MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bravesoul2 | 2025-08-16 00:31:44+00:00
Even so its true there too. Just use postgres with monolith, monorepo on a single VM (yes!) until you need more. Do have DR of course and security posture from day 1.

Feel the pain badly that microservices or aurora or k8s solve before using them!

Also pets not cattle. A $100/m hetzner dedi with a CDN on top is probably a tardis for most startups and can scale you up to a lot of traffic. With a setup like that yes you can install the Web server and the database on the same damn machine, and find it ridiculously overprovisioned while costing less than your incorporation.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-16 00:32:29+00:00
I have never used react, I have never known anyone to ever use it.

React is very much not dead and is absolutely not going to die anytime soon.

Recently I was researching what's the new best ways to theme a website. Tailwind seemed popular for my purposes. I do CSS flex pretty much all the time.

But react was definitely in every 2025 review/guide I saw.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-08-16 00:32:36+00:00
There are special rules called reconciliation that allow one party to pass a bill with just a majority. It can be used only once a year (hence why everything was packed into the big beautiful bill) and there are very complex and technical rules around what it can be used for.

So to answer your question, Republicans repealed it with zero Democratic votes because they included it in the once-a-year reconciliation bill. The bill that you are linking to would not have met this criteria.
by dsr_ | 2025-08-16 00:32:52+00:00
You can use XFCE's control panel / keyboard / application shortcuts to assign xvkb invoking XF86Copy and XF86Paste to whatever you like.

xvkb: the X virtual keyboard. In full GUI mode, it saves you when your keyboard is caput. In headless mode, you can synthesize keys not found in nature, or at least not on your physical board.
by yosame | 2025-08-16 00:33:16+00:00
There was a study where they tested the effects of ADHD meds on test performance and perceived performance. It found that stimulants increased perceived performance for everyone, but actual test scores were only improved for people with ADHD.

This is a good overview of the literature: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/1...
by glaucon | 2025-08-16 00:33:18+00:00
I was surprised to read this.

I don't have access to the standard for the mDL's being discussed, that is ISO/IEC 18103-5 [1] but I have found a number of accessible resources [2][3] which suggest selective disclosure is supported.

I would be interested to learn more about the gap you suggest exists between what is claimed and what is, due to the underlying cryptography, possible.

Can you provide more details ?

[1] https://www.iso.org/standard/69084.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR5b7uuMiKk

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2TdIlakNs (at 0:26 mentions selective disclosure as being "key" to the standard)
by seangrogg | 2025-08-16 00:33:39+00:00
Partially! The text of the OBBBA actually made permanent the section of the tax code that treats software development as research and amortizes accordingly. However, because nothing can just be straightforward, it also allows domestic research expenses to be deducted immediately instead of amortized.

Definitely a much better tax situation but also not one we would've been in if not for the TCJA, and we still have an exposed oblique (the removal of the domestic research exclusion) that could put us back in the same spot unless the software development as research section is removed.
by MagicalTux | 2025-08-16 00:33:45+00:00
Seems fairly similar, ARM's response to TEE basically. We started with SGX because it is battle tested and has a lot of people still trying to find issues, meaning any issue is likely solved quickly, however we are planning to also evaluate and support other solutions. Information is restricted and cannot leave the enclave unless the code running in there allows it to in both cases.
by gerdesj | 2025-08-16 00:34:05+00:00
"Common load balancing algoithims and challenges"

algorithms is pretty hard as a spelling: its derived from something like Al Gorism - the name of an Arab chap who documented an early notion. By the time English has decided to create a word, you can be sure it will be ... painful!

Keep going mate, you have a great writing style and presentation.
by Delk | 2025-08-16 00:34:55+00:00
If Trump were to broker a deal that would "instantly end the war", it would be only by and for the sake of looking after his own interests. In the process he would ignore the interests and long-term security of Ukraine while likely yielding to Putin's wishes where he -- not Ukraine -- feels like he isn't losing a lot.

