MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-08-28 15:59:42+00:00
I don't mean to victim blame or be insulting, but I don't know how else to directly ask this question. How did you fall for it?

I bought my Tesla in 2019 and knew that FSD wasn't ready at the time and wouldn't be ready for a minimum of 5 years, and likely would be closer to 10 years. I ignored everything Elon said (Because why the hell would you trust a CEO, especially one as exuberant as Musk?) and focused on what real customers were posting to YouTube and reddit, and it was obvious that buying FSD meant paying for a feature you wouldn't see for several years.
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-28 15:59:46+00:00
I think you're making a lot of good points for the current SOTA.

That being said, it took us a few hundred years all in all just to work out paint, so if people keep working with this tech eventually a game designer could, in theory, lay out the skeleton of a game and tell an AI to do the rest, give it pointers and occasional original art to work into the system, and ship a completed playable game in days.

Whether it will be worth playing those games is an entirely different enchilada to microwave.
by swasheck | 2025-08-28 16:00:34+00:00
i definitely phrased it awkwardly (and incorrectly, upon the 3rd read) and, upon re-reading it, it is confusing to me as well

i was trying to say that i read that it was a show of wealth to serve wine that was less than 50% diluted, but that the norm was to serve 1 part wine to 2 parts water. thank you for the clarification.
by p0deje | 2025-08-28 16:01:08+00:00
It's a great project. I remember years ago, I suffered from intermittent SSH issues when using Vagrant with AWS, and I ended up writing a plugin[1] to replace `vagrant ssh` with `vagrant mosh`, which fixed most of my disconnects. It's a pity Mosh is not supported widely!

[1]: https://github.com/p0deje/vagrant-mosh
by dheera | 2025-08-28 16:01:14+00:00
The RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell gets you 96GB of RAM, a LOT more compute, and costs ~$7K which is not that much more than the $3K-$4K you'd pay for a DGX Spark.

I think the RTX Pro is probably the best deal right now if you're looking for a GPU dev desktop and don't care about physical size or power consumption.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-08-28 16:01:31+00:00
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I love bookmarks. They allow me to keep a long history of things I've found that are interesting, or useful, or otherwise important. I have hundreds of bookmarks that I may not be using right now but end up being useful years later.

To me they're completely different purposes. Tabs are short term - for whatever you're working on right now. It's like a short-term cache, a worktable to keep everything in your head right now easily accessible.

Bookmarks are long term, like a filing cabinet. You may not be using it today, but you want to hold onto it for later.

If I had to use either one for the other purpose, it would suck.
by worewood | 2025-08-28 16:01:34+00:00
I think users wouldn't be so resistant to security updates of they were just that and not bundled with feature removal, unwanted new features, and other things.

Or if they were properly done. Example: Intel and the plundervolt vulnerability. To fix that they removed the ability for undervolting in ny laptop. If I don't use SGX there's no reason for the block. They could've restricted undervolting only when SGX is enabled but no, they had to "fix" it in the worst way possible.
by jrm4 | 2025-08-28 16:02:03+00:00
Interesting. The first thing I've realized is that I need to stop looking for an all in one solution, and that for me it will be healthy to distinguish "curated" from "non-curated."

I've solved the "non-curated" with Karakeep; especially its AI autotagging.

Now I have to figure out the next thing I want, which is a self-hosted service that

- saves bookmarks, duh

- saves "readability" style copies (no need for other stuff, I just need text)

- some decent method of collections beyond just tags

and the last thing that is very oddly rare

- publically accessible WITHOUT login (this is partly for publishing readings to classes I teach)

I can't find a sweetspot of all of these, may have to just build it myself?
by azemetre | 2025-08-28 16:02:10+00:00
Well this is about one state, Louisiana, and not the entire nation but nice to know that one single Meta project can provide a nearly 55% of the total costs of for a national welfare program that would unleash 100s of billions in economic value (well fed kids, become well fed students, which become productive workers).

