MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chrisg23 | 2025-08-01 15:19:13+00:00
If you are trying to create satellite internet in low earth orbit (for reduced ping/latency) the satellite moves faster than the earth spins, and the user on the ground loses point to point contact. So there has to be another satellite already over the horizon before the first one goes out of view. Wiki says Starlink sats travel at about 340 miles above the ground.

The easiest alternative to implement is having the satellites in a geostationary orbit so that they are always above a single spot. The altitude necessary for this is higher than 20k miles, and results in very bad ping/latency. Inmarsat is one of these, and I had a chance to use it in the past. It was slow and laggy, as the realities of physics would suggest.

So more satellites means more potential coverage of the globe, or increased capacity over existing coverage regions, or both. It seems very important.

The Indian satellites in the article weighed on average around 6 kilograms. A starlink satellite weighs 227 kg. You can put more telecom equipment in 227 kg than in 6kg. A better metric than #of satellites is probably total mass of satellites, to make broad comparisons more meaningful.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-01 15:19:20+00:00
It's not unreasonable to think that with improvements on the software side - a Saturn-like model based on diffusion could be this powerful within a decade - with 1s responses.

I'd highly doubt in 10 years, people are waiting 30m for answers of this quality - either due to the software side, the hardware side, and/or scaling.

It's possible in 10 years, the cost you pay is still comparable, but I doubt the time will be 30m.

It's also possible that there's still top-tier models like this that use absurd amounts of resources (by today's standards) and take 30m - but they'd likely be at a much higher quality than today's.
by rickydroll | 2025-08-01 15:19:27+00:00
He has only won two elections. In the first one, he lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote. In the second one, he did win the popular vote by 1.5%, which is hardly a convincing margin.

You're right, Trump is not a weird aberration; he's a natural progression of the Republican Party since at least Barry Goldwater in the early 1960s. I never thought I would live to see the John Birch Society go from radical crazies to mainstream
by xp84 | 2025-08-01 15:19:47+00:00
So it does make great sense for a CNA or a preschool teacher to be quite a bit more highly paid than a gas station attendant or fry cook, due to the much higher responsibility level and like you said the annoyance.

However, I don't think anything that's happened in the last 5 years has helped that. If anything, the inflation has cost everyone dearly, but if I put 20% of my income into stocks I am less impacted than poor people who put 100% of their income into goods and services whose prices have gone up as a result of everyone's wages.
by d4rkp4ttern | 2025-08-01 15:19:48+00:00
One other thing I found is that when it spawns another Claude in a pane, and sends it a message, the enter key doesn’t register if sent immediately, so the other Claude doesn’t act on it. So in Tmux-cli I added a delay after experimenting with various values. I guess with plain Tmux it might run into this issue.
by VikingMiner | 2025-08-01 15:20:03+00:00
> In reality, this wouldn’t happen, because, generally, people understand that stabbings are a cultural issue, rather than a technical one

Many UK MPs don't understand this. I've heard of MPs making (moronic) suggestions such as selling kitchen knives without the point on it. I've literally seen this advertised as a solution on the news.

For whatever reason they don't seem to understand that literally anyone can make a shiv.
by qzx_pierri | 2025-08-01 15:20:14+00:00
This is my main frustration. Every teenager who wants to get porn will get porn regardless. VPN companies saw the writing on the wall years ago, and have been paying any YouTuber that will accept a sponsorship to shill for them.

I think the Online Safety Act is just setting a precedent that will be used further down the line to ban personal VPN usage.

"Children are using encrypted VPN tunnels to see porn online! Criminals also use those same VPN networks!"

Let me guess... There will be a law requiring ISPs to block VPN traffic if the VPN server's hostname isn't registered to a business and approved by the government.

UK: "Do you have a license for that VPN?!"

Anyway, download i2p, or Hyphanet/freenet
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-01 15:20:19+00:00
He lost his 2nd election but won his 3rd election.

How else do you propose to word it? As far as I'm concerned anyone reading it differently is suffering from very obvious bias.

An important aspect of intellectual discourse is interpreting any ambiguities in the most favorable manner for the other party. Or alternatively, if the matter is relevant to the central point then requesting clarification.
by resource_waste | 2025-08-01 15:20:20+00:00
It doesnt really matter if Pragmatism is 'Truth'. Its useful. If its useful, use it. If its not useful, don't use it. There is no knowledge claim here.

