MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-05 05:14:33+00:00
The irony is I am pretty sure you believe this because of some kind of heuristic, but I am not sure what that heuristic would be called.

Priming has issues with repeatability in experiments.

To believe that "debunks" the entirety of heuristics and bias is completely absurd. The author literally won a Nobel prize for Prospect Theory.

I think that book sucks personally. Just an incredibly dull book to read. The online social contagion that it is a work of fiction might actually be more interesting.
by two_handfuls | 2025-12-05 05:15:38+00:00
I think this limitation could be overcome with the right hardware.

For example imagine a spinning display like those of the article but somehow tuned so that they are only visible when exactly head on. In that case, you know where the observer is: right in line with the screen. So you can have backface culling; as the display spins you render all 360 (or however many) viewpoints.

Now granted, this doesn't deal with how high or low the observer is. We'd need to find another solution for that.
by godelski | 2025-12-05 05:15:46+00:00
I do think that's one of the reasons it's easier to do in physics. You're taught to see math as a language and therefore need to interpret it. With that in mind who cares if you memorize formulas and can churn out some algorithmic computation. You'll memorize formulas "accidentally" as you use them frequently. But if you don't know how to interpret the math you're completely fucked and frankly probably won't do well as a physicist. Much of the job is translating back and forth.

I actually loved my classical mechanics class. The professor was really good and in the homeworks he'd come up with creative problems. The hardest part was always starting. Once you could get the right setup then you could churn away like any other (maybe needing to know a few tricks here and there).

Coming over to CS I was a bit surprised how test based things were. I'm still surprised how everyone thinks you can test your program to prove its correctness. Or that people gravely misinterpret the previous sentence as "don't write tests" rather than "tests only say so much"
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-05 05:17:17+00:00
> unprofitable

I'm assuming you wouldn't see it as fine if the corporation was profitable.

> How did we get here?

We've always been there. Not that it makes it right, but that's an issue that is neither simple to fix nor something most law makers are guaranteed to want to fix in the first place.

Nothing in the rules stops you from cornering most markets, and an international companies with enough money can probably corner specific markets if they'd see a matching ROI.
by pandaman | 2025-12-05 05:17:57+00:00
EV is indeed easy. Safe and reliable EV is hard. Vehicle environment is hostile to electric components, where they are exposed to vibration, dirt, and moisture. Even if you get "safe" chemistry in the battery cells of an Alibaba e-bike, it only means the cells themselves are less likely to explode in a chemical fire. It still has enough current to melt metall and set off a regular fire. And in the best case it will just stop working and good luck repairing some random components, which might have been from a short production run and there are no spares in the existence.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-05 05:17:59+00:00
I generally try to avoid tossing disorders around as a way of describing personality, because I don't want to trivialize somebody's experience for whom that disorder is very troubling.

Actually, I'm allowed to be persnickety about language without it implying a diagnosis of any kind.

But I thought it was kind of funny to share it the way I did, so I made an exception.
by drzaiusx11 | 2025-12-05 05:18:34+00:00
As someone who has "successfully" masked for the majority of their adult life, all the while suffering in silence, I can say that this is a problematic take at best.

I am considered a "fully functional" adult from all outward appearances, even to friends and family. I'm lucky enough to be capable (with great internal effort) of typical "normal" things like participating in meaningless smalltalk, holding down a job, and doing all of life's chores just like "everyone else." However, unlike everyone else, I had to practice and endlessly rehearse things in my head to achieve the outcomes I desired. A charitable interpretation of your words would mean that "it's a problem", but who is it a problem for? The folks around me? Certainly not. This is invisible to others. It's akin to running monte carlo simulations of all permutations of outcomes before acting on decisions that others would consider trivial. For years I thought that was what everyone was doing. I eventually learned that "no one" did this, and I trained away all "problematic" characteristics of myself just to keep up the act.

So in lieu of your implications that 'passing' autistics "have no business getting diagnosed", I'd rather propose this instead: seek a diagnosis if your condition is debilitating in any way shape or form and would benefit from treatment, _regardless_ of whether or not your condition is externally visible or even apparent to others. A "fix" should be sought if you are suffering. There is no cure for autism, but there are many programs and medications that can help.

PS That said, it may be unwise to disclose your diagnosis to say your employer, unless you need specific accomodations for your set of symptoms at work. I speak from experience.
by umanwizard | 2025-12-05 05:19:24+00:00
Right, the most famous example is Zeiss which is the only company in the world that builds the high-precision mirrors needed for the most advanced ASML machines. I’m not sure if those are subject to export bans too, but even if they are, I think China could eventually figure out how to build them. It’s just a matter of a huge amount of R&D that would need to be done first.
by varun_ch | 2025-12-05 05:19:39+00:00
I worked at an org which has a ‘modern’ NodeJS+React codebase and an ancient legacy Django app on Python 2.7 which is nearing 15 years old.

