MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivanjermakov | 2025-09-26 14:34:17+00:00
Reminds me of pilots' decision making process:

- Situation: The pilot is required to recognize the current situation and identify the possible dangers. This is the most important step of the decision-making process since detecting the situation accurately gives the critical information to start the process correctly and produce a feasible resolution to the impending situation.

- Options: Generate any possible option regardless of the feasibility of success. It is most important to create as many options as possible since there will be a larger pool of options to choose the most appropriate solution to the situation.

- Choose: From the options generated, the pilot is required to choose a course of action assessing the risks and viability. Act: Act upon the plan while flying in accordance with safety and time availability. The most important step of this process is time, as the pilot is challenged against time to fix the problem before the situation further deteriorates.

- Evaluate: Ask the question, "Has the selected action been successful?" and evaluate your plan to prepare for future occurrences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_decision_making#Decision...
by khamidou | 2025-09-26 14:34:36+00:00
> The privileged few among us (I am not one of them) don't struggle with avoiding these addictions.

Counterpoint, the richest man in the world is clearly addicted to being on twitter and posts at all hours of the day. More generally I don't see why the richest wouldn't be addicted to social media like the rest of us – after all they have a lot more free time and disposable income
by simonw | 2025-09-26 14:34:47+00:00
ChatGPT is exceptionally good at using search now, but that's new this year, as of o3 and then GPT-5. I didn't trust GPT-4o and earlier to use the search tool well enough to be useful.

You can see if it's used search in the interface, which helps evaluate how likely it is to get the right answer.
by hansvm | 2025-09-26 14:35:13+00:00
Even if you take Trump, Musk, etc at their words -- that the government is horribly bloated and that DOGE has saved $206B -- this still doesn't look in totality like a sound economic decision:

1. The deficit has increased with Trump in office.

2. The rate at which the deficit is getting worse has increased with Trump in office.

3. That's in large part due to an increase in government expenditures more than enough to offset the claimed savings.

4. Even if that entire $206B were actually being distributed to taxpayers somehow, it's on par with the increase in grocery prices just since Trump took office, resulting in a net loss for taxpayers (you pay for groceries with post-tax income).

5. The things being cut first are those which help anyone with a middle-class or lower income. E.g., the CFPB more than paid for itself for years from the perspective of anyone other than a malicious bank just from one policy change limiting abusive fees banks are able to charge.

6. Even if you believe that all such departments need to be neutered and downsized (a bit weird that we need to reduce their power, impact, and effectiveness just to make them more "efficient", but whatever), it's objectively costing more in lawsuits and hiring critical personnel back than it would have to think for a moment before firing literally everyone.

7. Even at $206B with sane economic decisions elsewhere in the government, it's still not enough to move the needle on anything, and it's a far cry from the $2T in advertised cuts that were used to trick the American people into allowing this chicanery into our government.

And so on. Nothing about the current administration would qualify as increasing government efficiency even squinting at it in a modern art museum.

And that's if you take them at their word. At a bare minimum, no matter where you are on the political spectrum, DOGE themselves have admitted to many of those advertised cuts being mistakes, oftentimes by an order of magnitude or in totality, yet those mistakes are never corrected in their public leaderboard. If you look at their own sources and receipts there's a significant number of mistakes on top of the ones they've fessed up to.

I agree that the government is bloated, and I'm not particularly happy with many of the political maneuverings on either side of the spectrum the last decade or three, but when it comes to Musk and Trump I think it's reasonable to consider that when there's significant evidence of lying from individuals with a history of lying for personal gain, you're probably being lied to, even if you really want the thing they're claiming to give you.
by mothballed | 2025-09-26 14:35:28+00:00
Already addressed this

>The executive has the power to actually go out and spend the appropriated money. Congress tried to usurp that power around the time of Nixon by stopping executive impoundment. But it's not clear if that's constitutional; it might be now under current SCOTUS interpretations but I wouldn't be surprised if SCOTUS reviews it and find that to be incorrect.

>Personally I think congress usurping power of impoundment is a bright and clear violation of checks and balances built into the constitution that requires two branches to approve of spending before it can actually get spent. DOGE was a valiant attempt to bring us back into constitutional compliance.
by redbar0n | 2025-09-26 14:35:45+00:00
From each except the first: - «force, assault» - «action» - «an act of aggression»

Which stands in contrast to «speech».

Though any expression can be used in a broader sense than what it essentially/accurately signifies. Some such examples are of course included in dictionaries, without taking away from the point (what they list first and their general primary agreement: that violence is physical force).

