MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by engeljohnb | 2025-08-23 14:40:17+00:00
I go to bed at 8-9pm and get up at 4:30.

My fiance and I don't have kids. I'm sure this is the biggest factor to allow me to live by this schedule.

Having a short commute helps a lot obviously, but I still was able to keep this schedule back when I had an hour commute. Back then, if we had even one errand to run after work, it was straight to bed when we got home, so we usually tried to keep errands to the weekend. Even if we had no errands, a lot of days we only had time to cook dinner and watch an episode of the Office.

Now we have a 10min commute, so after work we have time for an errand or two, then go to the gym, then we can even watch movie or something before bed.

I cook easy meals, things that don't take long and don't require more than a pot or a skillet. I don't mean microwave garbage or instant ramen either. I mean things like soups and beer-steamed sausage.

However, this usually leads me to eating the same few meals over and over. If I ever want more variety, I meal-prep on the weekend.

My fiance and I don't usually clean on weekdays. We probably live like slobs by some people's standards, but we're never more than 20min from a clean house.

As for social life... All of our friends live too far away to see them on weekdays anyway.
by lazyweb | 2025-08-23 14:40:37+00:00
I generally agree. But then again, we had Master/Slave IDE connectors, floppy drives, _extremely_ shitty CPU sockets (broke plenty of Sockel A / 370 cooler latches), nothing (including keyboards and mice!) was hot-pluggable ...

Regarding your last point: that's just market segmentation. Plenty of lanes on server CPUs. Remember Linus' rant about Intels refusal to offer ECC for consumer CPUs?
AWS account access problem – support not responding after 48h
by tourcoder | 2025-08-23 14:41:15+00:00
Hi all,

I’m stuck with an AWS account access issue and hoping someone here has advice.

My root login email suddenly stopped working — when I try to sign in, AWS says “account does not exist.” But the account definitely still exists (I even have recent billing emails). I also know my password, but the login system won’t recognize the root email anymore.

I opened a support case and provided billing statements, payment card details, and other ownership proof. 48 hours ago, AWS support told me they would escalate it internally and asked me to wait. Since then, there’s been no progress or communication at all.

Has anyone here dealt with AWS account access problems like this? How long does it normally take, and is there any way to push AWS to actually take action?

Thanks in advance.
by schwentkerr | 2025-08-23 14:41:22+00:00
reflection

observing how gen ai enters banking feels like watching a new instrument take shape:

fraud detection & personalisation sharpen yet real gain lies in workforce transformation

question

how do we cultivate human agent synergy not just tool adoption?

paradox

scaling automation increases need for human foresight

prediction

w/i a year ai agents run fraud detection 24/7 while employees focus on strategy, oversight & customer trust.
by kenmacd | 2025-08-23 14:41:31+00:00
Not sure on the reputation, but I personally haven't had any issues emailing people using gmail or microsoft. They have a good DNS Diagnostics page that checks all your domains DKIM/SPF/DMARC settings.

I've been using identities created in the admin panel, but they do have subdomain addresses where everything to *@user.domain goes to user@domain, and you can configure a 'Catchall' address (and of course 'plus addresses'). I haven't used either though.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-08-23 14:42:01+00:00
LLMs don't provide correct answers to all questions

An unreliable "answer" is really not an *answer* in the traditional sense of computing. It is merely information waiting to be verified.

No one has to verify every calculation in a spreadsheet. If they reasonably needed to do so, spreadsheets would be more like an LLM --- and a lot less useful.
by gottorf | 2025-08-23 14:43:08+00:00
> “understanding” someone who doesn’t believe that people shouldn’t be treated equally and with respect because of the color of their skin, their sexuality, etc.

Can you steelman the culturally conservative viewpoint? I find this to be a big blind spot in today's progressive thinkers; i.e. it's hard for someone in that camp to explain why anyone would have voted for Trump, without dipping into the "they know not what they're voting for" or "they're just ignorant, racist, and hateful" buckets.

> Alabama and Mississippi are just…different.

