MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bostonian | 2025-09-20 19:13:34+00:00
Quoting the paper:

Our approach consists of two stages: First, we input a large amount of unstructured news text into GraphRAG, where during the clustering and retrieval process, global statistics are dynamically updated to accurately cluster relationships between entities. This results in a directed knowledge graph of companies, with edges representing both direct and indirect relationships between companies. In the second stage, inspired by Ibrahim et al. (2022) and Barigozzi & Brownlees (2019), we transform the knowledge graph into a mask matrix using the Leiden algorithm Traag et al. (2019). This matrix is then used as a regularizer in the multivariate time series model, combined with relevant covariates. This method effectively enhances the generalization ability of models on scarce company data and significantly improves prediction performance, as illustrated in Figure 1. The specific algorithm details are provided in Algorithms 1 and 2.
by cpursley | 2025-09-20 19:14:33+00:00
90% of Chinese own their own properties vs 65% of Americans, so there's that. Regarding property rights, I'm not sure how it works there but we've all seen the malls and highways that diverted around homes where owners were unwilling to sell out. Also, they actually have functional public infrastructure and have brought something like 800 million out of abject poverty. Are ahead of us in several spaces and about to pass us or at least equal us in others. Obviously I'm not arguing for that type of top down authoritarian system, but this is the objective reality. What's bizarre actually is all the denialism and copium over China - should we not be glad that they are doing better than they were 30 years ago and much more liberal than before?
by _345 | 2025-09-20 19:14:33+00:00
Maybe the other games just sucked? That screenshot of that vietnamese game we're supposed to feel bad for not knowing about looks awful, like any of the western mobile slop that's a dime a dozen. There is no fucking way on earth you're going to make me feel like I'm discounting "women's games" from gaming history by invoking a kim kardashian video game
by aranelsurion | 2025-09-20 19:14:47+00:00
> Asian free-to-play MMOs like MapleStory and Fantasy Journey to the West have always been more popular than World of Warcraft, but prejudice erased them.

Yeah no, it wasn't prejudice that erased them, but budget and quality. I mean just look at three screenshots of these games tell me you'd be as excited about them as you'd be about World of Warcraft, as a kid.
by oezi | 2025-09-20 19:14:48+00:00
As Germany and Japan can attest, export-led growth works great until it doesn't, because you are stuck to suppress wages across the economy to maintain your export edge. You need to also build the internal market and carefully manage the housing market as the central instrument for wealth accumulation of your citizens.

I think the US is unique to realize that they can achieve more by being a consumer spending economy and using run-away housing prices to inflate their citizens wealth (using immigration to increase demand).
by pimlottc | 2025-09-20 19:15:03+00:00
Wow.

"On vacation" makes it sounds like workers were just off "having fun" (which of course is their right), but as your story illustrates, many immigrants are required to leave the US for their visa renewals. To be forced to leave the country and then be barred from return by an sudden change in the rules is the most unjust cruelty.

As an American, I'm deeply ashamed by this. I hope you and your family are able to return home soon. Thank you for sharing your story.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-20 19:15:16+00:00
Destruction is a big part of why capitalism works. If a company becomes obsolete or grows too inefficient, it dies, and its dysfunction dies with it. The destruction isn't the goal there - it's the price. The price you pay for maintaining efficiency.

Government agencies rarely face anything like this. TSA exists without facing a risk of being destroyed for being worthless. There is a mechanism missing.

The "step two" is to rebuild it from the grounds up. If there is any need in rebuilding it at all. Never rehire any of the old people. It's how a lot of the post-Soviet countries ended up fixing their dysfunctional government institutions.

They had to thoroughly destroy what was there and build it anew to as much as make them sort of work. There are reasons to believe that the dysfunction would have survived lesser measures - and in some countries that shied away from destruction, it did.
by parpfish | 2025-09-20 19:15:24+00:00
Footnotes are very tempting in a methods section where there’s no end to additional details to add in. However, it’s probably better to put all of that into an appendix/supplemental material section (if the journal allows it). Having a section like that can be a bit freeing — it’s an info dump meant to be read by those looking for a specific implementation detail so it doesn’t need to “read well”
by dang | 2025-09-20 19:15:25+00:00
Thanks! Previous threads macroexpanded:

Telnet Mapscii.me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572328 - July 2025 (1 comment)

MapSCII – A Braille and ASCII world map renderer for the console - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975887 - April 2024 (23 comments)

MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27042629 - May 2021 (43 comments)

MapSCII: World map renderer for your console - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20375881 - July 2019 (24 comments)

MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14254165 - May 2017 (65 comments)
by hearsathought | 2025-09-20 19:15:30+00:00
> The "official" data reported by China can't be attempted to be believed. Most of it is highly manipulated. Attempts at independent verification are punished, or blocked by making the raw data a state secret.

