MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akho | 2025-07-01 17:58:59+00:00
I understand what e2ee is, thank you. I just don't think it’s justified for self-hosted photo servers.

E. g., “Any operations / transformations” includes facial recognition, CLIP embeddings, &c; you want to run this on the server, overnight, and to be able to re-run at a later date when new models become available. Under e2ee, that’s a round-trip through a client device at every model update. So that’s a significant downside, for no important upsides in the case when you and your family are the only users.
by theropost | 2025-07-01 18:00:13+00:00
Just tossing in my two cents - half the $25K cars people are asking for do exist, or did, but we’re basically banning them from the country with tariffs. It’s like we’re saying, “nah, we don’t really want cheap cars.”

Look at something like the Dolphin from China - it’s going for $8K–$9K USD over there. Ship a whole fleet of them and you’re still well under $25K. And we’re not talking junkers either - these are electric, decent build quality, ~300km range. Like... what exactly are we protecting here?

Feels like we’re pricing affordability out of the market on purpose.
by simonw | 2025-07-01 18:00:23+00:00
PlanetScale came out of Vitess, which was very MySQL-specific.

Does this new PostgreSQL offering share any heritage with Vitess or is this an entirely new piece of technology, or based on other components that PlanetScale have written since the Vitess days that aren't direct descendants?

Update: to answer my own question https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres#vitess...

> Vitess’ achievements are enabled by leveraging MySQL’s strengths and engineering around its weaknesses. To achieve Vitess’ power for Postgres we are architecting from first principles. We are well under way with building this new system and will be releasing more information and early access as we progress.
by vinceguidry | 2025-07-01 18:00:45+00:00
God I'm so jealous you were able to get your friends to join Discord.

My in-person friend group revolved around the bar we all went to. When the bar shut down, I floated the idea of a group chat but couldn't get anyone interested. No one wants to install another app and get notified more. In olden days, we'd just solve the problem with Facebook, but no one uses that anymore either. My friends are ordinary, normal, overworked people who need an easy option. The bar was that. Show up when you want to connect. Easy.

So now there's nothing. I basically just lost all my friends. We all have each other's numbers but that's just not an option for coordination.

Fuck you, Mark Zuckerberg, for making Facebook so shitty it's not even useful anymore for the one thing I ever found it useful for. I hope when we finally start coming for the billionaires, we come for you first.
by ticulatedspline | 2025-07-01 18:01:30+00:00
Seems silly at first but in retrospect isn't that surprising to construct from requirements:

1: we want a big cube

2: has to have a million dollars

3: should be stacked neatly.

Given the bills are so evenly arranged on the lower surface there's only so many squares you can produce with the bills like that. 8x19 or 6x17 . 6x17 is noted as close to 1 mill but they only remove 2 stacks from the 100 side. so now it's not a cube, you'd come under if you trimmed it down to a cube.

so stacked flat seems 8x19 is the smallest square you can make for one side for a cube of cash that fits mil. so they did that and just filled it up.

It might be hollow, there's certainly a void. There's some comments about the border but you can clearly see that the bills don't go behind the border so the corners are squared in, which means there's probably a weird void of some sort because it's not really a normal cube.
by ajford | 2025-07-01 18:01:50+00:00
I always figured it was from Nuclear pearl-clutching and genuine fear about launch disasters. Especially after the various Apollo and shuttle disasters.

Though with how SpaceX has been blowing up rockets left and right, probably a good idea to not have nuclear materials launching until that's been resolved entirely.

Boca Chica beach is a mess now, I can only imagine what new Fallout installment we'd get if South Texas became irradiated from a failed launch.
by felphos | 2025-07-01 18:02:34+00:00
It's a concern we raised while starting the project but the other services I mentioned also had Stripe in their names and have been operating for a few years. Because our product is so connected to Stripe we felt that it was necessary to make its purpose clear so we took the gamble and added to our content that we are not affiliated to them. If we have to change the name in the future that is something we will have to deal with when the time comes.
by kevincox | 2025-07-01 18:03:02+00:00
> the market is naturally prone to converging on a single solution

