MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dheera | 2025-04-24 19:05:15+00:00
It's lining up multiple times. When I walk in with a box, I don't know how the hell to mail it, what to fill out, what the pricing vs. delivery ETA grid is so I can decide where I want to position myself on that curve, the different forms you need to fill to be on different parts of that curve.

I usually end up screwing it up a few times in the process too. I didn't realize that the free boxes they give you are only for 2 day service (and doesn't work for 1 day or 3 day). 1 day is a different box, 3 day is bring-your-own-box.

The pens they provide don't work, you have to line up to get a pen. You have to line up to ask a question. The workers are grumpy, the people in line are grumpy, I've had the experience that sometimes nobody will let you cut anything even if it's just for a pen or a piece of tape.

Oh and they charge you if you ask for more than about X of tape. It's a tricky dance. I think X is about 20cm. If you ask for 30cm, they will refuse even the 20cm and ask you to buy 300cm, which entails getting in the 30 minute line again (so the actual cost of the tape is 0.5 * your hourly consulting rate, so if you're a software engineer paid $100/hour of stocks and $100/hour of equity, that'll be a $50 roll of tape plus $30 of stock assumimng Trump just announced more tariffs). If you ask for 15cm, they might give you 20cm for free. It's tricky. I wish there were a sign that said "free tape: <=20cm" or whatever the actual number is, in front of each employee's desk.

Which reminds me, the actual number also seems depends on the mood of the USPS employee, so you also need to carefully watch your position in line so that you try to get yourself in front of the happiest employee. If the grumpiest employee is almost done with their previous customer, you have to fake needing to fix something really quick and let someone ahead of you in the line so that they get the grumpy one and you get the happy one. Or you can try to estimate the processing time of the few people ahead of you in line by eyeballing the complexity of shipping whatever they are holding, and time your place in line to be in front of the happiest employee when it gets to you. That way you are more likely to get more free tape to seal your box.

You also need to think about how to keep them happy. That usually involves some small talk. More small talk gets you more tape. Weather is a good safe topic on the east coast, because you can commiserate the bad weather with the USPS employee, but in California the weather is always good, so it doesn't make for good small talk, and the USPS employee might be at risk of going from happy to grumpy because they'd rather be outside.
by hylaride | 2025-04-24 19:05:31+00:00
> If a better opportunity came along for them I would hope that you would want them to take it despite your history and the camaraderie you've established with them. And same for you.

To me, it was not about people leaving you behind, but calling you up when opportunities arise (though I didn't feel that way when it first happened at the beginning of my career). Camaraderie doesn't mean you owe people or are owed anything, but is a mutual level of trust and support.

Of the 6 jobs I've had over the past 20 years, 5 of them have been from former colleagues reaching out.
by arch_deluxe | 2025-04-24 19:05:34+00:00
You might be interested in FreeFollow.org [full disclosure, I'm one of the engineers working on it].

It combines the economic model of web hosting (users pay to host spaces, reading is free, and writing in someone else's space is also free), the simple UI of social media (you have a profile and write posts), and the E2EE security model of 1Password (we actually implemented their published security model). It's also a non-profit so there's no pressure from owners to exploit users.

It's aimed primarily at parents of young kids who are annoyed at constantly sharing via text groups, but non-parents are also surprisingly into it.
by omneity | 2025-04-24 19:06:33+00:00
Put simply, Svelte and React were at two ends of a spectrum. React gives you almost complete control over every aspect of the lifecycle, but you have to be explicit about most of the behavior you are seeking to achieve. Building an app with React feels about 80% on the JS and 20% on the HTML side.

Svelte on the other hand felt like a breeze. Most of my app is actually plain simple HTML, and I am able to sprinkle as little JS as I need to achieve my desired behaviors. Sure, Svelte <=4 has undefined behaviors, or maybe even too many magic capabilities. But that was part of the package, and it was an option for those of us who preferred this end of the trade-off.

