MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by m4rtink | 2025-08-08 13:17:58+00:00
If you can also make the probe survive a close flyby by the star (that should ideally require just a good sun shield & robust orientation control) you could the so called solar Oberth manuever - basically this[0] but to slow down an incoming interstellar probe, not to launch one. A simple storable high thrust solid rocket motor would be ideal for this.

[0] https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/10/06/assessing-the-obe...
by hennell | 2025-08-08 13:18:06+00:00
No one knows, but it's a reasonable assumption surely. If you're theorising a AGI, that has recursive self improvement, exponential improvements seem almost unavoidable. AGI improves understanding of electronics, physics etc, that improves the AGI leading to new understandings and so on. Add in that new discoveries in one field might inspire the AGI/humans to find things in others and it seems hard to imagine a situation where theres not a lot of progress everywhere (at least theoretical progress, building new things might be slower / more costly then reasoning they would work.)

Where I'm skeptical of AI would be in the idea an LLM can ever get to AGI level, if AGI is even really possible, and if the whole thing is actually viable. I'm also very skeptical that the discoveries of any AGI would be shared in ways that would allow exponential growth; licenses stopping using their AGI to make your own, copyright on the new laws of physics and royalties on any discovery you make from using those new laws etc.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-08-08 13:18:10+00:00
I thought they were.

If you need to commute to work daily, and you're concerned about the cost, you don't really care if you're comparing a city car vs a sports car vs the bus, despite on goes at 80km/h, and another can do 230km/h, if all you're interested in is the price.

Obviously as your storage needs increase, so will cloud costs, but unless you're a professional photographer, I'm guessing 2TB will be more than enough for most people.

Again, not talking about people trying to run their own media server on pirated content, and saving money that way. In my book that's comparable to saving money by robbing a bank. You're not saving anything, you're breaking the law, and 9 out of 10 times, it's cheaper to steal someone else's bike than it is taking a taxi home.

I'm talking actual storage for data you actually own, and possibly even data you have created yourself. Anything that came from the internet can be found on the internet again, purchased or naval acquisition.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-08 13:18:43+00:00
I'm a lot more sympathetic to that reasoning for Mars than I am the deep sea. Anyone going to Mars whether they're paying or getting paid will necessarily wind up having to spend their time doing things that will answer questions and find solutions for problems with sending people to Mars. The deep sea by contrast is "fairly solved" and Oceangate was just trying to make it more accessible.

Also, who cares if you have to pay, you'll make it back with book deals and whatnot on the other end, if you make it back.

That said, I don't think this is actually going to happen and if it does it'll be 2036 not 2026.
by accrual | 2025-08-08 13:19:12+00:00
Already a lot of comments here (2188 at the time of this comment) but wanted to share my 2c:

* It feels a bit more competent, as if it had more nuance or detail to say about each point.

* It got a few obscure details about OpenBSD correct right away - both Sonnet 4 and 4o sometimes conflate Linux and OpenBSD commands.

* It was fun asking GPT-5 to not only answer the query, but also to provide a brief analysis of the query itself for insights into myself!

Not a detailed review, but just a couple things I noticed with some limited usage.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-08-08 13:21:03+00:00
> If you’re working in the .net ecosystem, you need to grok msbuild.

Agreed, it makes a huge difference.

Sadly Visual Studio made that difficult from the start of .net, given its history with attempting to hide the .csproj files from developers and thus reduce their exposure to it. Its a real shame they decided to build visual studio like that and didn't change it for years.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-08-08 13:21:23+00:00
I'm willing to bet that far more data has been lost to people serving their own data, than Google has lost data.

In any case, you should always make backups regardless of where your data is stored. At home, your biggest threat is loss of data, probably through hardware malfunction, house fires or similar.

In the cloud your biggest threat is not loss of data but loss of access to data. Different scenarios but identical outcomes.

Backup solves both scenarios, RAID doesn't solve any of them, but sadly, many people think "oh but I've got RAID6 so surely I cannot lose data".
by yorwba | 2025-08-08 13:21:35+00:00
The point is that there's not always a right token to attend to. If the information you're looking for is not there, no clever attention scheme will find it. The best you can hope for when that happens is that the value returned in the "not found" case is distinguishable from the "found" case. Having an attention sink serve as a fixed "not found" value is one way to do this.
by timmyc123 | 2025-08-08 13:21:46+00:00
Just because an API or protocol has a certain capability, does not mean it is implemented for all use cases.

Folks seem to be hung up on the term "attestation" being in the response of a create call. If you look inside that object, there is another carve out for optional authenticator attestation, which is not used for consumer use cases.

