MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nickagliano | 2025-04-25 16:43:30+00:00
As a card carrying Substack hater, I’m not suprised.

> "How could Substack improve this situation for technical writers?"

They don’t care about (technical) writers. All they care about is building a TikTok clone to “drive discoverability” and make the attention-metrics go up. Chris Best is memeing about it on his own platform. Very gross.
by galeaspablo | 2025-04-25 16:44:17+00:00
Right on, great question. Some examples:

Example Option 1

You give up on the guarantees across partition keys (bank accounts), and you accept that balances will not reflect a causally consistent state of the past.

E.g., Bob deposits 100, Bob sends 50 to Alice.

Balances: Bob 0 Alice 50 # the source system was never in this state Bob 100 Alice 50 # the source system was never in this state Bob 50 Alice 50 # eventually consistent final state

Example Option 2

You give up on parallelism, and consume in total order (i.e., one single partition / unit of parallelism - e.g., in Kafka set a partitioner that always hashes to the same value).

Example Option 3

In the consumer you "wait" whenever you get a message that violates causal order.

E.g., Bob deposits 100 Bob sends 50 to Alice (Bob-MoneyOut 50 -> Alice-MoneyIn 50).

If we attempt to consume Alice-MoneyIn before Bob-MoneyOut, we exponentially back off from the partition containing Alice-MoneyIn.

(Option 3 is terrible because of O(n^2) processing times in the worst case and the possibility for deadlocks (two partitions are waiting for one another))
by dogleash | 2025-04-25 16:44:29+00:00
Waxing philosophical about accidental/essential kinda sweeps under the rug that it's an orthogonal dimension to practical for a given status quo. And that's what a lot of people care about even if it's possible to win a conversation by deploying boomer ad hominem.

I will lament that professionals with desk jobs can't touch-type. But not out of some "back in my day" bullshit. I didn't learn until my 20s. I eventually had an "oh no" realization that it would probably pay major dividends on the learning investment. It did. And then I knew.

I was real good at making excuses to never learn too. Much more resistant than the student/fresh grads I've since convinced to learn.
by thayne | 2025-04-25 16:45:22+00:00
> Ok Synadia says they were not happy with the CNCF collaboration. In the end they were paying for this membership and their services.

So they can leave, and make their own fork of the project.

When they joined the CNCF, they agreed to give control of the project to the CNCF, and a big reason for that is to give users of the project assurance that the license won't change if the vendor decides it doesn't want the project to be open source anymore. If a company can change its mind and claw back a project, that undermines the purpose of the CNCF.

Also, membership in CNCF is distinct from having a project contributed to CNCF. As far as I know, there is no requirement that you be a member of the CNCF to submit a project to the organization. And I don't think you have to contribute a project in order to be get membership.
by filmgirlcw | 2025-04-25 16:45:30+00:00
100% this. It would be one thing if the only LSPs you could build came from Microsoft, but that’s just not true. It’s just that developing LSPs isn’t free.

Cursor, Windsurf, etc. are building multi-billion dollar businesses off the backs of the work that the VS Code team has done. And that’s totally fine! What’s not fine, is trying to have access to the whole ecosystem of first party extensions that aren’t MIT licensed.

I agree there should be more resilient extension repos, but this is one of the problems Eclipse Theia [0] has tried to take on, but most projects just fork the core VS Code experience and slot in OpenVSX rather than doing the hard, expensive work of building their own extension marketplaces or LSPs. And you know what, for a community or OSS fork, I think that’s fair. I think when you raise hundreds of millions in funding, you can build your own LSPs and start to maintain your own infra for extensions. And if you’ve got enough buy-in, you can probably convince developers to submit directly to your marketplace too.

And it isn’t even a rug pull, per se. The first changes to the license on some of the 1P VS Code extensions probably happened in late 2018 or early 2019, with remote share. The LSPs may have changed later. If anything, the Code team was probably too lax about letting the commercial forks use their resources wholesale against the license terms for as long as they did.

