MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxaw | 2025-10-10 17:01:31+00:00
On reflection, inefficient and high level vs efficient low level is far from the only dimension to evaluate these tools on :P

Clearly humans are of the first sort, just like this robot.

To the current example you gave - I would argue that humans require a huge amount of configuration/maintenance - far more than any machine. Of course they are definitely effective at tasks once they get going.

As to what price/generality/reliability level I think people would really prefer - I guess we'll have to wait and see when these come on the market, if they ever do. It's nearly midnight where I am and my morning confidence in humanoid robots has waned a little
by spinningslate | 2025-10-10 17:01:37+00:00
yes, though perhaps stating the obvious: it depends what they do with it.

Ladybird currently has 8 full-time devs [1] and is making impressive progress on delivering a browser from scratch. Wise investment in small, focused, capable teams can go a long way if they're not chasing VC-driven Unicorn status (or in stasis as a Google anti-trust diversion).

That's not challenging your point though: in the face of competing budgets at US tech giants, EUR17Mn still barely registers above noise level. Nevertheless, it's a start. We can only hope it grows and doesn't get shut down by some political lobbying by the aforementioned US behemoths. A modest budget might actually help there - not yet big enough to cause concern to incumbents.

[1]: https://ladybird.org/
by reaperducer | 2025-10-10 17:01:40+00:00
Are there any jurisdictions that actually have such laws?

Yes. You can tell because the tag will read something like "SALE! $5 when you buy 2!" and then have smaller print reading "Individual price: $2.50."

Moreover any such laws are trivial to bypass by gluing multiple packs together (like they do at costco) and selling that as a separate sku.

But that's not what we're discussing here. We're discussing discounting existing items when bought in bulk, not creating new items.

To your point, though, creating a new SKU is not without its costs, both for the manufacturer and the retailer. If you're selling something in someone else's store (supermarkets are the example this thread is dealing with), you don't get to just make up SKUs and products on a whim. Think about the logistics involved.
by ToDougie | 2025-10-10 17:01:41+00:00
I would prefer if awards were given to people for something they achieved, not for something they promised to achieve.

The Arab Spring did not occur in a vacuum. If you're satisfied with America's public or private involvement, great. General Wesley Clark has a rather infamous interview from 2007 that you may want to consider.

Anyways, I think Trump is better motivated by not giving him the Peace Prize.
by dlcarrier | 2025-10-10 17:02:01+00:00
The latest Captains Speaking podcast has an discussion about one of the hosts being in a similar situation: https://youtu.be/5ovlZ221tDQ

Fortunately, the flight left with extra fuel, because it was cheaper to carry excess from the origin airport than to buy it at the destination airport, so reserve fuel wasn't needed, but it was close. Also, there was lots of lightning.
by idle_zealot | 2025-10-10 17:02:08+00:00
Well yeah, fascism doesn't have an actual definition. People even disagree about what it is. Is it a political ideology, a worldview, a form of government, a movement, a type of psychosis? And yet people do retrospectively agree that certain people or groups were fascists. There's an idea in peoples' minds that defies a simple dictionary definition. For an idea like that, we turn to a list of soft criteria. People can and will disagree on that exact set of criteria, or over whether one is met under specific circumstances. But really, that's true of all language outside of hard mathematics.

Who gave Britt final say? Nobody in particular, and yet his criteria are often cited and used in more serious discussions of fascism. So a lot of people seem to think his criteria are useful. Language is a collaborative thing, meaning comes from diffuse and tacit agreement. If you expect that some power authorize and enforce a rigid definition of any political or sociological term, prepare to be deeply disappointed when you realize that nobody can provide such solid and concrete definitions of any terminology, even words you think you understand. What's democracy? Capitalism? Authoritarianism? Socialism? They're all defined by tacitly approved sets of criteria invented by an unofficial source and iterated upon by academics and misconstrued by and to the broader population.
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by dpc_01234 | 2025-10-10 17:02:32+00:00
He is right, but also the fines need to be higher, especially for repeated violations.

Ever worked in a company where you need approval from 7 separate teams to land a simple change? Just can't get anything done, no matter how useful. This is a huge problem. People generally do not understand what serialized blocking does to performance.

On the other hand the fines cited in the article seem laughably low. I don't know how much ground water was discharged, and how big of a deal it is, but at certain pricetag even billionaires will say: well, it's cheaper to get a cistern and take that water to a water treatment facility or something.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-10 17:03:06+00:00
I'm not sure why you think Lisp makes this "emacs" unless you're worried it'll fall flat because most Lisp-interested folks would find emacs more full featured? I'm not sure if a Scheme is particularly different than neovim's Lua. I'll be honest though I'm not sure how deeply Steel is integrated into Helix.
by alganet | 2025-10-10 17:03:13+00:00
Seniors being able to extract more from any new tool is a time proven constant. That hasn't changed.

