MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arubis | 2025-10-01 20:22:43+00:00
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by tialaramex | 2025-10-01 20:22:44+00:00
> I would say, as soon as we wrote the expression, because we read a book about how the language works

I'm comfortable with that rationale in proportion to how much I believe the programmer read such a book.

I haven't taken the course we teach say, Chemists, I should maybe go audit that, but I would not be surprised if either it never explains this, or the explanation is very hand-wavy, something about it not being exact, maybe invoking old fashioned digital calculators.

The amusing thing is when you try to explain this sort of thing with a calculator, and you try a modern calculator, it is much more effective at this than you expected or remember from a 1980s Casio. The calculator in your modern say, Android phone, knows all the stuff you were shown in school, it isn't doing IEEE floating point arithmetic because that's only faster and you're a human using a calculator so "faster" in computer terms isn't important and it has prioritized being correct instead so that pedants stop filing bugs.
by atulmy | 2025-10-01 20:22:45+00:00
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by ptx2 | 2025-10-01 20:22:46+00:00
Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Ruby, Rails, Django, Express, React, PostgreSQL, Linux, Bash, AWS, HTML, CSS. Trying to find time to play with Go and Rust. Resume/CV: 15 years experience as a full-stack engineer (web, native, frontend/backend, firmware, devops). Contact for resume. Email: ptx2 at-sign ptx2 dot net

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by looping__lui | 2025-10-01 20:23:13+00:00
Because it’s not correct.

You need either nuclear or gas (like 100% capacity, idle most of the time) in addition to massive investments into the grid to make it work (at least in Germany).

I don’t understand how people seem to NOT understand that you need the ENTIRE capacity when wind and solar act up as a backup and what the cost of that is. It’s not me making that up but the Fraunhofer: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...

There is no storage in existence that would allow us to run an industrialized country from battery backup. We are talking ballpark 20 TWh of storage which would require 100 MILLION ton Tesla Megapack gear.
by paganel | 2025-10-01 20:23:15+00:00
Maybe it's because I'm getting older, but I remember that there used to be times when slop like this (and some other similar stop I've recently seen getting posted in here) was just not a thing, at least not at this level. I mean, this is really sloppy, it doesn't mean anything and a lot of things at the same time, it doesn't mention anything concrete.

> Ideas don’t speak. People do. And the people who understand how to navigate organizational dynamics, build relationships, and yes, play politics? Their ideas get heard.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-01 20:23:20+00:00
> it comes off as super invalidating.

Once this is on the table, it's hard answer in a way that doesn't come across as being the asshole. But that's kind of my point. People tie identities and emotions to labels. It reframes how people react. Since it's real, you're given support. If it were fake, you'd get scolded. The shift in view that I got from Scott Alexander is that the arrow points the other way around. Since we see people who can benefit from some support, and we generally don't want to be assholes and want the support to be paid by insurance etc, we have to declare the thing as a Disease(TM). But this categorization is in good part necessary due to the bureaucratic system we live in. There are many ways that societies have conceptualized such things. All the way to demon possession. In comparison blindness is much easier to understand mechanistically.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-10-01 20:23:25+00:00
I am admittedly not a pro. I have a few guitars and bass guitars at home and a few amps but nothing overly crazy. However, I can honestly say that "but is it on the blockchain???" has never been a question on my mind :-/

Now, in terms of hype and buzzwords, a lot of modern amps are "on the cloud" (presets, effects, registration, etc) or "powered by AI" (model simulation and whatnot). Now you cam have your cake on the blockchain too I suppose :-)
by k2052 | 2025-10-01 20:23:32+00:00
Scrolling through the comments and noticed that they are a pretty good autism simulator for working in tech with autism. The entire cast of typical characters is represented.

- guy that thinks everyone has the tism and the spectrum is everyone - this guy has more trouble reading the room than anyone. but it is the lack of empathy and not autism

- guy that thinks everything is a microaggression towards his autism and ironically makes it harder for other autists

- guy with probable schizoid personality disorder that thinks struggling with people and social issues is just life because everyone is stupid and annoying

- guy who read Bad Therapy once and now thinks autism is a tiktok trend

- insufferable fedora guy that thinks psych is unscientific - probably secretly has severe depression and is making it everyone else's problem by being a jerk. whenever called out 4 being jerk blames the autism he probably doesn't actually have

- guy who thinks the solution is just be yourself

- guy with trauma from being themselves landing them on a PIP

A primary problem in tech is how everyone is seriously lacking in social skills and empathy. This is exhausting for autists and everyone. The real autism simulator is just existing in tech.
by jlokier | 2025-10-01 20:23:39+00:00
Last time I explored this, Firefox rendered thin lines in subtly bordered tables as thick lines, so I had to use Chromium. But back then Chrome did worse at pagination than Firefox.

