MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AuthAuth | 2025-11-05 21:49:43+00:00
I dont think China deserves that hat tip. Their "commitment" was done years after all the major nations had committed to emissions reduction and seems to have only been done so they could sell the solution. They've made little attempt to reduce emissions and instead scaled their industrial base to capitalize on the demand from nations working to reduce their carbon footprint.

The only thing they've done to greenwash their image is spend money buying articles that present the false image of a green china.
Load Testing Sucks
by iyang_steraflow | 2025-11-05 21:49:44+00:00
Load testing sucks. Nothing’s been rolled out internally for months because every test cycle turns into a full-blown ordeal. Half the team hates maintaining scripts that break every deploy, the other half is too scared to touch them.

We even fired our QA team thinking we’d automate the whole thing, and somehow it’s worse. Now we’re rolling back a regional service because of performance issues we didn’t even know existed.

Please, who has answers?
by m463 | 2025-11-05 21:49:54+00:00
> No, no. We disavow AI because our great leaders inexplicably trust it more than Brenda.

I would add a little nuance here.

I know a lot of people who don't have technical ability either because they advanced out of hands-on or never had it because it wasn't their job/interest.

These types of people are usually the folks who set direction or govern the purse strings.

here's the thing: They are empowered by AI. they can do things themselves.

and every one of them is so happy. They are tickled pink.
by ebbi | 2025-11-05 21:50:02+00:00
Exactly. I'm conflicted, because as much as I benefit from being a shareholder of companies, I am also acutely aware of the fact that once a company is listed on the stock exchange, there is an inverse relationship between profit-focus and user-focus.

Not being on the stock exchange, a company like Apple could be like, you know what, we make enough money from our hardware and services to both grow and pay our people well, so we will remove the 30% fee on apps and keep our developers happy and loyal, increase the cloud storage capacity for our customers, etc. But they simply can't do that, because it's all about YoY revenue growth to keep the shareholders happy.
by ajross | 2025-11-05 21:50:11+00:00
Yeah, but "the standard" in this case is basically "everyone's slightly racist drunk uncle". You or I might disagree with that politics but it's absolutely not "uncommon", at all. In fact there's nothing particularly notable about the guy's opinions at all absent the financial force behind them.

So... are we cancelling the guy for his opinions or engaging in praxis trying to eliminate his ideology's funding? Very different moral calculus, IMHO, and neither seems very well justified (or implemented[1]) by the attitude I'm seeing in these debates.

[1] I mean, downvoting your fellow lefty traveller in a tiff over the car he drives might feel good but it's clearly not having the desired effect of changing Musk's politics. I am not your enemy, basically. Why are you fighting with the guy who's already voting for your candidates?
by sjfkeifj | 2025-11-05 21:50:12+00:00
> Those are US weapons that are used to kill!

I think it's important to raise awareness, and do whatever we can to oppose this sort of activity, but what is your source for this claim specifically?

I have been unable to find any substantiating information that US is supplying weapons, or aide of any kind, to the Rapid Support Forces of Sudan.
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by abdullahkhalids | 2025-11-05 21:51:27+00:00
Canada, this year committed to spending $3.9 billion dollars to hopefully have just completed plans for a high-speed train line in six years [1]! The number of years and dollars to actually build the line are unknown at the moment. This is a project that has humongous potential economic upside.

Would Canada be able to build a seawall to protect Vancouver? I am not sure.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-announces-high-spee...
by Rizz | 2025-11-05 21:52:08+00:00
Human foveala, the central part of your vision, has on average about one cone every 30 arcseconds, but resolution of 20 arcseconds is still quite common because the variety in cone density is quite high. So someone with good vision, maybe someone who would naturally be inclined to work in graphics, would need over 430ppi at 2 feet, or 290 at 3 feet. This screen seems to be perfect for someone with good vision at 3 feet, if you place the screen closer you would need even higher resolution.
by hnthrowaway0315 | 2025-11-05 21:52:08+00:00
I found it very hard to believe that a Chinese company has more influence than Alstrom + Siemens, in Europe. It might make sense if it's a US company, but I find it difficult to believe for a Chinese one, especially that the recent Netherland example shows that EU can do whatever they want using what excuses they can find, and execute very efficiently.

I'd like to post some questions for thought:

1. What is exactly the bidding process of that particular transaction the OP described?

2. What is exactly in the contract? Does it force the Chinese company to use a lot of local companies for sub-contracting, at the same time keeping a very low profit? In essence, this basically means the EU companies grabbed the biggest share while the Chinese company just got the job. I'm not saying this is the case, but I highly doubt it IS the case as I heard similar stories from other companies.
by raphlinus | 2025-11-05 21:52:13+00:00
Right. This is the binary tree version of the algorithm, and is nice and concise, very readable. What would take it to the next level for me is the version in the stack monoid paper, which chunks things up into workgroups. I haven't done benchmarks against the Pareas version (unfortunately it's not that easy), but I would expect the workgroup optimized version to be quite a bit faster.
by nashashmi | 2025-11-05 21:52:27+00:00
All of the ones I come across only extracted the points for action items. I didn’t notice any of them submitting to task managers.