What happened is that companies tried to push an idea that this new AI thing would be inhospitable to whoever is already an experienced programmer. The idea of "new land", fair and equal to all. Smelling woudn't matter, because all smells would be new and unfamiliar.

After insisting on this silly mistake for a while, they realized that experienced programmers were actually their only viable target audience, and attempted to change their approach accordingly. It's embarassing.
by thisislife2 | 2025-10-10 17:03:58+00:00
And look, what a coincidence that this so called neo-liberal "opposition" leader of Venezuela plans to privatise her countries oil companies (and other industries) again, and return it to their original owners (again, just another remarkable co-incidence that her father was the President of such a private company that was nationalised):

> Machado defines herself — and her party, Vente Venezuela — as “liberal” (or neoliberal, depending on how you look at it), both politically and economically. Her political vision revolves around reducing the size of the state as a provider of public policies, supporting entrepreneurship and promoting the free market, as a means of creating wealth and jobs in a devastated economy. Her vision of government is similar to what Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan had in mind ... The presidential candidate has proposed privatizing the state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) — a taboo in local politics — and returning all the companies that have been expropriated by the Chavista regime to their rightful owners. This also includes Siderúrgica Venezolana — a company that her father (who died this year) was the president of, before it was seized ... Her vision on the distribution of social funds is somewhat more American than European, as is her deeply anti-communist discourse.

Source: https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-10-01/maria-co...
by ktosobcy | 2025-10-10 17:03:59+00:00
> Sure, nothing strictly requires iOS/Android in paper specs and in presentations. But we all now that the only working practical implementations will be one iOS/Android. I mean, look at the actual code in the (Microsoft) github repo.

No, we don't know. You are projecting and again - spreading FUT.

Did you do anything towards implemeting the specs on other platforms? Or are you only very vocal online complaining?

In that repo they clearely stated, that they focus on Android/iOS as it's the most popular platform (contrary to what the IT bubble here may think) and want to reach the most user with the (initial) implementation.

> The EU forced Apple to open NFC for third party payments, which is great. But all the banks in the Netherlands only have working card payments in Apple and Google Wallet. Including the largest bank (ING), that used to have independent in-app NFC payment on Android (where NFC was always open) but seems to have capitulated and now only offers it via Google Wallet.

OK, again - you are projecting Netherlands issues over the UE. Surprisingly - in Poland I can pay with ING bank with NFC. Same in Spain with BBVA app.

Just because something is broken in your corner of the universe doesn't mean it's the global fenomena :)

Also - instead of complaining about the EU - maybe try persuaiding the entities to add support?

Alas - I'm pondering ECI initiative to actually force "Open Android" (ie. withou Google Services being required) as a valid platform because I was fed up with Google imposing more and more overreach. Android is quite OK if it werent for the walled garden from google…
by jacquesm | 2025-10-10 17:04:06+00:00
Wow. That's a classic. We were quite motivated because we were the ones that got the automated alerts. I still see them in my nightmares: "chopper is down". The machine was called chopper, I'll never forget, it's been close to 30 years. My buddy Jasper and me spent multiple nights trying to track it and when we finally found it we still couldn't believe that that was it. But a simple swap was proof.
by saurik | 2025-10-10 17:04:27+00:00
FWIW, I did that--5 (Instant) with "(do not web search)" tacked on--and it thought the case was real:

> Based on my existing knowledge (without using the web), Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co. is a U.S. federal court case concerning jurisdictional and procedural issues arising from an airline’s operations and an incident involving an international flight.

(it then went on to summarize the case and offer up the full opinion)
by freedomben | 2025-10-10 17:05:07+00:00
The truth is somewhere in the middle. Many regulations are terrible and serve as a huge hindrance to innovation, and effectively restrict certain things to only the already-massively-rich entrepreneurs. However, (IMHO) there are a lot of regulations that are important and absolutely should be enforced up front. Finding the right balance is kind of impossible, and I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but even well-intended regulations often just create roadblocks and cement incumbents in a particular space.
by gota | 2025-10-10 17:05:48+00:00
Yes, but even if we all agree the problem with education at scale remains - there is a very finite and limited amount of 'attention' from craftsmen/masters to distribute, which limits the amount of apprentices.

