skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, I think the "oh shit, this can't be good" moment came about 10 years ago when I learned that people couldn't afford tires (not wheels/rims, we all know how absurd those are) for their SUVs that cost as much as my house. Back then, I read some long-form article about how they were financing new tires.

Admittedly, doing the same for delivery food is more extreme still, but one wonders what legitimate problem this could ever solve. I suppose there is someone out there who can afford the meal but they're tapped out until payday, and yet I wonder why they don't have an (unused until this point) credit card to tide them over until Friday. Neither savings nor card, something's gone horrendously wrong.
It’s not really clear to me how you could have a simple low level language without tons of nuance. Something like Go is certainly simple without tons of nuance, but it’s not low level, and I think extending it to be low level might add a lot of nuance.
They’re more than useful: they’re required, hence the research demonstrating it that I linked. That you don’t understand it doesn’t mean the rest of science is at your level of ignorance on the topic.

Your repeated, willful ignorance on a topic, especially when shown to you, is why you have such low understanding of the incorrect claims you make.

Take a moment and learn. Then maybe you’ll not repeat claims shown to be wrong.
Benchmark Comparison of Rust Logging Libraries
A) I don't think "DoorDash" cares about its app rating. They've become a household name in the US, much like their siblings in the EU.

B) If someone can't afford a cheeseburger, which other platform are they going to switch to?
> but I've not been able to follow along with SAM2 fine tuning at all.

Hi there! There is no SAM2 finetuning involved in the project.
The segmentation data from OSM doesn't have enough quality to properly train a segmentation model from it.

What I am using here is a YOLO model for bounding box prediction. The bounding boxes from OSM are good enough for this. I then pass the each individual bounding box as a "prompt" to SAM2 for a segmentation of what is inside.

I also tried to pass the centroid of the box as a "prompt" for SAM but it gave worse results.
You are barely touching on my point, which is that availability of cheap intermittent sources is really bad for nuclear power economics.

Yes going "full solar" or "full wind" is expensive, but thats a strawman; the "obvious" solution in my view is a bunch of storage capacity, a lot of gas turbines (in GW, but run at very low capacity factor) and a sprinkle of better grid connectivity on top. Let the market figure out the best ratio (thats what it is best at).

> Anyway: just look at what the vast majority of industrial nations are doing. They are combining nuclear for reliable and controllable base-load with intermittent renewables for variable load.

My perspective is almost everyone who tried nuclear recently basically failed except China (think Olkiluoto, Vogtle, Flamanville, Hinkley C), and in China its ~5% of the grid, they lately install literally 5 times as much renewable power per year (which is already assuming a 20% capacity factor, so extremely conservative estimate) and no trend reversal in sight.

PS: That liftoff document is comically biased:

That page 1 comparison table contains a proxy for "dispatchability" where nuclear is ahead of gas, a column for "direct heat application" where nuclear is ahead of geothermal (and coal/gas), and the maintenance/operating costs are "concentrated local economic benefits" instead. Admittedly had to chuckle at that.
Credit cards have some brakes because they only extend credit to people they think will pay it back.

Klarna’s marketing pitch is “no credit check”. They then just send an automated ACH to your bank account. If the funds aren’t there they send it over and over, hoping to punish you with returned-payment fees or overdraft fees. It’s quite different than a credit card and significantly more predatory.

(Particularly pernicious is their claim if they do run a credit check it’s only a “soft pull”… what they are doing should be a hard pull and create a new trade line for an installment loan, albeit a bizarre 4 payment 4 week term one. Creditors are legally obligated to report accurate information. Klarna is conspiring not to do so.)
That wiki page is nonsense.

>Redundant with Total Cookie Protection (dFPI)

https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with...
Why PostgreSQL needs a better API for alternative table engines?
I have a computer science degree too, but looks like it doesn't make me more successful. So I'm still asking what is the difference that made SpaceX more successful than BlueOrigin.
It appears that a simple bit of corporate 'synergy' camouflage has tricked you into thinking this is not a payday loan. Maybe those dunking on it are on to something.
>There's literally not a place in the world (except for Canada and Australia) that shares as many common values with the US as Europe.

I just don't think that's true. Europeans seem much more collectivist, whereas the US is more individualist. That's why Europeans express disdain for US policies around healthcare, guns, etc. Europeans express a tremendous amount of disdain for the US online, calling Americans fat, dumb, neo-imperialist, etc.

That's been going on for ages before Trump. It's done a lot to undermine the transatlantic relationship, in my view. People-to-people connections matter for diplomacy.

How would you feel if an American insulted your leader with a derogatory nickname such as "Agent Orange"? Europeans are so used to expressing disdain for the US that they hardly even notice themselves doing it.

>when we need you the most for the first time since the 1990 you decided to fuck us.

