MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jeduardo | 2025-09-14 12:24:59+00:00
How has it been working for you so far?

I'm in a similar situation and considering doing the same thing as you, for the same reasons, but I'm curious about how the offline experience is.

I'm often facing periods of bad to no connectivity, and I find the ability to lookup or even update a credential offline very useful. Not sure how much of it is possible with Vaulwarden and I couldn't find the time to try it yet.
by Arisaka1 | 2025-09-14 12:25:36+00:00
I always assumed that general advice targets the average person, without accounting for potential mental health problems. I cannot imagine myself trying to tailor an advice for all neurotypical people out there, because everyone can only share their own experience with the world.

>Turns out just running on autopilot most of the time is the healthier human experience.

I cannot believe that you'd argue for mindful nuance only to end up in such a blatantly general statement that contradicts everything you advocated for. That's without even bothering to argue how much of the time is "most of the time".
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-14 12:26:12+00:00
Bad faith argument. Did the printing press write shitty books? No. It didn’t even write books. Does AI write shitty books? Yes. Constantly. Millions.

Books took exactly the same amount of time to write before and after the printing press— they just became easier to reproduce. Making it easier to copy human-made work and removing the humanity from work are not even conceptually similar purposes.
by diggan | 2025-09-14 12:26:38+00:00
During the Cold War, Russia managed to map huge parts of the world, sometimes with higher quality and more accurate measurements than the countries themselves! Especially noteworthy considering that some of those countries (like the UK) were trying their hardest to prevent those sort of maps being made in the first place, yet the Russians ended up with better maps of the UK than UK themselves.

Considering that that happened decades ago, I'm guessing their (and others) capability of doing those sort of things have only improved, not gotten worse. But that's just me guessing.
by jalapenos | 2025-09-14 12:29:21+00:00
Plus one on the static site generation. Especially now with AI, it's such a better experience and so much easier than it used to be, plus you'll get the huge performance and security benefits etc.

The only use case for WordPress is when you've very non-technical people needing to edit the site's content - a very common and natural situation since most are marketing sites - but even in that case I'd see if Wix could get the job done rather than rigging up a WordPress.
by razighter777 | 2025-09-14 12:29:40+00:00
When a government feels the need to implement technical control measures against ordinary citizens, the tight leash that the people had on their government's authority is broken.

Mass censorship, surviellence, and erosion of privacy are incompatible with human dignity. Purely utilitarian stances advocating online censorship "for the greater good", exploiting the causes of "terrorism" and "child safety" fail to consider anything more than the first order consequences.

Once a government taste the powerful liquor of censorship, there's no way that bottle's ever getting corked again. You bet your ass when anything happens that threatens those in power, that they'll be using that censorship on more than just the evil porn websites and terrorists.

I hope that this GFW leak helps researchers and hobbyists alike find more ways to fight against government erosion of personal dignity.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-09-14 12:29:54+00:00
Well shit, I didn't realize the Android app was shelved. I checked out the fork and it looks like they're doing good work there. I'm a bit surprised that the maintainers of both didn't work out a transfer; who else better to take over the project than a active fork?

Makes me wonder if something else was the issue, such as disagreeing over security practices or the like.

> I persisted with the work-around of `pass -c <path>` from the run command prompt for a while to paste into the browser, but its not ideal.

I actually do this on purpose. The last time I checked into the plugin, it looked like it unlocked your gpg key at Firefox launch rather than at password prompt time. Also, I didn't like the fact that the plugin creator could simply send my passwords to themselves without my knowledge. Firefox and pass are big/trusted enough to not do this. But some random guy? That was outside my risk tolerance.
by antonvs | 2025-09-14 12:30:32+00:00
I've spent a good chunk of my career fixing or rewriting messes created by human developers. A majority of startups that succeed need this at some point, whether it's because of time and resource constraints during initial development, experience and competence issues, poor choices that got baked in, or whatever.

Right now, vibe coding just means there might be a lot more of this, assuming vibe coding succeeds well enough to compete with the situations I described.
by coderatlarge | 2025-09-14 12:31:23+00:00
i make a code analogy because i believe the US was intended as a country of ideas and laws and systems, as opposed to the legacy of arbitrary ruling classes and colonial extraction that it separated itself from. pessimistically one might worry there is simply no system of governance that can scale to this size population and still espouse the stated core values. optimistically one hopes that we could be just a few amendments away from a more perfect union that takes into account technology and mechanisms of communication like x/twitter etc that can allow a single person with access to sufficiently large capital reserves to interpose themselves between the people and their elected representatives.
by strken | 2025-09-14 12:31:27+00:00
Levels.fyi puts the median software engineering salary in San Francisco at USD$238000, while the median where I currently live is USD$90000. That's 2.6x higher.

