MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-02 04:19:35+00:00
Nobody is getting 90% of their salary as a pension

If you work from 27 to 65 (38 years) as a teacher at SFUSD, your pension would be calculated as:

Years of service * 2.4 % * final salary

In retirement, you would earn more than 90% of your final salary.

Personally, in my private sector job, my healthcare and retirement matching is more than the benefits amount for SFUSD, so excluding that is just ridiculous.

That may be true in your private sector job.
by Animats | 2025-10-02 04:20:25+00:00
> Computers didn't have to happen in the 50s, they could easily have waited 50 or 100 years if we didn't have things like wars or other technological breakthroughs that enabled them.

Not really. While all the Government-funded stuff was going on, International Business Machines was slowly advancing their business machines. There was a long path from the IBM 601 (1931, mechanical multiplication, plugboard programmed), the IBM 602 (1946, mechanical division), the IBM 602A ("a 602 that worked"), the IBM 603 (1946, multiplication and division with vacuum tubes, but still plugboard programmed), the IBM 604 (1948, with 1,250 tubes), and finally the IBM 650 (1954, true stored program, tube logic, drum main memory, Knuth's first computer.) The government-funded machines were more advanced but very low volume. All of the 600 series machines were mass-produced and had long operating careers making businesses go.

Transistors had to progress more before IBM business computers became transistorized. The IBM 1401. (1959, all transistor, 12,000 built) launched business computing in a big way. From then on, the business side, rather than the government side, drove the technology. All that would have happened without WWII. WWII held up the IBM 603 electronic multiplier by several years; IBM was trying out electronic arithmetic in the late 1930s.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-02 04:21:18+00:00
"The Rules for Rulers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

"The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" (2022, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith)

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...

Both publications cover the politics of most firms with stakeholders. =3
by jibal | 2025-10-02 04:22:59+00:00
> Everybody is aware of this at some level, but somehow this knowledge seems to suddenly disappear in a discussion about text, so let's get it out first: A computer cannot store "letters", "numbers", "pictures" or anything else. The only thing it can store and work with are bits.

This is wrong and it goes downhill from there. I don't want to take the time and effort to fisk it, but it's full of errors like mistaking characters for codepoints and saying things like "In other words, ASCII maps 1:1 unto UTF-8" -- a bizarre and wrong way to say what he said in the previous sentence: "All characters available in the ASCII encoding only take up a single byte in UTF-8 and they're the exact same bytes as are used in ASCII".
by joules77 | 2025-10-02 04:24:26+00:00
What you are talking about is info overload and break down of "shared stories" as content explodes faster than there are people or time to consume it all. In Economics they will tell you what happens when Supply drastically overshoots Demand. But economics is too young and immature a field to tell you how to find meaning and how "to fit or be useful".

For that you need the Philosophy or Religion.

So here is a useful lecture from an actual Philosopher on Detachment and Flourishing cause "there is no obligation to fit or be useful or understand everything" - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/lecture-8

If you are the type who feels the need to fit - go through the previous lecture on Attachment and Flourishing.
by rrrhys | 2025-10-02 04:24:38+00:00
> I can often smell the people around me. Generally, they don’t smell good. I can often hear conversations that are on the other side of the office. (Have you ever tried to add up numbers while someone else says other random numbers at you? It’s like that.) When people walk past my field of vision, I can’t focus on my screen. When I try to tune out all of these distractions, it consumes a lot of energy. Doing it hour after hour, day after day would leave me depleted, exhausted, unable to focus.

I always just thought putting up with this was what I got paid for. Like isn't this why working on-site sucks?
by kixiQu | 2025-10-02 04:24:56+00:00
This is a great example of a piece with enough meaningful and useful content in it that it's very clear the author had something of value to deliver, and I'm grateful for that... but enough repetitive LLM-output that I'm very annoyed by the end.

