MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apgwoz | 2025-07-21 16:57:28+00:00
> I wish I didn’t know who Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot are. As you no doubt know by now…

You have a choice to not write the article, and thereby not spread it.

In a Slack someone posted the statement from Astronomer, and I had no idea what the statement was referring to. Now I can’t get away from hearing about the story.
by dsr_ | 2025-07-21 16:57:32+00:00
If they hadn't thought that there was something shameful in what they were doing, they would not have reacted that way, and nobody would know who they are.

(Reference: everyone else, to a first approximation, ever highlighted by a kisscam.)

Ethical polygamists wouldn't have reacted that way. Friends with nothing to hide wouldn't have reacted that way.

If you have something to hide, being out in public and acting ashamed about it is terrible tradecraft.

I am not making a "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" dismissal; this is a "don't be stupid in public" dismissal.
by runxel | 2025-07-21 16:57:42+00:00
Both ideas are pretty old (50s) and in development for a long time. Both designs have their pros and cons. The biggest drawback of the Tokamak however is that it can only be pulsed... which is kind of dumb to actually generate and provide energy in the long run. You really want the Stellarator here, since there it is at least theoretically possible to run "for ever" (not entirely true, but long enough cycles to be used in a power plant).

There are 2 podcast episodes with the guys who run Wendelstein here: http://www.alternativlos.org/51/ (it's German tho)
by DiabloD3 | 2025-07-21 16:58:16+00:00
Your pet theory needs work.

1) I have no issues throwing ROCm (which still uses its own path in the driver) at my Radeon at the same time I'm hammering it with "normal" path APIs (Legacy D3D, D3D12, OpenGL, Vulkan, etc), they are scheduled normally and compete for GPU resources normally.

2) ROCm memory allocation is weird in the driver. I have gotten my GPU to hardlock the entire system by allocating about 2x my VRAM, because I suspect its misusing/overusing mprotect().
by npteljes | 2025-07-21 16:58:22+00:00
Some do come with Linux preinstalled, but there is a lot of mess in this regard. "Windows tax" was one of such things, the Windows bundling went so hard[0] that it was more expensive to buy a computer without Windows than with[1]. Absolute nonsense, that more or less stopped now. But of course we are well past the Windows platform establishing itself, so now the network effect is a larger contributor I'd say.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows#...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/4ewnoi/if_...
by scarecrowbob | 2025-07-21 16:58:24+00:00
Location and use are big factors, I am sure.

I am writing from an off-grid shack in rural CO where I have installed a fairly nice panel, storage, and inverter system (4kw panels, 15kwh batteries, 6kw inverter).

I'm about $10k into that project (though I did all the labor, and didn't count that), but the easement and company equipment would have been $25k-$35k... much more effecient from a money perspective to go with solar out here in the sticks.

I am sure that in places like space, where there are no gas stations (or much solid matter at all), solar is going to be an easier deal than petrochemicals.
by reactordev | 2025-07-21 16:58:25+00:00
I recently tried Replit. After it chewed through all the available free agent credits. It gave up. I then received an email that my account was banned for violating the terms of service (which includes all sorts of squishy language).

Replit is a cash grab. It couldn't build a basic app with Three.js without stepping on itself.

Claude Code is the only AI tool that can grok my C++ codebase.

Cursor feels right so long as you have proper .md's

Waiting for access to Kiro to try it.

Currently running GGUF models on my own with an OpenAI mock server I wrote so Continue.dev works in VS Code as an agent. Meh. I don't want to spend a bunch of money for a project that I can't use in the end so I don't waste my money on tokens.
by bluGill | 2025-07-21 16:58:49+00:00
> Their job is to understand you, and act on your behalf in the matters you delegate, knowing what outcome you would choose yourself.

And that works very well even today when you are high enough to get a personal secretary. For the engineer who always shared the secretary with several others she didn't know you as well, and in any case their preferences were not important enough to consider (you don't get first class options).

Even for my boss, outlook is a force multiplier over a secretary because he (happens to be he today, has been she in the past, and likely will be again in a few years) doesn't have very many things where knowing preferences matter and doesn't have such complex scheduling needs that a human needs to do it. The ability to schedule his own meetings is much more powerful than asking someone to do it - while it might take more time to do it he can see that by not inviting one person the meeting can be had sooner and that is a much greater multiplier than the time saves by having someone else who not knowing those details delays the meeting until everyone can be there.

