skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is not a difficult phenomenon to understand.

The most common ancestry in the US is German, not English, but English is still the dominant language. Language isn't DNA.
The whole problem is that wisdom is controlled by greed.

But what if, in the future, the brains of current world leaders are examined and they find the cause of their actions is saturation of microplastics? So destroying the planet wasn't their fault, but just like lead and the Romans, they got crazy from pollution itself?
Yes if you don’t already know where the bubbles are gonna fall it’s very hard to get to them in time with a trackpad. Although I play with a trackpad myself and can beat most levels.

I had a friend suggest a “course preview” during the countdown screen so that users can anticipate the bubbles without memorizing them.
I don't know, man. Your comment is neither here nor there.
> Beethoven

The mythical rivalry should be with Beethoven, not Mozart!

True tidbits:

* Beethoven actually referred to Salieri as his "most active opponent" (Solomon's translation)

* Salieri criticized Beethoven's opera Fidelio (as did a lot of other composers of the time)

* Salieri didn't like Beethoven's late works. And apparently he critiqued them so hard that he even caused Schubert, another of his students, to not like Beethoven's music for a short time.

Armed just with that I could probably work slowly but surely over time to turn all of HN full Q-anon on a Salieri vs. Beethoven conspiracy. But I'll be good and vaccinate everyone here-- Beethoven also had a difficult relationship with his other famous teacher Joseph Haydn. He was quite a moody guy! And Salieri was a good sport-- he even sat in to play drums on Wellington's Victory. So in reality it's just good clean musical friends having some fun.
> Those interested in the prospects of leveraging the libperf API from Python code can see this RFC patch series for all the details: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250313075126.547881-1-gautam@... :

>> In this RFC series, we are introducing a C extension module to allow python programs to call the libperf API functions. Currently libperf can be used by C programs, but expanding the support to python is beneficial for python users.
Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act
Does a claim like this even have any meaning at all?

If you assume each generation is 25 years, then everybody alive today has 2^200 ancestors from 5,000 years ago. Which is obviously way more people than even existed in the world because your ancestors start overlapping, but the point is that you could probably make the claim that "half the human beings alive today" are descended from tons of groups of humans that existed 5,000 years ago. People travel and migrate and marry and genes get passed on at an exponential rate.
> If Americans were deeply, deeply bothered by the government spying on them, they'd have burned down this government by now.

Right now stuff is happening that does deeply bothers Americans, and what do they do? They walk around with signs, they file legal papers, and maybe some other forms of peaceful, albeit useless, protest... a lot of other countries truly would be burning down the government right now if something like Elon happened there, but so far America has just been saying they don't want it, in as many ways as possible, but while still continuing to fully let it happen.
Not long. We were taught logs, and use of log tables, at Middle School. So probably around about age 11.

I also vaguely recall a couple of lessons where we went over Napier's Bones, and they had us produce equivalents on pieces of paper to cut out and move around.

I believe I still have my school day log tables around somewhere. I'd just have to practice for 1/2 hr to remind myself how to use them. That said, they did have usage instructions in the last few pages.
I once worked with a 10x engineer who I could hand new backend APIs to and have a brand new ui component that supported the behavior in less than a day, consistently. I have worked with 10x engineers who spend hours on calls walking junior engineers through problems they're having. That's part of being a 10x engineer – what this article is talking about is random 1x engineers with a chip on their shoulder and unshakeable arrogance.
Show HN: Converse with AI PG
PG has 200+ essays published on his website. There's a lot of wisdom there, but you'll probably never read all of it.

I scraped all of his essays (as of mar 13, 2025) and put them into a vector db. Then, I made a website where you can chat with an AI version of PG with the context of all 200+ of his essays from the vector database. PG will never leave you on delivered again.