Disclaimer: I used to work at Microsoft and then at GitHub with things that touched VS Code. I now work at Google, who uses VS Code (well Monaco) inside some of our editors/products, but I don’t work on any of those.

[0]: https://theia-ide.org/
by martinjacobd | 2025-04-25 16:45:50+00:00
If this complaint is true (my understanding is a complaint is always only one side of the story and the evidence presented may not end up being admissible, obviously IANAL and so forth), then seems quite similar to the MA case from several years ago: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/12/04/judge-shel...
by x436413 | 2025-04-25 16:46:01+00:00
i'll be honest, if the rest of your profile wasn't at least somewhat corraborative, i'd say you're larping, but what you're saying is at least irresponsible. most farmers in rural area have livestock trailers, not horse trailers, hauling for hire (including if you're hauling for students at your barn or whatever) requires CDL and a bunch of other documentation, which you're not typically going to have as a farmer, and more documentation if you're hauling interstate (my vet is across a border), but would i even trust random joe dirt to haul for me? i've hired professionals to transport horses, and i have a handful of people who could haul in a bind and unlicensed but i wouldn't rely on them to be available in an emergency. last year i had to haul an old mare, she was colic, she laid down in the field, covered in sweet, and had to be put down at the vet, but overall it was less than an hour from load to vet. if i had to rely on "farmers", that would prolong her agony. now i just train, so i don't usually have freak accidents, but at riding barns, with students, on trail, something happens from time to time. riding barns i work with tell me horror stories all the time. i'll give you a benefit of the doubt, maybe your wife knows the details, and ithaca being horse country, maybe she's got a friendly neighbor on speed dial, but then you're at best outsourcing your responsibilities to someone else. what other things you can save on to make your operation profitable, at the expense of safety and well being of hoss?
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-25 16:46:07+00:00
> While you are fine living under the tyranny of experts, I remember that experts are human and humans (especially groups of humans) should almost never be trusted with sovereign power over others.

I'm European, German to be specific. I agree that we do suffer from a bit of overregulation, but I sincerely prefer that to poultry that has to be chlorine-washed to be safe to eat.
by hermitdev | 2025-04-25 16:46:25+00:00
> Would you rather have a HFT trade go correctly and a few nanoseconds slower or a few nanoseconds faster but with some edge case bugs related to variable initialisation ?

As someone who works in the HFT space: it depends. How frequently and how bad are the bad-trade cases? Some slop happens. We make trade decisions with hardware _without even seeing an entire packet coming in on the network_. Mistakes/bad trades happen. Sometimes it results in trades that don't go our way or missed opportunities.

Just as important as "can we do better?" is "should we do better?". Queue priority at the exchange matters. Shaving nanoseconds is how you get a competitive edge.

> I would posit is it things like network latency that would dominate.

Everything matters. Everything is measured.

edit to add: I'm not saying we write software that either has or relies upon unitialized values. I'm just saying in such a hypothetical, it's not a cut and dry "do the right thing (correct according to the language spec)" decision.
by prepend | 2025-04-25 16:46:40+00:00
I don’t know. It seems pretty unusual.

Imagine that someone is being charged with shoplifting and literally at trial. Some other law enforcement agency shows up to the trial and wants to arrest them for jaywalking.

It seems dysfunctional that the court would release them when they know a different law enforcement agency is literally in the building and wanting to arrest them.

Is this how it works when the FBI comes to a county court looking for someone the county cops have in custody?
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-25 16:46:45+00:00
The fact the FBI participated in this arrest is chilling. ICE being a proto secret police seems to be perceived already. The FBI now? There’s question whether the ICE agents even had legal grounds to demand arrest regardless, whether they had a warrant, etc - and the facts established are pretty clearly not prosecutable. So this is pure intimidation, going after the judicial in what will likely be a flagrantly abusive way, yet doing it proudly and across the media - this is a shot across the bow telling judges at all levels they are next. And if there’s anyone that knows being arrested changes your life forever, it’s judges.

