MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-27 22:02:45+00:00
No they're not.

> A survey of farm practices with 1312 grain producers found that in 2011, the average farm size was 3810 ha (a little less than 10,000 acres)

https://www.yieldgap.org/australia

1000 acres i too small to be economic as a wheat producer in Saskatchewan, Canada. I suspect it's the same in Australia. Definitely cannot support multi-million dollar tractors or combine harvesters.

The rule of thumb in Saskatchewan is about 10,000 acres per employee. There are lots of farms with less than 10,000 acres, but they generally don't have employees.
by andy99 | 2025-11-27 22:03:20+00:00
Is there some legitimate thing people are doing on LinkedIn that the crap is getting in the way of? One can make a profile and (thought it’s terrible for this) search for jobs without ever scrolling the feed. If you don’t like it just don’t use it.

It feels like complaining that the strip bar has alcohol and nudity everywhere, why are you there?
Ask HN: Vandy grad seeking HN community's career advice
by shannonalp | 2025-11-27 22:03:21+00:00
I just discovered this forum an hour ago and thought why not see what they have to say?

I graduated Vanderbilt this past May with a B.E. in biomedical engineering + minor in data science. For 80% of college I was also pre-med and locked in on becoming a heart surgeon. Senior Fall I gave it some thought and realized surgery wasn't the life I wanted for myself. I was too entrepreneurial, wanted to make a more profound impact on the world, and didn't like how a career in medicine funnels you into this inflexible matrix.

I love solving problems, love to code, and enjoy pushing boundaries/limitations. I realized I wanted to become a startup founder. That held no fiscal stability, and I knew my parents would prefer that post-grad, so I got a job in medical device sales in a city that's great for startups, NYC. I figured I'd entertain business ventures in my free time.

Fast-forward, it's been a few months and I recently left the med sales job. I was a FedEx delivery driver/bookkeeper 12hrs/day with 0 intellectual stimulation--couldn't stay complacent much longer.

I currently spend my days helping my dad build up his startup, so it's ready for the pending MVP launch and teaching myself SWE (would like to become proficient in website + app development + then tackle ML).

The problem is I'm making $0, and my mother keeps yelling at me to "get a real job". She can't fathom the fact that her daughter who she sent to a Top20 university tossed away a 6-figure job to work on value creation with no income. She also doesn't believe in startups.

I will get a real job, but I want to retain enough free time to help my dad with the startup and become proficient in SWE. My mom won't get off my back, though, I don't know what to do.

Advice anyone?
by crowbahr | 2025-11-27 22:04:36+00:00
The linked study r values are all minor to no effect. -0.37 as an r value is barely correlated. Talk to me when they're up above -.5

How much of it is just constantly being told that SFVs are bad for you?

The linked article is a meta analysis with basically 0 controls that finds a statistical correlation barely better than background noise. Yawn
by bigyabai | 2025-11-27 22:04:37+00:00
It's also worth noting, DOTA 2 is far-and-away the more complicated game than League of Legends. A knowledgeable DOTA player has more tools to skill-gap their opponent than a professional League player does. The skill floor for most players is much higher on DOTA than League.

TAS has been out-microing humans since the Starcraft days, it's all but guaranteed T1 will lose by a sizable margin.
by theultdev | 2025-11-27 22:04:56+00:00
I can see both sides of the dilemma and I don't necessarily like when a maintainer defaults to "open a PR" but asking for a reproducible issue wherever requested is not too much to ask.

With a PR I understand not wanting to put the effort in as it may not be merged. But offering up a reproducible example on the correct forum is the least you could do. If you want the problem fixed that's the best way forward.
by vkou | 2025-11-27 22:06:16+00:00
> It's also not immediately obvious to the uninitiated what should happen when you swap one asset for another, like when you trade DOGE for BTC.

When I swap between MSFT and AAPL, I trigger capital gains, because sale of one realizes my (formerly paper) gain or loss.