Svelte 5 intends to give that precise level of control and is trying to compete with React on its turf (the other end of that spectrum), introducing a lot of non-standard syntax along the way.

It's neither rigorous Javascript like React where you can benefit from all the standard tooling developed over the years, including stuff that wasn't designed for React in particular, nor a lightweight frontend framework, which was the initial niche that Svelte happily occupied, which I find sadly quite empty now (htmx and alpinejs are elegant conceptually but too limiting in practice _for my taste_).

For me it's a strange "worst of both worlds" kind of situation that is simply not worth it. Quite heartbreaking to be honest.
by flowerthoughts | 2025-04-24 19:06:40+00:00
1. If you don't do it, someone else will.

2. It's more important that you describe a good story for your CEO to use, than actually implementing it.

3. Find/hire someone who can help you write the story. Just make sure that person has a weakness that ensures they can't completely replace you (see item 1).

4. Manage development speed, team expectations and priorities to the actual best of your abilities.
by adeeds | 2025-04-24 19:06:55+00:00
The smaller niche subreddits dedicated to a hobby or type of product are actually some of the worst for astroturfing from what I've seen. It only takes a few shills to start building consensus.

There's a really interesting pattern where you'll see one person start a thread asking "Hey, any recs for durable travel pants?" Then a second comment chimes in "No specific brands, just make sure you get ones that have qualities x, y, and z". Then a third user says "Oh my Ketl Mountain™ travel pants have those exact traits!" Taken on their own the threads look fairly legit and get a lot of engagement and upvotes from organic users (maybe after some bot upvoted to prime the pump)

Then if you dump the comments of those users and track what subreddits they've interacted on, they've had convos following the same patterns about boots in BuyItForLife, Bidets in r/Bidets, GaN USB chargers in USBCHardware, face wash in r/30PlusSkincare, headphones, etc. You can build a whole graph of shilling accounts pushing a handful of products.
by bearcobra | 2025-04-24 19:07:05+00:00
Your point on competition is a good one. I find the news interesting, but watching a TikTok is a much easier way to find out what's going on. Not to mention the competition in my feeds to show me the craziest thing that happened in Australia or Morocco today. It's impossible for a single entity to compare with that. I think a major problem that creates is news becoming more sensationalized than before. I think it's also leading to a lot more misinformation (both intentional and not).

That's led me to think that more public funding of media, including privately owned publications, would be a good thing. Information is valuable even when the market doesn't recognize it, and I think we're becoming worse off as the public relies on institutions less and less. A tax on algorithmic social media & search to pay for it seems like a better plan than laws that just result in news being blocked
by mjd | 2025-04-24 19:07:12+00:00
This 21-centimeter transition was chosen by the designers of the Pioneer plaques (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque) to explain to any alien readers how big we are. At top left is a cartoon of two hydrogen nuclei in opposite spin orientations, and a ruler in between them marked "1". Over on the far right you can see another ruler that measures the height of the female figure, marked with binary numeral "8" ("|---") to indicate that she is approximately 8×21 = 168 cm tall.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-24 19:07:15+00:00
The idea of her 8-year-old walking a mile down their busy street alone and hanging out with older kids made her very nervous.

Yes because car culture is one of the two actual risks to free-ranging. The other is trespassing culture.

A growing chorus of experts suggests that families have drifted into an equilibrium in which we overprotect our kids offline–for example, by not letting them walk down the street to their friend’s house...

Yes but when they get to their friend's house they're where they started, in an adult-curated box.

What they can't do is what kids did throughout history, until recently. They can't spend hours with their peers, in adult-free free-range time. They can't consistently experience the scenarios that kids need to learn complex social skills and mistake handling.

...and underprotect them online

When kids have nowhere to go, online is what is left. And adults being adults, they're thinking hard about how to get rid of that too.
by dismalaf | 2025-04-24 19:07:27+00:00
The LLM space was never going to be kind to those without deep pockets. And right now there's no point getting in it because it's hit a wall. So yeah, startups should steer clear of trying to make frontier LLM models.