I will keep repeating what I've said in the other comments. There is no credential manager attestation in the consumer synced passkey ecosystem. Period.
by hk1337 | 2025-08-08 13:22:00+00:00
I remember seeing at one job, to share a “token” that was in a byte array, they iterated the byte array and concatenated the values. It was supposed to be an internal “auth tool”/“sso” but was unusable in the php app I was trying to use it with because it couldn’t (or at least I wasn’t sure how to) convert the byte array back. I ended up writing a small Java console app to convert it for me.
by vrighter | 2025-08-08 13:22:16+00:00
so? doesn't change the fact that it fits the formal definition. Just because llm companies have fooled a bunch of people that they are different, doesn't make it true.

If they were different things (objectively, not "in my opinion these things are different) then they'd be handled differently. Internally they are the exact same thing: wrong statistics, and are "solved" the same way. More training and more data.

Edit: even the "fabricated fact" definition is subjective. To me, the model saying "this is in first person" is it confidently presenting a wrong thing as fact.
by stoneyhrm1 | 2025-08-08 13:22:41+00:00
> revolutionary breakthroughs in essentially all field

This doesn't really make sense outside computers. Since AI would be training itself, it needs to have the right answers, but as of now it doesn't really interact with the physical world. The most it could do is write code, and check things that have no room for interpretation, like speed, latency, percentage of errors, exceptions, etc.

But, what other fields would it do this in? How can it makes strives in biology, it can't dissect animals, it can't figure more out about plants that humans feed into the training data. Regarding math, math is human-defined. Humans said "addition does this", "this symbol means that", etc.

I just don't understand how AI could ever surpass anything human known before we live by the rules defined by us.
by valenterry | 2025-08-08 13:22:48+00:00
> but I don't know situations where a website works with some clients and not others

For example: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-2/#dictdef-authenticatorselec...

> If the website accepts a password, then it can't prevent you from using the password manager you want. But if the website accepts FIDO2 passkeys, it's the same thing, isn't it?

Unfortunately not...
by rwnspace | 2025-08-08 13:22:52+00:00
Right, it's not like such "do this awful thing or do that awful thing" scenarios are constantly relevant in medical, the government, or dare I say, military decisions.

You need to start actually having conversations with real individuals, I was giving you a chance, but I'm not bothering with it any more, except to say this: I am not "you people", I am not whatever you are projecting me to be, at all, least of all someone with a lack of moral disgust. Because I am capable of engaging in deliberate thought about awful things does not make me awful too, and I have no idea why you think that Scott Alexander is somehow the boogieman in the current ethico-political landscape, go look at Curtis Yarvin.
by admdly | 2025-08-08 13:22:53+00:00
Apple uses a proprietary IMAP extension that, until recently, any developer could use by generating a APNS certificate using a reverse engineered endpoint from macOS Server. They’ve since closed this.

Fastmail have had sanctioned access from Apple (via their own APNS topic ID) - https://www.fastmail.com/blog/push-email-now-available-in-io...
by bob1029 | 2025-08-08 13:23:19+00:00
It's probably a bit overkill for most shops, but you can actually write your own code fixes if you've got some common pattern:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/roslyn-sdk/t...

These suggestions being immediately executable can dramatically improve compliance. I find myself taking things like range operator syntax even though I don't really prefer it simply because the tool does the conversion automatically for me.
by Merovius | 2025-08-08 13:24:00+00:00
Uhm correct me if I'm wrong, but… you can sell your stake and leave at will, with zero exit tax? So really, the only thing that the exit tax prevents is the company leaving the country. And you know, every time someone brings up taxing the rich, people object that this would cause capital flight. Well, capital flight is exactly what the exit tax prevents. The capital stays in the country.

And likening that to the Berlin wall, where people literally got shot dead, is honestly pretty disgusting.
by fleabitdev | 2025-08-08 13:24:02+00:00
Interesting fact: the 50ms to 100ms grace period only works at the very beginning of a user interaction. You get that grace period when the user clicks a button, but when they're typing in text, continually scrolling, clicking to interrupt an animation, or moving the mouse to trigger a hover event, it's better to provide a next-frame response.

This means that it's safe for background work to block a web browser's main thread for up to 50ms, as long as you use CSS for all of your animations and hover effects, and stop launching new background tasks while the user is interacting with the document. https://web.dev/articles/optimize-long-tasks
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-08-08 13:24:13+00:00
Sure, run a homelab as a hobby. Everybody has hobbies.

Once your user count goes beyond 1, you suddenly have a SLA as people are dependent on your services. Like it or not, you are now the primary support staff of your local cloud business.

The more users you get, the more time you will need to spend to fix problems.

At which point does it go from a hobby to a 2nd job ?
by Nevermark | 2025-08-08 13:25:02+00:00
That’s cred, man. Real cred.

Wack font. Circuits exposed. Pixels with fat borders between them. An ugly charging port. But more stuff, packed into a small sleek volume than reasonably possible. Working perfectly.

