Hacker News: mhh__

New comment by mhh__ in "Polars 2.0"

mhh__ — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:29:36 +0000

Avoiding pandas developers is a great reason to use polars imo

New comment by mhh__ in "Gitframes"

mhh__ — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:04:46 +0000

"But I didn't write it" is usually the defense. Just following the sat nav honest officer!

New comment by mhh__ in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

mhh__ — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:33:42 +0000

They have people in sim almost all the time / as much as allowed during the weekend.

New comment by mhh__ in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

mhh__ — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:35:16 +0000

Because the marketing teams don't do numbers and it's a high risk strategy

New comment by mhh__ in "Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model"

mhh__ — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:42:00 +0000

"It's a German joke, it doesn't have to be funny"

New comment by mhh__ in "Kolibri is an open-weight LLM from Aleph Alpha for German and English"

mhh__ — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:41:44 +0000

Stereotype accuracy is one of the few social science results that replicates.

New comment by mhh__ in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

mhh__ — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:36:18 +0000

Yes apart from showing up in almost literally every "umm , we don't do THAT in Germany" back and forth on this very question

New comment by mhh__ in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

mhh__ — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:24:46 +0000

The amount of growth the "95%" have seen in china is huge!

Also American peasants / lower tier white collar workers are usually richer than fairly well off Europeans... You cannot even begin to comprehend how much wealthier the US is in some ways - and remember how totally dysfunctional the US economy is in many limits i.e. if Europe could just be as _bad_ as the US it would grow much faster.

New comment by mhh__ in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

mhh__ — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:44:09 +0000

I don't really like the idea of the state having access to the data of a dating app but there is a part of me that things it should exist in an accelerationist/realist sense. I don't think online dating is going away, and the incentives of the dominant players are clearly not great for users or society. Government has a very strong incentive for people getting hitched.

New comment by mhh__ in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

mhh__ — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:41:55 +0000

You absolutely can grow your way out of a deficit - France is maybe the most regulated liberal economy in the world? It's designed not to grow

If you can keep energy costs down and get out of the way there will be growth. It's a thing that happens when people do business and make new things.

New comment by mhh__ in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

mhh__ — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:38:04 +0000

Right but it's also exposed (I'm not sure if it's actually pure ocaml but it is presumably a form of it) to users

New comment by mhh__ in "EDG C++ front-end goes public"

mhh__ — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:01:07 +0000

This is also where conditions go in languages with contracts, I like it

New comment by mhh__ in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

mhh__ — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:56:55 +0000

They are or at least were in those years died in the wool woke. They minted coins with "diversity built Britain" on them, rishi held one up for the camera!

New comment by mhh__ in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

mhh__ — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:54:04 +0000

It may be of interest to some that Bloomberg has an ocaml based DSL built in for pricing exotic derivatives.

New comment by mhh__ in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

mhh__ — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:57:29 +0000

It's not very responsive

New comment by mhh__ in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

mhh__ — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:44:16 +0000

You don't actually think the Tory party is right wing, surely?

Theresa May et al instituted net zero basically without a vote, huge liberalisation of various social matters, enormous spending on welfare, locked the country down, and then imported 4 million people!

New comment by mhh__ in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

mhh__ — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:34:19 +0000

Banking has been taken over by HR and regulators

New comment by mhh__ in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

mhh__ — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:29:04 +0000

I may have misread the topic of conversation but he was debanked by a private bank - I was arguing against juristocracy but possibly incorrectly aimed

New comment by mhh__ in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

mhh__ — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:24:54 +0000

This is only really true in certain countries that don't really do democracy. In Britain for example parliament is sovereign.

New comment by mhh__ in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

mhh__ — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:23:53 +0000

Frankly I think this is a good bit of hormesis for European countries. It's critical that we have domestic payment infrastructure.