MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tocs3 | 2025-05-19 15:34:55+00:00
My brother and I thought about starting a local ISP in the early/mid 90s but had no real idea how to get started. A local musician started one and did very well for a while. Talking to him once about it was interesting. He said one of the hardest things he had to deal with was fielding service calls and try to explain how to "double click" over the phone.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-05-19 15:35:23+00:00
I feel like I've worked with (and heard about) more companies trying the senior only thing in the last few years (Covid and beyond).

That could be a bias in my sampling of people I know and work with though.

I do think hiring only seniors is generally a bad idea unless you want only seniors who are content cranking out tickets and code. That, to my mind, isn't what you want a senior for, but apparently much of the market disagrees with me.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-19 15:35:36+00:00
I don't think it's a slam dunk for banning nuclear, but agree with the parent post that consent to risk is a valid part of the conversation.

Car or plane, the people most exposed to the risk have some choice in the matter - to fly, drive, or be around vehicles.

New considerations are introduced when those exposed to the risks of your choice maybe hundreds of miles away with no say, or even yet to be born.
by canucker2016 | 2025-05-19 15:35:38+00:00
Here's where the literal gatekeepers separate rich people from the riff-raff/"new money".

You've been jonesing for a fancy luxury item since you first laid eyes on it (Birkin bag, some European watch, a supercar).

Now that you're rich and have enough to pay for the item in cash, you decide to head to their fancy store and treat yourself.

Once you get in the door, you're faced with the cold splash of reality - luxury goods are not available off the rack/off the shelf, even if you can pay for cash on the spot.

You have to prove to the company that you're a loyal customer before you can purchase the object of desire.

How? You have to buy several of their products.

see https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/buying-an-hermes-bag and https://www.wired.com/2014/10/herjavec-ferrari-laferrari/

How hard can that be? So hard that people have sued - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/style/birkin-bag-hermes-l...

P.S. The markup on these luxury goods is high - https://www.businessinsider.com/dior-italy-labor-investigati...
by serf | 2025-05-19 15:35:39+00:00
>Creepy? Dude

>enormous BigQuery dataset

>used against you

let's set aside the AI questions and just dive back into one of the earliest net problems encountered :

it's not creepy to you to participate in a surveillance culture where everything you do or say is recorded from every angle?

lets add the new angle : It's not creepy to you that every single human interaction is going to flavor and educate a future LLM or bot of some sort in imperceivable ways, and that the collective liability of such a creation is now being shouldered by any and all participants in all of the worlds' discourse?

Well, 'dude' , I think it's pretty creepy, and i've been 'here' for decades.
by ty6853 | 2025-05-19 15:35:46+00:00
Mexico uses passport control almost purely as a jobs program. At the land borders only the largest cities seem to check (like Tijuana), most of them don't even glance at you. The guy at the x-ray machine has been asleep a few times.

For first world entry they just depend on the fact the 1st world country is harsher on security than them so they don't bother. Might be different if you enter from Mexico's south land border.
by bekacru | 2025-05-19 15:36:40+00:00
Yes, that’s exactly what we’re aiming for. I think there are many reasons to tightly couple auth with your app. As you said, self-hosting auth servers and integrating them often isn’t a fun experience and that’s one of the reasons 3rd party auth providers became so popular.

In the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem, libraries like NextAuth still have a huge number of users for the same reason: ease of use. And with the rise of full-stack TypeScript apps where both the frontend and backend live together and share a strong type system, it makes even more sense to keep all your context in one place.

That said, if you ever decide to self-host Better Auth in a dedicated container, you still can.
by WilcoKruijer | 2025-05-19 15:37:53+00:00
You're right. Since we don't want to put too much pressure on the source database, we do save the (transformed) WAL items in an intermediary database (we call this the event store), so the source can clear its WAL.

This does mean the intermediary database can grow in an unbounded fashion. The use case really determines if this is fine or not. Since our focus right now is on (micro)service communication, we think this is fine in most cases, as the throughput usually is not gigantic.

