MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matt123456789 | 2025-07-11 12:17:24+00:00
And for the same purpose before that we had, or rather have, since it is still very much in use today, the Dewey Decimal System. Peering further onward still into the annals of library science, one can find even more creative and revealing methods of indexing human knowledge. In doing so, one might even be inclined to believe that the state of the science has come so far as to be considered solved. Alas.
by account42 | 2025-07-11 12:18:33+00:00
- You can try harder to reproduce it.

- You can extend logging to gather additional information to reproduce it.

- You can try to reason about the code and figure out possible causes.

- You can attempt to formally verify the correctness of the code.

- You can put guards into the code against unexpected states and actions.

- You can verify the correct result of previous actions before any destructive actions.

- If all fails you can scrap the piece of code in question since it seems to be beyond your ability to maintain.
by ben_w | 2025-07-11 12:18:37+00:00
> without actually addressing any of the substantive issues or answering any of the pointed question

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".

> NO SEALIONING, NO GASLIGHTING, and NO DODGING QUESTIONS

Given sealioning is asking questions when the other person keeps dodging them, I question if you actually know what you're arguing at this point, or if this entire comment was written by an LLM — that is, after all, the kind of mistake I expect them to make.

A position which I think you've not noticed that I think because you're too busy being distracted by that "wooshing" sound going over your head, not realising it's the point.

Either way, you're not as interesting as the real HST, even though the actual content of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas wasn't that interesting to me.
by fedeb95 | 2025-07-11 12:18:42+00:00
thinking that our own judgement is better than a doctor judgement, supported by a vast community and shared knowledge, is epistemically interesting. Beware that I'm not saying that doctors, or the scientific community, can't be wrong, everyone can be wrong, even ourselves.

Personally, I'd rather have a proper doctor prescribe me said medicine than take it myself.
by boogieknite | 2025-07-11 12:19:38+00:00
what about the $ you generate? im a software developer consultant. we charge by the hour. up front, time and materials, and/or support hours. not too many leaps of logic to see there is a downside to completing a task too quickly or too well

i have to bill my clients and have documented around 3 weeks of development time saved by using LLMs to port other client systems to our system since December. on one hand this means we should probably update our cost estimates, but im not management so for the time ive decided to use the saved time to overdeliver on quality

eventually clients might get wise and not want to overdeliver on quality and we would charge less according to time saved by LLMs. despite a measured increase in "productivity" i would be generating less $ because my overall billable hour % decreases

hopefully overdelivering now reduces tech debt to reduce overhead and introduces new features which can increase our client pipeline to offset the eventual shift in what we charge our clients. thats about all the agency i can find in this situation
by rurban | 2025-07-11 12:19:48+00:00
VR surgery (ie remote) was done already in the 90ies, as esp. need by the US navy in its submarines. This used "robots" of course.

AI assisted surgery is the current state of the art. The AI sees much more than the human eye.

And the robot is much better and smaller than the human hand. See microsurgery

I'm pretty sure full AI robot surgery can be done right now already. There's no technical gap missing.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-07-11 12:19:56+00:00
I'll stop posting if dang asks me to. Not you.

I didn't say the calls for tariffs were nationalism either. I said Bolsonaro managed to revive brazilian nationalism during the brief four years he was in power. I meant to imply that the current administration managed to destroy said nationalism. Destroying it was one of their explicit goals. They likened it to the denazification of Germany. Watching them appeal to nationalism now is just hilarious to me.

This is exactly what brazilians asked for and it's exactly what they should get. It's gotten to the point I think it'd be great if Lula was reelected. The brazilian right wing shouldn't have to spend years cleaning up the messes they leave behind only for them to come back later to enjoy the good times we've created. Let them hold onto power a little longer so that the bomb blows up in their hands.