It does matter if Platonic Realists are claiming circles are special properties that exist outside our universe. There is a knowledge claim here.

>I don't think knowledge is divine.

You are going to have the existential crisis. Your ontological and epistemological beliefs are about to converge on anti-realism.

I recommend again that book Pragmatism. You will personally benefit from learning about the flaws of Platonic Realism, Monism, and Universals. You will be able to answer questions more accurately.

I know I get book recommendations and I generally ignore them, but I will challenge you to read for ~5-10 minutes. I think you will be hooked:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5116/5116-h/5116-h.htm
by actionfromafar | 2025-08-01 15:20:23+00:00
It contains multitudes. The "tear down government" are the Curtis Yarvin - like faction who believes "the State" (including federal government) must be destroyed and replaced by private entities. They use Trump as a tool to reach their goal. Then you have the true Trump believers. Then there are the turncoats (probably the majority). All of them seek power for the monarch.
by aw1621107 | 2025-08-01 15:20:29+00:00
They could be amended, but I suspect they will not be. There's a reason those exemptions were added in the first place, and the impression I get is that the 1.80 issues were more of a social problem that doesn't significantly change the reasons the exemptions were added in the first place.

In addition, as I mentioned I don't think this is the first time Rust has had to navigate this kind of wide-ranging technically-allowed-but-still-breaking change. The Rust devs first created a PR to change its internal representation for IP addresses in November 2020 [0], but multiple major libraries (including mio, which tokio depends on) incorrectly assumed that the representation for Rust's IP address type was the same as libc's representation and basically type punned between the two, so the change would result in UB. The Rust devs could have pushed out the change anyways, as the change didn't violate the backwards compatibility guarantee due to just being an internal implementation detail change, but the PR didn't actually land until July 2022 [1] because the Rust devs wanted to give the ecosystem time to migrate.

More discussion at [2].

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78802

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78802#event-709670882...

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/wcw93o/a_major_refact...
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by scarface_74 | 2025-08-01 15:20:40+00:00
Don’t get me wrong, at 51 years old with my experience, I wouldn’t even think about doing a coding interview and in fact the only reason I got into BigTech at 46 was because a position at AWS ProServe fell into my lap in 2020 (no longer there).

But given the choice between making BigTech compensation and enterprise CRUD compensation if I were 25-30 I with today’s opportunities (well not the current shit show) instead of when I was 25-30, of course I would “grind leetCode” and do what it takes.

> I would rather hire and work with people who focus on breaking down problems and keeping logic and structure as simple as possible

At my stage in life, I can afford to be picky about where I work and optimize my lifestyle choices over money. But if I were 25? If I had to work 40 hours a week anyway, my only concern would be where could I get the most money in my bank account and as much (public company) stock in my brokerage account via RSUs. You act as if being a “mercenary” is a bad thing. The only reason I work is to exchange labor for money. That’s been the case since 1996. It ain’t about “passion” or the “mission”.
by mathgeek | 2025-08-01 15:20:48+00:00
Exactly this for me the last couple of years. Interviewing at most companies these days results in me getting through the final rounds only to be presented with “feedback” about all the secret things they really wanted that I didn’t meet the bar for. The feedback is often extremely vague but is always a list of shortcomings and rarely a list of strengths. The companies that do provide strengths are the ones I feel bad about missing.
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by Peritract | 2025-08-01 15:21:01+00:00
I haven't said I think you're a bad person; it's bold to accuse someone of a misreading based on your own misreading.

People aren't required to only critique a system using the tools that system provides; progress is often made when people step outside of the system (e.g. Rosa Parks) rather than quietly accepting it. There's evidence for that in countless civil rights campaigns.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-01 15:21:06+00:00
It was recently reported by Reuters:

XAI is training Grok on 230,000 graphics processing units, including Nvidia's 30,000 GB200 AI chips, in a supercluster, with inference handled by the cloud providers, Musk said in a post on X on Tuesday. He added that another supercluster will soon launch with an initial batch of 550,000 GB200 and GB300 chips.

I suppose one could argue this training isnt capex, but I was also under the impression that xAI was building sites for housing their AI.
by t_mahmood | 2025-08-01 15:21:10+00:00
And, actually having terminals crush. It is kind of absurd to have a terminal crush.