So I used Firefox for multi-page documents and Chromium for single-page invoices.

I spent a lot of time with different versions of both browsers, and numerous quirks made a very unpleasant experience.

Eventually I settled on Chromium (Ungoogled), which I use nowadays for invoices.
by zer00eyz | 2025-10-01 20:23:42+00:00
> Isn't that just part of everyday life as a grown-up?

Yes it is.

The question isn't if you mask, it's what you are masking and to what extent.

There is a big difference between having sense enough not to wear your favorite gimp suit to work and not knowing how to make small talk and have to do it as performance everyday when you are at work.
by mothballed | 2025-10-01 20:23:57+00:00
If they are that enterprising and go-getters, I paid some guy almost $10k to roof my house, and he gave me an invoice showing the price of materials were only about $3500 of that. He did it with a few friends in two days, maybe 60 man-hours of work. All they had was a few ladders, harnesses, an ancient truck, and they didn't look like the sort to have wasted much of it on insurance or overhead.
by roxolotl | 2025-10-01 20:24:12+00:00
Yea and it seems weird to assume that since these states are possible that most humans are mistaken when for millennia they’ve talked about having mental imagery. The idea that aphantasia is just language confusion is so strange to me. As someone who has aphantasia I understand the “oh shit” moment when you realize that there’s more going on but the evidence seems pretty overwhelming to me that most people have some internal imagery.
by asimpleusecase | 2025-10-01 20:24:18+00:00
Here is the results of the following Google search “uk coverup of rape gangs” and the results

https://www.thefp.com/p/muslim-grooming-gangs-cover-up-keir-...

https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/06/18/the-grooming-ga...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17/what-is-the-casey-r...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/16/grooming-gan...

https://news.sky.com/story/grooming-gangs-scandal-timeline-w...

How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f247768ad7912bdc

https://theweek.com/crime/the-grooming-gangs-scandal-explain...

https://womenagainstrape.net/statement-rape-and-grooming-gan...
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-01 20:25:07+00:00
turns out the default for okular is to save to an external file but there's a setting that can be changed to use the format correctly and store annotations within the file, which is universally compatible with other PDF readers. You can't really blame the format for someone using it wrong on purpose, and if you can then I'll just abuse HTML and the fact that I use it wrong will be evidence that it is, in itself, wrong
by Gormo | 2025-10-01 20:25:08+00:00
> You mention IDEs besides VS Code, Linux, and ricing as “green flags”. Those are not proxies for “being a good programmer” and they are not proxies for “being enthusiastic about programming”. They're just selecting for programmers who share your subjective preferences on matters that are the equivalent of “vi vs. emacs”.

Are you sure about that? I have a strong suspicion that there may be a measurable correlation between using IDEs and other tools that aren't currently trendy/overhyped and having a stronger-than-average foundation of experience.

Given that VSCode is the big, trendy IDE at the moment, doesn't using a different one indicate that a developer has, at minimum, invested some thought and effort into considering alternatives and making a conscious choice?
by Rendello | 2025-10-01 20:25:24+00:00
I was fascinated by Koko's abilities and took them at face value until I saw her famous climate change speech:

> I am gorilla. I am flowers, animals. I am nature. Man Koko love. Earth Koko love. But Man stupid. Stupid! Koko sorry. Koko cry. Time hurry! Fix Earth! Help Earth! Hurry! Protect Earth. Nature see you. Thank you.

I saw that and felt like I was in crazy land. That's supposedly the kind of talking Koko's been doing this whole time?? Turns out, there was a lot of government funding into ape communication in the 70s, and when researchers figured out that apes can't meaningfully communicate, the funding dried up. Her handler, Penny Patterson, pivoted from research to PR. And how.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/what-does-koko-know-about-...
by DFHippie | 2025-10-01 20:25:28+00:00
> There seems to be something in us humans that yearns for more than just calories.

And we have no evidence that we are different in this from Neanderthals (arguably also humans). There is evidence of cultural variation among chimps, so there must also be cultural change. Do they yearn for things more than calories? Well, they play. They are curious.

