MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonelite | 2025-11-14 20:26:23+00:00
Its quiet easy to understand, you can be liberal and free so long as wealth keeps flowing into your part of the world. What are you going to do make fun of becoming more wealthier.

The liberalism and freedom stops once too much money flows out of your part of the world, hence companies like palantir popping up like mushrooms. No one likes to be made fun of when they are in a declining trajectory.
by AgentME | 2025-11-14 20:26:37+00:00
>Almonds are pretty cherry picked here as notorious for their high water use.

If water use was such a dire issue that we needed to start cutting down on high uses of it, then we should absolutely cherry pick the high usages of it and start there. (Or we should just apply a pigouvian tax across all water use, which will naturally affect the biggest consumers of it.)
by Zigurd | 2025-11-14 20:26:57+00:00
5G is a thing (5Ge excepted). 6G is aspirational and recycling use cases that go all the way back to 3G, like telesurgery. It's going to stay aspirational at least until 5G millimeter wave really works and can be widely deployed.

"According to the NGMN Alliance, 6G development should focus on demonstrable user needs and avoid unnecessary replacement of existing 5G radio access network equipment."
by rshanreddy | 2025-11-14 20:27:44+00:00
Super clean and instantly legible. Great to have a clean, up-to-date tech-only treemap, glad this exists!

A few suggestions: 1) Sector/subsector drill-downs (AI, cloud, semis, autos) so you can zoom into sectors/clusters 2) Hover/tap cards with basics like revenue, P/E, EV/EBITDA, or YTD return 3) AI “explanations mode”: tap a ticker -> auto-generate a 1-sentence summary of why it moved today (“AMD up 3%: fabs reporting stronger wafer starts; NVDA sympathy move”)

Congrats on the ship @krkb :)
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-14 20:27:50+00:00
Re-election every couple of years does not solve the issues, as demonstrated by most elected governments around the world. People are too lazy, uninformed, stupid, to vote for their own good, and will be made to vote against their own interest, time and time again. As societies we are mostly not ready mentally to vote properly. This is in the interest of the people in power. Have stupid and confused subjects, so that you can rally them for whatever cause you need them to rally for.
by ineedasername | 2025-11-14 20:27:50+00:00
Charitably, I think you can read into that a not-unreasonable (if unproven) assertion that there are many lower hanging fruits on the tree that would do endlessly more good for the cause to pick than data centers, and AI at least has the arguable potential upside of alleviating some of those specific burdens-- better health care and less environmental pollution through various improved forms of automation. Or at least when addressing the stub claim of the sort in the GP comment, you should assume these fairly straightforward subclaims pre-emptively and respond to this stronger form of the argument. It saves time, at least if you're going to seek out a discussion it does. Plenty of counter claims to them, but it gets the conversational ball rolling in a productive direction and if the response in turn is less constructive then you also know not to bother any more.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-14 20:27:52+00:00
> It is now clear that there exist English words that don't correspond to a single word in the other language.

But that's true of any language. Not only that, but English uses loanwords heavily which are often Anglicisations of words from other languages, which may not in themselves be just one word.

"Ho ho ho", the flag-waving Little Englander types say, "Gaelic is such a stupid language, they don't even have a word for 'television', they just say 'television' in a stupid accent!"

But English also has no word for "television". Worse, the word "television" isn't even just a loanword, it's two words from two different languages, "tele" from Greek and "vision" from Latin. What a bodge job! Imagine letting something like that slip through to production use!

The hypothetical Catalan-Hungarian inventor of it in another leg of the trousers of time may have called it llunylátás, and then where would we be?

Well, most languages would have some variant of that word to mean "television", as they do now, I expect.

The English word "galore" (meaning "sufficient" shading towards "more than enough") comes from the Gaelic words "gu leòr", (goo lyaawr, the grave accent above the o makes the vowel sound longer). What a silly language English is, doesn't have a word that means "more than you're ever likely to need", has to steal one from Gaelic and then spell it wrong.

Oh, they use this word "whisky". You know what that means? It means "uisge beatha" but they only say the first word, in a silly accent because they can't pronounce it properly.

Quite often there's no single word for a thing you're trying to translate but that doesn't mean it's untranslateable. English has only one single word for rain, for example, but Gaelic has about half a dozen of which the only ones I can reproduce here are "uisge" (that word again) which just means "water", and "fras" which is more like a gentle shower. The rest of the words in the Gaelic of the North-West of Scotland that refer to rainy weather are, of course, profane in the extreme.
by atishay_zingle | 2025-11-14 20:27:59+00:00
Hey HN - Zingle came out of a pretty painful reality we kept seeing across data teams. We were reviewing ~60 dbt/SQL PRs a week for a client, and the senior engineers were overloaded while analysts weren’t allowed to merge anything risky. The combination of fast-moving code and slow reviews led to mistakes. The worst one on our side was a PR that triggered repeated full refreshes on a big model and blew up into a $50k Snowflake bill. That’s when we realized we needed a reviewer that understands data behavior, not just code.

