MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by taylodl | 2025-10-10 19:05:21+00:00
Both the Nevera and Evija are pushing the envelope, are comparably priced, and have comparable performance numbers.

My whole point of bringing up the Evija in the first place was to compare the sales numbers to that of the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, which doesn't even match the Evija's performance numbers. Yet more people are buying the Alfa Romeo and they're buying the ICE version, not the EV version. The Nevera, despite its performance, is struggling to sell. Which gets to what this article is about - can Ferrari succeed in the hypercar EV market where the others are struggling? My bet is: no.

The moral of the story is auto enthusiasts prefer ICE cars. Everyone understands the engineering behind EVs and how they can beat ICE cars in almost every respect - but auto enthusiasts don't care. They appreciate the engineering that goes into the ICE car. It's like I've said, the Apple watch does more, but a horophile will prefer a Swiss made watch.
by Schiendelman | 2025-10-10 19:05:32+00:00
Want to bake your noodle?

Because the market responds to your behavior by slightly lowering the cost of flying to fill those seats, demand increases to match from slightly lower income people. Because they then organize their lives slightly more around cheap flights, it gets even harder to lower the impact of flying.

Paradoxically, rich people like us (you're a tech worker too...) flying more, because we're less sensitive to price, leave more room for pricing in carbon reduction strategies in the tickets/taxes. If you have more seats from the lower end of the market... you don't have as much flexibility in solutions.
by graemefawcett | 2025-10-10 19:05:37+00:00
I've had one job interview in my life and I was sweating so bad I wore a suit jacket in July, in Michigan... it might have contributed to the problem. I've been a software engineer for 20 years, responsible for billion dollar supply chains and developer platforms managing hundreds of millions of dollars of software revenue.

And I can't write FizzBuzz. Or anything really, not until I can see it. And then I have to get it out, find the structure, the shape of the solution in code. It's often not pretty but it works. And it scales. Because I'm not writing code, I'm extracting structure.

Now I have help. I built a translator. A real-time viewport for my agentic conversations. A context container in the shape of a detective case. All wired into emacs.

Now I have words for the shapes in my head. Intent to reality is modeling virtual clay.

Come see how
by bencroker | 2025-10-10 19:06:11+00:00
My goal with this demo was to build a real-time, multiplayer app that can scale to thousands of concurrent, long-lived connections. Using PHP.

Laravel Octane keeps the bootstrapped app loaded in memory, which can scale to thousands of requests per second for the toggling of cells. A separate script starts a Swoole HTTP server to make async I/O work in PHP for serving long-lived SSE connections. The event stream is compressed using gzip by the web server (standard Nginx). The app uses Redis pub/sub for real-time messaging, and a Redis key-value store for state persistence. Rate limiting on the server helps prevent automated bots causing too much havoc.

Finally, reactivity is powered by Datastar with one event listener and one long-lived SSE connection to the backend.

It all runs on a €4 Hetzner VPS.
by everdrive | 2025-10-10 19:07:09+00:00
I personally would have attributed that to the drift of the downstream effects:

- industrialization ultimately allows for women to meaningfully enter the workforce, which is a major pressure on fertility. This entering of the work force is quite delayed due to legal, cultural, and training issues. - People probably don't just magically know when to have fewer kids, and I'm imagine the ramp-down happens over time. - More specific things which suppress fertility might happen even later in the cycle. (as just one example: the accident of requiring car seats requiring the purchase of a much more expensive 3rd row vehicle, and so disincentivizing)

Is that along the lines of what you were thinking? I'm curious for what you think is causal here. (I'm not an expert, and am not trying to claim any expertise!)
by sdjcse1 | 2025-10-10 19:07:25+00:00
I hate performing, but I don't know if there is a framework for me or for managers to identify and track such things. The irony is that these things would be visible only when they bite us and when the work is done in such situation the reward is high, I strongly believe it should be other way around because preventing something is far greater than fixing something after it goes wrong, the sad fact is that it is hard to realize the impact of the failure unless it happens and even if highlighted in reviews it is overlooked often.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-10 19:07:43+00:00
I did some experimentation with UniFi hubs and came to the conclusion that if you can give each device its own WiFi channel that would be ideal -- contention is that bad and often an uncontended channel with otherwise poor characteristics will beat a contended channel that otherwise looks good.

