MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bArray | 2025-10-01 20:28:19+00:00
> I've removed the statement because your right and wrote in haste.

It happens to us all.

> Someone who pushed for Brexit, supports Hard Euroscepticism, (yet has an European wife) [..]

I think the largest push was for sovereignty of the nation, which is a huge win for democracy. The UK shouldn't have people making important decisions that cannot be unelected.

I don't think that Brexit was driven by a hatred of Europeans or European nation states.

> [..] and runs a party promoting that human-made climate change isn't a thing, [..]

Not sure that this is the case, I think the case being made is that net-zero is being chased religiously at the cost of economic growth. If the UK want to be a leader in AI for example, then the UK needs access to cheap reliable energy.

> [..] wants immigrants thrown out of the UK is a party I don't want to imagine being in power.

I think to be clear, they want economically unproductive immigrants and criminals out of the UK. This seems to be the policy of all the major parties currently.

> With regards to my online activities, I'm already a terrorist for using Tor.

As they say whilst taking your privacy away: "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear".
by sfink | 2025-10-01 20:28:32+00:00
Because I am seeing how this is playing out in classrooms. Tons of kids are requesting accommodations. Some need those accommodations, some don't, and the ones who do often don't need all of the accommodations they're getting. Anyone who pushes back -- eg, a teacher calling out a BS requirement -- is demonized and seen as ableist. Among the kids, anyone who doesn't request an accommodation that they don't need but could get, is seen a foolish. And access to those accommodations produces a lot of kids who don't even try to improve their executive functioning to what it could be. And people know it, so a stigma is developing where people who need it have to prove that they're not taking advantage of the situation.

Parents are doing the best they can, but in the end they're still making decisions for other human beings who are not them, and those human beings are going through a time of life that is undeniably hard and requires growing to be able to do all kinds of things they couldn't formerly do. How can the kids know what is reasonable difficulty and what is excessive due to their neural makeup?

It's a tricky and nuanced situation, and so I really do see people falling into the opposing extreme camps. I agree that humans will take advantage of any system. That doesn't really have any bearing on how things are going, and whether people are seeing the nuance clearly or not. My personal experience is witnessing kids who are taking advantage of accommodations and failing to grow as a result, and how the system cannot distinguish which of those accommodations are appropriate and which aren't. It's also witnessing kids who need accommodation but won't ask for it, because they or their parents believe that muscling through is necessary, or that their problems aren't real. How are those not examples of extreme positions?

My point is that in order to get better at this, we need to be doing the hard work of figuring out what's real and what's not, or even how real it is, and what interventions do and don't work. Surely it's not controversial to say that giving a procrastinator twice as much time to finish their tests is not always the right thing? It can hurt as easily as it can help. And yet, it is the right thing for some people, for some situations. If it takes me 10 minutes to solve a quadratic that takes you 5, getting a failing grade is not going to help me learn, nor does it mean I'm incompetent at mathematics.

If you don't think people are saying "just suck it up", you're not looking very hard. Same if you don't think people are saying that we should offer any and all accommodations to anyone who requests.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 20:28:58+00:00
>You seem to be interpreting assertions of fact as some sort of approval for the current state of things.

You seem to be ignoring the human element of the situation in lieu of pushing the logistics of it. Something the GP was directly combatting.

No, the airlines aren't shutting down. We're further weakening the stability that will lead to the next major crash, though. Be it literal or otherwise.

Life isn't a spreadsheet
by lbrito | 2025-10-01 20:29:07+00:00
I am signing a beautiful Executive Order firing Maria Black, the radical left-wing CEO of ADP. As the President I can do that, you know. She was appointed by Joe Biden. She has said some very nasty things lately - I've been told by very nice people that she is very, very bad. The order is effective immediately. Failure to comply will trigger retaliatory tariffs on ADP. Some very smart people - I'm very smart myself, but there are some other smart people around me - have even suggested labeling ADP a terrorist organisation, and I'm thinking about that. I think its a beautiful idea.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-10-01 20:29:22+00:00
> And during cloudy days in winter, solar produces 10%-15% what it produces during summer.

This doesn't matter. If you look at the monthly stats, solar panels in France produce ~3x more in the summer than the winter at a month by month view. As such, you only need 3x extra overall, and some day to day storage.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-01 20:29:39+00:00
The cost and benefits have fallen way out of whack. The average college tuition has tripled (after inflation-adjusting) since 1980 [1]. Meanwhile, an increasing number of college graduates are unemployed, and the wage premium for a college education is declining.

The college experience hasn't changed much (indeed, if anything it's improved) because colleges are sinking large amounts of money into providing a good experience. That, after all, is what a lot of students base their purchase decisions on. But the point of college isn't to be a 4-year party & vacation, it's to get an education that will help you the rest of your life. Increasingly a college education doesn't help you lead a better life.

[1] https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/college-costs-over-tim...
by givinguflac | 2025-10-01 20:29:47+00:00
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by rescripting | 2025-10-01 20:30:26+00:00
This is becoming less and less true. Trading with the US is unappealing because it is expensive (tariffs) and fraught with uncertainty. New trade deals are being forged as we speak between countries that were not even considering each other before Trump took office.