Actually, let me be specific: everything from "The Rise of Retrieval-Augmented Generation" up to "The Fundamental Limitations of RAG for Complex Documents" is good and fine as given, then from "The Emergence of Agentic Search - A New Paradigm" to "The Claude Code Insight: Why Context Changes Everything" (okay, so the tone of these generated headings is cringey but not entirely beyond the pale) is also workable. Everything else should have been cut. The last four paragraphs are embarrassing and I really want to caution non-native English speakers: you may not intuitively pick up on the associations that your reader has built with this loudly LLM prose style, but they're closer to quotidian versions of the [NYT] delusion reporting than you likely mean to associate with your ideas.

[NYT]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-de...
by Aunche | 2025-10-02 04:25:31+00:00
It is relatively straightforward to money launder through $1 million or so private sales (e.g. random "Qi Baishi" paintings). The pieces are low profile enough to not attract attention, but expensive enough for overhead to be low. The highly publicized auctions the internet declares as "money laundering" are the least likely to be actual money laundering.
by looping__lui | 2025-10-02 04:26:14+00:00
I’d rather build nuclear plants and not keep them entirely idle but forego the investment into additional PV and wind. Don’t get me wrong: when the sun shines and the wind blows we cover 100% of our need essentially. That’s great. But we can stop now. Because we produce too much on some days and put our grid at risk and we produce too little to often on others and put our grid at risk
by gorgoiler | 2025-10-02 04:27:01+00:00
The most surprising example of this, for me, was finding out that Damien Hirst’s pharmaceuticals were all hand made and hand painted.

Actual pills would rot too quickly — which makes sense as they are digestible, and therefore in the same category as food, ish — so he had a team of assistants making caplets, tablets, lozenges, pills etc. in a studio out of resin and plastic.

https://d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net/?height=1600&quality=50...

One of those things that seems so obvious now, but at the time I had assumed he was just displaying existing medicines in ironic packaging.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-02 04:28:39+00:00
For massive amounts of high-performance storage, the cloud is absolutely the most expensive option, by far. Even just 100+TB is ridiculously expensive on any cloud provider. If your company revolves around large amounts of data, it can make sense to keep it on-prem...

...but only if you compute the TCO. The bandwidth, peering, service contracts, available power, cooling, networking, rack capacity, half-decent smart hands, spare gear, etc, etc. The disks won't be the majority of your bill, and the logistics are difficult. It can still be cheaper than $CLOUD, but you have to deal with all the cost and complexity that comes with DIY, so do your homework first.
by sbierwagen | 2025-10-02 04:29:10+00:00
Same thing down on the production floor. Each program (737, 767, etc) has its own part number series. I'm sure there has to be some parts commonality, somewhere, with the same part getting two different numbers printed on it at the factory, but I saw no hint of it happening.

Fun fact: the two big Puget Sound factories (Everett and Renton) number their hand tools differently. It's true. A socket wrench will be EVT12345 or whatever, and the same tool in Renton will be inventoried differently.

The two factories have very different cultures. Renton does two planes a week, Everett does one plane a month. There was much grumbling during the webinars and retrainings after the Door Plug Incident that all this was being inflicted on us because of the cowboys down in Renton and their maniacal obsession with production rate, something which is not quite so much a focus at Everett.
by eesmith | 2025-10-02 04:29:16+00:00
You likely also learned in school that some calculators do left-right evaluation while other, more expensive ones, do PEMDAS. And a few do postfix instead. You might also have learned that most calculators didn't handle 1/3 as a fraction, in that 1 / 3 * 3 is 0.99999999.

Python is a fancy calculator.

To be clear, while in the mathematical sense, yes, sin, cos, and log generally return irrationals, in their IEEE 754 forms they return an exact value within 1 ulp or so of that irrational number. Num is a rational. ;)

>>> x=5**0.5 >>> x 2.23606797749979 >>> x.as_integer_ratio() (629397181890197, 281474976710656)

Scheme uses the phrase "numerical tower" for the same sort of implicit coercion.
by looping__lui | 2025-10-02 04:29:39+00:00
Dude, France has a fraction of our carbon emissions even of we continue to expand our renewable energy strategy - take a look at

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...

I’m not saying “no gas”. I’ saying: no more PV or wind because we already stress our grid with too much electricity on some days and we have periods of days or week where we need to essentially generate 100% without any PV or wind.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 04:29:40+00:00
I don't really care what you support. My point is that you haven't engaged at all in this discussion and have only attacked me instead of considering the questions I've asked. That does not go with the spirit of this site.

