MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by locallost | 2025-08-24 21:57:10+00:00
People do that because they haven't been "educated" (even superficially) about what fever really is, which is your body working hard to fight of the infection. And messing with it is counterproductive.

They also do it with their kids because they want to help them. Also, some people have a lot on their plate, calling them lazy is not right thing to do. I have health insurance that covers me when my kids are sick (not in the US), so I can take care of them "properly ". This doesn't make me more responsible and someone else that works two jobs and can't afford to have sick kids lazy.

Also, I don't lower fever, even with my kids unless it prevents them from sleeping. But overstated is relative, it's happened to the kid next door from me. You don't want to be careless with infants.
by bicx | 2025-08-24 21:57:29+00:00
> The company that makes it, also called Cornervery, says it's a more economical way to make packaging; paperboard can be die-cut to minimize waste, there are no overlapping flaps required, and tape and glue are not needed.

But apply little bit of pressure at the top, and the vertical edges of your box open up and potentially spill the contents.
by nickthegreek | 2025-08-24 21:58:23+00:00
> Because the most significant evidence we have lately is that in-person meetings or dead drops and other low tech means are how you avoid being tracked.

How many cameras did you just go by? did you have your cell phone on you? how many networks did it connect too? how many bluetooth broadcasts did it passively send out? Not being tracked and being in public are slowly becoming an untenable duo.
by somat | 2025-08-24 21:59:09+00:00
As a counter example I found this video essay about fixing a factorio bug fascinating. My main takeaway, I need better introspection hooks. I am not really programmer and I never really thought automated testing of user interactive parts was possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmliviVGX8Q (kovarex - Factorio lets fix video #1)
by kelnos | 2025-08-24 22:01:13+00:00
I think ergonomic chairs are good for people who have poor posture. If you have a strong core and sit up straight all the time, you can probably sit on just about anything and be fine.

(I'm not saying you're wrong. I think the real solution is that people should take better care of their physical selves. Certainly there are also people with particular conditions and do need the more ergonomic setup, but I expect that's a small percentage of the total.)
by chasd00 | 2025-08-24 22:01:43+00:00
Bit of a tangent but with things like databases the llm needs a connection to make queries. Is there a reason why no one gives the llm a connection authenticated by the user? Then the llm can’t do anything the user can’t already do. You could also do something like only make read only connections available to the llm. That’s not something enforced by a prompt, it’s enforced by the rdbms.
Show HN: MMO Chess – One Global Chess Game for the Internet
by ggerritsen | 2025-08-24 22:02:06+00:00
What if the entire internet played a single chess game together? I built MMO Chess as a fun experiment in crowdsourced gaming – when you visit the site, you're randomly assigned to play as either White or Black in one ongoing global game that everyone shares.

Built this with LLMs as an experiment. Curious to see what happens when HN gets their hands on it!
by jjcm | 2025-08-24 22:02:20+00:00
FWIW, it appears they're purposefully introducing multiple simulated failures into this test. It doesn't appear that they're trying to make this succeed at all costs. From the site:

> The primary test objectives for the booster will be focused on its landing burn and will use unique engine configurations. One of the three center engines used for the final phase of landing will be intentionally disabled to gather data on the ability for a backup engine from the middle ring to complete a landing burn. The booster will then transition to only two center engines for the end of the landing burn, entering a full hover while still above the ocean surface, followed by shutdown and drop into the Gulf of America.

...

