MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by righthand | 2025-08-24 22:34:27+00:00
This is misunderstanding what really happened. The oroginal agreement with the CHIPS act is that if your company is profitable post expansion funding then you will profit share with the federal government. Trump changed that original agreement to one of stock ownership. Now the federal government can reneg the deal by selling back for their money any time. Arguably more dangerous than profit sharing.

It was never a nothing-in-return agreement, that is fiction.[0]

[0] “Biden to require chips companies winning subsidies to share excess profits” >> https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-require-companies-winn...
by monkaiju | 2025-08-24 22:35:01+00:00
What makes you say that? I don't like a lot of things that aren't neoliberalism, is there some trend where people are doing this?

I could make it clearer: Neoliberalism, specifically it's distinguishing trait of having governments foster markets via public money without getting public ownership, leads to concerning situations like the op was discussing.

Edit: Interestingly Trump's thing about getting the government getting a 10% stake in Intel is not neoliberalism! I don't like Trump, but that's still not neoliberalism
by aftbit | 2025-08-24 22:35:03+00:00
The phone part is easier in many places. I've personally bought both a phone and SIM card in cash from a corner store in SF. I was asked to provide some legal information for the SIM, but they pointedly did not look at my ID or anything, so I was free to write whatever I wanted on the order form. They told me only the SIM required the info, not the phone.
by jasonb05 | 2025-08-24 22:35:07+00:00
> ...why should anyone else care or waste their time on it?

Sometimes we (I) might follow ideas over authority/authorship. e.g.: I'll happily read ai generated stuff all day long on topics I'm super into.

Do I have to be the instigator? Can someone else prompt/filter/etc. for me? I think so. They'll do it differently and perhaps better than me.
by epcoa | 2025-08-24 22:36:01+00:00
Because it is way more dangerous. Guaranteed liver damage is nonsense. Aspirin and other non selective NSAIDs are much more likely to cause GI bleeding, kidney and heart problems.

An aspirin here or there is probably fine but multiple day dosing of full dose aspirin for chronic pain has gotten a lot of middle age people to bleed out their GI tract and end up dead.
by samsartor | 2025-08-24 22:36:11+00:00
The simulatable stuff is almost perfect. It's the stuff that can't be simulated that fails.

Take the last flight as an example. The booster experienced what was (probably) a structural failure in the propellant fuel lines. Simulating stress in the structure under static conditions is quite straightforward. Simulating the stress as the rocket ascends vertically and the tanks empty is hard, but doable.

Simulating the dynamic loading as the rocket flips? The fuel sloshes around, the sloshing fuel changes the kenimatics of the rocket, the kenimatics of the rocket change how the fuel sloshes, the engines try to correct adding a new force, the thrust from the engines creates increased force on the fuel increasing the pressure to the pumps, the performance of the engines changes because of the new fuel flow, that alters the acceleration further causing fuel to slosh, gass bubbles are intrained in the fuel from all the sloshing thus altering its flow/sloshing behavior, valves open and close creating pressure waves in the fuel that travel up and down the fuel lines (the water-hammer effect alone being enough to burst the pipes if valve closing is not well-timed), and the rocket itself flexes as all this happens, testing every exact detail of the manufacturing which you have to go out to the factory and physically measure. No simulation software ever imagined can handle all that coupling of systems.

The usual solution is to make some conservative estimates (the center-of-mass of the fuel will move by at most some amount, bubbles will last at most some time, the engines will have so much control authority, etc). But that requires experience. And this is aerospace, so safety margins are tiny.
by GeekyBear | 2025-08-24 22:36:26+00:00
Didn't we already cross this particular Rubicon during the auto bailout a decade ago?

Other examples:

> Since the 1950s, the federal government has stepped in as a backstop for railroads, farm credit, airlines (twice), automotive companies, savings and loan companies, banks, and farmers.

Every situation has its own idiosyncrasies, but in each, the federal government intervened to stabilize a critical industry, avoiding systemic collapse that surely would have left the average taxpayer much worse off. In some instances, the treasury guaranteed loans, meaning that creditors would not suffer if the relevant industry could not generate sufficient revenue to pay back the loans, leading to less onerous interest rates.

A second option was that the government would provide loans at relatively low interest rates to ensure that industries remained solvent.

In a third option, the United States Treasury would take an ownership stake in some of these companies in what amounts to an “at-the-market” offering, in which the companies involved issue more shares at their current market price to the government in exchange for cash to continue business operations.

https://chicagopolicyreview.org/2022/08/23/piece-of-the-acti...
by dbg31415 | 2025-08-24 22:36:34+00:00
It's worth paying for reliability. If that also means more speed, fine -- but raw CPU benchmarks rarely matter outside of very specific workloads. What you'll notice day to day is whether the machine crashes, wipes out a project, or forces you into an unexpected week of downtime.

