MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grep_name | 2025-06-19 14:41:08+00:00
Eh. Your argument keeps coming back to that same snippet from Wikipedia, which is unconvincing. Wikipedia isn't the end-all-be-all arbiter of language. "Social media" is a useful term for discussing a lot of specific phenomena that have come out of sites like facebook, instagram, twitter, etc which all rely on metrics of social graphing to track popularity and guide content exposure and interaction. (Due to the nature of your argument I feel compelled to say that I'm not trying to formalize a complete airtight definition here)

There is a distinct experience and ecosystem that arises from those types of sites that we all recognize, which didn't exist in the same way before the advent of social media sites. And it warrants discussion. When you try to say "actually, technically, ALL human communication is social media!" and won't let it go, you derail a conversation in a way that benefits nobody and is functionally (if not literally at this point) untrue for anyone who's experienced the internet over the last 20 years.
by poorcedural | 2025-06-19 14:41:49+00:00
Andrej, maybe Software 3.0 is not written in spoken language like code or prompts. Software 3.0 is recorded in behavior, a behavior that today's software lacks. That behavior is written and consumed by machine and annotated by human interaction. Skipping to 3.0 is premature, but Software 2.0 is a ramp.
by NoGravitas | 2025-06-19 14:41:55+00:00
Probably the most useful book ever written about topics adjacent to capital-R Rationalism is "Neoreaction, A Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right" [1], by Elizabeth Sandifer. Though the topic of the book is nominally the Alt-Right, a lot more of it is about the capital-R Rationalist communities and individuals that incubated the neoreactionary movement that is currently dominant in US politics. It's probably the best book to read for understanding how we got politically and intellectually from where we were in 2010, to where we are now.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41198053-neoreaction-a-b...
by crazygringo | 2025-06-19 14:42:00+00:00
> The phone’s battery health held up reasonably well. After over a year of constant operation, it’s at 76% capacity.

I have an iPhone SE that I've tried keeping plugged in all the time and its battery has turned into a spicy pillow three times, first with Apple replacing the whole device (since they won't touch it with a swollen battery), then using third-party replacement kits.

This isn't going to work for long if the battery is usually at 100%.

My #1 wish for being able to repurpose old phones is to operate without touching the battery, and/or keeping the battery at 50%. Newer Apple phones have an 80% limit option which is an improvement, but I'm not sure how much. And unfortunately the option isn't there on any but the most recent phones, even on up-to-date iOS.
by padjo | 2025-06-19 14:42:39+00:00
Honestly for beginners just building a habit of regular lifting is by far the most important thing. Progressive overload, going to failure, periodization etc won’t do much if you don’t have consistency. My advice to beginners would be to go to the gym 3 times a week and do whatever interests you for about 45 minutes. Once you have that habit nailed down for 6 months then we can talk about more advanced stuff.
by candiddevmike | 2025-06-19 14:43:17+00:00
Kubernetes is what happens when you need to support everyone's wants and desires within the core platform. The abstraction facade breaks and ends up exposing all of the underlying pieces because someone needs feature X. So much of Kubernetes' complexity is YAGNI (for most users).

Kubernetes 2.0 should be a boring pod scheduler with some RBAC around it. Let folks swap out the abstractions if they need it instead of having everything so tightly coupled within the core platform.
by schiffern | 2025-06-19 14:43:29+00:00
Since the temperature limit of available materials is the fundamental limitation (even after making custom high-temp alloys), this allows them to maximize mechanical power from the turbopumps, which raises performance.

We might imagine a conservative FFSC design which accepts very low temperatures in exchange for making it easy (low R&D cost) to reach high longevity. Raptor is not a conservative design, so it requires more R&D to achieve that longevity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twnZYPdFgbU
by 0xblacklight | 2025-06-19 14:43:53+00:00
This is a project we built internally for ourselves at Naptha.ai and wanted to release to the public, it's not really part of our core business. We're about to release it under a source-available license with provisions for a purchasable license to self-host, and a commitment to re-publish it under an MIT license if we sunset the product or the company winds down.

