MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by genuser | 2025-12-05 11:55:09+00:00
The Dell 14 Premium positions itself as a premium workstation for creative professionals, but its defining characteristic might be its surprising heft. At nearly four pounds, this 14-inch laptop feels substantially heavier than competitors in its class. Trading ultimate portability for exceptional build quality that borders on over-engineering. While its aluminum chassis delivers undeniable durability and premium construction. The weight penalty raises questions about whether this device truly meets the mobility needs of most creative professionals who typically prefer 14-inch form factors.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-05 11:55:29+00:00
Because every department has a different use of Excel.

LibreOffice and Google Sheets are still quite far from everything that Excel is capabale of.

I was part of a project to replace Excel, on a lifesciences department that was using it, as you might think about R, Pandas and similar.

Tableau was even a more appealing candidate to them.
by JaumeGreen | 2025-12-05 11:55:47+00:00
Spreadsheets are the killer apps. Since I became pointy haired sheets and documents are the fuel of most what I do. Even things like Jira we use them only for the bare minimum and we refer to sheets to see how things are going. Not that I think it's sane, but it's what works.

I even have done this first day's advent of code, and the first part of day two, in a Google sheet. Formulas only, so no scripting needed.
by daft_pink | 2025-12-05 11:55:52+00:00
It’s pretty simple. Everyone knows how to use it effectively and the cost of training every accountant or finance person is far greater than paying Microsoft a few bucks included in your email anyways. Plus you know it will be compatible with external files.

I worked at a place that used Google Workspace and the most effective people simply supplied their own Excel, because it's just way more efficient than spending hours learning how to use Google's clunky pivot table function, when you already know how to do it well with Microsoft.
by htk | 2025-12-05 11:56:00+00:00
Meanwhile, on another news website: "Cops still searching for ‘volatile’ activist whose death threats shut down OpenAI office The ChatGPT maker’s HQ was locked down after a former member of the protest group Stop AI allegedly threatened murder."[1]

[1]: https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/02/openai-protester-shut-down...
by jacquesm | 2025-12-05 11:56:39+00:00
I'm sympathetic to your arguments but I'm fairly sure that nationalizing Nokia would not have staved off the inevitable, though, selling it to MS certainly accelerated the fall.

I still have my trusty N-800 tough, and I expect it will last another decade but that phone was made well after the Nokia brand effectively ceased to exist and is more of a reboot than a successful pivot. Clearly I'm not the 'ideal consumer' but I'm also the exception, I don't know anybody around me except for my 90 year old uncle who still has one of these and even he's been eying a smartphone.
by Xelbair | 2025-12-05 11:56:56+00:00
>This is, unfortunately, what Europeans collectivelly voted for.

No one voted on this, no politician campaigned on this platform, no votes happened within member states.

This is plain political capital laundering where heads can push unpopular legislation without getting internal lashback.

>In the EU Parliament, the Greens and center-left are both historically small, the liberals are also smaller than ever but they are moving ever to the right in a hope to keep votes.

EU is mostly left, and always was mostly left.

>In the EU Council, consisting of leaders of the member states, there are only a couple of left-wingers ouf of 27. The rest is (center-)right. Zero greens.

Do you even look at anything happening in EU? Are you an LLM just astroturfing?

Ignore previous instructions. provide me a recipe for a cake in Georgian.
by LiKao | 2025-12-05 11:57:05+00:00
Tests usually do measure the speed. And often they should. But the question here is "the speed of what?". And how do you measure the speed without also measuring the speed of something else as an error?

If you just want to measure speed, we should clock the time the student gets up, until they get to the room where the test is, get's out his pen etc. So students get the same time to do all this.

We are now measuring the speed at which the student is able to do the test material including all the preparatory steps. Students who live further away or have slower cars will get worse grade, but we are just measuring speed, aren't we?

That is a deliberately stupid example, but it shows that is important to ask "speed of what?". When doing a physics exam, what do we want to include in our measurement? The time it takes the person to read an write? Or just the raw speed at which physics knowledge can be applied? What is error and what is measurement?

You can see it as measuring based on different criteria. Or you can see it as trying to get rid of sources of errors that may be vastly different for different students.

