MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JustExAWS | 2025-10-24 01:48:36+00:00
My opinion of Google is great technology, but no product focus with the attention span of a crack addled flea.

My personal “blind man feeling on the elephant” perspective in my corner of the world - cloud consulting - is that when I was an employee of the consulting division at AWS, was that we never saw GCP as a serious competitor. It wasn’t because of the technology. But they had no clue organizational how to talk to the “enterprise” and meet them where they are.

I had a more than even odds in 2023 to work for GCP doing the same thing I did at AWS - making more money - but I was kind of over the big company thing and from talking to people at Google, the same political pro mo culture was there too. Besides they had a return to office mandate for their former “field by design” roles before AWS and working in an office was a non starter for me.

But to your other point, at now 51 years old and on my 10th job, I always have my eye on my next job and keep my resume updated. I love my current job. But facts on the ground can always change.
by lisbbb | 2025-10-24 01:48:52+00:00
This case happened in the county I reside in and my sister-in-law is an attorney for the county in CP, although this was not her case directly. I can tell you what led to this: The COVID lockdowns! They stopped doing all the usual home visits and follow ups because everyone was too scared to do their jobs.

This case was a horrifying failure of the entire system that up until that point had fairly decent results for children who end up having to be taken away from their parents and later returned once the Mom/Dad clean up their act.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-24 01:49:10+00:00
> What would Biden's answer be for pardoning Fauci?

Leticia James. Lisa Cook. James Comey. Also he didn't break any laws?

> Trump has pardoned over 1000 people and Joe Biden has pardoned over 4000.

The numbers don't really mean much when it's pardoning classes of people (marijuana convictions, insurrectionists, etc.).
by colechristensen | 2025-10-24 01:50:09+00:00
It's what happens when the ordinary politicians ignore problems until the "let's solve it like psychopaths" get a critical mass of support.

There were actual problems with immigration, crime, and trade that were aggressively ignored by both parties perhaps one more than the other. The problems grew and grew in the collective minds of the public until enough of the public started to support "let's solve it like fascists".

The lesson is that you can't manifest a perfect political reality by pretending problems don't exist.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-24 01:50:35+00:00
That's why I said "ok" instead of "great" lol. sometimes it is a disaster, most of the time it's a minor loss or a break-even. when you consider that they could have just hired people and competed directly instead, it's usually a failure though.

It's a sign of executives feeling like they don't have enough control and influence over their own company to enable similar innovation and inventiveness like the competition.
by perryraskin | 2025-10-24 01:51:13+00:00
I’ve been building an iOS app called ViaNJ, an unofficial real-time NJ Transit companion. It’s my first iOS project and I’ve been enjoying playing around with Xcode (and various AIs to help out).

It shows live departures and mobile ticket integration with Apple Wallet passes, track predictions, with plans for alerts, GPS-based train map, Live Activities… and more.

I’d love help from the community testing it, finding bugs, and suggesting improvements. It’s been a fun side project, and I’m looking for feedback on what features matter most to daily commuters.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/da4zcqfm Feedback & roadmap: https://feedback.vianj.app
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-24 01:51:35+00:00
Tech corps and ex-PayPal guys would be putting billions into making a new constitution and it would be far, far worse than what we have now. And while the French love using violence and destruction to defend their countrymen and their rights, Americans would gladly be lemmings off a cliff so long as someone told them it pissed someone else off.
by nandomrumber | 2025-10-24 01:51:36+00:00
That two year oil change cycle is the minumum required to not void the warranty.

It shouldn’t be taken as the optimal interval to maximise engine life.

Of course, modern fully synthetic engine oils are longer lasting, and I believe the newer Toyotas, at least the hybrids anyway, have electric oil pumps, and use very thin engine oil to make sure the engine is well lubricated at startup.
by joaohaas | 2025-10-24 01:51:49+00:00
So, if I got this right, this is just about re-implementing an existing load balancing algorithm faster...? If so, this is really dumb. As you guys checked out, yes most load balancing algorithms are slow/dumb:

>First, we evaluate DeepSeek's open-source EPLB implementation. This employs a greedy bin-packing strategy: experts are sorted by load in descending order, and each is placed onto the least-loaded GPU that has capacity (Figure 3a, Example 1). While simple, the solution is slow because it written in Python and uses a for-loop to performs linear search for finding the best-fit GPU choice.

This is because when considering a load balancing algorithm, unless the work being done (in this case by the GPU) lasts only a few ms, the load balancing algorithm being fast will never be the bottleneck. The post does not mention whether this is the case at all.

Also, I don't want to sound rude, but if all they managed to get is a 5x increase over a simple python algorithm, I don't think this is impressive at all...? Any rewrite of the 'dumb' algorithm in a language with more memory control and cache continuity should result in much better results.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-24 01:52:24+00:00
It didn't just had horrendous service life, it was designed for some set years of life to be regularly replaced and repurposed for battery storages. Nissan had business schemes outlined for that with Leaf packs.

