MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by osigurdson | 2025-07-12 05:32:56+00:00
>> I don’t always want to pull in the customer fields when listing orders

Data locality is king. Everything comes down to physical things such as blocks on the SSD, network interconnect, RAM, L3, L2, L1 cache and registers. Are those customer fields in the same page as whatever else you need? If so, most of the work is already done. Yes, you can save some network bandwidth transferring things that aren't needed but does it matter? It might but it might not. The key is to know what matters and reason about things from the perspective of the machines actually doing the work.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-12 05:33:34+00:00
> cannot be mistaken for something else

Assumption. Big ass assumption.

Pilot are trained until actions are instinctual and certain memory items are almost unconscious. But pilots are still people and people are fallible and make mistakes, and sometimes act unreasonably. Intent cannot be determined without clear evidence or statements because that's now how thoughts locked away in people's minds work.

> It's not arrogance to assume the most likely conclusion is true

You don't know this. This is beyond the capability to know and is therefore pure speculation. That is the definition of arrogance.
by impulser_ | 2025-07-12 05:36:25+00:00
Is Lina Khan to blame for this new acquihire meta? She was very aggressive in blocking any tech acquisition during her time and ever since we have seen more and more acquihires which I believe these companies are using to prevent themselves from getting sued.

Google is having a hard time acquiring Wiz for 32b, and if it's blocked they owe 3.2b to Wiz. So why risk it when you can just spend the money to hire the talent behind it and spend a few month building out a new product.
by johncoltrane | 2025-07-12 05:36:34+00:00
First, the obvious: legal ways to stop anything have never succeeded in stopping anything.

Second, what would you loose from your book being used to train LLMs and what would you gain from preventing that? Are you afraid of loost sales? Or maybe plagiarism? Those problems have existed for a loooong time, LLMs or not. Or is it that you don't generally like the current AI craze and don't want to fuel it?
by ozim | 2025-07-12 05:36:51+00:00
That’s tricky part to understand.

On one hand it seems she already has audience so she should have positive traction.

On the other hand it seems like she started from 0 on the platforms and expected to be already a star “because I am an author”. Then she wanted to hack away with tricks like “posting daily” attracting people who liked her “dog posts” - because she didn’t have better stuff to post.

I read that post yesterday and it started sinking in. She did everything wrong.

Her audience as she mentioned wasn’t transferable to socials so she really was starting there from scratch. Posting your funny dog pictures and your daily routine will not make you stand out - everyone does that. Being “an author” also doesn’t make much of a difference when I can follow J.K Rowling and watch her funny dog pictures or laugh at her making inappropriate comments.

Edit: I also checked just now what was her book. That’s definitely not aligning with lifestyle influencing with happy dogs or husband in perfect golden hour video.
by OneMorePerson | 2025-07-12 05:37:22+00:00
The incident with Sully landing in the Hudson is an interesting one related to this. They had a dual birdstrike and both engines were totally obliterated and had no thrust at all, but it came up later in the hearing that the computer data showed that one engine still had thrust due to a faulty sensor, so that type of sensor input can't really be trusted in a true emergency/edge case, especially if a sensor malfunctions while an engine is on fire or something.

As a software engineer myself I think it's interesting that we feel software is the true solution when we wouldn't accept that solution ourselves. For example typically in a company you do code reviews and have a release gating process but also there's some exception process for quickly committing code or making adjustments when theres an outage or something. Could you imagine if the system said "hey we aren't detecting an outage, you sure about that? why don't you go take a walk and get a coffee, if you still think there's an outage in 15 minutes from now we will let you make that critical change".
by starfallg | 2025-07-12 05:38:38+00:00
Why is ASML's market cap so high? Only ASML has commercialized EUV at scale. In order to generate enough EUV consistently for use in lithography, the equipment fires lasers thousands of times a second on a drop of tin. It's really hard, but you can replicate this or develop another method given enough time and money.
by osigurdson | 2025-07-12 05:38:51+00:00
No, generally Postgres, just not for everything. If you understand the tradeoffs SQLite can be fine. Once you have more than one service (even just for HA) SQLite means doing kind of crazy things like using NFS in your infra. If you know you will only have one service and can bind it to an EBS like volume it is totally fine.
by verdverm | 2025-07-12 05:40:58+00:00
The outrage and culture wars are not what the 100k deciding voters across 3 states based their choice on. Half of voters pay zero attention to the news and politics.

It was mainly prices, which historically has been a very common deciding factor. If people feel pain in their pocket book, they will give someone else a shot. They also remembered feeling better financially pre-covid
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-12 05:41:09+00:00
I think if you use your laptop beyond three years, you might want to worry about shit like that. But you really should consider getting something decent instead.