100% free, I just had some spare OpenAI credits and wanted to make some use of it lol

try it until my credits run out! :)
Well funded companies want regulations because it stops up and coming companies from competing. Now they want exemptions from those regulations because it would be too restrictive.
Yeah it's kind of laggy too.
The Fragile Generation (2017)
Someone imagining they are brilliant doesn’t make them brilliant.

More so if in the light of day their work sucks.

Discussions about 10x engineers are not about “wannabe 10x engineers”.

—

I have yet to come across an intellectual area where there isn’t a long tail of higher talent.

As the “x” goes up they just get more rare in reality, and even rarer to see. Because they are not always being optimally challenged. Most problems are mundane. And optimally challenging workers isn’t really a business plan for anything.

I think there is such thing as a 10x problem, which you have to find before your 10x engineer really shines. Identifying hard but exceptionally valuable problems to solve takes 10x vision. And time and luck.
Personally always loved me a Bland-Altman plot (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bland-Altman_plot)
Sounds like a pleasant person.
They're suing Internet Archive because IA scanned a bunch of copyrighted books to put online for free (e: without even attempting to get permission to do so) then refused to take them down when they got a C&D lol. IA is putting the whole project at risk so they can do literal copyright infringement with no consequences.
>You're going to spend half your waking life at work.

not if you’re gonna FIRE asap
In my understanding, other implementations cannot perform better, because the root cause is how it is defined in the standard. Basically, any better implementation would be non-conforming. It’s not the kind of ABI issue where simply choosing a different one would help; the flaw comes directly from the definition, which cannot be changed.

Of course, non-std implementations of regexes in C++ don’t have this issue. Were strictly talking about the standard library one.
The artificial token commodity can now be functionally replicated on a per location basis on $40k in hardware (far lower cost than nvidia hardware.)

Copyright licensing is just a detail corporations are well experienced dealing with in a commercial setting, and note some gov organizations are already exempt from copyright laws. However, people likely just won't host in countries with silly policies.

Best regards =3
As a fan of Georgism and Land Value Taxation I was hoping for a good rebuttal but I am mostly just left confused by this article. It spends a ton of time talking about the political environment (not entirely uninteresting) and almost nothing on the "failure" part. The two points raised were that it was too difficult to implement and less was raised than expected.
LVT being too difficult to implement doesn't make any sense to me. We already have a property tax system in the United States that is really complicated. When property is sold that fact is recorded at your local county registrar. Property taxes are then calculated based on the most recent sales price, the rate, your tax districts, there's usually limits on how much it can increase, all sorts of deductions, etc. This is calculated down to the owner level for every plot already - how can LVT be more complicated than that?

This line in particular stuck out to me:
"What’s more, in line with Georgist theory, the tax was supposed to credit owners for improvements they made to the land"

I think we're talking about different LVT systems here. The current property tax system takes land improvements into account (and charges you more for them). My understanding is that LVT should be a flat tax on acreage (different tax rates for different areas of course) that doesn't care about what is on it.

This article is attacking a very different LVT than the one I know.
My parents work for a company using an old system using numeric IDs for menus and screens. It's currently a web app, but it seems to share a good deal of code (and a great deal of philosophy) with the previous, older version, a TUI apparently built in Pascal.

I can confirm that those numeric IDs help A LOT in troubleshooting and documentation. And not only that: those IDs are frequently and naturally used by the users themselves when communicating between them. Needless to say, they also use the IDs to navigate the system, only touching the menus when they have to use some infrequent function.

I always mention this "case study" to UX folks who insist to dumb users down with childish interfaces.
It's very cool, so long as you don't care it's eye-wateringly wrong.
> Have you never been to a public library and read a book while sitting there without checking it out?