> The flight test includes several experiments focused on enabling Starship’s upper stage to return to the launch site. A significant number of tiles have been removed from Starship to stress-test vulnerable areas across the vehicle during reentry. Multiple metallic tile options, including one with active cooling, will test alternative materials for protecting Starship during reentry. On the sides of the vehicle, functional catch fittings are installed and will test the fittings’ thermal and structural performance, along with a section of the tile line receiving a smoothed and tapered edge to address hot spots observed during reentry on Starship’s sixth flight test. Starship’s reentry profile is designed to intentionally stress the structural limits of the upper stage’s rear flaps while at the point of maximum entry dynamic pressure.
by theYipster | 2025-08-24 22:02:51+00:00
My 5 year old Threadripper with 128GB RAM is still going strong. A 9950x would probably be faster (especially for single thread,) but moving to AM5 would be a massive downgrade on IO. Can't really see spending $10K now for a TRX50 or WRX90 build... Maybe when Zen 6 Threadrippers come out.
by DarmokJalad1701 | 2025-08-24 22:03:20+00:00
> We’re not learning new physics are we

We are - at least in terms of model fidelity. There's limitations to how much CFD/simulations you can do. That kind of data (+other sensors) is used to refine models - thermal, aerodynamics, structures. Especially with starship, they are able to stream out live-video and data so that they get it even if the vehicle breaks up. Controlled hypersonic flight of such structures has been done very few times. There's stuff that can be learned from previous vehicles like the Space Shuttle but there are a lot of things that are very different - different control surfaces, flight profiles, thermal management etc.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-24 22:04:05+00:00
Surely anyone who has bought a Tesla since he did start meddling in politics is a Republican.

Before that, I'd assume it was mixed - I think people were buying because EVs were seen as futuristic, and there was non-partisan support for Musk when his main association was visionary rather than political/nutjob.
by Cyan488 | 2025-08-24 22:04:37+00:00
The circuit design software I use, Altium Designer, has a SaaS cloud for managing libraries of components, and version control of projects. I probably spend hours a year waiting for simple things like "load the next 100 parts in this list" or "save this tiny edit to the cloud" as it makes API call after call to do simple operations.

And don't get me started on the cloud ERP software the rest of the company uses...
by hk1337 | 2025-08-24 22:05:44+00:00
That’s really cool for you but for your wife, I would find something simpler. What happens if you’re not around and that all breaks and she cannot get content published?

At the very least, assuming you want to keep it somewhat techy, I would setup a repository with a Hugo config, theme pulled in as a module, with ci to auto deploy it. Make it so the repository is just her markdown content, some css/js overrides if needed, and a hugo.toml.

Or just setup a Wordpress or similar site for her
by rockemsockem | 2025-08-24 22:05:48+00:00
The space shuttle was an awesome feat of engineering, but in practical terms, it cost a lot for every launch, so it really didn't deliver well on the most important piece of what reusability is supposed to get you.

The tiles themselves were apparently a big source of the problems on the shuttle too. If they can figure out reusable tiles with starship, with quick turnaround and low-cost for maintenance, that'd be a huge engineering accomplishment.

They've gotta consistently re-enter it first though.
by rapind | 2025-08-24 22:05:48+00:00
Yes that's what I've done (but still not giving it prod access, in case I screw up grants). It uses it's own role / connection string w/ psql.

My point was just that stated rules and restrictions that the model is supposed to abide by can't be trusted. You need to assume it will occasionally do batshit stuff and make sure you are restricting it's access accordingly.

Like say you asked it to fix your RLS permissions for a specific table. That needs to go into a migration and you need to vet it. :)

I guarantee that some people are trying to "vibe sysadmining" or "vibe devopsing" and there's going to be some nasty surprises. Granted it's usually well behaved, but it's not at all that rare where it just starts making bad assumptions and taking shortcuts if it can.
by nxobject | 2025-08-24 22:05:58+00:00
Why would you assume I was angry? (Where is your snark coming from?)

Drafting and redrafting a cumulative course paper, as well as iteratively honing a thesis, is a writing skill.

I would argue it as important than demonstrating recall and interconnection of the material. It is being lost if long-term work on papers is being replaced with 3-hour blue-book essays.

That is why I thought it was relevant. That's it.
by breadwinner | 2025-08-24 22:06:06+00:00
SpaceX is a private company, but a significant part of the funding for the development of its Starship spacecraft, especially for lunar missions, comes from U.S. taxpayer money via NASA contracts.

