MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-11 17:35:09+00:00
No argument there. Where I work (I'm in infrastructure, not a dev) we've switched almost entirely to MacBooks and experienced the same when were a Dell shop. Horrible reliability. We've been on Macs since ~2023 and I've yet to need to send one off for repair or RMA.

I keep them for use at home as Linux machines because of the repairability and ease of upgrading, but my main machine is still a Mac.

I'd love MacBook level of hardware quality combined with easy access to repair and swap parts.
by echelon | 2025-07-11 17:35:09+00:00
Thank you for sharing this!

This is a really interesting story. It's not the US pulling back so much as it is China's rapid and incredible growth. According to this graph, the only period of US scientific expenditure stagnation was during the 2008 housing crisis. Our expenditures over the last decade have been increasing at a pretty good growth rate too.

The data points for the forthcoming years will be interesting (sad) to see after all of these cuts.
by Bender | 2025-07-11 17:35:16+00:00
Something else to factor in is the TTL of both NS/A types for each apex domain and the individual records including sub-domains. Clients will not be querying Quad9 until the TTL expires on their clients. TTL would have to be factored into query rates to determine popularity correctly whereas these lists just show raw query numbers.

For example, there are many records under amazonaws.com that have 5 second TTL's mostly EC2 instances. As such clients will query them at a much higher rate whereas grammarly.io have a number of records with a 900 second TTL. This will skew the ranking positions of the two apex domains. I suppose if one wanted to game this they could have an A record to a non-critical part of a site that is not visibly rendered by the end-user and has a TTL of 1 second assuming quad9 is not rewrite min/max-ttl which some resolvers do.

Examples of just some of the TTL's used on these apex domains excluding individual records:

30 32 60 300 600 900 1200 1800 3600 7200 10800 21600 28800 43200 86400 90000 3600000

Some examples of rewriting max-ttl I forgot which ones rewrite min-ttl:

for Resolver in 1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8 9.9.9.9 216.128.176.142;do echo -en "${Resolver}:\t"; dig @${Resolver} +nocookie +noall +answer -t a big.ohcdn.net;done | column -t 1.1.1.1: big.ohcdn.net. 3628800 IN A 227.227.227.227 8.8.8.8: big.ohcdn.net. 21422 IN A 227.227.227.227 9.9.9.9: big.ohcdn.net. 43200 IN A 227.227.227.227 216.128.176.142: big.ohcdn.net. 3628800 IN A 227.227.227.227 # authoritative server

[Edit] I just realized they made a general statement to this effect in the git repo.
by axoltl | 2025-07-11 17:36:09+00:00
I'm actually very surprised this happened. I've dis- and reassembled dozens of iPhones (from the iPhone 4 all the way up to the iPhone 16) and I've never torn a single flex cable.

You just have to be careful not to pull on the flex, but the connector instead. This logic applies as much to pulling a plug out of a wall socket as it does a thin flex with a board-to-board connector.

That said, would I characterize disassembling any Apple product as "quite friendly"? No. Do not attempt unless you're either familiar with how things go together or you're willing to spend the money to replace the parts you broke. If those aren't options, find a local repair shop.
by danmarket | 2025-07-11 17:36:16+00:00
You don't have to enter an email address! There is a close button very conveniently placed. I will leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.

Ed acknowledges that we don't know their inference costs in the article. But unless they made a Deepseek level of breakthrough in serving through API, they are either breaking even or losing money at each call.

There is a race to the bottom and survival of the deepest pockets right now in the field. And this "subsidy" funded by investors will not last.
by yeahyeahok | 2025-07-11 17:36:32+00:00
Damn. Super bullish on CMU. Somehow, they seem routinely left out of the top CS schools discussion at least in mainstream discourse: MIT, Stanford, Cal, .... Seen a disproportionate amount of stellar research come from there. Also, interestingly, I have met really incompetent people from all the other top 3 schools but am yet to meet an incompetent CMU SCS alum -- wtf are they feeding them in pitsburgh??
by gpm | 2025-07-11 17:36:43+00:00
Currently - claude code is pretty slow. I've definitely had it take >15 minutes on the (faster than opus!) sonnet model just thinking and writing code without feedback or running long lasting tools. I expect this to change given that companies like cerebras exist and seem to know how to generate tokens in much less time, but the current state of the art is what it is.