Refrain from replying to me again if you can't muster enough respect to have a coherent discussion about our country's politics without calling others "minions". Bolsonaro is a coward who betrayed everyone who supported him. People went to jail for this guy while he was hiding in the USA like a rat. Don't call me a "Bolsominion".
by perching_aix | 2025-07-11 12:19:59+00:00
> do their homework to understand the substance

Is that actually the common thing to do amongst recreational psychadelics users (i.e. is there research backing this up)?

And how do these folks "understand the substance(s)"? We (humanity) know very little about how the brain works comparatively as far as I'm aware, and psychadelics research is further relatively lacking due to regulatory and funding constraints. Most resources I hear of just seem to be compilations of anecdata, frequently muddled with subjective remarks.
by saagarjha | 2025-07-11 12:20:40+00:00
> Notably, this marketing did not employ any militaristic language to describe the music player’s wet encounters. In fact, Splash Dance’s packaging and TV commercials and Wet Tunes’ print ads hardly dealt with liquidity at all.

Does anyone else feel like the quality of this article is decidedly poor? It reads like a high school student's essay, where they don't really have much to say, but use words they hardly know to sound smart. I'm seriously trying to be charitable here but it has the same structure of people's homework assignments, with odd quoting of random sources to reach requirements and jumps all over the place without a coherent thesis.
by sajithdilshan | 2025-07-11 12:21:18+00:00
That very well might be the case. It's not only the South Asians, but also the influx of Ukrainians/Russians after the war have caused the increase in house/rental prices. Uncontrolled migration without the development of houses and other facilities (healthcare, education, etc.) to match the rate of migration has definitely contributed to the overall decline in services and affordability.
by zeta0134 | 2025-07-11 12:21:41+00:00
I suppose this is a dangerous counterargument to make, especially as I'm not a substance user at all myself, but... what's wrong with wanting to seek out novel experiences? I'd much rather folks who wish to do this be able to do so safely, with good sources of information about those risks and with a support network that is allowed to talk about it. I feel like the taboo nature of substances in general causes folks with this interest to hide it from their peers, exactly the people who would otherwise be first in line to spot problems and offer assistance. Shouldn't it be okay to talk about it?
by gadgetoid | 2025-07-11 12:22:18+00:00
I recently started building something like this for the RP2350A chip [1], deeply inspired by both STM32Cube and also by avoiding recreating the horror of STM32Cube.

I’m currently failing to not build STM32Cube for Pico though, the idea keeps gnawing away at me. There are some idiosyncrasies that my micro site doesn’t quite capture. Though perhaps it could.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44520091
by gamifykaran | 2025-07-11 12:22:25+00:00
In 2023, we have seen a lot of AI directories popping up and lot of founders (including me) manually submitting their products on these platforms to gain traffic and foundational backlinks.

So we have launched Boringlaunch, a submission service that helps grow your online presence by submitting your product to 100+ platforms. It's perfect for new products that need more visibility and backlinks to improve their SEO and search rankings.

Our customers love it because it saves them from doing boring tasks and they can focus on real marketing.

Here is the website link: https://www.boringlaunch.com/
by ignoramous | 2025-07-11 12:22:36+00:00
Another post office operator, Seema Misra, was pregnant when she was sent to prison. She said in testimony that the local newspaper had published a photo of her and labeled her the "pregnant thief." While she was in prison, her husband was beaten up and subjected to racist insults, she testified.

The tidal wave of fascist & far-right grievances are so hard to contain and fight against in the moment. Multi-cultural societies everywhere are never getting rid of it, are they?
by LightBug1 | 2025-07-11 12:22:48+00:00
Christ almighty ... what an absolute shit show.

Let's pretend this had been a government agency doing this, or someone not in the Trumpanzee party.

It would be wall to wall coverage of bias, conspiracy, and corruption ... and demands for an investigation.

Does this mean we're not going to have any more amusing situations where Grok is used to contradict Elon Musk in his own Twitter threads?

"Free speech and the search for truth and undestanding" ... what a load of horse shit.

