MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saltcured | 2025-04-16 17:05:02+00:00
I was thinking about this with my morning coffee.. the asymptotic end game would be that every TLS connection requires an online handshake with Connection Authorities to validate the server identity synchronously, right?

But on a more serious note, can someone more familiar with these standards and groups explain the scope of TLS certificate they mean for these lifetime limits?

I assume this is only server certs and not trust root and intermediate signing certs that would get such short lifetimes? It would be a mind boggling nightmare if they start requiring trust roots to be distributed and swapped out every few weeks to keep software functioning.

To my gen X internet pioneer eyes, all of these ideas seem like easily perverted steps towards some dystopian "everything is a subscription" access model...
by throwanem | 2025-04-16 17:05:03+00:00
Flag my comments, then. Or does this throwaway of yours lack sufficient karma as yet for that? I forget, but I think probably.

Mr. Gackle has had words with me before when I have caused the need; if he or his new offsider whose name I forget feels the same need now, no doubt they will again so remonstrate. In the meantime you, in seeking to speak from their cathedra, fail to impress.
by strict9 | 2025-04-16 17:05:11+00:00
>We just don't want to employ people, hence why we can't make an iphone or refine raw materials.

This is it. Aside from manufacturing, most recent AI startups are almost universally aligned in the desire to use it to reduce headcount. It's plastered all over their landing pages as a selling point: "use our product and you won't have to hire people."

Business culture is eating its own young and hollowing out the future with such empty goals and sales points.

I'm skeptical of actual results. There are a lot of layoffs attributed to AI but far fewer cases of increased sales attributed to it.
by Frieren | 2025-04-16 17:05:17+00:00
My guess is that people from the same region and similar background will have more and closer "alters". So, if you are Californian-American then there is many people that will speak similar to you in HN. If you are a Satawalese speaker then you may be quite alone in your own group.

(The Satawalese language has 460 speakers, most of who live in Satawal Island in the Federated States of Micronesia.)
by 9rx | 2025-04-16 17:05:57+00:00
> The point is to not owe people money so that you are self sufficient and not need to make money.

Trouble is, if you become self-sufficient the government will soon swoop in and try to take a piece of the pie, and now you're back to owing people money again.

The ideal is to owe so much money that you become "too big to fail". Then you get all the benefits of being self-sufficient, but with nothing on paper to share.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-16 17:06:35+00:00
The clarification is important because there have been a lot of arguments and fear of being sued for exluding trans women from "women only" areas from changing rooms to sport and even gynecologists.

My understanding, reading the various reactions in the article, is that now it is fully legally safe to deny trans women access to the "women changing room", or to "womens" categories in sport, or to lesbian meeting places, etc.
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-16 17:06:38+00:00
It's a very myopic take.

Someone that has seized control of your core network such that they were capable of modifying traffic, is not going to waste precious time or access modifying the flags of ls on your man page server. They will focus on more valuable things.

Just because something is possible in theory doesn't make it likely or worth the time invested.

You can put 8 locks on the door to your house but most people suffice with just one.

Someone could remove a piece of mail from your unlocked rural mailbox, modify it and put it back. Do you trust the mail carrier as much as the security of your internal network?

But it's not really a concern worth investing resources into for most.
by jjani | 2025-04-16 17:06:42+00:00
> Lemon Squeezy - it was very popular until being acquired by stripe. Full of serious bugs, bad support. Lovely design, slightly better fees than Gumroad, but many hidden. Would still use over Gumroad just cause the Gumroad checkout design is so bad it loses sales imo.