Since the event store is just a Postgres database, it's easy to set up partitions to only retain data for a certain amount of time. On the near-term roadmap we also have back-fill support which will make it easier to work with shorter retention windows.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-19 15:39:23+00:00
"Anything I don't like is a commie" --Some guy on <strike>reddit</strike>HN.

Post WWII USA did it first. The massive expansion of roads and single family housing post war in the US, coupled with the baby boom demanded some of the largest growth in infrastructure seen in the world. We did it fast and cheap and ugly.

You don't need some vast conspiracy of communists saying build it ugly to control the people. You just need lowest contract bidding.
by causal | 2025-05-19 15:39:38+00:00
Zod is a lot better than some of the alternative solutions I've seen. That said, the need for this sort of explicit validation always felt like a failure of where modern web development has taken us. It's so frustrating how full-stack development requires so many ways of describing the same shapes: JS input validation, Swagger for API definition, server-side input validation, ORM for schema conformance, and TypeScript often requiring separate definitions on server and client side. It's so tedious.
by phillipseamore | 2025-05-19 15:39:38+00:00
Juries are changed every year, they are also more likely to follow perceived public sentiment since they aren't secret. Jury votes are exponential so a single jury members vote can make a big difference.

Number of public votes pr. year would also be interesting, though all of this can be troublesome since the rules have changed often, many rules are local to specific countries and pricing pr. vote varies greatly between countries (from free to nearly $2) along with how many times a person can vote.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-19 15:40:00+00:00
Actually maybe this is one way to explan it:

When Pico 8 came out, I immediately had a feeling of recognition and familiarity: "Oh! So this is the app I was half dreaming of making all these years!*

The app I'm making now gives me the exact same feeling, which is already a reward in itself, but it also means it'll probably give others that feeling too. So it's doubly exciting.
by fernmyth | 2025-05-19 15:40:21+00:00
> If this happens, the designer had a error in his design, and should extend the design to accommodate the facts that escaped him at design time.

Errors in the initial design should be assumed as the default. Wise software engineering should make change easy.

Constraints on natural keys are business logic, not laws of mathematical truth. They are subject to change and often violated in the real world. The database as record-keeping engine should only enforce constraints on artificial keys that maintain its integrity for tracking record identity, history, and references.

Your database may not be primarily a record-keeping engine, and your tradeoffs may be different.
by igor47 | 2025-05-19 15:40:25+00:00
This is false. A prediction of "securing our border will save money" is false. It really, really is. Check your sources and approach this as a scientist trying to verify your idea, not as a partisan and trying to defend it. You will quickly see that even illegal immigration is not a cost, especially to the federal government.

Hell just ask an llm. https://chatgpt.com/share/682b50c5-27ac-8004-b217-dc3748bf11...
by gardnr | 2025-05-19 15:40:37+00:00
Most people will reach for BetterAuth when they would reach for NextAuth. Basically, when you want to integrate OIDC or SSO of some kind.

Back when I was looking at it a couple of months ago, the big thing that popped out was that BetterAuth supports email and password out of the box, where NextAuth seems to have a preachy disclaimer about how email and password is inherently insecure, so they leave you to your own devices to implement password hashing and the like.

That did give a sense that NextAuth was the first to dominate the space and feels as though they can dictate morals.

BetterAuth seems to be a bit more developer-focused.
by boroboro4 | 2025-05-19 15:40:38+00:00
> The second calculation is just spin, no numbers

I literally gave you numbers. It's quite hard to estimate growth of interest/gdp ratio because of how many different securities are there but here's my try: https://chatgpt.com/share/682b4741-9bbc-8007-94fc-848198c9c3... I got +0.006 this year, which will bring total ratio to 0.043, it's also 15% growth a year. We had this ratio last time in 97.

> But in reality federal interest payments as a fraction of revenue are like 18%.

... and rapidly growing.

> That is well under the median consumer debt load, and very manageable.

