MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheCapeGreek | 2025-08-21 05:35:48+00:00
I always hear this "writing code isn't the bottleneck" used when talking about AI, as if there are chosen few engineers who only work on completely new and abstract domains that require a PhD and 20 years of experience that an LLM can not fathom.

Yes, you're right, AI cannot be a senior engineer with you. It can take a lot of the grunt work away though, which is still part of the job for many devs at all skill levels. Or it's useful for technologies you're not as well versed in. Or simply an inertia breaker if you're not feeling very motivated for getting to work.

Find what it's good for in your workflows and try it for that.
by jackero | 2025-08-21 05:35:53+00:00
I find RT scores very accurate but not the raw score.

What I mean is that a 70% score is meaningless to me. I need to know the movie genre, the audience score, the age of the movie and then I basically do a “lookup table” in my head. And I have that lookup table because I’ve looked up every movie I’ve watched on RT for 15 years so I know how the scores correlate to my own personal opinions.

As an example: the author said that critic scores should align with audience scores but no that’s not true at all. Critics tend to care more about plot continuity, plot depth and details while the audience tends to care about enjoyability. Both are important to me so I always look at both scores. That’s why a lot of very funny comedies have a 60-69% critic score but a 90%-100% audience score — because it’s hilarious but the plot makes no fucking sense and has a million holes. And if you see a comedy with 95% critic but 70% audience, it will be thought-provoking and well done but don’t expect more than occasional chuckles.
by nielsbot | 2025-08-21 05:35:59+00:00
I imagine it will play out similarly to the genocide of the Native Americans: Ethnically cleansed or genocided. Any stragglers will live on reservations or the equivalent. Palestinians living under Israeli control will be subject to apartheid a la the Jim Crow South in the US.

I still have a slim hope that this outcome will be averted, but the odds of that lessen by the day.
by fluoridation | 2025-08-21 05:36:11+00:00
I feel like if the rules are going to change like this, they should change fairly. A few months in jail for what would have been petty crime if not for the repetition seems excessive. If right now there's a lower cash value threshold for prosecution, the fair thing is that there should be a lower rate threshold. For example, someone shouldn't be jailed for stealing a thousand dollars worth of batteries over the course of ten years, I don't think.
by _kidlike | 2025-08-21 05:37:34+00:00
me and my team have been doing code reviews purely within IntelliJ, for something like 6 years. We started doing it "by hand", by checking out the branch and comparing with master, then using Github for comments.

Now there's official support and tooling for reviews (at least in IDEA, but probably in the others too), where you also get in-line highlighting of changed lines, comments, status checks, etc...

I feel sorry for anyone still using GitHub itself (or GitLab or whatever). It's horrible for anything more than a few lines of changes here and there.
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-21 05:37:43+00:00
To clarify, my admonition not to visit the US wasn't a warning from a xenophobe promising harm to foreigners.

Rather it was an earnest concern for the health and well-being of fellow humans given the harsh, punitive and cruel tactics being used on people by my government.

If and when we stop treating visitors like criminals, I will once again heartily recommend that folks come and visit the US. It's an amazing place with all sorts of fabulous places, things and people. And despite the loudest and nastiest among us, most Americans are kind and decent people.

But that time is not now. And more's the pity.
by bruce511 | 2025-08-21 05:38:00+00:00
I concur.

The opposite of goal setting is not "doing nothing". And with respect, watching TV, playing games, etc is doing nothing.

Rather you should be _doing_ something, something interesting to you. Create, not Consume.

SO questions is a good start. Meaningful answers take time. You might set a goal of 10 questions a day. Some amount that represents meaningful time.

From there, maybe you notice the kinds of questions you like. Are they leading you to an open source project? Or customer support? (There are _very_ well paid support jobs out there, not FAANG pay, but waaay better than what most people earn.)

The point of goals or interests is the same - finding your journey. Sitting around consuming is not journey time. Use whatever approach works for you to start yourself moving.
by monkeyelite | 2025-08-21 05:38:05+00:00
> The purpose of a proof of an assertion is to demonstrate that the assertion is true. Once that is done, the assertion can be treated as a theorem and other results can be built upon it.