Curious to read the acquisition made it less popular. Is it due to the concern of Stripe buying it solely as an "extinguish" strategy? Or is it unrelated to the acquisition and just because of the bugs and poor support?
by Spunkie | 2025-04-16 17:06:47+00:00
@jgrahamc Y'all should prob make the url not need the oddly placed www in the middle, so just events.cloudflare.com. A̶l̶s̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶e̶m̶a̶i̶l̶ ̶a̶d̶d̶r̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶p̶o̶n̶s̶o̶r̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶y̶p̶o̶,̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶c̶u̶r̶r̶e̶n̶t̶l̶y̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶n̶e̶c̶t̶e̶v̶e̶n̶t̶s̶@̶c̶l̶o̶u̶d̶f̶a̶r̶e̶.̶c̶o̶m̶.̶ ̶E̶d̶i̶t̶ ̶-̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶y̶p̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶d̶d̶r̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶i̶t̶s̶e̶l̶f̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶e̶x̶i̶s̶t̶ ̶e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶.̶ Edit - email has been fixed

Anyways, I would love to go but Vegas tends to be expensive. Looks like there are no plans to do a livestream/virtual event along side the event. Are y'all at least going to record your sessions and upload them on youtube later?
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-04-16 17:07:12+00:00
> I wanted to do a full NTFS solution but I couldn't find a bootloader I liked that would support booting from a NTFS partition.

Could you stick the Linux kernel and initramfs on the EFI boot partition as a UKI, and then just tell it about its rootfs being on the NTFS C drive? You don't really need any bootloader except the firmware's UEFI implementation on most modern PCs, and Linux supports NTFS.
by giarc | 2025-04-16 17:07:34+00:00
I think the JFK video is actually not a great example. When the video turns the sound off, the audio clip is so well known that I think your brain fills in the inflection and JFKs way of speaking. I think a better example would be to take a relatively unknown speech and do the same thing to see if the subtitles can communicate the prosody of speech or not.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-04-16 17:08:06+00:00
> Or request a certificate over the public internet, for an internal service. Your hostname must be exposed to the web and will be publicly visible in transparency reports.

That doesn't seem like the end of the world. It means you shouldn't have `secret-plans-for-world-takeover.example.com`, but it's already the case that secret projects should use opaque codenames. Most internal domain names would not actually leak any information of value.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-16 17:08:45+00:00
We produce weapons. We are an arms dealer empire.

Our biggest exporter is Boeing and sure Boeing produces commercial aircraft but their position has a lot to do with inertia as the accountant leadership of Boeing is doing their best to destroy Boeing by nickel-and-diming every aspect with a complex web of outsourcing that will fall apart the second there is any disruption in international trade.

What China has now is the infrastructure and ecosystem to manufacture. You need some tiny screws made of titanium? Well, there's a factory that produces that down the street.
by burntsushi | 2025-04-16 17:10:18+00:00
ripgrep author here.

Like many grep tools, it also has significant performance cliffs that are very easy to hit:

$ time rg -o -c '[A-Z]' subtitles2016-sample.en 51835353 real 4.391 user 4.344 sys 0.042 maxmem 923 MB faults 0 $ time krep-1.0.2 -E -o -c '[A-Z]' subtitles2016-sample.en ^C real 8:02.95 user 3:04:10.58 sys 4.203 maxmem 919 MB faults 0

ripgrep has cliffs too, but they tend to be rarer and/or still give decent perf.
by taco_emoji | 2025-04-16 17:10:41+00:00
School administrators sometimes implement the stupidest policies based on correlations of various strengths. But even a strong correlation might have nothing to do with causation.

E.g.: A school my wife used to work at is requiring all 8th graders to take algebra (normally a high-school-level class in the US) regardless of math aptitude because some study shows that 8th graders who take algebra have improved outcomes. Nevermind the fact that this is almost certainly because kids who are already good at math will both take algebra AND have improved outcomes.
by dwenzek | 2025-04-16 17:10:56+00:00
I really enjoyed reading this well-written paper that introduces the Rel query language implemented at RelationalAI [1].

One main goal of Rel is to give users the ability to grow the language using libraries [2], say for linear algebra or graph processing. And I'm really impressed by the result. With ability to defines (possibly recursive) relations over relation variables and arbitrary-length tuples, Rel is a nice successor of Datalog.

I also like the oppiniated approach which is to enforce strong data modeling constraints on all relations (6th normal form and identifier uniqueness across entity types). This removes the need for nulls and beyond helps to remove complicated corner cases.

