MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thedailymail | 2025-05-09 07:12:04+00:00
Mission drift can sometimes go in a positive direction. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for example, functioned primarily as a tax evasion vehicle while Hughes was alive. After his death, the HHMI was in deep trouble with the IRS and sitting on an endowment of ~$5 billion. So it appointed former NIH director Donald Fredrickson to turn it into an actual research funding organization and mend relations with the tax authorities and research community.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-11-fi-2620-s...
by reincoder | 2025-05-09 07:15:02+00:00
I would not say we have a super strong marketing effort, but we genuinely care about developers. That is how the company started, and that is how the company is operating after 12 years.

We are super obsessed about any points of friction any IPinfo user has, but to be honest, that is just what any developer-first business should do. We are obsessed about developer sentiment and perception, but that is what the industry should be. Our users consist of the smartest people I know, and because we go above and beyond to be helpful to them, they do not point out mistakes we make, they actually try to help us.

Consider our probe network server finding. We genuinely hit a wall after 750 servers. Then we reached out to our community of users, who found 150 more servers. There are even developers who will talk to their local hosting providers in their local language just to get us a server.

Then writing code to integrate our data into different places. Our team is extremely small, so we cannot actively contribute engineering contributions to open source projects. Our users usually help us a lot in writing high-quality code for open source projects they already use.

We are humbled because of the help our user share, and that is why we are obsessed with them and trying our best to go above and beyond to help them.
by rightbyte | 2025-05-09 07:15:32+00:00
> For some reason trans derangement syndrome (TDS) still has a hold on people. I don’t understand why that particular thing works so well, even on some people you would not expect.

I think it work as good as it does since there are no trans people around most people at all. It is a TV thing.

Outside of big cities I have never seen anyone. Prevalence measures varies but in my 30k pop county there should be like from 3 to <1.
by donnachangstein | 2025-05-09 07:15:38+00:00
> I am on fiber and if I want to I can hook up my own router directly to fiber with an SFP+ module

I don't think you quite understand how this works.

The ISP controls whatever the other end of that fiber is plugged into. It doesn't matter if the medium is fiber, or copper, or a piece of string. The ISP always has control of the other side of the customer interface. It doesn't matter if the box physically resides in your home or not.

In the case of Starlink, it's all contained within one box.

In the case of DOCSIS (cable), you may physically own the modem, but the ISP controls the firmware it netboots and has full remote admin to the device.
by intended | 2025-05-09 07:16:58+00:00
I don’t think Pakistan orchestrated the last attack.

The structure was designed for being disavowed.

I expect it was more the army looked away, over condoned.

And yes, the expectations are to generate a response from the BJP.

By this rubric there are 4 actors on the stage.

- The people of Pakistan, the Pakistani army,

- The people of India, the BJP.

I’ve had this discussion with friends who are Pakistani and they concur that this makes the most sense.

The opinions of the Pakistani army have dramatically changed as per their interactions, having been at a nadir due to their domestic handling of events, and now these actions have reinvigorated public opinion.

The BJP has had its military credentials burnished.

I’d go a step deeper and suspect that there was a traditional response from India planned, and then at some point in the past 72 hours, a functionary on the BJP side raised the potential of a massive PR coup and the old guard got sidelined.

This has worked. This means this behavior will be repeated.
by jpc0 | 2025-05-09 07:17:30+00:00
Most first aid can be broken down very basically.

Call a professional for help. Are they breathing, is their heart beating, are they bleeding.

If you haven’t called someone that can actually save the persons life no amount of first aid will help.

Unfortunately unless something is obviously preventing breathing as someone untrained theres not a lot you can do if they aren’t breathing.

Heart beating is pretty easy, chest compressions…

Bleeding again, pressure, and a lot of it to try to prevent the bleeding.

I would want to check what an AI response is to some situations but as long as it just tackles those cases it can probably only do more good than harm.

Id be more worried some good samaritan would start cutting people to try to “get an airway” or some nonsense. That would significantly increase mortality rates…
by somenameforme | 2025-05-09 07:20:20+00:00
No they couldn't. Getting ballot access is a huge ordeal, and then the media does an excellent job of divide and conquer by not even focusing on the issues, but instead focusing on hate, fear, misrepresentations, and so forth. Make people hate and fear 'the other side' enough and they won't dare "waste" their vote and will happily vote for somebody they don't even like, but dislike less than the alternative.