The Starship rocket is the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed. If controlled by a maniacal megalomaniac it could be turned into a powerful weapon. Hopefully that won't ever happen. But it raises the question: should a private citizen ever be in control of such powerful technology whose development was funded by taxpayers?
by orochimaaru | 2025-08-24 22:06:08+00:00
I've had LLMs send me down complete rabbit holes for questions that are very specific. Here's an example:

We use glowroot (and open source JAVA APM). I was trying to compile it on my mac and some of the protobuf Maven plugins threw an issue. I gave copilot the entire pom.xml and the specific error and the versions being used. It send me on a complete wild goose chase and hallucinated like crazy even suggesting version upgrades to versions that do not exist or recommending parameters that have no use in the plugin.

Long story short, I just went to the github issues page of the maven plugin and searched and someone had posted a solution. Again, the solution wasn't new. It was suggested around apple started using ARM for their laptops. It was there in github and yet copilot hallucinated.

So, I don't feel too confident of coding assistants. Yes, they do a decent enough job to get your boilerplate done. But they're hopeless to resolve specific issues.
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-08-24 22:06:33+00:00
Because there's a million and one things that could go wrong? Yes, we can make simulations. But the simulations are based on assumptions about the physical world. When the physical world doesn't obey those assumptions, things start to deviate from the simulation. Plus, simulations aren't perfect. We can't simulate every atom of the rocket and every atom of the atmosphere, so we have to approximate things. Errors creep in.

There is more to engineering than understanding the fundamental physics.
by kelnos | 2025-08-24 22:06:49+00:00
The person way upthread said:

> people started staying just late enough for the food delivery to arrive while scrolling on their phones and then walking out the door with their meal.

That doesn't sound like actually working late?

(I still agree with you, though, that this isn't the equivalent of stealing a laptop, even if you do it enough to take home $2,000 worth of dinner.)
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-24 22:07:09+00:00
Some aspects are just too complex to simulate. The fluid dynamics of nearly supersonic flows of cryogenic liquids that suddenly turn into white hot gas is… intractable.

The failures Starship had were often to do with simpler engineering bugs that they’ve been ironing out, such as: leaks in piping caused by violent shaking, explosive gases accumulating in closed spaces, filters getting clogged by ice forming in the cryogenic tanks, and burn-through of an experimental heat shield design at moving joints.
by teraflop | 2025-08-24 22:07:12+00:00
A perfect theory of physics that exactly predicts the behavior of atoms doesn't really help you much when you're trying to predict the behavior of a spaceship containing approximately 10^33 atoms. Any such prediction is going to involve an enormous amount of heuristic approximation.

Just as one example, a spacecraft moving through a fluid atmosphere and with fluid fuel/oxidizer burning in its combustion chamber is going to involve incredibly complex turbulent fluid flows. And turbulence is something that we famously don't have good high-level theories (approximations) for.
by phil21 | 2025-08-24 22:07:45+00:00
Depends on what exactly you mean by pair programming. Two people sharing the same keyboard and screen and watching the other type is horror movie level stuff to me. I go from a competent typist at 140wpm or so, remembering at least some basic syntax, knowing the most common editor shortcuts etc. to a blubbering idiot 5 year old.

Sharing an office where you can’t look at each others screen unless you walk over to help troubleshoot or design a specific feature is probably my favorite mode of work by far. Especially if it’s a small hyper-competent team with a diverse set of expertise but basic generalist knowledge to navigate the entire design at a high level.

Being able to jump on a whiteboard with zero latency mid-debugging session (even trying to move to a spare conference room) is also great.

This also lets you devise team communication in a way where you can signal you are in focus mode vs not and others can gauge the importance of their ask based on that signal and knowing precisely what everyone is actually working on that day.

That said, the absolute worst possible way to collaborate is video conferencing and shared screens. Give me a shoulder hoverer over that any day.
by jrowen | 2025-08-24 22:08:35+00:00
Someone brought up the point that more people will be doing more reviewing as more code is written by AI.