I've tried

Wezterm Ghoatty Ptyxis

First two had some frequent crushes, ptyxis is quiet reliable, but I felt it consumes too much memory for a terminal. But I feel it's a good terminal.

Though I wish I could get rid of the headerbar
by joshdavham | 2025-08-01 15:21:12+00:00
> When you’re placed in a high-stakes, time-pressured situation, like live coding, your brain reacts exactly like it would to any other threat.

This is why I like to do a lot of talking with my interviewer during these tests. It sorta tricks my brain into seeing the interviewer as a friend that I’m solving a fun problem with. It really reduces stress.
by bsenftner | 2025-08-01 15:21:25+00:00
Let's include who is pushing for the new policy right up to the head of considerations, because these "child protections" are not child protections, they are using children as fear vehicles to make political careers and to generate new revenues for their tech security company backers. Calls to "protect the children" rarely are about children at all, but are almost universally a vehicle to usher in some Orwellian fear-laced perspective forced on the public.
by mgfist | 2025-08-01 15:21:53+00:00
> OpenAI’s business continues to surge. DealBook hears that the company’s annual recurring revenue has soared to $13 billion, up from $10 billion in June — and is projected to surpass $20 billion by the end of the year.

This is why.

Of course $300B still implies a lot of growth, but when you're growing 100% in 6 months at $10B in ARR, you can demand a lot.
by omnimus | 2025-08-01 15:21:53+00:00
I think that SyncThing does not solve other reasons (besides sync) why companies use Dropbox and thats backup and public download links. You can set up SyncThing with one always on instance on your NAS (we used to have that at work) but by that point it is quite technically challenging. And you still need to have some way to deliver downloads. For people like photographers something like Dropbox is probably harder requirement than Adobe.
by FerretFred | 2025-08-01 15:21:56+00:00
I'm not! I know how easy it is to "discover" porn, but if sites adopted the RTA labelling system (https://rtalabel.net/?content=howto) and browsers obeyed that would go a long way to preventing those "accidental" discoveries. What my privacy concerns are were as per my post - no accountability from various global third parties and indiscriminate use of my PII.
by cbeach | 2025-08-01 15:21:57+00:00
> What specific advice would you give young women in such a situation?

If you have been sexually harrassed, don't blog about it, report it to the correct authorities.

The Government is literally campaigning against people to stop prejudicing the judicial process via social media:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/attorney-general-launches...

Everyone who hopes to seek justice needs to read this advice

> Are you suggesting that if Pretty were found liable for sexual harassment against two different women that he would not have also faced similar negative social outcomes?

My point is that the legal system might have weighed up the evidence and considered this case inadmissable, or ruled in Jon's favour. In which case he would have been exonerated in public view by the authorities, and he might have been able to piece his life back together. As it stands, he is in an awful limbo situation where hearsay prevents him getting any gainful employment.
by lokar | 2025-08-01 15:22:25+00:00
Populism has a zero sum view of the world. Absolute prosperity is less important than relative prosperity. In addition, for some there is a very strong expectation that they should be more prosperous than “out” groups (in the US, racial minorities).

Liberal policy in the US since Clinton has failed to deal with this, focusing instead on absolute prosperity (GDP per-capita). And progressive policy has been ineffective since they promise equality, including with minorities.
by rtp4me | 2025-08-01 15:22:44+00:00
Because the person serving a beer at a bar simply poured me a beer. I walked up to the bar where I ordered from the menu. The level of interaction with staff = 1. Effort from staff = 1.

The the waiter/waitress had to come to my table, discuss the menu, provide feedback on questions, submitted order to kitchen, delivered order, checked back on us to see if we need anything else, etc. Level of interaction with staff > 1, level of effort from staff > 1. Tip appropriately if level of effort > 1 for helpfulness, politeness, attentiveness, etc. Stop making this so hard.
by scelerat | 2025-08-01 15:22:48+00:00
I ran into so many little annoying color and font issues with vim, tmux and iTerm2 that I gave up on tmux (for local work). What small benefit I got from tmux on my local machine (basically surviving updates and a little more session persistence) I rarely miss.