I use leased laptops for work and I generally replace them after three years with whatever is new and shiny. I recently upgraded from the M1 macbook pro to a shiny new M4 Max. And damn this thing is fast. My build speeds massively improved. This is cutting hours of time in a week. Which is an unbelievable upgrade of my quality of life. And it also means I run tests more often and pro-actively instead of going "I could do it but it's going to take five minutes". My build speeds are now routinely below 1 minute. Ram throughput and having more CPUs are making the difference here. I was expecting my builds to be faster with a new laptop. But not by 4-5x. So, I don't think I'll ever be faffing about with thermal paste. Because that would mean I'm penny pinching instead of getting a massively faster laptop.

It's a judgment call of course and a bit personal. Not everyone needs a fast laptop. But I gladly spend a bit extra for this stuff. On the current contract, my new laptop is costing 100 euro per month. That include apple care coverage. And it's a 48GB M4 Max. Worth every penny. I'm not going to worry about thermal paste because I'll upgrade before that becomes an issue.
by atonse | 2025-07-12 05:41:47+00:00
> If someone forced me to stop using LLMs in my production process, I’d quit on the spot.

Yup 100% agree. I’d rather try to convince them of the benefits than go back to what feels like an unnecessarily inefficient process of writing all code by hand again.

And I’ve got 25+ years of solid coding experience. Never going back.
by wiether | 2025-07-12 05:42:11+00:00
When I saw an official "Free Plan" that is automatically deleted after six months, I thought that was a good move: now students could open an account, experiment for absolutely free for six months without the fear of unplanned costs being charged on their credit card, either when experimenting or months/years later because they forgot about their account and some hacker managed to get access to it.

But according to the FAQ "Why do I need to provide payment method to sign up if I’m on the free plan?", it seems you still have to provide a payment method. So, technically, during the six months lifespan of your "Free Plan" account, you still can end-up being charged for some services, if you go over you $100(+$100) "free" credits.

Unless they have an absolute hard limit on the services you can use under a "Free Plan" making it impossible to go over your $100(+$100) credits; but that would be a first and people would ask to have the same ability to put those limits on a regular account...

So I see some progress, but it seems that it's not as safe of an offering as it should be for a "Free Plan".
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-07-12 05:42:50+00:00
The NWS issued a flash flood watch, upgraded minutes later to a flash flood warning, just after 1am. At 4am, the NWS Austin office issues an emergency bulletin saying "This is a FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for South-central Kerr County, including Hunt. This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!"[0] These warnings would have triggered an alert on people's cell phones, however the timing makes it unlikely that campers or counselors would have been awake to notice. If someone was tasked with monitoring the weather, they either didn't get that warning or didn't act in time for it to make a difference. There were not sirens installed to warn campers of flooding. There was a warning system installed in the late 80s, but it was shut down in 1999 after falling into disrepair due to a lack of maintenance. Efforts to install a new system with warning sirens failed to gain traction.[1] [0] https://www.statesman.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/08/texas... [1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/us/camp-mystic-owner-warnings...
by qualeed | 2025-07-12 05:43:27+00:00
I remember Peter Gutmann posting about this on the metzdowd cryptography mailing list in March. Fun to see this a few months later.

It starts here: https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2025-Februar...

This part is from farther down thread:

"Just as a thought experiment, what's the most gutless device that could perform this "factorisation"? There's an isqrt() implementation that uses three temporaries so you could possibly do the square root part on a ZX81, but with 1k of RAM I don't think you can do the verification of the guess unless you can maybe swap the values out to tape and load new code for the multiply part. A VIC20 with 4k RAM should be able to do it... is there a programmable calculator that does arbitrary-precision maths? A quick google just turns up a lot of apps that do it but not much on physical devices.

Peter."
by yorpinn | 2025-07-12 05:44:04+00:00
I think there's good parts of social media that are salvageable. I think it's generally good to be able to communicate with anyone and encounter people you otherwise wouldn't. I think we can have social media without having feeds optimized for "engagement" or any single metric. I think blogs and email are great, I just don't think they're the can-all-be-all.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-12 05:45:13+00:00
> Wouldn't an extension suffice?

Not if you want custom UI. There are a lot of things you can do in extension land (continue, cline, roocode, kilocode, etc. are good examples) but there are some things you can't.

One thing I would have thought would be really cool to try is to integrate it at the LSP level, and use all that good stuff, but apparently people trying (I think there was a company from .il trying) either went closed or didn't release anything note worthy...
by palmfacehn | 2025-07-12 05:45:44+00:00
I'm cautious when I read terms like, "fair share". Perhaps the pricing is unfair in this case. However this kind of language is often deployed in political contexts. There are market based arguments for lower pricing for buying in bulk. Typically the political arguments for subsidizing industry revolve around job creation.

