MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gambiting | 2025-08-20 09:38:42+00:00
My favourite anecdote regarding German EV chargers - I was trying to charge at a motorway stop couple years back, and the stupid charger needs an app, ok, got the app. And it's even in English, success! But.....when I try to add a payment card it says the billing address has to be in Germany. Ok, I'm determined so I ring their helpline.....only to be told it's open Monday to Saturday 9am till 4pm(it was Sunday).

Honestly never seen this issue in any other EU country.
by athrowaway3z | 2025-08-20 09:39:27+00:00
But you see - it's efficient if we add _our_ configuration layer with custom syntax to spawn a test-container-spawner with the right control port so that it can orchestrate the spawning of the environment and log the result to production-test-telemetry, and we NEED to have a dns-retry & dns-timeout parameter so our test-dns resolver has time to run its warm-up procedure.

And I want it all as a SaaS!
by graemep | 2025-08-20 09:40:37+00:00
Prophecy is not synonym for prediction. it is a "message from God" in the major theistic religions.

The only prophecies that were predictions I can think of with regard to Christianity were Jewish prophecies of a messiah. The Jewish prophets were leaders, not soothsayers.

> there's kind of an inverse relation between size and durability of religion and the number and specificity of predictions, though

I would question that - things like the Oracle at Delphi lasted a long time. So did fortune telling (mostly non-religious) around the world. How long as astrology lasted?
by gambiting | 2025-08-20 09:40:43+00:00
I wonder if that's an American thing, every time I tried to do a chargeback here in the UK on a credit card my bank said they have to investigate first, give the seller an opportunity to respond, and only if that fails they will refund me after 60 days. While everything I see online suggests that Americans can pretty much do an at-will chargeback for any reason with instantaneous effect?
by omnicognate | 2025-08-20 09:41:15+00:00
The whole point of vibe coding is that you don't review or attempt to understand the code. If you do, you're a developer using AI as a tool, which the video is not arguing against - indeed, he links to another video he's made explaining one way of doing that. You could call that "vibe coding with experience" but it just devalues the term, I think, and certainly misses the point in this particular case.
by danwills | 2025-08-20 09:41:18+00:00
I think it can be done that way yeah but in order to yield a uniform-density of points on the surface of the sphere there's some pre-correction (maybe a sqrt or something? I can't remember) that's needed before feeding the 'uv' values to the trig functions to make 3D positions. Otherwise points will 'bunch up' and be more dense at the poles I think.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-20 09:41:59+00:00
I want my build system to be totally declarative

Oh the DSL doesn't support what I need it to do.

Can I just have some templating or a little bit of places to put in custom scripts?

Congratulations! You now have a turing complete system. And yes, per the article that means you can cryptocurrency mine.

Ansible terraform Maven Gradle.

Unfortunate fact is that these IT domains (builds and CI) are at a junction of two famous very slippery slopes.

1) configuration

2) workflows

These two slippery slopes are famous for their demos of how clean and simple they are and how easy it is to do. Anything you need it to do.

In the demo.

And sure it might stay like that for a little bit.

But inevitably.... Script soup
by JdeBP | 2025-08-20 09:42:28+00:00
Just remember that it was never a "Kaminsky Bug" in the first place, and there's a whole community of people who had spotted it years before, who had been pooh-poohed and naysayed by BIND people for years about all this.

* https://dns.cr.yp.narkive.com/fAkXdiM0/update-on-the-djb-bug...
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-08-20 09:42:35+00:00
Well unfortunately we only have the one "bucket" - Earth. We don't have the opportunity to exchange it for a bigger bucket.

Your other solutions don't work even in the metaphor's context. Flowing water doesn't freeze easily, so you're either cooling the whole system to insanely cold levels or you're pouring ice cubes into the bucket. But we're moving water in the bucket, not ice. We want liquid water. Are we gonna stand around and wait for it to melt when we get to where we're going? And won't the water just leak out while we wait?