The alternative has been to massify education for 'students' (not apprentices) in passive lectures with 'exercises/homework', which does not work as well for most things and particularly for crafts.

BTW for a very minor portion of the population the 'student' route is just as effective as the 'apprentice' route, but these are in my experience the exception
by baincs | 2025-10-10 17:05:51+00:00
> The history lesson is that when the most of the GDP generation doesn't need without the help of the population, the result is a regime. Scalable and cost efficient AGI will do the same to countries that do not make most of their GDP from extracting natural resources because once the citizen is not needed for wealth generation, territorial control, etc., their political representation goes away.

That's a great insight
by jerf | 2025-10-10 17:06:03+00:00
"I'm not sure why games would be a good target..."

"If you really want a game focused parallelization framework, look into the Entity Component System pattern."

Exactly that. You can break a lot modern games nicely into a lot of little things being done to discrete entities very quickly. But there the problem is that it's easy for the things to be too small, meaning you don't have a lot of time to be "clever" in the code.

I'm ignoring the GPU and just looking at CPU for this. GPU is in its own world where parallelization is forced on you comprehensively, in a space forced to be amenable to that.
by svat | 2025-10-10 17:06:18+00:00
Context (as I didn't know about this earlier): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_for_Academic_Excellenc... (current version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Compact_for_Acade...).

I liked the “These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent” line.
by cs702 | 2025-10-10 17:06:24+00:00
> The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

> In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-10 17:06:51+00:00
Since there's a lot of confusion in the comments below I'm going to hijack one of the top comments to make a couple points clear from the article and FlightRadar24 data: [1]

They did reroute earlier. It was 2 failed attempts on Prestwick (Glasgow), 45 minutes in the landing pattern, then they diverted to Edinburgh (15 minute flight), a failed attempt at Edinburgh (~5-10 minutes), and then they diverted to Manchester (45 minute flight) and landed successfully there. Likely they hit their reserve just as the Edinburgh landing failed and decided to fly to Manchester, with clearer skies, rather than risk another failure in their reserve.

IMHO the only questionable pilot decision here is to divert to Edinburgh rather than Manchester immediately. But this is somewhat understandable: first of all, dropping the passengers off at Edinburgh (an hour drive from Glasgow) is significantly less costly and less inconvenient than dropping them at Manchester (an overnight bus ride). Second, if the Edinburgh landing had been successful they would not have eaten into their reserve and no investigation would've been needed. Third, the Monday-morning quarterbacking could've easily gone the other direction if they had diverted to Manchester ("Why did you choose an airport 178 miles away and risk eating into your fuel reserve when Edinburgh was right there?")

[1] https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/fr3418#3c7f91f4
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-10 17:06:59+00:00
> politics is by nature illogical.

It is, but only for those who know neither logic nor politics.

> So creating logic games from arbitrary metaphors

So don't create them.

> arbitrary metaphors [are] what politics is based in and especially when each side is calling the other with the same arbitrary label.

That's true for the R/D circus but it's not true for politics in general, it's not a law of nature, it's just a fact of present day politics.

More importantly, framing that fact as something inevitable renders the framer incapable of recognizing its utmost importance as a piece of evidence that can help a diligent investigator uncover the political truths hidden behind it.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-10 17:07:08+00:00
Random spot checks. Every day at every airport some of these will get verified. Also, the next pilot would have to be willing to cover for you because they are going to have to falsify their records to make your trick invisible. You record the amount of fuel in the tank when you take command of the aircraft, the amount of fuel that was loaded and from that it is trivial to compute how much was left the last time it landed.
by krapp | 2025-10-10 17:07:11+00:00
Political violence has never been entirely unacceptable in the US. The country was born and bred in violence, slavery and genocide. Descended upon and torn apart by European colonizers with the rabid ferocity of hyenas. America, perhaps alone, defines a free state by its capacity for political violence. Americans have romanticized political violence as an ideal for centuries in the archetype of the armed rural patriot, the New World version of ancient Rome's yeoman farmer, waxing romantic about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants. The US has blood soaked into its floorboards.

Political violence against fascists has only become morally questionable as fascism has become normalized. The article is correct that political violence is extremely bad, but it has also always been acceptable (or at least easy to culturally compartmentalize) against certain groups. That is the norm, not some idealized abstract notion of politics entirely encapsulated within rhetoric and debate, which has only recently been broken by "the left." A country that burns crosses and shoots up synagogues and bombs abortion clinics, where the police and ICE kidnap and kill with impunity, that sends the military into its own cities to kill immigrants and harass political dissidents, that builds concentration camps for "enemy combatants" in undeclared wars, has no right to clutch its pearls over actual white supremacists and neo-nazis - unambiguous fascists - taking what they themselves would freely give.
by apocalypses | 2025-10-10 17:07:26+00:00
Saying WebGPU “only” adds compute shaders is crazy reductive and misses the point entirely for how valuable an addition this is, from general purpose compute through to simplification of rendering pipelines through compositing passes etc.