Consumer debt service payment to income is around 11.3%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP

From what I gather ratio between household disposable income to household total debt is about 1:1. Government ratio is closer to 1:7. This is very different ratio.

However I'm not insisting on comparing household finances to gov finances, I'm not sure you can compare those two. At least not in a world where government controls money supply.

You keep accusing me in being partisan where in fact I go and do my own research. I think it's you who made up the mind that debt is not an issue and disregard anything which goes against your (partisan if you will) view of the world.

US has big budget problem. It will pay itself one way or another eventually (most likely through inflation/currency devaluation, affecting everyone and a lot), but so far it was mostly accumulating instead. The real solution is, of course, optimize spending (i.e. health care & military) and (what's even more important) tax the rich. Similarly to what we used to have in 50s. But we never gonna get there because, you know, the rich holds all the cards. So instead we'll get through a suffering of blown up currency, and I, personally, think we should be doing everything we can to avoid it. I don't think it's a problem of today, tomorrow or next year. But it's a problem and further we delay it worse the resolution would be.
by markx2 | 2025-05-19 15:40:39+00:00
My guess is inertia.

The movement of the ship was not stop/start or spinleft/spinright.

A stick (left/right) or spinner (Tempest!) you expect instant results. The inertia of Asteroids would not have worked that way. The game needed more judgement, built on experience, of when to press and when to release.
by gwbas1c | 2025-05-19 15:40:46+00:00
> Ultimately, InventWood is planning to use wood chips to create structural beams of any dimension that won’t need finishing. “Imagine your I-beams look like this,” Lau said, holding up a sample of Superwood. “They’re beautiful, like walnut, ipe. These are the natural colors. We haven’t stained any of this.”

Show the [beep]ing picture!
by somenameforme | 2025-05-19 15:40:57+00:00
Your article seems to be describing citizenship scams. Quoting it:

"In 2022, out of the 792 South Korean women who entered into marriage with Vietnamese men, 556 were remarriages. Among these, 482, or 86.7%, were women who originally came from Vietnam and had become naturalized South Korean citizens. They acquired South Korean nationality through their first marriage with local men, then divorced, and later remarried Vietnamese men."

Beyond this, many/most places in Asia have a culture that views previously married women, or single women over a certain age, very negatively. In China the term is 'leftover women.' That can make it difficult for these women to marry a local, and make it very easy for a foreigner to find a wife that may be more desirable than one he might be able to find in his own country. But it's not doing much of anything for fertility.

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But more generally, what you're implying here is that fertility is a cultural problem and not necessarily an e.g. economic one. And I completely agree with you on that. But you're essentially aiming to change the culture by simply bringing in an inconceivably large bunch of new people (relative to previous migrations) and assuming things will turn out okay. But wouldn't it be rather less extreme to simply push for sustainable cultural values to begin with? Most Western nations are still fairly close to sustainable levels.
by colinmorelli | 2025-05-19 15:41:14+00:00
For what it's worth this statement is actually not entirely correct anymore. Top-end models today are on par with diagnostic capabilities of physicians on average (across many specialties), and, in some cases, can outperform them when RAG'd in with vetted clinical guidelines (like NIH data, UpToDate, etc)

However, they do have particular types of failure modes that they're more prone to, and this is one of them. So they're imperfect.
by bekacru | 2025-05-19 15:41:16+00:00
Thanks for the kind words - really appreciate it! And yes, it connects directly to your existing setup (the dashboard is mostly just a UI). What you’re really “buying” from us are the additional features on the dashboard like bot protection, analytics, etc...when you need them. We’re still figuring out the pricing, but most likely, the base dashboard will just be free ;)
by jfengel | 2025-05-19 15:41:27+00:00
Is it true that most of their writers are twenty-somethings?

I accept the article's assertion that their kneejerk free-market philosophy is, at the least, limiting. But to me, the tone has always suggested middle-age journalism grads, rather than the right-wing business-school types the article is suggesting.

They have a bias, but they don't seem stupid or inexperienced. So much of free-market thought in the US, and recently the UK, has been caught up in culture war, and the Economist is staunchly against that.