Yes when your situation is such that a secretary can "understand you, and act on your behalf in the matters you delegate, knowing what outcome you would choose yourself" it is a force multiplier. However most of us are not really that different from anyone else and even where we are we are not allowed the level of differentiation. We also don't have nearly the ability to delegate things, much less enough things that someone else can delegate them on our behalf. And so for most of us outlook is a force multiplier over the secretary we would get.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-07-21 16:59:04+00:00
This isn’t just a private matter this was a work affair between the CEO and HR and that affects the work lives of everyone at the company. Not only is there an official corporate structure but there is now an unofficial power dynamic that complicates and tarnishes the working environment, especially when some employees know and others do not. Employees are powerless to do anything about this rather common set of circumstances and have jumped on their chance to add to the disapproval. I think that’s the factor that has given this story legs. I think two non-execs people working at different companies would not have become nearly as viral.
by vonneumannstan | 2025-07-21 16:59:08+00:00
>1. I had to anesthetize the patient in the sub-basement, two floors below the main OR — where there were always other anesthesiologists able to help in an emergency. In the MRI suite, no one could hear my silent screams if I got in trouble nor were there knowledgeable extra hands to, for example, squeeze the breathing bag if I needed to prepare for an emergency intubation.

You are allowed to put patients under general with no one else present? That doesn't seem like it should be possible
by anonymars | 2025-07-21 16:59:11+00:00
Although it looks like the heat indeed makes it worse

> If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems.

https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/114813152373394985
Show HN: LaunchBoard – Post your product, get feedback, skip the noise
by roubalsehgal | 2025-07-21 16:59:22+00:00
I built https://launchboard.dev as a lightweight alternative to big launch sites like producthunt. No trending hacks, no algorithm games—just a public feed of new products, sorted by time and supported by real people.

What it has:

Upvotes and comments (but no hidden ranking tricks)

Clean product pages with custom URLs

No gatekeeping—anyone can launch

Built for indie hackers, small teams, and solo builders.

Would love feedback. It's live and open to all.
by righthand | 2025-07-21 16:59:22+00:00
Why? All of that stuff came out of a growing internet. It didn’t come pre-packaged. I’m not saying there aren’t better internets in the future, I am saying this one is low friction and by throwing everything on a blockchain you remove the frictionless environment. And honestly I don’t see how any of that negative stuff goes away in your proposal.

I am not sure why you think it’s expensive to get a website up and running.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-21 16:59:55+00:00
Both top down and bottom up approaches can be used with dynamic programming. DP is about how you approach solving a problem by breaking it into subproblems (see the term used, "optimal substructure"). Whether you use that information for a top-down (often memoized) solution or a bottom-up solution is a choice for the implementor (and which depends on how you're using your solver and solutions).

If you need to solve one problem, bottom-up is often most efficient. But if you need to solve many related problems (say trialing many different initial conditions) then you may want the memoized solution.
by Rajdev | 2025-07-21 17:01:00+00:00
Working on Powerful self-hosted Deepsearch Agents using open-source models. They deliver 80–90% of ChatGPT's deep search capabilities while cutting compute costs by 90%.

Thanks for @Alibaba_Qwen and @deepseek_ai for making this possible.

Check it out - http://intraplex.ai
by CalChris | 2025-07-21 17:01:07+00:00
I used an iPhone as an air pressure recorder. There's an app for that; many actually. Anyways, the trunk gate on my car wasn't sealing and when it went over pavement joints on the highway it would slightly open and then close in quick succession which was nauseating. I showed the data to Tesla service and they (grumbled and) readjusted the trunk gate. The problem disappeared.
by trunnell | 2025-07-21 17:01:24+00:00
They mention California. https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply is a dashboard showing electricity demand and supply, real-time and historical.

Yesterday evening's peak demand was between 7-8pm at 30.7 gigawatts. Supply breakdown around 8pm:

Batteries: 8.4 GW Natural gas: 6.0 GW Renewables: 5.4 GW Large hydro: 4.4 GW Imports: 4.1 GW Nuclear: 2.3 GW

This is a remarkable development. All of the peak demand supplied from batteries used to be supplied by natural gas just a couple years ago.
by ksec | 2025-07-21 17:01:25+00:00
It is not that "Instant responsiveness in user interfaces is annoying". It is that certain features should not have Instant responsiveness, while other features should.

Generally speaking I want instant response especially on native apps, but I agree with all the examples you gave especially when it has something to do with Internet. I actually want consistent rendering time across the site rather than fastest possible page view every time.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-21 17:01:56+00:00
Recursive from top or recursive bottom up?

If you go bottom up, you don't need any memoization. You just keep the paths and compare them, discarding the ones that are guaranteed to be suboptimal. This way initially, you will have N paths of length 1 (the leaves) and each step up you will have -1 path to keep, where the paths grow by 1 element.

If you go recursively from the top, then you don't know anything about the lower levels and thus must "fork" into left and right branch at each step, until you reach the bottom, from which you start filling the cache with the results of subproblems.