The other bit of advice that is buried in there that no-one wants to hear for residences is the best way to speed up your Wi-Fi is to not use it. You might think it's convenient to have your TV connect to Netflix via WiFi and it is, but it is going to make everything else that really needs the Wi-Fi slower. It's a much better answer to hook up everything on Ethernet that you possibly can than it is to follow the more traveled route of more channels and more congestion with mesh Wi-Fi.
by Insanity | 2025-10-10 19:07:48+00:00
I did for maybe the first 10 years of my career. Then it kinda died down because family and other obligations increased so had less and less spare time.

Also, the older I’m getting the more I’m prioritizing activities that benefit my body. Working out more, home cooked meals (so learning to actually cook well instead of throwing things together and hoping for the best).

I miss the side projects sometimes. At least I still do AoC yearly.
by astrange | 2025-10-10 19:08:00+00:00
GenX leftists think every problem in the world is caused by "corporations" and if you think any given problem is not caused by "corporations" they will assume you're lying. It goes beyond believing in conspiracy theories; they're literally incapable of believing in something /unless/ it's a conspiracy theory.

Most recent examples being "climate change is caused by 100 companies" and "housing prices are caused by BlackRock" which are both entirely fictional.

(There is an obvious rightist equivalent of this which has historically caused a lot more problems.)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-10 19:08:14+00:00
> What does this have to do with anything ITT?

Growth versus preservation. India is trashing its air quality burning coal near its cities. Yet that power is lifting millions out of poverty and into the world's second-largest middle class.

Everyone would prefer clean air ceteris paribus. But for a lot of those people, economic security is "more important than preserving the environment."
by danny_codes | 2025-10-10 19:08:33+00:00
I mean aside from the fact that insurance in healthcare don’t provide any value at all, and healthcare providers provide, you know, actual healthcare, then sure.

Healthcare insurance companies are completely pointless because healthcare is a human right. All other developed countries have figured this out and provide healthcare universally. We could fully socialize “healthcare insurance companies” and have exactly zero negative repercussions. The only outcome would be eliminating a useless industry and saving ~$500 billion a year.
by troupo | 2025-10-10 19:08:33+00:00
Yeah, yeah, they "literally add nothing" except these small things like "custom Javascript-like DSL" (datastar), custom DSL and custom HTTP-headers (htmx).

But it's "just html", so it's all fine

Edit: Oh, don't forget that " Especially datastar, which doesnt add any non-html-spec attributes" in reality ads two custom DSLs. One in the form of HTML attribbutes, and the other in the form of a JS-like DSL:

<button data-on-click__window__debounce.500ms.leading="$foo = ''"></button>

But as long as it's superficially HTML-spec compliant, this is nothing.
by adrianmonk | 2025-10-10 19:08:52+00:00
The examples in the Perl documentation are very well chosen, too. They aren't just a quick way to get up to speed. They aren't just code that you could use as a starting point and modify for your purposes.

Instead, many of them are almost like exercises to help you work through the ideas that the documentation is presenting. Some of them help you see how a syntax or other language rule applies. Sometimes the documentation presents two pieces of example code and walks you through why they're equivalent, helping you understand the language better. Or why they're almost equivalent and what the differences are.

In a lot of documentation, examples give you a superficial understanding but are a dead end if you want to go beyond superficial. In the Perl documentation, examples are often a bridge to a deeper understanding.
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-10 19:09:15+00:00
The old "Look what I built" thread has really bifurcated into "here's what I painstakingly crafted and maybe some lessons learned" and "look what I asked AI to make and it worked".