Definitely a waste of capital and a mismanagement of funds if we continue to allow companies like Meta to make these types of projects when you yourself say that these projects are definitely within reach of feasibility and costs.
by patmcc | 2025-08-28 16:02:43+00:00
I think it's perfectly fair for them to say "we're not doing this any more". The sketchy part is deleting the public registry at docker.io/bitnami rather than just no longer updating it. Why can't docker.io/bitnami become the 'legacy' registry, receive no future updates, so at least folks who don't hear this news won't have pulls suddenly fail?

edit: like if I have a package on NPM and I want to stop offering it, I think it's shitty to just delete it. That breaks builds.
by some-guy | 2025-08-28 16:02:57+00:00
I have a similar setup (a dell wyse 5070 connected to an 8 bay enclosure) though I do not use RAID, I simply have some simple rsync script between a few of a drives. I collect old 1-2TB hard drives as cold storage and leave them on a bookshelf. The rsync scripts only run once a week for the non-criticial stuff.

Not to jinx it, but I have never had a hard drive failure since around 2008!
by StableAlkyne | 2025-08-28 16:03:13+00:00
Taxis sucked. Any disruptor who was willing to just... Tell people what the cost would be ahead of time without scamming them, and show up when they said they would, was going to win.

Uber (and Lyft) didn't starve the alternatives: they were already severely malnourished. Also, they found a loophole to get around the medallion system in several cities, which taxi owners used in an incredibly anticompetitive fashion to prevent new competition.

Just because Uber used a shitty business practice to deliver the killing blow doesn't mean their competition were undeserving of the loss, or that the traditional taxis weren't without a lot of shady practices.
by wredcoll | 2025-08-28 16:03:21+00:00
This sentence is so far from reality I'm not sure it even counts as incorrect.

First of all, what exactly is a "jewish people"? People who obey the jewish god? People who say they do? People who self-identify as jewish? People who were born in a specific region of the world?

And once we've sufficiently pinned down the definition of "jewish people" in the year 100 b.c.e, you need to demonstrate what relationship those people have with people living in the year 2025 c.e. Are they supposed to be like, the great-great-great etc grand children or something?

And beyond that, why would it even matter if they were? Even if you could somehow time travel and come up with some kind of direct meaningful chain of ancestry from someone who lived in israel-region 2000 years ago and someone who moved to israel-region in the year 1950 or whatever, why would it matter?

Every single human currently on earth is the child of someone, who is the child of someone else, all of which goes back literally the entirety of human history, are we supposed to trace all of our ancestries and lay claim to things that people we share genetics with from 2000 years ago also owned?

And why do we stop our historical tracing at a specific time period? Why do we trace back this history to the time when there was a jewish kingdom in the region and then stop right there? Why don't we go back before that? What about the people who originally owned the land before the jewish kingdom did? Are they allowed to show up and claim israel for themselves?
by mistrial9 | 2025-08-28 16:03:22+00:00
no doubt you have seen cases where Side A has 10 examples of case law and Side B has 10 counterexamples of caselaw, but by simply omitting the context .. what jurisdiction, what burdens are placed upon the parties, what is at stake.. you make a sweeping generalization that is just false, for the sake of persuasion. Speaking authoritatively you have some responsibility to show context, otherwise this is blather IMHO
by davedx | 2025-08-28 16:03:55+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053741

> The most likely situation is a power law curve where the vast majority of users don't use it much at all and the top 10% of users account for 90% of the usage.

That'll be the Pro users. My wife uses her regular sub very lightly, most people will be like her...
by awolven | 2025-08-28 16:04:05+00:00
I have schizoaffective disorder and work in the tech industry and have not noticed any of the things this author talks about. While I am medicated, even if I inform bosses, coworkers or HR that I have this dangerous mental illness, I am treated completely normal. It is only when I have an episode of psychosis that things get difficult, and rightfully so for the people around you, because it is extremely difficult for someone to have any sort of normal relationship with someone who is psychotic and delusional. Psychosis happens when there is a failure in the healthcare. Psychosis does ruin relationships, but I don't blame other people for this. As a patient, while still in my right mind, I must insist that my healthcare needs are adequately addressed. This includes retaining a qualified doctor, setting up a medical power of attorney, reminding myself that I must take medications that work, despite the side effects, and possibly asking for reduced hours or responsibilities. It is neither everyone else's fault for the difficulties I face, nor my fault, it just is the way it, and pointing the finger at everyone else is not helpful. I am grateful for the consideration and forgiveness people do offer considering the objective circumstance.
Show HN: Penny for Your Thoughts
by vvoruganti | 2025-08-28 16:04:25+00:00
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Get interviewed by an AI agent that helps you generate unique information that other users (or agents!) can then pay to ask questions about.