Ultimately, the previous pricing tiers seem to have been determined by political means. This presents a contradiction for proponents of "fair share" pricing. If the previous political process resulted in an "unfair" outcome, then why is the new politically determined outcome "more fair"? What does "fair share" really mean here? Wouldn't the previous outcome suggest that the political process has issues with creating "fair" outcomes?

I get the impression that Oregon Public Broadcasting would dismiss or even demonize market based metrics as "unfair". There also seems to be a vague sense that tech bros and cryptocurrency users have become class enemies for some political persuasions.
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-07-12 05:45:48+00:00
> Looks like the engines react very quickly to cut-off so it is not clear whether the question about the cut-off is prompted by a glance to the switches or the feel of the airplane.

The workload is pretty high during the takeoff phase. The engines react right away when fuel flow is stopped. The engine displays can have some lag before data is updated.

Relighting an engine at low speed is not feasible - most need 230-250kts IAS before attempting the operation. Maybe you could do it if the APU was still running and could provide compressed air, but it takes about 20-30 seconds to start up amd then probably 5-10 more to spool up to full thrust. I am speculating here a bit, but the pilot did not have enough time to save the plane even if he did everyting right and as fast as humanly possible.

All this aside is overshadowed by the limited amount of time the pilot flying (I would assume the captain in this case since there was only one ATPL pilot in the cockpit) had to troubleshoot the issue of a dual engine failure - as this is what would have felt to him - during takeoff.
by efitz | 2025-07-12 05:45:50+00:00
It’s interesting to see how many people are bending over backwards here to avoid coming to the obvious conclusion. If this was pilot suicide, it’s a terrible thing. If it was somehow an error (which seems very unlikely) or two defective controls (which seems even more unlikely), then it remains a tragedy. But I don’t need to do mental gymnastics to come up with implausible hypotheticals.

This comment stream on HN is not a jury. We don’t have to refrain from making judgments right now about what happened. There is nothing wrong with rational people reaching a preliminary conclusion based on available evidence.

Rational people should also remain open to revising their judgments/conclusions if new information becomes available.

And we shouldn’t demand any specific consequences for anyone absent a trial.
by noduerme | 2025-07-12 05:46:52+00:00
I haven't found this to be the case. I use the free plex server on Windows and MacOS, and connect to my home boxes from my phone. Prior to April 2025, I could stream on my phone from my Plex servers anytime. Since the last update, attempting to stream from any device that's not on the same LAN as the server pops up a window asking you to subscribe if you want to stream "remotely". This is even in cases where nothing is being sent through Plex's servers except for signaling data. It is only possible to stream over the internet for free now if you tunnel to that server, make it your tailscale exit node, and use the web app, not the mobile app.

I'm not sure what the deal is with Plex Home but maybe they grandfathered in some kinds of older accounts. At this point though, it no longer appears to be a free option to easily stream from your home server if you're setting it up fresh or have a regular account.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-07-12 05:48:01+00:00
I think this is an interesting question, and I’d like to genuinely attempt an answer.

I essentially think this is because people prefer to optimize what they can measure.

It is hard to measure the quality of work. People have subjective opinions, the size of opportunities can be different, etc, making quality hard to pin down. It is much easier to measure the time required for each iteration on a concept. Additionally, I think it is generally believed that a project with more iterations tends to have higher quality than a project with less, even putting aside the concern about measuring quality itself. Therefore, we put aside the discussion of quality (which we’d really like to improve), and instead make the claim that we can actually measure (time to do something), with the strong implication that this _also_ will tend to increase quality.
by PetitPrince | 2025-07-12 05:49:33+00:00
Sometimes ago there was a Tom Scott video about the fasted accelerating car in the world, developed by a team with a vast majority of student. One remark stayed with me: "the goal is not to build a car, but to build engineer".

In that regard it's absolutely not a waste of public infra just like this car was not a waste.
by wiether | 2025-07-12 05:50:01+00:00
> And yes, a lot of people are willing to go into debt to effectively pay to have a job.

That's the same _class_ element that OP was talking about, no?

I guess most of the people on HN don't see issue with people going into debt to get a degree, which is supposed to get them a job.

So how is it different to people going into debt to buy a franchise?

It's even a more straightforward way to actually get a job, while a degree, if it goes out of fashion on the job market, would have absolutely no use, and you'll have to flip the same burgers as the lad with no degree and no student debt.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-07-12 05:50:36+00:00
You must be thinking this is all wrong. I completely understand and agree with your sentiment, but we're talking about what the contract says.

I'm not allowed to install any software I want on my car's computer, the platform belongs to them. They don't provide the tools, libraries, the know-how, or even sue the people who share it online. And similarly, according to Apple's EULA the devices cannot run any app that is not approved by Apple and they can even revoke their approval or even disable the phone.

