MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tomhow | 2025-11-06 01:46:56+00:00
It's good that you're committed to observing the guidelines, thanks.

It should be easy enough to reply without ugly personal abuse or swipes like "ignorant".

If someone's comment indicates a lack of important knowledge about the topic, you can just politely point out the missing information, the way you might in a respectful conversation with a friend over dinner or a beer. That's what we're aiming for on HN.
by kiwijamo | 2025-11-06 01:47:20+00:00
That has not been my experience with pods. When we switched back to powder the difference was night and day. Even my husband who used to swear by pods eventually gave in and agreed powder is much better. It is a bit fiddly yes but powder getting 99.9% of our dishes getting cleaned on the first run sealed the deal for us -- previously we were always having to add dishes to the next run or falling back to doing it manually. What makes it even more intersting is that even the cheapest powder beats every brand of pods etc we've tried. And we have a shitty cheap dishwasher that came standard with our new build house.
by randerson | 2025-11-06 01:48:22+00:00
Nobody _intentionally_ signs up for a pre-existing condition.

Whether a past action caused a condition, sure, but where do you draw the line? If you become disabled in a car accident, despite knowing full well that accidents can happen, should you be denied insurance in future because you did something risky? What if you were a smoker for the decades when cigarette companies suppressed the research about how bad it was?

Also, how would you even prove that a condition was self-inflicted? My old dog had lung cancer despite (to my knowledge) never smoking (and nor did anyone else in the household). I lost a close family member to liver cancer despite being a lifelong teetotaller, but how would anyone even prove that? The moment you start means-testing people, you're adding a whole lot of extra cost to taxpayers and stress for patients.

Denying healthcare to the most vulnerable members of society is simply cruel. It is kicking them when they're down. Having the condition is punishment enough. We can do better than that.
by Animats | 2025-11-06 01:49:26+00:00
> machines with 2^n cores where each core has a direct data channel to every core with its n-bit core ID being one but different (plus one for all bits different).

NCube. 64 to 1024 CPUs in an N-dimensional cube.[1] I played with one a bit when Stanford got one surplus from an oil drilling company. Not very useful.

It's straightforward to build non-shared-memory MIMD machines, but they are not historically successes and are very difficult to program. Classic example: Sony PS3. Unless the problem is very well matched to the architecture, which we might see for backpropagation and such.

[1] https://ncube.systems/overview.html
by kiwijamo | 2025-11-06 01:50:01+00:00
It depends on the cycle for some. Mine one doesn't do a prewash for the 45mins QUICK cycle. But the ECO cycle does follow the normal prewash-then-wash process as described in the video. Hence I normally use the ECO cycle and put the correct amount of powder in both components. However in a hurry I sometimes just use the QUICK cycle and only use the main component as I know there is no point in adding more. The manual explained all this.
by chriswarbo | 2025-11-06 01:52:00+00:00
Yeah, reimplementing the solution just to have something to check against is a bad idea.

I find that most tutorials talk about "properties of function `foo`", whereas I prefer to think about "how is function `foo` related to other functions". Those relationships can be expressed as code, by plugging outputs of one function into arguments of another, or by sequencing calls in a particular order, etc. and ultimately making assertions. However, there will usually be gaps; filling in those gaps is what a property's inputs are for.

Another good source of properties is trying to think of ways to change an expression/block which are irrelevant. For example, when we perform a deletion, any edits made beforehand should be irrelevant; boom, that's a property. If something would filter out negative values, then it's a property that sprinkling negative values all over the place has no effect. And so on.
by strken | 2025-11-06 01:52:04+00:00
The grid where I live has a target of 89 minutes of unplanned power outages per year for urban customers and somewhere in the high 200s for long rural feeder lines. This is in Australia, where serving outlying customers comes with some geographical challenges. I think it's currently sitting at 99.998% reliability. I can't remember the last unplanned outage longer than a couple of minutes, although they did some planned work last year and took out our power for half an hour.

