MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reddalo | 2025-12-10 16:08:44+00:00
Explanation here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...

> [...] we have three options for these kinds of words: “cooperate,” “co-operate,” and “coöperate.” Back when the magazine was just getting started, someone decided that the first misread and the second was ridiculous, and adopted the diaeresis as the most elegant solution with the broadest application.
by pas | 2025-12-10 16:09:48+00:00
In practice there are a few strong local unions (NY teachers, ILA (eastern longshoremen)), but in general it doesn't help those who are no employed. (Also when was the last general strike that achieved something ... other than getting general strikes outlawed?)

... also, one pretty practical problem with UBI is that cost of living varies wildly. And if it depends on location then people would register in a high-CoL place and live in a low-CoL place. (Which is what remote work already should be doing, but many companies are resistant to change.)

In theory it makes sense to have easy to administer targeted interventions, because then there's a lot of data (and "touch points" - ie. interaction with the people who actually get some benefit), so it's possible to do proper cost-benefit analyses.

Of course this doesn't work because allocation is over-overpoliticized, people want all kinds of means-testing and other hoops for people to jump through. (Like the classic prove you still have a disability and people with Type I diabetes few years have to get a fucking paper.)

So when it comes to any kind of safety net it should be as automatic as possible, but at least as targeted as negative income tax. UBI might fit depending on one's definition.
by formerly_proven | 2025-12-10 16:09:51+00:00
Celery has way too much magic crammed into it, it is very annoying to debug, and produces interesting bugs. Celery is/was also a "pickle-first" API and this almost always turns out to be the wrong choice. As a rule of thumb, persisting pickles is a really bad idea. Trying to hide IPC / make-believe that it's not there tends to be a bad idea. Trying to hide interfaces between components tends to be a bad idea. Celery combines all of these bad ideas into one blob. The last time I looked the code was also a huge mess, even for old-guard-pythonic-code standards.
by jbstack | 2025-12-10 16:10:16+00:00
I love the Netherlands and have spent a few months trying it out as a place to live. It's among my favourite places: moderate weather, friendly people, a high level of personal freedom, very high rate of English speakers, clean and modern environment, good international restaurants, lively town centres even in smaller towns, most towns have rivers / canals which make them very pleasant to walk around. I could list many other positive things.

There are some (big) downsides though. Properties are very small and very expensive compared to other European countries, so you can't expect a high standard of living in this aspect unless you have plenty of money. Taxes are also very high. In addition to the usual income taxes, you pay a wealth tax and the threshold is very low (around 55k EUR in savings/assets) so this isn't only targeting very rich people. This makes it a pretty bad place to live if you care about investing and saving for the future.

If it wasn't for these last two points I'd almost definitely move there.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-10 16:10:25+00:00
u/andrewstetsenko has lots of great posts on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=relocateme.substack.c...

https://old.reddit.com/r/AmerExit/comments/urwlbr/a_guide_fo... is also helpful.

(no affiliation, I just like folks helping folks get out)
by xp84 | 2025-12-10 16:10:32+00:00
Perhaps, but the places where it’s arguably nicer (than US) to be bottom 50% are that way because of side-effects of America being how America has always been. Without things like US NATO membership, someone in, let’s say Europe, might eventually find themselves made forcibly familiar with what actual fascism is, by being “welcomed” into Soviet Union 2.0, now without the communist trappings. If you think Soviet bread lines are better than SNAP benefits, I don’t think you’ve read enough history.
by criddell | 2025-12-10 16:10:35+00:00
> most ereaders don't have access to kindle's huge book catalog

Are you saying there are a lot of exclusives in their catalog, or just that Kobo devices (for example) can't access DRM'd Amazon books in the same way Kindles cannot access DRM'd Kobo books?

I've recently started buying books from Kobo even though my ereader is a Kindle just because I can strip the DRM from Kobo books.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-12-10 16:10:50+00:00
Again, so what? You aren't off the hook because of the actions of your enemies. It was obvious these would be going off around civilians, in homes and public spaces, including hospitals, and they chose to go through with the attack knowing this. That the civilians who would be around them would have no particular reason to fear or suspect this attack, because the vector was a common daily object.