I'm a visibly nonwhite immigrant who moved to one of those "different" states from a large coastal metro. I'm not treated any worse or differently in society.

Perhaps the biggest disparity I've noticed is that the Old South still believes that it's good for society for people of various backgrounds to assimilate to one central culture, whereas the more cosmopolitan metros seem to have declared assimilation as an imposition on minority groups.

I believe the former to be the correct position, and closer to the original "liberal" belief that anybody, no matter what they look like, will be treated equally as long as they are willing to play by the same rules. The latter viewpoint to me is very much like "separate but equal"; no one cultural group has any say over another, and there is not one standard set of behaviors that everyone is expected to conform to, because differences are valued over unity.

It has been fascinating to see, as someone with an outsider's background, the realignment of political thought over the past decade or two.
by metalman | 2025-08-23 14:43:58+00:00
Now that the US is eliminating satelite based monitering of emmisions there is no way to do a definitive study on S0² concentrations over shipping lanes, and the earlier tentative conclusions will have to be disregarded. The very far fetched conjecture that adding S0² emmisions into the stratosphere without actualy increasing C0² and water vapor related and overall heat gain, is maddness.
by CheeseFromLidl | 2025-08-23 14:43:59+00:00
I’d like to ask to repeat this experiment but with a ferrite core next to the sensor (touching it). On the low spectrum (below a few MHz?) the magnetic component in the electromagnetic wave becomes dominant. Which is why receivers in shortwave radio and in e.g. DCF77 use a ferrite antenna. The ferrite’s length should be perpendicular to the line formed by the sensor and the location of the storm.

Edit: you’re reading at 400 Hz so you’ll read phenomena below 200 Hz
by hellojesus | 2025-08-23 14:45:30+00:00
Investments can be bad. The market efficiently destroys malallocated capital through competition.

The problem with government taking stakes in private companies is that it creates moral hazard. By taking ownership in Intel, the government has effectively "propped it up". This means that Intel competitors that made less risky decisions to remain solvent are now losing; their bet was Intel was operating poorly, and instead of capitalizing on Intel's downfall so they can fill the gap, the government has plugged the gap. This action distorts markets away from their competitive equilibrium. In the process it generates moral hazard and deadweight loss.

Investments by the government can make sense, but generally it makes the most sense when investments support public goods (arguably also when supporting goods/services that the private market would not). Cpus are neither.

Just like the SVB bailout, or Freddie/Fannie/Sallie establisments, this is bad.
by deinonychus | 2025-08-23 14:45:36+00:00
I've wondered about that too.

My personal thoughts and anecdote, assuming you're not talking about the kind of "bro I got in a killer workout yesterday, my biceps are still sore" Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness humblebragging:

I have a controlled autoimmune disorder like arthritis that causes me some joint pain. But it basically goes away if I do regular strength training. If you do strength training or any sport long enough you'll eventually hurt yourself. Usually that's just a pulled muscle because you woke up on the wrong side of the bed and it goes away after a few days. These micro-injuries actually seem to happen to me a lot, probably because of my condition I'm just prone to this stuff. But I prefer it to the pains of inactivity.

Even for people without arthritis, you have a question to answer: which would you rather suffer from? The pains from not working, out like having a weak core and bad posture and the discomfort of being unable to climb a few sets of stairs? Or the pains from working out, like pulling a back muscle because you didn't warm up or some shin or knee pain from too much running?

The answer is obvious to me. You're going to get hurt either way. I'll go with the path that makes me feel better, live longer, look hotter, and is a rewarding challenge.
by zbentley | 2025-08-23 14:47:12+00:00
Let's say a function "foo" calls "fn bar(_: &mut T) -> ()".

When passing a mutable reference, the lifetime of the object is largely decided by "foo" (with some caveats).

Now, let's say that "foo" instead calls "fn bar(_: T) -> T".

When passing the object itself, the lifetime is largely decided/decide-able by "bar".
by feoren | 2025-08-23 14:47:23+00:00
> That's not a luxury car

So an "old classic" (I was thinking a Mercedes) stops being a luxury car as soon as a poor person inherits it? Do you see how nebulous these categories are? How easy it is to just move the line whenever it suits your argument?

