MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by e1g | 2025-07-12 05:04:53+00:00
I’m a founder/CTO of an enterprise SaaS, and I code everything from data modeling, to algos, backend integrations, frontend architecture, UI widgets, etc. All in TypeScript, which is perfectly suited to LLMs because we can fit the types and repo map into context without loading all code.

As to “why”: I’ve been coding for 25 years, and LLMs is the first technology that has a non-linear impact on my output. It’s simultaneously moronic and jaw-dropping. I’m good at what I do (eg, merged fixes into Node) and Claude/o3 regularly finds material edge cases in my code that I was confident in. Then they add a test case (as per our style), write a fix, and update docs/examples within two minutes.

I love coding and the art&craft of software development. I’ve written millions of lines of revenue generating code, and made millions doing it. If someone forced me to stop using LLMs in my production process, I’d quit on the spot.

Why not self host: open source models are a generation behind SOTA. R1 is just not in the same league as the pro commercial models.
by dehrmann | 2025-07-12 05:05:21+00:00
> "some of those cost increases [to Oregon electric consumers] came from data centers coming onto our shared grid" Wochele said

[citation needed]

The article did go on...

> According to Oregon CUB, large industrial users, like data centers, that have connected to Portland General Electric’s system pay about 8 cents per kilowatt hour, or kWH, which is the unit of energy used when 1,000 watts of power is used in an hour. Residential customers in the same PGE system pay close to 20 cents per kilowatt hour

But that's a disingenuous comparison. Data centers are cheaper to serve because there's ~one massive line going to one place, power use is generally more fixed and predictable, and they might be paying less because they can reduce power use during heat waves.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-12 05:06:04+00:00
Seems everyone is releasing a browser nowadays. (Not literally, this is a figure of speech.)

Perhaps uBlock/uMatrix needs its own browser.

Mozilla is "all in" on surveillance advertising. From its press releases and strategic initiatives (for lack of a better term), it appears to believe online advertising is essential for the www to exist. Whereas, it has never stated that "ad blockers" are essential for the www to exist.
by kevindamm | 2025-07-12 05:06:11+00:00
That would be true if the product was the goal. In my experience,

marketing > market > product

Even with AGI in hand, there will still be competition between offerings based on externalities, inertia, or battle-testedness, or authority. Maybe super-intelligence would change the calculus of that, but you'd still probably find opportunities beyond just letting your pool of agents vibe code it.
by lxgr | 2025-07-12 05:07:08+00:00
If the computer could tell perfectly whether the engine “looks normal” or not, there wouldn’t be any need for a switch. If it can’t, the switch most likely needs to work without delay in at least some situations.

In safety-critical engineering, you generally either automate things fully (i.e. to exceed human capabilities in all situations, not just most), or you keep them manual. Half-measures of automation kill people.
by Spooky23 | 2025-07-12 05:07:09+00:00
Totally. I spent a lot of time 15-20 years ago building out large email systems.

I recently bought a $17 SSD for my son’s middle school project that was speced to deliver like 3x what I needed in those days. From a storage perspective, I was probably spending $50 GB/mo all-in to deploy a multi million dollar storage solution. TBH… you’d probably smoke that system with used laptops today.
by 827a | 2025-07-12 05:08:55+00:00
I know two extremely rural, middle of nowhere, normie people who switched from the iPhone to Android after Joe Rogan's interview with Zuckerberg. And, more in my tech circles, I've seen someone switch over to Android about once a year now for two or three years. In the other direction, my brother keeps saying "yeah maybe I'll switch the family over to iPhones [from Samsung]. I guess they're more secure". He's been saying that for three years now.

Siri being bad is a huge flashpoint on this issue, and I think its causing far more negative sentiment than Apple will admit or even knows about. If they had any intelligence left in their leadership, they would have just paid ChatGPT $10B/year, wrote a nice system prompt, and that's Siri v3. They could have done that in literally 2023, keep investing in their own models, maybe come 2027 or 2028 flip the switch. Instead they went so far down the rabbithole of personal context that they built nothing, meanwhile there's intermittent reports on reddit and elsewhere that Siri has begun to lose the ability to even set timers for some people [1] (I have not ran into this issue).

My take is that we're going to see this sentiment get worse in Q3/Q4 this year when iOS 26 drops. Liquid glass is actually wildly divisive among the people I've shown it to and who are using the betas. Some people like it, but some people really dislike it. When you add that on to their other issues; I think overall the next two years are going to be pretty good for Samsung and Google.

[1] https://ethanbholland.com/2025/07/11/apple-has-lost-its-mind...
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-12 05:09:27+00:00
One of the biggest drawbacks to RAID, in my opinion, is that it requires all drives to be the same size. I had a wide range of storage drive sizes that I wanted to use for my NAS, including 3TB, 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB drives.