That’s not Jobs. Oh, no. It’s effing Woz.

The guy is a true hardware engineer.
by dataflow | 2025-08-08 13:25:08+00:00
Oh gosh. I think I was so focused on the reduction direction that I think I misread the premise of the comment -- it seems somehow my brain parsed "use SAT to solve Sudoku" as "solve SAT using Sudoku". That's why I was saying that reducing SAT to Sudoku would imply Sudoku is at least as hard as SAT. It indeed would if they had actually done that, but they did the opposite. Not sure how my wires got crossed when reading, but thanks!
by johnisgood | 2025-08-08 13:25:26+00:00
You should have focused more! /s /pun intended

But yeah, it has happened to me too, too often for it to be a problem. Especially the press the space bit.

I am not sure this is the right solution, however, but I cannot think of any solution right now.

Someone (in the comments) who has claimed to patch i3 may shed some light on what he did.
by languagehacker | 2025-08-08 13:26:09+00:00
This does seem like "Sky blue and water wet" sort of reporting, but that's just because of the daft headline. When most people are challenged with affording the basics, that points to a severe economic risk. We've lived through a period of incredibly cheap credit due to where we are in the monetary cycle of the USD as a reserve currency. We sort of brought it on ourselves though, given the vicious cycle of buying cheap junk we don't need on credit, and then the parties selling us that cheap junk buying our debt. We're overdue for some considered and precise deleveraging. Without it, this problem will only get a lot worse.
by admdly | 2025-08-08 13:26:11+00:00
Fastmail have been singled out as they appear to have been given special treatment in the form of an APNS topic ID. Other hosts have been using a reverse engineered endpoint to generate certificates, which has recently been closed.

There’s some discussion on the Apple developer forums - https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/778671. The solution for the OP there seems to have been they also will get special treatment, but there remains no route for others to use to get the same.
by nolverostae | 2025-08-08 13:26:42+00:00
I can't give more specific information about my situation, but I would recommend contacting one of the companies that has a public article on the "Wegzugssteuer", for example the one I linked in the first comment. That way you know you get someone that actually knows how to deal with this.

My first tax advisor barely even knew about the Außensteuergesetz and almost got me into larger trouble because of that. I'd guess since this law only affects a tiny portion of the population you really need someone that specializes in it.

If they specialize in it they'll have done this many times before and you can just use their pre-made constructs. Then the main issue is avoiding getting squeezed by them.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-08-08 13:27:08+00:00
The cutting edge for high-speed rail around the world is 350 km/h, with the fastest lines having average speeds (taking stops into account) of about 275 km/h. At those speeds, it would take:

* DC to NYC: 80 minutes. * NYC to Boston: 80 minutes. * NYC to Toronto: 2 hours and 45 minutes. * NYC to Chicago: 4 hours and 35 minutes.

That would put a massive dent in air travel. One can only dream, I guess.
by roel_v | 2025-08-08 13:27:14+00:00
I was told these lenses are for the rest of my life. I guess I'll know for sure in 40 years. They don't develop cataract like natural lenses do, and I won't develop presbyopia as these lenses don't focus using muscles around them. I have multifocal (trifocal) lenses, for near-, medium- and long distance viewing. Theoretically this means that I need more light to see as well as naturally focusing lenses, which worried me somewhat before, but in practice I do not really experience it - in fact I need less light to see well now than I did when I had glasses. As usual in life, the key to happiness is realistic expectations - as the surgeon told me 'there is no way we will be making your eyes work as well as they did when you were 20'.

Two things I do have: for optimal near vision, I have to keep things closer to my eyes than I did before, 20-ish cm. So I had to adjust my screen viewing and reading posture. Also, I have what are called 'halos' around lights in the dark (this is a known and expected side effect, tons of YT videos that explain why they happen). Driving in the dark on highways with lots of artificial light sources has gotten more straining - meaning I need to focus more and feel more tired after driving say 2 hours in those circumstances than I did before the surgery. All other driving is the same and I don't notice the halos any more in other cases, like say when I'm just walking through the city in the dark. The driving at night price to pay is well worth it for me, may be different for others.

Re: your mom - if she got monofocal lenses (which many people here do as they are the only ones covered by insurance if you're getting lens replacement for cataract), she would have gotten the choice between near- or far focus lenses, and would have decided together with the surgeon which ones are most appropriate for her life. I mean I obviously can't tell as I don't know her, but my dad is the same - he still needs reading glasses after his cataract surgery (IOL implants == cataract surgery).
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-08-08 13:27:17+00:00
Protip: look for an Asian market in your area for food. I get an entire shopping cart full of food for $60-100 and that lasts for ~2 weeks.