Nations realign slowly but there is no question they've all begun pivoting away from the US to various degrees, and they're unlikely to go back any time soon.
by tamimio | 2025-10-01 20:30:28+00:00
I don't know what's the end game here, you read news like this, another that thousands of government workers aren't paid, at this rate everyone will be homeless in a few months. In another news, you read someone like Musk hit a net worth of half a trillion dollars, if the economy is bad and people are losing jobs, why are others getting richer?
by jahsome | 2025-10-01 20:30:28+00:00
> Good politics is just being strategic about relationships and influence in the service of good outcomes.

Yeah, no shit dude. That's exactly the part that's disgusting. Using the word "just" here feels dishonest.

I was subjected early on to someone who viewed every single interaction in every single relationship as transactional and framed every decision around the question "what's in it for me?"

It really warped my worldview for a long time and it took a ton of therapy and self-reflection to overcome. I'm not going to sacrifice my principles just to get something I want.
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by ethersteeds | 2025-10-01 20:30:43+00:00
I know this feels cut and dry to you, but what you're kicking is a fundamental pillar of the industrial food system. Many food products emerge from processing a dull or unappetizing color. Food needs to last as long as possible and still look like food. It's tempting to say that food should all be made with love in home kitchens, but that's untenable for feeding 8 billion people.

My favorite example of this is orange juice. OJ is kept in long term storage to stretch a seasonal crop into year-round availability. What comes out is brown and flavorless! This brown mush is restored to something a person would drink with the addition of "flavor packs" made by the perfume industry. This has the added benefit of giving brands a consistent and repeatable flavor. Regulatory bodies in their wisdom allow this product to be called "100% juice".

You might say well get rid of that too. I'm not arguing this is the ideal food system. But it has to be said, this goes a lot deeper than the easy ones like frosting and fruit loops.
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-01 20:30:46+00:00
The natural transformation α : F ⇒ G is not specified properly b/c when expressed in compositional form you also have to specify the subscript for the natural transformation & it is an equality instead of an isomorphism, i.e. if f : a → e then αₑ ∘ Ff = Gf ∘ αₐ. There are highter categories where what he has written down can make sense but in the context of the current exposition it is not correct as written.
by looping__lui | 2025-10-01 20:30:59+00:00
Take a look at this study: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...

Germany will require 100-150 GW capacity which cost about 1000 EUR/kW and would require an investment of 100+B EUR.

Electricity prices already skyrocketed in Germany and no end in sight.

Listen: I invested in PV, in low energy houses, in heat pumps - but the PV/wind strategy doesn’t work the way people would like them to in their ideology and Germany has proven that.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-01 20:31:31+00:00
Ok, show me apes who unambiguously ask abstract questions.

The Neanderthal claim is what you can call unsubstantiated (so, one claim, not so many), but I would like to draw your attention to the extreme stability of the Mousterien industry. No Homo sapiens sapiens industry comes close to this level of stability.

"infected with exceptionalism"

So, we aren't exceptional at all? How do you square this rejection with the fact that you have never encountered, say, a written comment by a member of another species?

The word "infected" is very negative. I like intelligent animals, but no one except for us has, for example, as versatile hands as we do.
by ActorNightly | 2025-10-01 20:31:53+00:00
Its not so much as estimation as a whole work style, but

Make it work -> Make it right -> Make it fast

is arguably the best way to go about things, then structure your work around that.

Ive done this with greenfield projects when I used to work for Amazon (while still ironically operating under scrum), and was able to get SD2-SD3 promo within 2 years (entering an an SD2).

In terms of planning work, you basically allocate people as necessary. The first part deals with a lot of unknowns, so estimation is pointless - basically everyone is on board in terms of getting software up and running and talking to other software.

Once you have that, making it right is a lot easier to estimate because you can do a lot more fine grained planning (like for example, a certain team member that worked on a feature can add all the correctness and unit testing way faster than someone who has not)

Then making it fast is basically just optimizations, which can be done by a subset of team members while the rest work on adding features (and adding features needs to be done in the same way - make the feature just work, make it correct for all use cases, and then make it optimal)
by Havoc | 2025-10-01 20:31:54+00:00
>I think I read that once you get to like 40%, you need to spend a lot more on storage.

You can get pretty high before the economics get sketchy. Below analysis concluded that for many sunny places that point is in the 90%+. Most of EU will be lower than said sunny places, but point is it's not 40%. And the sprinkling of wind, nuclear, geo, hydro means there is a fair bit of room to still push.

Plus both solar and storage tech is still moving rapidly

https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/06/Ember-24-Hour-S...
by labrador | 2025-10-01 20:32:04+00:00
I'm very aware of how I speak which is why I have a good track record of not offending people. I change with the times e.g. I no longer refer to a car transmission as a tranny. So I know tinker as a slur is archaic. I've never heard anyone use it as a slur and think it would be counter productive to revive it as one.
by shubhamcodez | 2025-10-01 20:32:08+00:00
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by libraryofbabel | 2025-10-01 20:32:10+00:00
As the other commenter said, these days Claude Code often does actually reach for a script on its own, or for simpler tasks it will do a bash incantation with grep and sed.