Someone's working on improving this for ZFS, so might be history in the near future[1].

While TrueNAS (and other software-based RAID systems) can typically be “portable” in that you can move the OS (Operating System) to a new system and your data goes with it, that still makes you rely on that OS not to fail. The operating system has the information pertaining to what data goes on what drive, and that's the only way to access the data.

This is just wrong, at least for TrueNAS with ZFS. ZFS stores all the info it needs, redundantly, so all you need is some OS with a compatible ZFS version (same or higher), and you can mount the pool in that OS and access your data.

That said, I've come to the same conclusion that RAID >0 might not be as useful for home users and similar who don't have hard uptime requirements.

A simple striped pool can be easily built on mixed capacity drives, and one can achieve sufficient disaster mitigation by periodic sending of snapshots to another pool. Expanding the pool by replacing a single disk is a bit more time-consuming as you'd need to restore from backup, but is at least easy and beats having to upgrade multiple disks at once.

[1]: https://hexos.com/blog/introducing-zfs-anyraid-sponsored-by-...
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-07-12 05:09:50+00:00
> And both pilots deny doing it. > It's difficult to conclude anything other than murder-suicide.

You’re trying to prove a negative here.

I am not familiar with the 787 operations, but there are a few issues that need to be sorted out first: - altitude when pilots start the after takeoff checklist

- if there are any other switches that are operated in tandem in the general vicinity of where the engine cutoff switches are

- if the cutoff switches had the locking mechanisms present, and if not, if they could be moved inadvertently by the pilot flying hand

Discarding other possibilities in an investigation can have adverse consequences.

Did you ever always push the right buttons every time?
by osigurdson | 2025-07-12 05:11:32+00:00
>> deploy them because I understand my colleagues might throw me from a window

Maybe throw your colleagues out the window instead if they don't know what they are talking about. I'm not anti/pro SPROC at all, but I am anti anti-reality. People that don't understand the vast differences in latencies between in process and out of process work should not exist in the industry.
by EasyMark | 2025-07-12 05:15:10+00:00
I never had firefox pop up and tell me to attend a drag show or that I need to surf more diverse websites than my usual sports and news sites. how is it woke? I don't care what mozilla the org does. They jsut took a big revenue hit because of the decision against google, they won't have much money for any political endeavors other than maybe privacy and free speech on the web very soon
by fastball | 2025-07-12 05:15:11+00:00
- I didn't say a single entity, I said "owners". In the case of X there are many owners, Elon Musk with the most power. Nobody who is not an owner controls the company, which is what you would need to demonstrate to invalidate my point.

- A "figurehead" is someone who cannot make meaningful decisions / impact. This does not automatically apply to any CEO who does not having voting power on the board or with shares. You can very clearly run an entire company in a very real way without a single board seat or share. Many CEOs have done it in the past, many will do it in the future. Just like how you can be the manager of an auto-repair shop without owning a bit of it and you're not automatically a "figurehead manager".

- A CEO who owns a majority of preferred shares is in fact the/an "owner" of the company. One owner having more control than another is obviously not the purpose of this conversation. The question is whether a hired CEO without voting power (whether via the board or with shares) is automatically a figurehead. Demonstrating that a CEO can be an owner with more power does not change that, because the question is about CEOs without meaningful ownership. This is obvious to anyone not trying to create a "gotcha".
by blobgen | 2025-07-12 05:15:23+00:00
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by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-12 05:15:36+00:00
The morbidly greedy cede nothing when they can gain more money and power, and they're so far removed from the needs and plight of the rest of humanity because they've probably haven't seen, much less talked to, anyone more than one rung down on the socioeconomic strata in decades. Whatever happens to the "little people" or the planet is fine, and isn't their concern.
by ssivark | 2025-07-12 05:16:33+00:00
> So the fuel supply was cut off intentionally. The switches in question are also built so they cannot be triggered accidentally

FAA issued a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin SAIB NM-18-33 in 2018 warning that on several Boeing models including the 787 the locking mechanism of the fuel switches could be inoperative.

https://www.aviacionline.com/recommended-versus-mandatory-th...

Per FAA the checks were recommended but not mandatory.
by mgh2 | 2025-07-12 05:18:15+00:00
> -5.4 volleyball, +5.7 racket sports, +9.7 tennis

Sources:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jxp2h3LVmAY

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7523898/

[3] https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)...
by inkyoto | 2025-07-12 05:18:33+00:00
Personal experience might not be representative of the actual situation across the board, but it is the experience I have gone through, and it is most assuredly not lying. If you choose to call that lying, that is entirely the choice of your own however misguided it is.

