MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lelanthran | 2025-07-27 15:14:29+00:00
> And before google, yahoo had outsourced to 'Inktomi' and before that IIRC to 'Altavista'

> Yahoo wasn't even trying to compete in search.

Yeah. This is a common MBA-ism: focus on the top of the value chain where the largest margin exists.

The theory itself is actually not wrong, TBH; it's just that Yahoo misidentified where the top of the value chain lay. They thought the top of the value chain was the users, and that sponsered content was the product. Google correctly identified the users as the product and the advertisers as the top of the value chain.

IOW, Yahoo sold curated content (product) to users (customers). Google sold users (product) to the advertisers (customers). To Yahoo, the people visiting their site was the top of the value chain if you're directly pitching products to those users!
by JackSlateur | 2025-07-27 15:15:01+00:00
Typing is declarative

In the end, it ensures nothing and accepts everything

$ cat test.py from typing import TypedDict class MyDict(TypedDict): some_bool: bool print(MyDict(some_bool="test", unknown_field="blabla"))

=>

$ ./test.py {'some_bool': 'test', 'unknown_field': 'blabla'}
by rjknight | 2025-07-27 15:15:07+00:00
One of the neat properties of base58 (and, strictly speaking, of base62 as well) is that it does not contain any characters that require special encoding to be used in either a URL or a filename. Nor does it contain any characters that are considered to be "word-breaking" by most user interfaces, so you can do things like double-click on a base58 string to select the entire string. Base64 has none of the above properties, while being only very slightly more efficient.
by i000 | 2025-07-27 15:15:10+00:00
If you take advantage of all the featuers in Teams, perhaps. But we needed a tiny bit from Workbench, a little bit from Connect, and sliver from Package Manager - and Teans ended up eating a huge portion of our IT bill, effectively stunting our efficiency as a research organization. Over the years, while our use case did not change, our Posit bill more than doubled.
by dinfinity | 2025-07-27 15:15:21+00:00
For people who don't like drinking beetroot juice, you can also regularly (French) kiss with people with healthy oral microbiomes [0][1]. Best to really get in there.

[0] https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2024/02/20/mo...

[1] https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...
by space-savvy | 2025-07-27 15:15:37+00:00
My perception as one who works in space based climate research is that both have being done, mass firings of people that makes no account of their skills or value, plus targeted firings that are less about finding waste and more about advancing ideology - anti-diversity, anti climate and earth science. From my view it’s awful, as I opine that the goal is to starve all non-military or non-human spaceflight efforts.

Cutting all probationary employees or recent promotions was just an awful strategy. For every department in the government.
by al_borland | 2025-07-27 15:15:57+00:00
Anonymous and AI promotion spam is not going to do anything to help legitimize cryptocurrencies. If anything it will push it further to the fringe and make the public shift from indifferent/confused to outside hatred of it.

Why would a normal person trust a fake salesman (AI) pushing fake money (crypto)?

I can only assume you’re very deep down the rabbit hole if this idea is making sense.

If the argument is that the AI will be so good the people won’t know it’s AI, then one might ask why you’d feel the need to mislead your customers? None of this sounds like a good honest business.
by subscribed | 2025-07-27 15:16:28+00:00
I often hear this argument, "oh, but how far can we possibly go??! But deer are pretty?!", especially from farmers and grouse shooting estates here in the UK.

It's wild, because it's so easy to measure and asses: an ecological desert, dying ecosystem, rich in single overgrazing specie is unequivocally bad.

Rich, lush ecosystems sustaining great biodiversity and ecologically unique features (eg chalk streams or temperate rainforests in the UK) are good. Killing everything for the sake of one specie: Bad.

More on that if your position is honest: https://www.monbiot.com/2025/05/12/the-commoner-kings/
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-07-27 15:17:58+00:00
James webb is the perfect example of why we absolutely need NASA and what they do.

Did the budget balloon and delays rack up? Yup, and if you read about why you will see that it was basically unavoidable. A private business would have canceled it at the first roadblock (depriving us of an INCREDIBLE scientific tool).