I am not alarmist or hyperbolic by nature, and I don’t say this lightly, but this is the next level and the escalation event that leads to the end game. The separation of powers is unraveling, and this is America’s Sulla moment where the republic cracks. The question remains did the anti federalists bake enough stability into the constitution to ensure our first Sulla doesn’t lead to Julius Caesar.
by floathub | 2025-04-25 16:47:50+00:00
If you enter:

A farmer has a boat that can transfer up to 500 people or animals. He has a chicken, his dog, his wife, a small leprechaun, a large leprechaun, two ham sandwiches, and a copy of Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (the one with the tiled cover). How can he get them all across the river?

You will get a very detailed answer that goes on for several paragraphs that totally misses the point that there is no challenge here.
by bix6 | 2025-04-25 16:47:58+00:00
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

I expect America to be a beacon of light and I will fight for it. We all need to fight for it, especially the people who frequent this message board because we are among the most privileged and capable. It’s disappointing to me how many of our tech leaders forget what made them great in the first place and abuse us all in the pursuit of personal wealth.
by camdenreslink | 2025-04-25 16:48:10+00:00
I think you underrate the talent of people in the general populace. There are very talented people everywhere. It rarely translates into wealth.

By the way, the act of buying a power ball ticket is essentially a rounding error. The odds of winning the grand prize (which is what we're talking about here) is 1 in 292,201,338. That is for all intents and purposes the same as zero.
by ldoughty | 2025-04-25 16:48:14+00:00
According to the FBI complaint that was just made available:

Judge Dugan escorted the subject through a "jurors door" to private hallways and exits instead of having the defendant leave via the main doors into the public hallway, where she visually confirmed the agents were waiting for him.

I couldn't tell if the judge knew for certain that ICE was only permitted to detain the defendant in 'public spaces' or not.

Regardless, the judge took specific and highly unusual action to ensure the defendant didn't go out the normal exit into ICE hands -- and that's the basis for the arrest.

I don't necessarily agree with ICE actions, but I also can't refute that the judge took action to attempt to protect the individual. On one side you kind of want immigrants to show up to court when charged with crimes so they can defend themselves... but on the other side, this individual deported in 2013 and returned to the country without permission (as opposed to the permission expiring, or being revoked, so there was no potential 'visa/asylum/permission due process' questions)
by solardev | 2025-04-25 16:48:35+00:00
It's not that "we like coding so much", it's that we hate pointless busywork. If you need a status update on my project, that's something I can provide in a sentence or two over Slack or in a PR or a Kanban. Progress usually looks something like "Partial fix for #4278. Almost there.", which can be auto linked to ticket 4278. The PM should be able to at least read commits and PRs at a general level and ask specific people for more details when necessary, not drag everyone into meetings all the time just to hear everyone else's details.

If you're going to make me sit through a daily meeting where everyone goes in a circle saying all that, and most of it is "Still the same as yesterday", I'm going to resent it for wasting time.

I mean, stand-ups are whatever, 15 minutes isn't the end of the world. It's the additional combination of all the other ceremonies and endless meetings that cumulatively add up to way too much wasted time and interruption of flow.

Agile demands way too much time and breaks of focus just to provide basic details. It results in situations where X team members are waiting and twiddling their thumbs listening to the updates from X-1 other team members just so that one manager can learn what the team is up to. Not just in stand-up but every other planning ceremony and retro.

Simple async updates that happen when progress actually changes are much less demanding. Perhaps that's worth a shot?

You can force people to adopt Agile with enough pressure, but that won't magically improve transparency, productivity, or morale. It's a false promise that really just teaches engineers to optimize for the aesthetics of work (overestimating points and difficulty, shuffling tickets around, coming up with BS insights for retros, etc.) to LOOK more productive instead of actually doing the work.
by karaterobot | 2025-04-25 16:48:44+00:00
Okay, it's back up:

For purposes of this division: (a) “Social media platform” means a public or semipublic internet-based service or application that has users in California and that meets both of the following criteria: (1) (A) A substantial function of the service or application is to connect users in order to allow users to interact socially with each other within the service or application. (B) A service or application that provides email or direct messaging services shall not be considered to meet this criterion on the basis of that function alone. (2) The service or application allows users to do all of the following: (A) Construct a public or semipublic profile for purposes of signing into and using the service or application. (B) Populate a list of other users with whom an individual shares a social connection within the system. (C) Create or post content viewable by other users, including, but not limited to, on message boards, in chat rooms, or through a landing page or main feed that presents the user with content generated by other users.