Anyhow, I can't stoop that low to converse with a random lout online hurling insults left and right. Enjoy it elsewhere, bye.
by gusgus01 | 2025-07-12 05:19:11+00:00
It doesn't detail it in the articles and it's quite hard to find details without looking at a specific bill or a specific provider, but for my provider in NYS, the cents/kwh for electricity cost does not include transmission costs or the fee for being connected to the grid. Those are separate line items that cover the cost of the lines and infrastructure for the community. On a more arguable note, even if you only use "one big line" to connect, you're stil part of the grid and should be shouldering some of the burden to maintain that grid and not just your line.
by mhio | 2025-07-12 05:19:31+00:00
Toms Hardware usually includes a "Sustained Write Performance and Cache Recovery" test

The test measures the write cache speed and the time to the fall to the native NAND write speed. There are usually irregularities in the sustained write speeds as well.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wd-black-sn850x-ssd-rev...

The other test I've seen is based on writing and using up free space, SSD performance can drop off as the free space fills up and garbage collection efficiency goes down. I think this impacts random writes particularly

In the enterprise space, drives tend to keep more over provisioned NAND free to maintain more consistent performance. Very early on the SSD timeline, it was advisable to only allocate 80% of consumer drives if you were using them outside of desktops and expected the workload to fill them.
by tacitusarc | 2025-07-12 05:19:58+00:00
> No one is saying that chaos is good or order is bad. It’s that the binary itself is a function of our cultural mythmaking.

Respectfully, this is nonsense. Ask anyone who lived in Libya under Gaddafi and then in the years since, or who lived under any other despotic regime and compare it to the chaos that ensued when the despot is removed.

Civilization’s association with order is not random (or a function of “cultural myth making”); chaos _sucks_.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-12 05:21:30+00:00
County officials paid themselves first, diverting $10M to salaries, and delayed spending $80k on a flash flood siren in Flash Flood Alley 19 times.

NOAA pushed out 2 senior flood forecasters in the Austin office.

911 dispatcher gatekept the Amber Alert/EBS system on approval process grounds in the middle of an emergency.

Camp grounds and other occupied structures were allowed in a known flood zone.

This is always what happens in rural counties with small towns Texas. The politicians maintain their small club of lazy incompetence.

PS: I'm around 1 mile away from the Guadalupe and blocks from Geronimo Creek, on high ground
by brundolf | 2025-07-12 05:22:15+00:00
I also just prefer CC's UX. I've tried to make myself use Copilot and Roo and I just couldn't. The extra mental overhead and UI context-switching took me out of the flow. And tab completion has never felt valuable to me.

But the chat UX is so simple it doesn't take up any extra brain-cycles. It's easier to alt-tab to and from; it feels like slacking a coworker. I can have one or more terminal windows open with agents I'm managing, and still monitor/intervene in my editor as they work. Fits much nicer with my brain, and accelerates my flow instead of disrupting it

There's something starkly different for me about not having to think about exactly what context to feed to the tool, which text to highlight or tabs to open, which predefined agent to select, which IDE button to press

Just formulate my concepts and intent and then express those in words. If I need to be more precise in my words then I will be, but I stay in a concepts + words headspace. That's very important for conserving my own mental context window
by card_zero | 2025-07-12 05:22:43+00:00
Cutting the engines within seconds of leaving the ground doesn't fit suicide very well. I'd expect something more like flying into the side of a mountain or heading really far out into the Indian ocean until you vanish from radar and cause a big mystery.

For instance, you might deliberately kill yourself by driving your car really fast into something solid, but you probably wouldn't try to do that while backing out of the garage.
by DaSHacka | 2025-07-12 05:23:36+00:00
For dating in particular, or socialization in general?

I think it's far better to be able to connect with acquaintances online, to this day I'm still playing games with friends I had in high school that no longer even live in the same state as me. Whereas had we been forced to only meet in-person, we likely wouldn't have talked to each other for years by this point.
by crackrook | 2025-07-12 05:27:41+00:00
> software developers nowadays fall mostly in the top 1-2%[1]

> [1] Beware of estimates of the “average income of the top 1%.” That average includes all the richest people in the world. You only need to earn the very bottom of the 1% bucket in order to be in the top 1%.

This doesn't seem remotely accurate, unless the sources I'm using are way off. It's reasonable to to point out that averages can be deceiving, so I'm using the median instead: at $133k/yr[1] the median software engineer in the U.S. is not even in the top 10% and would need to triple their income before becoming the lowest-earning 1%-er[2].

