MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by philwelch | 2025-07-02 04:03:38+00:00
Albeit rare, triple compound words are nonetheless commonly used and recognized in English. Many of them sound formal and archaic but they are nevertheless still in common usage nowadays, not merely a relic of the days of highwaymen and crossbowmen. The archaic examples heretofore used notwithstanding, it would be false to claim that there are no triple compound words whatsoever.

(Inasmuch as I've made my point, I will spare you any further woebegone prose.)
by e28eta | 2025-07-02 04:05:39+00:00
I haven’t run a biz on Stripe, but as an ex-employee the two potential problems I worry about for you immediately are:

1. Account takeovers, helped by your service. Maybe a non-issue in practice, but it’d be a PITA if you get tangled up in that.

2. Handling the long tail of Stripe API version changes. Hopefully it’s straightforward enough, and maybe you can simply require your users to upgrade if they’re on something older that you don’t support. I don’t have any specific thing in mind, but it feels inevitable to me.

But awesome job and good luck! I hope it succeeds, it sounds like a good service to me!
by n8sb | 2025-07-02 04:08:07+00:00
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by aspenmayer | 2025-07-02 04:09:52+00:00
They never really went away, just sort of evolved, but a lot of the old ways were lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_System

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by Redoubts | 2025-07-02 04:10:55+00:00
> But it ends up often being segregation by another name

This is an outrageous claim, and you haven’t justified it at all, only suggested that you personally benefitted from nepotism; despite the fact that gifted programs have a history of greatly elevating minorities in this country.

And again, you’re ignoring evidence based pedagogy so you can feel better about yourself and chase a false equality

> Are you really trying to argue that conservatives…

Please call me when you’ve met a conservative more recently than 1990
by globalnode | 2025-07-02 04:11:09+00:00
i think governments are confused by the internet. on the one hand business uses it to save money and pay taxes. broligarch's get rich from it. yet it exposes the unwashed masses to all sorts of information that might otherwise face censorship. theres always sex and drugs you can use as a reason to clamp down on things. the tough thing for them will be how do you reign in the plebs while also allowing business and advertising to function unfettered... tough times ahead :p

p.s. i agree with your comment.
by us0r | 2025-07-02 04:11:22+00:00
> The table above does not reflect our renewed cloud hosting agreement with a third-party provider, entered into on May 31, 2025. Under the terms of the non-cancellable agreement, we committed to purchase a minimum of $545.0 million in cloud hosting services over the next five years. This renewed agreement replaces a previous agreement with the provider.

$300k/DAY AWS bill. I wonder what the "non-cancellable" savings is.
by pmontra | 2025-07-02 04:11:35+00:00
> 2039: this list of sites cannot be visited by any Australian of any age

Block lists are not new. For example Italy blocks a number of sites, usually at DNS level with the cooperation of ISPs and DNS services. You can autotranslate this article from 2024 to get the gist of what is being blocked and why https://www.money.it/elenco-siti-vietati-italia-vengono-pers...

I believe other countries of the same area block sites for similar reasons.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-02 04:11:51+00:00
> you can’t just grow a Wikipedia link to manufacturing consent from the 80s as an explanation here. What a joke of a position.

Do you dispute the thesis of the book? Moral panics have always been used to sell both newspapers and bad laws.

> Maybe people have been hoodwinked by a media conspiracy or maybe they just don’t like what the kids are exposed to at a young age these days.

People have never liked what kids are exposed to. But it rather matters whether the proposed solution has more costs than effectiveness.

> Maybe search is dead but doesn’t know it yet.

Maybe some people who prefer the cathedral to the bazaar would prefer that. But ability of the public to discover anything outside of what the priests deign to tell them isn't something we should give up without a fight.
by cshimmin | 2025-07-02 04:12:00+00:00
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by vnchr | 2025-07-02 04:13:19+00:00
That’s interesting feedback about there not being a system level strategy communicated on the site. I’ll pass that along. Thanks for pointing that out.

It’s very much a system level strategy, but more by way of democratized technology as opposed to head on disruption. I asked the same questions when I joined.