Cement? I can see that going two ways. Either the hole is so big that the unset cement flows through easily, or it does manage to fill the hole. In the first case nothing has changed except you now have a puddle of cement under the bucket, possibly starting to bind the bucket to the ground. In the other, you may indeed plug the hole, but you've substantially increased the bucket's weight and reduced its capacity.

So now that we've both over-extended a metaphor - what are the generic solutions you propose for global warming?
by kusokurae | 2025-08-20 09:42:36+00:00
Hey! So in the vast majority of cases, what you're describing for english is more or less the same for these languages -- when I forget a real bastard of a character (usually a less complex one similar to many others), I can sort of mentally picture the shape, but not quite. I get a flash of the shape in my mind, but then it's gone, and I'm in a half-position where I know parts of it, maybe I know it has 广 and something like 多 inside there somewhere (this is purely academic, I'm not referencing a real character here), but I don't know the exact order. Quite often this is where the art of bodging it, scribbling it, or using a variant character comes in handy.

Also, for more fun, Chinese and even rarely Japanese will sometimes use a different character sharing the same pronunciation from a set of characters typically used for just phonetic pronunciation, in the place of the one they've forgotten.
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-20 09:43:17+00:00
Most concepts in biology break down on the borderline cases, because the phenomena are so complicated with all the little variations, the concepts have an inherent fuzziness.

Instead of the concepts being like a box where something is definitely in the box or not in the box like in mathematics or maybe physics, the concepts are more like a clustering of characteristics in a high-dimensional space or landscape of variation, where things are classified according to their similarity to a central paradigm case. (This seems to be how our minds model at least some concepts as well, as evidenced by our being faster at categorising cases that are closer to some paradigm case)

One notorious example is the concepts of male and female: yes, there are borderland examples of individuals who can't be classified as either, but almost everyone clusters sufficiently closely to the distinct paradigmatic cases that the concept has an obvious utility.

But the same thing happens everywhere in biological classification: whether something is a mammal or not becomes fuzzy as we go back in evolutionary time, and whether something is alive or not is similar.
by wrp | 2025-08-20 09:43:28+00:00
I mainly agree with your argument, but I think "inevitable in hindsight" needs reconsideration. Following the incongruity model, humor comes when the punchline forces a change in perspective on the setup. So it is not that the new perspective is inevitable, but that it was such a less likely interpretation of the setup that it didn't occur to the audience.

Considered this way, the question is whether an LLM could be trained to create joke setups that are ambiguous in the right way, with one obvious interpretation and a hidden but possible interpretation that will be forced by the punchline.
by sim7c00 | 2025-08-20 09:44:05+00:00
i ran into some of these weird 'delusions' querying chatgpt around patterns in numbers (dont do this lol)

i wrote up some of the findings on a fiction blog im working on :').

Its important to know these things are trained on any text and materials that creators could get their hands on. that includes delusional ranting of raving lunatics, tons of science fiction materials, and lots of other sources.

LLM cannot tell the difference. i feel sad for people who are under the impression its only been trained on truthful or scientific information, or unconsciously act as if it were...

here's a 'fun' one: take the speed of light in m/s. 'quantize' it to km/s by just dropping the last 3 digits (yes.... ) now divide by the 'universal harmonic root' (derp 432 - ofc also not accurate).

299792/432 = 693,96296296296

cool pattern

sooo (27/1) * 26 = 0,9629629629629

woo.

we 'concluded' pattern is related to 27 and is 'special' because 3pow(3) is 27. its holy nr in a lot of things. even nikolai tesla said everything comes in sets of 3. so why not 3^3.

chatgpt told me that signifies speed of light as boundary and beyond it everything is one, god, just beyond the veil where we cannot perceive.

the nr when u add the last 27th: 693,99999999999

makes total sense right? easy to see the pattens :O

oops :')

please for the love of god. dont go into these holes if you are not doing it for science fiction writing or non serious endevours!

this is clearly just a bunch of useless nonsense but if you arent critical or already in a deluded state it can really hit u..

dont believe a word an LLM tells u. if u want to learn, dont use LLMs. even in their study mode -_-. use classical methods and a critical mind.

