MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rapus95 | 2025-06-12 18:40:20+00:00
if half the internet is down, which it apparently is, it's usually not the service in question, but some backbone service like cloudflare. And as internal health monitoring doesn't route to the outside through the backbone to get back in, it won't pick it up. Which is good in some sense, as it means that we can see if it's on the path TO the service or the service itself.
by spencerflem | 2025-06-12 18:40:30+00:00
Sounds like we pretty much agree then.

(Should have been obvious :p, you have been lovely to talk to)

Its horrific what the CIA has done and continues to do. So many of the world's evils can directly be traced back to them. And the colonisation project as a whole of course.

I also agree that its very unlikely we will be able to work our way out of a system that nobody can comprehend and seems to have evolved to trap and perpetuate itself.

Penelope Scott describes it beautifully in https://penelopescott.substack.com/p/what-does-mysteries-for... imo.

But I stand by that there seems to be some percentage of the world that takes pleasure in the suffering of others and the knowledge that they have something others lack. And their influence has made things much harder for everyone.

I still feel like I have the right to be frustrated and the people who seem to be deluded as to what's actually happening, and scornful of those who actively aid & abet the crimes against humanity going on around us.

For myself, I carry no stocks as it aligns myself with the corporations and investors who are a huge factor in our evil. I refuse to work for big tech or anywhere where the user is the product. I go to protests despite the futility of it. Probably I should move, like you, or find other ways to do more.

I don't fault people for drawing a different line on what's reasonable and practical to do in a society designed to make ethical behavior impossible.

I still take flights despite it killing the environment, pay taxes to the US despite it mainly going to genocide, eat meat, buy consumer products made with slave labor, hoard wealth past the worldwide median. So I know I'm on shakey ground.

But the people actively opposed and working against peace movements I can't find any love in my heart for.
by fwip | 2025-06-12 18:40:31+00:00
NASA is great, but the author's primary motivation seems to be "China is going to the moon and China is bad."

I'm also not sure that NASA needs "saving." It needs continued funding, and it would be nice if they were jerked around less by the whims of politicians, but I don't think it is in crisis. NASA has continued to produce valuable science, even given those difficult headwinds.
by discoutdynamite | 2025-06-12 18:40:48+00:00
V.M. Glushkov. Soviet scientist who basically delineated cybernetics and computer science as a distinct field. He was about 50 years ahead of his time, so a lot of his best ideas we didnt really start fulfilling until quite recently. His grasp of the fundamental limitations of computers, and how to do useful things within them, was remarkable. He wasnt properly enabled and appreciated by the Soviets, so they were never able to lead the world in computing, but they had some impressive achievements. If you want to learn more, I recomend "Pioneers of Soviet Computing" and Glushkov's own "Introduction to Cybernetics". Of especial interest is his classification of algorithms and automata, nice to compare to modern programming paradigms and developments in new kinds of neural networks.
by diggan | 2025-06-12 18:41:00+00:00
> I use that last term loosely because I have a structured set of rules I have AI follow

Right, but what defines if what you're doing is "vibe-coding" or not is if you actually view the code it produces, at any point of the workflow. You're "vibe-coding" if you're merging/pushing without reviewing the code.

I'm also an experienced developer, and used LLMs a lot, but never pushed/merged anything into production that I haven't read and understood myself.
by psunavy03 | 2025-06-12 18:41:06+00:00
I'm 90 percent sure he meant it ironically, or at least in an attempt to be a stupid edgelord. But it was still an unacceptable enough asshole thing to do that he deserves every bit of blowback he's gotten. Like trying to call a black person the N-word "ironically," no, you don't get a pass. You're just a different flavor of "bad person."
by bastawhiz | 2025-06-12 18:41:07+00:00
A dime of commercially priced electricity is around a kWh depending on where you are. That'll take a car a lot further than you think, and the more aggressively you drive the more electricity gets used. The most efficient way to drive is the flattest, most leisurely route.

The only way aggressive driving becomes profitable is when you've exhausted your supply of cars. Even then, it's not clear to me that you'd increase profit in that time by driving faster, since one car over the course of a day might squeeze in one or two extra rides at most. Just having more cars that sit idle until needed would accomplish the same thing with no extra risk.

In fact, the biggest area for optimization is getting the car to the next rider from the end of a previous ride. But that's not about being fast, that's about positioning idle cars in the right places to minimize distance to potential riders. If pickup distance becomes a hard bottleneck, it's again about capacity, not speed. Most of the between-trip driving is not on highways and back roads, it's through dense areas with lots of stop signs and traffic lights, so increasing speed isn't even really feasible.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-06-12 18:41:25+00:00
Administrative court rulings is due process for immigration... that's the law. Admin court is part of the Executive branch. That's how the law is set up.