You asked “how they are able to do this” and I said it has been a standard feature for a while now in meeting rooms. The additional features in todoist fills in the right data in the right columns, which is notable, but things like have been done with 30boxes where natural language is used to create events.
by chis | 2025-11-05 21:52:47+00:00
That's an interesting data point. I think covid did a lot of damage too. Kids spending formative years stuck in their room texting just didn't get the chance to build basic social skills and habits.

But it's hard to separate out that effect from just earlier and earlier exposure to modern phones. The class of 2018 was ~10 when the iphone 4 came out. And even that wasn't nearly as addicting as modern phones - it was tiny, and didn't have vertical scrolling video (except for Vine, briefly).
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-05 21:53:24+00:00
I still have this and I loath programs that breaks this consistency by shipping their own graphics toolkit stacks. This is a reason for me to deinstall a program and never use it again. Programs that are not 3D games or specialized CAD programs should only be allowed to use the OS graphics stack and nothing else. (This includes programs shipped by the OS vendor.)
by xboxnolifes | 2025-11-05 21:53:35+00:00
Mass extinction is not necessarily civilization ending. Half of all living species could die, 80% of all humans could die, and civilization would find a way to move on. It would still be an absolutely major catastrophic event.

At the rate that temperature is increasing, assuming it is not stopped, it's not a matter of will there be an extinction event within the next few hundred years, but how bad will it be.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-05 21:53:42+00:00
> many African nations attempted socialism in the 20th century, and all of those states have since collapsed

This is false. Senegal attempted small-s socialism under its first postcolonial regime (under Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1960–1980) and has had democratic political succession to the present day.
by kazinator | 2025-11-05 21:53:47+00:00
> Now imagine that, except the cable guy is ‘electricity,’ the day is ‘50 years,’ and you’re one of 600 million people. At some point, you stop waiting and figure it out yourself.

To what historic people did electricity come all by itself, without them having to figure out and build anything themselves?

For all those who have electricity, who was their "cable guy"?
by zamadatix | 2025-11-05 21:53:58+00:00
It's really only comparable to assembly level usage in the SIMD intrinsics style cases. Portable SIMD, like std::simd, is no more assembly level usage than calling math functions from the standard library.

Usually one only bothers with the intrinsic level stuff for the use cases you're saying. E.g. video encoders/decoders needing hyper-optimized, per architecture loops for the heavy lifting where relying on the high level SIMD abstractions can leave cycles on the table over directly targeting specific architectures. If you're just processing a lot of data in bulk with no real time requirements, high level portable SIMD is usually more than good enough.
by DavidPeiffer | 2025-11-05 21:54:11+00:00
I graduated in 2011. Smart phones were rare, but dumb phones were quite common.

The lunch room was quite loud. To keep people from being in their own world on their phones too much, my lunch table had a rule that if you laugh out loud at something on your phone, you had to share it with the table. It was quite effective, though somewhat embarrassing from time to time.
by losvedir | 2025-11-05 21:54:33+00:00
This has got to be ChatGPT, right? There's just a lot of... nonsensical phrasing and sentences? I love the story of it, but I can't take the writing.

> This worked great if you were electrifying America in the 1930s, when labor was cheap, materials were subsidized, and the government could strong-arm right-of-way access. It works less great when you’re trying to reach a farmer four hours from the nearest paved road who earns $600 per year.

It's structured like a contrasting pair of sentences, but it just doesn't make any sense. The things it's calling out in 1930s America aren't - or don't have to be - dissimilar from modern Africa. The farmer making $600/yr is kind of a non-sequitur.

> But there was still a massive, seemingly insurmountable barrier: $120 upfront might as well be $1 million when you earn $2/day.

No, it's 60 days of earnings. It's just a weird sentence. Taking a median US wage of $60k/yr or $165/day, 60 days of earnings is $9,900. "Might as well be $1 million" is a wild take, and a sloppy way to say it.
by chermi | 2025-11-05 21:54:38+00:00
Way to set up a false dichotomy. I agree with the "cleverness" and the pride people take in not being religious, it's silly. But there are many forms of religion/spirituality. At the end of the day, you're just pushing the Bible here, which isn't very admirable. Maybe instead you could encourage people to explore spirituality instead of a specific religion that you probably follow only because of where you were born. At least you didn't say we're going to hell if we don't, I guess.
by ghthor | 2025-11-05 21:54:39+00:00
I’m bringing charmbracelet to the web using gotty. The example is chat app that uses tailscale as the auth layer, and is exposed over ssh via charmbracelet/wish and over http via gotty. I haven’t written any docs yet; you should be able to run the example chat app on your tail net.

