MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _wire_ | 2025-06-12 19:12:13+00:00
"The bullets come in lumps. The count of bullets may be a fraction because it's measured as an average over time, So you may count 25 bullets in 10 hours, which on average is 2.5 bullets per hour. But that doesn't mean you ever got only part of a bullet. They come in lumps. There's a popular saying that the average American family has 2.5 children. But that doesn't mean there's ever half of any kid, because they come in lumps!"

"Nature not only works in ways we don't understand, it works in ways we can't understand"
by mistersquid | 2025-06-12 19:13:06+00:00
> Just replace the `your_file.txt` with.. well, you get it.

> This'll hopefully handle any potential issues you'd have with quotes or other symbols breaking the JSON input.

> Let me know how it goes!

Wow. I'm humbled and grateful.

I'll update once I'm done with work and back in front of my hone nachine.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-12 19:13:16+00:00
Nah, its just some client side caching / JS stuff. Clicking the big refresh button fixed it for me, 15 minutes before OP noted it.

(n.b. as much as Google in aggregate is evil, they're smart evil. You can't avoid execs approving every outage because checks without some paper trail, and execs don't want to approve every outage, you'd have to rely on too many engineers and sales people, even as ex-employees, to keep it a secret. disclaimer: xoogler)

(EDIT: for posterity, we're discussing a "overall status" thing with a huge refresh button, right above a huge table chockful of orange triangles that indicate "One or more regions affected" - even when the "overall status" was green, the table was still full of orange and visible immediately underneath. My point being, you gotta suppose a wholeeee bunch of stuff to get to the point there was ever info suppressed, much less suppressed intentionally to avoid cutting checks)
by janalsncm | 2025-06-12 19:13:25+00:00
> Trying out o3 Pro made me realize that models today are so good in isolation, we’re running out of simple tests.

Are Towers of Hanoi not a simple test? Or chess? A recursive algorithm that runs on my phone can outclass enormous models that cost billions to train.

A reasoning model should be able to reason about things. I am glad models are better and more useful than before but for an author to say they can’t even evaluate o3 makes me question their credibility.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...

AGI means the system can reason through any problem logically, even if it’s less efficient than other methods.
by masiulis | 2025-06-12 19:13:39+00:00
Hey billconan, great question! Right now we are using Text renderer provided by Pixi.js, which uses browser api to render font to canvas and then stores the outcome as texture.

We are working towards integrating C / Rust libraries for font rendering in a nearby future to increase performance and decrease memory usage.

If you are looking for libraries you might want to check harfbuzz / freefont, cosmic-text, swash or fontations project.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-12 19:13:40+00:00
Oh don't you worry some pharmabro will change (edit: will pay someone actually smart to change) a single atom within a single molecule of the antibody, or however the fuck they do it, and they'll re-patent all of the derivatives, and nobody will make the off-patent version of pembrolizumab due to drug companies bribing benefit managers to not cover the off-patent versions, the fact that you can't charge $150k/yr for it, and gentlemen's agreements between drug manufacturers to not harsh anyone's vibe.

If we're lucky congress won't be bribed, I mean lobbied for the sake of safety, into criminalizing its importation.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-12 19:13:49+00:00
Heck, we can barely build permanent settlements in many places on Earth like Antarctica and deep inside many deserts. And, here we have 1G gravity, 1bar breathable air pressure, a magnetic field and shielding from radiation. We don't have any of that outside of Earth.

If we can't build, say, a 10K-person inhabited city on the south pole, how can we even imagine we can build it on the moon or Mars?
by rconti | 2025-06-12 19:13:57+00:00
no, there's a part about it later, assuming we can take their word for it: (ugh, HN formatting is the _worst_)

------

Taking a look at the metadata embedded into the disk itself, we can see that track 6 is actually titled "Don't Need a Reason" on there:

FILE "./06. Finish Ticket - Nothing Coming Soon.flac" WAVE

TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "Don't Need A Reason" ISRC USDPK2300133 INDEX 01 00:00:00
by Whoppertime | 2025-06-12 19:14:22+00:00
Would you be willing to put your money where your mouth is on this issue? Bet that the deficit will go up more over the next 4 years compared to the last 4 years? On January 20, 2021, when President Biden took office, the U.S. national debt stood at approximately $27.8 trillion By January 20, 2025, as he exited office, the debt had risen to about $36.1–36.2 trillion. Are you willing to bet that Donald Trump will wrack up more than 8.3 trillion in debt?
by philwelch | 2025-06-12 19:16:04+00:00
> The SpaceX model is ideal for low Earth orbit where technology and markets are mature, I think it has trouble at Mars if not the Moon.