[1] https://relational.ai/ [2] https://docs.relational.ai/getting-started/walkthrough/rel-l...
by taeric | 2025-04-16 17:10:58+00:00
Then let me restate, this is an area where you can easily wade along with largely inaccurate information quite easily. I also wasn't necessarily trying to bait you to give a list, though it would be interesting to know which ones you have in mind, specifically. Far too many of us don't have any evidence, we have been duped by trusting that others do.

I took your specific claim to be privatization of government functions having many success stories. I'm still curious which ones you have in mind, but would more largely be interested in studies on this. Nothing wrong with knowing the wrenches in there.

Beside that, though, I was trying to engage your question. The difference is if growth is privatized into a few, or if it is more broadly available. With a large agreement from me that a mixture of both -- your wrench, effectively -- is fine. Good even.
by owlstuffing | 2025-04-16 17:11:53+00:00
Outside of government, this shift also coincides with the decline of pensions and the rise of the 401k.

Career growth has always been a shared responsibility between employees and employers. In white-collar fields--especially medicine and engineering--education has long been frontloaded, with formal schooling as the main on-ramp.

Blue-collar jobs, by contrast, have relied more on trade schools, mentorship, and hands-on training. These pathways have steadily eroded since the 1980s.

Much of this traces back to the Open Door Policy with China and the broader Free Trade Agreements that followed. These moved massive segments of industry offshore--along with the structures that once incentivized long-term employee development through education and skill-building.

Revitalizing domestic industry could reintroduce competition among employers, which in turn could restore the pre-1990s incentives for long-term investment in the workforce.
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-16 17:11:58+00:00
> What overhead?

[proceeds to describe a bunch of new infrastructure and automation you need to setup and monitor]

So when ACME breaks - which it will, because it's not foolproof - the server securely hosting the cafeteria menus is now inaccessible, instead of being susceptible to interception or modification in transit. Because the guy that has owned your core switches is most concerned that everyone will be eating taco salad every day.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-04-16 17:12:01+00:00
Interesting! My concept isn’t a startup as a culture because the problem I am to solve isn’t a technology or hardware or access issue - it’s a content issue. AI can not begin to touch what my human brain can do to add value via consulting with a specific company in a regulated and legally sensitive business process. I can potentially teach another human being how to replicate my methodology, but as it stands, I’m going to fill a niche for a large market by providing an inherently subject service: talent.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-04-16 17:12:11+00:00
> The basic premise is “what was done for $X dollars with no profit motive can be done for <$X dollars with profit motive" doesn’t hold up - you make something private, it wants to make more profit.

The government often acts like it has infinite money. Sure, they'll make a lot of noise about the national debt, but it's all just about getting votes.

I expect privatization to be a way for a politician to stuff their pockets. They'll either buy their stock before the large government contract is announced, or the corporation will kick some money back in the form of campaign contributions, or find some way to just give cash directly.

Nobody ever gets charged with insider trading because everyone that would be involved in that is in on it as well.

Or maybe I'm just cynical.
by cco | 2025-04-16 17:12:12+00:00
No, though those concepts are of course related historically, I'm not confusing the two.

The hacker's ethos is about freedom of information, freedom of access (apropos to this video about vibe coding accessibility tools), community, collaboration and so on.

I've never seen or heard "elegance" associated with hackers, hacking, the hacking ethos etc. If I were to go further, elegance as it is used here has some anti-hacker connotations, i.e. it is a gatekeeping term to separate "true" coders from "amateurs" which is very anti-hacker.

Anyway, I don't think I'm conflating these terms, but it could be true that my understanding of the hacker ethos is wrong.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-04-16 17:12:28+00:00
I think what gets me about the US "being taken advantage of" narrative is that it just strikes me as completely disregarding the soft power we've enjoyed for so long. Those investments or "wasteful projects that don't benefit people in the US" have granted us a lot of stability abroad, relatively speaking, which does translate to a better life at home ultimately.

I don't know if these people are intellectually dishonest or just ignorant, if I can be blunt. If there is some legitimate counter argument that shows the cons outweigh the pros I have yet to hear it.
by ddejohn | 2025-04-16 17:13:19+00:00
I didn't claim any of those things were specific to Project 2025.