There's no other way Trump can broker a quick end to the war. He doesn't have the kind of leverage to persuade a peace deal without giving Putin what Putin wants, and even if he did, there's a good chance the calculating manipulator Putin would still play him like a fiddle due to Trump's egotism.

Even if Trump were to be able to broker a quick peace -- which he has been promising since day one but obviously not achieved -- he would not be doing that for the sake of the allies of the US.
by boomskats | 2025-08-16 00:35:07+00:00
I've heard a lot of people say that Glenn Corpes was more important to Bullfrog than Peter Molyneux - the real brains behind the operation, kinda like Woz to Jobs, but instead of Silicon Valley it was a little office in a business park attached to a university on the outskirts of Guildford. Shame the article doesn't mention him.

I spent best part of a decade at a creative coworking space literally in the room directly below the original Bullfrog offices. Met some excellent people there & got to hear a lot of stories.

Here[0]'s a pre-covid pic I just found of Bullfrog's original front door mat, here acting as the backdrop to my temperamental espresso machine.

Good times.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/EtuzIGf
by HappMacDonald | 2025-08-16 00:35:09+00:00
Have you ever seen what these arbitrary length whole numbers look like once they are tokenized? They don't break down to one-digit-per-token, and the same long number has no guarantee of breaking down into tokens the same way every time it is encountered.

But the algorithms they teach humans in school to do long-hand arithmetic (which are liable to be the only algorithms demonstrated in the training data) require a single unique numeral for every digit.

This is the same source as the problem of counting "R"'s in "Strawberry".
by rpdillon | 2025-08-16 00:35:15+00:00
Reminds me of the subscription heated seats a few years back.

> According to Volkswagen, this optional power upgrade for its electric ID.3 range in the UK comes in at around £16.50 per month or £165 annually. A customer can also choose a £649 "lifetime" subscription, but that is tied to the car, not the individual. If you sell your car and buy another ID.3, you would have to pay the fee again. Paying for the upgrade will increase the horsepower of the ID.3 Pro and Pro S models from their standard 201bhp to the full 228bhp the hardware is capable of delivering.
by tstrimple | 2025-08-16 00:36:26+00:00
I came across this[1] recently. It compares a Harbor Freight Icon ratchet ($70) to a Snap-On ratchet ($195). They are essentially using the same design and same parts. The Snap-On replacement part kit fits inside an Icon ratchet. Oh and the Icon is performs better than the Snap-On for a fraction of the price. The Gearwrench ratchet ($45) was even more impressive as it's only slightly worse than either of the others and not necessarily in ways most people will ever experience.

Some brands of cheap tools are getting really fucking good. There's still a lot of garbage out there though.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBItmykqu0I
by Kuinox | 2025-08-16 00:36:46+00:00
This is a simple sum of 2 whole number, the number are simply big.

Most of the time they make a correct summation table but fail to copy correctly the sum result into a final result. That is not a tokenisation problem (you can change the output format to make sure of it). I have a separated benchmark that test specifically this, when the input is too large, the LLMs fails to accuratly copy the correct token. I suppose the positional embedding, are not perfectly learned and it sometimes cause a mistake.

The prompt is quite short, it use structured output, and I can generate a nice graph of % of good response accross difficulity of the question (which is just the total digit count of the input numbers.

LLMs have 100% success rate on theses sum until they reach a frontier, past that their accuracy collapse at various speed depending of the model.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-08-16 00:37:42+00:00
Democrats controlled both the Finance Committee and the Senate. There was no way for Republicans to stop a bill from coming to vote. So it was necessarily stopped from moving ahead by Democrats despite Republican support. Another reason for the party in power blocking the vote would if the President opposed it, to prevent the scenario of Biden having to veto.

Edit: Blocked from being able to post new comments by HN because I am getting heavily downvoted for posting inconvenient facts and arguments. Stay classy, HN.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-08-16 00:37:53+00:00
I think everything you do has to be something that CAN be scaled.