And obviously you're straw manning things. The reason people screw over other people is because they expect there will be no consequences. Whether this is some thug mugging a guy for $20 on the street corner, or a guy in a suit developing ever more novel strategies to ultimately refuse healthcare to people - it's the exact same issue. When there are consequences, the entire calculus changes.
Show HN: A real world streaming data generator in Python
by ashishbagri | 2025-05-09 07:21:48+00:00
I've built GlassGen to solve the common problem of generating real time synthetic data for testing, demos, and ML datasets. While Faker is great for individual data points, GlassGen adds:

- Configurable data publishing (CSV, Kafka, Webhooks)

- Precise rate control (records/second)

- Controlled data duplication

- Extensible architecture for custom generators and sinks

Key features:

- Built on top of Faker for reliable data generation

- Simple JSON/YAML configuration

- Support for complex data relationships

- Real-time data streaming to Kafka

- Custom sink implementations

GitHub: https://github.com/glassflow/glassgen

Docs: https://glassgen.glassflow.dev/

Would love feedback from the community, especially on:

1. Additional sink types that would be useful

2. Performance optimization opportunities

3. Ideas for handling more complex data relationships
by reincoder | 2025-05-09 07:22:22+00:00
Thank you very much, Nyr. We really appreciate the trust you have placed in us.

We are constantly expanding our probe network, and my colleagues are also working on stabilizing and improving the network.

From 2025 and beyond, we will be putting a lot of effort into our R&D program. Our probe network provides the data that helps our data and research team to create better models.

Currently, a good portion of the data is available to all with no compromise. When we do make mistakes, we hope our community of users will point them out to us. Each ASN or IP address mistake generates a new ticket, our CEO/Founder is tagged there, our data team investigates it, pushes fixes, and provides explanations.
by PeterStuer | 2025-05-09 07:24:01+00:00
Tbh, for these types of systems I do not like the rate limiting at all. I might go days without a need, then folowed by a day of very intense usage.

Also, the 'reputation grind' some of these systems set up where you have to climb 'usage Tiers' before being 'allowed' to use more? Just let me pay and use. I can't compare your system to my current provider before weeks of being throttled at unusable rates? This makes potentially switching to you for serious users way harder than it should be. Is that realy the outcome you want? And no, I am not willing to 'talk to sales' for running a quick feasibilty eval.
by femto | 2025-05-09 07:24:05+00:00
As a counterexample, I offer a pick-and-place line in action.

https://youtu.be/Ca-SoKzjh4M?t=110

SMT component placement isn't that different to placing bricks. Conventional wisdom is that if you can design a PCB that requires no manual work, its assembly cost is more-or-less location independent. SMT pick and place can hit speeds of 200,000 components per hour [1]. That's about 50 components per second.

[1] https://www.hallmarknameplate.com/smt-process/
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-05-09 07:24:07+00:00
Well let's say the editors of at least some of the publications that carried the news in a sensationalist tone should've known better but they apparently were more in for more clicks as opposed to critical thinking and informed judgement.

That said I'm no Egyptologist myself as seemingly the journalists aren't, either, but as for me I'm itching to write a scathing takedown of this affair. I'm open to discovering that maybe the originator of the theory was misunderstood by the media, maybe his wording was not clear enough. I guess what I want to say is when you want clicks there's more than one way to do it; my way would roughly be (1) criticize use of the term 'cryptography' when all they do is tell me what they see in the picture: king giving offerings to god; king's sitting on a mat(?), god's standing on a plinth (as is customary); (2) criticize the very specific interpretation they give for this particular depiction when we find this same motive all over the place, all of the time; (3) criticize the claim that only nobles travelling by boat would have been able to see and understand the message when in Ancient Egypt taking a boat to cross the river as well as, as a local of Thebes, taking part in festivities must both have been very commonplace for old and young, rich and poor alike; also, artists in general and, for example, the foremen of worker gangs working on Khufu's pyramid were very well able to use writing and depictions to express themselves.
by arghwhat | 2025-05-09 07:24:36+00:00
While I'm not on the Apple bandwagon, there is a difference between insecure by default and active spying. Even as a Pixel user, I'm fairly confident that my data would be (ab)used less on the Apple side.

Users want convenience, and security always brings inconveniences (e.g., inter-client sync, no chat data before a client logged in first time, etc.).

Some vendors might provide convenience because they want to have your data. Others might provide you the convenience because you as a user want it, but see the resulting data as nothing but a liability.

Some providers are known to have the majority of their business be based around such data, whereas others might have little to no presence in that field.
by dustincoates | 2025-05-09 07:25:43+00:00
If your market research is asking the questions "Do you have a need for this product?" and "Do you like the product?" then you're asking the wrong questions. Ideally, you aren't mentioning your product until the very end if at all. Instead, you should be asking about the problems and how those problems are being solved today.

If they aren't being solved at all, they likely aren't really a problem. If they are being solved, you need to have a clear picture of why the new solution will justify the switching costs.
by happymellon | 2025-05-09 07:28:38+00:00
> I don't know what these processor features actually do.

I'm afraid saying it is missing a feature, but unable to say whether that feature is required for anything is what the gpp is complaining about and is an excuse not to support it.