We want to provide powerful technology to candidates that are not going to be supported by the two main parties. And we have some other qualifications, like not taking corporate money. The more that independent candidates can succeed and win, the more we normalize the electorate expecting something that isn’t just to two main parties. In a way, it’s the electorate that we are trying to empower by supporting viable alternatives to the current system.

I’m glad there is interest in what we’re doing. I think we are on track too, making increasing impacts and I am excited about our growing team.
by Supermancho | 2025-07-02 04:13:20+00:00
In primates there are commonly 3 noises as a reaction to danger.

Initially the work from the 70s-80s on vervet monkeys https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7433999/ which was then found to be generalized for a host of other primates

~1 for danger in the air

~1 for danger on the ground

misc for unspecified danger

I would bet that modern swearing maps to these calls in a less specific way. Equivalents of "this shite" "that arsehole" and "damnnit" may have an evolutionary origin.
by jesse__ | 2025-07-02 04:14:29+00:00
It's concerning to me that the LSP idea is .. a thing. Casey Muratori observed years ago that it's just a way worse way of doing libraries. Like, you're introducing HTTP where there could just be a function call into a DLL/SO. What's the benefit there? Just make vim/emacs/$editor speak some native protocol and be done with it. Then you GUI is just welded directly into the running editor process.. right??

There's no security risk there that wasn't present before as far as I can tell because you were already planning on running the LSP on your local machine..
by luisecm85 | 2025-07-02 04:14:47+00:00
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by kllrnohj | 2025-07-02 04:15:06+00:00
Quick search says around $1,600 USD per ton for mineral oil? Taipei 101's damper is 660 tons. No idea how that compares to a fluid damper, but if we assume similar tonnage requirements that'd work out to somewhere in the range of $1M USD in mineral oil. Granted that's, what, 0.05% of the building cost? So in that sense "not a lot", sure, but compared to the almost nothing that it'd cost for an equivalent amount of industrial water, that still affords a lot of alternative solutions. Especially since it just needs to slosh around, does it even matter if stuff grows in it? It's not like there's going to be sunlight, either, so there wouldn't be much growth regardless right?
by eskibars | 2025-07-02 04:15:37+00:00
This is just wrong. FWIW, I owned a bike, and this is wrong under both "bike" and "non-bike" conditions.

If you live directly next to the San Rafael central station, that'd be easiest/fastest. But San Rafael is much bigger than that. I'll get into that in a second. There are 2 basic options to do this trip:

Fastest option 1 was to go to San Rafael Station (I'll call it SR here on out) then bus to SF, then bike/walk to the Caltrain station, which was about a 25 minute walk. The buses from SR to SF ran often as rarely as once per hour, and occasionally they just don't show up at all. The ride took 30-60 minutes depending on traffic. There weren't always bike spaces on the bus, so sometimes you needed to lock your bike up in SR and you were going to be walking in SF to Caltrain. But because of the variability on traffic times, you have to leave incredibly early if you want to catch the fastest train to Palo Alto. And if you're going to California Avenue (which was where I was going to), the express option basically doesn't exist.

Here's how that plays out: 10 minute bike to SR station (or 30-40 minute walk, depending on your walk speed), you have hopefully timed things right to get on a bus leaving once every 30-60 minutes and that the bus is actually showing up: otherwise, you're waiting 30-60 minutes for the next one. Then a 30-60 minute ride into SF. Then a ~5 minute bike ride or 15-20 minute walk to Caltrain. Then a 45-60 minute ride to Palo Alto, but again the transfers aren't timed (they couldn't be, given the difference of where the bus dropoff is)

The second real alternative is replacing the first bus leg with a ferry leg by going to Larkspur Landing. There is the SMART train that goes there, but for some wild reason drops people off a 15 minute walk from the ferry and then has no timed transfer.