Why should crypto be privileged? Why should people who don't even understand how traditional investments work, and are speculatively trading in a novel instrument get to cite ignorance as an excuse?
by mannanj | 2025-11-27 22:06:33+00:00
I was also placed on a PIP and yeah man, corporate hell at these big companies is definitely a thing. They’ve drank all the kool aid about AI and the execs have been taking the $AI board stinks up the moon to push AI down your throats. Then they are using fear and lack of transparency on decisions to get people to compete while pretending to be positive-sum (note: it’s zero-sum) these PIP and performance ranking stack cultures are so toxic.
by namibj | 2025-11-27 22:06:52+00:00
Both, currently; notably it's mostly not what goes to your local grid, but rather mostly to the larger scale grid. It's about a 60/40 to 70/30 split between production/"grid-usage-fee" ("Netznutzungsentgelt").

It basically pays off the grid stability provision bids for fast-response power, and the transmission itself.

It'd likely be helpful if the peak part could be regulated in a way that's more condusive to match the actual impact you create on transformer sizing, not the worst-case impact you might have. Because there's a difference between a mostly-uncorrelated peak of shower+cooking vs. the car+cold day, because your neighbours don't shower the same time, but the several hours of charging do often overlap and the cold is the same across a neighbourhood that shares a local substation.

But yeah, for the most part, transformer size isn't that large of a contributor to overall electricity provision expenses, so I don't expect that to be a significant problem by that 2027 law.
by belorn | 2025-11-27 22:07:47+00:00
I wish you luck. The music industry basically won their fight in forcing safeguards against AI music. The film industry are gaining laws regulating AI film actors. The code generating AI are only training on freely accessible code and not proprietary code. There is multiple laws being made against AI porn all over the world (or possible already on the books).

What we should fight is Rules For Thee but Not for Me.
by chatmasta | 2025-11-27 22:08:30+00:00
Lockfiles work if you combine them with version pinning (exact version, no semver), or always run `npm install ci` unless you’re intentionally attempting to update your packages.

I’ve always preferred exact versions because I’d rather updates be opt-in rather than an opt-out footgun. Otherwise any new dev to the project might accidentally pull some new version of a package that satisfies the semver requirement but modifies the lockfile, then they’ll check it into the code, and it’s another thing to fix at review time… there’s just a lot less friction if you use exact versions. It makes hermetic/reproducible builds and static dependency analysis easier, too.

Of course you need some update hygiene, preferably via an automated bot that opens PRs and runs tests. Renovate works well.

(btw, this same issue occurs with Docker base images; it’s better to base images on the sha256sum of the target image rather than a floating tag. Renovate can update those too.)
by infinet | 2025-11-27 22:08:32+00:00
There were similar comments on HN. The argument goes that since it takes energy to produce PV panels and wind turbines, China effectively is an energy exporting country. What’s even better is some of the PV and turbines are produced with renewable energy. And unlike oil and gas, which are used only once, PV panels and wind turbines generate power for many years.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-27 22:08:55+00:00
Blogs like this make me go on the same rant for the n-th time:

Consistency for distributed systems is impossible without APIs returning cookies containing vector clocks.

The idea is simple: every database has a logical sequence number (LSN), which the replicas try to catch up to -- but may be a little bit behind. Every time an API talks to a set of databases (or their replicas) to produce a JSON response (or whatever), it ought to return the LSNs of each database that produced the query in a cookie. Something like "db1:591284;db2:10697438".

Client software must then union this with their existing cookie, and return the result of that to the next API call.

That way if they've just inserted some value into db1 and the read-after-write query ends up going to a read replica that's slightly behind the write master (LSN 591280 instead of 591284) then the replica can either wait until it sees LSN >= 591284, or it can proxy the query back to the write master. A simple "expected latency of waiting vs proxying" heuristic can be used for this decision.