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355723. If OpenAI built a robot that physically went into libraries, pulled books off shelves by itself, and read them...that's so cool I wouldn't even be mad.
Yep, we have a big distric heating system here in Brno, Czech Republic - in operation since 1930, with 110 000 housholds & most big public and commercial buildings connected. It started as coal fired, but the modern system combines natural gas cogeneration (gas turbine -> steam turbine -> district heat) and waste incineration (that also includes a steam turbine to make some electricity). In the summer the waste incinerator provides all the necessary heat for the system alone. :)

Eventually the city would like to make the system stop using natural gas, so there is a wood waste burning plant comming online at the end of this year & hot water pipeline is being built from the nearby Dukovany power plant. This two together should make the system natural gas indepedent in the future. :)

While it started as steam based system & powered most of then very important textile industry, steam also has issues. Old pipes loose quite a bit of heat on the way (there used to be evergreen meadows even in winter in places above the old steam pipes), the pipes flex quite a bit when heating up/cooling, so they need to be placed on rollers in underground channels with U shaped sections to account for the pipe stretching/contracting. The steam also condenses & you need to get rid of that condensate on the way. And while unlikely, it is possible for a steam pipe to burst/explode, which is very dangerous for any bystanders.

For these reasons & because the textile industry being much less important, the Brno district heating system is being converted to hot water distribution, which is quite a bit more effcient apparently. Reportedly, with modern insulated pipes, the heat loss on the way is negligeable, the pipes can be placed directly in the ground & they form a closed loop - no more mucking with rollers, condensante or explosions.

So in a few years, the often seen steam ventilation pipes (from the various steam related texhnical spaces) around the city will be a thing of the past. :)
The tax would change the value a lot. Much less complicated to set a tax based on what one is allowed to do with the land. Taxing farms would hit mostly poor people.
My personal experience is that it goes beyond blogs and beyond Chinese social media apps. I see lots of foreigner run YouTube channels that are overly positive on China related issues (or overly negative about the US or EU). You’ll see it on videos about business or technology things. But even the example topic mentioned in this article of whitewashing human rights violations in Xinjiang - you can find YouTube channels of outsiders who claim to be traveling across China and are in the Xinjiang region - I’m guessing with approval from the government - who then talk about how everything is perfect and how good life there is. The videos feel off and the comments on these videos often repeat the same phrases.
> Putting tax always seems to be more popular

I think you typo'd there, with initial 'P' intended to be 'C'
Deploying a Custom Blog in 2 Hours with AI
I find it's helpful to fall back on:

1. How much motive exists for the "experts" to be lying?

2. What's the punishment if they're caught?

3. What kind of conspiracy would need to exist, and is that size*secrecy*duration plausible?

For example, patients addicted to opioids would have a strong incentive to keep it secret, as would suppliers making repeated sales.

In contrast, people suffering side effects from a vaccine would be motivated to speak out.
Great another market force to widdle away the US' economic power, so obviously trump/musk will pass this immediately
Looks the same as taking "rebate for green energy" and then asking to "stop such rebates" a few years later
And who leads and sets the vision. A committee of “average” engineers?
Look, even I'm not a fan of ClosedAI, but this is ridiculous. ClosedAI isn't giving copies of anything. It is giving you a response it infers based on things it has "read" and/or "learned" by reading content. Does ClosedAI store a copy of the content it scrapes, or does it immediately start tokenizing it or whatever is involved in training? If they store it, that's a lot of data, and we should be able to prove that sites were scraped through lawsuit discovery process. Are you then also suggesting that ClosedAI will sell you copies of that raw data if you prompted correctly?

I'm in no way justifying anything about GPT/LLM training. I'm just calling out that these comparisons are extremely strained.
Except the part where you cannot save enough to retire and you don't have the income to support your current lifestyle
Exactly, rather than evolve our economy and support high paying jobs which often require high education, the strategy seems to be revert to past things that made our economy successful and neglect the education system. Why? I think it’s because it guarantees votes and is an easy movement to get behind but it’s not /better/. I don’t think it will actually work either because you have to compete with your aforementioned labor costs which isn’t sustainable.
Language isn't DNA