I'm surprised that someone would think days of power outages are normal everywhere. My family used to get hit with 8+ hour outages every few years back in the 90s because we were at the end of a single long rural feeder line, and we thought that was an unacceptable frequency.
by kiwijamo | 2025-11-06 01:52:49+00:00
The video explains that dishwashers sold in 110V countries often has a hot water connection as it's too slow heating water off a 110V/10A circuit so it is more efficent to utilise the hot water pipes. However we live in NZ, a 230V country so we get dishwashers that can heat water from cold fine off a 230V/10A circuit so no need for a hot water connection.
by totallymike | 2025-11-06 01:53:51+00:00
He does mention that a number of manufacturers aren’t making powders at all anymore, and also suspects out loud that they just aren’t trying with their powder detergents anymore, or are not bothering to apply improvements to their formulae to the powder form because manufacturers would rather sell the powders anyway.

He also specifically calls out Great Value brand powder as one he finds to be consistently on par with pod performance
by hunter-gatherer | 2025-11-06 01:54:15+00:00
Agree. The conversation behind "adoption" was totally different as well. I was a young Army private when the first iPhone was announced. Before that I remember the iPod touch and other MP3 players beingthe rage in the gym and what not. I distinctly remember in the gym we were talking about the iPhone, my friend had an iPod touch and we took turns holding it up to our faces like a phone, and sort of saying "weird, but yeah, this would work".

Point being, when smart phones came out it there was anticipation of what it might be, sort of like a game console. ChatGPT et al was sort of sudden, and the use case is pretty one dimensional, and for average people, less exciting. It is basically a work-slop emitter, and _most people I know_ seem to agree with that.
by layer8 | 2025-11-06 01:56:03+00:00
It means that versioning operations, even just displaying the history, effectively have to run the full image from the beginning of the history, or take intermediate snapshots of the image. In addition, there is interaction between the source code changes and the recorded command history. It also doesn't address how merging would be practical. You would have to compare the state of two images side-by-side, or rather three, for three-way merges.
by peteforde | 2025-11-06 01:56:10+00:00
That's a very reasonably reply.

Except (?) that it's not like you can do more than look at shrink-wrapped boxes.

Even record stores generally let you play albums on a private turntable before you buy them.

It's just so weird to me that someone looking to buy a significant component for their desktop machine or whatever wouldn't do loads of research first. Buying a GPU, for example, during window shopping seems almost unhinged. But everyone's experience is different, and that's a good thing.
by ripe | 2025-11-06 01:57:10+00:00
Smalltalk-80 was also good for graphics programming.

Around 1990, I was a graduate student in Prof. Red Whittaker's field robotics group at Carnegie Mellon. In Porter Hall, I was fortunate to have a Sun 3/60 workstation on my desk. It had a Smalltalk-80. I learned to program it using Goldberg & Robson and other books from ParcPlace Systems.

The programming environment was fantastic, better than anything I have seen before or since. You always ran it full screen, and it loaded up the Smalltalk image from disk. As the article says, you were in the actual live image. Editing, running, inspecting the run-time objects, or debugging: all these tasks were done in the exact same environment. When you came into the office in the morning, the entire environment booted up immediately to where you had left it the previous day.

The image had objects representing everything, including your screen, keyboard, and mouse. Your code could respond to inputs and control every pixel on the screen. I did all my Computer Graphics assignments in Smalltalk. And of course, I wrote fast video games.

I used the system to develop programs for my Ph.D thesis, which involved geometric task planning for robots. One of the programs ran and displayed a simulation of a robot moving in a workspace with obstacles and other things. I had to capture many successive screenshots for my papers and my thesis.

Everybody at CMU then wrote their papers and theses in Scribe, the document generation system written by Brian Reid decades earlier. Scribe was a program that took your markup in a plain text file (sort of at a LaTeX level: @document, @section, etc.) and generated Postscript for the printer.