On the other hand, there's a ton of hype and money looking for the next AI related thing. If someone creates the next transformer, or a different AI paradigm that pushes things forward, they'll get billions.
by verisimi | 2025-04-24 19:07:33+00:00
Fascism is our actual governance system - if you define it as 'government and corporations working together', as Mussolini did. It is just that we are mostly under the illusion that we live in a democracy.

It is long in the planning that software and hardware work together - look into technocracy. Smart anything = spy. Smart meters are tools to monitor resource usage. Smart phones are spying/reporting on you. Ai will guide you.

You will be irritated and fined to death if you do not conform with the plan.

Global warming, terrorists and child porn are the various justifications given to justify whatever-new-loss-of-privacy/resource extraction is required.

Even so, individuals will be fine. You don't have to willingly give up your heart and soul to join the borg. That extra yatch/holiday/holiday home will not appease your true self. How many times do you need to come back?
by throw16180339 | 2025-04-24 19:07:54+00:00
> That’s been beat to death. He would face impeachment + removal from office.

Republicans didn't object to Trump's coup attempt, fraud convictions, past attempted rapes, or proven corruption. 70% of them believe that he won the 2020 election. There's no reason to believe that they'd impeach him for child rape unless she was the daughter of a prominent Republican. Trump would have the girl killed, send her parents to a gulag in El Salvador, and Fox News would call it fake news.
by carstenhag | 2025-04-24 19:08:28+00:00
Buying a stamp in the home country is doable for most people. But even then, imagine you are 20, how many mails do you think will you have sent?

For a different country, I'd have no idea. Especially if it's so far away like the USA and I can't locally get a special reply post stamp. What I would have done is to put in 5€ in the envelope and call it a day. The person would probably be happy seeing other money.
by thenthenthen | 2025-04-24 19:08:38+00:00
Interesting seeing this coming from Japan. There is(was?) this Japanese artist collective called The Play who, every year, for 10 years straight, built a 20 meter wooden pyramid on top of a mountain during the stormy season to try to catch lightning. The tower never got hit.

https://www.nmao.go.jp/archive/en/exhibition/2016/play.html
by averageRoyalty | 2025-04-24 19:08:53+00:00
Have to disagree there, champ. This comment is now peak HN, as we've entirely derailed from the original topic but are still arguing about something with polite but arrogant undertones.

Also here's a link[1] to an article tangentially related to what I'm saying. I haven't read or, nor will you. It doesn't quite confirm what I'm saying, and it's possibly behind a paywall.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37068695
by leeter | 2025-04-24 19:08:59+00:00
Not just that. Most operating systems lie about when an IO transaction completes for performance reasons. So if you lose power or the IO device dies you still think it succeeded. A mainframe doesn't do that... it also multiplexes the IO so it happens more than once so if one adapter fails it keeps going. The resiliency is the main use case in many situations. That said IME 99.995% of use cases don't need a mainframe. They just don't need to be that reliable if they can fail gracefully.
by dismalaf | 2025-04-24 19:09:12+00:00
It's usually some mental gymnastics related to Israel, Gaza, etc... Because many Muslims deny the holocaust, much of the far-left has co-opted that rhetoric. It's super visible on TikTok, for example.

Edit - some comments below this seem to doubt. Just go on TikTok to politically charged posts about Palestine. This whole thread is about social media. Not holocaust denial on the mainstream left, specifically the far-left on social media
by jampa | 2025-04-24 19:09:24+00:00
I've been using Reddit for 12 years. After the API fiasco, the quality dropped a lot. Most popular subreddits are now astroturfed, where every week there is a crusade against something (First it was for banning Twitter, now it is against banning AI Art).