And for the actual launch and deployment, the cost of the instrument meant that a very high success rate was very very important. Go ahead and look up the success rate of space X launches and tell me you would put a multi billion dollar tool on their rocket. You need someone who can spend more money, even a lot more money, and guarantee success.
by holowoodman | 2025-07-27 15:18:09+00:00
No. First that isn't SIMD code. Second, CMP r0,0 is redundant, operating on a register that is zero will set the zero flag automatically. You also skipped the string search/comparison part, but that isn't relevant, except that the operation will implicitly set the zero flag. Generally, plain JZ is faster than CMP + JZ. Even more so if it is SIMD.

And loads are amortized by tons of speculative preloading. Which isn't (yet, unfortunately) optimized by preload-length hints.

Oh, and since we are talking about comparing strings, there is no extra load. This isn't strlen(), this is strchr() or strstr() we are talking about. You always have to load the string into some register.
by jbentley1 | 2025-07-27 15:18:26+00:00
This is great. I hope that they expose the configuration through the SDK, but right now it works with Crystal (https://github.com/stravu/crystal) if you configure them in the CLI.

I'm working on a proper config screen for them that just modifies the agent files directly, and a future release will also give special formatting for agent output.
by omarqureshi | 2025-07-27 15:18:54+00:00
Similar setup (not in a 1U). I have 3 Pi 5's in my AV rack with M2 and PoE Hats - they actually work fairly well and bonus? Don't need to power them. I could get a 1U enclosure but, it's fine.

The only issue is one of the PoE Hats fan is catching something (though nothing i can see), so on occasion it will need persuasion to be quiet
by tomjuggler | 2025-07-27 15:19:17+00:00
My 11 year old son has an old android phone, to keep in touch with his friends and family.

He does not have access to any form of social media.

His friend list is limited to people he knows irl.

Activity on all devices is monitored (Google family link) and controlled (pi-hole, DNS blocking, ad blocking etc).

The internet is a cesspool and I agree we should limit children from free access to this - but telling kids to stick to pen and paper until they are 13 isn't the way to do it.
by danjl | 2025-07-27 15:19:17+00:00
Why not have a standard section in every successful paper that covers all of the null results that led up to the successful conclusion? There are lots of standard sections. Seems easy to add a requirement for the failures that led to the success. Many papers already include tips, tricks and gotchas, perhaps we just need to formalize this a bit more. Seems much easier than trying to find a way to get people to publish full papers on null results.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-27 15:19:30+00:00
>You can repair how and what you want, its your house and children.

They cannot.

>The device is also not repairable at all. I had an issue with my screen and they gave me a quote of ~200€+ to repair it. I'm sure I could fix it myself for a lot less, but no parts are available and no instructions.
by freeopinion | 2025-07-27 15:19:31+00:00
Here's a bit that is hard to stuff into a 10-word headline.

"Nuclear modernization" refers to the development of the Sentinel missile to replace the Minuteman III missile. It is arguably not a modernization at all. It is a spectacular example of spreading seemingly endless money around for political ends. It's a $140+ billion boondoggle that has somehow escaped the attention of DOGE while they were hunting down what they claim is $170 billion in fraud and waste in places like the national parks.
by benreesman | 2025-07-27 15:20:14+00:00
The marketing is brilliant. The name of the company (number0) is mad hackerish man, right up my alley in the words of Charlie Murphy. I'm going to try this in my GCE on bare metal "unvirtualizer" today (number0 is what a Linux kernel would call the first tuntap with number as its prefix if you had such a patch).

These are my kind of people!
by hinkley | 2025-07-27 15:20:15+00:00
> The plan is to add two more reaction chains in parallel, so that the process can run continuously, shortening the runtime from three days to one.

That’s screaming for someone to optimize down to 2.5 days so they can do 2 cycles per week per machine. I wonder if the contents have to sit in each stage for 24 hours or 8 hours, because that may mean higher hardware utilization by two shifts of workers.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-27 15:20:38+00:00
You’ve moved the goal posts.