How much of that technology and market has SpaceX themselves developed over the past 15 years though? They had to invent Starlink to grow the commercial launch market past the point of saturation.

And while Starship isn't particularly well designed to make round trips to and from the Moon, it can deliver an enormous amount of cargo in a one way trip, plus the ship itself can be repurposed. So if you're going to build a moon base it's a good option.
by laurieherault | 2025-06-12 19:16:24+00:00
I think we can talk about feedback without input, yes. The reality of feedback is actually very broad. If we just look at the world of video games, and consider all the different types that exist, there is a wide variety of feedback, some more or less tied to input. In some cases, like narrative games, the feedback is much less connected to the input than in a fast-paced FPS, for example.
by _vere | 2025-06-12 19:16:45+00:00
Stuff like this will just keep happening unless a major jurisdiction goes after these digital mercinaries. The fact that we ignore all laws for no reason other than "our agencies really like spying on people" is laughable. Literally crime as a service, sanctioned by most governments. Should not be surprising that such criminal organizations use their tools to spy on people who don't deserve it.
by SparkyMcUnicorn | 2025-06-12 19:16:47+00:00
I don't know if I've seen CF Radar before. That's pretty cool!

Here are some others, although some seem to be experiencing issues due to the current outage I can only presume.

- https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/public

- https://www.ihr.live/en/global-report

- https://www.ihr.live/en/network

- https://bgp.he.net/

- https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/dashboard/asn
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-12 19:16:58+00:00
SLS is regenerating 1960s capabilities that took $250 billion to build and run the first time. So far SLS has spent about $30 billion. It is expensive in that each launch is $2 billion so pretty bad, but it also works and won't require us to hope that Starship will definitely be fixed at some point.

Starship has been much cheaper to develop and launch because of SpaceX's significantly less conservative approach to R&D, but it doesn't work yet. We should maintain SLS until SpaceX either gets Starship fully developed or it falls apart.

Starship is risky and if we want Space to be a "critical" capability of America, then we shouldn't be putting all our eggs in the SpaceX basket, even if it is significantly more expensive.

How cheap do you think buying Starship services will be when they are LITERALLY the only option for anyone anywhere?
by jillesvangurp | 2025-06-12 19:17:06+00:00
wind mills are weather vaned (i.e. not broken, but deliberately turned off), solar panels excess energy is curtailed (prevented from going into the grid) and usually transformed into heat on the panels or in inverters.

As for baseload. It's one of those waffly terms that's rarely specified in GW that is needed. Which as it turns out is far less than we used to have given that much of it was replaced with wind and solar over the last decade or so. The real question is how low can we go with this stuff before we need some more solutions. Some would say all the way but the consensus is that the last 5-10% might get very hard and costly.

Either way, having some peaker plants on stand by ready to spin up over the course of hours/days while batteries slowly deplete is probably a good short term compromise. Replacing spinning mass (fly wheels) with batteries seems a particularly popular and very cost effective use for batteries.
by Animats | 2025-06-12 19:17:23+00:00
Cloudflare is reporting major problems.[1]

Update - We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level.

Impacted services:

- Access - WARP - Durable Objects (SQLite backed Durable Objects only) - Workers KV - Realtime - Workers AI - Stream - Parts of the Cloudflare dashboard - AI Gateway - AutoRAG - Jun 12, 2025 - 19:02 UTC

[1] https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
by wesselbindt | 2025-06-12 19:17:33+00:00
Not the Kurds though. Or the Mayans. Or the Chileans. Or Cuba. Iran got screwed pretty hard. And Iraq too for that matter. Afghanistan. East Timor, and Indonesia too. Oof and the Palestinians really got the short end of the stick. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos. But yeah I concede your point, the small minority of people living in the Imperial core did pretty ok.
by notahacker | 2025-06-12 19:18:02+00:00
Yeah, I think I agree with pretty much all of that.