We've known about RFK Jr all along so yes, if somebody is surprised by the secretary of health being anti-vax, that somebody is irresponsibly ignorant. If that somebody also claims that nobody could have foreseen this, or that prior to him being picked they were fond of reassuring people that "there's no way it'll be that bad"... yeah I'd 100% associate that with the type of behavior becoming of a Russian troll.

I find it really weird and cringey that you're bringing up ego. I don't feel like I'm smarter than everybody else, nor am I claiming to be, nor do I see how any of my comments could even be construed as such. To say this is about me thinking I'm smarter than everybody else is to imply that I'm relishing in the fact that I "foresaw what others couldn't", which is just... an insanely idiotic thing to say. I'm not a sociopath. And for what it's worth, I know plenty of people who also saw this coming.

To be clear, it's a tragedy that so many people were ignorant of what a second Trump admin would be capable of, but that's not really the point I'm trying to make; I am specifically taking issue with your insistence that it was somehow impossible for anybody else to foresee this.

Best of luck in life.
by antirez | 2025-04-16 17:13:27+00:00
Your observation is really acute: the small difference is due to quantization. When we search for element A, that is int8 quantized by default, the code paths de-quantize it, then re-quantize it and searches. This produces a small loss of precision, like that:

redis-cli -3 VSIM hn_fingerprint ELE pg WITHSCORES | grep montrose

montrose 0.8640020787715912

redis-cli -3 VSIM hn_fingerprint ELE montrose WITHSCORES | grep pg

pg 0.8639097809791565

So why cosine similarity is commutative, the quantization steps lead to a small different result. But the difference is .000092 that is in practical terms not important. Redis can use non quantized vectors using the NOQUANT option in VADD, but this will make the vectors elements using 4 bytes per component: given that the recall difference is minimal, it is almost always not worth it.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-16 17:13:41+00:00
The only agencies the President gives orders to like this are the military ones. We don't have a dictator that dictates from on high. That is why we have the Administrative Procedures act, the executives 'executiving' needs to be consistent and based on logical reasons.

We used to have a government like this, a spoils system, and it didn't work. So both parties created the civil service. Both parties passed things like that Administrative Procedures act.
by MisterTea | 2025-04-16 17:14:31+00:00
> and record the entire broadcast on VHS HiFi tracks.

That's a neat Idea. I once did something along those lines when I was a kid. A friend and I were trying to dub as many albums as we could on to a 160 minute VHS tape in LP or SLP, whatever gave you nearly 6 hours of play time. Was just for fun though.
by korse | 2025-04-16 17:14:34+00:00
I'm American and heavily involved in manufacturing for industrial/mining/agricultural customers.

'We just don't want to employ people' is a gross simplification. We do want to employ people, and lack of skilled labor is a serious problem which has hampered business growth for years,

The first unspoken problem is that very few young people want to live where many factories are located. I can't blame them. I certainly jump through hoops to live in an area well removed from the industry I work in but not everyone has this luxury.

The second is psychological. How many kids do you know who are ready to commit to a future of 35+ years of factory work in their early twenties, even with reasonable pay. This influences manufacturer's hiring practices because of the 'skilled' labor thing. Putting time and resources into training employees when there is a high probability they will make a career change within 3 years isn't really acceptable.

This is HN, so I don't know if this resonates but as a thought experiment, would you take a welding/machine operation/technician position for 25 - 45 USD/hr (based on experience)? Overtime gets you 1.5 base rate and health insurance + dental + 401k is part of the deal. All you need is a GED, proof of eligibility to work in the United States and the ability to pass a physical + drug screen on hiring. After that, no one cares what you do on your own time if you show up, do your job and don't get in an industrial accident. Caveat, you have move away from anything remotely like a 'cultural center' but you do have racial diversity. Also, you will probably be able to afford a house, but it won't be anything grand or anywhere terribly interesting.

There is a dearth of applicants for jobs exactly like what I've posted. Why don't people take them?
by Dwedit | 2025-04-16 17:14:43+00:00
Atari Corp and Atari Games were separate companies by the time the NES was released. Atari Corp was responsible for the consoles and computers, while Atari Games did the arcade games.