I never had enough disk space to store so many full screen-size raster images. So, of course, instead of taking screenshots, I modified my program to emit Postscript code, and inserted it into my thesis. I had to hack the pictures into the Postscript generation process somehow. The resulting pictures were vector graphics using Postscript commands. They looked nice because they were much higher resolution than a screenshot could have been.
by fsckboy | 2025-11-06 01:57:20+00:00
traditionally (in household washing machine time) US houses were large and had a lot more hot water capacity for the whole house, and putting a heater into individual appliances was not necessary/cost effective.

retrofitting old traditional houses (especially stone) with higher capacity plumbing was expensive and infeasible, so putting heaters in appliances was a cope for markets that needed it.
by numpy-thagoras | 2025-11-06 01:57:45+00:00
Most of the time, I don't personally look at it as cheap labour because I am just ordering, e.g. 60,000 of something or 100,000 of something else.

It's cheap, yes. I can indeed buy 1,000 of something more locally or from other than China.

But when it comes to scale, needing vast shipments, then they are the ones who can actually ship it and do it reliably. It just also happens to be cheaper, too, which is more of a convenience or cherry on top, than the actual attractive part: vast scale.
by ricardobeat | 2025-11-06 01:57:56+00:00
Keep in mind a Tesla Model 3 costs €45-60k in the Netherlands, it's one of the most expensive countries for buying private vehicles.

If you built the same car in China it would cost €15k or less. Eventually with enough volume they could probably cut the price in half, producing in one of the cheaper eastern european countries which already have strong manufacturing hubs.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-06 01:59:17+00:00
Yes. A useful analogy is to imagine being an adult in a world populated only by children. Aside from the social alienation of it being hard to relate to others, there would be practical matters. The entertainment would all be tedious and predictable, all the rationalizations for bad behavior would be transparently self-interested. Enhanced capabilities for observation, prediction, and planning would make you a super-hero at problem-solving, but really, what does that get you except repetitive unfulfilling effort? Don't sweat the small stuff is good advice, but you couldn't actually ignore the futility. Don't focus on the negative is good advice, but in a world like that pessimism and realism are the same thing. Anyone would be miserable. The good-aligned person would likely withdraw or self-lobotomize. More cynical characters would harden their heart, seize power, and become king of all the blind babies and try to yoke them together and build a pyramid or something. (Yes, I've recently reread Understand by Ted Chiang, No a pyramid is not a plot point per se ;)

Thankfully the situation isn't actually this extreme, but I think what we're talking about is just a difference in degree and not a difference in kind. Seeing more clearly than others seems very uncomfortable at best, and frequently maladaptive and/or a recipe for derangement.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-11-06 01:59:25+00:00
People should learn to never trust a #1 ranked hacker news article. There are almost always hidden motives. The author (GPT???), or a company mentioned in the article likely is connected to a VC, or YC or both!

Don't engage with slop that seems lazily written, if not completely generated by Claude(sorry author if I'm wrong, I know you are claiming you wrote it but idk). This stuff kinda comes off like an article written on behalf of SunCulture or SunKing so they can go, hey guys look we were featured on a front page of HN article.
by krick | 2025-11-06 02:00:47+00:00
I still don't quite understand where ChatGPT and its pals learned this. Sure, all these PR copywriters are notoriously bad at writing, but still, I don't think I often met all this crap in many texts before. I mean, if I did, I wouldn't be noticing it now as that ChatGPT style. So why does it write like that? Is it even how Anthropic models write as well (never used them)? Is it some OpenAI RL artifact, or is it something deeper, something about the language itself?

I cannot even always quite formulate, what irks me about its output so much. Except for that "it's not X, it's Y" pattern. For non-English it may be easier, because it really just cannot use idioms properly, it's super irritating. But I wouldn't say it doesn't know English. Yet it somehow always manages to write in uncannily bad style.
by fsckboy | 2025-11-06 02:00:55+00:00
in traditional times it was customary to buy a few outfits high quality clothing that would last, and wear the same clothes for a week at a time, and then really boil them clean. This is the European market.

post world war 2 consumer choice culture in the US led to people buying cheaper clothing but varying their outfits every day and cleaning them (with copious availability of water) with less intensity.

once these patterns are established in the market, they become more like customary and it's what consumers expect of their appliances, detergents, etc.
by mulakosag | 2025-11-06 02:00:58+00:00
What a shocker right? I guess everyday normal people do dot use a command prompt much less open a terminal to open a browser profile.

