MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluecalm | 2025-12-03 15:25:33+00:00
>>If the EU is politically forced into accepting the US standards: The slack will need to be picked up by European insurance companies, who should charge extreme premiums for unsafe designs, effectively blocking the sale of the vehicles from dangerous, young, or casual drivers and limiting those designs to those who truly need them (which I suspect is very few.)

That only works if there are big penalties for killing people with your car. As it is as long as you are not drunk and have your license you get away with a minor slap on the wrist. You pay if you damage someone's else car but if you kill them then there is usually no financial responsibility and thus no reason to rise insurance premiums.
by oblio | 2025-12-03 15:25:58+00:00
> People were having many of the same arguments about the (political) issues back in Ancient Rome. So I wouldn't count on that.

People in Ancient Rome didn't have electric bikes :-)

The reason that many cyclists hate drivers is that because drivers are a political force that makes their lives worse.

You had an accident - did you fall over? How? Due to missing, badly maintained or badly designed cycling infrastructure? Were you hit by a car, due to lack of cycling infrastructure (protected intersections, protected bike lanes, pedestrian and cycling bridges and overpasses, etc)?

Your bike was damaged/stolen? How? Where? Was it because of a lack of safe bike parking infrastructure? Because of a lack of a bike frame serial number database and a lack of interest from the police to reduce bike theft, because they have to focus on more pressing issues like preventing and reducing car theft?

A lot of the stuff you listed is close to zero sum.

Cars get hundreds of billion of euros worldwide, and bike, which could move massive amounts of people in many circumstances, probably get 1-2 billion, again, worldwide.

Similar story with public transportation. Car drivers protest and kill installing traffic filters, building dedicated bus lanes, building tram and metro and train lines (because they would disrupt roads, reduce parking capacity, whatever).

*Everyone should use whatever they want.And the only way to do that is to have viable alternatives to driving everywhere.*

Which - if you would actually watch his videos - IS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS SAYING!
by titzer | 2025-12-03 15:26:03+00:00
> Do it for at most 2 terms and get back to the real world.

Guaranteeing they never get good at their job, and institutional knowledge keeps decaying.

We need to stop pretending that Congress or any of these elected positions don't require skills. I think to be a Congressperson you have to go to specific trade school--let's call it Congress U--graduate with high honors, serve in some other government capacity, and your grades are public record. Only then are you qualified to even run for election.

Democracy isn't about letting any random firebrand run things. Heck, we don't even let random firebrands install electricity.
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by jcranmer | 2025-12-03 15:26:23+00:00
> Is the compiler smart enough to only compute them whenever it is necessary?

This is known as "code sinking," and most optimizers are capable of doing this. Except keep in mind that a) the profitability of doing so is not always clear [1] and b) the compiler is a lot more fastidious about corner-case behavior than you are, so it might conclude that it's not in fact safe to sink the operation when you think it is safe to do so.

[1] If the operation to sink is x = y + z, you now may need to keep the values of y and z around longer to compute the addition, increasing register pressure and potentially hurting performance as a result.
by bombcar | 2025-12-03 15:26:31+00:00
A system built as a mish-mash patchwork is likely to be solved by a similar "ground-up" framework.

Each state should be free to experiment (as Maryland has done here) and the federal levels should be restricted to providing funding and basic guidelines that have to be met.

Part of the problem is that as you begin to delve in and see where the outflows are, you start to realize that fixing the fundamental problem involves making the people healthier in general, which will rumble the very foundations of Wall Street.
by devilbunny | 2025-12-03 15:26:34+00:00
Singapore is also a pretty authoritarian state. Not to put down the amazing work that Lee did in making it a functional, successful state that's substantially wealthier than its neighbors, but it's a product of the time and place of its formation that made a lot of hard choices to prevent it from spinning out into nothingness or being absorbed by its much larger neighbors. I wouldn't call it a model for the UK.
by dancrystalbeach | 2025-12-03 15:26:51+00:00
Recently, I had to migrate a few hundred Delta Lake tables that were partitioned over to Liquid Clustering. It seems straightforward on the surface, but everything usually does, until it isn’t. There was no rocket science involved here, but I did want to write this up to help the myriad of others who will probably want/need to move from partitioning to liquid clustering over the next few years.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-03 15:27:03+00:00
I forgot to mention that. But funny enough AWS and GCP made a joint announcement that they are introducing a service to let users easily connect the infrastructure of the two providers between their private networks without going over the public internet.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/aws-and-go...