Computers are like lightbulbs, and laptops are the extra fragile kind. They burn out. I've never had one more than five years, and after year three I just assume it could fail at any moment -- whether it's an SSD crash, a swollen battery, or drivers breaking after the next OS update.

If you replace machines every three years, like I do, you're not necessarily paying for performance -- you're really just paying for peace of mind.
by TZubiri | 2025-08-24 22:36:39+00:00
Let's ignore whether there are courts involved in the original blocklists or not, compartimentalizing the discussion. Once a blocklist has been established, I think it's sensible to ban a website that publishes the blocklist:

DNS are precisely a mechanism to find websites based on names, and a list of blocked websites would serve essentially as a DNS, so it's clearly circumventing the original purpose of the blocklist, asking for a list of the blocked websites is an oxymoron, publishing a website that displays that is an oxymoron, and the block of such a website is sensible.
by Hilift | 2025-08-24 22:36:43+00:00
> The incident was a result of a surge of traffic from a single customer that overloaded Cloudflare's links with AWS us-east-1. It was a network congestion event, not an attack or a BGP hijack.

And no one knew a single thing about it until the incident. That is the current network management state of the art, let Cloudflare deal.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-24 22:37:44+00:00
In truth, the protocols used by the companies may not be 100% proprietary

But being commercial in nature the companies are secretive about how their servers operate

For example, its is easy to submit a blob to Github Gist servers, using any software the user chooses, including something as simple as a combination of small, open source UNIX utilities

This is not the case for Signal or WhatsApp servers
by rsync | 2025-08-24 22:39:37+00:00
"Tylenol is very safe if taken as prescribed. The overdose amount is relatively low, but not uniquely low."

The issue is that the overdose of Paracetamol is relatively similar to the effective, or safe, dose:

"(overdose) of paracetamol is caused by taking more than the recommended maximum daily dose of paracetamol for healthy adults (three or four grams),[38] and can cause potentially fatal liver damage. A single dose should not exceed 1000 mg ..." [1]

See the problem ? A mere 3x the single dose puts one in "potentially fatal liver damage" territory.

This problem is compounded dramatically in small children where errors in the estimation of the child's weight can put you half way to overdose before you even start. Now add a meniscus error as you fill a clear plastic cup in the middle of the night ... or Mom gives a dose at 5am without knowing that Dad already gave a dose at 2am ... ugh.

Compare this to Aspirin where the overdose is as high as 15-30x the effective dose.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#Overdose
by zdragnar | 2025-08-24 22:41:08+00:00
Conversely, my grandmother's Alzheimer's became apparent when she was overdosing on either ibuprofen or aspirin, I forget which.

She would take a dose for a headache, ten minutes later she'd forgotten so she'd take another dose, ten minutes later, she had forgotten, take another dose, rinse and repeat until it's time for a trip to the hospital.

Maybe it wasn't ten minutes between, probably fewer given how much she'd ended up taking. This happened thirty or so years ago.
by handoflixue | 2025-08-24 22:41:18+00:00
Where do you put the line? What do you do with the ambiguous categories?

Clearly a trucker does not "deliver goods" and a Taxi Driver is not in the business of ferrying passengers - the vehicle does all of that, right?

Writers these days rarely bother with the actual act of writing now that we have typing.

I've rarely heard a musician, but I've heard lots of CDs and they're really quite good - much cheaper than musicians, too.

Is my camera an artist, or is it just plagiarizing the landscape and architecture?
by msk-lywenn | 2025-08-24 22:41:21+00:00
I recently had some fun overclocking my old i5 4690.

IIRC, running the base frequency at 3.9Ghz instead of 3.5GHz, yield a very modest performance boost but added 20% more power consumption and temperature.

I then underclocked it to 3.1Ghz and the thing barely ran at more than 40°C under load and power consumption was super low! The performance was more than mediocre though...
by runroader | 2025-08-24 22:41:23+00:00
I think the only thing here that I don't agree with is that internal users are just users. Yes, they may be more technical - or likely other programmers, but they're busy too. Often they're building their own thing and don't have the time or ability to deal with your API churning.

If at all possible, take your time and dog-food your API before opening it up to others. Once it's opened, you're stuck and need to respect the "never break userspace" contract.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-24 22:41:34+00:00
City department of water and power was doing some unrelated sewer work but ran into a problem, and shut off water in my neighborhood. No alert to warn of the shutoff, or an alert when it came back on. I found out because I worked from home and noticed the tap wasn’t working and went out to ask the workers on the road if they shut the water off. Chances are virtually the entire neighborhood besides myself and another curious local pedestrian did not flush their taps after that loss of pressure no doubt induced contamination (most of the housing stock is 100 years old so runs into homes are probably in terrible shape).
by riazrizvi | 2025-08-24 22:42:09+00:00
Very nice! Love the CRT TV style. In terms of approach I’m a bit confused by the call for a ‘book club style watch party’ and the content which follows an education course format. With the first I expect a CTA button to join a session, maybe a scheduled Discord session or Sign-Up list for interest of same. So maybe the format of the program is an online meetup, with a short talk, and then discussion. The point here is community.

