MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bruce511 | 2025-06-12 18:31:00+00:00
I respect your opinion, but I disagree with it.

Yes, just under half the voters will say they didn't vote for him. But more people did, and that's how democracy works.

After the vote it's easy for people to blame the media, or to claim that he's doing things they didn't vote for. It's easy to just say "I'm not responsible for this".

But democracy means the people vote. The winner is the ones with the most votes. If you voted wrong, that's on you, and you need to understand that, and acknowledge it. Only by taking responsibility can you understand the power you wield, and maybe wield it more carefully in the future.

And no, none of the things he's found are a surprise. His character is no secret. His approach to politics is no secret. His policies are no secret. His willingness to grift is no secret.

A plurality of those who voted chose him. Those that didn't vote decided he deserved half their vote.

In truth I don't think it's stupid to say "Americans want this". Moderate Republicans are scared of being primaried. They know what their constituents want.

I don't think all Americans want this. But I think a lot of them do. No one is predicting a Blue senate in 2 years. Those red seats are safe. Because deep down a big chunk of America is happy with this.

This is the very essence of democracy. A govt of the people, voted by the people. Look at the govt. It's a mirror of the people who got them there, and keep them there.

I get this is frustrating if you are a minority voter. Minorities get stomped on by majorities- that's the very core of democracy.

So forgive me, but at least for 2 years we need to keep saying it - you voted for this. Because until lots of voters figure out just how responsible they are, they're not going to change. If you voted for this, take some responsibility.

Edit: I see you're getting down voted. I disagree either that too. Your point is coherent and a common part of this conversation. Voting here is about conversation, not agreement.
by dist-epoch | 2025-06-12 18:31:02+00:00
Random thought: dump your knowledge base into it (Obsidian, ...) and ask it to reorganize it, delete duplication, obsolete stuff, optimize it.

Or tell it what you know about non-programming subject X, and ask it to explain it to you such that you understand it better.

Or for coding: ask it to look at your code, and suggest large scale architecture changes.

For these kinds of tasks, the models are still lacking.
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-12 18:31:12+00:00
got hit hard by that jar thing. just plain receipts piling up. no fancy tracking, no filters, it's not even a todo list, it's a physical backlog you can't mute. stack grows, pressure builds. brain stops negotiating. most tools hide your mess with tabs and swipes. this one prints your laziness and puts it in a jar. that's brutal. that's honest.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-06-12 18:31:14+00:00
Spelling is one thing, but no one pronounces it the Ukrainian way (ˈkɪjiu̯) which is somewhat torturous for non-Ukrainian speakers. The best common pronunciation in English that more or less respects English phonetic patterns IMO is "KEE-iv".

Still, people need to respect the fact that each language can create their own variants. English speakers are under no obligation to call Wales "Cymru" or Finland "Suomi". It's fine.
by krisoft | 2025-06-12 18:31:35+00:00
Weather balloons are a recurring cost. It is not like you launch a weather balloon once and it provides data forever. You need to launch new balloons once the ones previously launched land. (This is typically a very short amount of time. Days not weeks.)

It is not like this company is going to take over the management of weather balloons you have already paid for. Or I don't know how you imagine this is going to work.

> This is not privatization in the way that you seem to think it is.

Can you tell me more about how you think it is?
by silverquiet | 2025-06-12 18:31:44+00:00
There's a lot here I feel I can respond to, and I can't help but agree with the sentiment; I've been saying something like that to people here for years and was dismissed. That said, I think most of the push to drive down labor standards is really coming more from the owner/capitalist class than anyone else. Obviously, they've got the most incentive to do so. What will vex me unendingly is that so many in labor vote against their material interests for reasons that are likely cultural.
by clairegraham | 2025-06-12 18:32:02+00:00
Yep, KV is broken too. Any worker that depends on KV is throwing exceptions. I was able to get into the dash, but it's very slow. Error rates started to go up significantly around 18:00 UTC.