It was an attack on civilians in pursuit of a non-military political goal. Terrorism. I think it was pretty successful on the terms of the people who carried it out but call it what it is.
by anon84873628 | 2025-12-10 16:10:52+00:00
My product is "API first". Every UI task has an underlying endpoint which is defined in the OpenAPI spec so we can generate multiple language SDK. The documentation for each endpoint and request/response property is decent enough. Higher level patterns are described elsewhere though.

90% of the endpoints are useless to an AI agent, and within the most important ones only 70% of the fields are relevant. The whole spec would consume a huge fraction of context tokens.

So at a minimum I need a new manifest with a highly pared down index.

I'm not claiming that we're not in this classic XKCD situation, but the point of the cartoon is that that just how it be... https://xkcd.com/927/

Maybe OpenAPI will be able to subsume MCP and those manifests can be generated from the same spec just like the SDKs themselves.
by mvkel | 2025-12-10 16:11:01+00:00
As an immigrant to the US, I've often viewed the fervent wish to depart (among natural born citizens) to be the ultimate form of self-entitlement.

That you'd give up so easily when your voice, presence, and vote, matters most. It's being tested right now, and leaving is the only way to fail.

Also, why do you think any other country would -love- to have you?
by oscord | 2025-12-10 16:11:01+00:00
What does Netflix has to do with AV1 codec? While Netflix’s Norkin has contributed some minor add-ons like film grain, Daala folks should have been mentioned along with x264/x264 guys who were at the origins on AV1 development, Google VP9 guys for their contributions and Intel maybe for HW porting, among others. Basically whomever pays for the show, gets to wear the crown. Nothing to see here…
by jabroni_salad | 2025-12-10 16:11:07+00:00
So far every image I've seen of this thing is too professional to trust. It looks like they solved the kaleido contrast problem, but none of the reviewers are actually saying that in the text. I'd really like an amateur side by side against something with a carta 1300 so I can judge the b/w contrast properly.

( if you are not familiar, here is a sample. The device on the left has a color screen. The extra layer causes the background to be darker: https://i.imgur.com/4W7YZu3.png )
by maerF0x0 | 2025-12-10 16:11:09+00:00
TIL that word.

I wish as a society we'd use this form of taxation more, and widely applied taxes less. In theory insurance is supposed to have the actuarial people who figure it out and properly price the choices in, but it's also surprising how crude they can be-- lumping very distinct situations as "the same". eg aggressive drivers are only penalized after they hurt someone, like the phrase "no harm no foul" (until there is harm). It'd be better if telemetry was collected and penalized in realtime.
by palmotea | 2025-12-10 16:11:12+00:00
> I wish I knew what you were so I could say "one of the many terrible things about __" about you.

I'm a software engineer, so I beat you to it.

> I always thought intentionally applying an emotional distance was a strategy to help us see what's really happening, since allowing emotions to creep in causes us reach conclusions we want (motivated reasoning) instead of conclusions that reflect reality. I find it a valuable way to think.

And the problem is taking that too far, and doing it too much. It's a tactic "to help us see what's really happening," but it's wrong to stop there and forget things like values, interests, and morality.

> And people tend to vastly overvalue our "humanity" anyway.

WTF, man.

> I'm guessing the ones that displaced horses didn't give much of a fuck about what happened to horses.

Who cares what "the ones that displaced horses" thought? You're the horse in that scenario,and the horse cares. Another obnoxious software engineer problem is taking the wrong, often self-negating, perspective.

Yes, the robber who killed you to steal your stuff probably didn't mind you died. So I guess everything's good, then? No.

> Anyway, I think you have an unhealthy emotional attachment to your emotions.

Emotions aren't bad, they're healthy. But a rejection of them is probably a core screwed-up belief that leads to "aloof galaxy-brain, passively observing humanity from afar" syndrome.