I was worried that the old codebase would be a pain to work on. It was the complete other way around. The Django app was a complete joy to work with and I literally had so much fun tidying it up and working with it that I’ll be sad when they finally retire it in favor of the new new Go/React rewrite.
by hattmall | 2025-12-05 05:19:40+00:00
What countries have fewer tariffs than the US? Yes tariffs have the ability to support domestic production, be that via bringing manufacturing back or creating jobs. 100%, these are actual results and why almost every country has them. The US has a weighted tariff average of around 3% which places them at the lowest of the list only above countries that have to import almost everything like New Zealand, Australia and Iceland, and around half of EU rates. So even with the random adjustments Trump has made the US would still need to effectively double tariff rates to be commiserate with the EU.
by cheema33 | 2025-12-05 05:20:15+00:00
> Why does it matter if Netflix is using an open standard if every video they stream is wrapped in proprietary closed DRM?

I am not sure if this is a serious question, but I'll bite in case it is.

Without DRM Netflix's business would not exist. Nobody would license them any content if it was going to be streamed without a DRM.
by Royce-CMR | 2025-12-05 05:22:19+00:00
From Ira Glass:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.

But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you.

A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
by shanemhansen | 2025-12-05 05:22:41+00:00
> AV1 streaming sessions achieve VMAF scores¹ that are 4.3 points higher than AVC and 0.9 points higher than HEVC sessions. At the same time, AV1 sessions use one-third less bandwidth than both AVC and HEVC, resulting in 45% fewer buffering interruptions.

Just thought I'd extract the part I found interesting as a performance engineer.
by Grisu_FTP | 2025-12-05 05:23:25+00:00
Yea, the faceid in the bed thing is very annoying when using my "tinker iphone" in the bed. Havent found Fingerprint auth unreliable, but my hands and phone mostly stay very clean and i have my finger added 2-3 times for faster and more reliable scans.

My phone has the fingerprint reader in the power button, all cases just leave the powerbutton open.
by tayo42 | 2025-12-05 05:23:34+00:00
Chill with being condescending if you want a discussion.

The error type in go is literally just a string

type error interface { Error() string }

That's the whole thing.

So i dont know what your talking about then.

The wrapped error is a list of error types. Which all include a string for display. Displaying an error is how you get that information to the user.

If you implement your own error, and check it with some runtime type assertion, you have the same problem you described in python. Its a runtime check, the API your relying on in whatever library can change the error returned and your code won't work anymore. The same fragile situation you say exists in python. Now you have even less information, theres no caller info.
by android521 | 2025-12-05 05:23:41+00:00
Look, by this time, most should already have realized that vibe coding or agentic coding is doing more harm than good. It is a great tool if you use it for debugging,code understanding , writing/refactoring a small unit of code because it speeds you up and help you learn. You're doing it right if llm helps you understand and write code faster but you must be the driver and be able to have a clear mental model of how the code works. If you just write spec and ask llm to implement and only look at the code when something goes wrong, you would quickly learn that the llm debt will grow exponentially and it is counter productive.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-12-05 05:23:43+00:00
> they used the tools telecoms and agencies use to monitor data, sms, call logs with IMEI/IMS mapping.

Telecoms use that data for billing. The government, notably, is not allowed to request this data en-masse post-Snowden.

> data brokers and mass surveillance are at an all time high, with platform providers requiring biometrics, ID uploads, data being sold, re-sold, re-sprinkled.

On the contrary, after GDPR, sharing of this data has become severely restricted, limiting this information to first parties.

> Android devices that can not utilize the latest Android OS (16+) to my knowledge can not access these features, by default DoH, DoT are not enabled by default

This permission was added in Android 13, also post-Snowden, representing a change limiting mass surveillance. DoH rolled out as the default to all Firefox and Chrome users in the U.S. in 2020.

> Yes, it does. Many countries are in favor of it in the EU and even if it fails, they keep proposing it until it'll pass.

Speculation. Mass surveillance is more difficult now than it was pre-Snowden, as I asserted. Maybe in 100 years, it will be different, but I made no claims about mass surveillance in the 22nd century.

> Those SSIDs have among them, tracking that tracks MAC addresses, which can also be scanned out of the air using basic tools like aircrack-ng

Android has defaulted MAC address randomization since version 10 and iOS since 14. This is yet another feature that made mass surveillance harder since Snowden.
by thayne | 2025-12-05 05:24:47+00:00
Performing well academically is not at all mutually exclusive with ADHD or Autism. In fact, it is possible for those to manifest in ways that benefit academic performance. It also isn't really surprising that students in a highly competitive environment would suffer from anxiety and depression.