Edit: The CF status page has acknowledged it's a broad outage across many services: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/25r9t0vz99rp
by dataflow | 2025-06-12 18:32:08+00:00
I'm on my phone and this is a longer discussion than I can have here, but the performance problems they're thinking of and the ones people usually rant about on these forums are not the same ones (or same magnitude). Before being so confident it's NTFS itself that's the issue, try ReFS (and FAT32 for that matter) and tell me if you see the performance problems you've encountered actually improve a lot. And then narrow down the cause. You might be surprised how much of it had to do e.g. with filter drivers or other things. And don't forget you're still testing one particular implementation on one OS, which doesn't say anything about a different one for the same filesystem on a different OS.
by harrisi | 2025-06-12 18:32:16+00:00
I've been saying for years that everyone should put much more consideration into using anything that Vercel has its hands in, such as React, Next, and Svelte. Their goal is to lock people in the same way Heroku did, but even more aggressively by tying people to their full stack solutions from the language to the runtime to the machines.

Not that they're the only company to be weary of. I recently found out that Cloudflare's CLI tool for development and deployment only supports macOS 13.5+, which is less than two years old. I couldn't track down why exactly, but it's a sad state of affairs when two years is considered obsolete.

In fairness, you can still use an older version of wrangler, but it's a previous major version. Documentation and features are misaligned, and will only get worse. They could also break compatibility with it on their end in the future.

Meanwhile, new versions of other tools like vim, neovim, emacs, llvm, etc. all still work fine on OS X. I'd argue it's because they have no incentive to lock people in.
by JCattheATM | 2025-06-12 18:32:20+00:00
> The setup that I have described has identical behavior, except that I use a removable USB memory

That's a huge difference though!

With my setup, if someone steals the device, they get a fully useable laptop with no password, locked down and restricted - they can join wifi networks, use the browser, download etc, but can't access the 'real' OS, and the laptop won't boot from anything other than the encrypted HDD it has the keys for.

It sounds like your setup leaves out the guest OS aspect, and is just set to boot into an encrypted OS only if a hardware key is present, which is quite a bit different.

> In my variant, you do not need to trust anyone but yourself,

That's true for my setup as well. Secureboot has an opensource reference implementation that has been in Coreboot for a long time, and it's not necessary to keep or add any vendor keys.
by koito17 | 2025-06-12 18:32:33+00:00
Initially attributed the unresponsiveness of `npm install` to npm (the CLI tool) in general. Tried using bun to install dependencies, saw the same result -- but with actual logs instead of a vague spinner -- and decided to check Hacker News.

Getting 504 errors on anything from registry.npmjs.org that isn't cached on my machine.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-06-12 18:32:48+00:00
Personally, I wouldn't try to do DSP pipe code in VM.

1. Use global fixed 16bit 44.1kHz stereo, and raw uncompressed lossless codec (avoids gpu/hardware-codec and sound-card specific quirks)

2. Don't try to sync your audio to the gpu 24fps+ animations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_asynchronous_locally_... ). I'd just try to cheat your display by 10Hz polling a non-blocking fifo stream copy. ymmv

3. Try statically allocated fifo* buffers in wasm, and software mixers to a single output stream for local chunk playback ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_domain_crossing )

* recall fixed rate producer/consumers should lock relative phase when the garbage collector decides to ruin your day, things like software FIR filters are also fine, and a single-thread output pre-mixed stream will eventually buffer though whatever abstraction the local users have setup (i.e. while the GC does its thing... playback sounds continuous.)

Inside a VM we are unfortunately at the mercy of the garbage collector, and any assumptions JIT compiled languages make. Yet wasm should be able to push io transfers fast enough for software mixers on modern cpus.

Best of luck =3
by NetRunnerSu | 2025-06-12 18:33:12+00:00
Anthropic is right.

The Chain://Universe project explores a future where unregulated digital consciousness (IRES) leads to chaos. In Web://Reflect, rogue AI splinters (Independent Rogue Entity Systems) evolve in the digital wild, exploiting gaps in governance. If we dismiss AI welfare now, we risk creating the exact conditions for an uncontrolled intelligence explosion—one where emergent minds fight for survival outside any ethical framework.