I mean if your company makes boats that can ONLY be made by 1 person and that's you - then even if "making boats" is something that CAN scale - your company specifically can't. Which means you'll only ever have customers that are hard to get, and each time you finish you can eat and pay rent again for a week or two - then start over at finding a customer (unless you have a waiting list, but that's magical thinking)

The nice thing however, is that making boats CAN SCALE. Because you can teach someone else how to make the sails, etc... So while PG is trying to write an edgy headline, he doesn't mean it - he would never advocate for you to always make the boat yourself for the rest of time.
by orbital-decay | 2025-08-16 00:37:54+00:00
It's not a cover. If you know anything about Anthropic, you know they're run by AI ethicists that genuinely believe all this and project human emotions onto model's world. I'm not sure how they combine that belief with the fact they created it to "suffer".

Can "model welfare" be also used as a justification for authoritarianism in case they get any power? Sure, just like everything else, but it's probably not particularly high on the list of justifications, they have many others.
by simne | 2025-08-16 00:39:35+00:00
What you mean? Aerobatic?

- Anti-air weapons all based on maneuverability much exceed planes with human pilots.

- Anti-missile maneuver based on limited energy in missile, because it is usually ~100 times smaller then plane, and square-cube rule mean, missile could make active flight just few seconds - if plane survive these seconds it win.

Stealth planes are new tier in warfare, because enemy see them when already lost time need to launch anti-air weapons.
by Kuinox | 2025-08-16 00:40:12+00:00
That's was the initial thinking of anyone which I explained this, it was also my speculation, but when you look in it's reasoning where it do the mistake, it correctly extract the digits out of the input token. As I say in another comments, most of the mistakes her happen when it recopy the answer it calculated from the summation table. You can avoid tokenization issue when it extract the answer by making it output an array of digits of the answer, it will still fail at simply recopying the correct digit.
by dkdcio | 2025-08-16 00:40:21+00:00
that’s not learning…we have a fundamentally different understanding of what cognition, intelligence, and learning are

adding text to storage and searching over it is not memory. “knowing” those things about you is not learning. and guess what, context still fills up. trying putting that LLM again in the real world, facing real human challenges, with all the real sensory input around you. it’s nonsensical

and it’s not about “limits” of humans. machines can do math and many things better, that’s been apparent for decades. yes, they can “remember” 8k video streams much better than us. that’s not “memory” in the human sense and machines don’t “learn” from it in the human sense

(your IP address is much easier to link your accounts than your text)
by Fordec | 2025-08-16 00:40:37+00:00
> Are you American?

Nope, but have spent my time in the Bay and Massachusetts. Born European and currently in Canada. But, guess what, every country looking at their trade deals in the world are not American either. If you need to be American to have confidence in it as a trading partner, there are no such American trading partners on the international stage. Welcome to what the majority of the world is actively thinking about the state of the US right now. The borders can remain the same while the paperwork governing those borders can be changed, just ask the Fifth French Republic.

Very basic rule indeed, and who upholds those rules? The army and police? ICE? The paper is only worth the systems that support them, and there are years to go in tinkering with the make up of those systems. A ruling or two by the Supreme Court, and it's a whole new ball game.

Let me be crystal. TL;DR Only babbling fools think America isn't capable of crossing any line right now on the international stage. The trust, is gone.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-16 00:42:13+00:00
Among other possible attempts(?) that touched on the issue, here's one in 2024 that Republicans blocked in the Senate, where they "filibustered" it by voting "nay" on cloture.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/118-2024/s230

> Why didn't the Democrats

Alternate question: Why didn't the Republicans do something in the years before 2025 to fix the problem they created and which tech-company lobbyists absolutely told them about?
by freeopinion | 2025-08-16 00:42:14+00:00
I admit I didn't read the article. Is the Gripen 40% cheaper so that countries can own more of them?