I suspect that many of these people would be able to make it through college with good grades regardless of accomodations, but at the cost of reduced emotional and mental health.

And there are also probably others who legitimately have ADHD or Autism, but don't really need any special accommodation to do well academically.
by antonvs | 2025-12-05 05:25:18+00:00
I'm not a fan of ultra big tech, but I don't get the concern here exactly.

What high end technology do you want that you can't get?

In the 90s, I paid nearly $10k for a high-end PC. Today, I can get something like an Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell for ~$8k, with 24,064 CUDA cores and 96 GB RAM, that's capable of doing LLM inference at thousands of tokens per second.

I realize the prices from this example are a bit steep for many people, but it's not out of line historically with high-end hardware - in fact the $10k from the 90s would be something like $25k today.

My point is I don't see how "if you're not Facebook, Google, OpenAI, etc. etc. computation isn't for you." I'd love an example if I'm missing something.
by kentm | 2025-12-05 05:25:38+00:00
He mentions living through the dialog fast and says that the takeaway is that people don’t care about the story. However, I wonder if his players just read very fast. I grew up on JRPGs and read through dialog quickly, to the point that people around me don’t believe that I could possibly be following the story. But that’s just how fast I can read game dialog.
by seattle_spring | 2025-12-05 05:30:13+00:00
> "Trust and safety is a broad practice which includes critical and life-saving work to protect children and stop CSAM [child sexual abuse material], as well as preventing fraud, scams, and sextortion. T&S workers are focused on making the internet a safer and better place, not censoring just for the sake of it"

Definitely weird to be "happy" that the government is cracking down on people who help prevent the propagation of fraud, scams, and CSAM.
by nsoonhui | 2025-12-05 05:30:38+00:00
Speaking about blogging, for those who run on WordPress at least, do you get lots of bot traffic from China and Singapore recently? They usually appear in pair. (https://support.google.com/analytics/thread/378622882/google...)

I have two niche blogs( civilwhiz.com and mes100.com). Those bot traffics increase my visitor count in Google analytics by more than 100%. It's super annoying when the analytics are distorted by bots traffic.
by jjk166 | 2025-12-05 05:31:05+00:00
> If a manager is handling (almost) all disputes of all sorts, then they will fundamentally lack authority to enforce an outcome on a real dispute. They simply are too involved because resolution requires you to take some sort of side.

Bullshit. Being a routine mediator makes you a better mediator when big things come up, not a worse one. It means you are in tune with the particular needs and idiosyncrasies of the people involved, and assuming you are any good at it, it means you have the trust of all parties to mediate fairly.

> If my children won't speak to each other I will refuse to be the go between because I become a proxy for one to the other.

First of all, managing adults and parenting children are two radically different things. Second, being a go between is not handling a dispute, if anything it facilitates the dispute. Kids can't agree on whose turn it is to play with a toy? Toy gets taken away with the understanding they'll get it back when they agree to a system - that's conflict resolution.

> If one then punches the other they won't respect my perspective that this was wrong because I've set myself up as the proxy for the others feelings.

What?

> If you need a manger to resolve the above example, the org is broken and the engineers are poor engineers.

The fact there is this conflict to resolve is evidence that the org is broken and the engineers are poor engineers, but given that there is a conflict, the manager should be the one resolving it, because, again, that is their job.
by afiori | 2025-12-05 05:31:53+00:00
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/memory-safety.html

Go is by default not thread safe. Here the author shows that by looping

for { globalVar = &Ptr { val: &myval } globalVar = &Int { val: 42 } }

You can create a pointer with value 42 as the type and value are two different words and are not updated atomically

So I guess go is easier to write, but not with the same level of safety
by aidenn0 | 2025-12-05 05:33:36+00:00
It seems to me that short-term simulations will tend to underprice risk.

Imagine a market where you can buy only two stocks:

Stock A goes up invariably 1% per month

Stock B goes up 1.5% per month with a 99% chance, but loses 99% of its value with a 1% chance.

Stock B has a 94% chance of beating stock A on a 6 month simulation, but only a 30% chance of beating stock A on a 10 year simulation.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-12-05 05:35:48+00:00
You're personally aggrieved

Nope

doesn't accept non-standard line endings

It is standard on windows.

I've already addressed what you've said

No you haven't. You haven't addressed anything I've said, like legitimate reasons for doing it or what you would think if other languages did the same thing on other OSs.

you're merely making an emotional argument.