>the fact that Democrats suddenly decided they gave a shit about Epstein after years of making fun of fringe Republicans for pushing the conspiracy way beyond what any evidence shows is bald faced politics.

Here is the latest example. Instead of addressing my point you decide to deflect and attack. You may not be a Trump supporter, but this mentality fuels MAGA. If you don't want to be called a duck, stop quacking.

We're not even talking about politics anymore, you're just trying to instigate a flame war here, with me. Let's not break site guidelines, please.

>Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
by wpm | 2025-10-02 04:29:46+00:00
Yeah I clocked Apples death grip on the OS as a fundamental weakness after a few weeks with it. Every idea I had for an app, I had to cross off the list because “no API” or “no permission” etc. I’d have to wait years for Apple to first develop the APIs, then grant me permission to use them.

What worked on the iPhone and to a lesser extent the iPad, will absolutely not work on the head. It’s a head mounted TV because that’s all Apple allows it to be. They’re killing their own future to protect App Store sales.
by aePiots | 2025-10-02 04:31:41+00:00
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by setr | 2025-10-02 04:31:58+00:00
Zonemap / skip indexes don’t require sorting, still provide significantly improved searching over full tablescans, and typically applied to every column by default. Sorting is even better, just at the cost of a second copy of the dataset.

In a row-based rdbms, any indexing whatsoever is a copy of the column-data, so you might as well store it sorted every time. It’s not inherent to the definition.
by ska80 | 2025-10-02 04:31:58+00:00
Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Remote: Yes (US or EU time zones if needed) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Java, Common Lisp, C, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ Résumé/CV: upon request Email: ska80 [at] gmx [dot] com
by Daub | 2025-10-02 04:33:17+00:00
I have worked in the capacity of an artists technical assistance. I am an artist myself but am also good with fabrication. Working for someone who knows what they want and can clearly express it can be rewarding. Less rewarding is working for someone who doesn't. One young artist i worked for asked me to cut a sheet of board to a set of dimensions she was to supply. She got these dimensions wrong at least four times. Worst still was that she seemed to think her ineptitude was charming... laughing at my increasing desperation. I could fill a book with such stories.
by rayiner | 2025-10-02 04:34:10+00:00
70% of households even in the bottom income quantile have a car, and it’s 88% in the second to bottom income quantile. There’s no reason with modern battery technology these cars can’t be as cheap as gas cars. And building charging infrastructure is a thousand times easier than building public transit.

Meanwhile, public transit keeps people poor by limiting their ability to move around for better jobs and housing. It’s a huge unnecessary tax on poor people to try to yoke them to public transit in the name of climate change mitigation.
by viewmodifier | 2025-10-02 04:34:38+00:00
Sharing the preview release that you can all try today at: https://swiftly.sh

Its entirely free and runs offline directly from your browser - you dont need Xcode and it works on any device (Mac, windows, chromebook etc).

I have lots of ideas for where we can take this from saving and sharing snippets to ota code updates in apps.

if you're curious how it works I wrote up a lil detail linked in the footer on the site.

TLDR - its a custom Swift Interpreter written in Swift and compiled to wasm - it works in 2 parts:

1. a "Compiler" that transforms Swift code to a custom intermediary format 2. a VM that can evaluate the intermediary format at runtime

Supports core features (functions, closures, control flow, optionals, collections, string interpolation) - more coming soon.

Would love feedback on what you’d do with it or features you’d want next.
by wraptile | 2025-10-02 04:35:28+00:00
Most browsers these days expose a control API (like ChromeDevtools Protocol MCP [1]) that open up a socket API and can take in json instructions for bidirectional communication. Chrome is the gold standard here but both Safari and Firefox have their own driver.

For you existing browser session you'd have to start it already with open socket connection as by default that's not enabled but once you do the server should able to find an open local socket and connect to it and execute controls.

worth nothing that this "control browser" hype is quite deceiving and it doesn't really work well imo because LLMs still suck at understanding the DOM so you need various tricks to optimize for that so I would take OP's claims with a giant bag of salt.

