MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by monster_truck | 2025-08-04 22:50:29+00:00
I love when you're trying to navigate through some zig zag construction bullshit and the lane assist keeps fighting you to eat some cones/barrels. It's also fantastic when the lines on the highway are wobbly and it starts trying to drive like a drunk person. All because of people who can't help but use their phones while driving...

E: A 2022 subaru I rented for a long drive was by far the least worst of anything I've driven. I go out of my way to try something new every time I get to rent a car
by lolive | 2025-08-04 22:50:55+00:00
Show me a fully graphical version controlled UI that hides PySpark behind visual widgets.

Show me a entity-relationship model management [with version control] that wraps Spark data frames into a fully ontology-based graph database.

Show me a low code/no code UI designer that is fully consuming the ontology layer abstracting your Spark dataFrames.

#meWaiting
by c6401 | 2025-08-04 22:51:06+00:00
I mean the pandemic was not too long ago, a lot of us actually remember the accessible treatments back then.

First they discovered steroids like prednisolone which were useful only for heavily sick patients, then they started to distribute antibody plasma from other patients, then monoclonal antibodies and some cytokine inhibitors and when everybody who wanted already got vaccinated, we got antivirals such as Paxlovid, and it was scarce.

There were a lot of misunderstanding around hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, similarly how we have a lot of misunderstanding around vaccines and autism. And they were tested and tested and tested, similarly how we still check if vaccines cause autism. And all the proper research showed that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were absolutely ineffective, times and times again, but people just couldn't let them go, similarly to how people can't let go the fake autism-vaccine connection.

In the first part of the pandemic, vaccines were the best we had.
by bartread | 2025-08-04 22:51:56+00:00
I’ve had people come back at me after giving feedback, which I always do give for anyone I’ve spoken to. They argue, they ask for a second chance, etc. I simply tell them my decision is final and stop responding to further communication attempts. I have no problem doing that.

But that’s a minority: most people just appreciate getting some feedback, and not being ghosted.

And if they’ve taken an hour out of their day to speak to me, providing a short piece of (ideally actionable) feedback, or at least that explains where their experience or skills didn’t match up to other applicants, is the least I can do. It’s also an opportunity to provide encouragement on positive aspects of the interview, even if those weren’t enough to carry the day.

You have to understand that even - perhaps especially - unsuccessful applicants will talk about their experience of your hiring process. Unless you work somewhere that people really want to work, and where they’ll be willing to wade through shit to do it (cough, Google, cough - perhaps Google of yore anyway), you want to be doing everything you can to ensure that even unsuccessful applicants are treated well and have as positive an experience as possible.

It won’t always work out but, in my experience, the extra effort is worthwhile.
by jemmyw | 2025-08-04 22:52:17+00:00
That is arguably incorrect and a matter of perception. Europe was perceived to be safer and more powerful 25 years ago. But is in fact, safer and more powerful now than it was then. Are you safer if the dependencies are unknown or if they're known and people are talking about them? Are you safer if you believe the US will have your back, not knowing that it won't really, or are you safer with better knowledge on how far support will go?

The EU countries are, right now, pumping up their military budgets. Russia has just spent several years destroying it's huge stock of soviet era equipment. 25 years ago, that equipment was in better shape and the EU was reducing military budgets all over the place, and Ukraine was closer to Russia's sphere of influence - potentially far less safe but nobody knew it?
by adamcharnock | 2025-08-04 22:52:26+00:00
This may be blindingly obvious, but I’m going to say it anyway: If Amazon was willing to actually give up control of AWS EU, then this kind of announcement would be entirely surplus to requirements. But they will (obviously and rationally) not be giving up control of AWS EU because that would essentially have to be an act of charity, so they need to dress it up a bit.

(Before hitting ‘add comment’ I’m taking a moment to consider if I’m being overly cynical. But no, I really don’t think I am. But my company does compete with AWS, so that is a bias.)
by gnabgib | 2025-08-04 22:52:48+00:00
The whole story is covered in HN posts:

Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site (163 points, 2013, 123 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809065

Man Searches Through Landfill for 8 Years for $350M Lost Bitcoin Wallet (20 points, 2021, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29586640

Man who threw away £150m in Bitcoin hopes AI and robot dogs will get it back (10 points, 2022, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32326497

Man has 'finely tuned' plan to find £500M Bitcoin thrown in tip, court told (10 points, 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42308909

Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin (69 points, 7 months ago, 79 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691913

Man who lost Bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill (41 points, 6 months ago, 58 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044
by creatonez | 2025-08-04 22:53:31+00:00
You don't need the exact flowing of text to be consistent, outside of publishing. This is an anti-feature most of the time, something you specifically don't want.