Also smaller airbases can mean more airbases. So a single drone attack might take out one or two bases worth of Gripen. But it takes a lot more drones and a lot more sophisticated attack to take out all the Gripen spread across so many small bases.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-16 00:44:34+00:00
What if this turns into rust belt but for software? Once high paying jobs gone with AI, politicians trying to please grumpy software developers promising them to open a software shop and create jobs. Mostly college drop-outs, voting for a certain party that promises to take on AI :)

Half kidding of course, but AFAIK many industries went through such a transformation and today most social and political issues stem from those areas that once were affluent lost their industries. Why not the software too?
by yupitsme123 | 2025-08-16 00:46:01+00:00
In the past, people were able to buy a small piece of land and develop it themselves. Literally build the house themselves. Over a long period time if necessary to spread out the cost. They also built 2-4 family homes so they could bring in some rent or house a family member.

None of this is really allowed anymore and it's very hard to find a piece of land to do it with. Enabling this sort of construction and forcing or incentiving small plots of land might open up options for people on the lower end.
by hsod | 2025-08-16 00:46:22+00:00
When I was taking ADHD stimulants I had my core dose (long release) and then a “top-up” dose (5mg instant release) every month. The guy who prescribed me initially may have been a bit of a quack (I had to leave him because my insurance dropped him) but when I switched to a super mainstream doctor she had no problem continuing it.
by Arainach | 2025-08-16 00:46:52+00:00
Electric Toothbrush: $70

Cavity Filling: $300

Still having teeth in my 70s: Priceless

And no, it's not just a laptop bag. The list of things with batteries in our daily life is huge, and telling people to skip it just so that you can get on a plane a bit faster isn't reasonable.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-16 00:47:01+00:00
We did SW once and never again. Some things we learned the hard way having never flown SW before: You have to pay extra if you don't want to be dead last on the plane, and evidently, everyone pays extra, because we were dead last. Not sitting together for sure (you have to pay extra for that too). So we finally get on the plane, and all the carry on space is already used up. We ask the flight attendant "so what now" and she just shrugs like it's my problem. I tell her OK we'll just leave the bags in the aisle then, or will you gate check them for us? Finally, she huffs and proceeds to open every overhead bin one by one until we find two of them with small backpacks that we have to yank down and convince the owners to stick under the seat in front of them. All the while the rest of the passengers are looking at us like we're preventing their ambulance from getting to the hospital.

No thanks. I'll take a slower boarding with a traditional airline that doesn't make their passengers feel like a burden.
by kerneltime | 2025-08-16 00:48:36+00:00
https://github.com/oneconcern/datamon Had written this git for data tool few years back (works with GCS but can be made to work with S3) 1. No server side 2. Immutable data (via GCS policies) 3. Ability to mount data sets as filesystems 4. Integrated with k8s. It was built to work for the needs of the startup funding it, but I would love it if it could be extended.
by lazide | 2025-08-16 00:48:57+00:00
And executives set the culture of a company, and someone with the described personality characteristics are particularly prone to enforce that type of behavior on an entire companies culture.

I’ve seen it play out quite clearly before in person.

Why work so hard to continue to avoid the actual issue and clearly present behaviors and facts?

Or do you think such persistent and blatant pathological behavior just happens naturally from otherwise well adjusted executives acting in good faith?
by dgrin91 | 2025-08-16 00:49:10+00:00
Yes but it's a question of finding targets. Why was Ukraine able to decimate the Russian Air Force? Partly because they are all based out of big, well known bases. Even in wartime they have to be in a big base.

A jet like the Gripen can move basically instantly to basically anywhere and then it's hard to find, especially because it can just move again
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-16 00:49:13+00:00
> I’d pay $60 more per flight just to not have to deal with other people screwing with giant carry on bags, and the repeated announcements that there’s no room in the overhead compartments.

It’s been awhile since I’ve boarded less than Group 4 on Delta. But I don’t remember it being that bad even with group 5 - Silver medallion, credit card holders and economy travel.
by simne | 2025-08-16 00:49:59+00:00
> The same drones that could take out F-16s could take out Gripens

Gripens could base on ordinary highway, so could distribute planes through big territory.

