MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dasil003 | 2025-08-29 20:10:24+00:00
Sorry, can't agree with this. The hiring manager's decision carries the most weight yes, but saying it's biased towards the screen is over-generalizing. I'm sure sometimes it is, but as someone who interviewed thousands and hired hundreds over a quarter century career at many organizations large and small, I can tell you unequivocally that technical feedback can and does regularly override my screening signal.
by breadwinner | 2025-08-29 20:10:27+00:00
I have taken lots of rides in Waymo, and it has always been smooth. So it is possible. The problem with Tesla is that its CEO lays down dogmatic rules, such as humans only need eyes to drive, so his cars will only have cameras, no LiDAR. He needs to accept that robot cars cannot drive the way humans do. Robot cars can drive better than humans, but they have to do it in their own way.
by andrewla | 2025-08-29 20:10:35+00:00
I loosely identify with the schools of intuitinalism/construtivism/finitism. Primary idea is that the Law of the Excluded Middle is not meaningful.

So yes, generally not starting with ZFC.

I can't speak to "truth" in that sense. The skepticism here is skepticism of the utility of the ideas stemming from Cantor's Paradise. It ends up in a very naval-gazing place where you prove obviously false things (like Banach-Tarski) from the axioms but have no way to map these wildly non-constructive ideas back into the real world. Or where you construct a version of the reals where the reals that we can produce via any computation is a set of measure 0 in the reals.
by jfengel | 2025-08-29 20:10:36+00:00
It also benefits the cult members, by the only metric that matters to them: humiliating their perceived opponents.

For example, the farmers may not like the screwworms, but they voted for Trump three times already and are hoping to do so for a fourth.

If people believed that they were being conned, the problem would be self-limiting. But the cult of personality continues to go gangbusters, and shows no sign of ending any time soon.
by joshstrange | 2025-08-29 20:10:51+00:00
I never went more than 1, maybe 2, years without needing to open it up. To be fair, I was adding drives over time as I could afford them and I had a large range of drives of various ages that slowly died out or needed to be replaced with larger capacity drives.

It’s partly the annoyance of being in a cramped space filled with drives but also the downtime. Family and friends use self-hosted software than runs on my main server and uses the NAS(es). Shutting down a NAS means shutting down the software. Yes, I can let them know ahead of time and “schedule downtime” but I dislike needing to do that unless I have to. It just makes the system feel less stable for them and I want to provide a great experience.

With hotswap bays externally accessible I don’t have to stop anything. I’d actually be fine with UnRaid (I still run it as my “app” server) if there was a case with 12 or more 3.5” hotswap bays.

I looked into large JBOD servers but between fan noise and rack mounted servers often being in a whole other class (one I have much less experience in compared to desktop tower builds) I’ve never been able to convince myself to get one.

My Synology 12-bays are quiet and easy to work with so even at ~$1.5K they were a steal in terms of maintenance and upkeep (for me).
by simianwords | 2025-08-29 20:11:10+00:00
What was the alternative? This was clearly an oversight and this much was admitted.

Your suggestion that an oversight like this is reason enough to not use the model?

I don’t get the big problem over here. The model said some unsavoury things and the problem was admitted and fixed - why is this making people lose their minds? It has to be performative because I can’t explain it in any other way.
by nine_k | 2025-08-29 20:11:18+00:00
OK, let's assume we're in California and electricity is like $0.50 / kWh.

An extra 10W being consumed around the clock would cost 24 h/d * 365.25 d * 0.50 $/kWh 0.01 kW = $43.83. Indeed, saving 10W would save enough in 10 years to buy a whole new NAS! (Sans the disks.)
by cyberpunk | 2025-08-29 20:11:38+00:00
I find life quite a lot easier doing just that, have a little free|openbsd gateway vm on the public and internal networks, and just have all your vm's on the internal network.

