data hosters.

It's extremely hard to move users accustomed to "free" advertisement-fueled services to the micro-payment model. Content creators actively try to increase revenue by using things like Patreon and membership-only videos, but YouTube ads is still the dominant source for most.

And properly paying for the underlying infrastructure is even more difficult. Filecoin tries to do it, but it's hard to call it a succesfull project.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-15 08:15:20+00:00
No, the point is that the fair way to look at this is that every country has a total carbon budget, based on population. Since atmospheric CO2 is a cumulative resource, that doesn't really decay at human time scales, looking at current emissions is misleading. It's taking an arbitrary moment in time as a 0 basis and saying "it doesn't matter how we got where we are now, from now on you shouldn't emit more than we do".

The reality is that European countries (including Russia) and the USA are disproportionately responsible for the massive amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere today. So, they should be more responsible for fixing this - either by investing some of the wealth they accumulated through this massive energy accumulation (that resulted in the CO2 emission) into carbon capture technologies, or by subsidizing the need for other countries in the world to build energy without so much pollution.
by sensanaty | 2025-09-15 08:16:26+00:00
That's not how chat control is set up to work though. The extremely problematic aspect here is the use of unspecified "AI monitoring systems" wholescale on every single message that passes through your device which AUTOMATICALLY flags detections and raises it to the authorities.

Oh, also the breaking of cryptography which, I just cannot believe these morons are still trying to fighr for...

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
by flyinghamster | 2025-09-15 08:16:27+00:00
Keep in mind it goes further than that. US customary volume units don't match up with British ones.

One British gallon is about 4.5 liters, where a US gallon is about 3.8. Quarts, pints, and cups follow, but fluid ounces are another thing. A US gallon is divided into 128 fl. oz., while a British gallon is 160. This results in a US fluid ounce of about 29.6 ml, vs. 28.4 ml for the British one, and also affects teaspoons and tablespoons.
by TP740 | 2025-09-15 08:16:36+00:00
Depending on the fruit, sugar content can also lead to diabetes, and the sugars and acids are also generally bad for dental health.

Generally speaking we accept those for the other benefits of vitamins / fibre intake, et cetera. This study is quite weak, and if the upside in some cases is improved mental health, and the risks of diabetes can be mitigated with exercise, then perhaps we need to view cannabis the same way.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-15 08:17:52+00:00
It's hardly even a polite ask. It's literally a text file. Automated http clients, such as search engine indexers (Google, yahoo, etc) are expected to use it to know what pages can be visited or not. That expectation is nothing more than a convention.

If you are on a Mac or Linux computer, odds are it has a program called curl pre-installed. If you type in curl website address in a terminal, it'll fetch make a request and download the response. Robot.txt never gets involved. Same is true for AI agents and search engines that aren't polite.
by lurking_swe | 2025-09-15 08:17:59+00:00
The other weird thing here is passing that recipe along at all. People are impressed with boxed mixes? It’s just weird to me.

It doesn’t even make sense. Buying the individual ingredients is more versatile. You spend less money, and have extra eggs, flour, etc left over that can be used for other recipes. And then it actually feels more homemade too.

Saving 20 seconds (measuring and prepping 3 ingredients for a “mix”) in order to end up with less tasty food is illogical.

*edit* ok never mind there is some reason to the madness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45246000
by sylware | 2025-09-15 08:18:35+00:00
Yep. Future of GPU hardware programming? The one we will have to "standard"-ized à la RISC-V for CPUs?

The thing are the vulkan "fences", namely the GPU to CPU notifications. Probably hardware interrupts which will have to be forwarded by the kernel to the userland for an event ring buffer (probably a specific event file descriptor). There are alternatives though: we could think of userland polling/spinning on some cpu-mapped device memory content for notification or we could go one "expensive" step further which would "efficiently" remove the kernel for good here but would lock a CPU core (should be fine nowdays with our many cores CPUs): something along the line of a MONITOR machine instruction, basically a CPU core would halt until some memory content is written, with the possibility for another CPU core to un-halt it (namely spurious un-halting is expected).

Does nvidia handle their GPU to CPU notifications without the kernel too?
by fivefives55555 | 2025-09-15 08:19:12+00:00
> I'd expect a decent food journalist to ask if their conditions of payment for endorsement required their support in these times.

From the article:

> Mr. Chang and Mr. Samuelsson did not respond to request for comment. In a text, Ms. Ray said she had written her letter to the California legislature “after giving the issue much thought” and that she stood by it.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-15 08:19:49+00:00
Feel free to look at the data. Yes, in Europe Amiga and ST had ok sales, specially at home and mostly for games. But they had almost non in the US, the biggest market, and same in Japan.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/artic...

By 1990 everything other then PC is a rounding error. Before that some 8-bit systems were relevant.
by vintermann | 2025-09-15 08:20:16+00:00
I'm basically saying, you can't rely on on-platform discovery. You'll have to find the links to good stuff on peertube somewhere else than peertube - anywhere else. It could even be here.

Or to take it from the other perspective, if you make videos on Peertube you need to give people some way different than doomscrolling/built in search to find your stuff.
by Gustomaximus | 2025-09-15 08:21:04+00:00
Not my experience or people around me (rural area so it's common). WFH with no fibre and patchy mobile so starlink is a godsend.

The most common outage is a regular 3am reboot. Otherwise outages are infrequent and typically a few seconds.

Also the latency is surprisingly good, it's not fibre but can game FPS on it.
by mcv | 2025-09-15 08:22:19+00:00
Yeah, the issue is of course that the supermarket sells both kinds of cucumbers, and they need to be able to distinguish between organic and non-organic cucumbers, which is why they wrap one type in plastic. And of course it's better for the environment if that's the type they sell the least of.

So every step makes sense, but the end result looks ridiculous. Maybe they can use paper wrappers instead? Or maybe just settle on one type of cucumber.
by alexgartrell | 2025-09-15 08:22:21+00:00
I did something similar a long time ago https://github.com/facebookresearch/py2bpf

It was definitely a toy, I transliterated from python bytecode (a stack based vm) into bpf. I also wrote the full code gen stack myself (bpf was simpler back then)

But using llvm and not marrying things to cpython implementation makes this approach way better
by WJW | 2025-09-15 08:22:31+00:00
> You're just gonna have a kilometers long "wire" to control a drone?

Yup. Fiber optic cables are lightweight and thin, so you can stick 10 km+ in a spindle on the drone that unwinds as you fly.

> I'd much rather just lose some drones to jamming. They seem to be cheap and replaceable.

They *are* cheap and replaceable, but you don't send them out for the fun of it. If the drones don't hit the vehicles/soldiers/whatever that you send them at, those enemy assets are going to kill your own soldiers. Especially now that many vehicles on the front lines are equipped with jammers, have non-radio comms is super useful for making sure the drone actually gets where it needs to go.

That said only about 20% of FPV drones are fiber optic at the moment, because radio does have a lot of advantages when it comes to range and maneuverability.