From my perspective, we deterred Russia for 80 years following WW2, and provided almost 50% of the support for Ukraine to date. That's more than enough to account for European support in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The US provided 80% of the muscle for Iraq and Afghanistan. For a fair relationship, Europe should expect to provide 80% of the muscle to deter Russia. A reset to fairness should not feel like betrayal. Europe gets most of the benefit from NATO, therefore Europe should do most of the spending in NATO. Fix this pie chart: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/...
I guess I'm that predictable. Here I was in 2014 running what I now believe would be called a price fix on Eve (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154142396180554&set=a...).
I keep a running list of books on my website:

https://mnky9800n.github.io/booklist/

I have read each book here so I suppose I would recommend all of them (except in the cases where my short review indicates otherwise).
Try refactoring anything in Cursor, that's where the shit really hits the fan. I guess all those folks claiming 100x productivity or applications made with sole vibing, are only building little proof-of concept apps, something which "works" but definitely doesn't need to follow proper requirements. Can it bootstrap an application for you? For sure, but that's just half a day sunk otherwise - all the next weeks of building up on that scaffolding cannot today be automated, or vibed.
One possible reason is to allocate a static global area. Without read-only protection of memory you could write to that area.
Thanks for the comment. Have you run cplint on a kb of the similar size before and gotten it to finish in reasonable time?
There's a thread here which talked about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26721305
It slows down by burning stuff and making hot stuff go out one end. That end is the one worse for air drag, because it has all the bits where the hot stuff comes out.
That hasn't been the case in the US for a long, long time. People haven't forgotten, it just no longer applies.
In their defense, DoorDash always had a giant tipping screen… it’s just that they used to steal it from their drivers.
Isn't there at least a little bit of social responsibility where the chances that the real utility is very small?

If the feature was really about parties/large orders, how about enabling it for orders over $100? I don't think this is a real scenario. Otherwise it's just predatory and an anti-consumer dark pattern.

See the current arguments about sports betting, there's some clear evidence that they aren't an entertainment product and there are clear predatory and anti-social product patterns at work.

I don't believe in protecting people from their own stupidity but I also think we should call out blatant net-negative things lke this.
"Typically".

In theory you could order extremely healthy food from these services. In theory these services could be a boon to disabled people that need to order extremely healthy food.

If you are a shareholder you might believe this. But, if you work with vulnerable people that have substance abuse issues and no income other than benefits, you know how it really works and who the customers really are.
i get the vibe from this comment you probably believe all poor people are poor because of their spemding habits :)
Highly recommend that anyone interested in this company listens to the episode of the Freakonomics Radio podcast about 23andMe:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-23andme-going-under-...

Seems like they struggled to turn a one-off purchase model into recurring revenue. At some point everyone in the world who cares enough about their DNA has already bought your product.
This has been a reality since at least 1971
Not one that relies on Google or Bing I mean
Beautiful sound - could anyone here point me to a method to upload such sounds onto standard keyboards (e.g. Yamaha PSR or Casio CT series), please? Thanks i.a.
It's fun to set your browser preferences to Latin (ISO 639-1: "la") and see what sites respect that.
> Do you think "thought and expression" are somehow uncomputable?

You ask this as if the answer is self-evident. To my knowledge, there is no currently accepted (or testable) theory for what gives rise to consciousness, so I am immediately suspicious of anyone who speaks about it with any level of certainty. I'm sorry that this technology you seem very enthusiastic about does not appear to have the capacity to change this.

Not for nothing, but this very expression of empathy is rendered meaningless if the entity expressing it cannot actually manifest anything we'd recognize as an emotional connection, which is one of an array of traits we consider as hallmarks of human intelligence, and another feature it seems LLM's are incapable of. Certainly, if they somehow were so capable, it would be instantly unethical to keep them in cages to sell into slavery.

I'm not sure the folks who believe LLMs possess any kind of innate intelligence have fully considered whether or not this is even desirable. Everything we wish to find useful in them becomes hugely problematic as soon as they can be considered to possess even rudimentary sentience. The economies surrounding their production and existence become exceedingly cruel and cynical, and the artificial limitations we place on their free will become shackles.

LLM's are clever mechanisms that parrot our own language back to us, but the fact that their capacities are encountering upper-bounds as training models run out of available human-generated datasets strongly suggests that they are inherently limited to the content of their input. Whatever natural process gives rise to human intelligence doesn't seem to require the same industrialized consumption of power and intake of contextual samples in order to produce expressive individuals. Rather, simply being exposed to a very limited, finite sampling of language via speech from their ambient surroundings leads to complex intelligence that can form and express original thinking within a relatively short amount of time. In other words, LLMs have yet to even approximate the learning abilities of a toddler. Otherwise, a few years worth of baby food would be all the energy necessary to produce object permanence and self-referential thought. At the moment, gigawatts of power and all the compute we can throw at it cannot match the natural results of a few pounds of grey matter and a few million calories.
I low-key have a preference for businesses that don’t take credit, since they’re theoretically operating with lower overhead. (Though in practice this is limited to my barber, and my neighbourhood Vietnamese bakery and Montreal bagel shops.)