No. The purpose of math is to increase our understanding, not check off boxes.

In your model you might as well have a computer brute force generate logical statements and study those. Why would that be less valuable then an understanding of differential equations?
by tguvot | 2025-08-21 05:39:47+00:00
Netanyahu became PM in 1996. In his role as PM he signed follow up agreements to Oslo accords and handed over to PA control more parts west bank.

As cabinet minister (in 2004?) he voted 4 times in favor of disengagement from gaza and removal of all jews from there (both life and dead).

Later, when he became PM again, in speech that he gave he affirmed that he supports two state solution as long as palestinian state demilitarized (something that demand now all western countries that recognize it).
Data to Voice Podcast in 30s with Datastripes
by vinserello | 2025-08-21 05:40:19+00:00
I've been working on a tool called Datastripes (originally my master’s thesis) that runs entirely in the browser. It’s a drag-and-drop data engine where you can load datasets (CSV, SQL, APIs), transform them visually, and build dashboards without writing code.

One feature people seem to like most: you can turn your data into a narrated podcast in less than 30 seconds. The system takes your dataset or dashboard, generates insights, and converts them into an audio feed you can listen to or share with your team. The idea is that instead of pulling reports or staring at dashboards, execs can literally listen to how the business is doing during a commute.

Other parts of Datastripes include forecasting, "what-if" scenario simulations (like crises or market booms), and an AI chat interface to talk with your data. But I’d really like to hear what you think about the data-to-voice approach specifically.

https://datastripes.com or login completely free till September on https://app.datastripes.com Would love feedback, especially from folks building or consuming analytics tools.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-21 05:40:20+00:00
> An upper limit is not the desired and accepted speed everybody needs to aim for.

I agree entirely. But while you seem to be thinking about the situation where the speed limit is higher than the natural safe speed range people would intuit without a sign, often it's significantly lower. That's a bad way to design roads and speed limits. In pedestrian areas restrict the roads more, and in non-pedestrian areas let people go a good pace on straight dry roads.

> Nobody is milked. The rules are simple and trivial to follow. Those that are fined are really asking for it.

How much over is your threshold for "really" asking for it? If it includes people going 2-3 over then I very much disagree.
by realityking | 2025-08-21 05:40:41+00:00
As discussed in the GitHub thread, strategy two is fundamentally flawed because there’s no other way to make an XML document human readable in today’s browsers. (CSS is close but lacking some capabilities)

So site operators who rely on this feature today are not merely asked to load a polyfill but to fundamentally change the structure of their website - without necessarily getting to the same result in the end.
by the_third_wave | 2025-08-21 05:41:29+00:00
Time to change your laws and/or prosecutors I'd say so those 'minor thefts' can and will be prosecuted resulting in fines which need to be paid - no ifs and buts. Get them early and get them (hopefully not that) often and you may be able to keep the majority of 'proletarian shoppers' on a somewhat less crooked path. If crime pays more people commit crimes, if shoplifting is not dealt with more people shoplift.
by sandGorgon | 2025-08-21 05:42:10+00:00
very cool! software never gets done ....so would have loved to see it (and contributed to it). But totally respect that. Would love to see it when ur done!

for context, i contribute to an opensource mobile browser (built on top of chromium), where im actually building out the extension system. Chrome doesnt have extensions on mobile! would have loved to see if this works on android...with android's lifecycle on top of your own !!!
by laxmansharma | 2025-08-21 05:42:16+00:00
Really like the direction: hot data in memory for dashboards, cold data in Parquet so you can use normal lake/OLAP tools and avoid lock-in. The streaming rollups + open formats story makes sense for cost and flexibility.

A few focused questions to understand how it behaves in the real world:

Core design & reliability

What protects recent/ hot in-memory data if a node dies? Is there a write-ahead log (on disk or external log like Kafka) or replication, or do we accept some loss between snapshots?