> Whether there is or isn't a class war is debatable, but the one you've concocted that is led by economists is certainly not happening.

I'll give you an economist who led the charge: Donald Regan, Ronald Reagan's secretary of the treasury and chief of staff. This was back in a time when people felt they needed to come up with a plausible-sounding excuse to strip poor people of their rights and keep them stuck in a cycle poverty. The banner was "Reaganomics", or "Trickle-Down Economics". You're so incredulous that the discipline of economics has anything to do with a class war that was largely started and still fought under the name "Trickle-Down Economics"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Regan
by layer8 | 2025-08-23 14:48:15+00:00
One benefit of the suffix convention is that strings sort more usefully that way by default, without requiring special handling for those characters.

Unicode 1.0 also explains: “The convention used by the Unicode standard is consistent with the logical order of other non-spacing marks in Semitic and Indic scripts, the great majority of which follow the base characters with respect to which they are positioned. To avoid the complication of defining and implementing non-spacing marks on both sides of base characters, the Unicode standard specifies that all non-spacing marks must follow their base characters. This convention conforms to the way modern font technology handles the rendering of non-spacing graphical forms, so that mapping from character store to font rendering is simplified.”
by baduiux | 2025-08-23 14:49:21+00:00
> You may be held up by a problem in a dependency such as poor documentation. It is tempting to start filling in the missing docs, but try to resist that temptation. Better to make minimal personal notes for now and, after you’ve made good progress, considering scheduling time to contribute some docs to the dependency.

I agree with most of the article, but this part keeps me thinking. Scheduling to contribute later will almost never work. Either I do it now or never. The task is lost in a list of infinitely many tasks. Also, contributing to a dependency (if I understand this correctly) is always something that helps at least two: yourself - doing something good, helping to improve someone’s work, getting something done - and the person who works on the dependency project. The other gets (positive) feedback and knows someone uses their product/software/library
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-23 14:50:17+00:00
I'm 6'1 and 190-200lb, and I went from 130g to 80g a day of protein for the last year and have only gained more lean mass.

I do think proteinmaxing is mostly food/supp industry hype + advice for people who need to tricked into replacing donuts with something healthier. So YMMV.

But I think the training until exhaustion part of your comment is the important bit.
by Amezarak | 2025-08-23 14:50:22+00:00
That's a good practice anyway. Focusing on the capability to flexibly adapt our agriculture ensures long-term survivability. Focusing on hyper-efficient extraction that assumes a steady state gives a high-output but incredibly fragile agricultural industry. One black swan event, like a few volcanic eruptions, and we're all toast - and of course, the climate is constantly shifting even in the absence of such events and human inputs, just more slowly.
by johngossman | 2025-08-23 14:50:29+00:00
Things never change. When I was a kid, the librarian at the public library in my little rural town with 23 churches tried to steer me away from Lord of the Rings (which I had already read) and towards Narnia (also read) because CS Lewis was such a good Christian. Ironically, she didn't know Lewis and Tolkien were best friends and that Tolkien had guided Lewis to go back to church after a youthful agnostic phase.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-23 14:50:55+00:00
When you start drinking something like unsweetened tea, initially it's almost unbearably bitter. But as you drink it long enough, it feels less and less bitter. It didn't get any less bitter, you just impaired your ability to sense this kind of bitterness.

I wonder what happens with muscle soreness. Do they get actually get less sore after consistent exercise? Or do you just blunt your nervous system into not detecting chemical signatures of the damage? I'm guessing it's the second case because people here are commenting that after exercising long enough you can still have gains but no pain of muscle soreness.
by blargey | 2025-08-23 14:53:09+00:00
All that fluff as a verbal sleigh of hand to twist and reframe CS Lewis' treatise against moral relativism (which proposes as an answer an objective morality derived from the commonalities of global cultures' ethical systems that he calls the "Tao").