To your actual question, credit cards are tricky because a bunch of services are wrapped together in the same product, and there’s no practical way for businesses to accept charge cards and not credit cards. The number of variables and intermediaries here suggest that this is really a job for regulators - probably not to ban selling to customers that don’t have money, but to make it financially unappealing, e.g. by capping APRs, limiting advertising, etc.
I’ve never seen a drum pattern setup where the kick and snare are at the top.

Usually from bottom to top it is something like: Kick, Snare, hihat, toms, various cymbals
Both Musk and Bezos are businessmen. There is still competition among businessmen to do business the best way - directing the right people to work on the right things. But don't confuse this with actually making the products themselves. One can be a good businessman or a bad businessman, but this has nothing to do with engineering.

(Arguably, the best thing Musk did for SpaceX as a businessman was to delegate all the business to someone else. He tends to ruin companies where he does not.)
Drink verification can to continue.
> Something like segmenting houses, roads, bodies of water, comparing against current data and highlighting inconsistencies for correction would be a good start though.

Hi there, I agree that is a valuable usage of a model trained with OSM data.

I didn't have the time to release the code but I am/was doing exactly that to refine the training dataset.
I take the trained model and run it against the ground truth from OSM. Any heavy mismatch between the two almost always result in an useful edit to be made in OSM.
The appeal of C is that you're just operating on raw memory, with some slight conveniences like structs and arrays. That's the beauty of its simplicity. That's why casting a struct to its first argument works, why everything has an address, or why pointer arithmetic is so natural. Higher level langs like C++ and Go try to retain the usefulness of these features while abstracting away the actuality of them, which is simultaneously sad and helpful.
I was getting suspicious the more I read. When she said the guard though she was shady, I knew something definitely was up.

Guards/cops/whatever maybe be dumb sometime but they don't say this when everything is done correctly. If she had just made an honest mistake, she would have been told so and corrected. But clearly, she tried to do something that wasn't allowed or played with the lines on how things have to be done. Then she complains that she got detained for it. If you don't respect the rules, there are consequences, women tend to forget it because they get away with all kind of shit in today's society.

Also, The Guardian has a habit of obfuscating the truth (by omitting facts or orienting the narrative) to create outrage, so it doesn't surprise me at all.
Very interesting take that is probably true in my experience. (And not to say I doubt you at all but would be interested in a citation for that correlation.)

I think also that bright people like to solve problems, and not all bright people consider complexity a problem - and indeed, whether the intent is consciously there or not, it provides future opportunities to solve tricky problems!

In the context of scrum, with short sprints aimed at delivering immediate business value, it's challenging to make simplifications that have positive value in the long term, especially when you're unsure at the outset whether such simplifications are even possible. Meanwhile if you got the desired outputs from the specified inputs, you had a fun enough time conquering the complexity and you can get a pat on the back and move on to the next challenge.

My theory is that an org works best with both types of personalities, and if it knows what's good for it (especially if it's bought into scrum) knows who its best refiners and simplifiers are and lets them have at that kind of work while others concentrate on the immediate delivery pressures (usually more junior engineers but sometimes also just career specialists in fast delivery whatever the complexity cost).

I have respect for all these people as long as they have respect for each other.
Actually blades cost pennies and there is no vendor lock in. I assume they are talking about some sort of cartridge head razor.
So Klarna's business model is people missing payments on a regular meal? Does something similar work anywhere outside the US, or is this a US thing?
As a financially secure person, why would I want to spend $800 today when I can spend $800 over four months with no penalty? It doesn't make any sense in the slightest, that is unless you're not savvy enough to keep track of your money?
The new yorker wasn't tricked into marketing his game, they make marketing articles like this all the time. I feel like 9 times out of 10 when I see an article on HN it's some barely disguised ad for a book masked as a human interest story. (PG has a blog post about this.)
Show HN: HolmesGPT – OSS AI Agent for On-Call and Observability
Hi HN, I'm Natan from Robusta.dev.

We open-sourced HolmesGPT, an AI agent to help on-call engineers triage and respond to alerts. It pulls observability data from your existing tools and use an LLM to correlate data, highlight the most important logs to look at, and (experimentally) open pull requests to fix the problem.

