MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amadio | 2025-04-18 12:23:24+00:00
CERN is a heavy user of ceph, with about 100PB of data across cephfs, object stores (used as backend for S3), and block storage (mostly for storage for VMs). CVMFS (https://cernvm.cern.ch/fs/) is used to distribute the software stacks used by LHC experiments across the WLCG (Worldwide LHC Computing Grid), and is back by S3 with ceph for its storage needs. Physics data, however, is stored on EOS (https://eos.web.cern.ch) and CERN just recently crossed the 1EB mark of raw disk storage managed by EOS. EOS is also used as the storage solution for CERNBox (https://cernbox.web.cern.ch/), which holds user data. Data analyses use ROOT and read the data remotely from EOS using XRootD (https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd), as EOS is itself based on XRootD. XRootD is very efficient to read data across the network compared to other solutions. It is also used by other experiments beyond high energy physics, for example by LSST in its clustered database called Qserv (https://qserv.lsst.io).
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-04-18 12:23:35+00:00
A lot of people in the US, especially the Christian Trump supporters are nice but not kind. They will say hi, they will smile, they ask if you need anything, then they will happily defend the deportation of innocent people to secret prisons in foreign countries without any sort of due process. They will offer to bring you soup while your sick but will fight tooth and nail to make sure you don't have affordable health care. The list goes on and on...
by akho | 2025-04-18 12:23:40+00:00
There is a large distance between “removed from curriculum” and “banned”. I suspect that it’s not in the current school graduation requirements either.

The “cannon hidden in the flowers” quote comes from Schumann, who wasn’t Russian. Chopin, of course, sympathized with the November uprising and renounced his Russian citizenship, so Tsarist Russia was not happy about that. That does not tell you anything about the polonaise itself, though.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-18 12:25:17+00:00
I'm just a layman, but in this[1] paper from 2023 Deur and his collaborators took his model[2] and applied it to the Hubble Tension problem. This paper does mention fitting the CMB well (as I understand it), and the model having no Hubble Tension.

I know his work has been contentious in the past, and that his past work has used multiple models that are not entirely compatible for different problems, weakening his claims.

That said, at least from my armchair it seems like a worthwhile direction to pursue.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10861

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02481
by Atreiden | 2025-04-18 12:25:29+00:00
People, and the governments they compose, respond to incentives.

If platforms like discord take a hard-line stance of "no, we're not enabling a surveillance state apparatus" and the government then forces them to cease business in that country, that is a decision with consequences. People don't like when the government takes away their nice things due to motives they don't agree with. It catalyzes a position - "unchecked government surveillance is creating negative outcomes for me".

Over time, if enough actors behave the same way, public sentiments will shift and, assuming a healthy democracy, the government line will as well.

But acquiescing to demands like these only further entrenches the position, as the public is only loosely incentivized to care. The boiling of the privacy frog in a surveillance state like the UK means most people won't care enough to change it until it's too late
by ericrallen | 2025-04-18 12:26:46+00:00
“Allowing zoom” and “being responsive” are not two states at odds with one another.

Preventing zooming is a serious accessibility issue and it makes the content worse for every user.

If you’re properly setting responsive widths, a large enough base font size, large enough input text size, and using border-box for box-sizing, things should just work except for cases where you’re absolutely positioning things or telling them not to word wrap and they are wider than the viewport.
by Andrex | 2025-04-18 12:26:57+00:00
> Jesus, how does your society still function when underage people can see videos of people having sex?!

It kind of isn't anymore. But not just because of porn, obviously.

Early porn exposure goes hand in hand with the problems we see typified in the recent Netflix movie Adolescence. Seen women constantly railed and treated like meat when that young probably does do something.

"Videos of people having sex" is deliberately misleading, modern porn is not dry educational science videos. It's clear you'd rather be snide than correct.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-04-18 12:27:55+00:00
The flipside of the "states' rights" movement is that the Federal Government is much weaker: so while it's easier to strip away rights and dismantle federal institutions, it's also easier for individuals to oppose the concrete harm that'd cause by working the levers of their local government. https://plush.city/@scarlet/114355949314782873 gives a few concrete things that individuals (not even groups) can do, which might make an outsized difference.
by potato-peeler | 2025-04-18 12:28:29+00:00
Does this support android and ios? Your [intro page](https://haxeui.org/api/getting-started/welcome.html) lists android as a backend but it seems to be unavailable in the backend list.

I have used feathers UI before, haxe is really impressive on how with a single codebase you can generate packages for any supported backends. When you use it, it really feels like magic. Only downside was it is yet another toolkit with its own way of doing things, which you have to sit and learn.
by bayindirh | 2025-04-18 12:29:05+00:00
I think I didn't elaborate my point enough, so there's a misunderstanding.