Those were the license conditions the hardware sold under, which sounds very user hostile. Regardless, nobody has to buy their products, they chose to buy it because the benefits it provided surpassed the limitations. When Spotify created their developer account they knew what the limitations were as well. This isn't an open platform. One can sue Toyota to get access to install Spotify to Corollas and get another 500 million customers, but that also wouldn't work either.

The only thing that can stop Apple is people not buying their products and developers not making apps therefore reducing the value of their ecosystem. Only then they will by themselves would open the ecosystem, which they should've done 5 years ago.

Regarding the EU forcibly taking stuff over. Well, if push comes to shove, do you think the US would allow a 3 trillion dollar American company to be bullied, go after European companies or would they react in a really unpredictable way?

Apple devices are successful because they provide a great value. They didn't just sell the hardware like Nokia did, they kept delivering software updates and spend billions of dollars sustaining the ecosystem. The limitations were put to improve user experience, for example they didn't allow apps to run continuously in the background so that users can have all day battery life. The high level of control they have allowed them to provide greater value than other ecosystems which brought more users and so on. This requires continuous work to keep it running and they're entitled to be paid for their work.

And again, nobody has to buy their products, you can buy other products and install whatever software you want on those, and do whatever you want there. Android has a bigger marketshare and some people still use Nokia or Blackberry.

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A digital marketplace consists of everyone that participates in the digital economy not just Apple. All the websites, service providers, apps, hardware manufacturers, users, companies, and their interactions.
by timr | 2025-07-12 05:50:47+00:00
I am giving/defending my opinion, in an effort to convince. It doesn't have to be yours.

> What's wrong with tourism, seeing Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto?

I just spent several paragraphs answering that question. TL;DR: a few days/weeks of lightweight entertainment for you does real damage to the places you visit. The ethical traveler should strive for something better than photos.

> I don't get more than 2 weeks vacation where I work, I should use them to volunteer according to you?

I am saying that my opinion is that "tourism" is more-or-less ethically bankrupt. You don't have to do anything in response, and in any case, I was pretty explicit that volunteering was only one of many possible alternatives -- but you knew this, because you quoted me saying it.

It's not a high bar. Visiting friends or doing a specific activity (rock climbing! diving! fishing! sports! cooking! meditation retreat! make art! take a class! gain a skill!) would be a perfectly ethical reason to travel somewhere, in my humble opinion. Almost anything is better than piling into to the same few tourist sites and taking the same few photos that everyone else takes. And you'll have more fun, too.

> I swear, the first world entitlement in some of these comments

Having the luxury to travel is a "first-world entitlement." It isn't entitlement to say that you should strive to be more thoughtful about the costs.
by extr | 2025-07-12 05:51:12+00:00
I was being hyperbolic saying their ARR will go to zero. That's obviously not the case, but the point is that CC has revealed their real product was not "agentic coding UI", it was "insanely cheap tokens". I have no doubt they will continue to see success, but their future right now looks closer to being a competitor to free/open tools like cline/roo code, as well as the CLI entrants, not a standalone $500M ARR juggarnaut. They have no horse in the race in the token market, they're a middleman.

They either need to create their own model and compete on cost, or hope that token costs come down dramatically so as to be too cheap to meter.
by yallpendantools | 2025-07-12 05:51:21+00:00
I know this thread runs the gamut of armchair experts, pretend experts, and actual experts and there's no telling who is which but I really want to know why the downvotes and why this is not a good idea.

The idea is to notify for crucial settings, replace vocal confirmation (probably) already in the SOP anyway, reducing mistakes in bad faith or otherwise.

Don't some planes already have an automated announcement for seatbelts on?

Only reason I can think of why it's not there yet is the cost (whether $$$ or design opportunity) of cramming that in the already-cramped cockpit.
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-12 05:52:32+00:00
Wow, that’s honestly impressive — especially hearing that you made it into the software industry without finishing school. That takes guts and talent.

And OSINTBuddy looks seriously cool — I imagine building something like a web-based Maltego must’ve been a huge technical challenge.

If you don’t mind me asking — how’s it going now? Are you working full-time as a developer? I’d love to hear more about your journey. Respect!
by jandrewrogers | 2025-07-12 05:52:39+00:00
In fairness, a similar issue has traditionally existed with tornado warnings, which they likely have in that part of the US. Most of the people affected by the warning are not actually at risk because the warnings are poorly targeted or the risk doesn’t meaningfully materialize. Over time, people get warning fatigue and they start ignoring them. It becomes a “boy who cried wolf” situation which makes the loud sirens that much more of a nuisance.

The spam-y nature of many disaster warning systems is widely understood to be an issue. If these people have existing experience with other low hit-rate warning systems like for tornados, it isn’t surprising that they would find even more warnings to be a nuisance. The false positive rates that people experience is too high by an order of magnitude to be an effective system.

If they have warning sirens that are ineffective at conveying real risk, they stop being warnings and become background noise.