Remove the rest of the letter ("In The Abolition of Man...") from this hollow framing, and it would read like a screed against Palantir. Does he have a datacenter hooked up to CS Lewis' grave?
by sandreas | 2025-08-23 14:53:17+00:00
How does the Palm-Detection work? To test this, you can do the following: Place your palm where the X-es are, then try to scroll with two fingers or move your mouse. I don't like that the mouse does not react anymore if the palm is placed there - it should just be ignored.

┌─────────────────────────┐ │XXX │ │XX │ │X │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─────────────────────────┘
by jfengel | 2025-08-23 14:53:21+00:00
The Internet and Web were both designed with the assumption of cooperation. I wonder what they would have built if they'd taken hostility into account from day one.

As we've seen security is really hard to build in after the fact. It has to be part of your design concept from the very first, and pervades every other decision you make. If you try to layer security on top you will lose.

Of course you may discover that a genuinely secure system is also unusably inconvenient and you lose to someone willing to take risks, and it's all moot.
by sunscream89 | 2025-08-23 14:53:44+00:00
Every budding intellectual goes through this phase of iNtrospection.

HA! Couldn’t resist the pun.

Here’s what I derived from my compulsory decade.

* one metric is a sliding scale

* two are “input output”

* and one a psycho-emotional dynamic

These combined artfully describe cognitive strategies and why natural dynamics (attraction and repulsion) naturally forms among their “default” considerations.

Consciousness is a holographic image of self if anything and that may be shaped and compensated for over time and maturity so yes, over a long enough consideration we may all “x” out.

I’m an introvert who is a powerful public speaker. In a crowd I feel over nine feet tall, however exhausting that may be.

My favorite thing to talk about would be the “input output” measures introspective/extrospective describes seeing the world in abstract principles (an internal map filter) or empirical instances (observed correlations.) Both are valuable and both sides do both once mature by life experiences.

J/P the only real cockup in the names refers to “output” enactment upon the world. Like the input, there are those who affect the abstract principle (J) and those who have a literal (intended) effect (P).

We can see how some would get along and some wouldn’t (in casual conversation) based on our the input or output of their other relatable qualities. And how everyone’s specialties have a place in the complex dynamics of variable reality.

N/J’s just look like such studs after a life of polished experience. Deal once and for instance and that’s all fine, deal with it in principle you deal with it a thousand times!
by JimDabell | 2025-08-23 14:55:01+00:00
> The “client-side problems” Siebenmann is talking about are the various anti-bot measures (CAPTCHAs, rate limiters, etc.)

Directly from the article:

> it's not new, and it goes well beyond anti-crawler and anti-robot defenses. As covered by people like Alex Russell, it's routine for websites to ignore most real world client side concerns (also, and including on desktops). Just recently (as of August 2025), Github put out a major update that many people are finding immensely slow even on developer desktops.

The things he links to are about things that are unrelated to anti-bot measures.

The fact is, the web is an increasingly unpleasant place to visit. Users are subject to terrible UX – dark patterns, tracking, consent popups, ads everywhere, etc.

Then along come chatbots and when somebody asks about something, they are given the response on the spot without having to battle their way through all that crap to get what they want.

Of course users are going to flock to chatbots. If a site owner is worried they are losing traffic to chatbots, perhaps they should take a long, hard look at what kind of user experience they are serving up to people.

This is like streaming media all over again. Would you rather buy a legit DVD and wait for it to arrive in the post, then wait through an unskippable lecture about piracy, then wait through unstoppable trailers, then find your way through a weird, horrible DVD menu… or would you rather download it and avoid all that? The thing that alleviated piracy was not locking things down even more, it was making the legitimate route more convenient.

We need to make websites pleasant experiences again, and we can’t do that when we care about everything else more than the user experience.
by dlojudice | 2025-08-23 14:55:04+00:00
I think the core question is whether hardware-accelerated translation could be meaningfully faster than software like Rosetta 2/Prism while avoiding the full dual-ISA complexity you're describing. Rather than literally implementing both instruction sets, it might be more like an ARM chip with specialized translation units and the extended ISA features you mentioned (memory ordering, etc.).