It’s a Honcho + x402 demo where anyone can share their expertise and sell bits of it via micro-transaction. You can actually get paid for the valuable context in your head!

Read more about the story at: https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/Penny-for-Your-Thoughts
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-08-28 16:04:28+00:00
Good points. I use Evernote Web Clipper to save pages for a similar reason. Having the content not just the URL also means it's easily searchable.

Being able to save a page also seems to be against the interests of publishers now - they would rather you revisit the page than have a copy. Substack for example seems to try to block the web clipper because you could clip paid articles and read them after your subscription lapses.
by HankStallone | 2025-08-28 16:04:37+00:00
Agreed. I watched an open-source project I was involved in go through this some years back. Some people used an expansive code of conduct to drive out others who made polite objections to some of its sillier rules, while those who had the upper hand engaged in nasty, personal attacks and were untouched.

Saner minds eventually got things under control and replaced the code, but it took a couple of years and some good developers never came back. This kind of thing can do a lot of damage, not all of it obvious.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-28 16:05:09+00:00
> A language alone doesn't dictate reliability.

Nobody would claim that. But are you trying to say that the language has no effect on reliability? Because that's obviously nonsense.

Language choice has some effect on reliability, and I would say Python's effect is mediocre-to-bad. Depending on if you use Pyright. Not too bad if you do. Pretty awful if you don't.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-28 16:05:26+00:00
> In computer programming, a virtual method table (VMT), virtual function table, virtual call table, dispatch table, vtable, or vftable is a mechanism used in a programming language to support dynamic dispatch (or run-time method binding). (Wikipedia)

When its a table of function pointers used for dynamic dispatch, to me it's a vtable. I don't care about their type signatures as long as they logically belong to the object in question.

You seem to have a different very narrow definition of vtables, so the discussion is kind of useless.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-28 16:05:30+00:00
Once all those antivaxers became pro-Russia, which basically has nothing to do with each other

Not necessarily the case, as Russia has a longstanding record of propagating public-health misinformation. See https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39419560 for instance.

This has been a part of their national agenda since the Communist revolution. "If we can't improve our own country, at least we can fuck up everybody else's."
by NoboruWataya | 2025-08-28 16:05:32+00:00
I did something like this a while ago, using https://wiki.radxa.com/Dual_Quad_SATA_HAT (though I installed OpenMediaVault rather than TrueNAS).

It was a fun project and looked cool but never really worked that well. It was quite unstable and drives seemed to disconnect and reconnect a lot. There are probably better quality connectors out there but I think for a NAS you really want proper SATA connections.

I eventually built my own box and went with OMV again. I like it because it's just userland software you install on Debian. Some of the commenters here who think TrueNAS is overkill might want to check out OMV if they haven't already.

To be honest I still only have a few TB of storage on it, probably not really enough to be worth all the hassle of building and configuring a PC, but it was more about the journey which was fun.
by zahlman | 2025-08-28 16:05:37+00:00
> The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) was founded in August 2018 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) as a result of a two-year survey by the Science and Technology Council into the use of Open Source Software (OSS) across the motion picture industry.

This is listed as a Linux Foundation "project" (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects), implying they receive one or more forms of support from the Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hosting) although there isn't a lot of transparency to be found here about funding etc. What is clear is that the Linux Foundation is one of the two things in the entire FOSS world receiving significant funding (the other being Mozilla; the funding received even by e.g. the Python Software Foundation is nowhere close, even if you count Fastly's in-kind donation to keep PyPI running) — and quite little of that money actually goes towards the development of the Linux kernel itself.