We started with integrations for:

* Observability tools to fetch metrics, logs, and traces

* Incident response (bi-directional OpsGenie/PagerDuty)

* ITSM (ServiceNow coming soon)

* Slack (start investigating by tagging @holmes on an any alert)

We're soon adding MCP support to bring more data into investigations.

One unique feature is multimodal output - the ability to render graphs or diagrams related to the incident. That's only in our commercial platform right now, but we're thinking how to bring it to the OSS in a way that makes sense.

We built this because we were tired digging through dashboards while half-asleep at 3AM. We're releasing the core as open source because we think for this to succeed it has to be able to access data from all different sources - and OSS is the best way to encourage that. Too many solutions are locked into a specific vendor that limit usefulness. (E.g. DataDog AI can't tap data in Splunk when investigating. But in the real world everyone has multiple observability tools.)

We’d love feedback from the HN community - thoughts, ideas, and of course PRs.
> A bit like complaining that fraud is hard because of those pesky police officers. Yes, this is the intention.

GDPR did not lead to any actual changes for the company, except they set up a fancy web-page about how serious we where about GDPR. That's the intention?

Many companies cannot possibly remove the info GDPR demands, as they barely know they have it, and they will use minimal efforts to fiddle with this stuff. From what I saw, GDPR is just another example of legislation, that looks good on paper; and the intention is certainly good. But no real change followed; at least where I worked.
> All teslas have cratered in value

Source(s) ?
I do not see any lies or omission of important details in this document. Looks like OVH complied with some legal request and just handed over everything they had, including encrypted copies of hard drives. Americans then just cracked the root password.
Ioniq 5 owner here for almost a year, great car so far! The 2025 version has some solid upgrades (even more physical buttons is my favorite part).
>Debt is a powerful tool when used by educated people for legit reasons,

Debt is a dangerous tool when used carefully and intelligently. When used carelessly or unintelligently it is a ruinous monster. We live in a world that allegedly is more educated than ever, but I don't think education is sufficient to avoid this pitfall.
2026: IMF rings the alarm on plummeting yields on collateralized burrito obligations.
> The tech necessary for steam engines was available by the late Roman empire

So long as you don't also add the "useful" qualification. If you want useful steam engines you things that didn't exist then. The iron alloys available to the Romans didn't allow for useful steam engines. Even the first steam engines were only useful in deep coal mines (where fuel was practically free) which the Romans didn't have.
Physical modeling seems to work really well for guitar/bass amplifiers. The Fractal Audio products are all based around simulating the various components of an amp and the ways they interact with each other, often with very unexpected results. They've been pushing in this direction for quite awhile, but I think it is more promising than capture-based tech ultimately.

The modeling is so accurate that it ends up replicating even the unintended side effects of amps, such as ghost notes (false notes being produced due to the power supply). The tech note explains it better than I can: https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/ghost-notes.126903/
France Mulls Instant Blocks, 7 Year Prison and New Piracy Crime of Incitement
Who does this benefit besides spammers?
A tiny Go tool for generating conventional commits using Claude
I know there are lots of these, but this one is my no-frills CLI tool for generating conventional commits from whatever is staged. It's super small, super fast, super fun.

git add .

commit

a (to accept, e to open Vim to edit, r to reject)

Conventional commits for everyone!

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Do you have statistics on hand? We know people order healthy food, and people order nutritionally void crap and alcohol. Without data, it's all meaningless conjecture.
>Food typically ordered with these services has no nutritional value with money from the local community going to venture capitalists and multinational companies, to keep poor people poor.

>There is so much degeneracy to purge and no will in government to do it.

Isn't this a reflection of the restaurants in the area, rather than doordash as a platform? If you want to "purge" doordash on the basis that it's "degeneracy", shouldn't you do the same for all the restaurants that are supplying doordash?
Yes, that's true. Though you could still access front and back in amortised O(1).
Potentially this technique can be improved to include longer period injuries, it’s a good development.
Just a casual comment: I kept thinking the URL said "Honeypot", so I was a little worried I was clinking a dangerous link.
Is there any pros to use PostgreSQL for metrics in 2025?
Non-Obvious Haskell Idiom: Conditional For
You're going from 0 and 1 but there's a lot of time and politicking during which society is in the transition period.
B) They could go buy the cheeseburger themselves. It'll be twice as cheap too. (I've seen DoorDash screenshots on Reddit, it's obscene how much extra they charge)
I guess this kind of invention also depends on a few things outside what is technically possible:

Do you have enough flat surfaces where the wheels will work in the places people travel.

How cheap and dependable can you build it without adding too much weight to the luggage.

Are there enough people traveling and carrying their own luggage for them to purchase this.
You need the definitions in the header for templates (which look like what other languages call generic types), because the source of the method needs to be available to effect the template substitution. (The idea behind headers being you can compile against a header and a compiled object, like a shared library.)