There's probably parallel to the kind of obliviousness that gets you the behavior in the Torment Nexus meme ("Tech Company: "At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.'") i.e. "Software Engineer: 'At long last, I've purged myself of emotion and become perfectly logical like Lt. Cmdr. Data from the classic sci-fi Logical Robot Data Wants to Be Human and Feel Emotions."
by electroly | 2025-12-10 16:11:38+00:00
The latter is a 4-core machine with 8 HyperThreads. This doesn't actually matter to your price-performance metric but is worth mentioning because it's the reason why the Intel part performs so comparatively poorly. They're fast chips, they're just wildly uneconomical. If you wanted to compare equal core counts (c8i.4xlarge vs. c8g.2xlarge), then the Intel instance type wins on performance but the Graviton is 58% cheaper.
by aa-jv | 2025-12-10 16:11:49+00:00
Australian here, grew up in the great south-west, and then I lived in the USA for 15 years, decided it was bunk, switched to Europe and have now been in middle-Europe (Austria) for 18 years, with a year in the UK and a year in Japan, for context.

My quality of life has increased dramatically with every move. Europe as a place to live is just so much better than Aus->USA ever was .. better health care, better food, better people and culture.

Only thing that falters is the weather - but I tell you, there is nothing more joyous than Vienna in spring time.

Anyway, I've run the gamut on western civilization. I won't go back to the USA or Australia, no sir - and even if, only as a tourist, never to reside again. Ask me anything.
by refulgentis | 2025-12-10 16:12:14+00:00
We’ve discovered the review that says the thing is bad, is actually an ad for the thing, because the buy link has an affiliate code.

Am I understanding you right?

I feel like we have stumbled into a classic HN tarpit, where people try justifying something obviously wrong by adding one observation and implying it can be twisted into one segment of the obviously wrong thing.

It’s a tarpit, because as soon as I point out this doesn’t change anything, you can either point out you were just observing or claim some other claim was what was being implied
by RicardoRei | 2025-12-10 16:13:01+00:00
Again, these things don't depend on each other.

LLMs have room for improvement (we show that their scores are medium-low on several dimensions).

Maybe the average human also has lots of room for improvement. One thing does not necessarily depend on the other.

the same way we can say that LLMs still have room for improvement on a specific task (lets say mathematics) but the average human is also bad at mathematics...

We don't do any claims about human therapists. Just that LLMs have room for improvement on several dimensions if we want them to be good at therapy. Showing this is the first step to improve them
by criddell | 2025-12-10 16:13:44+00:00
I have an Oasis and if I could buy a new one with USB-C, I would. In fact, I'd probably buy at least two so that I have a backup.

The Scribe is interesting, but it's too small. Where's the 13" version? I want to mark up PDFs on a full size (A4 or Letter) display.
by wrathofmonads | 2025-12-10 16:13:48+00:00
I sometimes wonder whether the political attitudes of some immigrants and their descendants are shaped by negative experiences or family histories from their countries of origin. This might help explain why people with backgrounds in places like South Africa, the Levant, or Eastern Europe often express strong libertarian views or criticize institutions such as the European Union, progressive politics, or European bureaucratic culture.

Many people don’t realize how much European countries have advanced. Poland and Romania, for example, have been among the major beneficiaries of EU integration. At the same time, American tech companies enjoyed relatively easy access to the European market for years, operating with limited regulation, while countries like Russia and China restricted foreign platforms early on and invested heavily in developing their own cloud and digital infrastructures.
by Froztnova | 2025-12-10 16:14:03+00:00
I first learned how these sorts of programs worked using memory inspection tools that some emulators have built into them, but eventually flirted with some very basic cheat engine stuff myself. More advanced stuff like code caving is hard unless you're an assembly wizard, but it's surprisingly easy to find and poke values once you get the basic technique down. I once made a trainer for a friend because he wanted to skip some of the grind for cosmetics in Nioh. I also had fun realizing that the enemy skill materia in ff7 basically works by treating what would typically be the experience of the materia as a bitfield, with one bit for each learnable skill.