What I said is true for places where they already have sysadmins for various tasks. For the job I do (it's easy to find), you have to employ system administrations to begin with.

So, at least for my job, working the way I described in my original comment is the modus operandi for the job itself.

If the company you're working in doesn't prefer self-hosting things, and doesn't need system administrators for anything, you might be true, but having a couple of capable sysadmins on board both enables self-hosting and allows this initiative to grow without much extra cost, because it gets cheaper as the sysadmins learn and understand what they're doing, so they can handle more things with the same/less effort.

See, system administrators are lazy people. They'd rather solve problems for once and for all and play PacMan in their spare time.
by LunaSea | 2025-04-18 12:29:48+00:00
Usual the news publishers don't sell user data because they have so little of it.

However external data providers are used to retarget specific audience segments on said publisher's users.

If you want to sell ad impressions at reasonable rates, you'll need to provide audience segment targeting, otherwise the ad performance will be too low for brands to continue buying it at previous rates.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-18 12:30:30+00:00
I don't understand, why don't you use cloudflare? Don't they have an unlimited egress policy with R1?

Its way more predictable in my opinion that you only pay per month a fixed amount to your storage, it can also help the fact that its on the edge so users would get it way faster than lets say going to bare metal (unless you are provisioning a multi server approach and I think you might be using kubernetes there and it might be a mess to handle I guess?)
by bell-cot | 2025-04-18 12:31:01+00:00
My impression - from a couple articles with "if only we had done X, Y, and Z" regrets & recriminations by former Biden officials - is that Biden & Co. treated Ukraine as an ongoing crisis to manage. (And look good managing.) Not as a war that needed winning. Nor as a problem that actually needed to be fixed.

One could speculate that that approach was driven by influence from outside the White House. Especially by the military-industrial complex - which "lost" Afghanistan as bottomless well of spending and career advancement, because ol' Joe finally got America out of there.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-04-18 12:31:17+00:00
This was my question to. I suspect they're worried about someone making a paid version with extra features which aren't contributed back to the community.

For a moment, I was thinking Defold ought to dual-license their engine under both the current non-OSS modified Apache and the GPL. That way, you'd have the option to either:

1. Commercialise software created using modified versions of Defold, without releasing the source of your modified version, as long as you don't commercialize your modified version of Defold itself.

2. Commercialise a modified version of Defold, but you must make the source available under the GPL. (Which would mean that source could be used by the upstream project as well.)

But while typing this up, I noticed the flaw in this plan—the parenthetical isn't true! Because the upstream project would be dual licensed, they couldn't use GPL licensed code.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-18 12:33:50+00:00
pardon me but cloudflare workers seem better for this approach.

If we can get for the fact that we require javascript to run it, aside from that. Cloudflare workers is literally the best single thing to happen at least to me. With a single domain, I have done so many personal projects for problems I found interesting and I built so many projects for literally free, no Credit card. No worries whatsoever.

I might ditch writing other languages for server based like golang even though I like golang more just because cloudflare workers exists.
by room271 | 2025-04-18 12:33:51+00:00
While I agree with this article's conclusion, I think it conflates political/market objections to AMP (i.e. abuse of monopoly power) with technical concerns.

For a time, I tech-led the creation of the AMP site for a major news publisher. The technical choices of AMP, excluding the CDN-aspect, are I think a great fit for publishing websites with tens-hundreds of developers who are all tempted to write bespoke JS and in so doing create performance and maintenance hell. In many respects, philosophically, I think AMP was not far of HTMX. In AMP, developers are able to construct relatively sophisticated dynamic/interactive features using simple markup (and pre-built JS components). The page is managed through a single JS runtime which helps manage performance issues. As components have a standard HTML interface, it is possible to migrate the backend to different rendering technologies partially over time unlike (for example), isomorphic JS which forces a large-scale rewrite down the line.

I tried to advocate for an in-house AMP-like solution for our main website, but it was ultimately re-written in React -- a process which took several years and resulted in a codebase of much greater complexity. (Performance was better than the old website but I'm not sure React really contributed to the gains here.)

While AMP is rightly dead, I think the technical choices it made live on (or at least, they should).
by FeloniousHam | 2025-04-18 12:34:08+00:00
100%. I've used them for the last few years, and it's as easy as it can be for normie taxes (things can break down if you get into Schedules, but maybe I should have hired an accountant).

I used to be a hardcore "the government should stop playing 'I'm thinking of a number' and just tell me what I owe", but the rise of these internet tax apps has kind of obviated the need. And with multiple competitors, you can even check the others work.
by prmph | 2025-04-18 12:34:15+00:00
I guess the US got it's mineral deal now, so the justification for continuing to provide more aid to Ukraine has been obtained.