Would like to add some other forms of auth, but tailscale was just so easy to provide the same auth for both ssh & http.

https://github.com/ghthor/webtea
by hagbard_c | 2025-11-05 21:55:08+00:00
> My impression was that NYC had its own budget, paid for by its own taxes.

If those who claimed they would leave NYC for Florida (etc.) make good on their promises NYC will see a significant drop in tax revenues while the expenditures will skyrocket due to Mamdani's free-stuff policies. They can try to increase taxes which will lead to more net tax payers leaving the city. Of course it remains to be seen whether all those who said they would leave - up to a million people according to the legacy media - end up doing so but if this comes to pass those free buses might not end up happening after all. He'll probably blame it on the exodus and wash his hands clean off his campaign promises.
by martin-t | 2025-11-05 21:55:39+00:00
> i don't dimiss the layers of HR managing legal and financial duties in a company and thus taking a cut

I don't wanna dismiss them either but (along with management):

- It's not positive-sum work. It doesn't produce positive value for society, it's just necessary work which needs to be done as a side effect of actual positive-sum work being done.

- The pyramid should be inverted. Managers, layers, accountants, etc. should be assistants. The people doing the actual work should (collectively) decide to hire them when they think it would make them more productive or be otherwise beneficial to them. Not the other way around.
by m463 | 2025-11-05 21:55:47+00:00
I remember maybe a decade ago talking to a person in computer security. What I was surprised was a strange turn of events in the 'exploits' arena. Although they monitored exploits/cert/etc, they also monitored the people who were involved in exploits.

I kind of wonder if the political arena is quietly doing the same thing. Instead of targeting dissenting opinions, it might be possible and effective to target the people with dissenting opinions.

sort of scary.
by B-Con | 2025-11-05 21:56:03+00:00
> Asking why smart people aren't happier is a bit like asking why people who can jump high aren't more empathetic. There's no direct link between the two, you have to dip out to the material conditions.

I think the reason to expect a correlation is simple: Intelligence should produce a better ability to recognize patterns and identify the most useful ones. In a chaotic world, the things that can lead to a desired outcome are not always clear. It takes time and reasoning to cut through the noise and figure out how to get things done. There is absolutely a reason to suspect that reasoning faster and abstractly would make this easier, and thus produce more overall rewards.

Anytime intelligence is not associated with something, I interpret that to mean the topic is likely not a "hard" min/max problem.

Turns out, most of the human aspect of life is not a hard min/max problem.
by boogieknite | 2025-11-05 21:56:14+00:00
tfa makes a point about how 21yo self will answer the question differently than 30yo self based on different perspective alone

for a bachelor-degree-state-school-midwit like me if someone asked me if im happy i can choose to scrutinize and evaluate a real answer. if i were 14 and had just eaten lunch the answer would come right out as "yes"

i never think about happiness. i have fun and i have obligations and balance them

during obligations i use a trick to act happy: i just fake it. i call it "my good time hat". if anyone at work asks how i am, my default answer is an enthusiastic, "great!" the obligations are the same but go much more smoothly when everyone outside thinks im having a good time
by saltcured | 2025-11-05 21:56:38+00:00
Huh, I feel like you both changed topics midstream there?

I took your earlier post as saying that the ability to see the bigger picture leads to neurosis and unhappiness. But in replies, you're both talking like that ability lets someone figure out the game and solve for more happiness...?

Going back upstream, I'd say that the ability to "see the big picture" is not well defined. Part of it is abstraction and part of it is systems thinking and knowledge about additional activities going on in your world.

And, I think these are mostly orthogonal to a happiness. Your emotional disposition can cause you to see a very different valence in the same systems view.
by ruszki | 2025-11-05 21:56:48+00:00
I don’t know where you live, but I experienced outage in Budapest once in at least 10 years while I lived there. And only one phase was out, not all. We even lamented with my friends that we didn’t even remember when was the last time when something like that happened. I never had to reconfigure the clock on my microwave, just for daylight saving time. I know that even 30 kms from there my granddad still experiences outages monthly, but there are places where that happens very-very rarely nowadays.
by pksebben | 2025-11-05 21:57:06+00:00
Whenever I hear arguments about LLM hallucination, this is my first thought. Like, I already can't trust the lion's share of information in news, social media, (insert human-created content here). Sometimes because of abject disinformation, frequently just because humans are experts at being wrong.