How Zingle works (technical outline): - SQL parser → identifies patterns, predicates, merge logic, join risks - Lineage graph engine → traces downstream models + dashboards - Warehouse metadata fetcher → table sizes, clustering, stats, partitions - Cost estimation engine → predicts warehouse impact (bytes scanned, compute, I/O) - Try re-creating affected downstream systems → safely runs new logic to analyse data diffs - Rules engine → custom governance checks (merge key, tests, docs, ownership)

We don’t store SQL, data, metadata, or logs. Nothing leaves the customer’s warehouse.

Would love any feedback - especially edge cases that are tricky or places where our reviewer’s judgment feels wrong or incomplete. Happy to answer any technical questions.
by bazoom42 | 2025-11-14 20:28:20+00:00
This is an even crazier claim. Modern art was created by Braque, Picasso, Duchamp, and many others, primarily in Europe, and it was established as a major artistic movement a long time before CIA existed.

The more realistic claim is that CIA promoted abstract expressionism which is a primarily American 1950s art movement which is of course a sub-movement in modern art.
by phkahler | 2025-11-14 20:28:54+00:00
>> This is maybe the first dataset I've seen that clearly illustrates how margin (profit) is inversely correlated with value to humanity.

9th from the bottom is EV charging. You might think that's going to improve quality of life, but the reality is these are companies trying to be middle men in a commodity market. They want to profit from delivering electricity to locations along the highway. It's kind of stupid because most people can charge at home overnight and be good for the next day or three. OTOH if you're going on a long trip you'll want to plan stops at these places but since you're planning you can check prices too.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-14 20:29:12+00:00
> Passing a budget is like one of the basic requirements of governing. If the current government cannot accomplish that, it should immediately dissolve and elections be held.

It's important to note that this is a basic principle, almost the basic principle, of English-style parliamentary democracy. You have a monarch who makes decisions (through their chosen government, ever since the English cut off a few heads), and the rest of the Parliament (a bunch of nobles, clergy, and eventually representatives of commoners) is there to withdraw financing from that government when they disapprove.

> We could also have a "cooling off" period after a piece of legislation (like chat control) fails.

We usually do, it is called a "session." The problem is the inability to pass negative legislation (which also has a pretty long history) i.e. we will not do a thing. Deliberative assemblies explicitly frown on negative legislation, and instead say that purpose is served simply by not doing the thing.

The problem is that individual rights are provided by negative legislation against the government: think the US Bill of Rights. Instead, we have systems where exclusively positive legislation is passed by majorities, and repealing that legislation takes supermajorities. The only pragmatic way to create new rights becomes to challenge legislation in courts, and get a decision by opinionated, appointed judges that X piece of legislation is superseded by Y piece of legislation for unconvincing reason Z, and this new "right" is about as stable as the current lineup of the sitting justices.

What we need is to pretend like "democracy" is a meaningful word rather than an empty chant, or more often simply a euphemism for the US, Anglosphere, Western and Central Europe, and whoever they currently approve of. Democracy is rule by the ruled, and the exact processes by which the decisions are made define the degree of democracy. Somehow, elites have decided that process is the least important part of democracy, and the most important part is that elites get their preferred outcomes. Anything else is "populism."*

Decisionmaking processes in "democracies" need to be examined, justified, and codified. The EU needs either to cede a lot more leverage to its individual members (and make that stupid currency a European bancor, rather than a German weapon) OR become more directly responsive to European individuals. If you're not serving the individual states, and you're not serving the individual citizens, you're exclusively serving elites.

* A term made into meaningless invective by elites who hated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populist_Party_(United_States), a party who believed in things that were good.
by BeetleB | 2025-11-14 20:29:24+00:00
https://awesomewm.org/doc/manpages/awesome.1.html

Mod4 + Control + 1-9 Toggle tag view.

It's a bit arcane written that way, but each workspace is a tag. Pressing Mod4 + Control + 2 means to show workspace 2. The effect is cumulative. If you now press Mod4 + Control + 3, it will be showing both workspace 2 and 3 simultaneously (and tiling the combined set of windows).

If you press Mod4 + Control + 3 again, it will remove workspace 3 from view.

If you now just leave to go to some workspace, (e.g. Mod4 + 5), it will only show workspace 5.

Can't live without it.
by probably_wrong | 2025-11-14 20:29:43+00:00
While I agree with the sentiment, I don't think hyperbole is the solution.