Always - if you're going to pipe the result of some slow process back to them (like building a giant C++ project that takes minutes/hours, or running a huge set of tests...)... it's going to be slow.
by rdgthree | 2025-07-11 17:37:28+00:00
In my experience, I've found most deeply embedded self-destructive ideas to be rooted in fear.

The brain and body are effectively locked in a paranoid "fight" state - "I know this behavior is unhealthy, but if I don't behave this way, then [insert irrational fear] will happen."

If you can figure out what she is afraid of, you might be able to help her walk back the behaviors from there. But trying to correct the behaviors on their own is very hard. Since the fear is usually irrational, the behaviors may be a relatively rational response to said fear. They may hold the fear itself as table stakes - not understanding that they are afraid of something that isn't real (i.e. I will never find love if I'm not as skinny as the other girls on Instagram).

Again IME - the feeling from inside the self-destructive brain is "I shouldn't be doing this self-destructive behavior, but I don't know another way to achieve X goal, and I absolutely need to achieve X goal." Asking the question "Why do you need so badly to achieve X goal?" is usually a good start to defanging the fear.
by toast0 | 2025-07-11 17:37:32+00:00
> if the turmeric is ground before sale i doubt there's any reason to use lead chromate.

If the roots are wholesaled to the grinder, and the grinder doesn't know that bright means poisoned, they might prefer brighter looking roots. The ground tumeric will be poisoned.

Similarly, if the roots are poisoned and discriminating buyers aren't buying then because they're too bright, you can still grind it and sell it, and the color will blend.
by gtowey | 2025-07-11 17:37:44+00:00
I think it's worse than that. I'm starting to think that there may not really be an ethical way to be a tourist in a foreign country. Especially coming from a high cost of living area to a lower one.

Just being there puts you in economic competition with the locals. You can spend more on everything than everyone else and that raises their costs too. Especially housing and food. Those fancy resorts take all the prime real estate and Airbnb means locals have to compete with the tourist rental prices.

And there is more and more people traveling all the time so some areas are just overloaded -- as in the article here.

Everyone thinks that they are being more respectful than average as a tourist, but the hard truth is that the best thing you can do for these places is to not be there at all.
by thephyber | 2025-07-11 17:37:44+00:00
I never believed that such a high value and such a capital heavy investment could be sustained on just $20/mo.

But I don’t blame the foundation model platforms for giving users a taste and then rolling back the features / quantity of tokens per $ after giving them a taste. They needed to get started somewhere and they were able to offer an amazing product for an affordable price.

It’s not until after the heaviest users start to abuse the subscription tier they are on that the platform understands how their product scales.
by diggan | 2025-07-11 17:37:54+00:00
Thanks a bunch of clarifying all the details! Maybe worth putting the info in some FAQ or somewhere on the website as well, always good to have somewhere for when people go looking :)

Thanks a bunch for OpenFront as well, it's a really fun game I've spent lots of hours with already, although it's really hard :P Excited to see how the trains will be worked in, but it's also really enjoyable as it is so again, thanks for working on it!
by stronglikedan | 2025-07-11 17:37:57+00:00
> specifically AA have embedded themselves into the government and law system of the united states in particular

You could literally say the same about any special interest group in any country.

> Glad i'm not american.

Me too, but the difference is that you don't see me thinking I know anything about UK politics or special interest groups.

I'd even wager that you've never even set foot in a meeting in an attempt to alleviate your naivety.
by aenis | 2025-07-11 17:38:09+00:00
But we hold engineers to much higher ethical standards than management. One does not expect management to blow the whistle - or even understand whats what when dealing with complex issues in distributed systems. If the engineers start lying - its game over.