Even in regular posts, Reddit has been a hive mind lately. If you scroll through the comments, most of them will have the same opinion over and over, with comments that add nothing to the discussion, like "I agree," getting hundreds of upvotes.
by nico | 2025-04-24 19:09:27+00:00
The qwq-2.5-0.5b is the tiniest useful model I've used, and pretty easy to fine-tune locally on a Mac. Haven't tried it on an iPhone, but given it runs at about 150-200 tokens/second on a Mac, I'm kinda doubtful it could do the same on an iPhone. But I guess you'd just have to try
by mdaniel | 2025-04-24 19:09:29+00:00
https://theia-ide.org/docs/user_install_vscode_extensions/#c... (sigh)

> Please note that a few parts of the VS Code extension API are only stubbed in Theia. Extensions will be installable, but some features might not work as expected.

Also, I thought Theia was a cloud IDE, and it seems like I was mostly right in that 2/3rds of their offering is (localhost:3000 & docker) but they also now apparently bundle it in Electron which I haven't tried
by mprime1 | 2025-04-24 19:09:31+00:00
> 5.9k stars, 727 forks, 132 contributors: https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go

That's the NATS Go _client_.

The server project is https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server 17k stars, 1.5k forks, 160 contributors
by seabass-labrax | 2025-04-24 19:09:37+00:00
The Deutsche Post '#PORTO' method does not apply to international shipments, unfortunately. However, you can still purchase barcode labels online for printing, and conventional stamps are simply values in Euro cents so can be used for both domestic and international deliveries.

In addition, the 14-day limit no longer applies. Deutsche Post were challenged in court, and the digital stamps must now last for as long as conventional stamps do:

https://nrwe.justiz.nrw.de/olgs/koeln/j2023/3_U_148_22_Urtei...
by dredmorbius | 2025-04-24 19:09:48+00:00
That would in fact be part of my argument.

Some fictions are readily dispensible. Most are not.

What they are not however is laws of nature, divine right or revelation, or immutable.

Limit on the law-of-nature bit: law is often a highly probable outcome of various power dynamics, political, economic, social, cultural, etc.
by arghwhat | 2025-04-24 19:09:53+00:00
The title is somewhat misleading, as it suggests an io_uring issue when there is none - it's just that anti-virus solutions like Microsoft Defender try to monitor syscalls but don't monitor io_uring.

They're far from guaranteed to catch things they monitor anyway, and I feel they mostly just exist to let enterprise pretend they care about security by buying ineffective band aids and duct tape. I guess a legal defense is more important than a technical one.
by camel-cdr | 2025-04-24 19:10:33+00:00
The SLP vectorizer is a good point, but I think it's, in comparison with x86, more a problem of the float and vector register files not being shared (in SVE and RVV). You don't need to reconfigure the vector length; just use it at the full width.

> Something like abseil's hash table

If I remember this correctly, the abseil lookup does scale with vector length, as long as you use the native data path width. (albeit with small gains) There is a problem with vector length agnostic handling of abseil, which is the iterator API. With a different API, or compilers that could eliminate redundant predicated load/stores, this would be easier.

> good for SIMT-like codes

Certainly, but I've also seen/written a lot of vector length agnostic code using shuffles, which don't fit into the SIMT paradigm, which means that the scope is larger than just SIMT.

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As a general comparison, take AVX10/128, AVX10/256 and AVX10/512, overlap their instruction encodings, remove the few instructions that don't make sense anymore, and add a cheap instruction to query the vector length. (probably also instructions like vid and viota, for easier shuffle synthesization) Now you have a variable-length SIMD ISA that feels familiar.

The above is basically what SVE is.
by ashoeafoot | 2025-04-24 19:10:47+00:00
The problem is also the justification stories they excrete to justify the wealth the capital machine pours on them. The whole gods choosen, superior, natural strong willed aristocratic uebermensch bottled into one cyst of sycophants. Totally unable to connect with "easily distracted by the trivial" normies, barely able to talk to the monomaniacs they once where themselves. Not a good show.
by kshacker | 2025-04-24 19:11:12+00:00
I do not have an example of the opposite, but I can echo your comment.