First, we were talking about an outcome – exploitation of workers.

Your claim, if I understand you correctly is that this outcome is inevitable under capitalism, (perhaps solely possible under capitalism?) and then under some other system you prefer, it would no longer happen, or perhaps be impossible.

My contention is the incentive to exploit exists in all socioeconomic systems, even collective ones. This doesn’t mean there’s no better system, or that we should stop caring, or that we should have no laws regarding it. But if correct, it means the arguing that your preferred system cannot or will not have this outcome, is weak and unconvincing.

Instead of engaging directly with the claim, you pivoted to implying that my argument was that we should not have laws against bad things.

Under capitalism: Both murder and worker exploitation should be illegal. Both murder and worker exploitation will likely occur to one degree or another.

Under collectivism: Both murder and worker exploitation should be illegal. Both murder and worker exploitation will likely occur to one degree or another.

If you want to argue that collectivism is better for other reasons - go nuts! But if your argument is that there will be no power hierarchy, no pressure to achieve goals, and no incentive to exploit then I just don’t think you’re serious.
by sdenton4 | 2025-07-27 15:21:31+00:00
Instead of thinking of this as a benefit of wolves (specifically), you can view it as an advantage of having something in their ecological niche. In this case, the niche is 'apex predator.' It's a niche which is repeated across pretty much every ecosystem. They keep populations of their prey species down, preventing overpopulation and the many indirect problems that come with it.

Perhaps without an apex predator the prey species would evolve out of the overpopulation problem eventually. However, species that evolve with a predator tend to reproduce more quickly, which helps avoid being completely wiped out by the predator - when the population constraint impose by the predator is removed, the prey population explodes, leading to particularly pronounced problems.

(Perhaps if we had to contend with some homo-vampirus, we wouldn't have global climate change...)

Overall, humans already interfered in the shape of the ecosystem by removing wolves. You're correct that there's no objective 'correct' state for an ecosystem. But it is worthwhile to help balance ecosystems, especially when they have been unbalanced by our own interventions. Without restoration work, we're headed to a world with humans, livestock, and the few species that manage to live on our margins.
by zomiaen | 2025-07-27 15:21:36+00:00
I wouldn't say pre-human settlement, since Natives were in these areas for many years, but they didn't have the desire to mass hunt wolves (and culturally, would not do so). So pre-US colonialism, perhaps.

Philosophically though you're correct- humans very easily see themselves as "apart" from the environment, when really we're just another mammal doing our thing. We are nature as much as we are in it, even for all of our tools and manufacturing.
by microtonal | 2025-07-27 15:21:40+00:00
What I love about Lenovo besides PSRef and all the maintenance/repair manuals (with part numbers, so that you know what to get if something needs to be replaced), etc. is that they often certify laptops for Linux.

They also seem to really care about supporting Linux. E.g. WWAN modems need proprietrary unlock procedures these days thanks to the FCC [1]. Most vendors would shrug and say 'sorry, we only support Windows', Lenovo has a repo with Linux support for all the modems that ThinkPads support (you can only use supported modems, because the FCC apparently only certifies laptop/modem combinations, not individual modems):

https://github.com/lenovo/lenovo-wwan-unlock

[1] https://modemmanager.org/docs/modemmanager/fcc-unlock/
by lm28469 | 2025-07-27 15:22:13+00:00
People keep bitching about EU's GDPR but most of it is about sensible things like not storing sensitive data forever just because you can.

Nothing happens to these companies if there are no laws to keep them accountable, most companies I've worked with store everything forever because it's cheap and you never know what might become useful or what you might be able to sell to third parties later
by isaacremuant | 2025-07-27 15:22:59+00:00
No it isn't.

> My ability to get interviews at 22 even without a degree was orders of magnitude higher than it is now despite being 20x more competent.

Then you're doing something very wrong. Also, you may be comparing apples to oranges if you're comparing across different economic condition and seniority roles.

In any case, I think this paragraph says a lot

> He is implying rushing is bad, it’s not. Tech industry is so enamored with young people that learning Next.js and making a dog app is deemed superior than really getting into the nitty gritty.