Also means you can get by with just one internet ip with something like haproxy or relayd working on SNI (or just simply throw all 443 to a web server which then routes on host header or.. whatever), which saves some cash.

Since it's for personal stuff, I can't really be arsed setting up ipv6 on it either.
by dc396 | 2025-08-29 20:12:12+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean by "DNS allows search" -- by the usual definition of "search", the DNS doesn't: it is a lookup mechanism. I'm also not sure who "we" are in your idea or what you mean by "qualified with an end dot": all domains that get looked up implicitly have a "." (a zero length label that signifies the end of the query name) if it isn't explicit.
by zzo38computer | 2025-08-29 20:12:12+00:00
With what they say about authorization, I think X.509 would help. (Although central certificate authorities are often used with X.509, it does not have to be that way; the service you are operating can issue the certificate to you instead, or they can accept a self-signed certificate which is associated with you the first time it is used to create an account on their service.)

You can use the admin certificate issued to you, to issue a certificate to the agent which will contain an extension limiting what it can be used for (and might also expire in a few hours, and also might be revoked later). This certificate can be used to issue an even more restricted certificate to sub-agents.

This is already possible (and would be better than the "fine-grained personal access tokens" that GitHub uses), but does not seem to be commonly implemented. It also improves security in other ways.

So, it can be done in such a way that Cloudflare does not need to issue authorization to you, or necessarily to be involved at all. Google does not need to be involved either.

However, that is only for things where would should normally require authorization to do anyways. Reading public data is not something that should requires authorization to do; the problem with this is excessive scraping (there seems to be too many LLM scraping and others which is too excessive) and excessive blocking (e.g. someone using a different web browser, or curl to download one file, or even someone using a common browser and configuration but something strange unexpected happens, etc); the above is something unrelated to that, so certificates and stuff like that does not help, because it solves a different problem.
by M95D | 2025-08-29 20:12:18+00:00
Because TCO is less with these cheap old drives and I can have RAID5 instead of just RAID1 or no RAID at all.

But you're right. In a few years it will become advantageous to switch to a couple of larger HDDs. I could probably do it right now, but I don't yet trust these new drives as much as I trust the old ones, especially since the refurbished scandal.
by TFYS | 2025-08-29 20:12:37+00:00
> I'm also curious if there's a selection pressure in play where the more cruel wealthy people in the Nordic countries move to the US

That's an interesting thought! It would make sense that the people who care less about others and more about themselves would find it easier and more beneficial to leave. I wonder if anyone has ever done a study on the wealth, personality traits and political views of the people who leave.
by scott_w | 2025-08-29 20:12:50+00:00
We absolutely do not "pick words that are statistically likely to get us what we want." We use words to try to articulate (to varying levels of success) a message that we want to communicate. The words, tone, speed, pitch, etc. all convey meaning.

> And much of it is unconscious.

That does not mean we're "picking words statistically likely to get us what we want," it means "our brains do a lot of work subconsciously." Nothing more.

> You are focused on your objective, and your brain fills in the gaps.

This is a total contradiction of what you said at the start. LLMs are not focused on an objective, they are using very complex statistical algorithms to determine output strings. There is no objective to an LLM's output.
by genewitch | 2025-08-29 20:12:50+00:00
Ford uses large empty volumes in or around their air cleaner boxes in their "beefy" vehicles, it gives them a distinct sound. For instance, my lexus has the same size engine as a Mustang GT, but it does not sound like a mustang GT at all, because the dual air cleaner boxes are maybe 3% larger than the filter that goes in them. On my ford turbocharged f-150 the air cleaner was like one of those 3 gallon shop vacuums in volume, with a 1.5" thick air filter. Smaller engine (by a whole liter!), but much growlier and beefier.

Mercedes did a neat thing with the exhaust on the C63, where you could flip a switch and switch between "neighborhood" and "open road" exhaust profiles. I think it's one of the best sounding cars ever made.
by rambooon | 2025-08-29 20:12:52+00:00
I’ve been building ServerCrate from scratch as a performance-first hosting provider. Everything is self-managed on my own bare-metal dedicated servers in Los Angeles (NVMe Storages, Managed Servers for half the price, and upto 10 GbE uplinks for clients) with Path.net DDoS protection.