Atari Games used the name "Tengen" for all home releases.

Atari Games did both licensed and unlicensed works for the NES. Notably, Tengen Tetris was originally a fully licensed VS arcade game called "VS Tetris" before its unlicensed home release. Tengen didn't have the rights to home versions of Tetris, only arcade versions, and Nintendo did not have the rights to arcade versions. Hence Tengen/Atari Games developing an arcade version of Tetris for Nintendo hardware.
Ask HN: Handling new director who doesn't seem great?
by golly_ned | 2025-04-16 17:14:46+00:00
Hi,

About two months ago my company hired a new director, my skip manager.

A lot of things are off about him, IMO:

- he hasn't met the engineers on the team except for his three teams' leads, including me. - he worked in the same broader area, but in a different domain, and is insistent on applying things that worked in that other domain to this company. - he's top-down and doesn't know much about the facts on the ground. - he gives inconsistent information and direction to me and my direct manager. - he's introducing processes that aren't necessary. - he doesn't ask questions about the platform. - he's extremely focused on one particular aspect of the platform but doesn't know anything about the other goals of the platform - he second-guesses our hiring decisions before we make an offer; in one case, he re-interviewed a candidate we had approved of; in another, he was skeptical about an internal candidate.

Normally I'd give a new director a lot of leeway since they're still gathering context and information, and they were approved by my org's leadership in interviews. But enough is odd that I don't know if I'm going about things the best way.

So far I've attempted to extend our 1:1s to try to broaden his concerns to other parts of the platform, and to show the span of work we could do is much larger, and his suggestions aren't necessarily the best things we can work on, or at least should be contingent on doing some diligence before acting on them. That works to some extent. I thought it might be that he came in with some amount of distrust for me and this team -- that still might be the case, but it's clear that among his three teams, mine is the least problematic, at least right now.

But enough things smell wrong that I don't know if I should be doing something else, like giving him direct feedback, especially about being curious and orienting him towards being more bottom-up, or even going above his head.

Anyone have experience with a situation like this?
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-04-16 17:14:59+00:00
> We ran this experiment for decades. It turns out that Americans are not willing to pay the higher prices, which led to our manufacturing consolidating around higher-value items.

But did we run that experiment while foreign alternatives were nearly or equally expensive? That's the real test, and whether foolish or not that's what they are trying to do with tariffs.

> Lower-productivity jobs mean less income for workers

Are you suggesting former factory workers all became scientists and engineers? If that's true then fantastic. But I'd like to see evidence that what they are doing now is somehow more productive.

> Our poorest states have higher GDPs per capita than many "rich" western EU countries.

Is the result of that a higher median income, or is it a reflection of a higher wealth inequality?
by garciasn | 2025-04-16 17:14:59+00:00
I actually preferred my Amazfit over my Apple Watch for several largely surface reasons:

1. The battery life is absurdly good compared to an Apple Watch. I don't understand why Apple Watches continue to have less than a day of battery life this many years into development; it's just not ok.

2. I absolutely LOVED that my notifications would go to my watch AND my phone simultaneously. With an Apple Watch you get one or the other and the Apple Watch doesn't mirror special notification sounds made on the phone for certain contacts/applications so I lose that functionality which is infuriating for me.

3. The only reason I kept the Apple Watch is because it is FAR SUPERIOR for three primary use cases:

- Swimming: the Apple Watch seems to know what strokes I'm doing 90% of the time whereas the Amazfit watch I had did not even track swimming at all, let alone be correct in its assessment of stroke and distance covered.

- Sleep tracking: the Amazfit watch was hours high on sleep and did not at all track sleep quality in line with my experience; the Apple Watch is far closer to my reality.

- Heart rate monitoring: the Amazfit was WAY low on heart rate when compared to an actual monitor whereas the Apple Watch is within miniscule difference. Amazfit was telling me my resting heart rate was in the low 30s when, in reality, it's closer to the low 70s; this just isn't just wrong, it's dangerously wrong.