When I go to Publix (or any other grocery store), I get like 2-3 bags for $60...

Discovering the Asian market has been one of the best financial things to happen to me. Although I'm not really sure how their prices are so low. If someone could answer, that would be awesome!
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-08 13:28:43+00:00
> But that screenshot showing an example of poorly written code.

That screenshot looks like it was specifically written for the blog entry. (The project is called ConsoleApp1.)

I suspect the author didn't want to show their employer's proprietary code on their blog, and probably wanted to make a concise screenshot with multiple errors.

(Otherwise, they might have people who don't have a programming background occasionally writing non-production tools as part of a non-software-engineering job. This is quite common in many workplaces.)
by bko | 2025-08-08 13:28:50+00:00
That's so funny. I noticed this as well one time. I got some transcript from a podcast unedited (no punctuation, speaker id, etc) and it had this line I wanted to extract:

> If you’re a gay person, you might be told that if you ever move from Manhattan to Hoboken you’ll be beaten up by bat-wielding thugs right away. If you’re a woman living in a rat-infested apartment in San Francisco, where the rent is going up and up while you fantasize about a nice suburban house in Reno, Nevada, you might hear that, well, if you ever dare to move to Reno, you are going to be chained to your bed and forced to carry a baby to term. The only logical explanation is that a crazed, ideological intensification has distracted us from what’s really going on.

So naturally I threw it in an LLM to get that line and I got something that totally glossed over the "chained to a bed" with some euphemism. I wish I could find its translation again, but I tried just now translating it to Spanish and then back but it recreated that part pretty much exactly so it didn't happen again.
by mrits | 2025-08-08 13:29:14+00:00
There is a threshold that every developer needs for them to make it be worth their time. For me that has already been met. Your comment makes me think that you don't believe it will start producing higher quality code than you anytime soon.

I think most of us are in the camp that even though we don't need AI right now we believe we will not be valuable in the near future without being highly proficient with the tooling.
by jacobyoder | 2025-08-08 13:29:20+00:00
> Instead of firing the commissioner, the president should be giving the agency a raise in the form of a bigger budget. The goal should be to restore public trust in government statistics, not undermine it.

When you believe that government should not be providing many services, or doing most of what it currently does overall, why would you want to bolster trust in government statistics? Those statistics might contradict the administration, which is not a goal of the administration and its backers.
by a_sydelov | 2025-08-08 13:29:52+00:00
Kubernetes best practices for deployment and troubleshooting, focusing on reliable application rollouts and efficient issue resolution. Key strategies include:

Optimizing Rollouts: Configuring Deployments for seamless updates with RollingUpdate, including scaling, rollbacks, and label management.

Helm Automation: Streamlining complex deployments with Helm charts, featuring examples for PostgreSQL and CI/CD integration via GitHub Actions.

Advanced Deployment Patterns: Implementing Blue-Green and Canary deployments, alongside GitOps with ArgoCD for declarative cluster management.

Troubleshooting Techniques: Utilizing Metrics Server, Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, and Lens for monitoring, logging, and diagnostics, covering Pod logs, network issues, and RBAC debugging.

Detailed code examples, such as Deployment YAMLs, Helm charts, and audit policies, illustrate practical applications for maintaining high availability and performance in production clusters.

Read more: Kubernetes Best Practices — Deployment and Troubleshooting

What tools or strategies are preferred for Kubernetes deployments and debugging in production environments? Share insights or challenges encountered in cluster management.
by ndiddy | 2025-08-08 13:30:22+00:00
Personally I don't see the point in being so combative. People's food preferences depend on where they're from and what they've grown up eating. For example, someone from Hungary might think that raw onions on bread is a good lunch, while the rest of the world would consider that "a bit lunatic". I don’t have a problem with Americans preferring American pizza, Italians preferring Italian pizza, or Hungarians liking raw onion bread.
by Detrytus | 2025-08-08 13:30:28+00:00
> Of course, if you want to move the company out of the country, you'll need to pay taxes on any value increase the company had. As others have described this is pretty reasonable though - you get taxed exactly as if gains were realized.

There's nothing reasonable about it, it's just an extortion. Your gains might never materialize, but your country does not care, they are just punishing you for leaving.
by FeloniousHam | 2025-08-08 13:30:35+00:00
No one, and I mean NO ONE who has driven 2 days with FSD has the misconception that a Tesla will drive itself under all conditions, 100% of the time. It _is_ "full self driving" in the sense that it fully, by itself, drives me to and from work everyday, to my child's school, to various events around town, _with minimal interventions_.

This is partly because a large portion of the Tesla buyers were more intentional in their purchase (doubly so if they bought FSD). Accidents happen, and FSD surely reduces the frequency, but a change in the marketing (or the NAME lol, the pearl clutching) would not make a gram of difference.