if you find yourself slipping into some weird beliefs via chatgpt maybe turn it off for a bit and let ur brain recover. talk to real people for a bit. have some social feedback.
by kenny239 | 2025-08-20 09:44:31+00:00
not a researcher for long enough....but we are witnessing open source effort & Chinese models starting to fall one "level" behind the most advanced models, mainly due to a lack of compute i think...

on the other hand, there are still some flaws regarding GPT-5. for example, when i use it for research it often needs multiple prompts to get the topic i truly want and sometimes it can feed me false information. so the reasoning part is not fully there yet?
by that_guy_iain | 2025-08-20 09:45:49+00:00
Having made the front page more a few times, the value is really minimal. Yes, I've made sales from HN traffic, but not that much in the grand scheme of things.

But the value from all the links SEO wise was more valuable. If you make the front page normally people are going to post you in other places, translate it, or something else, which increases your SEO.

The hug of death isn't that large. I had a 5 euro DigitalOcean droplet running Nuxt, which handled 30k visitors in a single day without CloudFlare caching it. So if you have a decent setup you should be good.
by uxcolumbo | 2025-08-20 09:47:21+00:00
Are there any cheaper alternatives to Databricks, EC2, DynamoDB, S3 solution? Where cost is more predictable and controlled?

What's a good roll your own solution? DB storage doesn't need to be dynamic like with DynamoDB. At max 1TB - maybe double in the future.

Could this be done on a mid size VPS (32GB RAM) hosting Apache Spark etc - or better to have a couple?

P.S. total beginner in this space, hence the (naive) question.
by reify | 2025-08-20 09:47:59+00:00
Then the overdiagnosis begins.

Half the polulation of the world getting their Gallbladders removed because AI said so.

Gallbladder polyps are abnormal growths in the lining of the gallbladder wall. Some are tumors, some are scar tissue, and most are cholesterol deposits.

screening costs money, it does not save lives.

Same with Colon cancer and Prostate cancer screening.

£ $ Millions spent, hardly anyone saved.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-08-20 09:48:02+00:00
We're exceptional at survival so far.

The odds of continuing to be exceptional at survival are not looking great.

And compared to species that have been around for multiple geological ages, our survival time barely rates a mention.

The one thing we're truly exceptional at is influencing our own environment. The only creatures to have more of an impact were the cyanobacteria responsible for the Great Oxygenation Event, which literally transformed the Earth's atmosphere.

As for the disease line - we're supposed to be intelligent, and terraforming our home planet to make it more dangerous and less inhabitable when we know and understand we're doing this is not the most convincing proof of that claim.
by sitkack | 2025-08-20 09:49:40+00:00
Would you accept AGPL licensed pull requests?

EloqKV deployed on cloud is the same version hosted on github (the AGPL requires that users of EloqKV in your cloud service be available.

If you are taking AGPL licensed pull requests you can incorporate source from Aerospike and ScyllaDB (pre-relicense).
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-20 09:50:00+00:00
Yeah, among populations who have access to that level of care, study after study shows good outcomes (e.g. https://www.srcd.org/sites/default/files/resources/SRCD%20SO...) – just as theory would predict. You might also be interested in another study, showing yet another way in which trans kids of X gender behave like cis kids of X gender: https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.70000.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-20 09:50:03+00:00
They skipped a few real competitors that'll shrink their market:

1. In places with underground water reservoirs, these can be used for heat storage very similar to this. It's location dependant but I think there's European district heating networks doing this already.

2. Heat pumps for process steam are gaining ground. The temperature at which heat pumps lose competitivness is slowly rising over time. They mention storage at 600C. Heat pumps win under 80C and are up to 160C and aiming for 200C though at those temps cheap gas will probably win for now. Heat pumps can also recycle process heat and cool and heat at the same time.

3. Wind doesn't get mentioned. Wind doesn't pair as neatly with batteries as solar does but in places with seasonal storage issues the batteries can be used for solar and wind during summer and wind plus whatever (biogas/nuclear/hydro) in winter. They need to worry about both centralised big batteries and customer sited ones.