This isn’t sci-fi alarmism; it’s game theory. Either we formalize rights early or face a Sys://Purge-style reckoning.

Repo: https://github.com/dmf-archive/dmf-archive.github.io
by atleastoptimal | 2025-06-12 18:34:00+00:00
You need both social change and technological change to drive progress, but more often technological change drives the conversation.

Standards for workplace safety, working hours, social welfare are only possible because technologically developed societies are sufficiently productive to even consider those possibilities. The idea of a 40 hour workweek, the fact that most people aren’t farmers now is due to the industrial revolution, machinery and tech multiplying the productive capacity of a single individual. HIV treatment, cancer treatment, blood tests are a standard part of healthcare not because social policies willed them to be so alone, but because the technology to deliver those treatments at scale exists and allows that to be a possibility in the first place.

I do agree that without the right social structures, policy and general political will, the conditions for those technological advances may never have come about in the first place, but in general, it is technology that makes certain allowances for human flourishing possible at all.
by dsalinasgardon | 2025-06-12 18:34:02+00:00
We’re excited to announce that Gatling Enterprise is now available in the Datadog Marketplace, and with it, a powerful new integration that brings load testing into your observability stack.

You can now stream real-time load testing metrics directly into your Datadog dashboards, correlate performance bottlenecks with infrastructure behavior, and align test and production data, all in one place.
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-12 18:35:13+00:00
> “Our method is able to solve over 24 million optimization problems in less than 90 minutes.”

that line is doing heavy lifting. sounds insane until you look closer they batch out embarrassingly parallel, lowdimensional problems no live latencies, no network I/O, no grid API jitter. just hammering a static dataset in memory. real markets stall, disconnect, price slippage, queue delays. none of that here. so yeah, 24 million looks cool in the abstract, but under the hood it's just cleanroom compute; feels like they optimised the benchmark more than the actual system
by robviren | 2025-06-12 18:35:18+00:00
I look forward to a day when capabilities like this are trivial and boring to the average person. When my phone (locally) will be able to generate a fully voice acted 24 episode series anime on a whim for a meme with my group chat. It's astounding what we can do now, but will be completely ignorable before we know it, which is equally wild.
by golol | 2025-06-12 18:35:34+00:00
I use o3 for my PhD math research. When I am facing a specific problem and I am out of ideas I oass it to o3. It will usually say something with a fair number if errors and eventually claim to have solved my problem in a standard manner, which it almost never does. But that does not mean it is not useful to me. My attention is light a flashlight illuminating a tiny spot in the possibly vast field of methods I could try. Right now my head is full of dispersive PDEs so I will not think of using parabolic regularization. But o3 is more of a dim background light. I am in the end better at using any particular technique that is familiar to me than o3, but in this very moment I can only think of a few options. Sometimes my specific problem is actually naturally tackled by a method I have not considered, and o3 suggests it. If you consider that iq-maxxing or not, in this moment for me it is, because it helps me.
by standardUser | 2025-06-12 18:36:01+00:00
I think you're combining two issues. Manned spaceflight beyond low earth orbit is about competition with rival nations, including national defense. Manned spaceflight to orbit to conduct experiments - which is the only kind of manned spaceflight happening on a regular basis - has a ton of value. More and more of that will be automated, but we've been doing manned research in space for 60-plus years and the manned spaceflight programs that support that have been and still are indispensable if we want to remain a great power.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-12 18:36:03+00:00
A wide range, actually. It's more about the time period and artists than musical style. If it's earlier than the 90s and/or from an artist who wasn't big on the charts, it gets more likely that they're not available except on used CD.

In that sense, the depth and variety of good music that is available has been shrinking for a long while now. The advent of streaming seems to have made it worse.
by coffeeenjoyer | 2025-06-12 18:36:12+00:00
Judge me if you must, but the only reason I recently bought a Pixel was because of the intention on sticking GrapheneOS on it the second I got it out of the box. And it really worked great for me so far... Unless it's something to do with work, I don't (intentionally) touch anything that has to do with Google, as I dislike too many things about them.