I was the first US employee of an Indian consulting startup. I was their engagement lead for a marquee account for the first 4 years and while I do not take all the credit, my management and I grew the account from 1 person to 250 by the time I left. What did I get in return? A 10% reduction in salary from my previous job, almost no pay hikes (there were some) for 4 years, a whole lot of "we are family" talk, and zero stock. Of course I was naive and did not have things in writing, but I still believe they owe me 3% of an 80 M exit price because that's what they verbally told me. But no, good employers turned into bad employers very quickly.

Of course there is a lot more to the story, I had my own faults, but I am not naming anyone and I am not publishing my story here. That life is over, I am not fighting that battle, this was 15-20 years back and I finally did move on and do other stuff.

But that 3% after a decade or more of (well managed) growth would have been awesome.
by stinger | 2025-04-24 19:11:18+00:00
Running into this error - "Error: Failed to set default application: The file couldn’t be opened." This seems to be happening for extensions that I haven't opened yet (md, json, mailto, etc.) For a new laptop, this might not be available yet. Once I `touch` a file with those extensions, the config works!. FYI, I am using a config.toml file btw.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-24 19:11:32+00:00
I think what you are referring to is the "sub capacity" pricing model wherein a rolling average of resource consumption is used for billing. They've transitioned to newer models circa cloud technology, but it's mostly the same idea with more moving parts.

The advantage of this model from a business operations standpoint is that you don't have to think about a single piece of hardware related to the mainframe. IBM will come out automagically and fix issues for you when the mainframe phones home about a problem. A majority of the system architecture is designed on purpose to enable seamless servicing of the machine without impacting operations.

https://www.ibm.com/z/pricing
by bearcobra | 2025-04-24 19:12:17+00:00
It's a mix of believing that news has value and I should support that and actually enjoying the product. The NYTimes has done a pretty great job of expanding the scope of the offering to make it really valuable to me. Others like the Globe & Mail or Washington Post or random Substacks have more niche coverage that I enjoy. But there's also plenty of times when I've seen a story and gone "ok got it, not going to subscribe to Bloomberg"
DietPi released a new version v9.12
by StephanStS | 2025-04-24 19:12:27+00:00
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v9.12 on April 18th, 2025.

The highlights of this version are: fish: New software package, an alternative shell DietPi-Backup: Support for SSHFS added Amiberry: Updated to Amiberry v7 WiringPi: Added support for Orange Pi boards Spotifyd: Added support for ARMv8 and x86_64 Bookworm/Trixie systems Pi-hole: Additionally listen on TCP port 8489 for HTTPS requests RPi.GPIO: Moved to the usage of python3-rpi-lgpio Fixes for O!MPD, FreshRSS, DietPi-Config The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_12/
by pjmlp | 2025-04-24 19:14:01+00:00
Besides all answers given already, one of the reasons Unisys keeps selling Burroughs, aka ClearPath MCP, is its security model.

ESPOL/NEWP is one of the very first systems programming languages, being safe by default, with unsafe code blocks.

The whole OS was designed with security first in mind, think Rust in 1961, thus their customers are companies that take this very seriously, not only running COBOL.

The motto is unsurpassed security.

https://www.unisys.com/product-info-sheet/ecs/clearpath-mast...
by conradev | 2025-04-24 19:14:13+00:00
> Why require the client to be locked down?

It is hard and likely expensive to require every single reader in every single city to be networked:

> Because Clipper operates in multiple geographical areas with sporadic or non-existent internet access, the fare collection and verification technology needs to operate without any networking. To accomplish this, the Clipper card memory keeps track of balance on the card, fares paid, and trip history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_card#Technology
by bravoetch | 2025-04-24 19:14:38+00:00
When a fb exec gave a talk at our then small startup about their 'north star' being monthly active users, I thought maybe they had just given up on serving their customers, that was in 2014. He detailed how they measured 'active' etc.

Our CEO immediately adopted a north star of 'revenue', again just shoving end-users into a pile for exploitation. Companies are not making products to solve an end-user issue, or even add value. The VC is the customer, and if your fb feed and IG is toxic, it's because that's working well for the investors.