I hope we can agree how dangerous it is to wash out the meaning of the word «violence», and conflate it with «speech». Especially all the while people are being killed (subject to violence) for their speech by other people who justify it by saying that they were responding in kind (eye for an eye) because they deemed their mere words to be actual violence (physical harm) too.
by delusional | 2025-09-26 14:35:55+00:00
> but that changes the table from being an array to being both an array and a dictionary

You're confusing the definition of the language with the implementation. In implementation you're right, most runtimes will treat arrays starting at 1 as a special case and optimize that access. The language itself doesn't make that distinction though. Here an array is simply any table indexed by integers. The documentation states it's thusly:

You can start an array at index 0, 1, or any other value
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-26 14:36:04+00:00
Transit agencies (at least the big ones) normally do their maintenance and repair in-house. So they will want to buy one make/model of bus as much as possible so that they don't have to train mechanics on many different manufacturer's products and stock parts for many different models. Once those decisions are made, any competitors will have that weighing against them. That will tend to reduce the number of viable competitors.

Same with municipal vehicles, most towns will buy all Ford or all Chevrolet and as few different models as possible.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-26 14:36:47+00:00
One of the by-products of the sycophancy issues, is that LLMs are infinitely patient. They’ll listen to your bullshit forever, and won’t call it out, or walk away.

I can certainly see folks getting so used to it, that they then measure all their IRL relationships by that. They could decide that “you’re not my friend,” because you don’t want to listen to them whine endlessly about their ex.
by siva7 | 2025-09-26 14:37:13+00:00
Such PR's shouldn't be the norm but the exception. What happens way more often is that such refactoring happen in addition to other criteria on the same PR. In high-functioning teams i've worked this is usually done as a separate PR / change, as they are aware of the complexity this operation adds by mixing it with scope-related changes and that refactoring shouldn't be in the scope of the original change.
by noelwelsh | 2025-09-26 14:37:45+00:00
I don't think Kier Starmer understands that when people voted for Labour, they were, in fact, voting for Labour, not Reform / the Tories. This proposal at least has some merit (though it is not without issues) but trying to sell it as preventing illegal work is ludicrous, attempting to appeal to the right-wing votes who will never vote Labour, and giving control of the conversation to the Weasel in Chief, Nigel Farage.
by tdeck | 2025-09-26 14:38:00+00:00
You just ignored the fact that the people Israel rounds up haven't been charged with a crime, let alone convicted. Israel rounded up 1500 people this month simply because they were Palestinian and live in a particular village.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/12/headlines/israeli_for...

I guess to someone with your ideology collective punishment of Palestinians is normal day, but when the world sees it we are repulsed.
by matt-p | 2025-09-26 14:38:16+00:00
So I currently have;

A National Insurance Card (needed to get a job), drivers license and passport, one of latter is also needed (in practice) to get a job.

Why would a brit card help us reduce the number of people working illegally?

The only notable 'employers' of illegal workers in the UK are American tech firms Uber and deliveroo (doordash) because they allow driver substitution without verifying that the substitute is legit. That should be made illegal and then fine them into the ground for anyone who slips through. Brit card doesn't help and is a distraction.
by hbd-investor | 2025-09-26 14:38:29+00:00
I think its the other way around AI would certainly have better accuracy than a human, AI can see things pixel by pixel.

You can take a 4k photo of anything, change one pixel to pure white and a human wouldn't be able to find this pixel by looking at the picture with their eyes. A machine on the other hand would be able to do it immediately and effortlessly.

Machine vision is literally superhuman, For example Military camo can easily fool human eyes. But a machine can see through it clear as day. Because they can tell the difference between

Black Hex #000000 RGB 0, 0, 0 CMYK 0, 0, 0, 100

and

Jet Black Hex #343434 RGB 52, 52, 52 CMYK 0, 0, 0, 80
by netdevphoenix | 2025-09-26 14:38:29+00:00
Missing the point.

A passport is the universal identity document. It's way too valuable to carry around and expediting a new passport is costly and slow. Checks need to be done in person and the passport holder needs to be told in advance about the check (so impromptu checks don't work and expired passports get through, also catching fake passports and the like is hard).

A digital ID as its name says is digital, checks can be done remotely (as often as you want) in a secure environment with physical checks possible in addition to that. Regular and unscheduled checks are possible with a digital id after the initial check both presential and remote. Online checks especially can cover for things like the same id being used in multiple places, it also means employers cannot fudge it as the actual repository of truth lies online. None of this is possible with a passport.

Citizen IDs and more recently digital IDs have been used in Europe for decades now. Having a redundant piece of ID is incredibly valuable.
by nxobject | 2025-09-26 14:38:29+00:00
> The ARM chip was also designed to run at very low power. Wilson explained that this was entirely a cost-saving measure—the team wanted to use a plastic case for the chip instead of a ceramic one, so they set a maximum target of 1 watt of power usage.