Zooming is not something PDFs do well at all. I'm not sure in what universe you could call this a usability benefit. Just because it's made of vector graphics doesn't mean you've implemented zoom in a way that is actually usable. People with poor vision (who cannot otherwise use eyeglasses) don't use a magnifying glass, they use the large-print variant of a document. Telling them to use a magnifying glass would be saying "no, we did not accommodate for low eyesight at all, deal with it".
by omnimus | 2025-08-04 22:53:50+00:00
Sorry but we were not talking about “rsyncing the files over”. We are talking about what services that i've used like Forge or Ploi do where you deploy project into separate folder and then switch symlink. You can even roll it back.

I have a feeling you want to dunk on poor dumb PHP developer but like Forge is by the people who created Laravel. I believe they would put some thought into it. Maybe just maybe small chance of one bad request is not such a bad deal.
by 9rx | 2025-08-04 22:54:44+00:00
> never occurred to me that they might think we’re no longer friends.

Me neither and the whole idea seems inconceivable. Unless there was some kind of breakup, why would anyone think that periods of disconnect equals no longer being friends?

> not sure if I’ll do something about it though

Is there anything to do? If someone truly believes you are no longer friends then you are no longer friends. No need to beat a dead horse.
by lolive | 2025-08-04 22:55:07+00:00
I would love to know an alternative to that superbly integrated stack . [be aware that none of those tools require coding knowledge, nor any DB administration, nor scalability consideration. But for me the most important part is that the data workflow is not dataFrame driven, but semantic entity/relationship driven. Think of that as if you had an ORM magically wrapping your Spark cluster, and make it look like a graph database. Oh, and the sync with ElaticSearch is built-in for a no-brainer semantic search feature on your objects]
by atoav | 2025-08-04 22:55:27+00:00
If you answered me like that I would be happy, as it means you understood the defining characteristic of any interface is that it is the deliberate introduction of a systemic boundary to act as a bridge between two systems in the broadest sense. E.g. if a human could directly interface with digital signals we wouldn't need a graphical user interface. If your program doesn't need to interact with other programs you wouldn't need an Application Protocol Interface, etc.

It isn't an easy question, but I'd really suggest to see such broad questions as a chance to show off your knowledge, instead of a potential trick question where the teacher expects you to read their mind and gives you an F if you answered the wrong question. If an interviewer isn't happy with a broad answer to a broad question they can always ask you to go into detail on a specific aspect. Having demonstrated that you have a broad overview and a high level understanding is valuable either way.
by sebastiennight | 2025-08-04 22:55:32+00:00
I think you might be interested in reading about the orthogonality thesis, which addresses exactly that. There is very little reason to believe that advanced technology goes along advancement along the scale of (your own) morality axis.

All points of that 2D graph are available.

Edit: also I think you're misreading the Dark Forest concept. They're not saying those aliens are "as bad as [us]". It's rather akin to a prisoner's dilemma. The logic is:

#1. if only one actor is paranoid enough and strong enough, they will proactively get rid of whoever speaks up.

From this axiom comes the logical conclusion that, since we cannot be sure to avoid detection forever, the only viable survival mechanism is to be paranoid ourselves and get rid of others before they become strong enough and can enforce axiom #1.
by surebut | 2025-08-04 22:55:40+00:00
Yeah ok let me go expropriate other peoples systems.

They exist but are used in house not sold as products.

There are information theory texts with all these ideas written in them published back in the 1950s we just didn't have powerful enough computers

Thiel and Musk's only advantage is age. They were able to implement first due to a single property of physics.

Most "geniuses" today, like Tao, just like reading math. None of them have any truly novel net new ideas. They're parrots whose cages were in the nerdy section of a book store.
by theozero | 2025-08-04 22:56:25+00:00
For a more modern approach to .env files that includes built-in validation and type-safety, check out https://varlock.dev

Instead of a .env.example (which quickly gets out of date), it uses a .env.schema - which contains extra metadata as decorator comments. It also introduces a new function call syntax, to securely load values from external sources.
by simpaticoder | 2025-08-04 22:57:02+00:00
Great point. The internet is both a skewed reflection of us AND it influences us. Similar to the well-known reflexivity of legacy media but much greater scale and shorter time-frame. To bolster your point even further, I'd say that no human can bifurcate their life, their thoughts, their values, as "real" versus "online". It's just too hard, so they inevitably converge - giving lie to the constant refrain that it's "just trolling" or "just online bullying" etc.