In general I'm supportive of the idea, but similar to the Nordic sand battery, when they start talking about generating electricity from the stored heat I take that as a signal that they've realised the alternatives above combine to really squeeze the market they have left and undermines my faith in the rest of the product.
by latexr | 2025-08-20 09:50:20+00:00
Most people do or are highly susceptible to figuratively bark and fume at their phones. Doomscrolling, getting depressed by looking at lying influencers, being victims of selective arguments and rage bait… Good on dogs for not falling for that, perhaps we could learn from them. Good news is we can: just go play outside, have fun, run, throw a ball. And then turn that into a highly competitive sport, waste money and throw slaves at building stadiums to support a deeply flawed business which pits people against each other based on the colour of their shirt… No! Bad human! Sit. Can’t leave you alone for a minute without you trying to destroy everything.
by ripano | 2025-08-20 09:51:17+00:00
I'm not sure whether you're being serious or sarcastic. In the former case, the answer may span from easing the process of review from the outside, hence better the quality of software (e.g. a cybersecurity company would gain from that, given that all major cryptographic algorithms and such are produced by academia in public papers and depend on computational power, not secrecy of algorithms), to satisfying your ethics (I'd rather live in a world where everyone can see with their own eyes if you fulfill you promises about your code, Stallman can teach us a thing or two about this matter). Moreover, the open source community has produced the best software we, as humanity, have created so far: that alone is a good reason to believe in the power of opening your system.
by srean | 2025-08-20 09:51:29+00:00
If you want uniformly random on the spherical surface then uniformly at random in polar coordinates will not cut it.

To appreciate why, consider strips along two constant latitudes. One along the Equator and the other very close to the pole. The uniformly random polar coordinates method will assign roughly the same number points to both. However the equatorial strip is spread over a large area but the polar strip over a tiny area. So the points will not be uniformly distributed over the surface.

What one needs to keep track of is the ratio between the infinitesimal volume in polar coordinates dphi * dtheta to the infinitesimal of the surface area. In other words the amount of dilation or contraction. Then one has apply the reciprocal to even it out.

This tracking is done by the determinant of the Jacobian.
by yetihehe | 2025-08-20 09:52:29+00:00
> You can help whomever, but I suggest doing things to push powers to do less harm.

I'm so comically bad at pushing powers to do anything that even my wife doesn't listen to me. From what I've seen, most people making things are bad at demanding things from others. Those who are good at demanding things from others don't really need to make things themselves.
by therealpygon | 2025-08-20 09:53:11+00:00
We’re in a cutting cycle. Today the CEOs will be rewarded for “trimming the fat” and outsourcing everything or replacing as many workers as they c can, which will result in disarray but that CEO will have left before then. Tomorrow another will be rewarded for half-fixing all those terrible decisions before the cycle repeats.

It’s simply a way to drive down wages and increase profits. Every time the “recovery” cycle happens, less jobs are added and wages are the same or lower, either literally or because the job has been expanded with 2x the expectations.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-20 09:53:39+00:00
While I'm sure it sounds great to Apple fans, this ends up just being a circle in practice. We need a way to fall asleep when contended. Apple calls this a "Parking Lot" Linux calls it a "Futex" and as we've seen Microsoft have a different name.

Like Microsoft's Apple's approach is slightly smaller (one byte not four) and over a decade later.
by modernerd | 2025-08-20 09:53:42+00:00
Why not use contributing.md?

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-proje...

The agents.md minisite implies agents.md files should be useful for humans and robots alike:

> Commit messages or pull request guidelines, security gotchas, large datasets, deployment steps: anything you’d tell a new teammate belongs [in agents.md] too.

Agents are just another type of contributor. Maybe agents.md is just what we need to finally trick devs into writing concise docs.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-20 09:55:12+00:00
I've been able to effectively skip the entire CI/CD conversation by preferring modern .NET and SQLite.