In any case it’s not true anyway. WebGPU also does away with the global state driver, which has always been a productivity headache/source of bugs within OpenGL, and gives better abstractions with pipelines and command buffers.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-10 17:07:40+00:00
Yeah, ECS is the approach I've heard can get games to have sufficient parallelism. Though only if you are careful about sticking to it properly, and with careful management of the dataflow between systems. I think the main thing is, apart from the difficulty of doing the analysis in the first place, if you're writing the code without thinking about parallelism, you will tend to introduce data dependcies all over the place and changing that structure is very difficult.
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-10 17:07:50+00:00
> “Given the extraordinary number of violations, NDEP has decided to exercise its discretion to reduce the penalty to two $5,000 violations per permit, which it believes offers a reasonable penalty that will still serve to deter future non-compliance conduct,” regulators wrote in the letter.

The fuck?

"You were driving so fast we gave you a discount on the speeding fine."
by bilbo0s | 2025-10-10 17:08:12+00:00
Amazing that we're actually debating which of the warlords created the most peace per fatality inflicted in a discussion on the merits of their Nobel Peace Prizes.

That alone, in a sane world, would tell you these people had no business having a Nobel Peace Prize. At least Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ had the common decency not to stand at that podium. Most of those other Nobel Peace Prize winners did not have that kind of self awareness.
by scrumper | 2025-10-10 17:08:24+00:00
I'm curious why you did that? It's not a very complicated sequence. The whole point of engaging in a discussion here is to think about the issues raised and offer a point of view while incorporating other perspectives into yours. You've spent your money to bypass the whole intent of this site; akin to you being hungry then sending someone else to a restaurant for you so you can later read their review of the food.

EDIT and you of most of the commenters here, with your industry background, are better placed to offer an opinion!
by biophysboy | 2025-10-10 17:08:35+00:00
This is a tedious article re-iterating a common point that fascism is a catch all term. Political words and phrases are not going to be used in strict adherence to deductive syllogisms. People vary.

In any case, here is a quote from Stephen Miller, who inspired this blog post, naming and shaming a nebulous enemy:

> They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-10 17:08:41+00:00
Him being right, or wrong, is a bold call to make.

But all he's saying is he wants to run his company the way tech entrepreneurs have been for a while - "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission" which they like because it's favored toward them, and, by the time a regulator has caught up, they have made a pile of money, or lost it all and gone.
by lithocarpus | 2025-10-10 17:09:01+00:00
So do you think the whole understanding of oxidative stress, antioxidants, etc is all crank panic vibes? I thought that that was pretty widely accepted. I realize that the idea that some oils oxidize easier than others and have less antioxidants and thus might cause more oxidative stress is often ignored or dismissed outright without being looked at.

And, what is it then that makes potato chips junk food compared to a baked potato with butter? The potato? The oil? The salt? The frying? The fact that the oil was fried in many times over and not fresh? A combination of these - but which specifically?
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-10 17:09:16+00:00
Yes, I accidentally was doing that until last month because I messed up my drivers and didn't notice. It's fine. Seriously, I didn't even notice until I happened to open the about dialog in KDE and it cheerfully informed me that we were using llvmpipe. And having since fixed it to actually use the GPU... I can't actually tell the difference now.
by 3D30497420 | 2025-10-10 17:09:23+00:00
In some cases you are correct, however the happy middle in this case probably does not include many (most?) of their violations. One particular example:

> Workers have complained of chemical burns from the waste material generated by the tunneling process, and firefighters must decontaminate their equipment after conducting rescues from the project sites. The company was fined more than $112,000 by Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration in late 2023 after workers complained of “ankle-deep” water in the tunnels, muck spills and burns.

In another part, the company is accused of dumping this water directly into streets (presumably without decontamination).
Ask HN: Why there are still no signs of increase in productivity anywhere?
by pera | 2025-10-10 17:09:27+00:00
Several PhD-level reasoning models have been released since September of 2024, and since then there have been many extraordinary claims of 10x to 1000x increase in productivity in programming.

Given that it's now October of 2025 I must ask, why there are no signs of such revolutionary increase in productivity?