The US, especially with Trump at the helm, will not put any more real pressure on Russia. Best they will do is to let things play out as they are now, and if Trump backers ask why the US is still providing some support to Ukraine, he can point to the mineral deal to show that the US is not being Father Christmas.
by spicyusername | 2025-04-18 12:35:13+00:00
I know things feel dire, and things are certainly very bad for sure, but they have been bad before and things turned around. The Gilded Age comes to mind. Hell, even Nazi Germany didn't last forever.

Don't despair. Do what you can to make the world you want to see, accept the things outside your control, turn off social media, and stay positive!
by ANarrativeApe | 2025-04-18 12:35:21+00:00
"The Constitution explicitly forbids Congress from issuing bills of attainder—laws that single out individuals for punishment without trial. While that restriction technically applies to the Legislative branch, the spirit of it clearly applies here. A president cannot simply declare someone an enemy of the state for contradicting a political narrative. That’s not national security—it’s authoritarianism, dressed up in executive language."

So the Constitution does not forbid it. All executive orders, it could be argued, are authoritarian, not just the ones that you happen to dislike. The moral? Be damned careful to whom you give this authority.
by ajross | 2025-04-18 12:35:56+00:00
No, no, no. Americans are wealthier in PPP metrics than they ever have been. There are no numbers that show what you believe. None. It's wrong. And yet you, and everyone else, believes it anyway. And because Everyone Believes It you figure it must represent some great truth and thus people showing you numbers to the contrary must be wrong, or lying. And so you end up prey for politicians lying to you, and you elect a government that starts a trade war.

And I guess it does represent such a truth, but it's a great truth about universal delusion at the end of an empire, or something else. It's not about wealth. It's not.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-18 12:36:05+00:00
Do you have a stake in whether your water supply is full of arsenic?

Yup!

Do you have a stake in whether the people in your community work unsafe jobs for poverty wages?

Yup!

From Claude:

"Stakeholder capitalism is a model where businesses focus on serving the interests of all parties affected by the company's operations - including employees, customers, suppliers, communities, and shareholders. The core belief is that companies should create value for all stakeholders, not just investors.

Shareholder supremacy, on the other hand, is a model where a company's primary or sole purpose is to maximize returns for its shareholders. This view, popularized by economist Milton Friedman in the 1970s, holds that businesses have no social responsibility beyond making profits for their owners while following the law."

Shareholder supremacy is a recent meme and it's wildly, obviously antisocial.
by janice1999 | 2025-04-18 12:36:34+00:00
Growing up watching American TV, I assumed "food poisoning" was an overused trope in US media. It wasn't until recently I realised that it's so common in the US, up to 10 times more common than the UK for example, although methodologies tracking the figures differ. I really hope the US does not get its way in gutting the "unfair" trade "barriers" in the EU & UK that are our high food standards.
by legostormtroopr | 2025-04-18 12:37:20+00:00
Why don’t you like subscriptions?

Previously, you’d buy a software licence for $X00 or $X,000 and after a year or two you’d either stop receiving security/feature updates or you’d have to spend another $X00 or $X,000 all over again. You’d also only be able to use the software on one machine - period.

The move to subscriptions means that cost is spread further over time.

Subscriptions aren’t necessarily bad - if your software provides a monthly service, like cloud storage or access across multiple devices, then it’s a reasonable pricing model.

Likewise, if you are airing continual features, then users are getting the benefit of constant updates, then again subscriptions are reasonable.

If you really want to go down a single cost route, you aren’t selling a SaaS. It’s just software, and it’s probably not a web app.

If you really want to go this way, you could accept payment for an annual licence, the Oscar future releases, so a user would have to get another year “upgrade” to get more features. But this is probably more complex and less desirable than a simple subscription.
by specialp | 2025-04-18 12:37:37+00:00
You can to some degree with Cloudflare and other solutions. But, do you want to block them all? AI is a very useful tool for people to discover information and summarize results. Especially in scholarly publishing where one would have to previously search on dumb keywords, and have to read loads of abstracts to find the research that pertains to their interests. So by blocking AI crawlers and bots completely, you are shutting off what will probably end up being the primary way people use your resource not too long from now. arXiv is a hub of research, and their mission is to make that research freely available to the world.
by few | 2025-04-18 12:37:38+00:00
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addr...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...