Do you think that would adequately address your concerns?
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-19 14:43:56+00:00
I am trying to read Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man right now, but the 19th century Irish-isms keep kicking me off the flow. I can't concentrate on the story with so many unknown words, people and events.

There are explanatory notes, but reading them precludes immersion, and not reading them precludes comprehension.
by saalweachter | 2025-06-19 14:44:48+00:00
More charitably, it is really, really hard to tell the difference between a crank kicked out of a field for being a crank, and an earnest researcher being persecuted for not towing the political line, without being an expert in the field in question and familiar with the power structures involved.

A lot of people who like to think of themselves as skeptical could also be categorized as contrarian -- they are skeptical of institutions, and if someone is outside an institution, that automatically gives them a certain credibility.

There are three or four logical fallacies in the mix, and if you throw in confirmation bias because what the one side says appeals to your own prior beliefs, it is really, really easy to convince yourself that you're the steely-eyed rationalist perceiving the world correctly while everyone else is deluded by their biases.
by tga_d | 2025-06-19 14:46:10+00:00
Tracking pixels aren't for fingerprinting, they're just regular tracking. You can block them fairly easily (just block the 3rd party request to the known tracker). Fingerprinting is a lot more difficult to detect and prevent. Companies claiming they reserve the right to do it is a good reason to take precautions, but without insight into what is actually being done, that's hard to effectively do (without resorting to blocking all possible vectors, like Tor Browser).
by diggan | 2025-06-19 14:46:47+00:00
> But if you take into account all the training costs

Not everyone has to paid that cost, as some companies are releasing weights for download and local use (like Llama) and then some other companies are going even further and releasing open source models+weights (like OLMo). If you're a provider hosting those, I don't think it makes sense to take the training cost into account when planning your own infrastructure.

Although I don't it makes much sense personally, seemingly it makes sense for other companies.
by matt_kantor | 2025-06-19 14:47:27+00:00
Functionality-wise this is a lot like docker-pushmi-pullyu[1] (which I wrote), except docker-pushmi-pullyu is a single relatively-simple shell script, and uses the official registry image[2] rather than a custom server implementation.

@psviderski I'm curious why you implemented your own registry for this, was it just to keep the image as small as possible?

[1]: https://github.com/mkantor/docker-pushmi-pullyu

[2]: https://hub.docker.com/_/registry
by bilekas | 2025-06-19 14:47:54+00:00
It doesn't necessarily need to be actionable for now but at the moment there is an exponential growth in the datacenter power usages.

For now, sure it might be ridiculously minor, but when it starts to ramp up who's to say it wont be just a ridiculous amount of energy ? Maybe not even measure the CO2, but I would love to graph the increase of energy spent over time.
by ramon156 | 2025-06-19 14:48:01+00:00
Zed feels like what Lapce, Helix and Neovim couldn't achieve in the time they spent.

I started using Helix back around 2021-2022 and just couldn't get over the bugs and lack of integration. It was good, but PHP support (I was working at an older company) was bad.

Neovim felt closest to a nice editor but there were some popular community-driven plugins that were very stubborn, and alternatives were just very slow. I was also just overwhelmed by the choices I needed to make for something stable.

Lapce just felt like a VSCode clone that didn't do anything special. Looked cool, but I did not feel like it was ready for a daily driver (And it still doesn't).

Zed became a favorite in a short amount of time, and I'm extremely grateful for it every day. The debugger is a nice addition.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-06-19 14:48:31+00:00
My point is "moar nuclear" guarantees nothing as evidenced by what happened _in France_ (hint: not exactly the same as in Spain even if same underlying direct cause). Your remark, at best, only adds to my point, and is not a counterargument to mine. And for the record, very few power stations can ramp up "fast" or "down" for the level required here -- this is not something that uniquely applies to nuclear. Even oft-quoted gas stations still measure "ramp up" in hours.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-19 14:49:31+00:00
Mars is a desolate wasteland, and the Moon is an airless desolate wasteland.