Intel's unique position with x86 IP could make this feasible where others can't, but whether the engineering effort is worth it for what might be a short-term market advantage is debatable.
by gruez | 2025-08-23 14:55:18+00:00
>he has to find some way to twist it so it can't be good [...]

>"Tennis is great for you" "there's probably a correlation with being rich" "Also unhealthy people don't regularly play tennis so there's survivors bias".

But these seem like pretty reasonable objections? At the very least you should retort with a study that at least tried to control for confounders.

>"Wake up at 4:30am and go for a run" "Bro if youre waking up at 4:30 when are you going to bed" etc

I can't tell which side you're trying to strawman here. What's wrong with running at a normal time?
by kixelated | 2025-08-23 14:55:21+00:00
Thanks!

You don't need multicast! CDNs effectively implement multicast, with caching, in L7 instead of relying on routers and ISPs to implement it in L3. That's actually what I did at Twitch for 5 years.

In theory, multicast could reduce the traffic from CDN edge to ISP, but only for the largest broadcasts of the year (ex. Superbowl). A lot of CDNs are getting around this by putting CDN edges within ISPs. The smaller events don't benefit because of the low probability of two viewers sharing the same path.

There's other issues with multicast, namely congestion control and encryption. Not unsolvable but the federated nature of multicast makes things more difficult to fix.

Multicast would benefit P2P the most. I just don't see it catching on given how huge CDNs have become. Even WebRTC, which would benefit from multicast the most and uses RTP (designed with multicast in mind) has shown no interest in supporting it. But I did hear a rumor that Google was using multicast for Meets within their network so maaaybe?
by narag | 2025-08-23 14:56:46+00:00
Not the gp, but from my own experience: some business use out-of-the-box online shop software that is not very good. I wouldn't say "most" but, if you're buying some particular niche products, it becomes true. Slow pages, abysmal usability... one pet peeve is that they offer a brand filter in the left column with checkboxes. I want to select three brands and, every time I tick the checkbox, the page is reloaded. Reloading is painfully slow, so I need one minute to get to the search. If I want to do several searches, it's too much time.

Also, at least in Spain, some delivery companies are awful. I have a package delivered to a convenience store right now. They refuse to give it to me because I have no delivery key. The courier didn't send it to me. I try to get assistance in their web... and they ask me the key that I want them to give me. Nice, huh?

I asked for a refund to the shop. They have ghosted me in the chat, their return form doesn't work. Their email addresses are no-reply. The contact form doesn't work either. Now I need to wait until Monday to phone them.

I know the shop is legit. They're just woefully incompetent and don't know they are or think that's the way things work.

For cheap and not too expensive products, Amazon just works. No "but I went to your house and there was nobody there" bullshit. No questions return policy.
by adam_gyroscope | 2025-08-23 14:57:16+00:00
Apple has done a good job on the implementation and documentation for their confidential computing (https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu...) but of course it’s Apple only. There’s a few folks working on a non-Apple version of this, eg https://confident.security/ and others (disclaimer that I helped work on a very early version of this.

Read the Apple docs - they are very well written and accessible for the average HN reader.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-23 14:57:33+00:00
I played ice hockey with the other children in my ordinary Swedish elementary school class. It went fine. The puck is mostly on the ice, so you can struggle over getting it and shooting at the goal. Those who actually played ice hockey obviously had a major advantage, but the others were able to play.

In the current context fitness matters, that wasn't the context of my statement about what makes tennis hard: what makes tennis hard isn't fitness. It's that people can't control a ball with a racket that actually keeps the energy in the ball.
by layer8 | 2025-08-23 14:59:19+00:00
No. As the RFC notes: “Silently deleting an ill-formed part of a string is a known security risk. Responding to that risk, Section 3.2 of [UNICODE] recommends dealing with ill-formed byte sequences by signaling an error or replacing problematic code points, ideally with "�" (U+FFFD, REPLACEMENT CHARACTER).”

I would almost always go for “signaling an error”.