Of course one problem of using a global cache is, that parallelizing this becomes ugly and requires a mutex, while in contrast with the bottom up idea you can cleanly separate, because you don't need any global state at all.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-07-21 17:01:58+00:00
That's how it goes most of the time. First you have to make it work somehow, often in a very complex way. Once you have something that works, either you can strip away a lot or the components get commoditized and you can buy them in a nice package. A lot of our devices are super complex but you can build a device without much knowledge because the complexity is hidden away in nicely packaged components.
by chimeracoder | 2025-07-21 17:02:05+00:00
> That's an interesting effect but I really don't think that's a significant driver here. It really seems to me like they're just being threatened by activists, journalists, and activist investors.

Right-wing groups like Exodus Cry and Morality in Media (the groups behind the shutdown of Xtube, and the all-but-shutdown of Pornhub[0], as well as the short-lived ban of pornography on OnlyFans) are definitely the driving force behind these bans, but fundamentally the card networks are ambivalent at best when it comes to anything that could be remotely considered pornographic.

[0] Pornhub still operates, but they removed all "non-verified" content, so it mostly serves as an marketing outlet for studios and OnlyFans creators, and all of the older content that was never verified was removed entirely.
by philippemnoel | 2025-07-21 17:02:18+00:00
One of the ParadeDB maintainers here -- Being PostgreSQL wire protocol compatible is very different from being built inside Postgres on top of the Postgres pages, which is what ParadeDB does. You still need the "T" in ETL, e.g. transforming data from your source into the format of the sink (in your example CrateDB). This is where ETL costs and brittleness come into play.

You can read more about it here: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/block_storage_part_one
by intalentive | 2025-07-21 17:02:54+00:00
>Housing is not a standalone crisis, but a symptom of a larger dysfunctional economic engine that simply does not work for the majority.

Great point. Healthcare, debt, and housing affordability are interlinked issues that stem from one root: a financialized economy that benefits a tiny minority of rent-seekers at the expense of productive activity and the public at large.

Three potential outcomes of this trajectory:

1. Permanent extreme inequality enforced by a "post-liberal" surveillance state.

2. A moderating force, an FDR-like reformer, who represses capital for its own good.

3. Political instability and violence a la Luigi Mangione or worse.
by no_wizard | 2025-07-21 17:03:11+00:00
This is definitely debatable. I grok the composable functions model quite well, and hooks let you separate logic out of components extremely well and intuitively once you understand the basics of React.

By comparison, I feel class component's promoted 'mile high' components where everything was inside of the class, which has many enormous drawbacks, one of the biggest being maintainability.

To this today though, I feel most people don't understand the simple rule of UI is the last mile concern. Developers still cram way too much into components rather than separating layers of concerns
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-21 17:03:28+00:00
> But it's a sad world the one where citizens are so helpless against their governments and the corporations.

Helpless indeed - but, government still requires the consent of the governed. It's just that we are all very comfortable, with a lot to lose and easily distracted, so that consent to be governed is too easily given nowadays.

If we do anything together as a society it should be making sure to preserve E2E Encryption as it's one of the most important tools to organize a resistance should we wish to revoke our consent to be governed.
by gpm | 2025-07-21 17:04:28+00:00
> Solar and batteries are still more expensive than gas (as the article admits)

On the contrary

> The sunniest US city, Las Vegas [...] It could get to 60% solar+storage at $65/MWh — cheaper than gas.

The article asserts that until you are generating the majority of your power from Solar+Storage, at least in favorable places, solar is cheaper than gas...

And it reached that conclusion under the incredibly unfavourable assumption that all the solar is in the same place, not being distributed around by a grid averaging out the amount of cloud cover over space.
by BJones12 | 2025-07-21 17:04:38+00:00
What an idiotic article.

> Someone posted the footage online. A pile-up ensued. And their lives were turned upside down.

No, they created a situation where their lives would inevitably be turned upside down, and one of many possible triggers was hit.

> any of us might, for any particular reason, become... flawed people in the wrong place at the wrong time

No, they are people who chose to break their word to their spouses, and to break the social contract.

> the viral potential of these kinds of stories is a warning sign that our culture is obsessed with shame, surveillance, and control.

Shame is how a society polices its members without violence. Shame is good because it leaves the parties healthier than the alternative. They deserved to be shamed.

> An obsession with other people’s private lives is a sickness.

No, it has been the normal state of humans for probably as long as humans have existed. Humans survive in groups.
by scotty79 | 2025-07-21 17:04:44+00:00
> An increase in housing supply leads to a fall in prices, which leads to a fall in supply? No, in fact the conclusion contradicts the premise.

That's econ 101. Or even common sense 101. If something is a worse deal because prices just dropped then people are less likely to start making it. Hence the supply stops rising and even drops because some people overshot in their business plans and now they stop making it because they just found out it's bo longer as profitable as they expected.