How does sharding and failover work? If a shard is down, can reads fan out to replicas, and how are writes handled?

When memory gets tight, what’s the backpressure plan—slow senders, drop data, or some other smarter approach?

How do you handle late or out-of-order samples after a rollup/export—can you backfill/compact Parquet to fix history? Are there any plans to do this?

Queries

Will there be any plans for data models and different metric types for the hot in memory store like gauge, counter etc.?

Performance & sizing

The sub-ms reads are great, is there a Linux version for the performance reports so it's easier to compare with other products?

Along with the throughput/ latency details I found on Github, are you able to share the memory/ CPU overhead/ GC details etc. for the benchmarks?

What is the rough recommended sizing for RAM/ CPU for different ingestion inputs in terms of bytes per sample or traffic estimation.

Lake/Parquet details

Considering most people use some other solution like prometheus etc. at this point, will there be an easier migration strategy by Okapi ?

Will Okapi be able to serve a single query across hot (memory) + cold (Parquet) seamlessly, or should older ranges be pushed entirely to the lake side and analyzed through OLAP systems ?

Ops & security

Snapshots can slow ingest—are those pauses tunable and bounded? Any metrics/alerts for export lag, memory pressure, or cardinality spikes?

A couple of end-to-end examples (for queries) and a Helm chart/Terraform module would make trials much easier.

Are there any additional monitoring and observability implemented or have plans for Okapi itself?

Overall: promising approach with a strong cost/flexibility angle. If you share Linux+concurrency benchmarks, ingest compatibility, and lake table format plans (Iceberg/Delta), I think a lot of folks here will try it out.
by goyagoji | 2025-08-21 05:43:16+00:00
You are trying to twist if to their favor that the market and not Google specifically is known for hardware problems, recalls and making a camera that 95% of people don't have any use for. What they have is control of Android which allowed them to cancel Android One to build a larger market for the pricing they want using pressure.

Look at what a marvel we can force them to buy for no reason! 80% of them have never made a video intentionally. A great marketing segment.

I had a cemetery of working phones and broken laptops all through past decades. I used laptops for longer than 3 years but I also didn't put them through the pressure a student would and could usually replace parts.

The phone industry is now an oligarchy and prices (and forced feature combinations) are up.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-21 05:44:08+00:00
What bothered me for a long time with code reviews is that almost all useful things they catch (i.e. not nit-picking about subjective minor things that doesn't really matter) are much too late in the process. Not rarely the only (if any) useful outcome of a review is that everything has to be done from scratch in a different ways (completely new design) or that it is abandoned since it turns out it should never have been done at all.

It always seems as if the code review is the only time when all stakeholders really gets involved and starts thinking about a change. There may be some discussion earlier on in a jira ticket or meeting, and with some luck someone even wrote a design spec, but there will still often be someone from a different team or distant part of the organization that only hears about the change when they see the code review. This includes me. I often only notice that some other team implemented something stupid because I suddenly get a notification that someone posted a code review for some part of the code that I watch for changes.

Not that I know how to fix that. You can't have everyone in the entire company spend time looking at every possible thing that might be developed in the near future. Or can you? I don't know. That doesn't seem to ever happen anyway. At university in the 1990's in a course about development processes there wasn't only code reviews but also design reviews, and that isn't something I ever encountered in the wild (in any formal sense) but I don't know if even a design review process would be able to catch all the things you would want to catch BEFORE starting to implement something.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-21 05:44:24+00:00
> I haven't ever experienced a receipt check while using self-checkout. If I did, I'd stop visiting that store. That's a bright red line for me.

Not self checkout related, but the Kroger stores by me have all started having security guards check receipts before you can leave the store. They do this whether or not you do self checkout. Accordingly, I have stopped patronizing those stores because I refuse to spend my money at a business that treats me like a criminal. I sympathize in that they are trying to stop theft, but I'm not going to put up with that particular method of deterrence.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-21 05:46:21+00:00
Yes, but nothing like this. I had a Steam Link, for example, its really a verbatim copy of the dev kit of the ARM SoC they used. Fun fact, same SoC as the Chromecast 1, and the SoC is cursed.