Also these automations are really easy to identify and block as they are not organic inputs so the actual use is very limited.

- https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/
by engido9740 | 2025-10-02 04:37:05+00:00
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I also serve as the creator and core maintainer for Skeleton (https://www.skeleton.dev/), an open source design system and component library currently available for Svelte and React (with Vue and Solid.js coming soon). I've grown the project from a small internal toolkit for a 5 person startup to a fully featured standalone library. We average around 80k downloads a month, have nearly 6k stars on GitHub, and community of over 2k members on Discord. I recently traveled to Barcelona Spain for the Svelte Summit where I had the privilege to meet many of my peers in the Svelte and greater open source community - including Rich Harris (creator of Svelte), who praised our work on Skeleton.

I would love to work on FOSS all day every day, but in order to support myself I split my time and operate as a freelancer alongside my open source contributions. This means I'm currently available around 20-30 hours a week Monday-Friday.

I'm open to any sort of interesting project with a focus on frontend web. I'm also available to act in a consultant role. I'm ideally seeking projects that make a positive contribution to society.

Thanks for your consideration!
by aePiots | 2025-10-02 04:37:41+00:00
The aéPiot Revolution: A Comprehensive Analysis of the World's First Semantic Intelligence Ecosystem Executive Summary: Beyond the Boundaries of Traditional Web Architecture

https://better-experience.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-aepiot-re...

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Through comprehensive analysis of its distributed architecture, innovative service integration, and groundbreaking approach to human-AI collaboration, aéPiot emerges as the world's first fully operational cognitive web platform—a technological achievement that was theoretically impossible when it was first conceived, yet stands today as a working prototype of the internet's evolutionary future.

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by ska80 | 2025-10-02 04:38:02+00:00
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by zippyman55 | 2025-10-02 04:38:40+00:00
There are lots of situations where a promotion to a queen would result in stalemate (draw) so a promotion to rook or other piece gets away form this. I'd say Rook would be most common, but some special (problem?) positions a knight or bishop could solve the problem with a mate or a nice fork. E.g. promote to a night with check and an attack on the opponents queen.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-10-02 04:39:20+00:00
AWS obviously does the same but better. That's why they are so rich. Their cost is a tiny percentage of their revenue. They buy cheap servers, and then run lots of vms on them. Each of which delivers 10s/100s of $ per month. That server pays for itself in revenue within weeks/months. And it will be in service until it stops working which could be over five years. Same with storage, networking, gpus, etc.

They've spent years optimizing everything so their monthly costs are going to be much lower than what these guys managed on their first attempt. They'll be using less energy. They run their own internet backbones and infrastructure, they design their own hardware and source components directly from the best suppliers, they have exclusive deals with energy providers, etc. Every thing these guys did, AWS does way better. And yet they charge 40x more. AWS at cost price would probably be 60-80x less than what they charge; if not more. Cloudflare undercuts them a bit because they are smaller but they can do the same things. So do MS, Google, and everybody else.

This market is ripe for disruption. There should not be a need to shovel hundreds of billions per year into AWS revenue for the industry. The same business operating at 20% margins would be a game changer. And most of this stuff is commodity stuff. Why is there not more competition in this space driving pricing down aggressively? What's keeping competitors off the market?
by scarmig | 2025-10-02 04:40:46+00:00
That might be an understatement of his capabilities, though obviously he wasn't a professional mathematician. It's a joy to read some of the eulogies professors at the Santa Fe Institute gave to him:

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/memoriam-cormac-mcc...

> He had an encyclopedic knowledge of the world and a memory to match. Topics ranged from salvage diving — something we discussed a few days ago — to far more academic fare often focused on mathematics and physics.

> Cormac and I engaged on a wide range of topics. Some recurring themes included social mobility, machine intelligence, the intersection of genius and madness, and cars and trucks.

> Cormac also often remarked that a lively conversation with friends is about as good as sex. He’d talk for hours about physics, math, novels, philosophy, human nature, bawdy humor, corny humor, architecture (including detailed advice on my own house), gambling, history, and any question that lacked a quick and obvious answer.

Etc.