It's funny though, I realized that I generally don't enjoy cheating at games, even single player games, unless the cheats are amusing stuff like big head mode or whatever. I once actually cheated to reduce my character's level in dark souls because I'd accidentally allocated a bunch of points into a famously rather useless stat and, in that game, stat point allocation is permanent. To clarify, I knew it was useless, I had mismatched which row I was looking at when assigning points.

Which is still cheating, I suppose, given that it saved me the convenience of starting the character over completely.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-12-10 16:14:22+00:00
>Taxes are also very high. In addition to the usual income taxes, you pay a wealth tax and the threshold is very low (around 55k EUR in savings/assets) so this isn't only targeting very rich people. This makes it a pretty bad place to live if you care about investing and saving for the future.

This was a deal breaker for me as someone on the FIRE path. It's neighbor, Belgium, is much better in this respect.
by throw310822 | 2025-12-10 16:14:38+00:00
> perpetrate unlawful anti-Semitic harassment

Interesting that threats to national security and "antisemitism" are put on an equal footing and clearly above everything else; also makes me wonder what is "unlawful antisemitic harassment"- the US considers every speech lawful as far as I understand. Or, if some speech is indeed unlawful, is it going to matter only if that speech is against Jews or Israel?
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-10 16:14:45+00:00
Kindle/ePub and audio books are great, authors are publishing more content from what I've seen that would be prohibitive to do so with print.

Personally, I need to not stare at a screen at some point and need to use print. It would be great if Amazon or someone else had a service that would take pdfs and epubs print them as mass market paperback and ships it to you. A lot of content is kindle/digital only these days unfortunately. I would think it won't cost > $20 per-print, I'd be willing to pay twice that plus shipping. Even for older books, you can only get used versions, and even then if you're lucky. It would be nice if the digital versions were available for on-demand printing.
by kmeisthax | 2025-12-10 16:14:57+00:00
Not surprised. In general, retail works way better when shoppers are on foot.

When you have everyone in cars, it's more convenient to go to one big store and buy everything in one place, than to go to three small ones to buy three different things. Shopping malls tried to bridge this gap for suburban retail, but the ultimate rules exploit was Wal-Mart: just build a giant box with a parking lot and sell absolutely everything in it.

The problem with one-stop shopping is the same problem as centralized app stores[0]: it creates a single buyer that can dictate to the entire market the terms of the sale. There's only room for 1 or 2 big-box department stores per market. General retail is owned by Target and Wal-Mart. Electronics is owned by Best Buy. Office supplies are owned by Staples and OfficeMax. Crafts and sewing supplies are owned by Michael's[1]. Pet supplies are owned by Petco[2] and Petsmart. Construction supplies? Home Depot and Lowe's. Each one of these are businesses that were built for maximum scale - to suck up all the demand in a market, region, or country for a thing and then mete it out to whatever supplier offers the best terms.

[0] The fact that arguments for the iOS App Store monopoly are the same as arguments for car-centric suburbs should not be lost on you.

[1] RIP Jo-Ann's

[2] Fuck Petco, all my homies hate Petco. Adopt, don't shop.
by mmaunder | 2025-12-10 16:15:08+00:00
I want these guys to succeed because they're a mile from my hangar at KAPA, but I guess key questions and points are: Industry is already using single crystal blades and superalloys, so the diagram labeling those is eye candy. No hot-day derate is great, but buyers still care about fuel burn so what does that look like? Power markets care about availability, maintenance cost and TBO in long duration operation. e.g. TBO for a King Air turboprop engine is around 3600 hours. (Sorry I happen to know that space better than others) That's 150 days of continuous operation. Overhaul cost for a P&W engine is around $850K, so a supersonic? I'm thinking a million per engine? And then there's the supply chain manufacturability risk.

It's a nice announcement. Here's a video that's been going around the pilot community on how, what Boom is calling "legacy" engines are made. You'll notice they're already using superalloys and single crystal blades and are running at temps that the metal should melt, but are using neat tricks to overcome that. And these engines are flying all around the world today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM

You can't build-fast-and-break-stuff with physics at this level. The rules are non-negotiable and you're taking the engineering right to the edge of what is possible and then pushing it a little further to differentiate your product. I think the GE, Rolls and Pratt are watching this and wondering how Boom is going to solve all the problems they've spent decades solving, and then still have time and budget to take it to the next level.