They like to click and icon and create/switch profile. Chrome, edge and many other browsers had this feature for ever. Not having ability to easily switch profiles is only reason I did not switch to Firefox full time even though I quite like the multi containers extension in Firefox for managing bazillion AWS accounts.
by yumraj | 2025-11-06 02:01:47+00:00
My process is to use cheap Walmart powder for prewash and Kirkland pods in the dispenser. Avoids any over filling issues.

I used to just use the Kirkland pods and they worked fine too. The reason I started using powder in prewash is to get any loose fat dissolved so that it doesn’t clog over a period of time, not sure if that’s a valid concern. And yes, I do run hot water before starting the dishwasher.
by tomalbrc | 2025-11-06 02:01:49+00:00
Lets see a small paragraph from the article:

> It worked because it solved a real problem: Kenyans were already sending money through informal networks. M-PESA just made it cheaper and safer.

> Here’s why this matters: M-PESA created a payment rail with near-zero transaction costs. Which means you can economically collect tiny payments. $0.21 per day payments.

Ah yes, not AI slop at all! /s
by peteforde | 2025-11-06 02:02:09+00:00
Good reply, thanks.

Here in Canada, the BambuLab stuff seems to ship from local-ish warehouses... but I get it. Tariffs might also be a factor in this.

Amazon is a reprehensible company that I absolutely order from 3-4 times a week. That 15 minute drive requires a 15 minute drive back, plus a car + insurance + gas. It's 8:59pm local as I type this. If I need a thumb drive, I can order one that will be here by noon tomorrow with free shipping.

TL;DR that hour of your time plus driving surely cancels out any potential savings.

I guess it's good to have options, and late stage capitalism is happy to give them to us.

H2D looks like an amazing printer. I have a P1P and it's great for my needs, but the Bambu stuff is just on a different level from the others I've tried.
by machomaster | 2025-11-06 02:02:30+00:00
If people would not tell you how smart you are, you would blame your unhappiness on low esteem and on the lack of support in your childhood.

Which one would you prefer?

It's all postfactum explanation attempts, that create links that usually are not there.

Another, internally happier, positive and more cheerful person would be the exact opposite - would always find ways to spin things around for the positive.

It's all about the perspective.
by mtopo | 2025-11-06 02:02:34+00:00
Windows has always been notoriously awful for deleting directories with many many files and subdirectories (looking at you, node_modules). rimraf has enjoyed well deserved success drastically improving this (>3x faster than powershell's Remove-Item -Recurse, 100M downloads a week on npm), but recently released rmbrr has carved out another ~70% speed gain over rimraf on windows with a rust implementation using an aggressive parallelization strategy and direct win32 POSIX delete api calls. Early benchmarking also shows improvement on other operating systems, but being cross platform here is more about tooling normalization as unix systems don't really feel the same pain the NT kernel imposes on large scale delete operations.
by cxr | 2025-11-06 02:02:37+00:00
> Alright, you're extremely rude

In contrast to poisoning the discussion with subtle conversational antimatter while wearing a veneer of amiability. My comments in this thread are not insidiously off-topic non-replies presented as somehow relevant in apposition to the ones that precede them.

> consider if the "yellow tchotchkes" draw some power from my house, produce some stinky blue smoke that occasionally wafts over, requires a government-paid maintenance person to occasionally stop by and work on, that I partly pay for with my taxes

Anyone making the "overwork the analogy" move automatically loses, always. Even ignoring that, nothing in this sentence even makes any sense wrt XSLT in the browser or the role of browser makers as stewards of stable Web standards. It's devoid of any cogent point and communicates no insight on the topic at hand.
by kaicianflone | 2025-11-06 02:02:45+00:00
I get that, and I’m not trying to convert you through a comment thread. You’re right that many people question the evidence and honestly, I did too for many decades. I didn’t grow up with unshakable faith. I grew into it by using my intellect. Testing it, doubting it, and finding the evidence of prophecy and resurrection more consistent than I expected.

