MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-16 10:37:38+00:00
But when (2) is what "my" country has to offer, why should I stay? This isn't even the typical tax evasion debate, because retirement is also an issue for average Joe. It's not like the other European countries are any better off, but the first country going to defect on this, is going to loose labour to the other countries, which then might even be able to cash in on their promises.
by owenlacey | 2025-12-16 10:38:16+00:00
Based on my research, MUs perform better than TBs. For my simulated information theories, the MUs gained ~2 bits of information on average vs ~1.1 for TBs.

So if only MUs, we're talking around 10 events - meaning you could get enough information on MUs alone to win the game! Conversely, it would take about 20 events to do this just for TBs.

It's not super obvious from the graphs, but you can just about notice that the purple dots drop a bit lower than the pink ones!

Hope this helps
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-16 10:39:16+00:00
That's another problem in Holland too. The government mandates people moving to heat pumps for new houses (and existing ones in the longer term) because they don't want Russian gas dependencies and they want to close the national gas fields (they cause earthquakes).

But then neighbours start complaining about the look of the outdoor units and causing hassle with court orders etc. Really if they want people to move they should make it easy and cheap, so invalidate cosmetic complaints automatically.
by verzali | 2025-12-16 10:41:54+00:00
You are just launching computers, with no propulsion, no attitude control, no solar panels, no radio/laser systems, no radiators. So all of that will take mass away from the computing power. A starlink satellite already weighs about 1000kg, and that really is just the supporting infrastructure you need before you start adding computers...

So yes, 10-100x extra is probably reasonable.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-16 10:41:59+00:00
> Homeless shelters are overcrowded and extremely unhygienic.

It's not just the hygiene. it's that in those shelters you're constantly surrounded by a few mentally ill and possibly violent people who will lash out in unpredictable ways and make life worse for everyone with their constant tics and noises making you live in constant anxiety.

If you're homeless but not mentally ill yet, then being in such an environment everyday will definitely negatively affect your sanity as your daily struggle becomes surviving the shelter, instead of working to getting back on your feet. Kind of like being locked up in a prison but from which you can leave.

So then no wonder a lot of homeless people feel safer and less stressed just living and sleeping in public areas than in shelters.
by jijijijij | 2025-12-16 10:43:08+00:00
I don't see any examples of a 3D scene information usable for simulation. If you want to simulate something hitting a table, you need the whole table (surface) in space, not just some spatial illusion effect extrapolated from an image of a table. I also think modelling the 3D objects for simulation is the least expensive part of an simulation... the simulation is the expensive thing.

I doubt this will be useful for robotics or industrial automation, where you need an actual spatial, or functional understanding of the object/environment.
by solatic | 2025-12-16 10:43:21+00:00
But that's the point, innit? How many SMEs need multiple production databases of that size? Nobody's really suggesting that Fortune 500 size enterprises should get by without DBAs. There's a big difference between an enterprise paying for a DBA take care of fleets of production databases, compared to a <50 employee shop that should do just fine with a single production database.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-16 10:43:23+00:00
Curacao is a few kilometers of the Venezuelan coast, but the Americans have deemed the entire ocean north of Venezuela as military operations. The people in charge probably don't even know Curacao isn't part of Venezuela.

With effectively no military and the Dutch government being an American lapdog, I doubt the people in charge need to care. They're already out there with orders to commit war crimes, shooting down an airliner or two that gets too close to their military aircraft wouldn't make much of a difference in the long run.
by omnimus | 2025-12-16 10:43:24+00:00
Fair. Look I think the big difference in perception is that in most countries outside US these trucks are just a symbol. Like if you see some F-150 or RAM it is always used by some angry MAGA and gun supporters. It makes no sense to use these in Europe. They are not road legal so they are imported under special licenses, they are so oversized they can't park anywhere. There restrictions on loading pickups so people don't even use the truck bed. Always one guy driving them. They are for showing off your opinions.
by StackBPoppin | 2025-12-16 10:43:26+00:00
I've tried suggesting this for my team since there are constant complaints of lack of communication. However, the response to this is "we have Teams/Jira/Confluence", but 99% of Jira tickets have no comments for clarification, Confluence has articles that are out of date by 5 years and Teams is never used for clarifying requirements.
by supersparrow | 2025-12-16 10:45:12+00:00
A boiler should actually be lasting more like 20 years. I recently replaced my 20 year old one purely because if anything went wrong, it’d become an expensive/long job to fix as parts were hard to find, otherwise it was still running perfectly at its manufacture specified efficiency. Running them for 20 years isn’t uncommon.