Aren't you the one that just sees the one side of how supply curve works and forgot to check back with how the real world works?
by autoexec | 2025-07-21 17:04:58+00:00
I remember having to download the Australian version of Fahrenheit because the US release (renamed as Indigo Prophecy) was censored. In my experience the US loves violence while the rest of the world is more likely to censor it, but the US hates sex, alcohol, and anything else that might possibly offend Christians (including religious references and iconography like how Final Fantasy was censored to rename the spell "Holy" and the Tower of Prayers). Germans censor anything nazi related in the same way, banning swastikas like the US removes crosses. Japan seems the least likely to censor artistic works, and when they do it's often for violence.
by stackskipton | 2025-07-21 17:05:11+00:00
For me, I don't use Datadog so it's not that $ParticularTool does not work with logs, it's all stuff I put in my original post, it's a ton of samples, filtering puts heavy strain on the systems and it's extremely brittle IME.

If you have good metrics, you can generally get much further not even logging aggregating outside tossing everything into STDOUT and checking on it when you have alerts.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-07-21 17:05:26+00:00
Does the IMO reuse problems? My understanding is that new problems are submitted each year and 6 are selected for each competition. The submitted problems are then published after the IMO has concluded. How would the training data contain unpublished, newly submitted problems?

Obviously the training data contained similar problems, because that's what every IMO participant already studies. It seems unlikely that they had access to the same problems though.
by throwanem | 2025-07-21 17:05:50+00:00
28 bytes out of ~225 bits, sure. (I compute 228 bits, but precision gets funny with quantities so large. Interestingly, an emulated TI-86 and a real TI-89 Titanium returned different answers; the latter wasn't even divisible by 8!)

For movie-plot '52 pick-up' that's not so bad, especially if used to encode something like a key for the "Solitaire" cryptosystem, mentioned nearby, wherein the same deck can in turn be reconfigured and manipulated to generate an arbitrary-length keystream for application to a longer message transmitted under separate cover.
by serf | 2025-07-21 17:05:51+00:00
this is a more common occurrence than "CEO refunded me my money." would have you believe.

LLMs specialize in self-apologetic catastrophe, which is why we run agents or any LLMs with 'filesystem powers' in a VM, with a git repo and saved rollback states. This isn't a new phenomenon and it sucks, no reason to be caught with your pants down with sufficient layering of protection.
by waterheater | 2025-07-21 17:07:10+00:00
Tokamaks are conceptually elegant but contain significant inefficiencies which negatively impact potential net power output. Both tokamaks and optimized stellarators have magnetic fields possessing omnigeneity [1], but tokamaks require two magnetic fields (poloidal and toroidal) whereas stellarators employ one.

The bigger question is if magnetic confinement fusion will lead to the best energy producing devices. Competitors include inertial confinement, pinches, or some other exotic method. If a magnetic confinement fusion device produces net power, it's going to be a stellarator.

Sources:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnigeneity
by calibas | 2025-07-21 17:07:46+00:00
Huge flaw in his reasoning:

> Group chats, dating apps, emails — or in Byron’s and Cabot’s case, simply being in public with no intention to be filmed — should not be subject to public judgement.

He's equating things where you should have an expectation of privacy with "simply" cheating on one's spouse in a public space.

And why does intention matter? People should have expectations of privacy in public spaces if they don't intend to be seen? Is that really the claim here?
by bluGill | 2025-07-21 17:07:51+00:00
That is the point: There is only one San Francisco. If you insist on living there you will have to pay the price. If you can move across the bay you can get a different price - is this the entire bay you could move across from or is the north/south side better? Or maybe you can move to a suburb of Omaha there are some nice ones, but most of us couldn't even name one (most of us wouldn't even think of Omaha if asked to list world cities)

Likewise if you need a famous musician there isn't room for everyone to know 10,000 different musicians. However if you can accept any musician there are 10,000 great ones to choose from.
by hollywood_court | 2025-07-21 17:07:57+00:00
Nope. It's weird because the company I worked for years ago still to this day spends a great deal of time and energy promoting anti-union stances and making sure the employees know that unions are bad for them.

But at the same time, the company adopts a lot of union practices. For example, they pay based on tenure and not performance. So it doesn't matter how productive you are. You could be the single most productive individual on your line, but the guy who has been there longer is going to get paid more. Even though that guy is likely rather less productive than you.

But these companies pay so poorly that the only people applying for these jobs are people straight out of jail/prison.

When I ran the CNC line, there were ~350 people on the floor between the two 12 hour shifts. Of those ~350, there were only two of us that had never been to state or federal prison.

So the company knows that they have these employees right where they want them. The employees are too afraid to organize or even speak out.