I cried when I was reading the book. So much suffering. Bought a copy for all the it architects in my company and asked all of them to read it. Should be part of curriculum for aspiring software engineers.
by jchw | 2025-07-11 17:38:13+00:00
Honestly I think this is overstating things, most connectors on most laptops and phones are surprisingly robust. I've opened god knows how many laptops and phones, including some iPhones, and really those tiny ribbon cables have surprised me. Funny enough the one time I did break a ribbon cable it was actually the right joycon rail on a Nintendo Switch and it was quite an unreasonable amount of force I applied (by accident, of course...) I always smile a little seeing people on YouTube with super fine pliars carefully and tenderly taking off connectors, I usually use a butter knife or something like that to get them off and then replace them just using my finger. I actually worry more about carelessly creasing them too much rather than ripping them. Some of those things feel like they would require quite a lot of force to actually outright rip.

The actual issue I have with phones isn't that the connectors/cables break apart if you look at them funny, it's actually the god damn screens are insane to deal with and replace, with all of that adhesive crap.

This all to say, I think Apple is doing poorly here, their ribbon cables should probably be more robust on these often quite expensive devices. I know they can do it because I've experienced Apple devices with pretty robust internals... (and also similarly, have seen and heard of Apple devices where they've mysteriously cheaped out on components like voltage regulators and made their devices totally unnecessarily worse and more failure prone.)
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-11 17:38:54+00:00
> The Palestinians offered peace many times.

Can you list those "many times"?

> The difference is that the Egyptians had a serious army that scared the bejeezus out of the Israelis is 1973. Israel only respects the language of force.

You mean the one that Israel won? You do realize that your argument holds no water for the simple reason that there was like 5-6 years between the war of 1973 and siding of the peace deal? If Egyptian army was so strong, why did they left Sinai in Israeli hands after the war of 1973? If this army was so strong why did they need to sign a peace deal at all?

> Israel has a massive "pay for slay" program. It's called the IDF.

Can you point me to the part of this "program" that increases the pay to IDF soldiers with number of Palestinians they kill?

I think it will be hard for you to find this part for a simple reason -- it does not exist. Service in the IDF is not voluntary, and the salary for every soldier is the same.

Palestinian government-sponsored terrorism is completely different: first of all, you are not forced to participate, and second -- the more you kill, the more money you get.

So, you can continue with these false equivalences but they hold no water, and easy to dispute.
by ta8645 | 2025-07-11 17:39:32+00:00
The supermassive black hole is also just a small part of an unimaginably large universe. But if you got too close to it, you would indeed find it is a higher power than yourself, lol.

But the higher power in the AA context is a deep recognition that we are subordinate to the laws of nature. Which is indeed a kind of higher power; we are subordinate to the laws of nature, and can not exert our own will to overcome them. It is that recognition and submission to reality that can engender a humility and peace essential to recovery from addiction.

It only represents incoherent nonsense to someone who is very literally minded and can not integrate relatively simple concepts into their own rigid mental framework.
by diggan | 2025-07-11 17:39:33+00:00
> When does a marketing tactic become “traditional”?

The original message was:

> And expect to do tons of marketing.

Which putting a "Powered by" button isn't, it's basically a software, UX and design task instead. I guess by "traditional" marketing I meant the type of activities that require active effort to do, compared to something like that.
by Tainnor | 2025-07-11 17:39:42+00:00
> The conceptual difference here is important. The goal should be to preserve privacy, not fine arbitrary large amounts of money. Like, sometimes you do need to fine people but personally I'd prefer auditing requirements for Meta/Google et al rather than fines.

I'm operating under the assumption that most tech giants (and in particular Meta) are doing everything in their power to keep violating people's privacy as long as they can get away with it.

Since it's impossible to audit everything such a huge corporation is doing and since cases can take a very long time to resolve (after which the damage is often already done), the huge fines are for scaring companies into submission. I am perfectly fine with that, no actually: I wish the fines were so big that they were actually threatening the business's survival.

> I'm not sure where the right balance is, tbh.