And again to the extent the assembler stuff is feasible you have to look at who's doing it. Well the 3D printing in space demos took place on the ISS, with the first being a NASA-incubated, SBIR-funded startup and the second being an ESA initiative involving iconic oldspace company Airbus and some academics. It's certainly not as profitable as owning most of the world's launch capacity and not coincidentally most of the world's satellites, but the people that are doing the low level, high risk stuff are coming out of research institutes and living off agency funding....
by xt00 | 2025-06-12 19:18:40+00:00
The classic "we are taking something away in order to help you -- don't worry!"

In reality, nobody who works on bringing android to other hardware is somehow impeded by having extra device tree info in the source tree.

The most logical thing happening here is like Google is saying "hey man its hard to get drivers working, and we don't want a bunch of freeloaders leveraging our work!!"
by aaronbaugher | 2025-06-12 19:18:52+00:00
I'm going to try that too. An ongoing todo list just starts to slip from my mind. I have a whiteboard in my kitchen, where I figured I'd write tasks I needed to do and erase them off when I finished them, so it'd be a continuous todo list. But after a while, it'd slip my mind and I'd go weeks without even seeing the whiteboard in my awareness, and then when I did remember it was there, it'd be half outdated and I'd have to start all over.

Getting into the daily habit of using any tool/method in the first place is the hard part for me, so making it as tangible as possible and not-too-convenient might help.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-12 19:18:52+00:00
> what is letting in millions of people without due process?

Nobody is saying this should happen; they are saying that if someone is accused of being in the country illegally then we should investigate that accusation and attempt to arrive at a conclusion that is as close as possible to the truth. Indeed, treating that as optional is authoritarian.
by pstuart | 2025-06-12 19:19:35+00:00
From what I've learned about DEI programs is that the crux of it all is simply to ensure jobs are publicly available and not limited to "insiders".

It's been positioned as "Affirmative Action 2.0" by its detractors, and that re-branding is clearly effective as you have been receptive to it.

Now I could be wrong, and there could be cases where it has functioned as you suggest. I'm willing to be corrected if compelling evidence is shown. Are you willing to do the same?
by grumple | 2025-06-12 19:19:54+00:00
The math does imply infinite universes. There are many physicists who believe that all these worlds do exist.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

And a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKWfw68M5U&list=PLsPUh22kYm...
by allenu | 2025-06-12 19:19:55+00:00
The keyboard shortcuts should help a lot! If you can nail navigation from the keyboard, it'll go a long way to make the UX feel breezy.

I made a corkboard/index cards app for Mac and iOS called Card Buddy and I spent a lot of time working on the keyboard navigation there and it made a huge difference on the feeling of fluidity. For instance, even while you're editing a card, you can navigate to a neighboring cell and start editing it just through the arrow keys. That makes it super fast to jot down lots of notes right away. I noticed a lot of other apps would require you to move the mouse and double-click to edit somewhere else and even that friction makes those apps feel sluggish.
by Kye | 2025-06-12 19:20:06+00:00
It's hard to overstate how cool it is that a focused independent effort can build on top of AT/Bluesky to achieve or get really close to a goal like credible exit without Bluesky the company being quite there. Multiple competing notions like this or Bounce will get there first.