Comprehensive immigration reform (which is sorely needed) can only come from the Congress (who have no incentive to act because everyone is so focused on the Presidency).

Without the laws changing, the only choice is to enforce the laws as they are.

Something that has been ignored since Obama (who deported far more than Trump ever has... Obama deported primarily criminals, however, and Trump is deporting anybody he can)
by tfsh | 2025-06-12 18:41:34+00:00
It's not. You might be joking, but that comment still isn't helpful.

My understanding is this is part of Google's internal PSD offering (Public Status Board) which uses SCS (Static Content Service) behind GFE (Google Frontend) which is hosted on Borg, and deploys other large scale apps such as Search, Drive, YouTube, etc.
by bbor | 2025-06-12 18:41:39+00:00
The point is that you believe you have something called consciousness, but when pressed no one can define it in a scientific (i.e. thorough+consistent) way. In comparison, I can absolutely define hands, and thus prove to myself that I (and others!) have them.

Regardless, some of the GangStalking people are 100% convinced that they have brain implants in their head that the federal government is manipulating -- belief is not evidence.
by rocmcd | 2025-06-12 18:41:46+00:00
How is living in space meaningfully different from living in a submersible in the ocean (apart from the view)?

You would think we would get really good at the latter before going after the former, and yet I see no interest from people wanting to live in a (shallowly submersed) submarine. It would also be an order of magnitude less expensive and dangerous.
by rvnx | 2025-06-12 18:42:08+00:00
It looks like that it is a central service @ Google called Chemist that is down.

"Chemist checks the project status, activation status, abuse status, billing status, service status, location restrictions, VPC Service Controls, SuperQuota, and other policies."

-> This would totally explain the error messages "visibility check (of the API) failed" and "cannot load policy" and the wide amount of services affected.

cf. https://cloud.google.com/service-infrastructure/docs/service...

EDIT: Google says "(Google Cloud) is down due to Identity and Access Management Service Issue"
by AndroTux | 2025-06-12 18:43:50+00:00
If a CEO of a company like Proton is that gullible that he falls for someone like Trump (IN 2025!), I have even less hope for my data being in secure hands.

> and a closed source backend thats security oriented is an oxymoron as far as I'm concerned.

Exactly. You're basically just trusting that this guy will always make the right decisions. I remember being in the same boat with Google. Don't be evil and all that.
by bruce511 | 2025-06-12 18:43:58+00:00
It's easy to play the hypocrisy card, theres plenty to go around.

However in this case you're presenting a false equivalency. Yes, there were issues with BLM. the people got out of control. But that's not authoritarianism- if anything it was a lack of authority with caused dome of those problems.

What you see with protests now is those with authority over-using that authority and wielding it as a weapon against the public.

And I'm not sure COVID lock downs are a useful measure of anything. It was a unprecedented event and countries all over the world had all manner of restrictions, lock downs, and so on. Millions of people died, over a million Americans. It's always going to be easy in hindsight to blame those in authority for doing too much, or too little, too fast or too slow.

Unlike most places, the US politicized the response, and even within the US the death rates varied from one state to the next. Anthropologists will be disecting covid data for generations to try and determine which approach was best.
by quectophoton | 2025-06-12 18:44:35+00:00
I don't know, at this point I don't know who uses what. This is maybe unrelated but even BunnyCDN has an incident from a few hours ago (https://status.bunny.net/incidents/6g27lbtp67m4).

Seeing how everything seems to be broken everywhere, I'm very much looking forward to the post-mortem.
by reify | 2025-06-12 18:44:43+00:00
younger individuals (children) do not find it easier to talk to adults.

That is why those qualified psychotherapists who work with children have been through specific training to work with children. Working with children is not the same as working with adults.

children do find it difficult to talk and share stuff in the therapy.

Psychotherapist and play therapists use alternative methods to allow the child to express what they want to say without speaking, using different media.

This could be art, stories, drama, sand play work, puppet work, or just simply playing.

children do not have to speak to express what they want to say.

When I did my post graduate play therapy training I spent an entire year learning how to play.

adults slowly forget how to play. ai never learns how to play

would, for instance, an ai chatbot, notice after many therapy sessions, that when the child enacts family dramas in sand play. the child always places the father, or in the childs case, the giraffe, away from the rest of the family.

NO! ai would never see this or be able to link to the fact that the child puts the father (giraffe) outsde of the family unit because there is something frightening for the child. this maybe domestic violence or abuse in its many forms, it may simple be that the parents have been arguing a lot because of finacial pressures.

over time the child will share what is going on.