I had a quote for a heat pump - £20k, plus the cost to replace 13 radiators, plus cost to replace pipework to support heat pump rads.

Pretty sure the government ‘incentive’ was £3k at the time. Doesn’t come remotely close!
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-16 10:45:25+00:00
This should have said, that nearly all they told has not really anything to do with Git branches, but with a methodology to use them. The only Git concept that comes close to the concept of inheritance relations of branches is the first-parent, second-parent, <n>th-parent thing, something they haven't even mentioned.

A branch in Git is really just an auto-increasing tag, with an attached remote. Telling people it is some part of a history or that there is any ordering relation between different commit ranges with the same ancestor is only setting them up for failure. This seems like yet another article from the "Git is Github" crowd.
by birktj | 2025-12-16 10:45:49+00:00
The argument is that scams based on exploiting goodness causes a lot more harm compared to the ones based on exploiting greed. Because it trains people that doing good deeds is not worth it (they might be scammed.) And even if the rate of such scams are low, just reading about them makes people afraid of potential consequences of doing good deeds. So I absolutely agree that such scams should have very harsh punishments, because they do not only have immediate consequences, but they degrade trust in our society.
by Amezarak | 2025-12-16 10:45:52+00:00
I looked it up. It does not appear to me it would be possible to fit an American dishwasher in that car in the box, seats folded down or not, based on the internal dimension and hatch width/height or door width/height. It might be possible if you take it out of the box.

It's important to note that American appliances are generally larger than European ones.

I drive a small very useful car almost every day I have moved a ton of stuff in (including a DRESSER) but it's inarguable that trucks simply have greater utility for this sort of thing. And any time I do need to move something...I just use the cheap pickup I bought so I don't even have to worry about it or spend ages trying to squeeze it in.

Most recent purchase: Christmas tree. Yeah, that wouldn't have fit in my car.
by nlitened | 2025-12-16 10:46:26+00:00
> If your SaaS can’t compete on the service part, the software part ain’t gonna make or break you.

Oh, your bootstrapped team can’t simultaneously develop from scratch and support the new open source software project AND outcompete a multi-billion dollar business who decided to offer your service as a below-cost addon to their offering used by millions of people on day one? Tough luck, greedy bastard, you should have stayed in your cubicle.
by carlosjobim | 2025-12-16 10:47:04+00:00
This is world wide. Coke and Pepsi not only provide restaurants with soft drinks, but also all other drinks, most importantly beer. Local beverage distributors will be with either one or the other.

Restaurant owners will sign a contract with a distributor to buy only from them, and in exchange get discounts, free equipment rentals such as drink fridges and beer taps, and things like sunshades, tables and chairs, signage, etc.
by devnull3 | 2025-12-16 10:47:17+00:00
I am not sure I understood but the above is written from average Joe pov.

> It's not like the other European countries are any better off

Agree. As I said at the start this is applicable to other rich nations as well like the France.

In short, the UK will go down from 1st world to 2nd world (if one does not like the term: 3rd world).
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-12-16 10:47:20+00:00
I am very familiar with the Lazard LCOE/LCOS/LCOH reports and have read them cover to cover every year since ~2018.

The data and examples I pointed out are nowhere to be found in your graph. For residential storage, which you mention when pointing to pages 19-20 they base it on data from page 43.

Where they find an initial battery cost of: $721 – $1,338 per kWh.

I linked you to residential batteries at a cost of $66.1/kWh. Available off-the-shelf today in Europe. Unsubsidized.

This is unsurprising given that you can buy individual A-grade LFP cells for $50/kWh in Europe.

Don't you think lowering the cost by a factor of 11 to 20 is enough to completely rethink the calculus compared to your "graph"?

The western residential storage market is completely out of wack. You can often get a BEV at a lower price per kWh than home storage. And that includes a car.

> No need to provide another example, especially when your example includes subsidies.

Which example of mine includes subsidies?
by abhgh | 2025-12-16 10:47:21+00:00
I was not aware this existed and it looks cool! I am definitely going to take out some time to explore it further.

I have a couple of questions for now: (1) I am confused by your last sentence. It seems you're saying embeddings are a substitute for clustering. My understanding is that you usually apply a clustering algorithm over embeddings - good embeddings just ensure that the grouping produced by the clustering algo "makes sense".

(2) Have you tried PaCMAP? I found it to produce high quality and quick results when I tried it. Haven't tried it in a while though - and I vaguely remember that it won't install properly on my machine (a Mac) the last time I had reached out for it. Their group has some new stuff coming out too (on the linked page).