That's (almost entirely) all you need for read-after-write transactional consistency at every layer, even through Redis caches and stateless APIs layers!
by kodama-lens | 2025-11-27 22:09:10+00:00
It has gotten way worse since the Ai rise. Before it was the "how to be a winner" mindset now everything gets posted. Mostly AI garneted slop with glitchy AI images that advertise just plain false information. No one corrects stuff and barley anyone actually clicks a link an a post - no one cares. Just mindless self fap,fap,fap, like TikTok but for "professional" and business people
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-11-27 22:09:19+00:00
Point #2 ("somewhat less fit... on average") is totally inaccurate if the parents are statistically average in the modern/Western world. It's accurate if the parents are extraordinary, in which case all children will likely be less extraordinary. It may be accurate in conditions of high infant mortality.

I'm not sure if point #29 is supposed to be a joke. If it's a joke, it's in exceedingly poor taste. Polybius had it figured out more than two thousand years ago: Democracy is an unstable cyclical thing, and nothing to celebrate. If you want proof of this statement, look around you.
by pram | 2025-11-27 22:09:45+00:00
My LinkedIn feed has been unrelentingly depressing recently, more than anything. Every time I log in it’s former coworkers posting about how they have been jobless for a year+ or posts like “I was diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer, goodbye!”

IDK if the vapid LLM slop is worse than this pit of despair and misery, hard to say.
by newyankee | 2025-11-27 22:09:55+00:00
That is amazing if they can do all of this at < 10 % of the cost of frontier labs. Off course they work in the shadows of the great work done in the frontier labs and shared, but there is some exceptional high speed execution happening behind the scenes that shows this is clearly a race, but a race where China is happy to be #2 as long as the gap is not significant and the costs are reasonable
by Swizec | 2025-11-27 22:10:00+00:00
> A Principal Engineer should be just as valued and well-treated as a CTO. Most companies fail to do this, so everyone wants to be the CTO. Establish a career track, where technical people aspire to technical positions.

I spent my whole career avoiding engineering management and trying to grow in the pure technical leadership direction. One day I realized that for every staff engineer there are 10 managers, for every principal there are 5 senior managers, etc.

Turns out management is not so bad and companies seem to appreciate that kind of help a lot more

edit: also as a manager you get to work on all those pesky “It’s a people problem, actually” parts of engineering which is pretty fun. Every time in technical leadership where it felt like “Well we’ve got the plan now we just gotta incentivize doing the plan” you’re the one doing the incentivizing yay!
by owenkaplinsky | 2025-11-27 22:10:05+00:00
I just built MCP Blockly, a full visual environment for creating real MCP servers with block based logic. Research shows that learners develop stronger understanding when they work hands on, so the goal here is to make MCP development something you can explore directly rather than only read about.

Under the hood, every block on the canvas is converted into live Python through a custom generator that rebuilds your MCP function signature, parameters, and logic on each edit. The AI assistant reads the entire workspace through a structured representation, plans multi step changes, creates and adjusts blocks, tests your tool with real inputs, and can even deploy the finished MCP server to your Hugging Face account.

If you like the project, please leave a like on the HuggingFace Space!
by thesz | 2025-11-27 22:10:12+00:00
SparseCores appear to be block-sparse as opposed to element-sparse. They use 8- and 16-wide vectors to compute.

Here's another inference-efficient architecture where TPUs are useless: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.08277

There is no matrix-vector multiplication. Parameters are estimated using Gumbel-Softmax. TPUs are of no use here.

Inference is done bit-wise and most efficient inference is done after application of boolean logic simplification algorithms (ABC or mockturtle).

In my (not so) humble opinion, TPUs are example case of premature optimization.
by gspr | 2025-11-27 22:10:27+00:00
> So what? I can probably produce parts of the header from memory. Doesn't mean my brain is GPLed.

Your brain is part of you. Some might say it is your very essence. You are human. Humans have inalienable rights that sometimes trump those enshrined by copyright. One such right is the right to remember things you've read. LLMs are not human, and thus don't enjoy such rights.

Moreover, your brain is not distributed to other people. It's more like a storage medium than a distribution. There is a lot less furore about LLMs that are just storage mediums, and where they themselves or their outputs are not distributed. They're obviously not very useful.