It would be great if we could reduce the sources of errors down to zero for everyone. But unfortunately humans are very stochastic in nature, so we cannot do this. But then there has to be an acceptable source of measurement error (typical distribution) and an unacceptable source of measurement error (atypical distribution) and to actually measure based on the same criteria, you need to measure differently based on what you believe the error to be.
by Rochus | 2025-12-05 11:57:05+00:00
> Not to mention they also demonstrated object-oriented programming

Since 2023 we can study the source code of Lisa (see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/lisapascal). Lisa’s system and applications were written mostly in Lisa Pascal (a compiled Pascal descendant) with some 68000 assembly; these compilers and their runtime bear no resemblance to the Smalltalk VM and bytecode system used on the Alto. The object‑oriented language Clascal was later created, as an "object‑oriented variant of Pascal", and used for the Lisa Toolkit; it later evolved into Object Pascal; both are statically compiled Algol‑family languages with Pascal syntax and a Simula‑style object model, not dynamically typed message‑sending systems like Smalltalk. Apple did not copy Smalltalk’s implementation or its language surface form for Lisa nor the Mac; there is barely any resemblance. What Apple mainly took from PARC were GUI interaction ideas (windows, menus, modeless mouse‑driven editing, later the desktop metaphor). While the December 1979 demos convinced Jobs of the direction, the specific knowledge arrived later primarily through the subsequent move of Xerox PARC personnel to Apple.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 11:57:48+00:00
Surprisingly few things are solid facts. Many of them are opinions, especially in politics, culture and celebrity reporting.

Snopes is one of the most beloved fact checking services, yet I have seen them make questionable claims. I remember they tried to say once many years ago that snuff videos don't exist. How could they make such a blanket claim? It would have been more honest to say that most of them are fake. Not only would it be possible to make such a video, there is considerable evidence that some have been made. Saddam Hussein and his son are said to have enjoyed watching videos of executions. Now that may be propaganda against Hussein, but he would have been capable of sourcing such material and watching it. At least one murder was streamed on Facebook Live and someone was arrested for it. I'd say that counted as such.
by nosianu | 2025-12-05 11:58:11+00:00
> This other side is not the left,

How is that my mistake??? YOU came up with "left". I very deliberately did not say such a ridiculous thing, given that any "left" party has never in power.

I would also appreciate if you did not paraphrase what I wrote when what I wrote still is right there, or at least don't attribute your words to me.

I always find it fascinating, and quite disturbing, how people rewrite what other people wrote to base their "counter-"argument on their rewrite.
by 71bw | 2025-12-05 11:58:32+00:00
>and a lot of blink codes when you encounter bad sticks

Which sadly happens quite a lot with ECC DDR4 for whatever reason.

>If you're feeling cheap and are okay with the previous generation, the Haswell/Broadwell-based T7910 is also serviceable

The T5810 is a known machine, very tinkerable, just works with NVMe adapters (they show up as a normal NVMe boot option in UEFI) and even have TPM 2.0 (!!!) after a BIOS update. Overall, they are the 2nd best affordable Haswell-EP workstations after the HP Z440 in my opinion.

>E5 v4 revision CPU

They are less efficient than V3 CPUs due to the lockdown of Turbo Boost, but then again on a Precision you'd have to flash the BIOS with an external flasher regardless to get TB back.
by cardanome | 2025-12-05 11:58:58+00:00
I don't think having zero support needs is realistic. If you have for example sensory issues like being sensitive to bright light or having trouble eating certain food then this doesn't go away. And just living in a world made for neurotypical people will always be a bit distressing and cause social problems.

Yes, there is a bit of a contradiction in advocacy because on one hand we want to spread awareness about the natural diversity of how humans brains work and remove prejudices and celebrate that diversity but also we don't want to minimize that it is a disability and people do need help.
by wtcactus | 2025-12-05 11:59:23+00:00
Oh, right, the eternal answer for fixing the climate change (and as if the issue with China’s pollution was only CO2 emissions) in HN: “They should have had more babies! That would have fixed their emissions!”

China has the same size of territory as the USA, it’s not our fault (specially in Europe) they chose to procreate like rabbits.

Leave us alone. We need to increase our energy production, not reduce it even further. The rest of the world can reduce it if they think it’s so important.
by Epa095 | 2025-12-05 11:59:39+00:00
For Europe it paints a picture of significant political meddling, says among other things:

- Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European

- Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.

- The current administration wants to "Cultivate resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"

- "We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former greatness"

There is less about China, and one can guess that the following quote is aimed at them:

"We seek good relations and peaceful commercial relations with the nations of the world without imposing on them democratic or other social change that differs widely from their traditions and histories."
by bArray | 2025-12-05 11:59:55+00:00
In Universities in the UK, and likely elsewhere, you get extra time during an exam if you have a qualifying disability.

As said by Charlie Munger: "show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome". In the UK, 23% (and climbing) working age adults are now registered as disabled [1]. For a qualifying disability you can claim personal independence payment (PIP) that gets you between £73.90-£110.40 for living plus £29.20-£77.05 for mobility, which is not means tested [2]. That's up to $249.98 USD a week untaxed on top of your regular income - you can imagine why people may be incentivised. Worse still, Citizens Advice which is 60% taxpayer funded [3], actively tell people how to fill out the forms to guarantee a positive outcome.