So it looks like, but for 2B, Hackernews is a social media platform in the state of California. Sites like Github and Letterboxd arguably are.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-04-25 16:48:49+00:00
The AP article someone else linked is much better: it includes both:

- a PDF of the criminal complaint (court filing), and

- details of what specifically the complaint alleges (that the judge encouraged the person to escape out of a 'jury door' to evade arrest).

The phrase 'jury door' doesn't appear in the JS article.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-25 16:48:52+00:00
Propaganda is that thing you consumed and made you not believe facts.

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[https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/USSR.CHAP.1.HTM]

" LETHAL POLITICS Chapter 1 61,911,000 Victims: Utopianism Empowered*

By R.J. Rummel

...when we are reproached with cruelty, we wonder how people can forget the most elementary Marxism. ---- Lenin

"How long will you keep killing people?" asked Lady Astor of Stalin in 1931. Replied Stalin, "the process would continue as long as was necessary" to establish a communist society.

Probably 61,911,000 people, 54,769,000 of them citizens, have been murdered by the Communist Party--the government--of the Soviet Union. This is about 178 people for each letter, comma, period, digit, and other characters in this book.

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so they killed more than 50 milion of own citizens, neighbors, family etc. But they wont kill political dissidents in country they do not care about in slightest?

Educate yourself.

After Hitler in west, reforms came. After Lenin in east, Stalin came.

One in west was voted into power. Two in east were not. All three murderous mistakes.
by adriand | 2025-04-25 16:49:22+00:00
Protest! People power is the best way to resist autocracy especially in the early stages when resistance has a chance of success. Don’t ignore the fact that protests are happening. Musk is fleeing Washington because the backlash successfully tanked Tesla. That’s a big win right there!

Consider just how much more inconvenient/shitty/tragic it will be for you and the people you know if you are indeed forced to move, as compared to successfully pushing back right now.
by rockostrich | 2025-04-25 16:49:36+00:00
> used, 100k miles or so, if you shop around $2k-$3k should be doable

Where are you finding a 100k mile Honda Fit for $3k? Before I bought my current daily driver, Honda Fits were on my list to look out for and in the central NJ area I never saw one in decent condition around that mileage for less than $5k. Even looking now I see people trying to part out theirs for $2k or looking for $4k for a 200k mile one. I messaged someone on FB Marketplace that had a 2013 with 65k miles on it to try and bring down their $11k asking to $8k and just got ignored.

NJ is probably on the higher end of the market but the deviation can't be that big.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-04-25 16:49:43+00:00
I use AI and PHP, so I'm not someone unfamiliar with either.

> This is the same thinking that PHP is unsafe thus can't use PHP.

No, it's not the same because you code in a programming language. You don't code with vibe code, you let something else tell you there's code and you don't look at it. It's different on every level. Unless you're copy-pasting without understanding the code, which, as far as I'm concerned, is just as bad.

> Meanwhile, PHP is running countless billions of commerce just fine every day.

It is famously *NOT* running just fine. It *CAN* run just fine. But the freedom of what you can do in PHP and the low barrier to entry has led to Frankenstein apps with higher than average security issues. I work in legacy software, lots of PHP apps.

You seem to be under the impression that people are saying all apps were secure before vibe coding. That is not the case. But the scale of risk is far greater. Programming safely requires diligence. Instead you're saying "well maybe if we pay even less attention to what we're writing, it will be just as safe." That's irresponsible.

> There's always a risk.

There's a risk of me dying in a car accident. That doesn't mean I'm going to let my toddler drive for me.
by hnlmorg | 2025-04-25 16:50:00+00:00
I’m going through exactly this joy with a client right now.