So your analogy is poor.
by munk-a | 2025-11-27 22:10:36+00:00
I think it's more just a bizarre platform for us to gawk at. I'm not really certain why LinkedIn even has social features available if it's purporting to be a professional space and especially a professional space that is going to be your first impression for a new job prospect. Maybe having a loud profile is a positive to some sorts of recruiters but posting anything beside resume information on that site just seems like a guaranteed malus on future prospects. Even if you'd like to run a live blog on some project you're working on as a sort of portfolio - do it on a platform you have full control of in case you want to rescind it or modify it later.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-27 22:11:23+00:00
On the contrary, part of being a well-adjusted person is learning how to express any emotion in a gradual and controlled fashion, without letting it dominate your behavior in dysfunctional ways. As the ancient philosopher Epictetus famously put it: "If anyone were to deliver your body in public to whomever he wished, that any passer-by might do as he liked with it, you would certainly be angry and indignant. But that you should then set your mind at the mercy of all the world, to be troubled and disturbed whenever anyone should happen to revile you--are you not ashamed of that?" In a way, this is at essence the underlying tension that's inherently in play whenever someone advocates for "vulnerability".
by namibj | 2025-11-27 22:11:26+00:00
It's legacy tactics; against the hacking the comparable thing for internet connections has historically been iirc 5 minute chunks and then taking the 95th percentile (like, charging not the highest, but the one 5% away from the highest). Not sure about the 5 min aggregation tbh.

The 15 minute chunks are due to the German and much of the European grid market being in that chunk size.
by jsheard | 2025-11-27 22:11:41+00:00
> It's also worth noting, DOTA 2 is far-and-away the more complicated game than League of Legends.

Although OpenAI Five didn't actually engage with DOTAs full complexity at any point. In its most advanced form the AI and human teams were still restricted to a pool of 18 fairly simple heroes from the full roster of 117 at the time, and several other standard mechanics were still disabled or simplified, which significantly narrowed the scope of what the AI had to deal with.
by eschaton | 2025-11-27 22:13:03+00:00
I suspect something like this happened.

- He attended a nearby church’s youth group in hopes of meeting “marriageable” women, in his mid-late 20s or older; - Was bothering the girls or young women in attendance by being straightforward about his weird intentions; - Wouldn’t leave when asked politely to do so; and, - Had to be removed by security (maybe an off-duty cop?) or the police.

It sounds like in being removed, he made a scene, and they had to lay out right then and there (“in front of a whole bunch of eligible young adults”) that he was at least 10 years older than everyone else attending and that made his presence weird and inappropriate.
by locallost | 2025-11-27 22:13:25+00:00
You didn't mention it, but it was mentioned somewhere else and is a typical response. My main point is that these things are complex and can't really be reduced to a simple sentence. As for the electricity itself, most countries have cheap electricity because of subsidies. The issue with German "high" electricity price was never that it was truly high, it was that the actual cost was on the actual bill. This is typically not true.

I don't work in the industry, but I agree with this assessment. I don't want to reduce all Germans to a stereotype, but I agree there is just a lot of inertia and being successful because it used to be successful. Like e.g. Intel, and it will eventually run out. The whole Europe reminds of the tired part in that wired vs tired meme. People live a good life, which is good, but it makes them want to strive to preserve that. So no wonder they trust their fortunes to someone like Friedrich Merz, a bean counter, whose biggest accomplishment in life was that he submitted a tax report on a "Bierdeckel". That's not the way to go forward.

One of the last worldwide relevant things coming out of Germany was the Energiewende, yet many people outright reject it because it interferes with their comfort and the way it used to be done. But in reality either by luck or genius, completely nailed it and was the first in creating a completely new world. But then nothing.
by keernan | 2025-11-27 22:13:56+00:00
I'm no historian, but has there ever been a society in world history that wasn't dominated by a 'privileged few'?

Weren't the 'rules' of the United States of America written by wealthy white males who excluded women, non-whites, and the non-wealthy (eg non-land owning) from participating in the new nation?