At least with the LLM (for now) I know it's not trying to sell me bunkum or convince me to vote a particular way. Mostly.

I do expect this state of affairs to last at least until next wednesday.
by eric-burel | 2025-11-05 21:57:09+00:00
I had this idea to rent roofs to install solar panels, building a kind of decentralized power plants. I live in the sunny southern France where summer are starting to become unbearably hot, but at least this comes with a lot of sunpower. There are plenty roofs but sadly we install solar plants in spaces that compete with forest/fertile soil. I am not an energy engineer so that's not a realistic project for me, but are there similar projects around?
by throwawayffffas | 2025-11-05 21:57:13+00:00
> This make it less likely he's lying. It could be possible Microsoft France has a "rogue" employee system where a key person only obeys to Microsoft US orders rather than his French boss and French law. Then the boss can swear to the Senate that they're complying.

It's also possible that US employees had access to French servers without anyone in France knowing.
by V1ndaar | 2025-11-05 21:57:34+00:00
It's cheap to hide behind a pseudonym here and complain as you do. Given the time scales you mention and how you are complaining, I have a theory under what nick you were present in the Nim community though.

If I'm correct, I find your complaints especially about our moderators especially unfair. Arguably the only drama with moderators was in the context of Dom and you know that.

I really don't see where any of the current moderators can be described as "toxic", but you'll just say "you're one of them" anyway, so why do I even bother...
Ask HN: Feedback on specialized local LLMs/VLMs
by BlackForest_ai | 2025-11-05 21:58:00+00:00
We’ve launched causa™, our application that orchestrates and runs LLMs fully offline across Apple devices (VLM support coming soon). We’re collecting feedback on which specialized or fine-tuned models the community would find most valuable for on-device inference. We already support the main general-purpose families (GPT-OSS, Llama, Mistral, etc.) and are now focusing on domain-specific models fine-tuned for targeted tasks.

Examples: • Mellum series by JetBrains — optimized for software engineering • gpt-oss-safeguard — tailored for policy reasoning and AI safety

If you know of other high-quality specialized models (preferably with open weights) that could benefit from mobile deployment, we’d love your input.
by Gibbon1 | 2025-11-05 21:58:03+00:00
I read a decent essay about the difference between solar and wind reliability and fossil fuel reliability.

Solar and wind tend to be regularly and predictably intermittent but not unreliable. That's something you can design around. Especially when you have cheap storage to handle critical loads.

It's instructive to look at California's ISO website's supply graphs over the year. Renewables follow a reliable daily cycle.

https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply
by rodarima | 2025-11-05 21:58:11+00:00
In 2007 it was moved to Mercurial which I then exported to git when the hg server went down. The history from 2002-2007 was lost (I believe SVN), if someone still has a copy please send it to us. See the missing section:

https://dillo-browser.org/release/3.1.0/commits-author.png

The initial release was around the 15th of December, 1999. It's going to be 26 years ago: https://dillo-browser.org/25-years/index.html
by wahern | 2025-11-05 21:58:24+00:00
Google removed a ridiculous amount of material during the dispute with the Author's Guild. I know because a bunch of my legal history research citation links collected between 2007-2011 are long since dead, with the material completely gone, AFAICT, and either not discoverable or only available in excerpt. And this was stuff from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which definitely was out of copyright in the US, though some of it may have potentially been a headache in Europe regarding copyright-adjacent author rights that Google didn't want to deal with.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-11-05 21:58:31+00:00
I am sorry to say that, but copyright protection time should vary on the subject. Programming books - 10 years maybe? 10 years is ages in computer science. TV shows? 5-7 years maybe. After that time nobody wants to pay for watching old big brother or another Fort Boyard... Nor pay for storing it in archive. And this is the culture other creations are referring to.

We've run in Poland into very strange situation - Polish Public TV (TVP) paid for the great dubbing of some Disney shows. They recorded it on VHS which were overwritten by other shows. Now the translation and the dubbing is lost, found sometimes on people's home recorded VHS but in poor quality, because recorded from the aerial.
by glenstein | 2025-11-05 21:58:32+00:00
>voter ballot propositions illegally blocking a transmission line for years [1]

This is a disastrous misrepresentation of a complex case with lots of moving pieces. At no point in the history of the construction of that specific power line was there a challenge to legality of citizen initiative until after the vote. Meanwhile, as they were behind in the polls, the company rushed to build as much of it as they could knowing that the initiative was coming, so when they failed at the ballot box, they could claim a legally recognized "vested interest".

Absent the vested interest claim they would have been legally bound by the results of the ballot initiative, and the vested interest was not established until after the ballot had been voted on.
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