Yeah, I get it. The multiplier on the salary has gone down from 3.6x to 2.6x. A studio is ridiculously expensive, I once paid $2300/month to live in one room in the piss-soaked Tenderloin, I understand your pain. It's not as good as it sounds. Still ... if you were sitting in Germany or Dubai and had to decide which area to try to recruit from, do you think you'd choose the more expensive one unless you had no choice?
by atq2119 | 2025-09-14 12:33:11+00:00
It's misleading to compare a desktop GPU against a data center GPU on these metrics. Blackwell data center tenor cores are different from Blackwell consumer tensor cores, and same for the AMD side.

Also, the size of the native / atomic matrix fragment size isn't relevant for memory bandwidth because you can always build larger matrices out of multiple fragments in the register file. A single matrix fragment is read from memory once and used in multiple matmul instructions, which has the same effect on memory bandwidth as using a single larger matmul instruction.
by mapt | 2025-09-14 12:35:27+00:00
You are regurgitating almost pure grievance against people who just want to study the universe.

Every researcher in every field all the time wants more data, better studies, more evidence. That is basically what science is.

This attitude about "those damn smug scientists who think they know everything" emerges from authoritarian nationalists selling resentment politics, and it has led to widespread violence against scientists in the past. Its prevalence in Germany is one part of why the US got the bomb first, and its prevalence in the Soviet and Chinese systems is part of why were not able to keep up with us economically (until recently).

This political project actively intends to defend enterprises like JWST (sometimes even after building and launching the damn thing!), and current budgets have dozens of existing projects being shut down for good.
by spankibalt | 2025-09-14 12:35:29+00:00
> The implied criticism here of IRIX being low res, low contrast and in any way having rounded edges demonstrates some serious ignorance of the subject.

The criticism, "implications" (i. e. your speculations) aside, is that based on the screenshots of the desktop I've seen it's just not enough for me. Not even close.

But since I've never used an SGI workstation, I am indeed largely ignorant of its "hidden" UI/UX qualities. And who knows? Maybe you can pimp the desktop's visual design enough that even I fall in love with it.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-09-14 12:36:03+00:00
You intentionally disregarded my first statement in that comment that clearly differentiated between opinions and incitement for violence.

> So you clearly understand that insulting people can have consequences.

It seems to me you cannot differentiate personal insults (e.g., saying to a dude in a bar "your wife is ugly!" -- as you suggested), and opinions about ideas, e.g., "capitalism is a bad system". Are you saying that arguing the point of why capitalism is bad should be treated as an insult to people who think capitalism is better?

The difference between making a personal insult (the key word here is personal), and arguing why something in aggregate should or should not exist are completely separate issues. However, in the world of identity politics these two are inseparable.

> Or nothing that he said should have insulted anyone and therefore should not have consequences.

Or, let's listen to the whole conversation and not a rage-bait excerpt, and see if it was what you say it was.

> If you can't find quotes in context made by Kirk that people would find insulting, then that is a search issue.

Arguing ideas is not an insult. If you believe that any challenge to any claim is an insult, then it basically kills any sort of discourse unless the point made is in full agreement with your beliefs.
by mcphage | 2025-09-14 12:36:09+00:00
I agree about the issue of “mind”, but the rest is mentioned directly in the article:

> When I scrolled to the top of the chat where I’d first reported my neck pain, I saw that ChatGPT had mentioned a possible carotid dissection in its very first response to me. It started as a low probability guess that increased in certainty as my symptoms progressed. I find it striking that it was considering that possibility from my very first message.
by 7952 | 2025-09-14 12:36:22+00:00
British tradition does have more teeth though. For example whilst the Monarch may not use that power normally they still have it. With support of the Privy council the King absolutely could remove a malicious but democratic government. They are perfectly placed to unify the people, politicians, civic society, judiciary, police and military. And they can do so legally. And this position is defended by the perfectly reasonable response that they would never do that or have any real power. But then who does? The PM can be replaced in an afternoon by a vote. Parliament would need substantial changes of law to do anything.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-14 12:36:39+00:00
The issue with Châtelet - aside from how crowded it is - is that it’s two stations masquerading as one, same as Montparnasse-Bienvenüe.