Elon. You're a wanker.
by grafmax | 2025-07-11 12:22:50+00:00
It seems as if the buzz around AI is so intoxicating that people forgo basic reasoning about the world around them. The recent Grok video where Elon is giddy about Grok’s burgeoning capabilities. Altman’s claims that AI will usher in a new utopia. This singularity giddiness is infectious yet denies the worsening world around us - exacerbated by AI - mass surveillance, authoritarianism, climate change.

Psychologically I wonder if these half-baked hopes provide a kind of escapist outlet. Maybe for some people it feels safer to hide your head in the sand where you can no longer see the dangers around you.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-07-11 12:23:10+00:00
Did the compress middleware not work for you?

https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/middlewares/http/compress/

Are you trying to compress the request that has already come in to your cluster? I'm not sure there's a ton of value to be extracted there, since the requests have already made their way across the internet uncompressed to your ingress point.

If there's a "long way" to go after hitting your ingress controller then maybe there's something to be gained...
by FearNotDaniel | 2025-07-11 12:23:14+00:00
I've taken part in 12 Step programmes and even occasionally attended AA meetings. After browsing the site for a while I can confirm it seems pretty faithful to the AA methodology, except for the addition of the "top/middle/bottom line" classification of behaviours - because in AA sobriety is universally defined as "abstaining from all alcohol" whereas this fellowship is not proposing that members should never use the internet, so the members need to define for themselves which specific patterns of behaviour qualify as "relapse" and which are risky.

This addition is not new or unique to ITAA, as I understand it was pioneered as the "three circles" model by Sex Addicts Anonymous and has been adopted by other recovery fellowships where the definition of clean/sober is not so binary or universal.
by nickspacek | 2025-07-11 12:23:48+00:00
My homelab has a setup like this, but all done somewhat-manually. HTTPS for my Docker images running in the homelab via a certbot image. A Wireguard setup to connect the homelab to a small Hetzner VPS, and a proxy there to allow certain traffic through.

I've been wanting to add some authentication lately so that I can manage access to the homelab resources. I currently prohibit all traffic and only allow the Wireguard subnet, but this means any clients have to be provisioned in Wireguard, which is a nuisance to setup manually. It does seem to work well enough though.

Pangolin seems like it would be a one-stop replacement and simplify the setup, especially once I look at adding user management to the mix.
by notTooFarGone | 2025-07-11 12:23:53+00:00
How can this happen over a thousand times without raising eyebrows? I can just imagine top managers noticing this and looking the other way to save their asses. Nobody wants to be the one who gets associated with such a scandal and ostracized for it. The fact that a documentation is often the only way to get heard is alarming.

It's enough to notice shortcomings and just not investigating further due to being perceived as complicated.

How can we build companies that incentivizes whistle-blowing the right(morally/legally correct?) way?
by cranberryturkey | 2025-07-11 12:24:22+00:00
David Autor argues that AI could lead to economic disruption by commodifying human expertise. He notes that historically, the scarcity of expert skills drives their economic value, suggesting that if AI replicates expertise, it could reduce wages and eliminate certain jobs. Autor emphasizes that AI can now replicate even tacit knowledge, previously seen as uniquely human, which raises concerns about displacement. However, his analysis overlooks AI’s potential to democratize specialized knowledge, making previously inaccessible expertise widely available. Rather than diminishing human value, AI can amplify it by fostering new forms of collaborative work, creating entirely new roles, and expanding the economic importance of human judgment and creativity. AI, thoughtfully designed, represents not a decline but a potential rebirth—a chance to redefine and enrich human labor rather than replace it.
by stefs | 2025-07-11 12:24:28+00:00
i too hope we soon replace all fossil fuel plants with alternatives, but i don't think it'll be nuclear, for the reasons given above.

there'll probably be an increase of solar and wind for many more years, as they're a safe bet - cheap, low maintenance and you don't need much skilled human labor to operate it.

additionally, battery storage will be become ever cheaper and more ubiquitous. together with traditional storage options, like water. we'll see how far that gets us.
by greggyb | 2025-07-11 12:24:30+00:00
Yet "whomever" is also the object of the preposition, "to".