This isn’t some type of VPN solution, think more like DirectConnect but between AWS and GCP instead of AWS and your colo.

It’s posited that AWS agreed to this so sales could tell customers that they don’t have to move their workloads from AWs to take advantage of Google’s AI infrastructure without experiencing extreme latency.
by nathan_compton | 2025-12-03 15:27:06+00:00
"The burden of proof is on you..."

There is neither a burden of proof nor an us or them in this discussion. That isn't how inquiry works, in general. I'm not saying qualia are critically important, though perhaps other people are saying that, I don't know. The point is that qualia per se is just an idea which describes a certain character of physical experience. It isn't an "ideology". It is just a philosophical notion which most people find difficult to totally dismiss.

I genuinely don't get where you are coming from. There is a set of people who dedicate their lives to thinking about stuff and many of them believe there is something about actual experience which is not adequately captured by a purely physical description.

Read the SEP Entry on Qualia if you'd like to get a grounding on it:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/

I think what you will notice is that philosophers are neither monolithic nor dogmatic on the subject and yet, being intellectually honest and thorough, most neither dismiss it totally or believe in its adequacy as a description.

If you don't think the question of whether AI has or does not have qualia is important I don't know what to tell you. My personal sense is that AIs of the type we have now have no qualia but I am prepared to entertain the idea that they might.

If you want a good text about this try Koch's the Quest for Consciousness. Despite your certainty about qualia and its relation to science, there are genuine observational things we can say about it and how it relates to the physical structure of brains/minds.

On the subject of qualia per se and philosophy's relationship to the physical sciences I can suggest reading about Phenomenology:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/

The essential idea of import here is that, whether you like it or not, you as an individual have nothing at all, at a fundamental level, other than your perceptions of the world. You must then have an account of how you proceed from such to even basic ideas like empiricism or other sorts of epistemological strategies. Imperfect, perhaps even vague, as the notion of qualia is, it (or something like it) is, fundamentally, the foundation upon which all other sorts of inquiry into the physical world depends.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-03 15:27:47+00:00
More or less. The average person isn't gonna get injured in a car crash in their life, let alone in the time they own a particular car. Hence why it's treated as a "nice to have" that people only consider for a purchasing decisions once their other criteria are met. Which is also why you see it most touted when people are buying something that's handily doing what they need and more (SUV for 1 kid, car car for A to B commuting where just about anything will do, etc). People aren't gonna compromise a key requirement for half a star on a rating for something they're unlikely to need.
by eudamoniac | 2025-12-03 15:27:47+00:00
The biggest question that isn't being asked, "why is a university incapable of training a competent programmer in four years?"

I'm quite sure I could take my cousin who has never heard the word HTML and get her to be a better programmer than the average CS graduate within 4 years of tutelage. Why is this the case? Four years is a very long time, and the universities are wasting that time. I'm certain any driven individual would end up a mid-level candidate if they skipped college and instead trained themselves for that time, especially if they hire a senior tutor for far less than the cost of the college tuition.
by positron26 | 2025-12-03 15:27:50+00:00
It doesn't. There is a terminal frontend, a web rendering frontend, and a deprecated SDL frontend. The web frontend was explicitly developed to speed up development, writing implementations for graphics described in CL (the part being accelerated) that can be later served by another frontend should some technical need emerge. Anyone acting like this is Electron is either leaping to conclusions or being intentionally misleading.
by oblio | 2025-12-03 15:27:52+00:00
Watch his video. Pick 2-3 at random, be a grown up and ignore the tone of voice and the snarkiness, and see what his points are.

They're very solid.

Try something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
by mamcx | 2025-12-03 15:27:58+00:00
> “the compiler is smarter than me.”

This is true, but it also means "the compiler IS made for someone median smart, that now knows the machine".

It works great for basic, simple, common code, and for code that is made with care for data structures.

A total mess of code is another story.

P.D: is similar to the query optimizers, that neither can outrun a terrible made schema and queries
by everforward | 2025-12-03 15:28:04+00:00
The game installer can't control the layout on an HDD without doing some very questionable things like defragging and moving existing user files around the disk. It probably _could_ but the risk of irrecoverable user data loss or accidentally corrupting a boot partition via a bug would make it completely not worth it.

Even if you pack those, there's no guarantee they don't get fragmented by the filesystem.