If your job description is reviewing the codebase and every change that goes into it, you will be actively engaged. Whoever the most fervent auditor of new packages/libraries is on the team, they're probably de facto doing this role. Whoever has the deepest knowledge actually, just let them observe/edit.
by LauraMedia | 2025-08-24 22:10:19+00:00
I'm sorry I can't provide you with one right now. Chet talks a lot about various things on his Tiktok, the story how he wrote this handbook as a recruitment marketing tool was one of the hundreds upon hundreds of things and Tiktok's search is utterly useless sadly.

That being said, I don't want to say it is a bad thing or entirely wrong. It is of course a brushed up glorified version that certainly took a thing or two from their real experience working at Valve, but it was not used as an onboarding tool until it was published (and to my knowledge, isn't used nowadays as they have since changed their internal team composition since Half-Life Alyx was released).
by daft_pink | 2025-08-24 22:10:24+00:00
I would agree with your approach if we were simply discussing whether the government should fund intel, but we’ve already committed to funding intel via the government. Pulling back would hurt intel and our interests. Now that intel has become reliant on our promised funding, it makes sense to attach conditions to the funding we need to do instead of just handing it out while getting nothing in return.
by jijijijij | 2025-08-24 22:10:24+00:00
I am not interested in the piracy and porn ones, as blocking piracy and porn is hardly a German thing ...

rt.com is banned within the EU (and YouTube), not just Germany. It's literally a propaganda outlet of the Russian government, hardly banned lightly, or merely because of dissenting political opinions. Unsurprisingly, Moscow took that ban quite personal. Russia apologists are literally sitting in the German parliament right now. So much for censoring opposing political opinions.

Bit of a reach claiming Germany isn't part of the general internet isn't it?
by esseph | 2025-08-24 22:11:40+00:00
The bigger players like Dell and Lenovo do and have for a very long time. Maybe HPE? Not sure

Then there are more bespoke vendors that cater specifically to Linux. System76 is probably the most well known, but there are many others.

I'm speaking mainly for laptops/desktops. For servers it's always been you just put whatever on.

Linux gets the most time on servers and containers but the desktop base continues to grow, so expect most problems to be there (bluetooth, wifi, etc.). Accessibility is getting much better.
by rustandmore | 2025-08-24 22:11:52+00:00
Ownership is perfectly consistent.

`append` always returns a new slice value

`func append(slice []Type, elems ...Type) []Type`

The only correct way to use append is something like `sl = append(sl, 1, 2, 3)`

`sl` is now a new slice value, as `append` always returns a new slice value. You must now pass the new slice value back to the user, and the user must use the new slice value. The user must not use the old slice value.

It's trivial to fix the "bug" in the article, once you actually understand what a slice value is: https://go.dev/play/p/JRMV_IuXcZ6

A slice is not the underlying array, and the underlying array is not the slice. A slice is just a box with 3 numbers.
by fabian2k | 2025-08-24 22:11:57+00:00
I'm not comfortable with the power Elon Musk has, given his behaviour and views. But I don't think weaponizing SpaceX rockets is a big concern.

The ability to manufacture rockets like this would of course be very valuable to anyone developing ballistic missiles for military purposes. But there are also big differences as those use mostly solid fuel. Selling this information to other countries could be a potential national security risk.

Musk's rockets are inside the US, he would probably be able to launch one rocket on a target before the US military would stop any further launches. So I don't think any direct threat here by Musk would be that worrisome.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-24 22:12:00+00:00
There are peaks in long-term CPU value. That is, CPUs that are 1) performant enough to handle general purpose computing for a decade and 2) outperform later chips for a long time.

The i7-4770 was one. It reliably outperformed later Intel CPUs until near 10th gen or so. I know shops that are still plugging away on them. The first comparable replacements for it is the i7-12700 (but the i5-12400 is a good buy).

At 13th gen, Intel swaps E for P cores. They have their place but I still prefer 12th gen for new desktops.