As much as the worldwide turn to fascism worries me, I don't see the lives of most people in the world changing very drastically from any other time in history. Maybe the openness by which the privileged exercise their power is a bit higher on the historical scale, but the lives of the non-privileged, world wide, really don't change much over history. Sure, the invention of fire, electricity, etc benefitted all of mankind, but the distinctions of 'how life is lived' between the privileged and the non-privileged has always been dramatic.
by elashri | 2025-11-27 22:14:12+00:00
I only maintain a profile on LinkedIn because it is standard and expected. But I never open the website except when I get notification maybe on important message or to update significant part. I don't read posts or anything else. I even block the website on my AdGuard Home instance and added it to kagi seach blocked sites.

I don't see any reason why would I try to engage with people there. And that's even before LLMs, they just made it much worse.
by jjtheblunt | 2025-11-27 22:14:21+00:00
I'm using both fedora desktop and fedora kde and they look entirely normal, graphical desktops. i suspect (haven't verified) the UTM app wrapper is presenting access to the underlying Metal framework etc, so Fedora thinks its running on normal devices about which it already knew.

I didn't have to do _anything_ weird: just grabbed the latest Fedora iso for aarch64 ( or arm64...i forget what it was named), and voila.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-27 22:14:26+00:00
“ The lens I look at this through is my grandfather, who developed film for a living. That job disappeared. Nobody cried out for the film developers when we made the shift to digital.”

This is how progress has created so much human suffering, by impacting people in a way just sparse enough that you can believably imply “no one cried out for x”.

Yes they did, it impacted thousands if not multiples of that; many in ways that they never recovered from. Some of them probably committed suicide, or ended up homeless, or in some other way had their life destroyed. And that impact reverberated onto their friends, families and communities. And maybe the New York Times even wrote an article about it, but we collectively as a society ignored that suffering.
by leobuskin | 2025-11-27 22:14:54+00:00
/usr/local/bin/promptrun

#!/bin/bash file="$1" model=$(sed -n '2p' "$file" | sed 's/^# \*//') prompt=$(tail -n +3 "$file") curl -s https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages \ -H "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ -H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \ -d "{ \"model\": \"$model\", \"max_tokens\": 1024, \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": $(echo "$prompt" | jq -Rs .)}] }" | jq -r '.content[0].text'

hello.prompt

#!/usr/local/bin/promptrun # claude-sonnet-4-20250514 Write a haiku about terminal commands.
by mvkel | 2025-11-27 22:14:56+00:00
I don't think it's this binary.

Influence and power are far more intoxicating currencies than affiliate revenue.

And if someone complained "you're just publishing this helpful thing to become more influential in [community]," well, at some point we need to acknowledge incentives drive all behavior in one way or another.

Refusing the incentive doesn't make one per se virtuous.
by lgl | 2025-11-27 22:15:57+00:00
Always awesome content from Fabien Sanglard! +1

Quake 1/Quakeworld gladly live on! I'm a big fan for many years so I always encourage anybody to try it. [0] Still one of the best FPS ever built imho.

The community [1] keeps on improving the game and infrastructure and we can now even spectate games straight through the browser without having to download anything. [2]

[0] Download free (and legal) at https://nquake.com

[1] EU Discord: http://discord.quake.world | US Discord: http://discord.usquake.world

[2] Check out the "Web QTV" links at https://hub.quakeworld.nu
by namibj | 2025-11-27 22:16:17+00:00
Actually the local cost is not the fuse size, but how much smaller the first transformer after you could be if you weren't there. Though it's often more fair to determine such for each user; then take those as a relative scale, then split the transformer's actual TCO by the determined share sizes between the users. Because the first user needs the transformer to it's peak size; the second only by the instantaneous-added peak size, which is lower as they won't use it peak at the same time.
by mlyle | 2025-11-27 22:17:04+00:00
> Point #2 ("somewhat less fit... on average") is totally inaccurate if the parents are statistically average in the modern/Western world.

I wonder if you've misunderstood the point. Offspring are expected to be less fit on average because -things can go wrong- (mutations, birth defects, etc). But selection is a counterweight to this.