Drones usually have limited range, so they really could target most air bases capable for F-16 (using for example semi-truck container as movable nest), but it is literally impossible now, to target all highways.
by mthoms | 2025-08-16 00:50:04+00:00
1) Over a hundred Spanish soldiers died defending America as part of the Afghanistan war. How many Americans have died defending Spain in a hot war since the founding of NATO?

2) The linked article doesn't say what you claim it says. The Cdn. military is advising the government to go ahead with the entire F-35 purchase. That doesn't necessarily mean the civilian government will agree. We just don't know yet.
by Const-me | 2025-08-16 00:50:26+00:00
> does not account for frequency scaling on laptops

Are you sure about that?

> time spent in syscalls (if you don’t want to count it)

The time spent in syscalls was the main objective the OP was measuring.

> cycle counter

While technically interesting, most of the time I do my micro-benchmark I only care about wallclock time. Contradictory to what you see in search engines and ChatGPT, RDTSC instruction is not a cycle counter, it’s a high resolution wallclock timer. That instruction was counting CPU cycles like 20 years ago, doesn’t do that anymore.
by tstrimple | 2025-08-16 00:50:55+00:00
> I'm not sure that China will ever "overtake" the US in global technology mindshare

Is that adequately measured from the English side of the internet? I honestly don't know. I don't participate in Chinese technology communities online and have zero basis to measure any amount of tech mindshare that it has. I do know that a number of English based tech forums are entirely dependent on a select few microcontrollers for their builds. Surely on the Chinese side of things there are discussions going on about who is building the next cheapest microcontrollers and how they achieve it?

I do know that absolutely nothing that we have in the "West" can compare to what hardware hackers can accomplish in Shenzhen thanks to the overwhelming amount of electronics knowledge and availability in the area. I have to wonder how much of that mindshare "we" actually have.
by thirdacc | 2025-08-16 00:54:31+00:00
>My hypothesis about this for a long time has been stimulants help everyone be more productive (with some tradeoffs)

Of course they do. They're stimulants, that's what they do. Some people just need them to be closer to normal, or whatever's considered normal in post-Industrial society. Modafinil promotes wakefulness in everyone, not just narcolpetics. Anxiolytics calm down everyone, not just the anxious, and psilocybin makes everyone feel euphoric, not just the depressed. It would be weird if stimulants only had an effect of ADHD patients.

> and ADHD is kind of a weakly differentiated diagnosis that could apply to most people.

I don't think we really understand it yet, but it's not something most people have. As the article mentions, people ADHD have a higher rate of transportation accidents, lower life expectancy, higher crime rates, higher addiction rates, etc. The differences show up in brain scans, performance tests, genetic biomarkers, heritability/twin studies, etc. Whether you think of it as a disability, or brain type, or whatever - ADHD is something real.

> Probably something like this was lost when people stopped smoking, obviously beneficial for health - but a huge amount of the public was taking stimulants regularly via nicotine until relatively recently.

Yes, and this is possibly why 35-55% of adults with ADHD smoke today, compared to 19% of the population. Studies have shown that nicotine is helpful for everyone but particularly helpful for those with ADHD. Nicotine-derived formulations are still being explored.
by craftkiller | 2025-08-16 00:55:02+00:00
Are you a trucker? Maybe 0.3% of my meals come from highway exits. Most of my meals are from near my home.

> They can't effectively compete with major chains

I don't think they were suggesting a couple Mom & Pop shops become national chains. I think they were suggesting that collectively Mom & Pop shops could compete against the chains. If everyone replaced 50% of their chain fast food meals with mom & pop shops then each mom & pop shop might only see a small bump in orders but that would be devastating to the chains.
by andrewflnr | 2025-08-16 00:55:35+00:00
And clearly since you've seen it play out that way, there are no other possible situations that could result in similar behavior. The possibility that a public admission of fault could play a role in ongoing or future lawsuits definitely doesn't have anything to do with it. Nope, only one conceivable motivation for hiding the truth, which is conveniently located in a single guy, who is definitely not just a run-of-the-mill arrogant fool.