Certainly, if we took the primary clause of the sentence and substite in any number of pronouns, you'd agree that the objective forms are correct:

The book belongs to whomever. Not "whoever".

The book belongs to her. Not "she".

The book belongs to us. Not "we".

I don't know the English grammatical rule for this situation, but it certainly seems reasonable to say that the dependent clause does not get to dictate the form of an independent clause.
by westurner | 2025-07-11 12:25:01+00:00
There are libraries for unit testing shell scripts.

And also,

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26906351 :

> From "Bash Error Handling" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745833 : you can display the line number in `set -x` output by setting $PS4:

export PS4='+(${BASH_SOURCE}:${LINENO}) ' set -x

And

trap '(read -p "[$BASH_SOURCE:$LINENO] $BASH_COMMAND?")' DEBUG
by specialist | 2025-07-11 12:25:22+00:00
Yup. I've long been semi-curious about deceit, lying, etc. From studies of how our primate cousins lie to each other in the never-ending game of Get The Banana to every day Machiavellianism.

Does the person lying to me know they're lying? Surely they know that I know, right?

I'm also terrified that I'm lying to myself. Am I just in denial? Is some level of wishful thinking necessary? What are my blind spots?

I'm no smarter about any of this stuff (The Human Condition) than anyone else.

ICYMI, I enjoyed the book Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28512671-everybody-lies

Please share any books, links, observations you have. TIA.
by cubefox | 2025-07-11 12:26:02+00:00
> One is opportunity cost: You simply have more options (especially women), so having children now comes at the cost of many other potential paths whereas it used to be the default.

Exactly. Traditionally, the man was supposed to be the breadwinner, women weren't expected to have a career, and what would she do all day at home after getting married? Of course she would get a lot of kids.

> Housing costs: Most people want to live in a few cities per country and every desirable city I've ever heard of has an affordable housing crisis. When you can barely afford enough space for yourself, how are you going to have a room for a baby, let alone multiple.

Not sure how strong this effect really is. I'm not aware available housing space having decreased over time.
by jraph | 2025-07-11 12:26:15+00:00
> Well, would you rather have a brittle heuristic lose all of your mail?

That's not what's happening. I wouldn't expect such an heuristic to be currently present. There is a bug, not something intentional.

> almost certainly better than doing nothing

No, because with such an heuristic, you add behavior that's difficult for the user to understand well and to work with. With such an heuristic, you will lose some mails and at some point the process stops in the middle. Which mails have you lost? What is "many" mails? 10? 100? What if my computer is fast and is deleting 100s of mails per seconds, losing all the mails anyway? What if it is slow and never triggers the heuristic?

If the heuristic does trigger, you end up with a mixed situation where you still have lost some stuff, but not all, and it'll be impossible to understand which ones. It doesn't fix the issue (you still lose email), just makes it even more difficult to understand even for the devs when they inevitable need to track down related issues. You really don't want to willingly add mechanisms that feel like they are non-deterministic: they are hard to debug, and hard for the users to grasp.

A way better solution is backups anyway: if you care not to lose your emails, you should be backing them up. From the beginning, your local TB mails are not a proper backup of your IMAP account because it's two-way synchronized so you need a backup somewhere else.

A still better workaround is disabling the move to local folder feature and make people copy and then manually delete mails.

Not saying your heuristic is not a good idea or clever (it is clever and could lead to further good ideas), just that after reflection, it should probably not be implemented. It barely starts to address the issue and adds complexity for everyone involved.
by nextos | 2025-07-11 12:26:43+00:00
I have followed this scandal quite closely over the years, and these two quotations sum it up. Pretty sad:

"The report alleges that even before the program was rolled out in 1999, some Fujitsu employees knew that Horizon could produce false data."