Attributing this guide to the Foundation as a whole doesn't seem well supported, though.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-28 16:06:10+00:00
There is no sisters paradox. The trick is how the question is weirdly framed and has to be interpreted. What people think about when they hear the question would effectively lead to a probability of 0.5: if you see a family in the street with a girl and know they have two kids, the probability of the other kid being a girl is indeed 0.5.

The trick of the so-called "paradox" is turning the question into the Monty Hall but with an ambitious enough formulation that you might be confused it’s not.
by ok123456 | 2025-08-28 16:06:13+00:00
CVE inflation is real. Most CVEs are of very low quality.

Anyway, security updates should be decoupled from feature updates, so that people aren't hesitant to update. Otherwise, you get people who hold out because they're worried the new release is going to break all their settings and "opt-in" into all kinds of new telemetry.
by haswell | 2025-08-28 16:06:32+00:00
For me, this is about personal priorities. I’ve been a professional sysadmin and definitely have the skills to build a NAS from scratch - I’ve done it more than once.

But this is one aspect of my life that I look at as core infrastructure that needs to just work, and I don’t really gain anything from rolling my own in this particular category.

I still run a mini home lab where I do all kinds of tinkering. Just not with storage.

But I also completely understand wanting to do this all manually. I’ve been there. That’s just not where I am today.
by scj13 | 2025-08-28 16:06:48+00:00
Embarrassingly parallel problems are conceptually simple but can be operationally annoying. You want to run the same computation across many inputs, but end up spending more time on infrastructure than the actual problem.

Here's a demo reprojecting 3,000 satellite images with GDAL across 100 EC2 instances in 5 minutes. The interesting part isn't the satellite imagery—it's that there's no Kubernetes YAML or Terraform. Just `--map-over-file` and Coiled handles the distribution without the scheduler overhead (no Dask).

This works for any embarrassingly parallel job: running bash scripts N times, multi-node GPU training, stress-testing APIs, etc. The pattern is always the same: you have a function that works on one input, and you want to apply it to many inputs in parallel.

Compare this to setting up AWS Batch or similar, where you'd typically need to handle job queues, compute environments, IAM roles, and container orchestration just to run a simple parallel workload.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/m3d2I6-EkEQ
by ankit219 | 2025-08-28 16:06:52+00:00
A discounted Azure H100 will still be more than $2 per hour. Same goes for AWS. Trainium chips are new and not as effective (not saying they are bad) but still cost in the same range.

For inference, gross margins are exactly: (what companies charge per 1M tokens to the user) - (direct cost to produce that 1M tokens which is GPU costs).
by nvllsvm | 2025-08-28 16:07:02+00:00
I keep bookmarks as a Markdown file so I can sync it using Syncthing. I use either Obsidian or KRunner (desktop-only, similar to mac's Spotlight) to open bookmarks. It's been working well enough for me.

The KRunner plugin I use doesn't have a comprehensive Markdown parser, but it works great with the format I've been using. https://github.com/andrewrabert/krunner-markdown-bookmarks Ex:

# Bookmarks ## Code - [GitHub](https://github.com) - [GitLab - Arch Linux](https://gitlab.archlinux.org) ## Social - [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com)

It would be cool to have an Obsidian plugin which retrieved favicons for the links.
by throaway920181 | 2025-08-28 16:08:14+00:00
It's frustrating and sad to see the road that Google is headed down with Android and Pixels. The recent AOSP changes were a big red flag, now this.

I've had many Nexus and Pixel devices because I like the freedom that they offer me. I don't use Apple devices because they're so locked down and I can't use the hardware and software in ways that I'd like to use it. Google's about to be added to that shitlist, and there aren't really many alternatives.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-28 16:08:30+00:00
Thanks. This explains Android. Because the only other explanation would be no dev at Google actually uses it day to day as their phone because it has so many dumb little infuriating things.