This legislation, while reprehensible, is not terrorism. Defining terrorism is particularly difficult (the UN has been trying since the 60s and is trying again this year), but if all intimidation for political gains is terrorism then so is every other political ad from the last 30 years. Banksy would probably argue that regular advertising also qualifies - after all, that's what the "F" in "FOMO" stands for and beauty products are definitely pushing an ideology.

You don't have to like the official definition of terrorism, but that doesn't mean that you alone get to decide what it should be.
by brightball | 2025-11-14 20:29:52+00:00
Controlling is not the same as filibuster proof majority (as we just saw with the shutdown), which is what it would take to do this.

Why did every Republican vote against it? Because it was terrible legislation that nobody even got to read before voting on it. As Pelosi famously said, "You have to pass the bill to find out what's in it."

And the reason that you didn't get single payer is because you didn't have support for single payer among Democrats, who did hold a filibuster proof majority.

This idea that the ACA, Obama's signature legislation is some how a conservative push is not based in reality. It's a talking point to give it the appearance of bipartisan legislation, which it is not.

The Heritage Foundation influences were from a 1989 proposal that talked about the an individual mandate and health insurance exchanges. The Heritage Foundation itself has gone as far as to totally disavow any association to the ACA.

https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/dont-...

The ACA disaster is 100% on the party that forced it in along party lines, without even reading it first.
by like_any_other | 2025-11-14 20:30:06+00:00
> they made clear rules if you want to play business in China.

Not really:

https://www.hudson.org/technology/china-ignores-rule-of-law-...

Apple CEO Tim Cook "secretly" signed an agreement worth more than $275 billion with Chinese officials, promising that Apple would help to develop China's economy and technological capabilities - https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/07/apple-ceo-tim-cook-secr...
by mark_l_watson | 2025-11-14 20:30:54+00:00
Good question.

I like to have AI only when I specifically want it. Usually I just code in Emacs. If I specifically want help with something then for an IDE experience I will use the TRAE coding agent. For command line, I will use gemini-cli or codex. I like to use AI coding help 4 or 5 times a week. As an example, today I wanted some Python code that used a few libraries converted to Common Lisp (using several popular CL libraries). TRAE one-shotted this for me in two minutes. I think it would have taken me over 20 minutes to write it myself.

AI is OK for easy stuff you can do yourself, and save time.

The book AI Atlas tells a good narrative about natural resources used for AI, BTW.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-11-14 20:30:59+00:00
No, I’ve never seen it done well at that size.

The architects didnt understand the code. The developers didnt understand how it would be used, and the managers didnt understand either. The executives understood none of this, nor appreciated what was involved, but focused on what sounded flashy.

A “tiger team” of exceptional people (who understood everything) was formed, tried valiantly, and managed to make progress even possible… But even Superman cannot boil the ocean.

The problem wasn’t even technology or management — just too many people who didn’t understand what the were building or how it would be used. This included both the technical side as well as the “use case” side. They also had no comprehension of how their component interacted with the rest of the system.

I’ve all seen small teams of 10-20 do amazing things because they all understand the goal. They may have different ideas but can quickly arrive at a final design and make it happen.
I spent $900 on AI coding agents in 8 weeks
by nthypes | 2025-11-14 20:31:06+00:00
I've asked Sonnet 4.5 (Cursor) to generate some stats based on my cursor CSV file usage. Here it is the output: Key Findings from Your Cursor Usage Here are the most interesting insights from your usage data:

Cost Summary

Total Cost: $928.45 over 70 days

Average per Request: $0.06

Cost per Task (Request): Ranges from $0.00 to $2.78, with 65.7% costing under $0.05

Projected Monthly Cost: ~$416 (based on average daily spend of $13.86)

Request Patterns

Requests per 5 Hours: Average 70.7, ranging from 1 to 451

Average Time Between Requests: 6 minutes 33 seconds

Median Time Between Requests: Just 13 seconds (shows bursts of activity)

Peak Activity: 1-2 PM (10.4% of all requests at 1 PM)

Busiest Day: Saturday with 21.7% of requests

Token Efficiency

Average Tokens per Request: 83,371 tokens

Median Tokens per Request: 38,342 tokens

Average Output per Request: 876 tokens

Cache Hit Rate: 88.8% (excellent! saves money)

Cost per 1,000 Tokens: $0.0009 (very efficient due to caching)

Cost per 1,000 Output Tokens: $0.14

Notable Stats

Most Expensive Request: $2.78 using 6.8M tokens (mostly cached)

Total Hours of Active Usage: 1,692 hours (~9 requests/hour)

Most Used Models: claude-4.5-sonnet-thinking, claude-3.5-sonnet, and others

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914307
by cout | 2025-11-14 20:31:10+00:00
That's why I wrote this: https://github.com/cout/windowfocus

I bind Alt+Shift+H to run "windowfocus left", which figures out which window is "to the left" based on some heuristics such as the direction between the center of the active window and the other windows on the screen. Since it works uses the center of the window, it works with overlapping windows (but intentionally excludes windows that are occluded).