I am extremely skeptical of claims that humans are special. We are strongly motivated to find this to be true. On the one hand, it flatters us. On the other hand, it justifies believing we are ethically distinct. This same way of thinking has been applied to other humans with results we now deplore.

Are we special, the chosen creatures? Maybe. We sure want to believe we are. It's fun and useful to be special! But maybe we should be cautious leaping to that conclusion. I think Jane Goodall was of this mind as well.
by nntwozz | 2025-10-01 20:26:20+00:00
Yeah I've seen this before, we could all drive V12s and eat only beef but it's not a very meaningful insight. We're going to stabilize around 10 billion by 2080 according to projections and then decline, hopefully reaching some kind of Star Trek utopia at some point.

We came from the caves, we didn't know any better we just multiplied like a cancer. More population also brings more benefits, more geniuses more inventions etc.

The trick is doing it without wars and inequality, good luck with that.
by triceratops | 2025-10-01 20:26:54+00:00
> And batteries aren’t an option either, because I can’t generate any excess electricity during the day

You can't generate excess electricity because you don't have enough land or rooftop (I mean maybe you do, I'm talking about the typical homeowner). Utilities can overbuild panels because they're extremely cheap.

LFP batteries have a self-discharge rate of 2-5% per month. Once they're cheap enough, over-building batteries to move summer sunshine into the winter months also becomes an option*. At $100/kwh, you could power Sweden 6 months a year for about $60bn (EDIT: $6tn, sorry) in batteries (yes labor and everything else will probably double that cost). And that doesn't even account for recent advances in sodium batteries, which reportedly bring that price down to $20/kwh

* (Any battery experts know why this might be wrong? I'm using basic arithmetic, not physics. That tells me a battery charged to 100% in July or August will still have > 70% charge left in December)
by 5- | 2025-10-01 20:27:01+00:00
interestingly, this is the first esp32 firmware i've seen that claims to support loadable native code applications ("elf apps"), even though it seems to come with only a single example:

https://github.com/ByteWelder/Tactility/blob/main/App/Source...

since a lot of the newer esp32 devices purport to be computers (e.g. lilygo t-deck/t-lora pager, m5stack cardputer, ...), it's a bit strange that with a typical esp-idf setup you can't actually run arbitrary code on them.
by bjg | 2025-10-01 20:27:14+00:00
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by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-01 20:27:18+00:00
if serving the infohash was a DMCA violation copyright holders would be thrilled to tear down every torrent site in existence. You can't link to the material, but the infohash isn't that either. It's conceptually a link to the torrent. You're partially right about DRM though. Software to directly circumvent copy protections is illegal under DMCA. But talking about the process is still not illegal, and that has led to some really clever workarounds like the DeCSS Haiku (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS_haiku)
by ameliaquining | 2025-10-01 20:27:31+00:00
The current HN title ("OpenAI researcher posts fake CCTV footage of a real person shoplifting") is outrageously editorialized and should be changed.

The contents of the tweet are:

"i have the most liked video on sora 2 right now, i will be enjoying this short moment while it lasts

cctv footage of sam stealing gpus at target for sora inference"

The video indeed depicts this; "Sam" refers to Sam Altman.

No reasonable person is going to look at this and conclude that it's anything other than an obvious joke. Altman himself does not seem to object to it. The editorialized title implies that an innocent person is being framed, which is just not the case.

Yes, the video's existence highlights potential malicious use cases for AI-generated video, and people will of course have opinions about that, but that doesn't make the title not misleading.
by happycry | 2025-10-01 20:27:53+00:00
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-01 20:28:10+00:00
> need a loop that's capable of operating without Earth support for a significant length of time

Agree. A moon base lets us test this out with real-world constraints as opposed to simulants.

We don’t know how to build ecological closed loops. But every failure mode of Biosphere 2’s was almost trivially solvable with expendable components. (The CO2 cascade being the simplest among them.)

> idea that the best place to get started on working out how to do these sorts of things is on the moon

It’s not. It’s the best next step. We’re doing a lot of pre-colonisation lab work already. And we will need to do more before establishing a moon base. The moon base is the interim goal—you don’t put astronauts in swimming pools without a plan for a Shuttle. And Biosphere 2 is a terrible swimming pool for anything we’d do on the Moon or Mars.
by habitue | 2025-10-01 20:28:17+00:00
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