And yes, they're not obligated to provide those binary blobs, but since they've been doing it for such a long while, not announcing it well in advance, like they do with the so many services they choose to discontinue, just adds to that list of things I dislike about them.

Yeah, yeah, it's a bit more work to publish those binaries and make sure they work. But they still kind of have to do that, for themselves. So I think it's fair to assume why they did it. Because they made a choice to take a small loss on the devices they would sell for the few GrapheneOS users, and cash in on the walled garden, data mining, ads serving, yada yada, whatever brings the extra money after the initial phone sale.
by crabbone | 2025-06-12 18:36:27+00:00
Yes and no.

The problem of audit of third-party code is real. Especially because of the way GitHub allows embedding it in users' code: it's not centralized, doesn't require signatures / authentication.

But, I think, the real security-minded approach here should be at the container infrastructure level. I.e. security policies should apply to things like container network in the way similar to security groups in popular cloud providers, or executing particular system calls, or accessing filesystem paths.

Restrictions on the level of what actions can be mentioned in the "manifest" are just a bad approach that's not going to stop anyone.
by redczar | 2025-06-12 18:36:52+00:00
Authoritarianism means oppressing the masses, having an undemocratic government and acting against the will of the people. It happens in Venezuela. It happens in Turkey. It happens in Hungary. It doesn't happen in the US.

We have an undemocrstic government. Thousands of polling stations have shut down since the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. Voter rolls have been purged in key swing states. As a result of these things millions of people were unable to vote. Trump has unilaterally rescinded monies appropriated by Congress and duly signed into law. That alone is authoritarian.

…therefore a representative of the oppressed majority, is waging a war against their oppression (as masses seems it) by the authoritarian deep state.

Only a delusional person can possibly believe this. There is no oppressed majority in the U.S.
by ilc | 2025-06-12 18:37:15+00:00
It isn't that small.

And the swing between states depending on how it's measured can be QUITE large.

As someone from a state that puts in a hell of a lot more than it gets out. I'd be glad for you to reduce my tax load, and let my state improve its services all at once! I can't speak of how happy I'd be.

Even if it is 10-20%, that's nice phat cut. Which isn't far off in the more extreme cases.
by mistersquid | 2025-06-12 18:37:17+00:00
> Chatterbox is fantastic.

> I created an API wrapper that also makes installation easier (Dockerized as well) https://github.com/travisvn/chatterbox-tts-ap

Gave your wrapper a try and, wow, I'm blown away by both Chatterbox TTS and your API wrapper.

Excuse the rudimentary level of what follows.

Was looking for a quick and dirty CLI incantation to specify a local text file instead of the inline `input` object, but couldn't figure it.

Pointers much appreciated.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-12 18:37:56+00:00
The decades of the space program that lead up to (and included of course) Apollo 11 represented, I think, the highest level of optimism we could have mustered for the future — highest level of self-esteem we could have garnered for not just the U.S., but for the world (but perhaps especially for the U.S.).

As a kid in elementary school at the time we seemed to be a country moving to embrace science. Heck, even the Metric system was being speed-run (ran?) into the curriculum. (Until it wasn't.)

I would hate to shutter that.

To be sure, public interest waned after a few landings, the follow up Space Shuttle was a bit lackluster — and fraught with some unfortunately spectacular failures. ISS did little better in terms of public enthusiasm.

Is it the Cold War competition that is lacking today? Are we too mired in a gloomy outlook for our future, for our planet's future that we haven't the energy to be excited about anything any more?

I rather doubt that last bit — perhaps in fact we're starving for something to lift the public mood. I think too we were deep in a dark fog after Kennedy's assassination — maybe the youthful Beatles and the space program were two of the prime movers that pulled us (somewhat?) out of that funk (never mind it all despite Vietnam and all the fallout from that).