The latter feels a bit less hacker. Akin to saying "I got someone on fiver to mod this game look how cool it is". Sure, ideas are something, but as AI gets better this is less hacker and more just "Tool worked".
by troupo | 2025-10-10 19:09:26+00:00
> What's your alternative that stay HTML spec compliant?

Again: you literally have a custom Javascript-like DSL in Datastar. Use that.

It's like the "it's just HTML" or "it's HTML-compliant" mantra somehow damages the brain, or something.

Edit: this custom JS-like DSL is so prominent and such a crucial part of Datastar, that it's referenced in the very first paragraph of reference: https://data-star.dev/reference

Oh, look, your HTML-spec-compliant thing in which it is apparently impossible to do anything outside data-* attributes somehow calls external functions, and updates signals, and reads signals, and does all sorts of things:

<div data-signals-result> <input data-bind-foo data-on-input="myfunction(el, $foo)" data-on-mycustomevent__window="$result = evt.detail.value" > <span data-text="$result"></span> </div>

But no! It's absolutely impossible to do something about data-on-click__window__debounce.500ms.leading
by sxzygz | 2025-10-10 19:09:35+00:00
mallowdram, in a flagged dead post, noted:

> Logic is inapplicable here. Politics is arbitrary, and labels/categories are worse than arbitrary, they are random.

Broadly speaking, at some level, I agree with them.

There is no machine that will flash an indicator when pointed at a “fascist”. Yet certain intelligent people are always willing to use pure reason to confront a world that does not admit such scientific classification. The retort is always, “You know one when you see one.”

The is a definite humility that is lacking in such debate, as if everyone shares a logically necessary psychological reality.

None of these thinking persons, of any stripe, are prepared to do the work of articulating, with nuance, where the logical consequences of another contradict their own, and more tellingly, where interpretations of words/labels/categories are themselves foundational in arguments.

People, myself certainly included, are not free with their energies teasing these details out, and are instead more than ready to indicate, in laborious, technical detail, why they are right.

This is a very sick time in shared discourse. I want people to pause and ask if this intellectual turmoil is indeed useful in the present moment or is irrational behaviour forced by economic, social, and environmental anxieties of our time.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-10 19:10:11+00:00
but again this seems to reflect societal biases (of those who speak English, are literate and have fluency with computers, and are "extremely online" ...)

I don't believe that Wikipedia editorial decisions represent a random sample of English speakers who have fluency with computers.

Again, read what Larry Sanger wrote, and pay attention to the examples.
by fedsocpuppet | 2025-10-10 19:10:36+00:00
Is this like a humiliation fetish at this point? This is seriously unhealthy. We don't hate our friends that didn't a go to an eLiTe school because we're not sociopaths. Not sure why I'm even trying since you seem pretty dead set on this, but it's just a lot easier to go through life without made up enemies.
by dasil003 | 2025-10-10 19:10:51+00:00
I agree with the quote as stated, but I would refactor it for a more powerful insight.

I do believe order of magnitude improvements in productivity and reliability are possible, but they don't come from technology or management technique, they come from simplicity. The simplest possible thing that gets the job done can be infinitely more reliable than whatever baroque contraption comes out of typical fog-of-war enterprise environments. The trick is having the judgement to understand what complexity is essential and how to distill things down to the most valuable essence. This is something AI will never be able to do, because the definition of value is in the eye of the human beholder.
by Razengan | 2025-10-10 19:11:33+00:00
That's human error. "Correctness vs. mistakes" applies to all human languages too, English etc.

In math, `a - b` doesn't occasionally become `b - a` if one CPU/thread/stream finishes before an other, just to give one example.