CDs are different not because of media, but because of who owns the storage media layout.
Show HN: Soppo – A Golang superset that adds enums, pattern matching, nil safety
by beanpup_py | 2025-12-03 15:28:07+00:00
Hey HN, I've been working on Soppo, a language that compiles to Go, adding features to catch errors at compile time instead of runtime: enums with exhaustive matching, `?` for error propagation, and nil safety from static analysis of nil flows (sort of like https://github.com/uber-go/nilaway but currently much less sophisticated). It's designed to still look and feel like Go, and be able to use any Go library directly.

Playground: https://play.soppolang.dev

Not production ready and still a little early in development, but curious what people think about the design.
by IgorPartola | 2025-12-03 15:28:45+00:00
Eh. Linus has a long history of abusive behavior towards other Linux contributors but also apparently apologized for it and started amending his ways. The Zig person I do not know by reputation, let alone in person. One post that he later chose to amend based on feedback is not enough for me to pass that kind of judgement. If anything, the fact that he updated it shows the opposite of lack of maturity. Adults can get frustrated. What they do with it is what matters.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-03 15:28:47+00:00
It's not laziness!

It's the fact that shooting is enormously expensive per-minute, and time-constrained. Think of the sheer number of crew involved. And then think of the sheer number of shots you have to get per day, to stay on schedule and on budget.

If there was a mixup and it's going to take half an hour to get and set up a longer hose, it's much cheaper to have 1 person do it in post if it takes a day, versus delay the shot for half an hour while 50 people wait around. (And no, you often can't just shoot a different shot in the meantime, because that involves rearranging the lighting and set which takes just as long.)
by latexr | 2025-12-03 15:29:15+00:00
> seems like a possibly immature teenager.

What makes you say that? Couldn’t it be an immature adult?

> because they have a suspicion you might use AI

Was that the reason? From what I remember (which could definitely be incomplete information) the complaint was that they were clearly using AI while claiming no AI had been used, stole code from another project while claiming it was their own, refused to add credit when a PR for that was made, tried to claim a namespace on open-vsx…

At a certain point, that starts to look outright malicious. It’s one thing to not know “the rules” but be willing to fix your mistakes when they are pointed out. It’s an entirely different thing to lie, obfuscate, and double down on bad attitude.
by DullPointer | 2025-12-03 15:29:22+00:00
I’m not a compiler expert, an assembly expert or an ARM expert, so this may be wildly wrong, but this looks optimized to me.

The trick is that it’s doing both the add and the left shift in parallel then selecting which to use based on a compare of the two values with csel.

(To see this, rather than reading the code sequentially, think of every instruction as being issued at the same time until you hit an instruction that needs a destination register from an earlier instruction)

The add is stored in W9 but only read if the two arguments are unequal.

If the compare succeeds and the lsl retires before the add, the add is never read, so nothing stalls waiting for it and the answer can be returned while the add is still in flight. The result of the add would then be quietly discarded assuming it ever started (maybe there’s some magic where it doesn’t even happen at all?).

It’s not clear to me that this is power efficient, or that on many real cpus there’s a latency difference to exploit between add and lsl, so it may not be faster than just unconditionally doing the addition.

That said, it is definitely faster than the code as it was written which if translated to asm verbatim stalls on the compare before executing either the add or the left shift.
by coredog64 | 2025-12-03 15:29:27+00:00
How do you do, fellow TrOCR fine-tuner?

I'm using TrOCR because it's a smaller model that I can fine tune on a consumer card, but the age of the model and resources certainly make it a challenge. The official notebook for fine tuning hasn't been updated in years and has several errors due to the march of progress in the primary packages.
by thatguy0900 | 2025-12-03 15:29:34+00:00
You can, but on the other hand they've been battling bugs from it with every release. The game is notorious for breaking things constantly. I played for quite a while and the sound engine was always awful with things not in your line of sight frequently not making any noise at all, and every month or two a new major bug relating to host client desyncing is found out by the community who then has to have big campaigns badgering the devs to notice and fix it. Very fun game still but if they had started with a supported engine a lot of stuff would probably work way better
by r14c | 2025-12-03 15:29:39+00:00
Depends on who you ask! That's what I mean by "narratives". There's plenty of corroborating evidence that there was a large demonstration and riots. After that it gets hazy because different officials are claiming fatalities and casualties as high as 10k and as low as 300 all with differing ratios of soldier and student casualties. Wouldn't the numbers and/or ratios be similar if they were looking at the same facts?
by phatfish | 2025-12-03 15:29:51+00:00
Steam has so many users I'm not sure the average says a lot? If you are just playing Hentai games like most Steam users (j/k, probably) you can do that on any device from the last 10 years.