Which is to say, they don't read like twenty-somethings to me. So if I'm wrong about that, I need to take another look at the lens through which I view their writing.
by low_tech_punk | 2025-05-19 15:41:27+00:00
I've been doing this for a while. My biggest hurdle was implementing sync between local and backend. I ended up using GitHub as my backend, Chrome extension as frontend, and implemented a simplified version of the Git client in SQLite with lots of triggers. Happy to share it with people. The app is here: https://github.com/osmoscraft/tundra and the sync logic is here: https://github.com/osmoscraft/tundra/blob/master/apps/browse...
by bluGill | 2025-05-19 15:41:30+00:00
The channel I'm interested in would be of great interest to English speakers. There are only a few people brave/stupid enough to travel to dangerous places (Ukraine near the front) to do a documentary. I cannot blame the author for turning on the translate, it likely overall expands his reach and is a good thing for those who are not interested in his native language. However I'm trying to learn his native language and getting dropped to English out of my control is not helpful to me.
by mjr00 | 2025-05-19 15:43:08+00:00
The great part about side projects is that unlike a business, it doesn't matter how much money it makes or how much traction it gets on social media. You can build something that you think is cool or useful and release it to the world and be proud of it. Then when someone stumbles upon it and also finds it cool and useful, it's a nice feeling.

A focus on revenue or external validation is what turns a "side project" into a "side hustle" or just a plain old "business" and those tend to be a lot less fun to work on.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-19 15:43:21+00:00
I’ve been doing my ‘side’ project as my day job for 5 years, 10 productive hours a day, 7 days a week. Sunday is dedicated to side side projects for experimental ideas that are not on the critical path.

When working a normal job I could only work part time due to burnout that I later found out was in reality ME/CFS. After a Covid vaccine injury (long covid) I had to pause work for a few years while I found a way to treat it. Once treated I elected to work on my side project even though I make much less money as I considerer the regular workforce to be highly dysfunctional and liable to cause me to relapse into a fatigued state.
by fock | 2025-05-19 15:43:39+00:00
So for workflows it's like Airflow, Brigade or hatchet or ...? How do workflows integrate with k8s (ressources, ...)? Camunda can also deploy natively on k8s. However you still develop apps for Camunda and it seems like dapr is no different there? Why is it in CNCF if it doesn't provide a way to build a workflow out of k8s-native artifacts (PVs, Deployments, Jobs, ...)?
by mandevil | 2025-05-19 15:43:45+00:00
A great, detailed explanation of what you are seeing: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala... (and the other two parts of the series)

The most important point is that your compensation is far more sensitive to getting onto the next curve up than it is tied to your experience or your work at your current company.

This is why so many people say "Grind Leetcode, get into FAANG" as the goal in software engineering, because (at least until recently) being in FAANG even as a junior SWE pretty much guaranteed you were in the second or third curve, and once you were accepted into that curve you would generally find jobs in that same curve. With the way the software engineering job market has changed, I'm not sure that's true any more, but as recently as 2023 it was the rule of thumb.
by codingbot3000 | 2025-05-19 15:44:02+00:00
fyi, the root cause of the Spain blackout (not blackout) is not yet known.

I won't deny that solar and wind make things harder, but linking the recent blackout to renewables without the facts is only done by fossil/nuclear propaganda orgs and their useful idiots.

The Spanish network had much wilder days before and did not break down. First insights point to possible design flaws in the network.

"healthy mix of generation" is quite funny to read, thinking about nuclear and coal which are not too healthy for the people living close to the plants :-D
by sieve | 2025-05-19 15:44:49+00:00
> most Indians don't live in the city in 1-2 Cr

You only need about 5-10% of them to do so to start hitting the numbers from my claim.

> the number of Indians actually paying income tax alone is just around that number

The number of businessmen who avoid taxes is a significant minority.

> India actually has about 320k USD millionaires

Based on the number of people I know who own multiple properties (which makes them dollar millionaires even if you ignore everything else they own), I find it VERY difficult to believe this figure.