Once you know what’s on which side and that the directions in the main hall are purposefully made to have you meander for flow control and you can just cut through, it gets a lot more manageable.
by profsummergig | 2025-09-14 12:37:07+00:00
You may remember that one needed to use Discord to use MidJourney initially. I was able to use it for that (although a lot of messages that streamed by were confusing to me).

After that I joined a couple of Discords with tens of thousands of users. Nothing ever seemed to happen on them. I knew I was doing something wrong but I couldn't figure it out.
by kevinday | 2025-09-14 12:37:09+00:00
In the article you mentioned the Indy having a T1 interface. I only remembered having ISDN as an option on them, with the use case being that ISDN was pretty easily orderable for people working from home or branch offices and needing to get online with it. T1s were still exotic, expensive and not available in a lot of places. Do you have a T1 card for an Indy? I'd love to see that! Do you know what the intention of that was?
by anonymousiam | 2025-09-14 12:37:11+00:00
Interesting. I also run my own DNS servers (for about two dozen domains). Over the past seven days, my servers logged 91923 A responses, 39667 AAAA responses, and 162 HTTPS responses, which comes to ~0.123%. I'm surprised it's that high.

Your numbers are more than 10 times higher than mine.
by FearNotDaniel | 2025-09-14 12:37:42+00:00
Exactly… back in 1975 Fred Brooks was advising programmers to “plan to throw the first version away” (The Mythical Man-Month) and it’s still true today. Just the tools to build that rapid prototype that have changed. Once it was Ruby on Rails, once it was Visual Basic 6, very often it’s still Excel macros…
by bheadmaster | 2025-09-14 12:38:11+00:00
> to build a modern java project with gradle [...] it just works.

That's the thing - it "just works" if you're on a "modern" Java project, if it uses Gradle, and if it uses it properly. Most of the Java projects I've had pleasure on working profesionally were not on that standard of quality.

You may argue that it's up to developers to keep build system simple, but in that case C++ tooling also "just works" because you can build a modern C++ project that uses CMake in two commands.

Good tooling prevents the project build process from becoming an undocumented Rube Goldberg's machine.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 12:38:38+00:00
> there were already clear and documented warning signs that violence was likely.

Even taking your claims for granted (none of this sounds familiar to me) there is no reason to suppose Kirk would have had any knowledge of it. For that matter, the FBI and DHS believing something about an ideological group doesn't make it true.

> We can conclude with very high certainty

No, we cannot.
by strken | 2025-09-14 12:39:16+00:00
I'm not sure what information you're trying to impart here, because I was talking about nativism in hiring practices and this has nothing to do with what I wrote.

I agree that Indians get fucked by the US when it comes to immigration and that the E-3 visa is awesome. What does that have to do with whether India, Europe, and China refuse to hire foreigners for nativist reasons? Did you reply to the wrong person by accident?
by gus_massa | 2025-09-14 12:39:26+00:00
> “tipping point” for mass where the weight of it crushes the atoms?

If you have a material of constant density like water, bananas or rocks, then if you have a ball that is big enough you get a neutron star where all the atoms collapsed in a huge-mega-super-nuclei. (I think the surface may have some normal atoms, and the center may be even more strange.) If the ball is even more big enough you get a black hole. If you use a gas like Hydrogen that has no constant density, the calculation is similar, but more complex.

IANAA, but I expect that the collapse into the black hole does not capture the 100% of the initial mass if the object is a rotating irregular blob, so in this huge cases near the big bang I expect the leftover to form something that looks like a galaxy. And the lack of leftover is what is surprising. (Again, IANAA.)

Except in neutron stars and black holes, atoms are very stable. There are many conservation laws, like the number of leptons (like the electron) and barions (like the proton/neutron) that make it hard to create weird stuff. You can create weird stuff for a very short time, but almost immediately it goes back to normal stuff. As always, there may be some surprise in particle physics, but I don't remember or expect something like this.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-14 12:39:27+00:00
In the Corporate States of America, it never did.

"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party; and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt, until recently, and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties." - Gore Vidal (1975 or before)

See also: https://elpidio.org/2025/07/12/the-state-of-the-union-gore-v... (original: "The State of the Union" May Day, May 1, 1975 in Esquire)
by quink | 2025-09-14 12:39:32+00:00
I may have mentioned on occasion, here or there, about how ludicrous it is that there appears to be no well-defined standard that user space shall have sqlite3 and git and gzip.

So, for all intents and purposes, nothing that would be relevant in any reasonable end-user way in 2025. It’s all just: here’s defaults and here’s scripts to set up your environment and here’s a dozen things to run brew with. But no standard.
by markjgx | 2025-09-14 12:39:36+00:00
I was wondering how the JVM and V8 stack up. Do you have a source for that claim? Genuinely curious.