More interesting would be to see the specs for users who bought COD (add other popular franchises as you wish) in the last 2 years. That would at least trim the sample set to those who expect to play recent graphics heavy titles.
by dylan604 | 2025-12-03 15:30:11+00:00
35mm film is more square than rectangle. When you shoot wider aspect ratios, the whole frame is exposed. The eyepiece on the camera has lines on them to allow the DP to see the framing for the desired aspect ratio vs the whole frame. So it wasn't just a Titanic as example, it was pretty much all film was shot like that.

When digital cameras like the ones from Red came out, you can tell it the aspect ratio so it only saves the active pixels of the full sensor and ignore all of the out of aspect pixels. That's a brave operator doing that, and I've only seen it in the wild once.
by giarc | 2025-12-03 15:30:19+00:00
Small customers do weird things. I had a tiny Saas company and we had approached a local business with a few locations. Our software was in daycare management and would have automated a bunch of their processes. The owner loved the product but didn't want to "rent" our software (ie. pay a monthly fee). She wanted to pay us once and install the software on her computers. Literally if we had said "here's a CD-ROM to install" she would have paid us money. This isn't an example of a customer that might vibe code their solution, but simply to show that customers do weird things and have weird requests.
by SilverBirch | 2025-12-03 15:30:22+00:00
I think one of the underdiscussed things is how in the last couple of decades industries like car manufacturing have become steadily more state controlled.

Today, to be a successful car company you need to be producing cars whose safety features are incredibly tightly regulated by government bodies to the point of doing actively user hostile things (try and get a new car in the UK that won't actively beep at you for going faster than it thinks you should drive).

You need to be producing them at government mandated price levels (cars listed for more than £40k pay an additional £2.5 tax, except electric vehicles for whom the tax only kicks in at £50).

You need to be using a propulsion method approved by government, not only the Euro 6 emissions standards, but also the labyrinthine Benefit in Kind regulations that accidentally gave every small business owner massive incentives to buy a Porsche Taycan.

Oh and on top of that the UK government runs a charity that purchases 20% of all the new cars sold in the UK each year (with that number climbing to 50% in Northern Ireland).
by fzeroracer | 2025-12-03 15:30:26+00:00
> Sure - but the point is everything is tradeoffs and we're working on what tradeoffs to focus on. A train hitting someone imparts way more force than a bike, but that doesn't necessarily mean we ban all trains.

No one is advocating for this.

> And if the incidents of vehicle/pedestrian collisions are directly attributable to reduced visibility, then they should be resolved (the "school bus arm" in North America). But if the collisions would have occurred even with a perfect visibility bike, then changing the vehicles won't solve the desired issue.

Which is exactly what you were responding to: a massive vehicle with low to no visibility of pedestrians in front of it.

> For example, there is no way to have any vehicle traveling safely through a school yard at 70 miles per hour; no change to the vehicle makes that work. You have to separate or reduce speeds to crawling.

This is false. Smaller, older vehicles were designed with exactly these issues in mind. That's why pedestrians would be lifted over and on top of the hood, which would reduce the total surface area of impact and prevent pedestrians from being pulled under the vehicle (which is drastically worse). And even worse, some designs of cars will outright shear pedestrians when they hit them at high speeds.
by jascha_eng | 2025-12-03 15:30:36+00:00
> reportedly in the low single-digit billions at best

They are expected to hit 9 billion by end of year. Meaning the valuation multiple is only 30x. Which is still steep but at that growth rate not totally unreasonable.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/anthropic-expects-b2b-dema...
by ravenstine | 2025-12-03 15:30:42+00:00
Welcome to the human species!

You may be hanging with the wrong crowds in the sense that your people are out there somewhere and you just haven't found them yet, but your people are still a minority. One would hope that tech would have more genuine and curious people, but I swear most of us are hustlers who bought a shovel for a particular gold rush.

In my experience, you'll have the best luck finding likeminded people at hacker spaces and conferences.
by QuercusMax | 2025-12-03 15:30:48+00:00
I used to sit on a Google / Alphabet promo committee (more than half a decade ago, so things have changed a bit). The bar for L3 (newgrad) to L4 promotions is not high. It's certainly not a rubber stamp, but we were looking for:

- Gets things done fast enough with high quality - Works mostly independently - Has recommendations from more senior peers who can speak to what they've done - Is starting to show several of the expected marks of a Senior (L5)

I had at least one, maybe two new grads who I mentored get promoted to L4 within a year of starting full time; they had both done internships at Google so they didn't have as much ramp up time.