Or, if you write `1 + 2` it will forever be `1 + 2`, unlike code where it may become `3 / 4 - 5 + 6 ^ 7 + 1 + 2` or whatever junk gets appended before or after your expression tomorrow (analogy for the OS/environment your code runs in)

I guess to put it simply: code is affected by its environment, math isn't.
by whstl | 2025-10-10 19:12:12+00:00
No, that's an answer to a cherry-picked reply. It was one package that had a version migration. I don't necessarily agree but I'm trying to move the discussion forward rather than staying at the "it's all shit" lane.

And I gave three other examples, and I can give others: React itself has been around for 12 years, leading. Vue has been super stable too.

Migrating versions of frameworks is several magnitudes harder than migrating the ESLint config, and ESLint is optional. Migrating versions of previous tooling like Babel or Webpack is several orders of magnitude more complicated than ESLint.
by glenstein | 2025-10-10 19:12:30+00:00
I think this is important context when thinking about national security issues at stake with Tiktok. People who think they can't be propagandized on a platform that suppresses discussion of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet, spent a month sarcastically bidding adieu to their Chinese spy.

Meanwhile China is probably leveraging all the data they have at their disposal, tiktok included, for mapping out the extended support networks of democratic activists in Taiwan to prepare to throw them in jail after a forcible military takeover.

Which is not to say that I trust the moral authority of the United States, or that domestic companies don't cooperate with the United States national security interests. But people who spend a lot of time on the apps who think they can't be propagandized sure had a lot of fun laughing away some extremely serious concerns about the safety of people in Taiwan.
by DaveZale | 2025-10-10 19:12:38+00:00
"It also challenges prevailing views that reduced physical activity in modern societies is the sole driver of age-related skeletal fragility."

But all the current medical advice says "motion is the lotion" for good bone and joint health! The article is interesting but I would not give up my supplemental whey protein or exercise program. Even ocasional circuit training yields better skeletal health. I can see it in the mirror, despite putting on little new muscle. I think it's called "ripped" by the bodybuilders. It takes months but everything changes, posture, strength, energy level.
by ashtonjamesd | 2025-10-10 19:12:53+00:00
No problem! With C, I started with the K&R book. This provided a great foundation for C and some fundamental CS concepts. I am unsure of the best way to obtain a more structured curriculum outside of college, as that is how I received mine. There are many YouTube video courses to choose from if that is the type of content you learn best from. And many for CS fundamentals. I would also highly recommend a combination of project-based learning with theory, as that will accelerate your understanding quite a bit. You could try looking for a programming buddy on Reddit on r/programming, too! Having someone at a similar skill level to you will make learning easier as you both share knowledge.
Ask HN: Gradations
by silexia | 2025-10-10 19:13:05+00:00
A serious problem with public schools, and to a lesser extent private schools, is that they are built around the lowest common denominator. The whole goal is to get kids who can just barely pass over a minimum bar to graduate. There are no tiers above that. There is no differentiation for those who really want to excel. Wouldn't it be great if there were some sort of rating system 0 - 100 after kids finish high school. Maybe 20 would be someone who just met the minimum qualifications for graduation, while someone at 99 would be a math olympiad winner type of person. Maybe 50 would represent a college graduate?
by djoldman | 2025-10-10 19:13:07+00:00
It seems that anytime a company sells a product that can connect to the internet, they can't help it, they have to attempt to exploit that to their advantage over the consumer.

It's why I attempt to prevent all devices from connecting with the exception of my phone and computers- which I put behind barriers like pi-hole.

I'm not looking forward to having to remove the GPS and cellular modems from whatever car I eventually have to buy.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-10 19:13:16+00:00
> I've tuned you out

Robust counterargument.

To conclude the thread, yes, you obviously can reason about politics in the same way one can reason about anything else that doesn't behave rationally, like fish, through to things which can't reason at all, whether they be oceans or planets. Moreover, one can logically characterise that which behaves illogically in the same way we can mathematically characterise and constrain the behaviour of fractals and fluids and other objects which are, fundamentally, impossible to precisely describe.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-10-10 19:14:35+00:00
Deeply uninformed person here:

Is the inference cost of generating this tree to be pruned something of a hindrance? In particular I'm watching your MNIST example and thinking - does each cell in that video require a full inference? Or is this done in parallel at least? In any case, you're basically memory for "faster" runtime (for more correct outputs), no?
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-10 19:14:45+00:00
> institutions that are desperate to cut labor costs...