[1] https://github.com/YingfanWang/PaCMAP
by beAbU | 2025-12-16 10:47:31+00:00
> The F-150 is in one of the markets I think ev's will take over first (small commercial vehicles)

I agree that small commercial vehicles are the right prime target for electrification, but why the pick-up? I would argue that the classic van is a much more sensible small commercial vehicle than a pick-up. As a non-USian, do you mind explaining why the pick-up is so much more popular in this category? The van wins in all tests in my mind, except maybe that it's less manly?
by mothballed | 2025-12-16 10:47:50+00:00
What's 'paid' to the median child in education is a pittance compared to what the payers suck back out of them in old age during social security.

Public education is largely a scam to put 'original sin' of debt of children to society so when they grow up there is some plausible explanation that "we're a society" and they must feed into the pyramid scheme.
by owenlacey | 2025-12-16 10:48:19+00:00
What are some other gameshows one could nerd out about? I'll start:

An obvious one is the traitors, but I dunno if there's much you can do with this one as the contestants rarely gain much concrete information.

"Deal or no deal" / "let's make a deal" would have interesting game theory approaches - probably has a lot of parallels with Monty Hall?

Countdown (UK) - solving the maths puzzles on here using integer programming would be cool
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-16 10:48:20+00:00
>And no, no lists

There definitely are lists. You don't just get the surgery or therapy you need the next day. You get the next free slot in the list of people queuing at the hospital/practice that still has free slots.

For example the first appointment you can get at my state funded therapist if you call today, will be in june. How is that "not a list"?

Or like, if you call most public GPs in my neighbourhood, they'll all tell you they're full and don't have slots to take on any new patients and you should "try somewhere else". How is that "not a list"?
by fragmede | 2025-12-16 10:49:05+00:00
The problem with that is that it operates from a wrong idea of how to set prices for a product. From first principles, you make a widget, figure out how much it costs to make it, including your time, then add some amount of margin on top, and you have a business. That is incorrect. No, you have product, and then you just make up a number based on circumstances. If you're lucky, the price you manage to sell your widget for is above what it costs to make it. If you're not lucky, it isn't, and you have a sale, and lose less money than if you didn't sell anything. However, if you're lucky, you sell your widget for way more than it costs to make it, because of branding, aka luxury fashion brands. The numbers though, are just made up. That's the trick of capitalism. You just... make up a number! Once you understand that, the world starts to make even less sense than it did before. If pricing were cost-plus, branding and timing wouldn’t matter, and empirically they matter a lot.
by ralferoo | 2025-12-16 10:49:11+00:00
> I'm still confused about why multiple clients would be pushing the same message

From the information given in the article, it states categorically that the relays do not ever connect to other relays (which makes you wonder why they even choose to misname them if they're not actually relaying anything).

It then continues saying that clients need to connect to multiple (but not more than a dozen) to be able to receive all content from anywhere. The only inference I can make from that is that a client is responsible to receiving a message from one "relay" and transmitting it to another.

The obvious question then is how does the client know if the other relays already have the message? There are two obvious options:

* The client informs the relay about every new message it receives from every other relay. That means each relay will be informed about each new message from the vast majority of the clients that connect to it, which is obviously going to be expensive. It would also put the burden on clients to remember which relays they've informed, and if they add a new relay, the client would presumably have to replay every message it knows just in case the relay is missing it.

* The other option is that the client has to query the relay for a list of every single message on the relay and only forward on new messages to the relay if the relay says it doesn't have it. This could potentially be even more expensive, and even if the client/relay maintain some kind of shared state, if the client tries another relay, it'd have to re-download the entire list of messages. Even if we're only talking about message IDs, that's a huge amount of data to download.

In any case, if relays will just accept any old message and rely on the clients to check they were signed correctly, then it stands to reason that any relay can be trivially DDoS by bombarding it with junk. The impression the article gives is that relays would never verify the authenticity of a message itself, because that would break their distributed model.

The article doesn't provide any detail about how its new "relay" solution works. It just stops abruptly after asserting that relays fix everything, with no explanation. This is exactly the reason why I said the article feels like it's cut short.

So, without any hints to its possible implementation, one can only speculate and I personally can't see any way in which this solution would be better than a peer-based solution where "relays" actually relay messages between themselves. It's possible that whatever the author has created is truly innovative and groundbreaking, but they haven't chosen to tell us why in the article.
by hopelite | 2025-12-16 10:49:36+00:00
Americans are not allowed to have better quality, lower priced Chinese vehicles because they have to suffer the incompetence, failure, abuse, and plunder by their ruling class due to … the decades of incompetence, failure, abuse, and plunder of their parasitic and alien ruling class.