I wouldn't use it since I'm not a fan of IPFS, but this is the dream for quite a few people.
by commandlinefan | 2025-06-12 19:20:38+00:00
> moving to cloud isn’t an endeavor that’s going to save you any money

I'm old enough to remember setting up data centers... actually running your own internet-connected data center is insanely expensive. It was insanely expensive in the 90's, it's almost certainly even more insanely expensive now, even taking inflation into account. If "moving to the cloud" just means renting EC2 instances from AWS or whatever GCP calls EC2 instances or even bare metal servers on Rackspace then yes, it's going to save you incredible amounts of money over standing up your own (internet-connected) datacenter. OTOH, the cost/benefit of Amazon's "value-add" services like lambdas and DynamoDB are a lot fuzzier, especially when you consider just how hard the vendor lock-in is.
by wat10000 | 2025-06-12 19:20:38+00:00
My point is that my experience of consciousness is more than sufficient proof. In fact, it is the only thing I can definitively with 100% certainty know is real. Other people's consciousness is a lot harder to demonstrate, but my own is incontrovertible to me.

The only way someone with that experience could say that it's not real is if they're taking the piss, they're very confused, or they just don't have it.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-06-12 19:20:42+00:00
Worldwide wealth inequality isn't as important to look at as overall worldwide poverty, which has gone down markedly over the past century. It is much preferable to be able to have running water and food despite the richest person in your country having 30 houses, over having no water or food but the richest guy only has 2 houses. In the former, inequality is higher, but the absolute pain of poverty is lower, which is a more relevant metric for human welfare.

The industrial revolution, in the 1800s, transformed England and Europe due to the incentives of the growth of industry, and the free movement of labor towards those incentives. Largely, those who worked in factories did so because the benefits/costs exceeded that of farm work. If there were no incentives to change, everyone would have stayed on the farm, preserving the agrarian status quo. Despite all the hazards, the benefit/cost was better for industrial work, largely because it paid more, the money allowing for the improvement of living conditions for those who worked in factories.

I agree that to get better working conditions has been a constant battle between the interests of the working class and capital owning class, but looking at everything through that lens ignores the whole point of work/industry in the first place, in that it produces surplus wealth, and only once that wealth is produced can societies make the decision on how that wealth is allocated. In every society that has generally followed the rule of "free market capitalism with common sense regulation and protection of private property", living standards, median wealth ownership and wages, etc. have almost universally gone up decade after decade.
by Whoppertime | 2025-06-12 19:21:23+00:00
How is a tax cut a handout to the wealthy? The wealthy still have to earn the money. If the Doctors top tax rate goes from 35% to 30%, and his combined State Local and fee burden goes from 50% to 45%, he still has to perform surgeries to get the money. It's not a handout. he's keeping more of what he earned.
by neilv | 2025-06-12 19:21:27+00:00
If only carriers had never learned that even ringtones were a cash cow.

Trying to develop software for pre-iPhone phones seemed to be a mess of barriers to ISVs, like "BREW" and carrier approval.

It makes sense that carriers still want the phone locked down as much as possible, so they can extract more money from their captive customer.

(Also, it's still an expensive chore to get Pixels on which a carrier hasn't locked the bootloader against alternative firmware like GrapheneOS. Lawmakers/regulators should say that carriers may only provide voice and data service, for a fee, and aren't allowed to use their position to extract money other ways.)
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-12 19:21:38+00:00
It cost over $250 billion dollars inflation adjusted to do that, in a much much much poorer country. Are you ready to pay that?

SLS cost about $32 billion so far to regenerate similar capability and people are freaking out.

Also Apollo was never really that popular, except for the few days Apollo 11 was literally on the moon.
by Panchitous | 2025-06-12 19:21:43+00:00
It’s opinionated, and they’ve been pushing streaming—just like the React team—right? Yes. Is it unusable outside of Vercel? No.

As far as I know, Next works without hiccups if you deploy to containers. However, that’s not our case, as we use Lambdas on AWS. We’ve been using OpenNext since the early versions. I must add that I’ve followed a lot of libraries on Discord, and among all those I’ve joined (PayloadCMS coming second), there’s none as helpful, friendly, and open to discussing issues as OpenNext.

We serve millions of pages per day at TelevisaUnivision, and we have nearly 5 million pages indexed on Google. Since migrating to RSC nearly three years ago (we started with the betas), we now pay only 10% of what we previously did on AWS, and we’ve transformed almost all of our poor-performing pages into fast ones in Google Search Console. We cache significantly more now and don’t follow the typical caching conventions of Next/OpenNext—we use ElastiCache with Redis. Nonetheless, the framework and library have enabled us to do this and even allowed us to use a different CDN (currently Fastly, previously Akamai).