We offer:

Cloud VPS starting at $7.99/mo (NVMe, high-clock CPUs, fair-use 1–10 Gbps ports)

Game servers (Minecraft, Rust, etc.) with instant setup and addon pricing

A custom game panel, sub-user support, and trial servers

No reselling—this is all our own infrastructure

I’d love feedback from HN on:

The technical setup (networking, virtualization, security hardening)

Pricing clarity and sustainability (balancing gamer budgets vs. real costs)

Ideas for early customer acquisition without heavy ad spend

Would appreciate any blunt feedback from this crowd.
by wvenable | 2025-08-29 20:13:04+00:00
Does allow bots to access my information prevent other people from accessing my information? No. If it did, you'd have a point and I would be against that. So many strange arguments are being made in this thread.

Ultimately it is the users of AI (and am I one of them) that benefit from that service. I put out a lot of open code and I hope that people are able to make use of it however they can. If that's through AI, go ahead.
by axolotliom | 2025-08-29 20:13:37+00:00
> I don't see how you can be _skeptical_ of those ideas.

Well you can be skeptical of anything and everything, and I would argue should be.

Addressing your issue directly, the Axiom of Choice is actively debated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice#Criticism_and_...

I understand the construction and the argument, but personally I find the argument of diagonalization should be criticized for using finities to prove statements about infinities.

You must first accept that an infinity can have any enumeration before proving its enumerations lack the specified enumeration you have constructed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument

> Math is math, if you start with ZFC axioms

This always bothers me. "Math is math" speaks little to the "truth" of a statement. Math is less objective as much as it rigorously defines its subjectivities.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44739315
by mikestorrent | 2025-08-29 20:13:38+00:00
The problem here is that it wouldn't matter if you made a better language for styling web pages, because you have no vector to get that language included in browsers; and even if you did it would take years for it to get enough market penetration for you to rely on it as something you can deliver an app in. So, you'd end up with some horrendous compatibility layer that compiles everything down to nasty CSS anyway.

Same problem with Javascript. Here we are compiling Typescript down into it... and running JS on the server with Node in order to avoid the classic impedance mismatch we all had back in the day writing backends in PHP etc.

Feels like the real solution would be to allow browsers to become more flexible with language implementations instead so we can make more progress. WASM might be the ticket there?
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-29 20:13:54+00:00
Your response to unauthenticated requests could be <h1>Hello world</h1> served from memory and your server/link will still fail under a volumetric attack, and you still get the pleasure of paying for the bandwidth.

So no, this advice has been outdated for decades.

Also you're doing some sort of victim blaming where everyone on earth has to engineer their service to withstand DoS instead of outsourcing that to someone else. Abusers outsource their attacks to everyone else's machine (decentralization ftw!), but victims can't outsource their defense because centralization goes against your ideals.

At least lament the naive infrastructure of the internet or something, sheesh.
by sodaplayer | 2025-08-29 20:14:03+00:00
> That's where I got my first taste of programming - writing a PID controller for a tank turret so I could point the tank's gun using my mouse.

Yeah, same here! I had done a couple of simple personal Flash games previously, but Garry's Mod is where I really felt like I cut my teeth on programming. Doing Wiremod/Expression 2 taught me PID controllers and some basic linear algebra, and after having helped some friends debug their code, taught me the importance of style and good practices.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-29 20:14:20+00:00
Politically Sweden the current government is wanting to expand nuclear power through the largest subsidy program in Swedish history.

The company supposed to build them held a tender for first SMR, then pivoted to large scale reactors and shortlisted three options. Then that tender disappeared and now they have shortlisted 2 SMR options.