That is for tasks where a programmatic script solution is a good idea though. I don't think your example of "check the code for errors" really falls in that category - how would you write a script to do that? "Staring at the code really hard" to catch errors that could never have been caught with any static analysis tool is actually where an LLM really shines! Unless by "check for errors" you just meant "run a static analysis tool", in which case sure, it should run the linter or typechecker or whatever.
by Gormo | 2025-10-01 20:32:18+00:00
> So hiring juniors who provide negative value at the start is mostly benefiting the industry as a whole at your own personal loss. Which makes it a pretty easy thing to cut.

That's true, but why are you qualifying this with "who provide negative value at the start" in the first place? What if you hire juniors who provide positive value at the start instead?
by txrx0000 | 2025-10-01 20:33:04+00:00
The examples you're listing aren't just words. They're actions.

I could say I'm going to deny your health insurance, or deny entry of your type to my group, or sue you for something. But notice how me saying any of these things don't actually have any immediate effect on you, because I don't control your health insurance or moderate a group you want to be in, or know who you are to sue you.

I can use words to convince people who do control those things to do things to you, but you can convince them not to, and convince others to do the same thing to me. The value of free speech is in replacing these conflicts that would otherwise be physical violence with words. Human nature didn't change. We still fight all the time, but with words.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-10-01 20:33:11+00:00
I am not a keyboard warrior who got caught up in the nonsense, but I think some people were simply annoyed at adding syntactic sugar for very marginal benefit. “There should be one way to do things” mantra.

I have a long list of grievances with Python, but the walrus situation would never crack my top ten. Put effort into removing cruft from the standard library, make typing better, have the PSF take a stance on packaging. Anything else feels a better use of time.

Whatever, it won. I will never use it, but when I see it will have to scratch my head and lookup the syntax rules.
by triceratops | 2025-10-01 20:33:19+00:00
Why would Germany need to run solely on battery for 2 weeks? Do you expect 2 weeks with 0 sun and wind all over continental Europe?

In any case, at $100/kwh, it would cost $250bn (EDIT: $25tn sorry) in batteries and maybe the same in installation costs to power Germany for 6 months a year. At the lower $20/kwh price tag it would be more like $5tn, compared to Germany's ~$4.5tn GDP. Over 10 years it could be done.

(And 6 months' storage is maybe too much anyway)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-01 20:33:53+00:00
You're just back to arguing that general purpose benchmarks are worthless again. Yes, they're not as applicable to the performance of a specific application as testing that application in particular, but you don't always have a specific application in mind. Many systems run a wide variety of different applications.

And a benchmark can then provide a reasonable cross-section of different applications. Or it can yield scores that don't reflect real-world performance differences, implying that it's poorly designed.
by bArray | 2025-10-01 20:33:56+00:00
> I wouldn't mind an extremely under-resourced device. RSS feeds and text content could be sent (and wouldn't require specialized rendering), vector maps and points of interest or transit info could be super minimal in terms of bandwidth/rendering requirements, etc.

A compromise might be to send the traffic via a proxy that pre-resizes images, renders content and chops it up into a manageable format for a resource constrained device.

> I think that I want a 5G tty qwerty terminal..? :-)

> aka https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii for maps, etc.

For resource constrained devices, it's probably easier to render the vector graphics. There's a few open end points out there that could make it feasible for basic navigation.

> Sorry, what do you mean by that? In the sense of 4G not being that supported vs 3G? As in the chips aren't available? Or 4G service is hard to find..?

You can get them, but they are harder to interface with than the existing 2G/3G chips. Whoever takes on the challenge might have to do some work reverse engineering how to correctly speak to the modem, for example.
by nbraga | 2025-10-01 20:34:33+00:00
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by kcplate | 2025-10-01 20:34:40+00:00
“In this case” refers to passing the CR and shutting down the government.

The dems are choosing to shut down the government that they willingly funded earlier in the year for their reasons.

You may agree with the reasons behind their disagreement with the GOP and the president—but if you are agreeing with their tactics than you are ok with shutting down the government to get them. You and I can disagree on whether or not that is governing. I don’t believe it is, I believe it’s a tantrum that will ultimately backfire on them.

The other tools they have is to primary to find good candidates and win elections. They have chosen to rig and skip primaries to front lousy candidates. They could modify their platform to find issues that wont turn off centrist voters and avoid shedding off those voters who are more interested in the 80 part of the 80/20 issues.
by Razengan | 2025-10-01 20:34:44+00:00
> The Song of Ice and Fire

is a trash derivative "we have Lords of the Rings at home" wannabe, completely void of joy and feels like it's written by an angsty edgy teenager who hates the world and has learned about medieval history for the first time and wanted to add zombies and dragons, the most original fantasy tropes.

I would honestly and unsarcastically take a day of scrolling through TikTok over sitting through 1 chapter of ASoIaF.

And apparently lately the author feels so too.