I did the journey dozens of times and never completed it in less than 2h 30m but more commonly was 4h and had more than 1 occasion where it took much longer than that.
by dnemmers | 2025-07-02 04:17:07+00:00
“…To demonstrate this, they took 80 grams of a scrap mountain-bike frame made of composite material and deconstructed it. Using the carbon fibers they had just extracted, they then made new composites that exhibited more than twice the strength-to-weight ratio of steel.”

I’m confused as to how this demonstrates the strands being unaffected? The lay up, epoxy, temp, time, etc. could be different between first and second use.

They might be trying to say it has ‘some’ reuse in the future, with equivalent strength being an unknown.
by jmyeet | 2025-07-02 04:18:02+00:00
So I'm a fan of space exploration but this one seems... a reach.

First, you can't say that any of this propulsion tech is remotely mission-ready. It's all very speculative. There's been no real-world testing of any kind. You'd need to at least test-fire it in orbit and prove a solar sail in particular. Any kind of nuclear propulsion adds whole new levels of proof-of-solution (yes I know RTGs exist but those are technically quite simple being just radioactive decay rather than something utilizing fission or fusion).

Second, it's not clear what kind of speed this could reach. At New Horizons speed, assuming you can find the right launch window, you're looking at 18-25 years transit. That's a long time for a probe to survive.

If you do adopt a solar sail, what happens to it over 20+ years? What happens from long-term damage of hitting dust and micrometeors? Could you need to course corret if it gives uneven thrust?

And all this for... a flyby. Obviously Sedna is too far and too slow for anything else. Just like Pluto.

But if we're talking 2j0-30 year missions, I'd rather send an orbiter to Uranus. About 20 years is I believe the time frame for an orbital insertion to Uranus. IIRC Neptune is closer to 30.
by skydhash | 2025-07-02 04:18:57+00:00
I took the time to investigate the work being done there (all those years learning assembly and computer architecture come in handy), and it confirms (to me) that the key aspect of using LLM is pattern matching. Meaning you know that there's a solution out there (in this case, anything involving multiplying/dividing by a power of 2 can use such trick) and framing your problem (intentionally or not) and you'll get a derived text that will contain a possible solution.

But there's nothing truly novel in the result. The key aspect is being similar enough to something that's already in the training data so that the LLM can extrapolate the rest. The hint can be quite useful and sometimes you have something that shorten the implementation time, but you have to at least have some basic understanding of the domain in order to recognize the signs.

The issue is that the result is always tainted by your prompt. The signs may be there because of your prompt and not because there's some kind of data that need s to be explored further. And sometimes it's a bad fit, similar but different (what you want and what you get). So for the few domain that's valuable to me, I prefer to construct my own mental database that can lead me to concrete artifacts (books, articles, blog posts,...) that exists outside the influence of my query.

ADDENDUM

I can use LLMs with great results and I've done so. But it's more rewarding (and more useful to me) to actually think through the problem and learning from references. Instead of getting a perfect (or wobbly or the wrong category) circle that fits my query, I go to find a strange polygon formed (by me) from other strange polygon. Then because I know I need a circle, I only need to find its center and its radius.

It's slower, but the next time I need another circle (or a square) from the same polygon, it's going to be faster and faster.
by Grimblewald | 2025-07-02 04:19:09+00:00
use a kanban board. FOSS options exist for web-hosted implementations. Kanban works because It supports a 'backlog' of events to do, timelines for things to do that are on a deadline (e.g. concerts) and allows people to add activities / plans to backlogs which get moved to 'ready to do' as things are done / cleared. Keeps everything organised and simple, with good over-sight on what's going on when. Downside is it requires friends already somewhat technical or at least willing to learn.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-02 04:19:18+00:00
But if you did become a unicorn, It would suddenly become very easy to replace for anthropic, because they're the ones actually providing the sauce and can just replicate your efforts. So your window of opportunity is to be too small for anthropic to notice and get interested. That can't be called unicorn

That was the point he was making, at least that's how I understood it
by csomar | 2025-07-02 04:19:28+00:00
I am on max and burning daily (ccusage) roughly my monthly subscription. It is not clear whether the API is very overpriced or we are getting aggressively subsidized. I can afford $100-200/month but not $3.000. Let's hope this last for a good while as GitHub copilot turned off the tap on unlimited usage very recently.
by TowerTall | 2025-07-02 04:19:30+00:00
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by dwattttt | 2025-07-02 04:20:42+00:00
Resizing has to happen regardless of the ability to delete a key, unless you know upfront how many entries you're going to add; I'd be much more worried about a home grown hash table's tuning to rebalance itself at say, 80% buckets full.