If that's the case, then you should be able to provide tons of evidence. It's difficult to "hide" or "manipulate" data in a country the size of china that is tied to the global trading system.

> But there's a enormous difference between China and democratic countries.

"Democratic countries". Like russia? Or venezuela? Oh, let me guess, democratic countries you don't like are not "democratic countries". Right.

You are just repeating the standard anti-china propaganda. It's the same of nonsense over and over again.

"None of china's data can be trusted. They are lying and they are about to collapse". Followed by, "Oh my god china is an existential threat. They are going to overtake us. Deep seek, rare earth minerals blah blah blah".

Make up your mind.
by alwa | 2025-09-20 19:16:05+00:00
Don’t the elderly people in question—where they or their sponsors can’t cover the cost—1) have their visa applications denied on public charge grounds, or 2) not receive those treatments?

I was of the impression that, in the US at least, such immigrants might be allowed to purchase Medicare if they’d been here for a long time and worked/paid payroll taxes for many years—but that they certainly wouldn’t qualify to get it for free in the way native-born people do. Native-born people with 10 years of formal employment, anyway.

Not sure how that works with Medicaid—it sounds like [1] some states have chosen to implement that in ways immigrants can access if they come in on green cards and spend their working lives in the US, paying in to the system—but that seems to me more like a local policy choice than a primary feature of the immigration system.

For that matter, in your formulation, should the working-age immigrants themselves, who permanently resettle and work their whole life in the US, be denied access to old-age benefits when the time comes?

[0] https://www.kff.org/faqs/medicare-open-enrollment-faqs/enrol...

[1] [PDF] https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/publications/...
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-20 19:16:21+00:00
Huh?

Parking is a subset of “driving”. When you are parking you are also still driving by most legal and practical definitions.

Once you have completed parking you are no longer driving, you are parked, that is the point at which the danger drops.

Parking itself though, is still driving, and is also when a significant number of minor and major collisions occur. Parking is so dangerous that we design many parking areas specifically to be durable to minor impacts as well as protect from parking mishaps. Bollards, curbs, concrete barriers, planters and other features are all placed to help lessen the dangers of parking.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-20 19:16:50+00:00
Rolling releases are popular because people got sick of waiting two years to upgrade their distro and get the new version of some Linux app, because one version of a distro keeps the same old version of the Linux apps forever (in the stable tree). unstable and testing branches have newer releases, but as the name implies, it breaks quite a bit.

So rolling releases are like an unstable/testing branch, with more effort put into keeping it from breaking. So you get new software all the time. The downside is, you also don't get to opt-out of an upgrade, which can be pretty painful when the upgrade breaks something you're used to.
by jdranczewski | 2025-09-20 19:16:56+00:00
I was rather confused by the dictionary comprehension syntax used there, because I wasn't aware that you could write one without the ":" to delineate the key: value pair. Turns out you can, but it just creates a dict with no values stored, just the keys! This works here because the returned dict is an iterable that returns the keys on iteration, and "update" accepts an iterable of (key, value) tuples - and the keys are just that in this case. So the effect is the same as if it was a list comprehension! Just slightly more confusing
by eqvinox | 2025-09-20 19:17:07+00:00
> I don't know how he'd be deciding which oncoming cars are equipped with this feature, as it's still uncommon.

The technology is required on some types of headlights (which you can recognise), because…

> Better -something- that's trying to mask low beams than the alternative (nothing).

…they also made low beams notably brighter and reach further (= extended the angular output). The alternative isn't nothing, it's less bright low beams.
by r14c | 2025-09-20 19:17:11+00:00
I know people like to complain, but these comments are not really based in reality. systemd is really a suite of applications that work together to provide init, service management, network management, &c. there's no single giant program that does all this. each component has a specific focused task.

you could break this out into individually named projects, but nobody complains about coreutils enabling dozens of different workflows.
Ask HN: Where to store my bag for a few hours in SF?
by wibbily | 2025-09-20 19:17:24+00:00
Wandering around before my flight, looking to stash the backpack while I explore. I’d look on Maps but it’s got my passport in it and I’m wary.

Also if there’s anything I need to see before I leave, I’ve got a few hours. I’m all ears
by seadan83 | 2025-09-20 19:18:23+00:00
I think a bigger tax on small companies. I worked on one where the co-founder was an h1b. That company grew to employ about a thousand people. It's job creation.. that would not have happened when the company was young with this tax.