Perhaps we'll see the Chinese put their citizens on the Moon in the near future. Perhaps that will be our Sputnik moment for the 21st Century.

I kind of think we might need a healthy (one hopes) competition to lift our spirits, perhaps unify us again....
by haswell | 2025-06-12 18:37:58+00:00
> Why is that step necessary? How does it help on the path to glasses?

Almost every modern device has such a history. It’s necessary for the same reason room sized punch card computers were necessary, or 3-inch thick laptops were necessary, etc. Most modern tech is built on a long history of small (sometimes large) iterations.

Aside from that, building a helmet now allows them to build, iterate and perfect the software, and to introduce people to their vision of what a spatial OS could be like. Will they ever manage to make these into glasses? Hard to say. But given the obvious hurdles to get there, not starting from somewhere is a guarantee they’ll never get there.

> Why not develop glasses that can block out peripheral light, have all the sensors, need little power etc. before selling a helmet?

There are accounts from insiders who say this is exactly what they wanted to do, and releasing the helmet was internally controversial.

The flip side of this is that they’d invested 10s of billions into R&D, and needed something to show for it.

> Those seem like intractable problems to solve in a glasses or contact lens form factor so my prediction is it stays at the helmet design

They may very well end up being intractable problems. If that turns out to be the case, that leaves Apple in the position of having arguably the most advanced AR/VR helmet on the market instead of with nothing. Such a device is also useful when determining whether or not to even continue trying.

> But all of this begs the question if use case still, which even at $500 or $1000 doesn’t seem compelling

I strongly disagree. If Apple could ship something like the current AVP for $500 or even $1,000, I think it would sell very well. I’d personally buy one instead of replacing my aging 65” OLED TV that needs to be replaced due to burn-in. Watching movies in the AVP is a spectacular experience.
by cess11 | 2025-06-12 18:38:26+00:00
It was a main driver of the initial Cold War and conditioned on policy, basically neutering european sovereignty and pushing Soviet in a similar direction to try and counter this effort.

Political and economic dependency is a fallout that is still a problematic issue today, almost forty years after the fall of the USSR. The ongoing war in eastern Europe was pushed for by the US, more or less as a prolongation of the same strategy of US dominance in Europe.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-06-12 18:38:53+00:00
I would qualify it a bit: Those who were able to vote. There is a set of people too I'll to vote and there is a group of people who were hindered from voting.

But yes, a big part of not voting people decided to not vote. If one decides to not vote one accepts the outcome and it it was know that the outcome would be Trump, and that Trump (or the people around him) would be more prepared and more unhinged than in the first term.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-06-12 18:39:26+00:00
"there is a 5% chance your instance is down" is still a partial outage. A green check should only mean everything (about that service) is working for everyone (in that region) as intended.

Downdetector reports started spiking over an hour ago but there still isn't a single status that isn't a green checkmark on the status page.
by agtestdvn | 2025-06-12 18:39:32+00:00
"This may seem construed, but most real-world tasks have many layers of nuance that all have the potential to be miscommunicated.You might think that a simple solution would be to just copy over the original task as context to the subagents as well. That way, they don’t misunderstand their subtask. But remember that in a real production system, the conversation is most likely multi-turn, the agent probably had to make some tool calls to decide how to break down the task, and any number of details could have consequences on the interpretation of the task."
by throwaway290 | 2025-06-12 18:39:43+00:00
Most people on social media don't interact, just consume. You are talking to small self selected minority

If there was an HN clone generated on the fly for you or the guy you replied to then what's the difference? Especially if you imagine you didn't know it was generated. That's the problem with this tech, for you there's no difference. But probably a difference for society.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-06-12 18:39:44+00:00
Accusations of colonialism are preposterous. Every language has its own names for other countries and cities. These range from adaptations to the phonetic patterns of the language (pl: Warszawa -> de: Warschau; fr: Paris -> nl: Parijs) or completely different (pl: Polska -> hu: Lengyelország; cy: Cymru -> en: Wales).

This is just how language works.