“We need SQL injection rules in the WAF”

“But we don’t have an SQL database”

“But we need to protect against the possibility of partnering with another company that needs to use the same datasets and wants to import them into a SQL database”

In fairness, these people are just trying to do their job too. They get told by NIST (et al) and Cloud service providers that WAF is best practice. So it’s no wonder they’d trust these snake oil salesman over the developers who asking not to do something “security” related.
by sanderjd | 2025-04-25 16:50:07+00:00
The thesis is that immigrants have no constitutional rights because they aren't citizens, or the stronger form, that they are invaders and thus enemy combatants.

The Supreme Court is going to have to clarify the existence or non-existence of constitutional rights for people living here unlawfully. And then the populace is going to have to make sure that the president doesn't conclude that he can ignore that ruling if he doesn't like it.
by hilbert42 | 2025-04-25 16:50:18+00:00
Bloody hell, what next?

We can't drink alcohol without getting cancer, we can't eat red meat, cheese, dairy products etc. without getting cardiovascular disease, we can't eat most fish because of its mercury content not to mention the build up of micro plastics. Vegetables contain toxins such as oxalic acid—and that's just one of many.

We can't eat sugar without becoming obese and or getting diabetes, and the sugar fructose causes oxidative cell damage—consume too much fruit and or things containing corn syrup such as sodas and you're in big trouble. Carbohydrates make you obese and can cause diabetes, and the refined stuff is hypoglycaemic—causes hypoglycemia etc.

Then there are all the special precautions that apply to certain foods—peanuts, shellfish can cause allergies and life-threatening anaphylaxis. Eat the wrong type of mushrooms and you're soon dead—there's no antidote for their cyclic peptide toxins such as amatoxin. Oh, and by the way peanuts and peanut butter often contain small amounts of mold which produces the poisonous and carcinogenic aflatoxin—buy from a disreputable supplier who's not done proper testing and you could rue the consequences.

Seems we can no longer store our food in plastic containers because of shedding micro-plastics that accumulate in our arteries and even our brains. Toast some bread or make any yummy crispy foods and the cooking process causes a build up of the carcinogenic chemical acrylamide—even the cooking of food is dangerous. And if you don't cook certain foods you then risk all sorts of diseases: everything from bacterial infections — E. coli etc., to food poisoning, to tapeworms, to toxoplasmosis, and even more….

Moreover, even cooking vegetables in the microwave is dangerous because the temperature is hotter than when when boiled. Ah, and it gets worse, the higher microwave temperature causes additional micro plastics to shed into food and phthalates, DEHP etc., leach out of plastic containers, especially if cooking oils are present.

Hoping to escape sugary poisons we turn to artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose and saccharin only to be told they can cause a plethora of ailments including cancer.

I'm fed up hearing the goddamn woeful news about the dangers of food, year after year, it's never-ending. Perhaps it's time these bringers of doom ought to tell us the truth:

"Food is dangerous and can kill you, eat at your own risk."
by pnw | 2025-04-25 16:50:23+00:00
I'm really intrigued to see how this does. Kudos to Slate for trying something new and building it in Detroit at a great price point.

I see a ton of discussion on social media from people who want to buy simpler vehicles with less features at a better price point (e.g. the Japanese Kei trucks). I'm not convinced Americans will actually buy such a vehicle because we are used to our modern conveniences in new vehicles. You can even see that trend in this thread where people are asking for more features, or things that were phased out decades ago due to safety (e.g. bench seats). Perhaps Slate has figured that out with their options packaging? I'm rooting for them regardless.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-04-25 16:50:49+00:00
How many lawsuits were dropped and people pardoned at the discretion of the sitting president? Wasn't he the target of many legitimate lawsuits that were dropped? Didn't he pardon a bunch of people, including convicted fraudsters who grifted millions of dollars, relatively recently?

Somebody in particular is above the law, as are all his cronies.
by xpe | 2025-04-25 16:50:53+00:00
See also section D that says "Judge DUGAN escorts Flores-Ruiz through a “jury door” to avoid his arrest" in https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.11... labeled "Case 2:25-mj-00397-SCD Filed 04/24/25" (13 pages)