Past all that, the author is right about the AMD Ryzen 9950x. It's a phenomenal chip. I used one in a friend's custom build (biz, local llm) and it'll be in use in 2035.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-24 22:12:11+00:00
Any analysis that advocates for a return to a previous ideal, real or imagined, without consideration of what circumstances lead to the straying from such ideal is destined to fail. If one wants to return to a previous state, they must stop and then reverse the structural causes that contributed to the deviation.

In this case, ignoring veracity, it's the summation of factors that led to universities taking a stance. The author has to enumerate them, and describe the reason why the university capitulated, and then modify the equation so that university does not capitulate again. The underlying factor is that the university found it in their benefit to capitulate the first time. What would need to change auch that they didn't capitulate a second?
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-24 22:12:41+00:00
> It's socialism, after all, for the Government to own an interest in a company.

> Covered yesterday on YC.[1]

> [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44989773

The post from yesterday was news; this is commentary, as in, not a dupe.

To your point, it's arguably closer to state capitalism, which may be a distinction without a difference if you paint it with the same brush as socialism, but it's one worth mentioning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism

The name of the (sub)site we're posting on is HN; YC is the host. :P
by kelnos | 2025-08-24 22:13:11+00:00
I'll agree with one modification: developers should be forced to test on a much slower machine.

My final compiled binary runs much faster than something written in, say, python or javascript, but my oh my is the rust compiler (and rust-analyzer) slow compared to the nonexistent compile steps in those other languages.

But for the most part the problem here isn't developers. It's product management and engineering managers. They just do not make performance a priority. Just like they often don't make bug-fixing and robustness a priority. It's all "features features features" and "time to market" and all that junk.

Maybe make the product managers use 5-year-old mid-range computers. Then when they test the stuff the developers have built, they'll freak out about the performance and prioritize it.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-08-24 22:14:08+00:00
>If we develop a strong client with broad support, it makes developing the replication piece easier, since the client already supports the features in mind

Unless you are running the client against server, you will never know if the client features you are writing are any good.

The games need to run on the server by default, and the clients are just a "view" into what is happening on the server.

For ease of development, your app is a fully functioning server and a client in a single application.

When playing single player, the game is still running on a local server, with only a single client connected.

I strongly recommend building everything around the communication pipeline between the server and client. Make it very easy to dial up latency and packet loss.
by moffkalast | 2025-08-24 22:14:10+00:00
I'd expect every new generation of computers to not last as long as the last one, we keep reducing the transistor size and that means more fragility. I'm half surprised modern GPUs make it through shipping without melting from static.

My guess is that the most long lived computer gen could be one that still uses through hole components. Not a very useful machine by any metric though I bet.
by zimpenfish | 2025-08-24 22:14:45+00:00
I quote: "It’s so funny to me that people think just because a law is passed, that fixes problems."

I gave you a whole bunch of problems that have been fixed by passing laws.

> child labor actually increased in India after laws that tried to eliminate child labor

I did not. Which law are we talking about? 1948, 1952, 1986 or 2009?
by ChocolateGod | 2025-08-24 22:15:02+00:00
> Seriously. NASA had a reusable orbital rocket 40 years ago. Space-X still only has reusable boosters.

Reusable but had to spend 2 months after use being repaired/having parts replaced, meanwhile Falcon 9 has turn around times in days and Starship is aiming for hours.

Whilst the the achievements and technological marvels by NASA should never be understated, Starship is aiming for a target significantly more difficult than the space shuttle.
by rolph | 2025-08-24 22:15:46+00:00
not a good look.

the best video experience is the one a creator chooses to provide to viewers.

youtube/google has a big trust issue, and now you have the specter of watermaking or fingerprinting accusation to fall on your head in the future.

when you manipulate video like this you are destroying the original source, unless you archive originals for a time to allow the owner and creator of the video to revert back to the original post, thats advisable because if trhe video happens to contain evidence of a crime, guess who will be interfering with evidence of a crime unless originals are kept in custody.

also dont fix something not broken, thats not innovation, and dont push "help" that is not being asked for, it generates negative googletaxic response