MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jamesu | 2025-11-21 11:47:05+00:00
A few months ago I used ChatGPT to rewrite a bison based parser to recursive descent and was pretty surprised how well it held up - though I still needed to keep prompting the AI to fix things or add elements it skipped, and in the end I probably rewrote 20% of it because I wasn't happy with its strange use of C++ features making certain parts hard to follow.
by bko | 2025-11-21 11:47:28+00:00
They already do this with social media regulations. This is the venue, not these adult content filters.

The UK already arrests 33 people PER DAY for social media posts and that was in 2023.

If we're going to throw people in jail for posting political memes anyway, at least parents will have some control over what their children consume.

https://www.reddit.com/r/charts/comments/1mut3gv/12k_arrests...
by mariopt | 2025-11-21 11:47:59+00:00
Games being optimised for specific hardware.

Some games just run better on the PS when compared to the PC version, regardless of you having the latest and best PC. You can see this fairly well on the Nintendo Switch, which is a low spec tablet but the games run very well and the experience is great.

PC Games, generally speaking, tend to favor keyboard and mouse not controllers.

This is why I suspect game devs will start optimising for the Steam Machine, provided it sells well.
by vouwfietsman | 2025-11-21 11:48:18+00:00
> That was the contrary to the thing you were originally incredulous about

Indeed, and not everything or everybody in the world consists of completely contrarian opposite opinions :-)

> Why would members of the government have a structural incentive to pass laws at the behest of special interests? Because they get money for it.

Not in a functioning democratic government, i.e most of them.

> If it's worth more to the public than it costs then the public should pay for it.

I think you should write a 10 page book that solves all the worlds problem by just taking surface-level obvious directions on big nuanced topics, I'm sure it will be transformational.

> and they're supposed to be in trouble.

Again simplified, the bank doesn't do this. It does things similar to it, how similar is too similar? That's what regulation tells you.

> because there are only three options

Again, no there aren't. I understand that you feel this way, but things can differ on a case by case basis without being hypocritical. The world is complex, unique circumstances require unique responses. Overly unique responses create bureaucracy and overhead and edge cases. Neither is ideal. Walk the line, balance it out, that's governments' job. Do they always succeed? No. Can the problem be solved by a two paragraph simplified solution on an online board? Also no.

Needlessly polarizing every topic into dogmatic rules is exactly the thing you are accusing governments of, and are yourself now doing. Reality is harder than mathematical or rhetorical logic, because of ethics, because of complex interacting systems, because people don't act rationally, because people don't act in their own interest etc etc etc.

There are plenty of governments that use tools to overstep their bounds, yours included, those same governments are also using tools to protect people from harm. Both tools are the same tools.
by vidarh | 2025-11-21 11:48:23+00:00
It's a fun post, and I love language experiments with LLMs (I'm close to hitting the weekly limit of my Claude Max subscription because I have a near-constantly running session working on my Ruby compiler; Claude can fix -- albeit with messy code sometimes -- issues that requires complex tracing of backtraces with gdb, and fix complex parser interactions almost entirely unaided as long as it has a test suite to run).

But here's the Ruby version of one of the scripts:

BEGIN { result = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] .filter {|x| x % 2 == 0 } .map {|x| x * x} .reduce {|acc,x| acc + x } puts "Result: #{result}" }

The point being that running a script with the "-n" switch un runs BEGIN/END blocks and puts an implicit "while gets ... end" around the rest. Adding "-a" auto-splits the line like awk. Adding "-p" also prints $_ at the end of each iteration.

So here's a more typical Awk-like experience:

ruby -pe '$_.upcase!' somefile.txt ($_ has the whole line)

Or:

ruby -F, -ane '$F[1]' # Extracts the second field field -F sets the default character to split on, and -a adds an implicit $F = $_.split.

That is not to detract from what he's doing because it's fun. But if your goal is just to use a better Awk, then Ruby is usually better Awk, and so, for that matter, is Perl, and for most things where an Awk script doesn't fit on the command line the only reason to really use Awk is that it is more likely to be available.
by autoexec | 2025-11-21 11:48:56+00:00
> I don't want another bureaucratic layer that tells me what to do, and run by yet more HR admin-types.

That new bureaucratic layer would be designed to benefit you, and if it were to stop doing that and suddenly no longer served the interests of it's members you'd have the power to replace the leadership of that union or to leave it and start a new one. This is a huge improvement from the current bureaucratic layer of HR admin-types which you have zero say in how they operate and which is absolutely not looking out for your interests at all.

It's hard to understand the mindset of "I'd rather just be powerless in the job I have because that seems easier."
by baxtr | 2025-11-21 11:49:17+00:00
I am no expert at all in this topic! So please take this with a grain of salt. I just have the feeling (maybe wrongly) that the love and focus for bees is having detrimental/ unwanted effects on the ecosystem.