With my (limited) understanding of how ARM conquered the market, I guess this turned out to be a very consequential cost-saving measure.
by reactordev | 2025-09-26 14:38:31+00:00
People are confusing word size…

The CPU can handle up to word size bits at once. I believe they mean that a lot of assembly was written for integer math and not bit math. Word size 4+ However, it is unlikely we’ll see improvements in this area because by definition, using 64-bit floats uses max word size. So… that’s the max throughput. Sending 1 bit vs 64 bits would be considerably slower so this entire approach is funny.
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by xmasterdev | 2025-09-26 14:39:18+00:00
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by waltbosz | 2025-09-26 14:39:25+00:00
I always viewed Accenture's main business was signing contracts, second to delivering a good product.

I figured, they couldn't sign a contract without having people ready to staff it. I met a ton of people who were hired onto the bench and sat for months either without a project (just because they had skills that would be needed for future projects), or they had a project but were waiting for the project to start.

I say second to delivering a good project: My job was application support. Half of my team was offshore, and they had very little actual technical skill, they just learned the problems that may occur with the software we supported. But they couldn't go off script and debug problems that we didn't already know how to solve.
by myrmidon | 2025-09-26 14:39:26+00:00
I honestly don't think there is any future for them longer term (>10y). Long distance, diesel vehicles might hold out for a bit longer than a decade, but the situation looks kinda inevitable even there to me.

CO2 wise, electrifying a bus like this should pay off much quicker than replacing individual vehicles, because utilization is higher (not a lot of people drive 12h a day).
by simonw | 2025-09-26 14:39:52+00:00
Probably about 10 cents, if you're even paying for tokens. Plenty of these tools have generous free tiers or allowances included in your subscription.

I run a pricing calculator here - for 50,000 input tokens, 5,000 output tokens (which I estimate would be about right for a PostgreSQL optimization loop) GPT-5 would cost 11.25 cents: https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=50000&ot=5000&ic=1.25&oc=10

I use Codex CLI with my $20/month ChatGPT account and so far I've not hit the limit with it despite running things like this multiple times a day.
by everdrive | 2025-09-26 14:40:03+00:00
Agreed, and I think Musk is an outlier. I think a bigger counterpoint for me would be "to what degree does wealth intersect with impulse control." I'd be shocked if there wee not a strong association, but it's also not going to be strictly linear. The might be diminishing returns at the poles, as well. The very low ends of impulse control look like "this guy blew grass clippings at my car so I shot him."
by jmyeet | 2025-09-26 14:40:05+00:00
As people should know by now, in the last few decades China has built a massive amount of public transit infrastructure, both within cities and regional [1]. Some of the subway systems are pretty amazing (eg Chongqing [2]). I'm interested in how they did this and I think it comes down to a few major factors:

1. They standardize rolling stock. The same stuff is used across the country. I think this is really important. If you think about how the US does things, every city will have its own procurement process. This is wasteful but is just more opportunity for corruption;

2. China had a long term strategy to building its own trains (and, I assume, buses). They first imported high speed trains from Japan and Germany but ultimately wanted to build their own; and

3. Streamlined permitting. China has private property but the way private property works in the US is as a huge barrier to any change or planning whatsoever. China just doesn't allow this to happen.

I keep coming back to the extortionate cost of the Second Avenue Subway in NYC. It's like ~$2.5 billion per mile (Phase 2 is estimated at $4 billion per mile). You may be tempted to say that China isn't a good comparison here because of cheap labor or whatever. Fine. But let's compare it to the UK's Crossrail, which was still expensive but way cheaper than the SEcond Avenue Subway.

California's HSR is hitting huge roadblocks from permitting, planning and political interests across the Central Valley, forcing a line designed to cut the travel time from LA to SF to divert to tiny towns along the way.

There is a concerted effort in the US to kill public transit projects across the country (eg [3]). You don't just do this by blocking projects. You also make things take much longer and make the processes so much more expensive. In California, for example, we've seen the weaponization of the otherwise well-intentioned CEQA [4].

I feel like China's command economy is going to eat us alive over the next century.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/xszhbm/chinese_hig...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7gvr_U4R4w

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...

[4]: https://californialocal.com/localnews/statewide/ca/article/s...
by satvikpendem | 2025-09-26 14:40:40+00:00
I already see dystopian ads for friend.com, "someone who listens, responds, and supports you" but it's actually an AI necklace device, and you'll see people marking them up too given how unnerving it is to call an AI a "friend."

https://old.reddit.com/r/Greenpoint/comments/1nmk49r/dystopi...
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-09-26 14:40:42+00:00
Nice crystal ball you have there.

There's a lot of resistance to this because people can see this is the big pill they want you to swallow. Then smaller ones can follow.

You might need digital ID recorded to buy a house. Then a car. Then eventually pretty much anything.