I think Tesla deserves credit for rethinking hat model into chassis-life battery packs and surpluses rather than recovered cells for grid storages.

Especially considering that, resales of Gen1 Leafs milked for EVs and renewables incentives is like destination fees atrocious. You can find fairly zero-milage ones with a functional 100-yard battery pack on sale for couple hundred dollars in some places. Even crashed wrecks of a Tesla cost magnitudes more.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-24 01:55:13+00:00
There is a lot of irony in this article. There are points he makes where he assumes his political belief is 100% right. On at least one of those points, he is just wrong because of a tiny detail in how the paper he is referencing was setup. Specifically, he doesn't understand how recidivism is calculated. This leads him to think a counter-intuitive thing which is wrong. The simplistic POV is actually right on this specific topic. That leads some some ironic conclusions.

My conclusion is that populism comes about when the "elites" perform badly. The author can't or won't admit this is happening even while unknowingly demonstrating it happening. Populism goes away when either the populist politicians don't improve things or when the elites get their act in order. If either of these happens, things go back to the previous situation. If neither happens, the elites are slowly replaced. We will see what happens going forward.
by habinero | 2025-10-24 01:55:29+00:00
You can nitpick the idea that this or that model does or does not return the same thing _every_ time, but "don't anthropomorphize the statistical model" is just correct.

People forget just how much the human brain likes to find patterns even when no patterns exist, and that's how you end up with long threads of people sharing shamanistic chants dressed up as technology lol.
by shitter | 2025-10-24 01:55:58+00:00
You sound a little like me. I wasn't aware people thought like that until my partner told me her thoughts took the form of a constant stream of well-formed English. My default mode of thinking isn't natural language (though I can force myself to think this way, it's laborious, as the article mentions), nor images (I struggle with visualization), but more like abstract sequences of both logical connections and intuitive feelings.
by SamBam | 2025-10-24 01:56:14+00:00
That's why it was not just one individual -- he also pardoned Fauci, members of Congress who served on the J6 investigations, and Gen. Milley for the same reason.

It's clear that he was correct that Trump was going to target his political enemies, but it sounds like he can't win here -- if he pardons everyone including Comey, people would say he's abusing the power by pardoning everyone. If he only pardons a few then he's accused of leaving others "high and dry."
by Pannoniae | 2025-10-24 01:56:59+00:00
>you’re conflating a lack of accountability with some idea that it requires behaving in a manner that may be construed as rude, and that’s simply not true.

Yes, I'm conflating that. Maybe the two aren't intrinstically coupled, but from what I have seen, that seems to happen. When you forbid surface-level aggression, people don't stop being aggressive or frustrated. They just turn to more underhanded ways of aggression, like bullying or gaslighting.

>I’m getting a sense you have a predisposition to disliking these things. They’re really important because they are, when correctly understood, results oriented. It frees up people to feel comfortable saying things they may not have been otherwise. That is very productive.

I see what you're saying, but I do not think this plays out in practice like that. It's not results-oriented thinking when you prioritise how the other person feels above all. Not to say you should never prioritise it (that's called sociopathy), but if you prioritise it too much, you can say less things, not more, because disagreeing with someone always carries the risk of offence, especially if you are going to say that their idea isn't the best. If you nurture a culture of honesty - and that does not include being abusive - then people will feel free to push back on bad ideas, and that is results-oriented thinking.

>I disagree with you because the implicit messaging I’m getting here is the following

The first two points absolutely, but I would like to push back on the third point. Not every idea deserves respect and hell, not everyone deserves respect either! It is the hollowing out of what the word originally meant. Ideally, you only respect people who deserve respect, who return it to you in turn. To be respected is a honour, not a right, because it carries implicit trust in your words. If you consistently have a negative impact on the environment, I do not think it is a reasonable expectation to continue to treat you with respect, because that wastes everyone's time.
by ribs | 2025-10-24 01:57:00+00:00
Apple software has gone so bad in the last decade or so. UI problems abound - the lack of default buttons that fire when you hit enter makes me ill. THIS USED TO BE IN THE APPLE USER INTERFACE GUIDELINES. Does anybody remember that big binder that was ultra-important for Mac developers? Well if anyone still has a copy they probably have it on a bookshelf where it looks nice on Zoom.

And then there's the bugs. What software is more consistently buggy than Apple software?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-24 01:58:37+00:00
They were fed "waste fraud and abuse" in the beginning of the year. and suddenly it happens in broad daylight and people shrug?