If 8% of the US population can be millionaires, I don't see why 1.5% of the Indian population cannot.

We may not agree upon a number, but I believe the figure is much, much larger than what the official figures state.
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-19 15:44:51+00:00
Sure physics and the universe are uncaring and have no opinions, but that puts us in a very priviledged position.

Morality is a human invention. We can make it whatever we want. So we better make it fucking good.

Care about strangers. Love the unloved. Help the helpless. Work to fix hard problems. Make things better, even if you do it in an inefficient way.
by yencabulator | 2025-05-19 15:44:52+00:00
Maybe check back in 6 months earliest. There's practically no content there, and what content exists is self-contradicting:

> Guideline: Shall not use Declarative Macros gui_h0uG1C9ZjryA

> [...]

> Macros should be expressed using declarative syntax in preference to procedural syntax.
by kypro | 2025-05-19 15:45:34+00:00
I'm not agreeing with the parent comment, but I've long held the opinion that one of the the reasons the US is so much more economically successful than Europe is because businesses have so much more influence over government.

This is viewed negatively in general (perhaps rightly), but I think it does provide some balance between the incentives of wealth creation and workers. For example, here in the UK we'll happily regulate entire sectors of the economy out of business every year, but in the US attempts to do this would be met with huge multi-million dollar lobbying campaigns.
by jfengel | 2025-05-19 15:45:39+00:00
"Honest" is a good way of putting it. They have a bias -- that is, a set of values through which they interpret the facts. But they don't ignore facts, or just make them up, in order to justify their bias.

They understand that the world is complicated, and that multiple world-views have to coexist despite disagreements on what facts mean. They make arguments based on their own world-view, but they'll be sound arguments on that basis. They reject bad arguments, even those whose conclusions nominally agree with them.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-19 15:45:42+00:00
>or, we should try to figure out why building costs so much money

There's been a billion studies on this, I suggest you go read them.

One of the bigger ones is property costs over/under the stuff we're building. One of the other ones is community interests in preventing it from happening. This second one is one of the bigger issues. NIMBY can stop you in your tracks, and unless you go full authoritarianism on them, it's not easy to stop. Then add in cost disease and you start seeing there is no simple solution.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-19 15:45:42+00:00
This project is suggesting Deno, which has rather different startup characteristics to Node, and tuned for Deno Deploy which is already a "serverless" scale-to-zero/scale-as-many-as-you-need-behind-a-load-balancer deployment host. Deno Deploy is a proprietary solution, of course, but not alone in the growing world of JS-based "serverless" (Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Edge, and more).
by dyeray | 2025-05-19 15:46:59+00:00
> And the idea that you’ll literally never see a card again after the last interval is terrifying, as it means you’re constantly losing knowledge.

This and other stuff I read on the article makes me thing that this person is maybe over-using the SRS. In my opinion, although OP is clearly way smarter than me, at some point we need to graduate from SRS, read native material, in Wanikani probably at first 100% of time needs to be dedicated to SRS and gradually time on SRS needs to be reduced and increased on reading native material, once on a reading level which is good enough so new vocabulary appears sparsely enough, what is the point on grinding an SRS? Most people don't even reach level 60, I don't see the point on being on lvl60 and still stay there grinding leeches. In the end SRS is not an end, it just gives you a mapping, an automatic translation from A to B without context. It is just a temporary bootstrap so you end up fixing it through real material afterwards. However, I think Wanikani should allow to suspend leeches, for sure.

Regarding Bunpro, I bought it, but I'm more convinced with time that SRSing grammar is probably not the best idea, and I think they could do a lot better if they had better exercises, like "not exactly an SRS", just selecting varied exercises for you every day.

PS: I remember seeing an expert in languages recommending that all cards you add to Anki need to be deleted after 2 months. If you didn't learn it by that time and it is important it will come up again and you will re-add it. Not sure if I agree with this either, but between this, and having a word forever there must be an intermediate point.