Here some more articles / discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44505552

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44792207

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668879
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-11-21 11:49:30+00:00
I already stated in this thread that I'm in favor of smart regulation, not zero regulation. For example, instead of government licensing of doctors, I would be interested in a more elegant solution like requiring all doctors to carry malpractice insurance and publish information about the insurance rate they're currently paying. If graduating from a particular medical school is truly associated with reduced malpractice rates, that should be reflected in lower insurance rates for those doctors. Insurers would design their own exams which would probably be better than government licensing exams since insurers have skin in the game.
by jyounker | 2025-11-21 11:49:49+00:00
Peter Reinhardt is specifically talking about pumping massive amounts of a synthetic liquid into the ground.

The history of the 20th century is full of people insisting that some industrial product is perfectly safe to dump into the environment in massive amounts, and then it turns out years later that it's not safe at all. I can't imagine the process for injecting some new synthetic into the ground taking less than four years in any situation. It's going to take more time than that just to do basic studies.

The specific kinds of regulations he's arguing about have been written in blood and tumors, and they exist for good reasons.
by panick21_ | 2025-11-21 11:50:32+00:00
People need to remember that New Glenn is completely artificial in market terms. Blue Origin had literally infinite money, and if not sponsored by the richest man on the planet it could never exists. And New Glenn even if its 'better' then Falcon 9 (yet to be demonstrated) will likely never make back its development cost.

I think people just don't understand what an absurd amount of cash burn Blue had for the last 10+ years.

So when it comes to iterative vs methodical, this is a perfectly clear case. SpaceX did it faster and for an amount of money that is so much less then Blue that its hard to even compare the numbers.

Go back and just look at how many people worked at Blue, and then do the math on what their cash burn rate was just for people.
by mnau | 2025-11-21 11:51:31+00:00
It's the classic "think about the children" argument used to push through plethora of other shit. See UK.

I have very low trust in government (mine or other). We had these restrictions before. My country has been there, done that, for 41 years, not keen on repeat.

And unlike corporations (for all their problems and there are many), you can't avoid that.
by wvbdmp | 2025-11-21 11:51:50+00:00
I’m not familiar with that particular story, but it’s worth noting that there is a nationwide union for franchise restaurant workers called NGG. They negotiate standard wages with the franchise restaurant association BdS which all the big names adhere to (McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, but also, for example, Starbucks). Your story sounds like it’s about a “Betriebsrat”, which represents workers within a specific workplace, complementary to wider unions.
by lazide | 2025-11-21 11:51:57+00:00
According to the preliminary report, 3 of the 4 showed fatigue cracks, and the 4th overstressed. So yes, agree a random sample of these parts should be pulled from the fleet and tested - but something pretty crazy was happening here re: fatigue.

That it was so far from the maintenance schedule to be inspected AND that the fatigue cracks seem to have formed in areas that would be hard to visually inspect anyway points to either a engineering problem (especially bad, since the DC10 problem of a similar nature happened in roughly the same parts, albeit due to different abuse - you’d think the engineers would overdo it there, if nothing else), or some specific type of repeated abuse that particular pylon received, which is pointing more to a design problem.
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by notahacker | 2025-11-21 11:52:46+00:00
I assume they'll have figured out a deployment strategy for Project Kuiper where the unit economics works; there are advantages and disadvantages to launching more satellites, less frequently. SpaceX isn't that different in creating its own demand: the launch cadence of the Falcon 9 is so frequent mainly because they have a lot of their own satellites to launch.

You can make money on infrequent launches of niche stuff (and Blue Origin will target orbit injections and stuff like handling nuclear material for big one-off missions that SpaceX isn't interested in competing for). But New Glenn and to an even greater extent Starship owe their existence to an assumption that we'll be launching bigger stuff than constellation class satellites in volume to build space infrastructure in the next decade: space stations, space solar, lunar resource extraction stuff etc. If that comes to pass, the bigger question is whether New Glenn is too small...
by jacquesm | 2025-11-21 11:52:47+00:00
Yes, that's exactly how I read it. The aft lug was the first to go, the forward lug shows signs of stress so it held on longer.