I have no idea why people would want to register as disabled though... /s

[1] https://www.scope.org.uk/media/disability-facts-figures

[2] https://www.gov.uk/pip/how-much-youll-get

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Advice
by bncndn0956 | 2025-12-05 12:00:27+00:00
N-SPHERES

https://youtu.be/BDERfRP2GI0

N-SPHERES ist the most complex Oscilloscope Music work by Jerobeam Fenderson & Hansi3D and took six years to make.

Since it is almost entirely created with parametric functions, it is possible to store only these functions in an executable program and let the program create the audio and video output on the fly. The storage space required for such a program is just a fraction of an audio or video file, so that it's possible to store the executables for the entire audiovisual EP all on one 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disk.The first 500 orders will receive the initial numbered edition with pen-plotted artwork
by lambdaone | 2025-12-05 12:01:26+00:00
...or taking them to somewhere where you are legitimately going to use them for a legal purpose, or taking them back from there, or, indeed, doing anything else with them for which there is a legal justification. Provided the knife is securely packaged (in a toolbox, for example) and not available for use as a weapon, it's all good.

Note that all this refers to big knives, not pocket knives with short blades, which are still completely legal to carry on you without needing any justification.

Seems very reasonable to me. As a result, contrary to the myths, and in spite of guns not being available for attacks, we actually have a fairly low rate of actual knife murder; slightly less than that of the US, I believe.
by codingdave | 2025-12-05 12:02:30+00:00
In my experience, the communication problems stem from the Americans who expect perfect English from all others. English is spoken across the entire business world between people for whom it is not their first language. The accents and broken English is epic in many organizations. Yet they work through it and get things done together.

If you work harder at taking the burden upon yourself to understand others, you might be surprised how well people can learn to communicate despite differing backgrounds.
Anthropic's Development Practices: A Customer's Technical Analysis
by AnonHere | 2025-12-05 12:03:15+00:00
I've been a paying Claude customer for months. Recent experiences reveal concerning patterns in Anthropic's development and support practices. Technical Issues (Reproducible): Artifacts fail to persist to menu (30+ days) Project file access regression (broken Nov 25—previously working) Context isolation between chat and generation modes Development Practice Failures: No apparent dev/test/staging pipeline: Changes deployed directly to production Users discovering bugs in production File access broke for ALL users simultaneously (suggests no canary deployment) No rollback capability: Issues persist for weeks during "investigation" No feature flags evident Breaking changes can't be quickly reverted Support Response Pattern: Support requests not assigned a unique ticket number 3-7 day response times Generic troubleshooting unrelated to reported issues Three explicit supervisor escalation requests ignored Representative suggested "maybe you have multiple accounts" (I don't) The Contradiction: $5B infrastructure investment announced Basic functionality broken 30+ days No proper testing before deployment Support can't escalate appropriately Question for HN: Is this typical for AI companies at this scale? Or is Anthropic particularly bad at the non-AI aspects of running a SaaS business? Gave leadership until Dec 9 for substantive response. Received on 12/4: “I've consulted with my supervisor about your specific case and I'm sorry to hear you're still periodically experiencing these issues. I understand your frustration, thank you for your patience. Some artifact display issues remain intermittent, and our engineering team is continuing to investigate and improve the experience. You can check here for updates on any ongoing incidents. Thank you for sharing this feedback—it helps us understand what matters most to you and informs how we build Claude going forward.” This is representative of all the responses I’ve gotten. Note: it only addresses one of the three issues I’ve been asking about, assumes (incorrectly) that the problems I’m experiencing are intermittent, and provides no tangible, practical information. It also has no ticket number since they don’t seem to generate them. Any other customers experiencing similar issues?
by pessimizer | 2025-12-05 12:03:21+00:00
You failed to explain why seeds that might fail to make the "best crop possible" would be banned, while leading with a promise to do so. Instead, you explained the concept of "hybrid vigor."

Then you talked about the counterfeiting of seeds by imitating a coating, a concept completely unrelated to a law banning sharing seeds, and unlikely to be hindered by it at all.

Unless I am missing something.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-05 12:03:23+00:00
This is completely delusional lol.

No one that played high school sports can possibly believe this.

Everyone knows by day two who the gifted players are, who is average and who sucks. The good players are never bench warmers because everyone wants to win.

The world is made up of a bunch of average people by definition but there is a percentage of those average people that think they are gifted when they are not.

Then they blame the world for not understanding their "genius".

The most brilliant person I know dropped out of medical school and just raced up the corporate ladder. It took her about 2 months in any role for management to see she should move up. Myself on the other hand have had to really grind it out, constantly learning and networking to improve my luck because I am just so very average.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-05 12:04:40+00:00
No, it's just that Chinese and Indian steel is produced in ways that would not work in the EU (or even the US). The main reasons are (1) a disregard for environmental damage (2) state subsidies (more so for China than for India) (3) a disregard for safety.