Now if the combobulator transactions with the injunction function to provide the higher level of precision required, then that could be an argument to deprecate the architecture.
by genewitch | 2025-05-09 07:31:28+00:00
This appeared on the fp the same day i spent 15 hours trying to get various old/weird OSes installed. Xerox Star (viewpoint), os/2 warp 4, serenityos, debian 9, and where is freebsd 2.2 disc 2, might i ask?

commenting for posterity, and to say the web emulator is very slick, i have some dos diskettes to try out.
by DonHopkins | 2025-05-09 07:33:38+00:00
So many nice touches that combine to be much more than the sum of the parts.

Doe's bandana is cool, your dogs must worship you for your commitment to them!

My only suggestion is a way to slow down or ^S the log to read the funny messages, since they were flying by so fast I could only get a glimpse, even with reservoir sampling.

something something "needs more emojis"! ;)
by satvikpendem | 2025-05-09 07:34:06+00:00
> It's not necessary and the ROI is poor IMO, especially for CSS. Better to just use React for everything and not worry about the implementation details; yes those details will sometimes help you debug, just like knowing machine code will occasionally help you debug your compiled code, but it's not something to put a lot of your learning budget into.

...what? What are you writing in React if not HTML tags and CSS classes? How can you even write anything in React without that? React doesn't do anything CSS specific either, so I don't understand how you'd even style anything if HTML and CSS were not a "necessity."
by dilyevsky | 2025-05-09 07:34:12+00:00
> I'm surprised to hear all packets are processed in userspace...

Specifically for cases of forwarding DPDK-style approach can be faster because it will incur fewer buffer copies.

Starlink only does 25-200Mbps and average packets are like 7-8x larger so at most you're doing ~36000 PPS which is pretty manageable even on 1Ghz
by Hilift | 2025-05-09 07:34:54+00:00
iOS is a second class operating system platform, with Android not far behind. iMessage has been the subject of multiple device takeover zero days, no user intervention required. "20 zero-days patched by Apple in 2023".

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/apple-update-extr...

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zer...
by mercutio2 | 2025-05-09 07:37:01+00:00
I ate Edwardo’s several times a month on the south side in the 80’s and 90’s, as did a sizable number of my friends. This is back before it became a chain (I guess technically the south side location was the second location, so it was already a chain) and they decided to take the best pizza on earth and make it mediocre-to-poor for a mass audience, which I guess happened in the early aughts?

So there is at least an existence proof for deep dish very much a thing for south side kids when he was in the vicinity.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-05-09 07:37:25+00:00
Yes and the article also mentions the obelisk was surrounded by scaffolding in preparation for the Olympic games, so feel free to discuss scaffolding, Olympic games, restoration work on ancient monuments, Paris' role in Europe, the impact of modern sports events on urban environments, whatever. Doesn't change the fact the OP is literally about alleged hidden messages on an Egyptian obelisk that happens to be standing in Paris. Had the guy who brought this up been writing about an obelisk still standing in Egypt, how appropriate would it feel to change the subject of the discussion to, I don't know, the legitimacy of Egypt's present government or the fact that a not-so-small number of archaeological sites is being ruined by being part of military compounds? Not very appropriate I'd say.
by theshrike79 | 2025-05-09 07:38:27+00:00
Yes, pretty much. You can also post-process them to remove ads etc. because you have the files on your own server.

Some podcasts remove all of their backlog when they "sell out" and go behind a paywall, having them backed up prevents that. (How did this get made?[0] being one example)

Also some podcasts (BBC ones I think) add ads while you download, based on your country. Some of my No Such Thing As A Fish[1] episodes have Christmas themed ads in them because that's when they we're cached :)

[0] https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/ [1] https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com
by _a3ax | 2025-05-09 07:38:38+00:00
Opus Dei is an extreme reactionary group within the church. Leo XIII was a liberal pope responsible for the social doctrine of the church (this text).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_Opus_Dei

Personal experience: when I was in high school in my country there was a teacher who was in Opus Dei. He tried to recruit students by leaving them a letter and inviting them to a "scholarship". I got such a letter, I was so excited. The school found out about that and investigated. We're a mixed-race country. The Opus Dei teacher has invited exclusively white students. He had invited top students #2 to #4 in my class by grade, but not #1, who was black.
by ApbNfMR | 2025-05-09 07:39:18+00:00
I don’t store full copies of all html text, only those containing readable articles. I’m researching how to align the index with the browser’s own history retention period,will be release soon.

For my personal use, it’s primarily about: Retrieving sources I’ve briefly glanced at & Summarizing recent readings on specific topics.

I’m still unsure whether to position this system for long-term archival purposes.If so, I might consider integrating storage solutions like WebDAV as an optional.
by mellosouls | 2025-05-09 07:40:03+00:00
I agree with much of your post, but:

Claude is still the gold standard for AI assisted coding. All your Geminis and o3s of the world still don’t match up to Claude.