It seems the internet has profound structural issues that undermine the forces that traditionally retarded and punished ignorance and malice. If it's true that society will inexorably evolve in the direction of the internet, and if we are all helpless to stop, or even slow, this evolution, then we are well and truly fucked.
by dalibenothmen | 2025-08-04 22:57:02+00:00
Thank you for your comment.Totally get what you’re saying and yeah, that’s a solid take. My main point was more about what happens next when those "Excel-as-solution" systems grow beyond their original scope and start needing maintenance, collaboration, or scale. That’s where things can get tricky. But I completely agree Excel often is the hero in the early stages.
by woodruffw | 2025-08-04 22:57:40+00:00
I think the definition of FOSS used here is tendentious: some of these projects (which I have no particular attachment to) are marked as "not FOSS" or "issues exist" because they have components that are disconnected from the basic nature of free and open source software itself.

A recurring one here seems to be that proprietary builds somehow make a project not FOSS. But this is how it's always worked: Red Hat doesn't sell FOSS source, they sell a subscription to a distribution (RHEL) that includes managed, maintained builds. That distribution is in turn restricted[1], while the source behind it remains free.

Perhaps there's an argument to be made that the definition of FOSS should be stronger, and should include some kind of binary freedom, lack of trademark restrictions, etc. But that's not how the term is conventionally applied, and glossing over that convention seems roughly as contentious as when companies try to split the baby and rewrite "open source" to include anti-competitive terms.

[1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/red-hat-enterprise-linux...
by mk_stjames | 2025-08-04 22:57:44+00:00
This was also a plot point used much before The Martian; in the 2000 Val Kilmer film Red Planet- stranded astronauts make their way to the spot where Pathfinder's 'Sojourner' rover rests, in order to pull it's radio and use it to communicate an SOS with the orbiting station.

It's been a long time since I've seen that (widely panned as not-very-good) movie, but I feel I remember a line about the little rover using an 'off the shelf computer modem' - this is actually true, the little rover communicated back to the Pathfinder base station with a straight up off-the-shelf RS232 9600bps wireless transparent modem link. [0] [1] I remember that detail as it showed that, even though the movie itself was... uhhh... interesting, science-wise, it clearly had someone in an advisory role that knew something about real JPL hardware on Mars at the time.

[0] https://urgentcomm.com/public-safety/data-communications-fro...

[1] http://www.iki.rssi.ru/mpfmirror/rovercom/itworks.html#rover...
by throw0101d | 2025-08-04 22:58:17+00:00
Trying to re-engine a 747 in mid-air is a challenging operation.

> So IPv6 is about 30 years old, and the testimony being shared is the chair of the group spending years of research and millions of dollars, finally launching ipv6 corporate lans in 2023.

And how many years of research and millions of dollars was spent in the 1990s on IPv4? People used to use workstations as routers (e.g., see SunOS routeadm(1M)) and DNS caching servers before a lot of money was poured into ASICs for routing (and switching).

There are all sorts of dumbass things with IPv4: how much time has been wasted on engineering solutions around NAT (e.g., STUN/TURN/ICE)? But because IPv4 just happens to be the default we accept them as 'normal' and anything that is different is treated as 'abnormal'.

> You're not selling me on it's viability.

I'm not sure how it's not viable given there are mobile telco networks with tens (hundreds?) of millions of people getting only IPv6 addresses on their devices.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMNglk_CvE

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGbxCKAqNUE

There are some folks who (a) were lucky enough to get in early on the IPv4 address land rush, or (b) are rich enough to be able to purchase IPv4 addresses, but there are also (c) plenty of folks who are left with scraps for IPv4 connectivity. The fact that you happen to fall into (a) or (b) does not mean you get to dismiss the folks in (c) who need IPv6, as otherwise they'd have no connectivity at all.
by tristor | 2025-08-04 22:59:30+00:00
> The Corolla has better implementations of modern features than the Mazda3, it's simply not as flashy.

As someone who owns and drives a 2024 Mazda 3 PP daily, and test drove and compares notes with my neighbor who dailies a 2024 Corolla XSE Hatch, I don't think this characterization is accurate at all. I have nothing against the Corolla, but the Corolla is lacking in /many/ ways compared to the Mazda3.