There is zero chance of building a self-sustaining base on either within the next fifty years, and probably within the next century.

It's not a freight problem, it's an ecology problem. Designing a life support system that is stable and self-correcting and isn't in danger of running out of some essential raw material or element isn't just an unsolved problem, it's a barely considered problem.

Ironically - or perhaps not - it would be much easier to create a self-sustaining population of machines on Mars and/or the Moon than any project that relies on incredibly complex and messy human biochemistry.
by The_President | 2025-06-19 14:49:34+00:00
Unsustainable rate of failures due to the associated costs. SpaceX might have to go public to capture funding opportunities, which would inevitably result in more accountability toward ensuring successful flight development. When the execution of their tech works it is highly impressive. Track record of success rate proven by the Falcon program. Does anyone have the numbers on how much these ships cost each? I've seen estimates of $100 million for a full Starship stack.
by NoGravitas | 2025-06-19 14:50:21+00:00
I've always seen the breathless Singularitarian worrying about AI Alignment as a smokescreen to distract people from thinking clearly about the more pedestrian hazards of AI that isn't self-improving or superhuman, from algorithmic bias, to policy-washing, to energy costs and acceleration of wealth concentration. It also leads to so-called longtermism - discounting the benefits of solving current real problems and focusing entirely on solving a hypothetical one that you think will someday make them all irrelevant.
by 0xblacklight | 2025-06-19 14:50:45+00:00
Thanks! This isn't the first time we've gotten this question. We are about to release under a source-available license with a paid self-hosting license, and a commitment to open-source under MIT if we sunset the project or the company.

Would love to learn more about your use-case! Feel free to jump into our discord, we have a channel for it: https://discord.gg/eQWf5NGj6Y
by echelon | 2025-06-19 14:52:12+00:00
Kubernetes doesn't need a flipping package manager or charts. It needs to do one single job well: workload scheduling.

Kubernetes clusters shouldn't be bespoke and weird with behaviors that change based on what flavor of plugins you added. That is antithetical to the principal of the workloads you're trying to manage. You should be able to headshot the whole thing with ease.

Service discovery is just one of many things that should be a different layer.
by lubujackson | 2025-06-19 14:52:38+00:00
I found and read this book from the library completely randomly like 20 years ago and I still remember a lot of the concepts. Definitely seems like a foundational approach for how to architect intelligent systems with a computer. Before I was even thinking about any of that and was just interested in the philosophy I thought his approach and fullness of his ideas was remarkable. Glad to see it becoming a more central text!
by xyzzy123 | 2025-06-19 14:52:41+00:00
I don't think "maybe it's benign" is where anti doomers are coming from, more like, "there are also costs to not doing things".

The doomer utilitarian arguments often seem to involve some sort of infinity or really large numbers (much like EAs) which result in various kinds of philosophical mugging.

In particular, the doomer plans invariably result in some need for draconian centralised control. Some kind of body or system that can tell everyone what to do with (of course) doomers in charge.
by Aachen | 2025-06-19 14:52:58+00:00
I'm not meticulous either. I had one responsible disclosure and a few times where I noticed issues myself but never that an attacker discovered it first. There's not that many malicious people. The only scenario where you realistically get pwned is when there is a stable and automated exploit for a widely spread service that can be automatically discovered, something like Heartbleed or maybe if a WordPress plugin has an SQL injection or so

Run unattended upgrades, or the equivalent for whatever update mechanism you use, and you'll be fine. I've seen banks with more outdated running services than me at home... (I do security consulting, hence)
by caz2000 | 2025-06-19 14:53:09+00:00
There was a surprising amount of set dressing done. Some people have pointed out before that they must have put down fake tiles as the direction of the tiles in the film are diagonal (I think) instead of checkered. But as other people have said, Sydney was very run down in the 90s and many buildings were genuinely just like that. It's come a long way.
by falcor84 | 2025-06-19 14:53:28+00:00
I don't see how that's any more "wanker" then this famous saying by Socrates's; Western thought is wankers all the way down.

> Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing, and thinks he knows. I neither know nor think I know.
by quesera | 2025-06-19 14:53:45+00:00
An LED running on continuous DC has no flicker, but PWM is not continuous DC, it's a square wave of some frequency.

Incandescents have analog inertia in the filament which smooths the light output from the AC sine wave. This smoothing is not 100%, but I've never met anyone who can detect it without equipment.

A photocell and an oscilloscope will show the smoothed live-frequency wave (I wouldn't call it a "flicker"). The wave delta is relatively higher in the perceptual range as the voltage is lowered to approach the minimum "glow-activation" threshold of the filament -- i.e. the fluctuation is more noticeable when the bulb is dimmed to nearly off.
by cjs_ac | 2025-06-19 14:54:33+00:00
Rustic capitals were used for ordinary writing, e.g., election slogans on the building walls of Pompeii. Different forms of each letter are just stylistic variations between scribes, or contextual variations (the third 'G', for example, would only be used on the last line of text).

Latin had a very regular orthography: with the exceptions of I/J and U/V, and digraphs used to transliterate Greek, all letters had exactly one pronunciation. The distinctions between I and J, and between U and V, are mediaeval innovations to aid literacy.
by jen20 | 2025-06-19 14:54:41+00:00
I constantly do this when navigating large files. Zoom out for context (better than a minimap), zoom in for detail. I use the trackpad for it though, not ctrl/cmd-+. I also do it constantly in web browsers, and am consistently amazed by the way that minor changes to font sizes break the layout of any website that has had a designer near it.
by sixo | 2025-06-19 14:54:50+00:00
To the Stem-enlightened mind, the classical understanding and pedagogy of such ideas is underwhelming, vague, and riddled with language-game problems, compared to the precision a mathematically-rooted idea has.

They're rederiving all this stuff not out of obstinacy, but because they prefer it. I don't really identify with rationalism per se, but I'm with them on this--the humanities are over-cooked and a humanity education tends to be a tedious slog through outmoded ideas divorced from reality
by dboreham | 2025-06-19 14:55:13+00:00
barebone server is a thing fwiw: A product that comprises a motherboard installed in a case with PSU. Customer adds CPU, memory and storage devices to make a complete usable server. We typically buy servers in this way because figuring out what motherboard fits in which case is a pita, conversely buying complete servers is more expensive and potentially runs into inventory issues at the vendor. So possibly they are running bare metal servers that were also barebone.
by rollcat | 2025-06-19 14:55:13+00:00
> since they won't touch it with a swollen battery

Interesting. I've had a spicy pillow on a 2017 MBP, they fixed the poor thing, and while at it: replaced the cursed keyboard, and left some kind of tape to reinforce the loosened USB-C ports.

Unfortunately, they didn't do the thermal paste - I had to do DIY, which is something I will never touch again. It did pay off though, it's cooler by some 10°C under load, and runs faster too. It's still loved and in everyday use.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-19 14:55:39+00:00
>"frankly, that they gave off some (not all) of the vibes of a cult, with Eliezer as guru. Eliezer writes in parables and koans. He teaches that the fate of life on earth hangs in the balance, that the select few who understand the stakes have the terrible burden of steering the future"

One of the funniest and most accurate turns of phrases in my mind is Charles Stross' characterization of rationalists as "duck typed Evangelicals". I've come to the conclusion that American atheists just don't exist, in particular Californians. Five minutes after they leave organized religion they're in a techno cult that fuses chosen people myths, their version of the Book of Revelation, gnosticism and what have you.

I used to work abroad in Shenzhen for a few years and despite meeting countless of people as interested in and obsessed with technology, if not more than the people mentioned in this blogpost, there's just no corellary to this. There's no millenarian obsession over machines taking over the world, bizarre trust in rationalism or cult like compounds full of socially isolated new age prophets.
by shermantanktop | 2025-06-19 14:55:51+00:00
The meta with these people is “my brilliance comes with an ego that others must cater to.”