I wanted it to be better, and might go back if I could figure out the font issues, but I just don't have the time right now.
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by bhouston | 2025-08-01 15:23:07+00:00
> UCLA violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, "by acting with deliberate indifference in creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

Weird in that the main victims here actually pro-Palestinian students and the main attacker got a plea deal just a few days ago:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-mov...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-28/ucla-pro...
by spyckie2 | 2025-08-01 15:23:09+00:00
Sometimes the bet is not on the company but the industry. If you can argue the industry has room to grow 10x in terms of market cap, which is possible, then merely staying even in market share is a 10x growth.

Ai applications have not even scratched the surface, IMO. I don’t think it is unreasonable to see a world where, when AI gets strong enough to do senior level white collar work, like doctors or lawyers, AI companies build sub-companies to capture the end value of their AI products rather than the base value as a vertical integration tactic.

We are at a lull but AI value add is real and the ways that AI companies capture that value add is still very primitive.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-08-01 15:23:19+00:00
> The Perl code passes this string through a regex that checks the name is valid

I think "parse don't validate" doesn't help in this example, but naively the regex would not check whether a name is valid but "extract all parts of the string that are provenly safe".

Which is not reasonable for SQL statements, so someone invented prepared statements.

I think the idea is that the Regex parsing forces the programmer to think about what they're doing with the string and what the requirements for the non-tainted variable are.

For example, a file name string would not allow unescaped directory separators, dots, line breaks, null bytes (I probably got most details wrong here...) and the regex could remove these or extract the substring until the first forbidden character.

Sure, this cannot prevent mistakes.

But the idea, I think, is not to have a variable "safeUserName", instead a "safeDbStatement" one.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-01 15:23:23+00:00
The history on this is really clear: when you create a "for your safety" speech control, it gets used for all sorts of other stuff.

In my dataset of free-speech limiting examples for safety reasons, 89% eventually expanded in scope to limit speech relating to LGBTQ, feminist, women's health, and politics. This isn't a hypothetical - it happens over and over again. Each time we have folk pointing this out, and each time we have people saying, "You're overreacting."

ZKP or not, if you make Chekhov's gun, someone's going to use it. Privacy isn’t the point. Unless your ZKP also magically prevents scope creep and political misuse, hard pass from me.

It’s like going to the gunsmith and saying, "Don’t build Chekhov another gun, you know it’s going to go off," and he just shrugs and says, "There’s no way it happens a twentieth time."
by estearum | 2025-08-01 15:23:37+00:00
Right, so the only coherent ideology is their desire for dictatorship, as I said. This makes it extremely difficult if not impossible to interact with and collaborate with "the right" in a democratic system.

The unifying feature is they do not care for the established mechanisms by which we decide what to do, ergo there is no way for us to decide together what to do.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-08-01 15:24:00+00:00
This is why I think Liberalism is on the outs. Its whole premise is that we can rationally manage society, but there's no romance in this. The Old Left had romance, as did Fascism. Trumpism has a certain amount of it. Abundance and the traditional neoliberal platform of the Democrats simply don't. Only a very small percentage of the population can get their blood up about means-tested social programs.

A Democratic party that was serious about winning elections would turn sharply left, get new candidates, and start the long process of selling voters on things that they can feel some romance in: ending suffering, universal childcare, universal healthcare, good union jobs, a struggle to take back our country from the money interests. Imagining a future where we aren't all climate refugees in Northern Canada.

Unfortunately, the Democratic party is not serious about winning elections. They keep their fossilized leadership in place while their mental capacity deteriorates until it's simply no longer tenable to pretend that they are capable of governing. Younger candidates are considered a success if they can successfully fundraise, even it they can't actually win the elections that they're fundraising for. In every instance, party operators are out for themselves rather than trying to win and deliver material benefits to voters. Republicans at least win (barely, and usually with some extreme gerrymandering), even if they can't deliver materially.

The only alternative I can see right now is a return to the Old Left playbook: a confrontational labor movement. Maybe there are other alternatives that will emerge but I've yet to see one as promising as just organizing your workplace.
by anthonypasq | 2025-08-01 15:24:22+00:00
I get the point, but this is fantasy thinking. The vast majority of people will actually never find that thing despite trying their entire life to find it, and for those that do find it, it will likely be a thing society doesn't care about. Obsession is a gift in my opinion, many people don't have it, and im envious of the clarity of purpose those that do have it seem to enjoy.

The primary reason Bill Gates is a billionaire is because he was born at the perfect time for someone to be obsessed with how computers work. What would he have done if he was born 100 years earlier?