You're maybe selling yourself poorly or in the wrong places if this is what you see. Maybe your "nitty gritty" doesn't actually solve the customers problem or, if they're solving the wrong problem you're not effective at showing them what they should solve instead and why should they hire you for it.

Norvig's point about acquired wisdom over time is great and your quips sound like a you problem.
by wy471x | 2025-07-27 15:23:49+00:00
Built an AI joke generator that creates contextually relevant jokes from user prompts. Supports text, image, and video generation.

Tech: Next.js, TypeScript, OpenAI API Demo: https://jokeai.com Pricing: $0.0045/text, $0.003/image

Looking for feedback on the AI quality and pricing strategy. What topics would you test?
by zomiaen | 2025-07-27 15:24:13+00:00
The Aspen trees provide ecosystem benefits to animals other than Elk-- birds, etc. Shorter grasses allow smaller animals to live and hide.

It's not choosing species we like as much as that there was previously an equilibrium all ecosystems trend towards, and our influence (killing the wolves) lead to significant ecosystem imbalances that hurt more than just wolves.
by linsomniac | 2025-07-27 15:24:20+00:00
~20 years ago I was helping someone with their storage server for their mail server, it had 8x 10K discs in a RAID-1. It was always struggling to keep up and often couldn't keep up. Intel had just come out with their SSDs, and I had a friend with access to one that was larger in size than the array. I shipped this little laptop drive off to get installed in the storage server.

Once the SSD was on the server, I did a "pvmove" to move the data from spinning array to SSD, while the system was up and running. Over the next several hours the load on the server dropped. It was comical that these 8 hard drives could be replaced by something smaller than my wallet.

But pvmove was the other star of this show.
by camcil | 2025-07-27 15:24:40+00:00
I worked as a civil servant for a decade and a half in various capacities up until a couple of weeks ago. I'm the last person that would tell you that there isn't plenty of fat that could be trimmed. Slicing at random, multiple delayed resignation opportunities, and threatening cuts to benefits, however, is doing the opposite. Those that are skilled enough and in demand, or like me lucky enough, to quickly find other employ, are the ones that are going to leave- leaving behind nothing but the fat.
by dunconian | 2025-07-27 15:24:41+00:00
I also learnt the dubious skill of reading QR codes by hand. At work 1% of the QR codes that we received were not scannable. However when decoded by hand (thanks you this guide and others) they all contained the string we expected.

But there was an error in the error correction pattern. It would flip a bit on the message length. The QR data changed from a string of 4 characters to a string of 933+ characters, and either

- Be unreadable (xzing)

- Return 933+ characters of garbage (cognex)

- crash

- return the previous barcode scanned (iOS)

I really learnt something about Reed Solomon error correction that day. I have the QR code framed somewhere. Sometimes when bored I’ll scan it and confirm that it still brings up whatever I scanned last.
by microtonal | 2025-07-27 15:24:57+00:00
No system is without issues. We used ThunderBolt docks that worked perfectly with macOS, until one major release they became a hell to use because Apple broke something (which manifested as a display not coming back after resume, requiring several plugs/unplugs).

As everyone knows, Windows has its own fair share of issues. The first is that it is not a Unix :).
by nine_zeros | 2025-07-27 15:25:17+00:00
Yes, it predates trump. But prior to trump, Republican voters would hold their representatives accountable. Today, trump's cult is so brainwashed that they are completely ok with pedophilia, internment camps, destruction of services, destruction of science - literally willing to burn American society to ground so that Trump continues in office.