AI will never be able to replace the human element in childrens therapy.
by fidotron | 2025-06-12 18:45:00+00:00
It's completely nuts that Firebase has this: https://status.firebase.google.com/incidents/ZcF1YDUvpdixZ2e...

"Firebase Data Connect unavailable due to a known Google Cloud global outage"

While the Google Cloud status page https://status.cloud.google.com/ says "No major incidents" and everything is green. So Google Cloud know there is an outage but just deem it not major enough to show it.

Edit to add: within 10 minutes of this post Google updated their status page. More curiously the Firebase page I linked to has been edited to remove mention of Google Cloud in the status and now says "Firebase Data Connect is currently experiencing a service disruption. Please check back for status. ".
by abadar | 2025-06-12 18:45:01+00:00
I tried creating my own loot box reward system where I earn points for completing tasks (literally spare change), and I can use the money to buy a die roll, with a d20 dictating what prize I got. Prizes would be things like permission to buy Pokémon cards or a full price video game, etc, with a guaranteed "high rarity" prize every X rolls.

Maybe it'd be fun to combine this with your receipts, where random tasks reward points to earn prizes.

Or maybe this is just more procrastination!
by orwin | 2025-06-12 18:45:09+00:00
Racist doesn't mean fascist, but you can't be fascist without being racist.

As long as the executive doesn't control the judges, or insist on carrying a two speed justice, you can't really be fascist country.

Ergo a fascist party is one which is at least nationalist, if not ethnonationalist, and insist on curbing the rule of law : X should be less equal than Y in front of the law (assuming the same social class).
by nerdsniper | 2025-06-12 18:45:20+00:00
Why even have a status page? Someone reported that their org of >100,000 users can't use Google Meet. If corps aren't going to update their status page, might as well just not have one.

https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/

https://status.cloud.google.com/index.html

Edit: The GCP status page got updated <1 minute after I posted this, showing affected services are Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud Shell, Cloud Workstations, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Console, Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Identity Platform, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Vertex AI Search
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-12 18:45:27+00:00
Additionally, as wonderful as NASA’s robotic missions are (we should do way more), they don’t move the needle nearly as much in terms of long-term impact on our species as mastering crewed spaceflight (and eventually, indefinite off-world inhabitation) does.

The tree of possibilities in a timeline where humans live on the surfaces of other bodies and in permanently spacebourne crafts in significant numbers is infinitely larger than the timeline in which we do not. It’s an endeavor with an extremely long timeline of course, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing.

Arguably, the things most worth doing are those with this level of potential impact, with much of what we obsess over in the short term comparatively being embarrassingly myopic bikeshedding. One must avoid leaning too far into this obviously — there are things that truly must be addressed in the short term and cannot be ignored, but the outcome of staring at your feet is just as likely to be catastrophic as staring only at the horizon is. Both can lead you to walk off the edge of a cliff.
by atonse | 2025-06-12 18:45:34+00:00
Interesting, ok.

I don't even want to say "Use NTFS, doesn't everything support it?" because I'm not even sure that's the best solution for an SD card.

Maybe with their new FSKit API [1], someone can build a compatibility layer for it.

1: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fskit?language=obj...
by scdnc | 2025-06-12 18:45:37+00:00
> I don’t think it’s “enshittification” in the sense Doctorow coined the term.

While I didn’t mean it only strictly in the original sense and instead also used it as a synonym for general decline, I still think it fits the definition more or less, since while my post got appropriately flagged for not meeting guidelines, a lot of posts, mainly ideological and current events, that also do not meet the guidelines don’t get flagged these days [1][2], and since moderation is part of their service, the service is degrading, likely so that this site will grow.

> What I do think has changed is me. And the "community" here over the years. > I also have a (quite possibly wrong) view that as HN’s user base has grown, there’s a lower percentage of people here for genuine “hacker” discussions—by which I mean the interesting technical stuff, whether computer-related or not—and a higher percentage here for the latest tech fad, for YC or founder attention, or just for money, rather than pure intellectual curiosity.

Even though I’ve been here only a few years, I still feel the same way.

> I 100% believe that for me, there was a higher signal-to-noise ratio for both the discussions I’m interested in and the people I recognize and respect, than there was 10 or 15 years ago. But I’m still here.

I’ve gradually stopped visiting most popular sites, be it social media, forums, etc. because as they grow, the noise overwhelms the signal, and the original reason to visit vanishes for me. I still will be here too but probably not for long.