"As the years went by the complaints grew louder and more persistent [...] Still the Post Office trenchantly resisted the contention that on occasions Horizon produced false data."
by wglass | 2025-07-11 12:26:47+00:00
Oh man. Both love and hate this video. It’s so slick, which seems the opposite of the late 70s homebrew backer culture.

The video is designed to appeal to nerd nostalgia. However it has problems right from the start when it emphasizes Jobs not Woz (the true nerd hero), including a stylized ascii art.

According to the video, this item is exceptional because it’s fully operational. However paradoxically that’s because it’s never been used. The video praises the owner who bought it and stuck it in a closet, never turning it on. It implicitly puts down the actual users who actually used the machine (burning the paint) and especially those who tinkered with and modifying the machine.

As someone who grew up in the 80s hacking my Apple II+ doing everything from playing Lemonade Stand to building custom coprocessor boards, I salute those who actually used their Apple machines to the max, destroying the collector value.
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-11 12:26:51+00:00
To the NY Times: please don't say they died by suicide. The passive voice makes it sound like some act of God, something regrettable but unavoidable that just somehow happened. It's important not to sugarcoat what happened: the postmasters killed themselves because the British state was imprisoning them for crimes they didn't commit, based on evidence from a buggy financial accounting system. Don't blur the details of what happened by making it sound like a natural disaster.

Horizon is the case that should replace Therac-25 as a study in what can go wrong if software developers screw up. Therac-25 injured/killed six people, Horizon has ruined hundreds of lives and ended dozens. And the horrifying thing is, Horizon wasn't something anyone would have previously identified as safety-critical software. It was just an ordinary point-of-sale and accounting system. The suicides weren't directly caused by the software, but from an out of control justice and social system in which people blindly believed in public institutions that were actually engaged in a massive deep state cover-up.

It is reasonable to blame the suicides on the legal and political system that allowed the Post Office to act in that way, and which put such low quality people in charge. Perhaps also on the software engineer who testified repeatedly under oath that the system worked fine, even as the bug tracker filled up with cases where it didn't. But this is HN, so from a software engineering perspective what can be learned?

Some glitches were of their time and wouldn't occur these days, e.g. malfunctions in resistive touch screens that caused random clicks on POS screens to occur overnight. But most were bugs due to loss of transactionality or lack of proper auditing controls. Think message replays lacking proper idempotency, things like that. Transactions were logged that never really occurred, and when the cash was counted some appeared to be missing, so the Post Office accused the postmasters of stealing from the business. They hadn't done so, but this took place over decades, and decades ago people had more faith in institutions than they do now. And these post offices were often in small villages where the post office was the center of the community, so the false allegations against postmasters were devastating to their social and business lives.

Put simply - check your transactions! And make sure developers can't rewrite databases in prod.
by FZambia | 2025-07-11 12:27:06+00:00
For real-time notifications, I believe Nats (https://nats.io) or Centrifugo (https://centrifugal.dev) are worth checking out these days. Messages may be delivered to those systems from PostgreSQL over replication protocol through Kafka as an intermediary buffer. Reliable real-time messaging comes with lots of complexities though, like late message delivery, duplicate message delivery. If the system can be built around at most once guarantees – can help to simplify the design dramatically. Depends on the use case of course, often both at least once and at most once should co-exist in one app.
by nivertech | 2025-07-11 12:27:57+00:00
Nakamoto Consensus didn’t solved a secure scalable PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant) Consensus.

Bitcoin didn’t solved a forkability and finality problems. Blockchain (or more properly hashchain) is a linked list of hashpointers, and since anyone can create a hashpointer pointing to the head of the hashchain - it means anyone can fork it. And indeed Bitcoin was forked multiple times, and the solution to forks was almost always either centralized and/or social.

IMO PBFT consensus algos have a niche applications anyway, and not required for Electronic Cash implementation, only for decentralized and/or disintermediated Systems-of-Record, but that’s a complete opposite of bearer instruments like electronic cash.