Not only that it is "naturally prone" to it (with thinks like bulk efficiencies) but also that it is economically prone to it. A free market with no monopolies drives profit towards zero. No company wants this so the logical response is to become a monopoly (or as close as possible) by putting up barriers to entry and competition.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-07-01 18:03:35+00:00
To give an automotive example, a field unit may fail and be RMA'd to the tier 1 to improve their production line. They don't have access/documentation for the production software, and it wasn't developed to interact with their diagnostic tooling. They'll need to reliably reflash their own test software onto a board with potential hardware failures. JTAG is sometimes what they request to do that.
by mh- | 2025-07-01 18:04:09+00:00
This felt like the most obvious explanation to me as well. Maybe the artist's vision for it was a solid cube of cash, but it ended up needing a structure inside to support the thing.

So many reasons this might be exactly $1,000,000 but not sum up on the outside.

That said, this is also something I would have spent way too much time overthinking, so I thoroughly enjoyed reading the blog post.
by humblebeekeeper | 2025-07-01 18:04:09+00:00
FWIW, I do object to the industrial raising of animals for food as well.

Have a few pigs rummaging around your food forest? Some sheep to keep grasses and weeds in check? Some poultry to remove pests and aerate the soil? Sure! Love that, it's using behaviors in complementary ways to create a healthier system.

Cram thousands of animals into cubes and process them with machinery? Truly awful in my view.
by somat | 2025-07-01 18:04:17+00:00
You need a cube that is a multiple of the width of a dollar on one side and a multiple of the height of a dollar on the other side. technically it needs to be a a multiple of the thickness of a stack of 100 dollars as well.

us dollar size: Width: 6.14 inches (155.956 mm) Height: 2.61 inches (66.294 mm) Thick x100: 0.43 inches (10.922 mm)

How close over a million dollars can you make this cube?

The exhibit picked a cube ~50 inches. 8 wide = 49.1 inch 19 tall = 49.6 inch.

But this assumes that having a perfect "cube" of bills was the artistic vision.
by datameta | 2025-07-01 18:04:30+00:00
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by danielbln | 2025-07-01 18:05:06+00:00
Because nothing comes without a cost. Maybe mutations that would allow us to regrow limbs also lead to horrific cancers that snuffed out any chance for reproduction. Maybe the benefit didn't outweigh the additional energy budget. Maybe it was just not necessary for procreation vs our advanced cognition so it never played into evolutionary fitness (compared to a lizard that can drop a tail when it's attacked, and regrow it for the neYt attack, which would surely improve its evolutionary fitness).

Additional reasons: our mammalian organs are highly complex, we live a long time, we are large animals with giant brains and high metabolic cost. The list goes on.
by cryzinger | 2025-07-01 18:05:10+00:00
This old-ish Newport essay comes to mind:

> The knowledge sector’s insistence that productivity is a personal issue seems to have created a so-called “tragedy of the commons” scenario, in which individuals making reasonable decisions for themselves insure a negative group outcome. An office worker’s life is dramatically easier, in the moment, if she can send messages that demand immediate responses from her colleagues, or disseminate requests and tasks to others in an ad-hoc manner. But the cumulative effect of such constant, unstructured communication is cognitively harmful: on the receiving end, the deluge of information and demands makes work unmanageable. There’s little that any one individual can do to fix the problem. A worker might send fewer e-mail requests to others, and become more structured about her work, but she’ll still receive requests from everyone else; meanwhile, if she decides to decrease the amount of time that she spends engaging with this harried digital din, she slows down other people’s work, creating frustration.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise...

I'm hesitant to call the email-skimming workflow that you mentioned a "reasonable decision," but I think the point still stands about how one person speedrunning their inbox can make everyone else's inboxes that much worse.
by polivier | 2025-07-01 18:05:41+00:00
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by sfn42 | 2025-07-01 18:06:03+00:00
Even if it is hundreds or thousands the difference will generally be imperceptible to humans. And that's all I care about, I care about how humans experience my software. If some background job that runs nightly takes 2 hours that's fine by me. I'll write it to be efficient and I've never actually written a job that takes anywhere near that long to run, but if I did I probably wouldn't waste time and energy optimizing it unless asked to. I've seen jobs written by others that take hours to run, and I haven't done anything about it because nobody's asked me to - because nobody cares.