Out of date I think in this fast moving space.

Sonnet has long been the gold-standard, but that position is looking very shaky at the moment; Gemini in particular has been working wonders for me and others when Sonnet has stumbled.

VS Code/Copilot has improved massively in Cursor's wake, but yes, still some way to go to catch up.

Absolutely though - the value we are getting is incredible.
by TheDong | 2025-05-09 07:40:07+00:00
And according to OSHA, construction jobs account for more fatal injuries than any other job, so in a sense they're saving lives by reducing the number of dangerous jobs.

We've already managed to handle the desire to keep the sham of "jobs are a necessary part of life for everyone who isn't ultra-wealthy" going via Bullshit Jobs, we can keep inventing more Bullshit Jobs.

Heck, we probably both work Bullshit Jobs. Do we really need 20 different companies, all with thousands of employees, optimizing ad-impressions to make teenagers want to drink coke and buy nike shoes?

Do we really need 10 different "uber for pet-sitting your turtle" apps?

Each failed startup was, in reality, a large bag of bullshit jobs that transferred money from the VCs to bullshit-job workers, who's to say those people couldn't be ex construction workers?
by listlessjp | 2025-05-09 07:40:16+00:00
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by Cthulhu_ | 2025-05-09 07:40:36+00:00
Given the author's name, he's Dutch which does use a lot of brick in their houses... for decoration, it's concrete blocks with prefab brick facades for at least two decades now, built by robots. See for example https://www.bouwtotaal.nl/2021/10/prefab-gevelelementen-voor...

The demand for housing and thus construction workers isn't going down any time soon; the Netherlands alone needs to build a million homes in the next decade and are running behind on that. Brick walls is just one task of many in a construction project, just like your JIRA or Github ticket is just one task of many in a software project.
by wgbowley | 2025-05-09 07:41:07+00:00
For the coil and yoke, I definitely used the TLAR method (though I did run it through FEMM to see if it would work). For voltage, I just went with the biggest supply I had, and for timing, I simply used a program that estimated the extra time needed after the projectile passed the photo-gate.

Keep in mind, I wasn’t very experienced at the time. If I were doing it now, I’d use a random search algorithm to find a coil design that generates the highest force while still switching quickly. For the power supply, I’d use a capacitor bank, and probably stick with similar timing — or possibly use a dedicated capacitor for each stage, charging each differently to deliver longer or shorter pulses as needed
by reincoder | 2025-05-09 07:44:07+00:00
Hey Tarik,

Nice to meet you. I love the work you have done so far for IPlocate.io. Keep up the good work. The point you have raised is interesting. However, I am not sure about the "Marketing plays a big role" point you made.

We are a developer-first company.

- Developers need a good product, so we are always committed to providing one, whether it is free or not. The best-in-class product we offer is a result of our obsession with meeting the expectations of our developer community. Our relationship with our developers largely (but not entirely) relies on the quality of our product. And that is not just data (which is again just miles ahead of everyone else). It is integrations, infrastructure, site reliability, uptime, dashboards, tools, CLI, and much more.

- For developers, if they cannot get the best product, you have to tell them why you are not the best. So, we write long community posts and have deep technical discussions. We built the community forum, just for our developers to have conversations directly with us.

- For developers, they need someone to be present and respond, and we are always there. In our community someone from our technical team is available seven days a week.

- For developers, they enjoy a product outside of work, so we will hold huntathon, online games, technical articles and events for them.

Being developer-first comes with revenue perks, sure. Our founder started the company 12 years ago, and it has been slow and stable growth. We have built trust in the community, and today it is impossible for us to find any developers who haven't heard of us. That is not because we have a billboard or spent X amount on paid marketing. They heard of us because they used our product, they like our product, and they know our team.

It is not marketing; it is just general goodwill.
by genewitch | 2025-05-09 07:45:56+00:00
I get something similar to the artifacts you mention; i think the fix is to delay actually drawing the world until it's truly finished loading, but i'm no AAA game company.

Either way, something about the remaster makes me fatigued playing it. I might try turning off all AI and motion blur and go for higher FPS and see if that helps. It isn't the only game that does this to me, but i find with games from the 8 and 16 bit era (as a comparison), they load so fast and close so fast that the second tedium sets in at all i can just quit; the newer games there's already a time investment just to get to "in control of a character", at least for me, on PC.
by PeterStuer | 2025-05-09 07:47:55+00:00
You have to set of your cost delta against your margin, not agaist your cost. Why do devs keep repeating this faulty reasoning? Where did this emerge?

If you cost 20K a month at a 5% average margin, the required ' break even' for a $200 cost increase is 20% not 1% increased productivity.

And it gets worse as you just assumed that increased 'productivity' 100% was converted back into extra margin, which is not obvious at all.