One simple example is that my Mazda3 has a heads up display that puts car safety system data, turn-by-turn navigation (from android auto or apple carplay or built-in nav), speed data, and vehicle data into the HUD so I never need to look down at the dash.

Another example is that while the Mazda3 has a touchscreen in the center console, there are physical controls for every functionality with good tactility and Mazda has chosen to disable the touchscreen once you exceed 5MPH (by default), ensuring you aren't distracting yourself using a touchscreen while on the highway.

As to all those automated safety systems, most of those are government mandated and every car has them. I do agree that Toyota does a better job than most manufacturers, but to my knowledge there is not a single system on my neighbor's 2024 Corolla that isn't also on my 2024 Mazda3...

Where the Corolla wins in my opinion is actually its simplicity. The Mazda3 has too much effort in its interior, but also somehow not quite enough, and it ends up with it being very comfortable to drive except it sometimes has rattles in panels, which is not a very premium experience. The Corolla has a much more basic interior, very bog standard, but it's also flawless in executing being bog standard.

As far as driving dynamics, it's no contest, the Mazda3 is significantly better. The only Corolla with great driving dynamics is the GR Corolla, but that's really a completely different sort of car.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-04 22:59:38+00:00
You have to adjust figures for PPP, or Purchasing Power Parity, due to exchange rate differences. In 2024, Russia's PPP adjusted military spend was somewhere between $300B and $400B [1][2]. Their technology is also vastly superior to Germany's and they have a much larger personnel. It doesn't matter how much you spend if you don't get your money's worth.

The 100B euro investment was also a temporary one-off budget allocation that had been distributed over the past 2 years and to little effect: https://www.grosswald.org/eu100-billion-later-fixing-the-bun...

[1] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/debating-defence-budgets-why-... [2] https://militaryppp.com/blog/
by saltcured | 2025-08-04 22:59:48+00:00
Yeah, you could have a whole article-length rant about how courtesy lighting has devolved into turning parked cars into simulations of a rocket launch site lit with flood lights.

The dwell time on these modes is so long that you need a welding mask to protect your eyes if you make the mistake of waiting in a supermarket parking lot for someone who is running a quick errand. Just a constant stream of large, unattended SUVs blasting ridiculous light into surrounding cars. By the time one turns itself off, the next one is ready for duty.
by sebastiennight | 2025-08-04 23:00:08+00:00
Religion is a good example of a solid good reason, even from a human standpoint, for undertaking large projects without a positive expected economic ROI.

And even amongst humans there are many other such factors (ego of the current leader, etc.)

You're also making economic assumptions that might be wrong at an advanced enough level of technology.

A man from the 14th century Americas might understandably believe that

"the idea of malign intent ignores the physical economic factors that are true everywhere on this planet. The amount of energy it takes to get here from across the Atlantic, and the necessary probability that there is at least one other country with every element we have, in much higher quantities, and closer to them, precludes any motive to wipe us out. Given the effort involved and the alternatives, the only possible reason to contact us is benevolent."

A few generations later, that tribe would no longer be recorded in history, wiped out by war and smallpox brought on ships from across the world.
by tstrimple | 2025-08-04 23:00:10+00:00
If those things actually mattered they would be rewarded in the "free marketplace of ideas". But they aren't and never have been. The most wealthy companies in the world aren't wealthy because of the quality of their code. That's why literally zero Very Large Organizations prioritize code quality. Marketing matters far more than quality and the budgets demonstrate this. You're just holding it wrong.
by Mo3 | 2025-08-04 23:00:47+00:00
I still wonder why they literally don't seem to care in Europe. I've overdrawn billing accounts (by accident) two times, one 10 years ago, one a year ago. Nothing happened until I remembered about them months and months later, I went to check and both times the accounts were just sitting there closed. Checked my email and they sent like two payment reminders in the first 2 weeks and then nothing ever again.. the one 10 years ago is still sitting there.. it's not like they couldn't have sent it to debt collections, that's also a popular thing here lol.
by DHPersonal | 2025-08-04 23:00:56+00:00
I cancelled my subscription about the same time. The lack of an endorsement is best seen in the context of their choice of headlines and otherwise soft coverage of Trump’s increasingly dictatorial behavior. Taken out of context, it might seem innocuous and perhaps even admirable that no candidate was endorsed, but it’s in the comparison of being overly uncritical of Trump and then not advocating for Harris that gave all those subscribers a reason to cancel.