Any legislation allowing the State to link systems via digital ID would be unremarkable and not newsworthy, but the end result could be the Panopticon we are all dreading, or perhaps a toolkit for more hardline governments in the future.

For now, you can sign a Petition [1] against the introduction of Digital ID. In the future, you may need to submit digital ID before signing such a petition (rather than the current email address validation). Imagine what a tool that could be for identifying dissenters and undesirables.

[1] https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
by lkbm | 2025-09-26 14:40:42+00:00
Infinitely easier?

The challenge in migrating email isn't that you have to move the existing email messages; any standard email client will download them all for you. The challenge is that there are thousands of external people and systems pointing to your email address.

Your LLMs memory is roughly analogous to the existing email messages. It's not stored in the contacts of hundreds of friends and acquaintances, or used to log in to each of a thousand different services. It's all contained in a single system, just like your email messages are.
by busterarm | 2025-09-26 14:41:03+00:00
As I get older and see these things play out, I agree less and less. There's a physical toll on your health that gets paid for living a lifestyle like this. Society pays part of the cost of this (at the very least anyone on the same health insurance plan).

I feel icky saying this but we should make a strong effort as a society to stamp out anti-social behaviors. Addictions are very high on that list.

You might think that you can engage this way without being a burden to others, but you can't.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-26 14:41:04+00:00
Tompkins County bought Proterra buses, they had some serious problems. When they jacked one up to work on it the axle came off and they immediately took all our electric buses out of the fleet -- and Proterra was bankrupt and not able to make it right.

TCAT is still scrambling to find diesel buses to replace those and older diesel buses that are aging out. Lately they've added some ugly-looking buses which are the wrong color which I guess they didn't customize but it means they can run the routes.
by nayuki | 2025-09-26 14:41:10+00:00
Yeah. The article tells a good story and I agree with it. I even bought an Athlon 64 CPU back in ~2004.

What I want to add to the story is that when Intel Core 2 came out (and it was an x86-64 chip), it absolutely crushed AMD's Athlon 64 processors. It won so hard that, more or less, the lowest spec Core 2 CPU was faster than the highest spec Athlon 64 CPU. (To confirm this, you can look up benchmark articles around the year 2006, such as those from Tom's Hardware Guide.) Needless to say, my next computer in 2008 was a Core 2 Quad, and it was indeed much faster than my Athlon 64.

The Core 2 and all its sequels were how Intel dominated over AMD for about a decade until AMD Zen came along.
by mothballed | 2025-09-26 14:41:17+00:00
>If no one is entitled to the labor of others, why would we engage in charity?

Because some people want to help others beyond what they're forced to do. There is a long history of charitable health services in the US and worldwide, you might rightly ascertain they can't possibly provide all of medical care, nonetheless it's non-zero enough to dispel the notion it can't be provided in the absence of an entitlement.

> medical care is a civil service that you can voluntarily provide,

Civil services are funded by people working to pay their taxes. Work-trade when it's someone health is slavery, so work-trade when it's to not have to go in a tiny cage dragged away by an IRS agent has to be slavery too, especially when you consider the health implications of that.

Therefore the public / civil service options are tossed out by your own criteria.

Loans, again, if those aren't allowed you can toss out any government option because that's a huge part of how the government is funding itself.

Using your own criteria only charity or cash payments would be allowed. Not sure I agree with that one, but that's what you're leaving us with.
by zabzonk | 2025-09-26 14:42:03+00:00
Yes, I'm familiar with Pascal indexes, but I don't find them very natural for the kind of programs I write. I want functions/classes to do any sort of translation.

> The books on compilers from the 70s (e.g. Gries's "Compiler construction for digital computers")

Yellow cover, I think? My then GF bought it for Xmas at about 1984 or so. Not the best book on the topic, IMHO.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-26 14:42:14+00:00
No, you can't provide just a copy of of a document. This is not a valid check and only providing only a document without share code only works if you are citizen.

"Ask to see the applicant’s original documents. You can no longer accept biometric residence cards or permits. Ask the applicant for a share code instead." [1]

The share code makes it impossible to forge.

If you are an employer and only ask for copies of documents you are liable for a 40k+ fine if you end up hiring an illegal migrant.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/check-job-applicant-right-to-work
by alicepfulton | 2025-09-26 14:42:16+00:00
An arbitrary vCPU is my way of pointing out that most cloud providers today would call a 10-year old Intel core a "vCPU" and would also call a brand-new CPU a "vCPU" (more likely the former than the latter).

We feel that you should be charged less for older/slower hardware, and more for newer/faster hardware, so we scaled our pricing accordingly.

And regarding egress, because we're fully vertically integrated (we own everything aside from our ISP) nobody else charges us egress and therefore we don't charge our customers egress.