Their priority is Trump and not America. Which is why no one can take republican voters seriously.
by notahacker | 2025-07-27 15:25:30+00:00
Also looks like the paper explicitly said it wasn't doing a public/private sector comparison so much as observing that SpaceX doing repeatable stuff in LEO on short timelines delivered without the cost overruns of NASA doing more complex one-offs over longer timelines and concluding that, surprise surprise, the repeatable stuff and incremental improvement stuff had much better cost control than the deep space science missions and space station enhancements. Yes, if you look at the raw number of missions SpaceX has operated, most of them have been successful Falcon 9 launches and most of them have been to deploy minisats to a standard design, and its track record of these is excellent (including adding reusability). NASA's track record would look a lot better if it mostly launched satellite constellations to LEO too and better still if it held off on planning anything in deep space, but that's not really what NASA is for. If you look at SpaceX in terms of private programmes rather than missions, the Falcon 9 is outstanding and the Starlink minisats work, the Falcon Heavy seems fine, Starship has been going on a very long time (including work before the Starship name was coined like the the Raptor engine) and hasn't achieved anything useful yet, and the stated goal of going to Mars hasn't got off the drawing board. But they're very, very good at building and delivering significant improvements on the repeatable stuff that isn't NASAs focus

Also, if you're doing a fair comparison between public and private sector you've got to consider all the launch startups that aren't SpaceX, including the ones that haven't successfully launched...
by 708145_ | 2025-07-27 15:26:17+00:00
How about possibly also failing for being too US centered, basically being an "internet portal" but mainly for the US. Sure Yahoo where _huge_ 2000, but it was never the main goto portal in Scandinavia where I grew up using internet from the mid 90s.

Here Altavista was the defacto standard for search until Google replaced. For the portal aspect of Yahoo, there were local alternatives with more relevant material.

I don't see that Yahoo ever succeeded globally.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-27 15:26:22+00:00
Even if it would work out to distribute the pork across the continent, the fact is that all this splitting introduces logistical cost (shipping) as well as development costs (red tape needed to approve any change). SpaceX doesn't have any of that crap, and Tesla (with its famous ditching of the old school "auto makers and parts suppliers" ecosystem) either.
by holowoodman | 2025-07-27 15:27:28+00:00
That is garbage collection performance, something that only GC languages even have to consider as additional overhead. It also doesn't even try to compare against anything non-Java.

There are no serious Java performance comparisons on stuff like transaction throughput, which would be what the "long running server application" usecase should aim for. You yourself claimed that enterprise data processing is what you are talking about. There are benchmarks that even with long warmup times make Java come up far worse than all the compiled languages (even Golang nowadays). https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Imho, people have stopped benchmarking Java ages ago, since it is known to be hopeless.
by jajko | 2025-07-27 15:27:36+00:00
Not sure where you live, but that social pressure was/is very soft in Europe. Absolutely nothing happens if there is no diamond, its just people self-pressing themselves in some variant of childhood-like mentality and competitiveness. In my family line, nobody ever bought anything like that.

For any man, for past few decades (at least 3-4) a woman insisting at all costs on big shiny natural diamond is a massive red flag for undesirable personality traits. Given stable divorce rates and general misery on all sides before and after that red flags are and should be considered very intensively. Once physical attraction wanes, only personalities remain.
by xp84 | 2025-07-27 15:27:41+00:00
> There are no incentives until you get screwed over yourself.

In B2B you have a point. In the consumer space this doesn’t happen though. I know several people who have had big snafus with their data with Google, Apple, etc. but none of them moved to self hosting. I agree with the people who have said elsewhere that that’s mainly a user experience problem that could be solved - but I also agree the companies like Google and Apple will not provide any support to any standards which have the potential to commoditize or replace their strings-attached and corporate-controlled services. Meaning self hosting and avoiding those big companies’ stuff will continue to be rather lonely and isolating.
by tmpz22 | 2025-07-27 15:28:14+00:00
Definitely agree. Kids are not prisoners and will react predictably if you try vainly to lock them down. Theyll find vpns, save money for their own phone, barrow a friends ipad, google the simplest way to jailbreak a cheap IoT device, or any of dozens of ways to subvert lockdown.

Or worse the kid wont be subvertive. Theyll be supplicative, submissive, and compliant.

Maybe just spend a few less hours in the office or on netflix and develop a trust filled relationship with your child, prempting the biggest threats with candid conversation about sex, drugs, risk analysis, and the fact that as a parent we broke all those rules too.