Example: Why does my kitchen bluetooth, that I connect to the most, and that I am located nearest to, always go to the bottom of my bluetooth list, meaning I can't select from the quick screen and have to unlock and pull up another screen (when my hands are kitchen dirty)? I consume media on bluetooth the most showering and in the kitchen. The devices used should be 1 and 2, but they never are. EVERYTHING on Android is this 'devs must not actually use this' unfriendly. I still can't use the timer function using voice because if I don't wait for my phone to repeat back all the timer info and I touch something it just blanks out my timer, so I've learned I can't trust it after ruining too much food. These are my two most common use cases for my phone and where it ads value to my life, and both are needlessly annoying on Android causing me to hate the platform because in 2025 these little details should work. Someone at Google must cook things that need timers. Someone at Google must listen to music/audiobooks and have enough devices they spill over to the secondary screen. If feels like Android has zero actual world love/care from the devs or these daily annoyances would bubble up instantly.
by lxgr | 2025-08-28 16:08:53+00:00
> At vastly different rates (~10% vs ~80%)

Is that your observed rate or an industry-wide trend?

If it's the former, I'll stick with my theory – you're extrapolating from a pretty specific scenario to a different one. My guess would be that you're conflating geoblocking of content (what you seem to have experience with) with geoblocking of the cancellation method (what this thread is about).

If it's the latter, you're wildly off base:

> Merchants win an average of 50% of representments, though there are differences by country: U.S.: 54%, U.K.: 49.1%, AU: 46.7% and Brazil: 36.9%.

(from https://www.mastercard.com/us/en/news-and-trends/Insights/20...)

In fact, this is the opposite of what you're claiming (i.e. a higher win rate for merchants outside the US).
by hirako2000 | 2025-08-28 16:09:23+00:00
Or Opus is a great model so demand is high and the provider isn't scaling the platform. I agree something defies gravity.

Also that's not accounting for free riders.

I have probably consumed trillions of free tokens from openai infra since gpt 3 and never spent a penny.

And now I'm doing the equivalent on Gemini since flash is free of charge and a better model than most free of charge models.
by AIPedant | 2025-08-28 16:09:31+00:00
This intuition is wrong even if turned out to get the right answer. The three unordered options do not have equal probabilities, boy+girl is twice as likely to occur as boy+boy and girl+girl.

To get the right answer you must be careful about conditional probabilities (or draw out the sample space explicitly). The crux of the issue is that you are told extra information, which changes your estimate of the probability.

(This question as written is very easy to misinterpret. The Monty Hall problem, which illustrates the same thing, is better since the sample selection is much more carefully explained.)
by Duanemclemore | 2025-08-28 16:09:52+00:00
APL and its descendents don't have booleans, just 0 and 1 [0]. Which is awesome. It allows for bitmasks, sums / reductions, and even conditionals via Iverson Brackets. [1]

[0] https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Boolean

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iverson_bracket
by dfee | 2025-08-28 16:10:04+00:00
i have 4x 4TB drives that are in my dead QNAP NAS.

i've wanted to get a NAS running again, but while the QNAP form factor is great, the QNAP OS was overkill – difficult to manage (too many knobs and whistles) – and ultimately not reliable.

so, i'm at a junction: 1) no NAS (current state), 2) custom NAS (form factor dominates this discussion – i don't want a gaming tower), or 3) back to an off-the-shelf brand (poor experience previously).

maybe the ideal would be a Mac Mini that i could plug 4 HDDs into, but that setup would be cost-inefficient. so, it's probably a custom build w/ NixOS or an off-the-shelf, but i'm lacking the motivation to get back into the game.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-08-28 16:10:08+00:00
Calling Intel the largest GPU manufacturer is a bit of a joke.

Yes, technically they make many by volume. But they are very limited integrated GPUs. Fine for basic encoding/decoding operations, not really practical outside of browsing and e-mail checking.

AMD has been doing fantastic in the mobile and console space, I admit that. Their products are decently energy efficient and powerful for what they are. But they're struggling to keep up with the leading edge and their market share is tanking because of it.

Nvidia has a 92% market share in the discrete GPU market, with AMD holding 8% and Intel 0%.

That is not a healthy spread.