I'm probably the wrong person to ask because I think that Facebook simply shouldn't exist.
by imilk | 2025-07-11 17:39:48+00:00
> let them SFTP some markdown files

Have you ever worked with any SMBs before? This is at least 5 technical levels above their head. Would make as much sense as telling them, "just use this CLI tool".

We're talking about people who will email you from their phone that the website is down, but it turns out it's just their home internet that is down.

Or think that the website disappeared from the internet. When in reality it's now the #2 result in google and they never knew they you could type a URL directly into the browser.
by daveguy | 2025-07-11 17:39:49+00:00
So there are two different places that a coup against bitcoin could occur? Processing and Software.

With something like 45% of processing controlled by entities in Iran, China, and Russia, it seems like an absolute fools game to put any significant wealth in Bitcoin. All it would take is a significantly effective worm to destroy bitcoin. But hypers gonna hype.

You couldn't pay me to hold a Bitcoin.
by clickety_clack | 2025-07-11 17:40:50+00:00
Isn’t it the “deep state” and “government coverup” type of theories that are conspiracy theories? The flat earth thing is an example of that, where the theory is that “they” (the government or big globe or whoever) are trying to convince you that the world is round when it’s actually flat.

Note that the article we’re discussing specifically mentions “people who believe in conspiracies” in the first line.
by spacechild1 | 2025-07-11 17:41:11+00:00
Again, Grok is consulting Elon's recent Twitter posts as part of its reasoning. This is on a whole different level. It is a fact that Elon was personally unhappy with some of Grok's answers and tried to "fix" it, i.e. align it with his personal political views. This is just crazy narcissistic and megalomaniac behaviour.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-07-11 17:41:35+00:00
> Healthy, sane people in good situations don't kill themselves.

Correct. This has no bearing.

> it ended up killing some of them.

No, and it's irresponsible and unhelpful to act like agency and choice is not part of the equation. As if to say that basically everyone chooses the same way (euthanasia) in the face of terminal illness, or depression.

Tautologically, if you want to convey that help is out there and that a better life is possible, then you're saying people have a choice to make.
by drweevil | 2025-07-11 17:42:18+00:00
Lowering inflation by cutting scientific research is like trying to free up disk space by deleting the odd text file. (Some numbers, for context: 2024 National Science Foundation budget ~$10B, Musk annual compensation at Tesla, ~$45B, Defense spending 2024 ~$850B)

Lowering inflation by cutting social services is like trying to free up disk space by deleting `/usr`. It will be devastating.

Meanwhile the wealthy have sequestered so much wealth for themselves that it makes any talk of "reducing inflation" by taking it out on the general population as the anti-democratic sham it is. Our government is purportedly Of the people, For the people, and By the people. For this to happen the government must function as an agent for the people, not just for the tiny minority of them who own the wealth.
by ac794 | 2025-07-11 17:42:49+00:00
Most of the benefits of blue(dark?)-sky research are unpredictable almost by definition. We're exploring for the sake of finding answers about the universe, and in the process learning 'unknown unknowns' which may pay off later. Using your example - quantum mechanics wasn't invented with computer chips in mind.

Having said that I think that there are some practical benefits coming from this research that aren't commonly discussed. For example: adaptive optics - which is heavily used in astronomy - is also used in medical imaging and national defense. Astronomers also drive a lot of detector development. Previously this was the CCD, now things are moving into new, exotic devices like MKIDs. Maybe one of these new detectors will end up in a mobile phone camera in the future, and you'll be able to take excellent photos in low-light levels. There are many more examples I'm sure, but this is just what I have off the top of my head..

The final practical AND philosophical application I can think of, is that we are about 10-20 years away from putting direct constraints on life in the universe. A big proportion of astronomers are currently working on this. I think an answer to this question will dramatically change how society views itself.
by lejalv | 2025-07-11 17:42:49+00:00
"It is long overdue that the world is coming together," says Samatha Power <https://www.usaid.gov/organization/samantha-power>, who runs USAID.