With the second I expect a CTA for a course, with the end result being some type of qualification, perhaps conformance to the startup mentality of the key characters, to help people form groups. The point there is to advance projects and also set yourself up as an authority.

At the moment it feels like a not-so-strong mix of the two.
by apparent | 2025-08-24 22:42:43+00:00
When I was in school, some older students complained that tests were hybrid: you could handwrite or you could type. They complained that they had grown up before typing was as common and that it wasn't fair to let students type, since they could write much more. They argued for a word limit, which was denied.

Now we'll see the reverse, with students arguing that they can't handwrite effectively and need more time or whatever in order for exams to be fair. Hopefully handwritten exams will become the norm from grade school onward, so that this complaint will be rendered moot.
by rustystump | 2025-08-24 22:43:35+00:00
People build up too great of expectations when the topic of “creativity” comes in. Nothing is new under the sun.

Also, i press “x” to doubt you can build any game mechanic not because i have no doubt you are a talented engineer but because the domain is really that vast. Multiplayer netcode is a prime example and why I used an idea which had a multiplayer component that was realtime.

Ideas are cheap. Making them real is not. It is why engineers get paid so well.
by floren | 2025-08-24 22:44:36+00:00
I recently finished it too! I was pretty over it by the final season, but then the last few episodes brought me back around.

Cameron "it's all in the eyes" Howe annoyed the shit out of me at pretty much all points, which I understand is how they wrote the character but it walked a line of almost making me quit the show. As with the show as a whole, though, she brought me around a bit in the last few eps.
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-24 22:44:46+00:00
> that I study existing well designed codebases.

Proceed with extreme caution. This is highly subjective and often results in a blind leading the blind scenario. For example how do you determine which code bases are well designed if you yourself are not comfortable determining such?

Instead, heed the guidance of some of the other comments and just start building things. Plan on failing and solving for the failure. That’s called practice. With enough practice you will know what works well for you. If you are measuring things along the way you will also know what’s slow.
by dllu | 2025-08-24 22:45:02+00:00
Yeah they have a whopping 300mm f/2.0 lens for photo finish! I have been using various primes including a Samyang 135mm f/2, Voigtländer Apo Lanthar 125mm f/2.5, Voigtländer Nokton 58mm f/1.4, Voigtländer Ultron 35mm f/1.7, Myutron 50mm f/2.6, etc. The problem with a really large aperture is that it's hard to nail focus.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-08-24 22:46:18+00:00
All those three, from what I can see, is a bit different though. Samsung is basically a part of the government, because of its history. TSMC is the market leader, so it’s in government’s best interest to protect its future.

Chinese large scale investments are a bit different. It’s not just SMIC who gets a lot of funding, but others as well, so they can still compete with each other, until the winner is chosen and the others fade away. Similar to what is happening in EV market in China.

Intel… there is a decent chance that company fails even after this investment. They basically need to force other companies to use Intel chips instead of competitors for them to be viable at some point.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-24 22:46:29+00:00
The whole notion that "Musk doesn't know anything about technology or engineering" is incorrect. Probably stems from all the people trying to reconcile their hatred for Elon Musk with SpaceX's outstanding successes.

Quite a few major engineering decisions at SpaceX go all the way to Elon Musk himself. One of the best known is probably the decision to make Starship land onto the "chopsticks" of the launch tower, removing the need for dedicated landing legs.

Elon Musk made this suggestion back in 2020. Most of the engineers tried to talk him out of this crazy idea. So he took the few engineers who thought it was plausible and assigned it to them.

We even know for certain that this wasn't a success that got attributed to Musk after the fact - because this story was first printed in a biography in year 2023, when it wasn't clear whether this ambitious landing method would work in practice. The first "return to launch tower" attempt was only made in year 2024, and succeeded on the first try.
by AugSun | 2025-08-24 22:46:50+00:00
"Those make it mandatory for privacy switches on cellphones and other electronic devices or apps to be _turned off_ when an applicant appears for a _visa interview_." This is direct violation of GDPR and similar law. US may go fuck themselves with such interviews. I will never set my foot in that dumpster. It also sets really bad precedent - EU will retaliate and soon we all will have to unlock and present our phones at any (semi)official procedure. Hell, even when board a train or a bus ... What a joke! Time to tell personal electronic devices good bye.
by godelski | 2025-08-24 22:47:10+00:00
Governments owning stocks feels like double dipping with a touch of socialism.