Seems like projection. I wrote things that actually happened.

It takes longer to write your tantrums

I know it would be convenient to frame things this way but if you could confront what I'm saying you would have done it with all the chances you had.

Why won't you respond to what I'm saying? I think it's because there is no real defense and you know that.
by fpoling | 2025-12-05 05:36:17+00:00
Go is easy until one needs to write multithreaded code with heavy interactions between threads. Channels are not powerful enough to express many tasks, explicit mutexes are error prone and Context hack to support cancellation is ugly and hard to use correctly.

Rust channels implemented as a library are more powerful covering more cases and explicit low-level synchronization is memory-safe.

My only reservation is the way async was implemented in Rust with the need to poll futures. As a user of async libraries it is very ok, but when one needs to implement a custom future it complicates things.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-05 05:38:32+00:00
It definitely acknowledges our biases better than "spectrum", although I think they want varying degrees of each component, and we don't usually take a little of this star and a little more of that one.

I might've recommended "palette" if asked before spectrum got traction.

Or maybe we don't need a better word at all, maybe we should try grouping the characteristics differently such that they're no longer all together under the same heading. (I'm not qualified to say, just a hunch).
by svat | 2025-12-05 05:38:49+00:00
This was a good concise review! The book itself is surreal.

One thing worth pointing out that is Knuth wrote it just as the characters described: he had only a vague memory of the initial axioms that Conway had told him, so the characters' discovery matches his own process. (He wanted to illustrate how research is done, how new things in mathematics are discovered.) He gave himself a week during his sabbatical year, just locked himself in a hotel in Norway, wrote it over 6 days, “and on the seventh day he rested”. (Though he later took another week to rewrite the whole book as he had made a mistake in the axioms.) He tells the story here (see 40–42): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lICebKDaZRU&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...

And this book was published before Conway published anything about surreal numbers, so surreal numbers are probably the only mathematical concept whose first publication was as a book of fiction. The name “surreal numbers” also comes from Knuth (while Conway simply called them “numbers” — he later came around to agreeing that this was a good name).
by CyberDildonics | 2025-12-05 05:40:17+00:00
From what I can tell the Chinese are targeting the bottom of the market with cars that are essentially disposable.

What actual information or data leads you to believe this?

All wheel drive, 375mi range and sub 4 second 0-60mph is disposable to you? I'm guessing your car is disposable by comparison.

https://www.byd.com/us/car/han-ev
by attractivechaos | 2025-12-05 05:43:31+00:00
> But you only need about 5% of the concepts in that comment to be productive in Rust.

The similar argument against C++ is applicable here: another programmer may be using 10% (or a different 5%) of the concepts. You will have to learn that fraction when working with him/her. This may also happen when you read the source code of some random projects. C programmers seldom have this problem. Complexity matters.
by b112 | 2025-12-05 05:44:22+00:00
"If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible"

If that sentence from the article is accurate, the parent poster's response makes complete and perfect sense. You don't have to like the current administration, to like a specific thing they are doing.

Now is this actually what is happening? I don't know. And of course, that's a different conversation, and not what the parent poster was talking about.
by echelon | 2025-12-05 05:44:31+00:00
HBO is destination television - it's the taste that Netflix lacks and so desperately needs.

WB and HBO together have the franchises that Netflix has been trying to build. DC, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings (film + game rights - tv rights), West World, The Matrix, Mad Max, King Kong, all of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim.

What does Paramount or Hulu have? It's a lot of fluff on the same or even lower caliber than Netflix.

Amazon gives some good stuff away for "free". Apple has good shows, too.

Disney? Meh - they've got Andor and that's really it.

If whomever buys HBO also also buys A24, it's over. That's all I need.
by sdenton4 | 2025-12-05 05:44:57+00:00
* Targeted tariffs and blanket tariffs are different beasts.

* In order for capitalism to undercut the tariffs, the tariffs need to be high enough to offset the costs of setting up the local industry and the higher costs of US labor (which, in turn, are pushed higher by blanket tariffs).

* The tariffs also have to be credibly long-term. If you start building and the tariffs are cancelled, you're screwed. The Trump tariffs don't have this credibility - they're toxic enough that they'll be gone as soon as Trump is, even if it's another Republican in the White House in 2028.
by N_Lens | 2025-12-05 05:45:16+00:00
The main value seems to be as a research vehicle and teaching tool rather than production-ready infrastructure. The Rust version being archived suggests this might not be under active development currently.

Good for simple stateless services (web servers, API endpoints, microservices) applications that fit the unikernel model - single-purpose, statically linked Running on one's own Xen hypervisor infrastructure.