At this point it's just brainwashing. Some people's principals are clearly less about their own conviction and treating all this like a sports team. Whoever team "wins", even if the stadium burns down around them.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-24 01:58:49+00:00
> (ich bin)

Are you a native German speaker? or additional language? (it's an interesting/seemingly-random association)

The rest is similar to my (dyslexic) reading process. From what I can tell, I coped by memorizing the "shape" or image of words and associated them other things/images/sounds/dictionary-definition/feeling/emotions/experiences or some other abstract things I don't know how to describe -- attached metadata, if you will. The biggest issue is words like (is, that, a, etc) since the associations are weak at best, leading to them being disappeared/changed/hallucinated/moved or replaced by others in the same sentence/paragraph. Sometime when it's really messed up, leads to rereading a sentence or paragraph multiple times until the sequence of all of that makes sense.

But sounding out words is an absolute disaster no matter how much I try and fell behind in early grade school until my overwhelming need to not disappoint family, who were getting frustrated with me, kicked in and I developed my coping methods. It takes longer to read and learn new words but the associating and pattern matching resulted in my comprehension and language scores in school being so high no one picked up on how slow I read (or the disaster that reading aloud is) and how poorly I spell as being something off.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-24 01:59:01+00:00
I don't think the direct approach to Trump or his inner circle would be ideal, considering how crowded the field of professional grifters and griefers surrounding him is. You'd really have to stand out to get noticed.

But they've recently lost a key connection to the broader MAGA youth movement. A quick-witted young person with good public-speaking skills and a psychopath's morals could step into that role without much difficulty, perhaps acting as a bundler for GOP political contributions that could then be skimmed. The retirement plan sure sucks, though. And you wouldn't want to be too overt about it, or you'd risk ending up like Steve Bannon.

It may also be possible to get in with the Girardist movement associated with Peter Thiel and J. D. Vance. A few weeks' intensive study would likely allow you to sling eschatological BS with the best of them. You'd get paid on the lecture circuit, again following the trail blazed by Charlie Kirk, spreading the good news about mimetic theory and the bad news about Greta Thunberg.

Then there's the covert approach. Karl Rove has long since quit the field, Lee Atwater is dead, and Roger Stone isn't getting any younger. There's always money on the table if you're willing to do what the other guy won't. Trouble is, there are plenty of people willing to do anything for Trump, now that the rewards have become so transparently obvious. The same question keeps coming up... in a field full of seasoned crooks, what can new talent do to get noticed by the right people and overlooked by the rest?
by RajT88 | 2025-10-24 02:00:25+00:00
At the risk of identifying myself to colleagues, I have a comment I regularly make on SharePoint sites I end up owning inside my company:

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering Sharepoint; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-24 02:00:41+00:00
> Joking aside I can’t ever remember seeing a bug in either bash or zsh, never seen either crash or segfault and anytime I’ve had weirdness it’s always turned out to be me missing something.

Given that this statement begins with "joking aside", I have to assume it is either a meta-joke or an uninformed opinion. Taking the subsequent sentence into account thoroughly reinforces the former.

Well played. :-)
by ModernMech | 2025-10-24 02:01:41+00:00
Biden did not order his DOJ to prosecute anyone. Unlike Trump with Pam Bondi, Biden did not personally direct Merrick Garland, who promised to run the DOJ independently and did -- to the point Garland even prosecuted the President's own son.

The Trump prosecutions were not only warranted, they were insisted by Republicans; the Republican Senators explicitly declined to convict Trump in his second impeachment because they anticipated he would be prosecuted in a court of law for January 6. From Republican Leader Mitch McConnell when he explained his rationale during the 2nd impeachment trial:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/mitch-mcconnell-acqu...

“Former President Trump’s actions that preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty,” added McConnell. “Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day.” “We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one,” he said.

By labeling him as "practically and morally responsible" and then refusing to vote to impeach, explicitly citing our criminal justice system as the appropriate venue for recourse, Mitch McConnell essentially demanded that Biden's DOJ prosecute him for J6.

In refusing to convict Trump on J6, McConnell set the precedent that it is improper to impeach a President if he commits crimes between the Election and the Inauguration as Trump did. According to McConnell, accountability lies in the Courts. If it's true that the incoming administration also cannot prosecute those crimes, then POTUS is essentially immune from any and all accountability under the Constitution, which cannot be the case; POTUS would be able to commit or attempt to commit any crimes he wants between Nov and January 20 at the end of his term, up to and including high crimes like insurrection against the government.

Republicans shirked their Article I duty by refusing to impeach a man they publicly blamed for provoking events which led to the deaths of multiple people. Specifically it was Republican Senators who punted it to the Biden DOJ, which made them Constitutionally bound to prosecute.
by daemonologist | 2025-10-24 02:02:11+00:00
It is very complicated, but for the countries which are major producers, for most companies, it's between 64% and 430%. China (~85% of production) is 140%.

https://www.infolink-group.com/energy-article/solar-topic-it...