Coming from the game dev world, I’ve grown more and more convinced that managed languages are the right move for most code. My reasoning is simple: most game developers don’t have the time or patience to deeply understand allocation strategy, span usage, and memory access patterns, even though those are some of the most performance-critical and time-consuming parts of programming to get right.

Managed languages hide a lot of that complexity. Instead of explaining to someone, “you were supposed to use this specialized allocator for your array and make sure your functions were array-view compatible”—something that’s notoriously tedious to guarantee in game engines given how few developers even think about array views—you just let developers write code and most of those problems go away.

I’m not saying everything should be managed. Core engine code should still live in the predictable, statically compiled world. But history shows it can work: projects like Jak and Daxter were written primarily in a custom LISPy scripting language, and even Ryujinx (RIP), the excellent Nintendo Switch emulator, is written entirely in C#.

Another strong technical reason is that managed JIT languages can profile at runtime and keep optimizing call sites based on actual usage patterns. Normally, developers would have to do this by hand or rely on PGO, which works but is painful to set up.

Industry standards make this harder to adopt since platforms like Sony still block JIT, but I think this is the direction we should be moving.
by cgio | 2025-09-14 12:40:38+00:00
Programming is not in text. Yes, formulas have textual representations but can be graphically defined if you are not an advanced user (e.g. click to select parameters including ranges). Also, other than formulas, there are e.g. iteration semantics in copying a formula down, applying it to a column on a table etc. There is even limited recursion. The model breaks down in some areas, e.g. using silver is not as well integrated.
by bheadmaster | 2025-09-14 12:40:46+00:00
> Isn’t trying to build any complex project a pray on the first try?

I managed to build Docker Daemon - one of the most widely used and complex Go projects - from source with a simple `go build`.

I've never figured out how to build Jenkins from source.

Do you know of any widely used Java project that has a simple build process? Maybe a positive anecdote could change my mind.
by nickjj | 2025-09-14 12:40:51+00:00
I made the switch from pass recently too. I had ~400 secrets stored in it for almost the same time as you.

Ultimately I wanted something easier to sync between multiple devices. Now that I am traveling more seriously I can't get away with only having a few important passwords saved on my phone and laptop.

It was a lot easier to sync (1) file with KeePassXC and it has 2 well supported Android apps to choose from. It took me around 3 hours one day to manually move everything over, I took that as an opportunity to prune and refactor everything which is why I didn't use the CSV import feature.

Password managers for me are a "write occasionally, read frequently" app so it's pretty painless to shoot over 1 file over my local network to keep 3 devices in sync.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-14 12:41:27+00:00
PC only got where it was thanks to the mistakes that made clones possible.

Everyone else, including other IBM offerings, were all about vertical integration.

It is no coincidence that nowadays with PC desktops being largely left to enthusiastics and gamers, OEMs are all doubling down on vertical integration across laptops and mobile devices, as means to recoup the thin margins that have come to be.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-14 12:42:16+00:00
Er...nuclear is already self sustaining and has a great ROI for the French (and pretty much everyone else).

Even the most catastrophic nuclear construction project the French ever had, Flamanville 3, will have better ROI than intermittent renewable projects.

What doesn't make sense is throwing more good money after 25 years of subsidies at intermittent renewables that have yet to show a positive ROI.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-14 12:42:23+00:00
I know this is quite a deep cultural difference between Europe and USA going back ... probably since the the industrial revolution. I dont even think we can compare numbers and expect the same outcome if the US implemented european worker laws.

One thing i am curious about though. Do you think worker unions are a good thing? Historically USA pioneered them, yet theyre nearly nonexistent today.

The reason i ask is, Sweden where I'm from, does not actually have a miminum wage, or much of any worker protection codified in law. Its a more open market than people (even swedes) really realize. Its just that a we have a 68% unionizaion rate of all workers, 2nd highest in the world. Its the unions that have established much of the worker protections.

> They haven't invented much new, and most of what they have invented has been eclipsed by more aggressive and nimble American companies.

I think this is rather difficult to measure. Certainly it looks that way for the tech sector in particular.

But europe also has a very high upstart per captia ratio. Its also there really common that small innovative european upstarts get bought up by international and American companies after passing 100-200 employees. We rarely see new giant corporations show up in europe before being absorbed.

Though i also think if any of the US FANG companies were based in europe they would be shattered by monopoly protection laws at a heartbeat. Our ideals about a good company is simply different.