The controller was kinda cool, I didn't get one with mine, but making a controller is an entirely different set of skills than making a computer.
by XorNot | 2025-08-21 05:47:04+00:00
I'm not sure I really see that problem with it? It's a correct observation that people tend to discount what actual, intelligent opposition will do.

The number of people who declare they can totally trust what an adversary says because they agree with it is astounding, as though a committed opponent wouldn't do anything if it gained advantage including feinting in a way which seems unadvantegeous to gain long term advantage.
by solumunus | 2025-08-21 05:47:33+00:00
It’s not a mystery in my opinion. Israeli and American intelligence are heavily involved with each other. Israel knows all of America’s deepest secrets. The financial ties run deep. Israel has been injecting large quantities of capital into US politics. All of this has been happening for half a century.

It’s only a mystery if you think we pick our allies solely on the basis of whether we think they’re a goody or baddy.
by Svip | 2025-08-21 05:47:59+00:00
This article[0], which covers the same but in Danish has more details. It mentions Sweden lowering their book VAT in 2001 to 6%. The takeaway was that more books were sold, but to people who were already buying books. Getting new readers thus requires an additional effort than merely lowering the cost.

[0] https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/regeringen-vil-afskaffe-mo...
by Frieren | 2025-08-21 05:49:02+00:00
What is people doing instead of reading? Social media is designed to be extremely addictive. It taps also on teenagers fears of failing to fit in.

I love HN for being a place for discussion. But most social media is a one way trend setting communication. Miss it and you are out of touch with everybody else. And it moves fast.

What people need is time for themselves with their own thoughts. That creates the opportunity to read and do other things. A phone that requires 100% of your attention span does not allow for that. And big tech puts billions on tracking and data gathering to better know what keeps people hooked and dependent.
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-21 05:49:03+00:00
> Apple is more focused on privacy

A more precise way to put it: Apple is focused on customer control, and will fight whoever tries to touch what they see as Apple's exclusive customers.

This has privacy benefits against tracking agents, reduces functionalities against third party services (Amazon, Spotify, Google, third party payment etc.), and forbids whole use cases (e.g. non Apple backup service).

As a customer one can be happy with the privacy windfall, but we've seen again and again that it's not Apple's focus per se.
by moondev | 2025-08-21 05:49:11+00:00
If you want to run Linux how is macOS a step up? It's a non starter.

Linux is Linux Windows offers Wsl1 and Wsl2 integration

The closest thing macOS has in any official capacity is their containers project, running each container in a VM for "security" at the expense of poor resource allocation and no compatibility with table stakes tooling like compose.
by 3836293648 | 2025-08-21 05:49:21+00:00
I feel like everyone praising AI is a webdev with extremely predictable problems that are almost entirely boilerplate.

I've tried throwing LLMs at every part of the work I do and it's been entirely useless at everything beyond explaining new libraries or being a search engine. Any time it tries to write any code at all it's been entirely useless.

But then I see so many praising all it can do and how much work they get done with their agents and I'm just left confused.
by rnhmjoj | 2025-08-21 05:49:23+00:00
> why would you implement an Anubis PoW MITM Proxy, when you could just simply block on UA?

That's in fact what I was asking: I've only seen traffic from these kind of companies and I've easily blocked them without an annoying PoW scheme.

I have yet to see any of these bad actors and I'm interested in knowing who they actually are.
by epolanski | 2025-08-21 05:50:35+00:00
> and that isn't something I ever encountered in the wild (in any formal sense)

Because in the software engineering world there is very little engineering involved.

That being said, I also think that the industry is unwilling to accept the slowliness of the proper engineering process for various reasons, including non criticality of most software and the possibility to amend bugs and errors on the fly.