I’m not here to “win” you over. I’m sharing what I’ve found because the same Jesus who changed history also changed my life. If it sounds like proselytizing, it’s only because truth isn’t meant to be hoarded. But I appreciate your honesty. At least you’re still asking questions. Most people stop there.

PS. It’s funny a lot of people try to “catch” believers in logic traps that don’t actually use logic or examples. It ends up being its own kind of proselytizing, just dressed in cynicism.

I’m all for honest discussion, but if someone’s going to dismiss faith as irrational, they should be able to back their own worldview with the same level of evidence they demand from others. Otherwise, it’s not skepticism it’s just pride wearing a lab coat.
by tomalbrc | 2025-11-06 02:02:46+00:00
> It worked because it solved a real problem: Kenyans were already sending money through informal networks. M-PESA just made it cheaper and safer.

Here’s why this matters: M-PESA created a payment rail with near-zero transaction costs. Which means you can economically collect tiny payments. $0.21 per day payments.

Why are you lying about this, its clearly written by an LLM
by gcanyon | 2025-11-06 02:03:01+00:00
A question and a suggestion: 1. How much of a first-mover advantage is there? 2. Maybe have the first player only execute 5 instructions on the first turn, to remove whatever first mover advantage there is -- that way at the end of each player's turn they will always be 5 moves "ahead" of their opponent, whether they went first or second. 3. Okay, a second question: I'm curious how well handicapping by e.g. one player getting an extra instruction per turn?
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-06 02:03:37+00:00
I was watching the first couple of seasons of The Diplomat, on Netflix.

It’s basically about a whole bunch of really smart, super-educated people, working together, or in opposition.

The relationships they depict are total chaos. Not happy at all.

I think it’s probably fairly realistic.

Many of my heroes have two-digit IQs.

Sometimes, I feel as if smart is overrated.
by glenstein | 2025-11-06 02:04:08+00:00
I consider Netsurf to be a beautiful and excellently well-done browser in its own right, so you can't go wrong with either.

But by comparison, Dillo is much more lightweight than even Netsurf (!!), much more brutalist, and a bit more idiosyncratic and the kind of texture and feel of how tabs behave, how you handle bookmarks, how you do searches. Dillo uses fltk while netsurf uses gtk3, and a lot of the resource usage savings in differences in vibe and feel come from that by itself. Netsurf is much more familiar if your baseline is standard modern browsers, and Netsurf does a better job of respecting CSS and rendering pages the way they should look.

Dillo can take a little bit of getting used to but it's a usable text oriented browser that I think is probably as good as it can possibly get in terms of minimalist use of resources, although at a rather significant compromise in not rendering many web pages accurately or using JavaScript or having an interface intuitive to the average person.
by dgl | 2025-11-06 02:04:13+00:00
The VT3xx ones that were color did not support ANSI SGR to set them. I don't think VT5xx was a budget line, it has more escape sequences than the previous ones (including interesting ones like changing cursor shape, which modern terminals implement too). It's more that they never made a graphical version of the VT5xx (this was the early 90s, whether physical VTs made sense anymore is debatable, but terminal graphics likely didn't).

VT340 is definitely interesting and if someone were to emulate one that would also be great! (there's been some good research, e.g.: https://github.com/hackerb9/vt340test, which you might be surprised to learn has been used to make Windows Terminal one of the more conformant terminals...)
by peteforde | 2025-11-06 02:04:42+00:00
If only you could actually hold things in your hands, though. To me, bringing a shrink-wrapped box to a checkout is like buying food at a grocery store to drive to a food bank, when you could just give them cash.

At least record stores let you listen to an album on headphones before you buy it.

Still, I appreciate your perspective. Different strokes for different folks.