Edit: Superalloys in existing engines: https://youtu.be/QtxVdC7pBQM?si=fxzFXoSICX8dtsg5&t=1027 Single crystal blades in existing engines: https://youtu.be/QtxVdC7pBQM?si=XpnAgVH1QmLiX0g0&t=1650
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-10 16:15:12+00:00
I split my time between a Midwest state and Spain. My children and family are safer when in Spain, imho. Ymmv, n=1. It is more humane to the human, and the health insurance for a family of four is ~$2k/year. There is no perfect, just good enough. I do not worry about gun violence there, I do not worry about them going without healthcare, I do not worry about their human rights being impaired, I don't worry about them as pedestrians getting harmed by careless drivers driving unnecessarily large personal vehicles on urban infrastructure hostile in pedestrians (Houston is actively removing a roundabout because their drivers are too incompetent to use it, for example). This is my success criteria, yours may be different.
by ben_w | 2025-12-10 16:15:14+00:00
> Europe is a military vassal of the first, an economic vassal of the second, and an energy vassal of the third.

The UK may be something close to a military vassal, what with its "independent" nuclear deterrant relying on US missiles, but the French deterrant is not and France is not.

Economically, we're all interdependent right now: China depends on the US and Europe, Europe depends on the US and China, the US depends on China and nad Europe. Current US policy is pushing everyone everywhere to disconnect from the US, ironically without even doing the one thing tariffs are supposed to be a tool for which is protrcting strategic domestic industry.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has pushed the EU away from Russian energy much faster than it would otherwise have done from decarbonisation efforts. Given who the world's factory is, I'd expect a lot of our PV and wind turbine components to come from China, and even if they don't directly for the Chinese supply to substantially impact the price.
by hngitnol | 2025-12-10 16:15:28+00:00
Our Linked Server sync took 21 minutes and broke on schema changes. Built this as a replacement.

Numbers (74 tables, 21M+ rows): - Full sync: 3:24 min (was 21 min) - Incremental: 20 sec - With orphan cleanup: 43 sec - Largest table (9.5M rows): 53 sec

How: 1. SqlBulkCopy streaming (no temp files) 2. ForEach-Object -Parallel for tables 3. Staging + MERGE pattern 4. High Watermark for delta detection

Zero-config start: Auto-creates DB, installs stored procedure, creates staging tables, detects schema.

v2.10: Now supports configurable ID/timestamp columns. Not hardcoded to ID/GESPEICHERT anymore - works with any Firebird database.

Happy to discuss the implementation.
by spike021 | 2025-12-10 16:15:52+00:00
I've started regularly visiting a couple coffee shops in Tokyo whenever I go there and I'm on first name basis with the owners/managers, whereas if I go to the same shops in the SF Bay Area more regularly it's rare that anyone recognizes me.

I definitely prefer that neighborhood coffee shop feel and at least shops I go to near home don't have that. Even the smaller ones with similar amounts of business and number of employees as the ones in Tokyo.
by ternus | 2025-12-10 16:16:01+00:00
I'm afraid to replace the battery in mine, since it's glued together. It's only a matter of time before it's unusable. The latest Kindle software is already glacially slow on it (waiting multiple seconds for taps to register).

I'd take the exact same form factor and screen but with the latest CPU and a new battery, even if it cost $300.
by fidotron | 2025-12-10 16:16:04+00:00
I recall Yellow Dog, probably because of the PS3.

The big thing most people from outside the Acorn era of Arm are missing here is the Risc PC never had decent floating point support. For pure integer stuff the StrongArm upgrade was, at lauch, simply astounding, but floats . . . nope. (The StrongArm upgrade merely needed to be in the slot near the vents too, it had no active cooling or even a serious heatsink).

Oddly the later lower end A7000 came in a A7000+ variant which did have an FPU, probably because Arm needed to test their FPU out somewhere.