I don't think they're going to be skimpy on the metallurgy report so looking forward to the analysis of the mirror parts on the other wing. Those will tell without a doubt whether it was maintenance related or age related fatigue. Right now I would bet on the latter but the former could also still be a factor, for instance, that bearing might not have had enough lubricant.
by toofy | 2025-11-21 11:52:49+00:00
> The problem in USA is that producing insuline is so regulated that setting up and maintaining production is obnoxiously expensive.

i don’t buy it. no other oecd nation has insulin prices as absurd as the us. this is a greed problem.

the only people to blame when the government starts producing insulin will be the pharmaceutical companies and their refusal to be decent members of society. if they were even a tiny fraction more decent they wouldn’t be in the mess they’re directly causing.

far too often companies are directly to blame for regulation as they repeatedly absolutely refuse to self-regulate and be decent pieces of society.
by jyounker | 2025-11-21 11:52:52+00:00
It's nobody on here is talking about Rheinhardt's #2 point: The US is not spending enough on regulation. He specifically points out that regulators are underfunded and understaffed. In the US, this is often an active strategy by conservative politicians to undermine regulations, and portray the story that the regulations are bad, when in fact, the regulatory agencies are being intentionally preventing doing their jobs efficiently.
by jalapenos | 2025-11-21 11:53:14+00:00
I like the honestly of it. When you despise your country and your people, and you've power, what would you do?

You'd (a) hurt them as much as you can, and (b) spend as little time there as you can.

And before someone types out some "but the other party muuur baaad!" tedium, yes I'm aware that absurd mentality is considered righteous by the simple, but if it matters: yes they are also shit.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-21 11:53:35+00:00
Every time when I see how these censorship laws are pushed, I cannot understand how it is possible that anyone of those who vote for them can believe that such laws can achieve their stated goal of "protecting the innocent children".

Actually I cannot believe that the voters, or at least most of them, are so stupid that they no longer remember what they were doing as children, so I can only assume that the real purpose of the laws is not the claimed purpose, but something much more sinister.

I am male, so I do not know about what young girls think, so perhaps they are innocent and they might be protected by censorship, but I am certain that the "innocence" of young boys cannot be protected by such laws, even if they were technically successful.

I have grown in a country occupied by communists, like Poland. There existed absolutely no pornography whatsoever. There were no erotic movies, no erotic books, no erotic magazines.

So one might have believed that the "innocence" of young children was "protected", but such a belief was terribly wrong.

Due to the lack of any other kind of entertainment, a favorite pass-time was telling jokes, many of which had a strong pornographic content. I have no idea which were the sources of the jokes, but there existed a huge number of them. Starting from the age of 10 years, it was very frequent among boys to tell such jokes or listen to them.

The content of the jokes included pretty much everything that can be seen in a pornographic movie today and any young "innocent" boy was very familiar with such content, even if most did not understand the meaning of many parts of the content, for lack of explanatory images.

Of course, no boy would admit in the presence of adults of being aware of such things, but I would have expected that someone being now adult would remember his lack of "innocence" when young and would understand how futile is to expect that "innocence" can be "protected" by technical censorship, when the only means that could ensure "innocence" would be to be locked permanently in a prison cell, to avoid contact with any other humans.
by Someone | 2025-11-21 11:54:26+00:00
> The core of the JMStV amendment, which has been debated for years and to which the state premiers agreed almost a year ago: End devices that are typically also used by minors should be able to be switched to a child or youth mode by parents with filters at the operating system level at the push of a button.

⇒ This will require OSes to have a filter, but it doesn’t require it to be switched on, not even for children using computers. Whether to switch it on will be a parent’s choice.

Risk, of course, is that this will be sloppy slope. Parents who don’t switch it on for their kids may get seen as not caring enough for their children, effectively forcing parents to switch the filter on.
by rs186 | 2025-11-21 11:54:44+00:00
I wonder how these decisions are made? Skimp on these things to save a few cents but ruin your user experience?

It's like Samsung uses faulty "Virtual proximity sensing" instead of a real proximity sensor on some of the cheaper phones (including S series FE phones) which results in butt dialing: https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/o56uz4/s20_fe_pock... -- seriously, is this the place they need to be frugal?

Or, although this is a matter of more than a few dollars -- all ThinkPad T series screens are terrible with low brightness and 45% NTSC color range, unless your IT department is nice enough to purchase a version with upgraded screen, which is almost guaranteed to never happen.

I used to like to hate on Apple, but these days, I appreciate how they don't cheap out on things so that user never needs to double check a specific thing in the spec sheet and deal with the mess.
by goku12 | 2025-11-21 11:56:00+00:00
I love how you mischaracterize it. All measurement systems are as artificial as Esperanto. So that analogy is meaningless here. But as far as popularity goes, the SI system is like English and the imperial units are like Esperanto. Never mind the age difference. So you're better off choosing the system that maintains consistent prefixes and units without arbitrary conversion constants. And that's what the rest of the world does. Meanwhile, enjoy the company of Myanmar and Liberia!
by autoexec | 2025-11-21 11:56:09+00:00
Isn't it a regular complaint that American tech workers don't get the kinds of benefits they would in Europe, especially healthcare? Even someone with a very nice American salary can be bankrupted by medical expenses very easily in America. When Americans do end up bankrupt it's usually medical debt that is to blame.