I've used it in both xfce and kde (though not recently).
by vladgur | 2025-11-14 20:31:13+00:00
Dont these show that skin-based profiling doesnt work in Israel -- Jews and Arabs are being mistaken for each other.

Not sure what the Florida example has to do with anything though.

Here are some similar headlines:

Palestinians remove Muslim from al-Aqsa after confusing him for a Jew https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-692563

Palestinian stabs Arab Israeli bus driver thinking he was a Jew https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-charged-over-petah...
by mrsvanwinkle | 2025-11-14 20:31:15+00:00
Poverty-sculpted packrat brain here. I believe this specific behavior became a nuanced social issue starting with the Marie Kondo "Cleanliness" movement from years ago to present, at least my experience of this is through the Tumblr commentaries about how tone-deaf the movement was to people in or who grew up in poverty. so for "never-poor" people like you, the specific nuance would be whether you had space to keep these backup parts like an attic or garage or even extra closet space where this behavior becomes a "tidiness/organization" issue otherwise. hope this perspective gives a better picture
by hamdingers | 2025-11-14 20:31:27+00:00
> No, we've used it, you are creating a strawman argument

There exists a class of "ai-skeptic" who proudly proclaim they have never and will never use AI. Examples are not hard to find, though I see them more on reddit/instagram/bluesky than I do on HN.

If that does not describe you then my comment is not about you.
by yoavm | 2025-11-14 20:31:40+00:00
Zionism was what pushed Jews to accept the Partition Plan[0], and later the disengagement plan[1], both rejecting the idea of Gaza as an Israeli territory.

The colonization of Gaza is entirely driven by Hamas's attack on Israel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_the...
by btilly | 2025-11-14 20:32:11+00:00
That's stupidly wrong.

I regularly find myself on a zero manganese diet for hours at a time, and I've yet to experience immediate death, screaming in agony.

Furthermore we have lots of data on how well humans can tolerate extended low manganese regimens. The standard treatment course for TB in the 1950s resulted in humans having low manganese for 1-2 years. This was unpleasant, but not lethal.
by tavavex | 2025-11-14 20:32:41+00:00
Don't forget the luck of living in a country where programming was a viable career path that could lead to a decent job, the luck of having the opportunity (and/or money) to attain the higher education that's usually required for it and the luck of living in a time when the tech industry was in an upswing that would allow a person to find a job in this industry. Really, having any of these puts most of us well above the amount of luck an average person gets (at least on a worldwide scale).
by corobo | 2025-11-14 20:32:48+00:00
> a £50 fine might as well be £50,000- its unpayable, and leads to a sort of doom-spiral of lending to avoid worse consequences. Easily you can end up in unmanageable debt

Yup! Bank gave me an overdraft when I was 16. At 37 I'm still in debt connected to that first bit of "free" money.

I've never earned above £0, and at this point it's too late to care. They can write me off as a minor loss when I kick it haha
by ketanmaheshwari | 2025-11-14 20:32:53+00:00
Not the op but here is an example: TOKEN=$(kubectl describe secret -n kube-system $(kubectl get secrets -n kube-system | grep default | cut -f1 -d ' ') | grep -E '^token' | cut -f2 -d':' | tr -d '\t' | tr -d " ")

This pipeline may be significantly reduced by replacing cut's with awk, accommodating grep within awk and using awk's gsub in place of tr.
by UncleEntity | 2025-11-14 20:32:53+00:00
I used to have Hopi and Navajo friends and I have no idea what they are referring to.

One thing I can tell you that the whole situation up there is contentious and complicated between the tribes, the states and the feds where one could support any argument as there isn't some standard "Rez Life" one can point at.

I mean, I used to have this one friend who grew up (and still had family) on a part of the reservation which was completely surrounded by the other tribe and her and my other friends (from the other tribe, don't quite remember which was which here) would get into some serious arguments at the bar over the issue where we'd have to separate them before it came to fisticuffs.
by Sabinus | 2025-11-14 20:33:16+00:00
I don't know about that, if settlers in the West Bank cop some violence then that's going to be considered well deserved.

Soldiers of 'a government' committing murder, rape and hostage taking on a music festival is going to earn you a bit of looking away to the consequences.

I don't expect them to do nothing, I expect them to come to a deal not sacrifice everything in an eternal and vain attempt to remove Israel from the map.