but it's highly correlated. Most people in the US speak Germanic languages, ie english.
The night shift extra is usually much closer to 50 cents than 50 percent. A lot of places even give the night shift the same pay, especially when the labor market is favorable to employers.
In my phone, Samsung A14 5G, I have to touch screen below falling bubble to blow it. If I touch the exact location, it is too late.
Cool project. Sad README update: https://git.approximate.life/fadecandy/file/README.md.html
For now, that's what I ask AI every 5th message...
Chat GPT Cheating
Can IOPS Be Estimated from Fsync?
Socialism and freedom of speech aren't mutually exclusive
A $10.5 billion endowment is good for about $250 million in annual funding. That’s not a lot.
The above gives an incorrect result for approxSize = 1 (namely 0). The following works (for values up to 2^30, of course):

var actualSize = Integer.MIN_VALUE >>> Integer.numberOfLeadingZeros(approxSize - 1) - 1;

Or, if you want 0 to map to 0 instead of to 1:

var actualSize = Integer.signum(approxSize) * Integer.MIN_VALUE >>> Integer.numberOfLeadingZeros(approxSize - 1) - 1;

Of course, you could also use a variation of:

var actualSize = Math.min(1, Math.Integer.highestOneBit(approxSize - 1) << 1);
Ok but the limitations of this have also been explained many times and it's not like the way it works here is unique to HN, that's how almost all forums work. lobste.rs is an attempt to do things somewhat differently and it doesn't feel like much of an improvement.
I'm glad someone gets the intuition of the Charlemagne paradox. In fact ALL people today are related if you go back 3000 years, but the aboriginees might have very little DNA from the pharaohs. The point is that ONE individual 1500 years ago traveling to Australia (and bringing the dingo) is enough to connect these graphs. The only question is: how related. 0.0000001%? ;)
> The researchers implemented a scheduling library with roughly 2,000 lines of code in Exo 2, encapsulating reusable optimizations that are linear-algebra specific and target-specific (AVX512, AVX2, Neon, and Gemmini hardware accelerators). This library consolidates scheduling efforts across more than 80 high-performance kernels with up to a dozen lines of code each, delivering performance comparable to, or better than, MKL, OpenBLAS, BLIS, and Halide.

exo-lang/exo:
https://github.com/exo-lang/exo
This is a really exciting development. They’re matching Qwen 2.5 32B on 1/3 the compute budget.

> Refined post-training and RLVR: Our models integrate our latest breakthrough in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) as part of the Tülu 3.1 recipe by using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and improved training infrastructure further enhancing their capabilities.

I only recently discovered all the work AI2 put out with Tülu 3, really laying out all of the components that make up a state-of-the-art post-training data mix. Very interesting stuff!

https://allenai.org/blog/tulu-3-technical
But the length of time it takes a modern computer to count to 10 or 1,000 is perhaps inconceivably small by your metric, no? Your idea arbitrarily selects numbers around 2 billion as being conceivable, at least for a single core on my MacBook.

But my question isn't what makes 10^4000 inconceivable -- my question is what makes 10^4000 any less conceivable than 1000. To me, they're both firmly in the realm of abstractions we can reason about using the same types of mathematical methods. They're both qualitatively different from numbers like 5 or 10 which are undoubtedly "conceivable".
A European Starlink rival's shares skyrocketed 390% in a week – here's why
This is both pedantic and probably worth the correction. English is a Germanic language, originated in an exceedingly small continental territory nestled among other Germanics. Virtually no one would be able to discern the Germanic people who originated the English language from other Germanic people. If you are referring to the English people from the UK, then of course they are more mixed. But the English language was brought to the UK by the aforementioned continental tribe(s).
I just remembered, I think there is something weird with Google's servers or the network because performance was very poor even with a custom Google Cloud instance running jupyterlab, see this: https://github.com/vispy/jupyter_rfb/issues/95#issuecomment-...
I’ve literally never experienced that. If you’re the admin account, you can sudo su no problem.