Meanwhile, big tech is sitting on piles of money. I think startups and scale ups will suffer a lot here.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-20 19:18:29+00:00
Oh that could have ended quite differently. I've had stuff that looked on second thought very much like explosive devices (little black boxes with a bunch of wires sticking out, internal pouch batteries) in my luggage on more than one occasion. I never so much as got a peep out of anything like that. But for some reason my elderly laptop is a real magnet for official attention and there is absolutely nothing non-stock about that one.
by dingnuts | 2025-09-20 19:18:51+00:00
I picked one of the studies in the search (!) you linked. First of all, it's a bullshit debate tactic to try to overwhelm your opponents with vague studies -- a search is complete bullshit because it puts the onus on the other person to discredit the gargantuan amount of data you've flooded them with. Many of the studies in that search don't have anything to do with programming at all.

So right off the bat, I don't trust you. Anyway, I picked one study from the search to give you the benefit of the doubt. It compared leetcode in the browser to LLM generation. This tells us absolutely nothing about real world development.

What made the METR paper interesting was that they studied real projects, in the real world. We all know LLMs can solve well bounded problems in their data sets.

As for 3 I've seen a lot of broken nonsense. Let me know when someone vibe codes up a new mobile operating system or a competitor to KDE and Gnome lol
by YZF | 2025-09-20 19:19:01+00:00
With polls the questions you ask matter a lot. I don't read this poll as being about illegal immigration but someone else might (e.g. you did). That is worth splitting out as a separate question. But asking that risks getting answers you don't like, e.g. my bet would be most Americans would not support the idea that anyone can just come and stay in the US illegally without going through any process, i.e. an open border policy. My bet would also be that most Americans would support immigration of highly skilled labor or certain other professions given the right processes in place and demand for those. There are probably other ways to slice and dice this question to get a deeper understanding of how people think about this.

It would also be nice if the poll probed as to the reasons for why people hold certain opinions. My guess would be the numbers are changing partly due to political backlash and not due to some economical or social insight.

The good thing about this poll is that the same questions are asked over time. So likely the trends are real. It's just hard to get a more nuanced understanding.
by chrisldgk | 2025-09-20 19:19:33+00:00
Anecdotal evidence, but I’ve been driven into twice over the course of the last two weeks after driving every day for ten years and never having had a crash. Whether it’s touch screens mounted in the car or people being on their phone, something has to be done about people being distracted while driving.

I’m in Germany and using your phone while driving can lead to your license being revoked - the problem is that it’s not really enforced at all in my experience. Maybe it should be.

Rant over, I’m just honestly pissed about my car being wrecked TWICE and me being paranoid looking in the rear view mirror every time I’m stood still because people apparently can’t register a car standing at a signal.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-20 19:19:49+00:00
I am a post sales consultant. Meaning I’m the first deeply technical person that a client talks to after they sign the contract that pre-sales has worked on.

Pre-sales has already had a couple of meetings by the time it gets to me. I put the transcripts of their calls and the contract (statement of work) into Notebook LLM to ask the high level questions like the objectives, the challenges, priorities, risks they have already surfaced etc.

That feeds into my first meeting slide deck so the client can expand upon, disagree with etc to make sure everyone is on the same page.

After my set of discovery sessions, I put those transcripts into the notebook too.

I can then use Notebook LLM to give me a first draft of the management style assessment report. I never expose LLM writing to the client. I have a certain style of writing and I hate AI slop.

Yes this is corporate approved, we use GSuite for everything. I like the fact that everything that NotebookLM outputs has curations from the source material.
by Tokumei-no-hito | 2025-09-20 19:21:01+00:00
i was for a while too. but the shift back to aluminum does not bode well for caseless.

deep scratches are trivial and drops will immediately lead to heavy dents. that being said the screen itself is incredibly tough so it will be usable.

before (stainless / titanium) you could go caseless without concern. the most i ever had happen was a little crack on the back
by em-bee | 2025-09-20 19:21:18+00:00
but you can adopt incrementally, thanks to XWayland. sure it's not the same, but unlike systemd vs sysv-init, you can't run two windowing systems side by side with equal privileges unless maybe you have two monitors and graphic cards. one has to be the one that controls the screen. and the other must necessarily run as a client inside it. wayland-on-X may have been possible, but it would have limited waylands capabilities and development.

i am willing to bet that there are systemd haters out there that love wayland and would make the exact reverse claim.
by ChocolateGod | 2025-09-20 19:21:21+00:00
You can achieve similar results with podman and bubblewrap, but podman handles things like networking, resource and image management that bubblewrap doesn't by itself

Bubblewrap really is more for sandboxing "transient" containers and being able to separate specific things from the host (such as libraries), with other applications handling the image management, which makes sense because its primary user is Flatpak and Steam. Once the application inside the container is exited, the sandbox is destroyed, it's job is done.

Podman is a Docker clone, it's for development or persistent containers. It will monitor containers, restart them, can pull image updates, setup networks between them etc.

They both use namespacing and cgroups under the hood, but for different results and purposes.

Your right that systemd has sandboxing too, and it also uses the same features as the kernel. Podman can also export it's services to be managed by systemd.