We trigger our deployments from GitHub Actions using SST. It’s opinionated, and one of the individuals behind it isn’t the friendliest, but it works—so I respect it for that.
by moomoo11 | 2025-06-12 19:22:01+00:00
It’s like chess in some ways.

The goal of an established business is to avoid checkmate and draw their operations out as much as possible. They can’t lose limited units.

Newcomers/startups goal is to checkmate the establishment. They don’t care if they have to lose some units as long as they make progression since they’re starting with a full set.

So, expecting established businesses to do something novel is a hopeless endeavor.
by janalsncm | 2025-06-12 19:22:36+00:00
I have yet to encounter a case where words need an apostrophe to disambiguate. It’s just an unnecessary exception. Writing is about communication and if everyone knows what you mean without the apostrophe then it adds no value.

Same thing with book authors who have a good idea that can be expressed in 50 pages but for some reason publishers want 180+, so you end up with 130 pages of fluff, wasting everyone’s time.
by juliansimioni | 2025-06-12 19:22:55+00:00
It's interesting that internet infrastructure is so interconnected that failures of what _should_ be separate systems seem to coincide.

Do we think it's possible the GCP outage caused the Cloudflare outage, or vice versa?

For DownDetector, I know it's not exactly foolproof. I imagine a lot of sites use something like CloudFlare in front of AWS infra, which could easily be automatically flagged as an outage for both in their system.
by dakr | 2025-06-12 19:22:58+00:00
If it were cutting back, I can see your point. This, however, is a gutting. The proposal is a nearly 25% cut in one year to a funding level not seen since 1961. Talent will leave, institutional knowledge will leave, and rapidly. Knowledge transfer will not happen and projects beyond those explicitly cut may falter (people work on multiple projects).

Keep in mind, NASA accounts for ~0.4% of the national budget. We're not saving a ton of money here, just killing expertise and ceding space excellence to other countries
by jillesvangurp | 2025-06-12 19:23:08+00:00
Of course the Ukrainians are now much less dependent on central power generations out of necessity. It turns out that all those big power plants and electricity distribution centers make for nice drone targets. The Russians did far more damage with that than with their satellite hackery. Those 5800 wind turbines came back online and are mostly still operational.

The lesson here is that distributed power is a good thing in war time scenarios but you might want to pay attention to digital security. Central power generation becomes a tempting target.

Now the good news with Chinese stuff is that a war is not imminent and we have the benefit of hindsight and can do something about that.
by potatolicious | 2025-06-12 19:24:19+00:00
> "Wait, so you just tell the LLM the schema, and hope it replicates it verbatim with content filled into it?"

In the early stages of LLMs yes ("get me all my calendar events for next week and output in JSON format" and pray the format it picks is sane), but nowadays there are specific model features that guarantee output constrained to the schema. The term of art here is "constrained decoding".

The structuring is also a bit of a dark art - overall system performance can improve/degrade depending on the shape of the data structure you constrain to. Sometimes you want the LLM to output into an intermediate and more expressive data structure before converting to a less expressive final data structure that your deterministic piece expects.

> "Are there "mediator" agents with some reliability AND some flexibility?"

Pretty much, and this is basically where "agentic" stuff is at the moment. What mediates the LLM's outputs? Is it some deterministic system? Is it a probabilistic system? Is it kind of both? Is it a machine? Is it a human?

Specifically with coding tools, there seems like the mediator(s) are some mixture of sticklers (compiles, tests) and loosey-goosey components (other LLMs, the same LLM).

This gets a bit wilder with multimodal models too: think about a workflow step like "The user asked me to make a web page that looks like [insert user input here], here is my work, including a screenshot of the rendered page. Hey mediator, does this look like what the user asked for? If not, give me specific feedback on what's wrong."

And then feed that back into codegen. There has been some surprisingly good results from the mediator being a multimodal LLM.