>Krebs ... falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen

This quote coming from "whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets" is pretty wild. This seems to be retribution, plain and simple.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-18 12:37:43+00:00
Dude, I don't want to sound cloudflare advocate because my last 2 comments on this thread are just shilling cloudflare...

but I think cloudflare is the answer to this thing as well.. (Sorry if I am being annoying) (Cloudflare isn't sponsoring me, I just love their service so much)
by ldunn | 2025-04-18 12:37:56+00:00
It bears mentioning that the situation is even more constraining than this, because you're not just looking at galactic dynamics - you're looking at galaxy _cluster_ dynamics, and gravitational lensing measurements, and the CMB, and large-scale structure formation, and whatever else.

Dark matter is not Fermi's elephant, as invoked elsewhere in the thread. It's more like the story of the blind men and the elephant - except that the blind men recognise that their individual observations, taken together, admit a coherent explanation.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-18 12:38:08+00:00
Not only open source.

I don't have servers like this but the author makes it easy to understand, and it applies to a lot of other things.

The Comparative Costs picture does tell it all.

The purpose of so much software is to reduce human and machine costs through time, and this apparently turned out to do just the opposite, apparently after long-term testing under real-world conditions.

Could be an unsurmountable fundamental structure of technical debt or something like that which metastasizes.

Then this, anyone could say about anything:

>I’m not going to run a piece of software that requires 16GB of RAM, has a complex installation script, and is known to be a pain to maintain. I’m not going to recommend it to anyone else either.

Easier said than done, sometimes it's the only option.

It's a "script". Maybe that's why you have to "rehearse" it more than once before you barely get it right, and then you might have to really go the extra mile (and have a bit of good fortune) before you can achieve a "command performance".

How do you think it feels these days to have to settle for this kind of thing in expensive proprietary software too?
by ay | 2025-04-18 12:38:19+00:00
Thanks for the feedback !

The evidently misguided assumption was that whoever uses it will need to tweak it anyhow, so might as well read it through. As I wrote - it’s very close to throwaway code.

Anyway, I decide to experiment with Claude also writing a README - the result doesn’t seem too terribly incorrect on the first squint, and hopefully gives a slightly more impression of what that thing was attempting to do. (Disclaimer: I didn’t test it much other than my use case, so YMMV on whether it works at all).
by goku12 | 2025-04-18 12:39:30+00:00
The use case you described is genuine. But the problem I see here is the insistence that the email platform should fulfill those requirements instead of creating a new platform and letting it win the market on its own merit.

People have certain expectations from emails, which have remained largely unchanged since the emergence of the internet. Those include a federated and fully open platform, immutability of messages that make it valuable as communication records, privacy afforded by plaintext, simplicity of use, etc. Many changes have already ruined some of those qualities of emails. For example, introduction of HTML in emails have converted emails from a messaging platform to an ad and tracking platform, forcing many clients to block dynamically loaded resources. Quoting of prior messages have become a complete mess. But worst of all, the email platform is arguably no longer fully federated, now that it's nearly impossible to self host email servers.

It wouldn't be a stretch to argue that changes like these are intended more to centralize the email network than to add features to it. AMP is a clear aggression in that step. It's telling that neither AMP for web, nor AMP for email survived once Google was forced to stop pushing the so aggressively. Makes you question who wanted it so badly and why.
by tunaoftheland | 2025-04-18 12:39:30+00:00
I've had a soft spot for defold, partly because they're unique in the gamedev space. For example, the GUI editor that is built-in is done in Clojure! https://github.com/defold/defold/tree/dev/editor (cljfx for the GUI, I am rooting for seesaw though :))

From what I understand it emerged from a gamedev studio from Sweden (King or something?) so there's commercial release pedigree there. I believe their console platform build/release tooling does cost money for game devs because the platform SDKs themselves impose restrictions. But I get the impression that defold as org does seem to put in earnest effort to be fair to game devs with licensing, etc. like others mentioned here.
by JohnMakin | 2025-04-18 12:40:32+00:00
Just FYI it’s pretty rude/insulting and not interesting to dismiss someone’s shared experience based on nothing but your own armchair feelings, and even moreso to concede if the person is telling the truth (how on earth could a person be lying or mistaken about this?) that they couldn’t be a functioning adult.

It’s honestly quite a narcissistic view that someone could not possibly think differently than you, and dismiss it out of hand. The other people in this comment thread sharing similar things make perfect sense to me.
by TrackerFF | 2025-04-18 12:40:34+00:00
IRC is what everyone used for group/channel chats back when I grew up, out in rural Norway. Most towns had their #town channels, down to some very small hamlets that are barely populated today. Man, all the memories.

Always had some joker that had download some nefarious script (legit script-kiddies), that they'd share on the channels - and eventually get permabanned from.

Then MSN messenger became popular, and kind of drove away the more casual users. And after that social media became a thing, and the rest is history. Haven't really used IRC in 20 years now. The people that continued to use IRC were mostly gamers, for team chats etc. But I guess discord killed that, too.