I mostly work on web apps. If I was working on an application with a large user base and it was struggling to keep up with a large number of requests during peak hours, I might try to optimize the most frequently used or the most performance sensitive endpoints to ease the load. Then I might profile a call to these endpoints to see where I should focus my efforts. But if the app is responding quickly during peak traffic and generally just working perfectly, I see no reason to spend extra time profiling things just for the sake of it. I'm not paying the cloud bills and the people who are aren't asking me to reduce them. Realistically it would probably take years or decades to recoup the cost of having me investigate these things anyway, it's not worth it.

Yes, I already write tests. But like I said in one of my earlier responses, those tests exist to test functionality not performance. For example the test dataset might run super fast with your O(n^2) algorithm but the prod dataset might be much larger and take hours to run. Profiler won't tell you that unless you have a test with a huge dataset to provoke the issue. So now you're writing specialized tests just for profiling, which in my opinion falls under premature optimization. It also makes your test suite take longer to run which makes you less likely to run the tests as often as you otherwise would.

I'd rather just go with the low complexity option and revisit it later if necessary. I very rarely have any issues with this approach, in fact I'm not sure I have ever had a performance problem caused by my code. If there's code that stalls the application it's always someone else's work. My code isn't perfect, but it's generally fast enough. In my mind that's pragmatic programming - make it work, make it clean, make it fast enough. Most code doesn't need to be anywhere near optimal.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-07-01 18:06:20+00:00
Kind of. Here in California (can't speak to the rest of the country), you have a "right to quiet enjoyment" of your rental property, which has been specified to specifically allow guests within "reasonable" limits. I can't find any case law specifically around day guests (most of the discussion surrounds how long a multi-night guest can stay), but prohibiting guests outright is definitely illegal.

All in all, it's safe to say a moderate sized get-together, that doesn't violate the fire code occupancy limits nor make excess noise for the time of day, would be very difficult for a landlord to evict you over.
by nbf_1995 | 2025-07-01 18:06:23+00:00
Like RocksDB from which this appears to be forked, the primary usage is as a storage engine for other applications/databases. Compared to rocksdb, it seems like ToplingDB has added more facilities to better support distributed use-cases.

Some databases that utilize RocksDB for their storage engine: https://kvrocks.apache.org/ - Redis/ValKey compatible distributed database with disk persistence via RockDB. https://github.com/pingcap/tidb - MySQL compatible distributed database. Mentioned elsewhere in this thread. https://github.com/tikv/tikv - Distributed, transactional, key value store. Originally by the same company as TiDB.

In theory you could use it as an in-process KV store similar to how SQLite provides an in process sql database, but the api is far from ergonomic for that use case.
by bumby | 2025-07-01 18:06:29+00:00
I don’t think that’s an unreasonable take, but it does move us away from the generalization that hybrid TCO is lower. It’s like instead saying “Hybrid TCO will be lower if you pay in cash and live in a high fuel cost area.”

That’s a more nuanced take by adjusting the assumptions. Sometimes adjusting them is warranted, and sometimes it’s just to game the outcome you wanted.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-01 18:06:57+00:00
> Who are the third party distributors for the playstation or xbox?

This is a whataboutism. People can discuss Apple's anti-competitive business policies separately from Sony's and Microsoft's. (Does it matter that Playstation and Xbox ecosystems are potentially similarly anti-competitive? That just means the circumstances around their policies should also be scrutinized for the same reasons.)

> it doesn't seem too unreasonable to claim that $100/year is too low

It doesn't seem too unreasonable to tell them tough shit. They can improve their business model themselves; that's their responsibility. It is also their responsibility to avoid anti-competitive business practices.

> What's wrong with royalty fee based business models?

This is a disingenuous question in reply to the pull quote you included from the parent comment. They wrote "without forcing people to use their services". That is the primary anti-competitive thing that people complain about with Apple.
by c4wrd | 2025-07-01 18:06:57+00:00
You're missing the bigger picture. It isn't free to put content on the Internet. At a bare minimum, you have infrastructure and bandwidth costs. In many cases, a goal someone may have is that if they publish content on the internet, they will attract people to return for more of the content they produce. Google acted as a broker, helping facilitate interactions between producers and consumers. Consumers would supply a query they want an answer to, and a producer would provide an answer or facilitate a space for the answers to be found (in the recent era, replace answer with product or store-front).