Unless your company has something locked down. If it’s a consumer Mac, it requires nothing more than a login password.
Copyright and the Demo Scene
I just commented above, see this: https://github.com/vispy/jupyter_rfb/issues/95#issuecomment-...
We used logarithms routinely for large multiplications, divisions, etc. in 11th and 12th grade. No calculators were allowed. This was in India.
I actually prefer the straightforward log is an inverse of exponents. It's more intuitive that way because I automatically can understand 10^2 * 10^3 = 10^5. Hence if you are using log tables, addition makes sense. I didn't need an essay to explain that.

Take logs, add 2 + 3 = 5 and then raise it back to get 10^5.
> fall this bad this fast

That's just how fabs are. Yeah, something went terribly wrong. That much is obvious.

Regardless of who was picked as CEO getting back to the cutting edge was always going to be horrendously expensive and take on the order of a decade. There was never a magical unicorn CEO that could avoid that.

The only obvious (at least to me) alternative is to sell off the foundry business. But someone is going to be running a cutting edge process at scale in the US. The federal government will presumably see to that.
Please leave recursion to math and keep it out of (in particular C) software: it kills and will kill again.

Is the whole (tail-recursion optimized) Lisp language family subject to DOS? Just check that you terminate at some point, right? "Recursion kills" is just too broad and not helpful.
Look im 30, most people I know have forgotten all of school math long ago, me included. Entry barrier too big now.
This critique assumes that because land parcels are not perfectly fungible, it is impossible to determine unimproved land values with sufficient accuracy for taxation. However, this is an overstatement, and several counterpoints undermine the argument:

1. Property Tax Systems Already Differentiate Land and Improvements

Nearly all property tax systems already distinguish between land and structures. While not perfect, assessors routinely estimate land values separately using standard appraisal techniques, such as sales comparisons, income capitalization, and residual valuation.

Many jurisdictions with split-rate taxation (e.g., Pittsburgh, Harrisburg) have successfully implemented higher land taxes without insurmountable assessment issues.

2. Market Transactions Provide Usable Data

While land parcels are not perfectly fungible, land is frequently bought and sold. Vacant land transactions, teardown sales, and comparable properties provide pricing signals that allow for reasonable estimates.

Even when improvements are present, sales can still reveal land values through statistical analysis. Techniques like hedonic regression and Computer-Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) leverage large datasets to isolate land value.

3. Land Value Is Already Implicit in Market Prices

The value of land manifests in rental and purchase prices. Two identical buildings in different locations will sell or rent for different prices, with the difference attributable to land value.

Land residual analysis (subtracting improvement value from total value) is a well-established method used by appraisers and economists.

4. Perfect Accuracy Is Not Required

No tax system relies on perfectly precise assessments. Income taxes, sales taxes, and corporate taxes all involve estimation and compliance issues, yet they function well enough for governments worldwide.

Even if some inaccuracies exist, a Land Value Tax (LVT) still improves economic efficiency by discouraging land speculation and incentivizing productive land use.

5. Technological Advances Improve Assessment Accuracy

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), machine learning models, and mass appraisal techniques are making land assessment more precise.

Many cities and countries, including Denmark, Estonia, and parts of Pennsylvania, have successfully implemented LVT systems.

6. The Alternative Is Worse

Even if land assessments involve some degree of uncertainty, it’s still preferable to the distortions created by property taxes on buildings, which discourage construction and improvements.

Current property tax systems often undervalue land, leading to inefficiencies and speculative hoarding.

Conclusion:

The claim that it is “impossible” to determine unimproved land value is empirically false. While perfect precision is unattainable, the same is true of all tax assessments. Practical methods exist to estimate land value with sufficient accuracy, and jurisdictions that have implemented LVT-like systems have demonstrated their feasibility.

The real question is not whether it can be done at all, but whether the benefits of LVT outweigh any challenges in assessment—historical evidence suggests they do.