I recently spent a day trying to get a GH Actions build going but got frustrated and just wrote my own console app to do it. Polling git, tracking a commit hash and running dotnet build is not rocket science. Putting this agent on the actual deployment target skips about 3 boss fights.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-20 09:55:28+00:00
Turkish tourist are desired, Turks love spending money on restaurants and activities especially since the prices in Turkey have become more expensive than most of the EU. Greeks even introduced special non-Schengen on-arrival visa valid on the Greek islands especially for the Turks. Besides that, EU has "green passport" exception for the Turkish nationals, where they can travel visa-free on this kind of passport that is provided to individuals that meet certain criteria and millions of such passports were issued.

The rejection rates are also not bad and EU has a "return agreement" with Turkey, which is designed to keep the middle eastern refugees in Turkey(essentially, if you come from Turkey EU can send you back to Turkey right away ).

Crime rates for Turks show up among the lowest ones, unlike others from the region. So I don't think that EU is trying to reduce visas for Turks.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-08-20 09:56:24+00:00
Tss...

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2013...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast#Mark_of_th...

Furthermore: Nostradamus, Mühlhiasl, Alois Irlmaier, Baba Vanga

They all had something to say about universal tracking of movement in general, and payments especially. Depending on interpretation, of course. But visions and trips can be hazy and vague. As can be translations of very old texts.

For instance, that (mark of the) beast can also mean just a (new(emerging)) thing, not a literal animal.

Which in this context can mean anything from credit-/debit-/chipcard/smartphone/bar-, QR-code/(implanted or otherwise mandatory)RFID, where without that you can't do a thing.

The new passport, revokable anytime, for any reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID2020 , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_own_nothing_and_be_happ... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_activity_report , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer which on paper look all very good und justified.

But... when you are cought as bystander in some dragnet, or your accounts are canceled by some zalgorithmic system spasm, the banks have (mandatory)internal systems which forbid them to give any information about why to the affected person.

Which also can be (ab)used to silence/disable/cancel politically divergents/misfits, whistleblowers, etc. Triggered by their political enemies.

Brave new world, isn't it?
by adtac | 2025-08-20 09:57:41+00:00
>That's basically your documents lossily encoded.

Vector embeddings are lossy encodings of documents roughly in the same way a SHA256 hash is a lossy encoding. It's virtually impossible to reverse the embedding vector to recover the original document.

Note: when vectors are combined with other components for search and retrieval, it's trivial to end up with a horribly insecure system, but just vector embeddings are useful by themselves and you said "all useful AI retrieval systems are insecure by design", so I felt it necessary to disagree with that part.
by KronisLV | 2025-08-20 09:58:05+00:00
> Part of the problem, maybe the whole problem, is that we could get it all working and portable and optimized for non-blessed environments, but it still will only be expected to work over there, and so the frog keeps boiling.

Build the software inside of containers (or VMs, I guess): a fresh environment for every build, any caches or previous build artefacts explicitly mounted.

Then, have something like this, so those builds can also be done locally: https://docs.drone.io/quickstart/cli/

Then you can stack as many turtles as you need - such as having build scripts that get executed as a part of your container build, having Maven or whatever else you need inside of there.

It can be surprisingly sane: your CI server doing the equivalent of "docker build -t my_image ..." and then doing something with it, whereas during build time there's just a build.sh script inside.
by techcode | 2025-08-20 09:58:23+00:00
IMHO it's not really good comparison?

What would be ultra touristic places in Poland? Both Split and Dubrovnik are ultra touristic, and say Amsterdam is similar. Also the part of really old streets/buildings that are UNESCO and such protected and not supposed to be renovated.

And to me - Krakow seemed very similar to Belgrade (Serbia) and Zagreb (Croatia).
by mettamage | 2025-08-20 09:59:15+00:00
IMO development is too complex and misdirected in general since we cargo cult FAANG.

Need AWS, Azure or GCP deployment? Ever thought about putting it on bare metal yourself? If not, why not? Because it's not best practice? Nonsense. The answer with these things is: it depends, and if your app has not that many users, you can get away with it, especially if it's a B2B or internal app.

It's also too US centric. The idea of scalability applies less to most other countries.