I wonder if those who resist copilot aren't driven by the nascent feeling they are training their replacement.

> ... to maintain historical financial performance targets during ZIRP that are simply no longer obtainable.

If all else fails, they can ZIRP back to fantasy land and avoid being the losers by shifting it to the public once again.
by lostmsu | 2025-10-10 19:15:15+00:00
This shit was literally invented in Europe.

> No one can say that your propaganda is too crude or low or brutal, or that it is not decent enough, for those are not the relevant criteria. Its purpose is not to be decent, or gentle, or weak, or modest; it is to be successful.

From https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb54...
by simion314 | 2025-10-10 19:15:45+00:00
There could be an index where you list your product/service, so people can find your stuff when they need it. But yeah will be harder to manipulate people to buy your miracle supplement or other garbage that is 99% of the current ads I see. I do not watch Tv, use ad blockers so after years of not watching TV I watched a bit recently and most ads are supplements/"naturists medicine" and for some reasons on youtube without the ad blocker they always show me the same ad over and over again(it is funny Google is trying to sell me the product from the company I work for, and somehow showing me same ad each day would convince someone to eventually try something they are not interested in)
by mrtksn | 2025-10-10 19:16:23+00:00
I don’t know how useful or relevant is this. The problem is actually influencers paid by political actors to push an agenda.

it’s hard to detect, but it works like this. Let’s say you want to promote fear of AI, then you just show ads(no association with the topic, it’s just to transfer funds) or do live chat donations on influencers that are into fear mongering against AI. shortly, other start noticing that there is money in this and more and more influencers are doing it.
by larkost | 2025-10-10 19:16:36+00:00
I have a hard time with this, and I don't think that you understand the word fascism well enough. Rather I think that what you really mean is that Communism has always wound up in authoritarianism. Fascism of course starts in authoritarianism, and I think that is where you get confused. So some definitions:

Authoritarianism: a political system where a smaller group winds up with power, often with a military (or a monopoly on violence) to enforce that power. Often characterized by laws that are selectively enforced one some people, or "some who the law protects but does not bind, and others that the law binds but does not protect".

Communism: a philosophy of government where the government holds the "means of production" in the name of the people. In practice this devolves into a singular group ("the Party"), controlled by relatively few people deciding what is best for people, and this usually winds up in authoritarianism in anything larger than a small community (where individual social pressure can keep it in check).

Fascism: a philosophy of government that starts with authoritarianism, but goes hard into picking out groups of people from within the country as "the enemy" and blames all of a societies ills on those people (Mussolini picked socialists and labor unions first, Hitler also started with socialists and the disabled before moving on to Poles, Gypsies, Jews, and others). Part of this is also picking a chosen people, and creating a nationalist image around those people (True Italians for Mussolini, "Aryans" for Hitler), while at the same time projecting those people as the victims of the minority that is being blamed. Violence against these enemies is justified as being right (often in religious terms), and any check on that violence is portrayed as evil (e.g.: due process).

So the Soviet Union was actually less fascist than the U.S. was at the time (not saying the U.S. was fascist, but we certainly blamed black people for a lot). E.g.: the U.S.S.R. often mostly-correctly propagandized how much better the few black people that were in their country were treated. But the Soviet Union certainly was more authoritarian than the U.S. was.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-10 19:16:41+00:00
> How do you remember sin and cos in practice?

I draw on the ratios I memorized in high school, e.g. sin=opposite/hypotenuse, but 40+ years later sometimes I'm not sure so I look it up online.

My needs for trigonometry are separated on a scale of years, and at some point knowledge unused is knowledge forgotten.