What is happening is a no one wanting to admit the absolutely ludicrous costs and hope the question will fizzle out.

Which as we all know are paper products which rely on ”scale” to achieve anything. No one seems to talk about who will buy the couple hundred SMR prototypes to achieve said scale.
by maxlin | 2025-08-29 20:14:25+00:00
If it matters to you a lot, does almost all others politically-oriented people also performing that also matter a lot? (you can find even better ones ..) https://imgur.com/a/wikg2zR

"My heart goes out to you" "Taxi!" or just a "I see you guys!" can all be accompanied by a bad arm angle in hindsight. As he obviously wasn't going for that by his own words, maybe we should consider actions more important than interpreted hand movements. And Musk has been loud about AI safety since 2016, giving name, cofounding and funding OpenAI before Sam conducted a hostile takeover and made it profit-first instead of a gift for humanity.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-08-29 20:14:44+00:00
Lets take some un-constructible real number and call it r.

Now think of the function f(x)=0 if x<r and 1 if x>r.

Edit: I originally said this is a function over the un-constructible reals. That was wrong!

This is a function over the constructible reals. What I mean with that is that it only has a value for constructible real numbers, because r isn't constructible, f doesn't have a value at r. That's why I haven't defined what f(r) is.

While this function exists (or something like it does, I can prove this fact if you like), this is not a construction because of course r is un-constructible

This function is continuous.

Let's prove this with the definition of continuity. We say that a function is continuous at a point x if lim a->x f(x) = f(x). We say that a function is continuous if it is continuous at all points.

The only point where this function could hypothetically be discontinuous is at the boundary point r, but actually this boundary point doesn't exist for this function (because f(r) isn't defined), so this function is continuous at every point, and is thus a continuous function.

Edit: forgot to add, but based on this concept you can then show that almost all continuous functions over the constructible reals have these jumps at infinitely many places, and that means that you can't hope to define a way to integrate continuous functions.

I appreciate that this is a pretty complex topic, so that I probably haven't been that clear (or made a mistake), so I value any and all comments.

This argument is somewhat adapted from an argument about why we do calculus with the reals and not the rationals. See also this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV7ZuouUSfs
by hinkley | 2025-08-29 20:15:20+00:00
I used to joke that I worked for the last DotCom startup, a company that got a funding round after the shit hit the fan.

They were working on an idea that looked a bit like an RSS feed for an entire website, where you would run your own spider and then our search engine could hit an endpoint to get a delta instead of having to scan your entire site.

If they’d made the protocol open instead of proprietary, we maybe could have gotten spiders to play nicer since each spider after the first would be cheaper, and eventually maybe someone could build pub sub hooks into common web frameworks to potentially skip the scan entirely for read-mostly websites, generating delta data when your data changed.

But of course when the next round of funding came due nobody was buying.

I thought about this a lot on my last project, where spiders were our customers’ biggest users. One of those apps where customer interactions were intense but brief and the rank in Google mattered equally with all other concerns. Nobody had architected for the actual read/write workflow of the system of course, and that company sold to a competitor after I left. Who migrated all customers to their solution and EOLed ours for being too fat in a down economy.
by mikestorrent | 2025-08-29 20:15:31+00:00
Throw away the front-end of the Web and start over with a system actually designed to facilitate graphical applications instead of delivering styled documents.

HTTP can stay, and HTML/CSS can stay just like PDFs for delivering a document, but when it comes to UI components, we should be able to have things as fast and performant as e.g. RedLang / Processing / Enlightenment DR17 / etc without every developer having to shovel megabytes of shim-ware down to the client.
by bbor | 2025-08-29 20:16:09+00:00
Oh I'm very on board; thanks for spreading the good word! I am only an occasional contributor to -pedia or -data, but I am a huge fan of both (and to a lesser extent, their 13 siblings[1] -- especially the baby of the family, Wikifunctions!).