It seems like there should be room for a happy medium somewhere where some workers in the US maybe don't get the same salaries but are also not having to spend so much on healthcare, get more time with their families, get better just protections, etc. Once you make enough money that you're not really worried about meeting your bills and can pretty much buy what you want the peace of mind is more important than the bragging rights you get over who has a bigger paycheck.
by bko | 2025-11-21 11:56:31+00:00
I generally agree that social media regulation is the medium where political censorship is being pushed. I disagree that measures regulating Meta or TikTok are not popular on this platform.

This is a regulation that, at least in theory, would give parents more control over what their children consume. If you think about it on a family unit, this is pro consumer. You don't have to use it.

But in general I just don't think we need freedom max absolutely everything. I think its destructive to society (as is social media but this is much worse). Naive purely economic measures like GDP and consumption miss out on the things that actually matter, like kids being the first generation in history to have unlimited unrestricted access to extreme content in their pocket.
by santiagobasulto | 2025-11-21 11:56:55+00:00
Unrelated, but shows the "slow collapse" of Europe (where I live in).

We all know what a big issue Climate Change (and specially warming in Europe) is. So most European politicians go on and on about environment and all that.

Well, yesterday, I went to play football at night and finished at around 10PM. I was planning on taking the metro, as any normal European citizen.

Much was my surprise when I compared the time and cost to a Car Sharing app (Free2move).

The metro in my city is €3,80 and Google Maps estimated a metro travel time of 30 minutes.

I ended up paying €3,64 for the Car and made it home in 19 minutes. Worst part, the car was not even electric.

It makes absolutely no freaking sense.

So yeah, European politicians are just scammers. They're doing their own businesses while claiming to protect the population.
by journal | 2025-11-21 11:57:12+00:00
ranked hierarchical pagination and intermediate context control. also, text documents in database or text data in worth of 10 million documents? If you OCR, why not cache result? Also, Lucene white space tokenization is pretty good for dumb exact or close enough to get a filtered result that might fit the context windows better. imagine having to ocr and llm, instantly. i would do everything to avoid architecting a system like that. not sure if you're pointing the right end of the stick at the right problem. are you intending to max out your allowed context? what's going on here? you can usually extract rough set before you llm so ideally you'd never exceed 50% of context. How big of responses do you expect? you have a lot of options, just throw everything at the problem that's easy to implement first and see what sticks. make sure you got terminal access whereever you do this for max flexibility. i obviously prefer aspnet with psql. what kind of data do you need indexed? lets say you have something stupid like origin and destination based on locations and you need geo index and maybe zipcode database, and some intermediate step to calculate assets within radius, calc some distances and make a decision, adding geo to any problem is a nightmare, but fun, but only the first time. cause you know how to do it now but it takes so long you don't want to. if you have terminal and source you have enough space to maneuver updates, it'll end up being probably a one line to execute an update that takes some time to rebuild your solution and then it seems to automatically slide it under the working app i never experienced any problems. as for database schema changes, push out your production release to where the time between schema changes go down to less than 5% or something extreme but be aware there could be schema changes that are hard to implement even later, but after you're in production it's much harder.
by rft | 2025-11-21 11:58:17+00:00
That part also caused my tin foil hat to heat up. At least they get the credit of including it directly instead of adding it in a later revision that gets even less news coverage. It is hard not to grow cynical when you see this.

I am also worried about another detail:

> The states also want to prevent the circumvention of blocking orders by erotic portals ... using so-called mirror domains – i.e., the distribution of identical content under a minimally changed web address. For a page to be treated as a mirror page and quickly blocked without a new procedure, it must essentially have the same content as the already blocked original.

Note the part "quickly blocked without a new procedure" so there is a way to block sites with even less process and oversight. That just invites overblocking without accountability.
by mavamaarten | 2025-11-21 11:58:27+00:00
My visceral reaction is to the slippery slope, and the fact that our government is not to be trusted.

I'm honestly not against blocking social media for children. It's just sad that we got to this point. In an ideal world, parents would be the gatekeepers and the reason for not allowing their kids to use TikTok would be that it's simply not good for them. But I'm not happy with the solution, which means that you need a way to prove your age and/or identity to all these sites. Mkey. I guess. For social media that's one thing, but you already see that they're very keen on applying that same thing for porn now? Why? That gives my government highly fucking sensitive information about me. I seriously detest that thought, so I'd rather just not give any government the tools to interfere and/or closely watch what I do.