I get why the idea seems sane, you want to get returns on investments, right? But with governments the vehicle for returns is taxes and investments are often called "grants" (but also loans, credits, etc). The tax system means you can make investments and always get some return. FFS you could invest in a company going nowhere and you still recoup through taxes. The only way you lose in this system is by tanking the entire economy. Idk why this is so hard to understand. Why people think things like research grants is akin to tossing money into a pit and burning it.

I know the current party is anti tax but aren't they also anti nationalization (Words, not actions)? Changing (or adding) your returns vehicle to be through stock only creates nationalization. It increases returns but also puts an additional thumb on the scale. It's very short sighted.

Who knew socialism would come to America wrapped in an A̶m̶e̶r̶i̶c̶a̶n̶ capitalism flag?
by devmor | 2025-08-24 22:47:29+00:00
I think versioning still helps solve this problem.

There’s a lot of things you can do with internal users to prevent causing a burden though - often the most helpful one is just collaborating on the spec and making the working copy available to stakeholders. Even if it’s a living document, letting them have a frame of reference can be very helpful (as long as your office politics prevent them from causing issues for you over parts in progress they do not like.)
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-24 22:48:10+00:00
Yes. So there are two considerations. One is competitive balance internationally. That is a consideration.

But you also have to consider whether the government has the legal authority to make the investment. For a country claiming a limited government and the rule of law, that is a serious consideration.

You seem to be focused on the first consideration, but do not overlook the second one.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-08-24 22:48:23+00:00
>you can just go to ER

First of all, a problem should not have to take you to within an inch of your life to be treated.

Secondly, good luck with getting treatment in the ER! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-teen-death-1.7616... Emergency rooms offer advanced first aid. They are not equipped to do specialist surgery. They have to call doctors in and stall you or even send you away until the proper care can be arranged.

That isn't even the case I was referring to. I've seen many stories and verbal accounts of people waiting for months for essential treatment in "universal healthcare" countries. Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of how supply and demand works would expect long waits.

If you complain then you may be offered euthanasia lol https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/canada-offered-to-help-euthani...
by cyberax | 2025-08-24 22:48:49+00:00
I'm a bit of a different opinion on API versioning, but I can see the argument. I definitely disagree about idempotency: it's NOT optional. You don't have to require idempotency tokens for each request, but there should be an option to specify them. Stripe API clients are a good example here, they automatically generate idempotency tokens for you.

Things that's missing from this list but that were important for me at some points:

1. Deadlines. Your API should allow to specify the deadline after which the request is no longer going to matter. The API implementation can use this deadline to cancel any pending operations.

2. Closely related: backpressure and dependent services. Your API should be designed to not overload its own dependent services with useless retries. Some retries might be useful, but in general the API should quickly propagate the error status back to the callers.

3. Static stability. The system behind the API should be designed to fail static, so that it retains some functionality even if the mutating operations fail.
by jmyeet | 2025-08-24 22:49:16+00:00
I'm still going to be interested to see if Starship is ever an economic success.

These test launches are expensive and it's going to take a long time to recoup that R&D, in large part because of... the Falcon 9. You have to look at what problem Starship is solving. Typoical answers are:

1. Greater payload capacity. This is true but is there demand for that? This is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem but we can point to the Falcon Heavy as a useful data point. There have only been ~13 launches thus far. Some might say "you can launch multiple payloads in one launch" but you really can't unless they're on pretty much the exact same orbit. Starlink works fine for this because they are on basically the same orbit.

2. Maybe it's "reusable second stage". This is only a fraction of the total cost, like an order of magnitude less than the impact of the reusable first stage and Falcon 9 already has taht. And it's proven; or

3. Which brings us to "landing humans on the Moon or Mars" but it's not really a suitable vehicle for that. Think about it. How are you going to land? They're reduced launch weight with the chopstick catching mechanism for the first stage such that it can't land on its own (unlike Falcon 9) so we'd need the second stage to be able to land on its own and take off again. We're nowwhere near even testing that. And it's going to take a lot of testing for human-rating flight.

But OK, let's look past all that and say it lands on the Moon. Well, how do the astronauts get out and back in? They're 30-40 meters off the ground.

I just don't know how this program succeeds.
by mlinhares | 2025-08-24 22:50:28+00:00
> The first thing that jumps out is that it is impossible to avoid the absurd juxtaposition of a republican led major national corporate stake, after a decade of the auto bailouts being used as a poster child of policy that the current party in charge doesn't agree with.

The only absurd here is to think republicans care about anything other than power . Doesn't matter what they did or said yesterday, what matters is what can they say and do today to remain in power and enable their deep pocketed donors to make more money and gain more power.

People really have to stop thinking there's anything there, there's nothing, its all about acquiring and using power. Trying to come up with ideological reasons as to why they do this or that is useless.