I'm guessing you know this, but for the passerby curious about Wikipedia drama:

Wikidata was founded back in 2012 after Google bought & closed its predecessor[2] to make the now-famous "Google Knowledge Graph". It was continuing a wave of interest in knowledge graphs going back to GOFAI (the "neat"[3] approach to AI), most famously advanced by Lenat's Cyc[4] as a path to intuitive algorithms. We obviously lost that particular war to the "scruffies" for good in 2022, but the well-known problems with LLMs highlight exactly why certain, structured, efficient knowledge graphs are also needed.

The aforementioned drama is that the project to integrate Wikidata into Wikipedia's citations has basically been on pause since 2017 after a lot of arguing[5], and this weekend's scheduled discussion[6] seems passive at best. This comes simply from the fact that the "editors" of Wikipedia--the people who spend countless hours researching content for free following strict rules--don't really care about AI paradigms! Specifically, they find the concept of citing the id of a work as opposed to writing out the whole citation dangerous.

Still, Wikidata is the "fastest growing wiki project" and backs a ton of Wikipedia stuff behind the scenes, such as fancy templates for the infoboxes on the top-right of pages. We've only got 1.65B items compared to Google's AI-curated 500B facts, but I have faith that 2026 will be the year of Wikidata regardless!

After all, is a knowledge base curated with scruffy NLP models until it's incomprehensibly-big still neat? ;)

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/what-we-do/wikimedia-project...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase_(database)

[3] [WARNING: 500KB PDF] https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discus...

[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2025/Proposals#Cite...
by agentcoops | 2025-08-29 20:16:10+00:00
GraphRAG does full entity extraction across the entire data set, then looks at every relation between those entities in the documents, then looks at every “community” of relations and generates narratives/descriptions for everything at all of those levels. That is… not linear scaling in relation to your data to say the least — and because questions will be answered on the basis of this preprocessing you don’t want to just use the stupidest/cheapest LLM available. It adds up pretty quickly — and most of the preprocessing turns out to be useless for questions you’ll ask. The OP’s approach is more expensive per query, but you’re more likely to get good results for that particular question.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-29 20:16:35+00:00
I think they just won’t buy. I noticed some international stores show the tariff costs at the checkout time, and it can be a lot. Something that’s a bargain at $100 may not be the best choice at $150. Not a great surprise after you select something carefully, since you don’t see the tariff costs included earlier in the shopping process.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-29 20:16:37+00:00
Sorry no, thus are very different, but of course that's not what you arguing for.

I know ADT and OOP are different concepts, in another answer I wrote what I think the base differences are. But they are related, and in the definitions I am familiar with, ADTs are a base concept for OOP. And OOP can be an implementation for ADTs.

If you don't think the implementations I provide are enough to apply to the kernel, can maybe provide your own definition according to which we can evaluate this, because I feel like we are beating around the bush. But please not something that says this can only be happening in an OOP language, to these I would plainly disagree with, because OOP is a paradigm and not a property of a language.
by rawgabbit | 2025-08-29 20:16:45+00:00
In Snowflake, I am now writing Python Stored Procedures that make REST API calls to things like Datadog REST API and dumping the JSON into a Snowflake table. I then unpack the JSON and transform it into a normalized table. So far it works reasonably well. This is possible using Snowflake's external access feature. https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/external-netwo...
by ribelo | 2025-08-29 20:16:57+00:00
Let's make this clear:

The Anti-Defamation League stated it wasn't a salute and that they weren't offended. Rabbi Ari Lamm wrote that Musk has repeatedly shown he's a friend to the Jewish community. David Greenfield suggested people should focus on actual antisemitism instead. Netanyahu highlighted the absurdity of the accusations and pointed to Musk's aid and engagement after the October 7th attacks.

And yes, Musk became a victim. I don't see what his current wealth has to do with it. It's hard to ignore the imbalance where one man drew the world's anger and became public enemy #1. If you call him a snowflake, I don't know what to call all those who might have been offended by his gesture