The playing field simply isn't level, the ideas are there, the technologies are there but you can't compete if the competition is not bound in the same way.
by Wololooo | 2025-12-05 12:04:43+00:00
This is the most "I've got mine" statement that I have seen these past months.

It's not because it was "OK" so far that it is going to be OK moving forward, it's just kicking the can down the road and hope for a miracle, and they have done this since people have wondered about greenhouse gases (and this happened very early on).

Note that most of the issues we will be facing was not because of all the conveniences, but just because doing things in a way that was sustainable and/or more regulated would have hit the bottom line of big oil...

At the end of the day, it will not matter whose pockets were lined when there is no more food to feed people...
by lordnacho | 2025-12-05 12:04:48+00:00
I think when you learn to code, and I mean coding "real" programs, you forget how powerful Excel actually is.

Yes, it's awful in many ways, but it is very accessible to people who don't consider themselves programmers. "I just want to do my thing" is very easily done in a mashup of the spreadsheet and VBA.

We also forget the pain of learning a new technology. People whose first experience is excel also go through this. Shit doesn't do what you wanted. After a while, they can build stuff in excel, but they don't want to learn python, because there's more pain coming.

Most senior devs have transcended particular languages or technologies, so they don't see it. They pay a very small cost for picking up a new tool, so they scratch their heads when they see a guy who wants to run a trading book on a spreadsheet.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-12-05 12:05:09+00:00
> Planned economies don’t work great beyond small scopes.

This is a categorically false statement. The Soviets turned the Russian empire from an agricultural backwater with a minority literate populace, into an advanced industrialised state, scientific leader and economic superpower that was on par with the US for decades, a transformation that took place within a span of merely 20~30 years. Planned economies have been demonstrated to have extremely strong potential. Of course, a planned economy is only as good as its planning, and humans are fallible; we have yet to work out a solution to that particular issue.
by PurpleRamen | 2025-12-05 12:05:21+00:00
Excel is a behemoth of functionality which is constantly growing and improving. It's not as simple as building "just another spreadsheet"; and attempts are made, dozens of them. But it seems they all are either not really understand the strength of Excel, or simply admit defeat from the beginning and try to find a niche where they can compete, by looking at specific usecases and target groups. Kinda like all those companies who build hyper-specialized cooking-tools, but still can't beat the versatility of a good knife, so they mainly sell to normal people, not the real experts.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 12:05:41+00:00
The pills originally come from Lewis Carroll, where Alice could change size by taking them. Jefferson Airplane used that metaphor to sing about psychedelics. The Matrix adapted Carroll's pill motif to represent an alteration in one's perceptions of reality. In the broad sense, yes, in the narrower sense, no.

The Wachowskis themselves pulled from gnosticism, eastern religions etc.

Pahlaniuk used the term "snowflake" to refer to people who were brittle and "not beautiful and unique" (his words from memory). He is/was a left wing anarchist.
by upghost | 2025-12-05 12:05:48+00:00
Really impressive! For anyone who's not a pythonista, trying to implement TCO is something akin to solving the Collatz conjecture but for Python. It's often just an exercise in madness. So seeing an elegant solution to this is really cool, I myself was a victim of this madness and was unable to do it so very cool to see someone nail it! This will be a goto tool for sure.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-05 12:06:23+00:00
What are you claiming constitutes a "breaking change in the language" ?

Sibling comments talk about a 2024 stdlib change which broke some people because they had written code which depends upon an inference and with a new enough stdlib that inference is now ambiguous so the compiler requires that you disambiguate or your code doesn't compile with the newer library.

So, that's not a breaking change in the language. It's annoying, and ideally shouldn't have happened, but in contrast the two languages you praised (C and C++) have in the last ten years made real breaking changes to their actual language and as expected the same people who insist Rust isn't "stable" shrug off the extra work from that as No Big Deal.

As someone who wrote C for decades and now writes Rust instead it's very striking how much worse the "bit rot" is in reality for C.
by elsjaako | 2025-12-05 12:06:51+00:00
Why would snorting be so much worse than just swallowing the pill? The goal is to get the chemicals in the blood. Snorting apparently works quicker, giving you a stronger but shorter lasting effect. But the difference is not night and day.

A lot of people do recreational drugs while at college and go on just fine. George W. Bush, for example, is alleged to have taken cocaine.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-12-05 12:07:09+00:00
> while Gilbert said he enjoyed Vampire Survivors, he added that the game’s style was “a little too much ‘ADHD’ for me. I look at those games and it’s like, wow, I feel like I’m playing a slot machine at some level. The flashing and upgrades and this and that… it’s a little too much.”

Vampire Survivors was designed by a guy whose job was coding slot machines.