Other engineering fields enjoy no such luxuries, the bridge either holds the train or it doesn't, you either nailed the manufacturing plant or there's little room for fixing, the plane's engine either works or not

Different stakes and patching opportunities lend to different practices.
by nujabe | 2025-08-21 05:50:45+00:00
There is absolutely nothing critical to US national security that Israel can provide the United States. When you say “protecting American interests” what you really mean is protecting Israeli interests. America has no national security interest in Israeli settlement expansion in West Bank, Gaza & southern Syria.

The intelligence Israel does provide the US is related to conflicts & terrorist groups that wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Israel itself.

Literally all the Middle East countries host US military bases and are puppet states of the US anyway so I don’t see how Israel provides any value.

“Israel is an albatross around America’s neck” - John Mearsheimer

https://youtu.be/dqeGW4G_Bmo?si=D5ZiURk4IzFRwiIN
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-21 05:51:45+00:00
The Vive hardware platform was built and designed by HTC for Valve, and the software platform was all Valve. It's more like Google's relationship with partners under the Nexus program, but unlike Google's Pixel line.

And yes, Apple design is kind of shit, but in a consumer hostile sort of way, not in an incompetence kind of way.
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-21 05:51:53+00:00
> If that's true Anubis should just remove the proof-of-work part

This is my very strong belief. To make it even clearer how absurd the present situation is, every single one of the proof-of-work systems I’ve looked at has been using SHA-256, which is basically the worst choice possible.

Proof-of-work is bad rate limiting which depends on a level playing field between real users and attackers. This is already a doomed endeavour. Using SHA-256 just makes it more obvious: there’s an asymmetry factor in the order of tens of thousands between common real-user hardware and software, and pretty easy attacker hardware and software. You cannot bridge such a divide. If you allow the attacker to augment it with a Bitcoin mining rig, the efficiency disparity factor can go up to tens of millions.

These proof-of-work systems are only working because attackers haven’t tried yet. And as long as attackers aren’t trying, you can settle for something much simpler and more transparent.

If they were serious about the proof-of-work being the defence, they’d at least have started with something like Argon2d.
by danpalmer | 2025-08-21 05:52:52+00:00
> i.e. to get them above a theft threshhold, at which point prosecution becomes easier

This feels like it should be illegal. Holding back on reporting or prosecuting until you think you're more likely to get a conviction or a bigger conviction, feels close to entrapment.

To do otherwise is just unnecessarily vindictive, showing that it's the punishment that matters more than the prevention.
by YZF | 2025-08-21 05:54:20+00:00
I've driven in many countries including some pretty crazy ones and ones that drive on the wrong side of the road. You adjust/adapt ;) Every now and then though I still turned on the windshield wipers instead of signalling... And when the roads were completely empty you sometimes don't think and almost turn into the wrong lane... And roundabouts are also fun, like driving in Paris with their crazy multi-lane roundabouts.

The funny thing is e.g. in Canada, if you move there from certain countries, you can drive for 6 months on your foreign license, but then you have to take a road test to get a Canadian license!
by jrowen | 2025-08-21 05:54:54+00:00
I remember reading somewhere that Yudkowski said that he had been convinced to "let the AI out of the box" in a conversation with someone, or maybe it was the other way around, but either way the convincing arguments were not revealed.

This feels like the same kind of vague "rational mysticism." "We don't know what we don't know, and we're such silly humans, therefore...AI will kill us all" is all I can really take from it.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-08-21 05:55:49+00:00
> it's a huge selling point that Google could just as easily offer but willingly choose not to.

Google Photos is meant for sharing, where E2EE makes little sense. You can search your photos from any device.

If you really want to give up that convenience for E2EE, you might as well do it right and use Proton or Ente, which have E2EE for all photos, unlike iCloud, which isn't for shared albums or photos shared to anyone with the link. Unlike iOS, Android lets these apps have access to all the same device APIs as Google Photos, meaning they're as seamlessly integrated as possible. Apple iCloud uses iOS APIs not available to third parties, locking you in to using either a gimpy service or a gimpy app.