[1] https://www.hntoplinks.com/year?sort=upvotes [2] https://www.hntoplinks.com/year?sort=comments
by geoka9 | 2025-06-12 18:45:54+00:00
> You can't add a kale salad after a bowl of ice cream and expect your insulin levels to go down

Sorry for being off-topic, but you actually can (not a scientist, just speaking from experience). My guess is the digestion slows down and the sugar gets released into the system at a slower rate (probably because of the lower overall Glycemic index?). Anyways, it actually works! Just eat your salad before the ice cream to make sure it does :)
by 8note | 2025-06-12 18:46:03+00:00
make sure it writes a requirements and design doc for the change its gonna make, and review those. and, ask it to ask you questions about where there's ambiguity, and to record those responses.

when it has a work plan, track the workplan as a checklist that it fills out as it works.

you can also atart your conversations by asking it to summarize the code base
by walterbell | 2025-06-12 18:46:23+00:00
Progress update, https://eshard.com/posts/emulating-ios-14-with-qemu-part2

iOS emulated in QEMU with: • Restore / Boot • Software rendering • Kernel and userspace debugging • Pairing with the host • Serial / SSH access • Multitouch • Network • Install and run any arbitrary IPA

In other news, Cellebrite acquired Corellium iOS/Android virtualization for $170M, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221982
by h3lp | 2025-06-12 18:46:32+00:00
I see an analogy to the discussions from my youth about compilers vs. assembly language programmers. It is still true that assembly is required to write high performance primitives, and that a competent assembly programmer will always beat a good compiler on a small function---but a compiler will consistently turn out decent and correct code for the entire project. So, basically, the compilers won, and assembly is relegated to be an important but niche skill.
by hersko | 2025-06-12 18:46:52+00:00
> -The bald eagle that is also the only country in history to have nuked two civilian cities.

It was this or invade which would have easily resulted in more casualties. Pretending the US just nuked them when the other option was nothing is childish.

> - Its best friend, the country that's commiting a genocide in 2025 and that you cannot criticize.

Ongoing wars in 2025 and casualty numbers according to Grok:

- Russia-Ukraine War: Estimated 500,000–1,000,000 deaths

- Syrian Civil War: ~400,000–600,000 deaths

- Ethiopian Civil War: ~300,000–600,000 deaths

- Yemeni Civil War: ~233,000–377,000 deaths

- Myanmar Civil War: ~150,000–200,000 deaths

- Sahel Region Conflicts (post-Libya crisis, jihadist insurgencies in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, etc.): ~100,000–200,000 deaths.

- Sudan Civil War: ~61,000–100,000 deaths

- Israel-Hamas War: ~50,000–70,000 deaths

Calling the Israel Hamas war a genocide doesn't hold up. Trying to claim that you can't criticize Israel on the internet is ridiculous.
by BizarroLand | 2025-06-12 18:47:13+00:00
There's a cliff though.

It will happen for different people at different times, but at some point the realization that you are looking at people who don't exist living lives that aren't possible to sell you products that won't help you will click for you, and when it does it will cut you off from society in a way we don't currently have words for.
by bigveech | 2025-06-12 18:47:16+00:00
Just to put it in perspective: it costs $300–500 to produce a single atmospheric profile with current balloon infrastructure. The U.S. launches ~180 a day—that’s at least $54K daily. Not exactly “pennies.” :)

And the government already buys the helium, radiosondes, and ground systems from private vendors—so the money’s going to private industry anyway. It’s just inefficient.

With 50 of our systems doing 4 profiles a day (which is no where close to max scale), you get the same volume of data for way less. And on top of that, because we reach remote and oceanic areas that aren’t being measured today, the data is also more valuable!

Also, the data you’re referring to isn’t inherently public domain. It becomes public when the government buys it and redistributes it. That’s true whether they pay for the infrastructure themselves or buy the data directly from a company.
by thewebguyd | 2025-06-12 18:47:54+00:00
> I get that big money interests (like DRM) are constantly pressuring you to remove user control and give it to them, but if you just said "no, our users are more important" they would just have to take it because they can't turn away 45 or 50% or whatever of the US market and 80+% of the global market.

I'm not so sure of that, at least in the US anyway. Users would absolutely switch operating systems/mobile phones if one suddenly stopped playing Netflix, streaming music, or even working with banking apps. DRM interests have all the power here because if content platforms are pulled from a platform, that platform dies for the majority of the population.

The only way out is regulation - laws that mandate devices be open, and alternative app stores, side loading, root access, and alternative OSes are supported by order of law.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-06-12 18:48:14+00:00
This is gonna keep happening with every AI advance until humans are an absolute bottleneck in every domain. May take a bit of time for some professions, but the writing is on the wall. This will be the greatest shift in human history, and I think a lot of people will have trouble grappling with it because its not fun to think about being made irrelevant.

The only thing that will slow AI down is massive universal international regulation. Human intelligence really isn’t the be all end all to intelligence in general, it’s just a stepping stone. I feel many on this site don’t want to accept this because their intelligence has been such a valuable tool and source of personal pride/identity for them for so long.