As an engineer who makes a bit less than the median I'm far from destitute, but the author and I are not in the same club.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

[2] https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-individual-income-perce...
by kalkin | 2025-07-12 05:27:55+00:00
> I find it difficult to imagine this

Luckily, this is something that can be studied and has been. Sticking a stereotypically Black name on a resume on average substantially decreases the likelihood that the applicant will get past a resume screen, compared to the same resume with a generic or stereotypically White name:

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/11/1243713272/resume-bias-study-...
by bigbuppo | 2025-07-12 05:28:05+00:00
I know a few people on the internet long enough to have IP assignments that were originally recorded in Jon Postel's notebook. They have always been on the forefront of everything new and exciting on the internet. Today, there's a fairly even split between bluesky, various mastodon instances, and going back and hanging out on IRC. Nobody that has been in the trenches for a few decades wants to touch an algorithmically-curated platform.

If there's one thing twitter showed us it's that humanity isn't yet ready for the hive mind.

As for me, I am on bluesky, but I limit who I follow to the point that I can mostly take in a whole week of posts in about five minutes. I'm at the age where a few hours of my time is a horrifyingly significant fraction of a percent of my remaining time on this planet. I have better things to do with that time than to squander it being miserable so the world's third richest person can get a little richer and buy another private island.
by acuozzo | 2025-07-12 05:28:39+00:00
1. You can exchange privacy for 20% off.

2. Many franchises have a crummy PA system, so you can avoid this if you plan on using the drive-through.

3. Customization. It's very tedious for all involved to repeatedly request "no cheese", "no ice", "extra sauce", etc. for a very large (e.g., $100+) order.
by supportengineer | 2025-07-12 05:29:01+00:00
I’ve seen one company in my 30 year career with effective quality control.

The QE engineers and the development engineers were in entirely separate branches of the org chart. They had different incentive structures. The interface documentation was the source of truth.

The release cadence was slow. QE had absolute authority to stop a release. QE wrote more code than development engineers did with their tests and test automation.
by Animats | 2025-07-12 05:29:08+00:00
Here's the CAISO wind graph. This is the total wind energy from four large states. Note that the low point is 1/7 that of the peak, which is around noon.[1] Here's the PJM wind graph.[2] Low point is about 1/4 the peak, again, around local noon.

It just doesn't "average out" across even a sizable country.

[1] https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply

[2] https://dataviewer.pjm.com/dataviewer/pages/public/wind.jsf
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-12 05:30:01+00:00
Bad analogy because pilots are trained and rehearse and practice memory items until they are instinctual.

> impossible by design.

Deflecting that the human is the weakest part of the system. One or other may have panicked and made a mistake, made a mistake unintentionally, went crazy and doomed the flight, or intentionally doomed the flight for some socioeconomic reasons. These are speculative possibilities that we don't know yet, and may never know; we only know what has definitely happened from the evidence per the investigation. It's standing way out over one's feet to declare from an armchair that it was "definitely" X or Y before the investigation is complete.
by Retric | 2025-07-12 05:30:29+00:00
It’s not really disingenuous as distribution from a local substation to individual customers is cheap in most cases. When you start talking 10,000+ homes on say 1 acre lots they collectively use a lot of power in a fairly small area.

Most of the distribution costs occur on the other side of a substation due to efficiency losses with long distance transmission etc. A data center located next to a power plant has some advantages, but still needs power when that power plant is offline.
by roenxi | 2025-07-12 05:30:42+00:00
How on this good green earth are the Oregon authorities going to work out what is "fair"? Prices are already pretty fair, the more they use the more they pay.

This is just restricting industry because they don't want to build the infrastructure to support it. Which, fair enough. At this point the fight about industrialising vs de-industrialising has been fought out. But exactly why there is this big round of chip sanctions on China when the US doesn't want to build the power plants to use them domestically will quickly become a baffler. China can build coal plants at a rate of 2/week, plus solar panels, nuclear plants and what have you. I bet they're willing to run all these data centres.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-07-12 05:31:09+00:00
On the one hand, I get you. On the other, I’m just not sure we live in that world anymore for most people.

My daily driver is a base config 16” M1 MacBook Pro from 2021 and I have no inclinations to upgrade at all. Even the battery is still good.

I run CAD, compile and run large C++ projects. Do tons of heavy stuff in matlab. Various visualizations of simulations. My laptop just isn’t the slow thing anymore. I’m sure workloads exists that would push this machine but how many people are actually doing that. (Ok fine, chrome exists)

Even the smaller SSD isn’t an issue for me in practice because iCloud Drive and Box automatically move things I don’t often access off disk freeing local space.

Frankly if smaller memory footprints and smaller SSDs translates to lower base config prices and longer battery life it was the right choice, for me anyway.
by tharant | 2025-07-12 05:32:46+00:00
Sure, the model would not “know” about your example, but that’s not the point; the penultimate[0] goal is for the model to figure out the method signature on its own just like a human dev might leverage her own knowledge and experience to infer that method signature. Intelligence isn’t just rote memorization.

[0] the ultimate, of course, being profit.