I find it sadly hilarious to watch academic types fight over meaningless scraps of recognition like toddlers wrestling for a toy.

That said, I enjoy some of the rationalist blog content and find it thoughtful, up to the point where they bravely allow their chain of reasoning to justify antisocial ideas.
by fridder | 2025-06-19 14:56:00+00:00
one restriction on the OS side that comes from Erlang and thus by extension Elixir(from the erlang FAQ: "9.12 Why can't I open devices (e.g. a serial port) like normal files? Short answer: because the erlang runtime system was not designed to do that. The Erlang runtime system's internal file access system, efile, must avoid blocking, otherwise the whole Erlang system will block. This is not a good thing in a soft real-time system. When accessing regular files, it's generally a reasonable assumption that operations will not block. Devices, on the other hand, are quite likely to block. Some devices, such as serial ports, may block indefinitely. There are several possible ways to solve this. The Erlang runtime system could be altered, or an external port program could be used to access the device. Two mailing list discussions about the topic can be found here and here."
by ummonk | 2025-06-19 14:56:16+00:00
> but you can really boil it down to "let smart, wealthy parents homeschool their kids without social media scorn"

The whole reason smart people are engaging in this debate in the first place is that professional educators keep trying to train their sights on smart wealthy parents homeschooling their kids.

By the way, this small fraction of the population is responsible for the driving the bulk of R&D.
by Aachen | 2025-06-19 14:56:43+00:00
There's 4 billion front doors on the v4 internet. Sending you a DDoS is transient (not like doing something to you physically) and doesn't scale to lots of websites, especially for no gain

In addition to myself, I know some people who self host but not any who ever had a meaningful DDoS. If you're hosting an unpopular website or NAS, nobody is going to be interested in wasting their capacity on bothering you for no reason

Anything that requires custom effort (not just sending the same packets to every host) doesn't scale either. You can host an SQL injection pretty much indefinitely with nobody discovering it, so long as it's not in standard software that someone might scan for, and if it is, then there'll be automatic updates for it. Not that I'd recommend hosting custom vulnerable software, but either way: in terms of `risk = chance × impact` the added risk of self hosting compared to datacentre hosting is absolutely negligible, so long as you apply the same apt upgrade policy in either situation

Online voting has nothing to do with these phantom risks of self hosting
by selcuka | 2025-06-19 14:57:04+00:00
> Let folks swap out the abstractions if they need it instead of having everything so tightly coupled within the core platform.

Sure, but then one of those third party products (say, X) will catch up, and everyone will start using it. Then job ads will start requiring "10 year of experience in X". Then X will replace the core orchestrator (K8s) with their own implementation. Then we'll start seeing comments like "X is a horribly complex, bloated platform which should have been just a boring orchestrator" on HN.
by jacobkranz | 2025-06-19 14:58:07+00:00
I doubt they’d need to go public. Regardless of your views on Elon, he’s consistently raised billions privately whenever needed. Even without Starship, SpaceX seems cash-flow positive and profitable thanks to Starlink and Falcon 9. It’s simpler to ask private investors to back his R&D efforts when they’re investing in an already profitable company excluding the R&D. Going public might echo Tesla’s early days, when profitability of the company as a whole wasn’t guaranteed.
by The_President | 2025-06-19 14:58:31+00:00
I have an iPhone 8 still in service and compared to an equally old Android device, the Android (some kind of Motorola eX series low end phone) runs circles around the iPhone. Even playing background video or audio streamed from wifi and output over bluetooth with the screen off, the Android will burn 15% in an hour while the iPhone will burn over 60%. Both are the same age but the iPhone feels subjectively obselete while the low end Motorola feels like a mid-2010s computer. Even for it's age the Android will last two weeks in Airplane mode.