That is a 404. And the homepage has a Notification of Administrative Leave

As of 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 23, 2025, all USAID direct hire personnel, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and/or specially designated programs, will be placed on administrative leave globally (...)
by aenis | 2025-07-11 17:42:50+00:00
Read the book, if you havent already. The senior technical staff was actively obfuscating and lying. Developers knew the system had synchronization issues, operations knew as well, as they were apparently routinely doing manual data fixes in production. Senior engineering staff are the most to blame. They messed up and then covered up. The fact that their management covered up some more can be partially excused by technical illiteracy.
by alistairSH | 2025-07-11 17:42:53+00:00
Maybe but at some point, isn't your problem the same valuing a single dollar? We can compare the USD against other fiat currency, but they're all valued against the USD or some other bucket of fiat currencies. Or, you could try to tie the value of the dollar against a bucket of goods, but that's also just moving the goalposts around.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-11 17:43:35+00:00
The dangerous ones pick ever loftier goals (colonize Mars) and then bet everything on it. Everything. Their time, their reputation, their relationships, their fortune, their companies, their morals, everything they’ve ever built...

That's not Musk. I mean, if it was Musk he'd be a much more wholesome character. He'd realize that there are at most 3 chances to go to Mars in a two-term presidency and he'd better keep everybody sweet. He wouldn't be digging tunnels under Las Vegas and buying Twitter and picking the fights he does. He'd be cultivating an image the way Warren Buffer did that opened doors and didn't open them. He shouldn't be thinking about tapping people's brain, he should be thinking about finishing the job that Eric Drexler started because that's the critical path to "disturbing the universe" but no full self-driving will be available in 8 weeks...

Zuckerberg with VR might be a better example. When it comes to his existing platforms he seems to be "careless", my take is that's he's even "careless" about the aspects in which his VR platform is already successful (a game store) because he's wishing for something else. (I get pinged with notifications on my phone about a game that's 50% off and I want to buy, but it doesn't drop me to a landing page for that game but rather to a disorganized home page which I find really tiring to engage with) You hear here and there he's got a boyish interest in Ancient Rome or UFC or something like that, but unlike Musk he doesn't seem to be whole-heartedly into anything and when shareholders slap his wrist over being distracted by AI he half-heartedly looks like he's pivoting into half-heartedness but boy he's got a genius for acquisitions to reinforce his monopolies or just plain acquisitions of monopolists (Luxotica) and he scares me about as much as the witch in that Narnia movie who looks more like a junkie than anything else.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-11 17:43:53+00:00
> Whether you are a refugee or not, the act of displacing the native population (and Jews from eastern Europe and Russia are not native to Palestine), and maintaining that displacement and subsequent subjugation is colonialism.

But they did not displace the population. They arrived to the area in the beginning of 1900s. The war of 1948 was much later.

> In fact, organisations like the Jewish Colonisation Fund existed for the purpose of facilitating immigration to Palestine.

The same way numerous NGOs help migrants today to move and settle in the EU. I am willing to bet $100 you do not see them as colonizers, right?

> If this is how you characterise the birth of Israel, then you are sorely misinformed. Israel was created through a terrorist campaign of ethnic cleansing starting in early 1948 with the forced depopulation hundreds of thousands of native Palestinians from their villages accompanied by massacres like Deir Yassin, i.e. the Nakba. This was the culmination of the Zionist rhetoric of "transfer" of Palestinians from their land and in effect has continued to this day.

You are twisting facts and lying again. The purchase of lands happened way before the British mandate even. Are you saying it never happened?

> Zionism is a replication of white European colonialism, but performed by Jewish European people, and partly encouraged by European powers primarily for geopolitical and also partly religious purposes (see Christian Zionism). It uses the dubious Jewish ancestral claim to the land as well as past oppression to create a Jewish ethno state and oppress a people who is probably more related in ancestry to the original Jewish people than most Jews (except those that had been there for generations).

How can jews be white when they were never considered the same class citizens in Europe at the time? LOL

Man, why are you like that? Why do you ignore any historical evidence that does not fit your narrative? Why do you apply different standards to jews and not jews in the same situations?