If you _do_ know how many entries you're going to be adding upfront, you probably don't even want a hash table, you're probably better off with an array!
by MarkMarine | 2025-07-02 04:20:54+00:00
I’ve been thinking about how to do this well, how my memory actually works. I think what is happening is I’ve either got the facts now (that is easy to repro w/ a system like this) or I’ve got an idea that I could have the facts after working on retrieval. It’s like I’ve got a feeling or sense that somewhere in cold storage is the info I need so I kick off a background process to get it. Sometimes it works.

That second system, the “I know this…” system is I think what is missing from these LLMs. They have the first one, they KNOW things they’ve seen during training, but what I think is missing is the ability to build up the working set as they are doing things, then get the “feeling” that they could know this if they did a little retrieval work. I’ve been thinking about how to repro that in a computer where knowledge is 0|1, but could be slow to fetch
by ecb_penguin | 2025-07-02 04:20:59+00:00
> Skimmed the readme, seems like it's not AEAD?

Are you just looking for keywords? That's not how a quality security review should be done.

> I don't see any reason to use a tool that's not AEAD.

Do you have an actual attack? Non AEAD schemes have been used for decades without any attack.

There might be entirely valid complaints against this. Lack of AEAD is not one...

> I don't really feel that's the final word in simple storage formats.

Literally nobody said it was

> I'd personally just use SQLite, or some other format I could rsync.

You can rsync a JSON file just as you can rsync a SQLite file....
by CBLT | 2025-07-02 04:21:19+00:00
I use pass[0] which uses a flat directory structure and git. It works great! At $dayjob we have json lockfiles committed to git and merges get pretty gnarly. Not as big of a fan of just dropping it all in json. The toml lockfiles are a bit better in git.

[0] https://www.passwordstore.org/
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-02 04:21:48+00:00
For most folks I think they use an fps score while not sacrificing aesthetic quality or game play experience.

i.e. The engine is considered lower quality if it is laggy, generates DLSS chowder, or glitches up on some hardware.

The people responsible for shader cache performance get a lot of grief given the performance hit in unpredictable play contexts is often very noticeable.

The Unreal devs made it look deceptively easy. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS8Mg-JWSg
by lettergram | 2025-07-02 04:23:20+00:00
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by poiru | 2025-07-02 04:23:59+00:00
+1 from another Figma engineer who happened to work on the text engine back in the day.

I think that Evan generally wrote code that was as simple as possible — there was no unnecessary complexity. In this case there indeed is some inherent, unavoidable complexity due to the math involved and the performance requirements, but otherwise I found our text rendering pipeline very understandable.

Evan actually wrote about it if you're curious to learn more: https://medium.com/@evanwallace/easy-scalable-text-rendering...
by csomar | 2025-07-02 04:24:05+00:00
That's a very simple example/context that I suspect most LLMs will be able to knock out with minimal frustration. I had much more complex Rust dependency upgrade done on a 30+ iterations on very custom code (wasm stuff where training data is probably scarce). Claude would ping context7 and mcp-lsp to get details. You do find its limits after a while though and as you push it harder.
by chamomeal | 2025-07-02 04:24:25+00:00
I’ve definitely wondered about this. Like why does the language-understanding standard have to be a server specifically? Just cause it’s a good architecture to build around?

I think I’ve heard that vscode has benefitted hugely from it starting out with a client-server architecture from the start, since it started as a browser based editor. Things like editing code directly on servers via ssh or in containers is easy for vscode cause its client-server all the way down.

Vscode and LSP are both Microsoft products, maybe Microsoft has been pushing the client server thing?