It is easy to understand what the tariffs are attempting and why, but what supporters don’t get is that at the very least it’s all wrong in sequence and timing, not to mention poorly executed due to the schizophrenic and manic nature of American politics that is dominated by the president’s supposed term limits and warfare of memes people believe. “A day late and a dollar short” has probably never been more appropriate.

The inherent problem with empire and reserve currency is that it supplies a drug to a ruling class that is already inherently prone to excess.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-16 10:49:44+00:00
>>In socialism it's much more random: black markets, lists, lotteries

>Evidence: the vast majority of European countries who have socialized medicine and seem to be doing fine.

That evidence of socialism working well, only works as long as there are enough resources to cover the needs of most people, basically some of the wealthier European countries.

But when those resources become scarce due to poor economic conditions and/or mismanagement, then you'll see the endless queues, black margets and nepotism running the system.

Evidence: former European communist countries who experienced both systems and where in some, nepotism to bypass lists still work to this day.
by omgJustTest | 2025-12-16 10:49:47+00:00
"I'm a tech lead, nobody listens"...

1. Listen to what other people say and what they think the problem is, or what the problem "says".

2. Think, ask questions to clarify and repeat step 1. Is the problem actually technical? branch a. otherwise branch b.

a. have you considered the problem is mostly not technical? then proceed to branch b.

b. what miscommunications are keeping the solution from being implemented?

3. Change minds with the words that are convincing to others. Dont be so convinced of your solution that you wouldnt take a better one, return to step 1 unless the problem is "solved"

My blog would be uncompellingly short.
by godelski | 2025-12-16 10:49:53+00:00
While I think that's part of it I can assure you there's also a lot of people running around with their brights on. I've seen them switch (after aggressively flashing mine) and the brights are a wider beam. So it is not just the intensity.

My running hypothesis is the autobright features on some cars is to blame. My friend drives around with his on and I definitely notice it doesn't properly react.

> they just drive a tesla, which just have blinding lights

I was thinking of that Deer in the Headlights ad from years ago and then stumbled on Mercedes promoting this... 11 years ago...[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3pTHSIYFlg
by krasserm | 2025-12-16 10:50:13+00:00
Programmatic tool calling is gaining traction in agent development: agents generate executable code actions for calling tools instead of emitting JSON tool calls. But existing solutions often miss an important point: a generated code action can itself become a tool, available for reuse in later code actions. With this approach, an agent's tool library can evolve at runtime: tools can be added, modified, or composed based on what the agent learns while working. The article demonstrates this with a Claude Code plugin for programmatic tool calling.
by torginus | 2025-12-16 10:50:30+00:00
Personally I haven't used Matlab since college (EE), and I haven't really done those EE things since then. But man, Matlab was indispensable (control loop design, system identification, all sorts of signal processing and E&M stuff).

One of the best things about Matlab was that it had an absolutely enormous library of tools, I could reasonably do everything I wanted, and more importantly, all the notation and convention matched what was used in EE, so I could easily translate whitepapers, and my own and others' calculations into code.

In scientific computing, each disciple has their own preferred way of writing things, so a system identification problem might be stated completely differently by a power engineer, a communications engineer, and a physicist, and deciphering each others' formulas and notations often is just as difficult as understanding the core point of the paper.

That's why a lot of math packages, which were written by academic physicists for other physicists were essentially impossible to use for EEs, and Matlab actually adopting the EE conventions was a godsend, even if it was proprietary.

As a programming language, I didn't like/hate it that much, I guess if I tried to develop an application suite in it like many others did, I'd have had an awful time, but for the simple stuff (in terms of programming) I did with it, it was fine.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-12-16 10:50:50+00:00
Like it's going to stop there.

It's not about the numbers of people killed anywhere.

The issue with people like you is Jews exist.

And a big tell is the attacking Jews everywhere.

It's always been about finishing what Hitler started. Doesn't matter if you're an anti-Zionist secular Jew. Your time will eventually come if this isn't stopped. Israel isn't the matter, dead Palestinians aren't the matter. It's the fact Yahud exist
by supersparrow | 2025-12-16 10:51:28+00:00
I’ve lived in the UK for 35 years and lived in various properties built in every decade from 70s-10s. Some much older and less loved ones did have single pane windows but have never seen plumbing on the outside. Maybe on much older houses? Certainly not on anything remotely new. A lot of new builds here have solar, heat pumps and insulation has been excellent for at least 20 years.