There's literally so much choice when it comes to making containers on Linux.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-20 19:22:12+00:00
> But a lot of skilled labour left anyway

The UK has had a "brain drain", but it's as much UK citizens as migrants. Economic migrants migrate.

> But also highly paid people have spouses, children, parents and other relatives. Once you are told you barely cleared (very high) criteria, you can be pretty sure your retired parents won't, if ever you need them to move in with you.

Skilled immigration is sold in almost all of the West as a necessary demographic cure. The classic "we're getting older and there is a labour shortage of working age people". The retired parents were never a part of the deal, and are of no interest to almost any Western country. Obvious given that it completely annihilates the justification for bringing people in in the first place.

So if these skilled workers aren't moving to the UK because they can't bring their retired parents, then presumably they aren't also choosing the US, Canada, Germany, etc., given the same situation.

Canada does have a family reunification program but it is not only spectacularly unpopular among the Canadian public and likely to fade away, it allows for a tiny number per year.
by grues-dinner | 2025-09-20 19:22:16+00:00
Yeah they work fine too. The point is not that you need stones to sharpen knives at all, but you don't need insanely expensive glass or diamond stones like the YouTubers tend to tell you to get to shaving-sharp if you want to.

Just don't use a sharpener with the carbide v-blades that shave off slivers of metal or you'll get a knife with a concave edge that doesn't meet the board along the whole length and that really is a pain to fix (related note on that, a kitchen knife edge up in a vice is quite a disconcerting thing!).
by ninthcat | 2025-09-20 19:22:23+00:00
You seem to be under the mistaken belief that democracy means deciding policy based on opinion polls. This is not how democracies work in practice, and opinion polls often show that most people don't want policy dictated solely by opinion polls.

Democracy is a governmental system where political power is vested in the people. It is characterized by competitive elections and the safeguarding of human rights[1].

It is by definition undemocratic for two wolves and a sheep to vote for who to eat for dinner. It is undemocratic to have gerrymandering. It is undemocratic to have uncompetitive primary elections. It is undemocratic for the police to quell protests. It is undemocratic to have state-backed propaganda, censorship, and misinformation.

Maintaining a democracy necessitates maintaining its institutions. An authoritarian one-party state does not magically become democratic just because it has an election or manufactures support for its project. Elections are an insufficient condition for democracy.

[1]: https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jod.2024.a930423
by more_corn | 2025-09-20 19:22:31+00:00
The great thing about this award is that it’s often real and beneficial science.

The study debunking blue zones won, but it was some of the best science I’ve ever seen. (Removing false knowledge is more important than adding new knowledge)

Turns out the Mediterranean diet doesn’t help you live to a hundred, there was just a lot of pension fraud in Italy.

Turns out best predictor of Japanese centenarians is if the local records hall was destroyed in World War Two (because the records were replaced by non native speaking records clerks)
by Scoundreller | 2025-09-20 19:22:36+00:00
Oh great, some of our vendors work in USA on H1bs and when they need to send someone on-site to us (in Canada), they send the Canadian.

I guess we'll be seeing someone new and unfamiliar...

(edit: the vendor workers might be in USA on TN status and might be okay for now, I haven't asked)
by hearsathought | 2025-09-20 19:22:37+00:00
> There is a bizarre reverence and worship for China I have observed with some Americans.

No. There isn't. It's just that we've gotten sick of the bullshit and lies from the anti-china propagandists like you.

> Yes, you can build things faster and have smooth 5% YoY growth if you don’t have property rights and manipulate the statistics

If they can build things faster, what need is there to manipulate the statistics? If the chinese don't have property rights, then how come they own so much property?

When you and your kind spout such nonsense over and over again, people tend to get sick of it.
by alkonaut | 2025-09-20 19:22:49+00:00
Do Americans even want functioning bureaucracy? I'm starting to doubt they realize just how complex a modern democracy is, and how many moving parts need to work _just right_ for there to be jobs, money, media, law and order, free speech etc.

A presidential candidate should be able to campaign on "normal foreign relations", "independent authorities", "functioning government", "decorum in politics", "balanced budget", etc. shouldn't they? Maybe 10 years ago that would seem like obvious things you wouldn't mention. But now you should be able to win an election on _only_ that.
by Havoc | 2025-09-20 19:23:35+00:00
Unfortunately I think there is enough track record that the administration no longer has benefit of doubt from Hanlon's razor. e.g.

>“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains."

sauce: https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-v...
by kstrauser | 2025-09-20 19:24:15+00:00
That came across more harshly than I meant, but I stand by the gist of it: this stuff is too hard to do in C or someone would’ve done it. It can be done, clearly, but there’s not the return on investment in this specific use case. But with better tooling, and more ergonomic languages, those are achievable goals by a larger pool of devs — if not today, because Rust isn’t as common as C yet, then soon.