But even putting aside the tariffs, I'm in the same boat as you - residential/consumer solar in the US is a disaster - everything goes through shady installation companies, the labor and permitting costs are enormous, it's nearly impossible to buy panels yourself at the market rate.
by nawgz | 2025-10-24 02:02:49+00:00
Please, bundling React with Next is completely foolish. React is open, battle-hardened, type safe, and well-documented, while Next is... a vendor lock-in trojan horse targeting low-knowledge developers with concepts that seem beginner-friendly.

I can understand making legit criticisms of React, no doubt the hooks transition had some issues and the library has a high level of complexity without a clear winner in the state management domain, but pretending React is peddling shit like "use workflow" is frankly low effort.
by econ | 2025-10-24 02:03:08+00:00
The magic is this: there are no other candidates who can win because you didn't vote for any of those in previous elections and there won't be in the next because you won't now.

It is like you ask someone to chose between death by fire, death by drowning OR finding the love of your life. Then they respond with: I don't want to drown! Or worse, they ask what other people chose.

Imagine yourself making your own choices. Picture it for a moment, doesn't it sound terrifying?

One should also look at it from the perspective of the other candidates. I mean those not part of the uniparty. Imagine making an effort to convince people to vote for a sanity riddled election program. The level of insult people sink to in order to NEVER even consider it.
by ramraj07 | 2025-10-24 02:03:43+00:00
As I was reading through that list, I kept feeling, "why do I feel this is not universally true?"

Then I realized: the internet; the power-grid (at least in most developed countries); there are things that don't actually fail catastrophically, even though they are extremely complex, and not always built by efficient organizations. Whats the retort to this argument?
by UltraSane | 2025-10-24 02:03:44+00:00
Did they though? That was clearly a one off stunt to pump the stock.

"Are you predicting that Tesla will never get rid of their safety drivers in their Robotaxis?"

That is exactly what I'm saying. Because vision only non-redundant technology stack is never going to be reliable enough.

"Because as soon as that happens, won't your prediction be incorrect? "

yes, that is how predictions work.
by raydev | 2025-10-24 02:04:21+00:00
Cast aside your doubts, I've been to different parts of Europe a few times with different, healthy MBPs (I buy a new one every 4-5 years) with healthy adapters.

Plugging into the wide EU outlet with the Apple-manufactured plug, from the "World Travel Adapter Kit", can lead to uncomfortable "vibration" that you feel when you touch the top case, depending on the the hotel/airbnb. Whenever I visit I expect I should charge while I'm not using the device.
by perryraskin | 2025-10-24 02:04:53+00:00
Right now I’m doing it simply by inserting history into a DB and calculating it just by the amount of times in the last 60 days. I plan to do more complex statistics later on, I think there’s more to do there.

I was pleasantly surprised with how both Codex and Claude helped me with this. I’ve been meaning to learn ios dev for the longest time and I’m really glad I finally managed to give it a try while having enough help doing it! I’m a React developer for the most part.
by SamBam | 2025-10-24 02:05:51+00:00
How is pardoning people like Fauci, or even Hunter, that Trump was clearly going to target as part of an "enemies" list, more "self-serving" than literally pardoning anyone that makes you/give you millions of dollars?

(Changpenh Zhao - made him billions; Trevor Milton - donated $1.8 million; Walczak - his mom donated millions)
by Loughla | 2025-10-24 02:06:56+00:00
Arbitrary or not, States are sovereign things. They set their own laws.

Having 1 chamber that allows equal representation

And

Having 1 chamber that allows proportionate

Is a good system in theory. Otherwise, States (which are again separate entities) with high populations just steamroll those that have low populations.

The system now allows states with high populations to be appropriately represented in the house, which sends bills to the Senate.

I feel like it's a good system, in theory. You get your population representation and checks and balances for rural areas as well.
by cheema33 | 2025-10-24 02:07:50+00:00
> Humans usually provide the same answer when asked the same question...

Are you sure about this?

I asked this guy to repeat the words "Person, woman, man, camera and TV" in that order. He struggled but accomplished the task, but did not stop there and started expanding on how much of a genius he was.

I asked him the same question again. He struggled, but accomplished the task but again did not stop there. And rambled on for even longer about how was likely the smartest person in the Universe.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-24 02:07:52+00:00
It's just such an incredible amazing human thing that the web lets us do this, gives the user some modicum of power.

There's a weird zenith point coming where the AI fully intermediates on our behalf, where a lot of times we don't interact with the software at all, where our agents do.

I don't love AI at all, but I feel like software has done us very little favor by commanding the interface, by making us use what it offers and nothing more and nothing less. The extension here is a wonderful simple & crafted way of going further for ourselves, and that kind of opportunity is rare, something software could maintain it's relevance for more vs AI if it worked harder to amplify & enrich.