There was a mostly healthy interaction between the producers and consumers (I won't die on this hill; I understand the challenges of SEO optimization and an advertisement-laden internet). With AI, Google is taking on the roles of both broker and provider. It aims to collect everyone's data and use it as its own authoritative answer without any attribution to the source (or traffic back to the original source at all!).

In this new model, I am not incentivized to produce content on the internet, I am incentivized to simply sell my data to Google (or other centralized AI company) and that's it.

A clearer picture to help you understand what's going on: the internet of the past few decades was a bazaar marketplace. Every corner featured different shops with distinct artistic styles, showcasing a great deal of diversity. It was teeming with life. If you managed your storefront well, people would come back and you could grow. In this new era, we are moving to a centralized, top-down enterprise. Diversity of content and so many other important attributes (ethos, innovation, aestheticism) go out of the window.
by gpm | 2025-07-01 18:07:23+00:00
> The folks responsible for collecting and destroying used bills tend to be exacting in their auditing for obvious reasons. So when the exhibit designers got $1M in used bills approved and released, that's exactly how much they got.

But who says that they didn't actually request $1.5M in used bills after doing the math of what it would take to make a cube. Or fill it up with $1M in used bills, and come back and make another request for $500k that also got approved...
by jeswin | 2025-07-01 18:07:33+00:00
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by pfdietz | 2025-07-01 18:07:52+00:00
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat

"The flowers are wind-pollinated, with over 99% of pollination events being self-pollinations and the rest cross-pollinations.[6] "

No mention of ants, and the reference [6] says "Normally at anthesis, the lemma and palea are pushed apart temporally (lasting for 8–30 min) by lodicules swelling, and the pollen dehiscences from anthers and falls on the ovary to accomplish fertilization (de Vries, 1971)."
by benrutter | 2025-07-01 18:09:03+00:00
Welcome to 2025 where it's more reasonable to filter all content through an LLM than to expect web developers to make use of the semantic web that's existed for more than a decade. . .

Serioisly though, looks like a novel fix for the problem that most terminal browsers face. Namely that terminals are text based, but the web, whilst it contains text, is often subdivided up in a way that only really makes sense graphically.

I wonder if a similar type of thing might work for screen readers or other accessibility features
by whatevertrevor | 2025-07-01 18:09:41+00:00
Because we still care about assigning sensible priors to whatever we think is the truth? You can use this to "analogize" how the feds handle money, but if they were actually careful with the money but a bit misleading on the space $1m would take, that's a different and less egregious error. Ignoring the space of potential possible explanations to make your analogy stronger is just confirmation bias with additional steps.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-01 18:09:46+00:00
One of the key things in Sean's "Safe C++" is that, like Rust, it actually technically works. If we write software in the safe C++ dialect we get safe programs just as if we write ordinary safe (rather than ever invoking "unsafe") Rust we get safe programs. WG21 didn't take Safe C++ and it will most likely now be a minor footnote in history, but it did really work.

"I think this could be possible" isn't an enabling technology. If you write hard SF it's maybe useful to distinguish things which could happen from those which can't, but for practical purposes it only matters if you actually did it. Sean's proposed "Safe C++" did it, Zig, today, did not.

There are other obstacles - like adoption, as we saw for "Safe C++" - but they're predicated on having the technology at all, you cannot adopt technologies which don't exist, that's just make believe. Which I think is already the path WG21 has set out on.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-01 18:10:00+00:00
Sometimes the old ways are best. To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason, or they'd just call it the way.

Who benefits most from old methods and tech remaining a historical footnote, but the very people selling their new whiz-bang solutions for modern problems, which are themselves inherent to using their products and energy production and consumption supply chain?
by goku12 | 2025-07-01 18:10:17+00:00
I'm Indian. I can use four languages at full proficiency, and am in the middle of picking up two more. I can't explain how confusing and frustrating the past two weeks has been for me on YouTube. But there are people who handle even more languages. I wonder how they're doing emotionally! I'm confused about the planning and logic that goes into decisions like these.
by _yahya_ | 2025-07-01 18:10:34+00:00
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