MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexvitkov | 2025-09-08 14:19:46+00:00
If you're doing 10 million transactions per week (which is likely way more than what they're pulling) that's about 16 transactions processed per second. You can add inventory management, payroll management, you can run the company's email server, write all that in JavaScript, and you'll still have room to run a Minecraft server on the same laptop.

My point was not that running all that on one computer is a great idea, just that 40,000 servers for a CRUD application is way past what should be considered reasonable.

But even that's fine. I like computers, you can have 40,000 of them if you want, even if the only reason they exist is some guy's job security. However, you're insane if the guy keeping them running doesn't work for you.
by dijit | 2025-09-08 14:19:59+00:00
> 1) WebEx and the open source chat that Oracle appropriated. Fortunately Zoom came and went too quickly.

Ok, then I can see why Teams ranks among them. I would invite you to try something like Zulip or Mattermost but I think ignorance is bliss and you should avoid knowing about anything that could be better. Your mind might do this for you (rejection) but best not to tempt fate.

> 2) Searching the Exchange corporate directory. BASIC features: status, embedding pictures, attaching files that Outlook would block. Sharing links that aren't obfuscated.

Appreciate the list, the only one of these that's Teams specific is searching a corp directory. Do you use the "Teams" functionality, or do you use the chat exclusively?

> 3) Can you even run Teams from Apple / Linux?

Yes, it's very slow. It's also very slow from laptops, the best "Teams experience" I've ever seen has been in GameDev where we all ran Windows 7 on dodecacore CPUs with 128-256G of DDR4.

It was still slower than Slack on my macbook air though.

> 4) Ha! Imagine the nightmares for the person linking Atlassian and Teams.

Yeah, people do. People also use Excel from within Teams.

Writing bots for Teams is a special nightmare, but webhooks can work.

> 5) Group texts, file shares, voice calls, recorded meetings. Meetings with groups from other companies is almost painless.

Do you spend a lot of your day face-to-face or more of your day in Teams?

Do you find yourself arranging meetings to sync rather than using the chat functionality?

Do you find that people have to ask around a lot to get an answer and then ask again later when it's forgotten, or can they find their answer in history?
by davidmurdoch | 2025-09-08 14:20:19+00:00
Interesting perception. Here in the US it's unfathomable to think a regulation that doesn't allow people to drive cars would ever receive a single vote. It wouldn't happen. Citizens here would revolt and politicians in support would quite literally be murdered over this. People here really love driving their cars. Yes, to an insane degree.

But from my news bubble, and my perception of much of Europe... it seems to me that it is very likely a regulation like this would happen in Europe, probably through a well-meaning green initiative.

Funny how perceptions of others can be so drastically different!
by rayiner | 2025-09-08 14:21:08+00:00
Youths overthrew the government in Bangladesh last year based on similar outrage circulating on social networks. And what happened? The interim government banned the political activities of the only party that's won an election in recent memory: https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/bangladesh-ban-awami-le.... Meanwhile, the Islamist parties have been un-banned and are resurgent: https://thediplomat.com/2025/08/resurgence-of-jamaat-e-islam... https://eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/07/political-islam-could-f.... Youths are fucking dumb.

As George Washington said in Hamilton: "Ah, winning was easy, young man. Governing's harder."
by webdevver | 2025-09-08 14:21:39+00:00
it kind of make a muskian sort of sense.

"if the human brain can do it purely on optics, then so should we. if we need extra sensors that the human doesn't have, that means the model is worse than the human brain."

i can totally see that going through elons 105iq head. and there is something to be said there. kind of, "no cheating allowed!", where "cheating" is defined as "a sensor the human wouldn't have had".

whether it has value... well... thats hard to say, but you have to make a bet i suppose. the waymos are very expensive with their sensor arrangements. maybe that can be made cheap?
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-09-08 14:21:40+00:00
I think you underestimate how quickly public sentiment can change. Just a few years ago there was public outcry, protests, etc for anything Musk related.

Now there is none of that, not many people talking about him in a political light and I'm certain public sentiment about him has gone up given it is now already more publicly acceptable to talk about things adjacent to him and his companies.

There will be die hards who will never change, but its clearly apparent on social media he is no longer getting anywhere near the hate he used to, and even people who previously weren't are now publicly praising things like Grok and recent SpaceX missions.
by guardiangod | 2025-09-08 14:21:51+00:00
>You immediately arrest have any employee interfering with emergency response and throw them in jail.

Imagine that you work for a 3 letter US agency and is storing confidential data on AWS. Would you allow random individuals (yes even for emergency personnel) to have unfetter access to your computation and storage systems? What about health data? What about data belonging to other countries? Do you do a sweep for unauthorized remote access device after the incident?
by runamuck | 2025-09-08 14:22:37+00:00
Add "sales" to the list. Even if you don't have strong "product thinking, project execution, nor people skills" you can reach out to sales and offer technical advice, or offer to write the tech portion of proposals. This will get you promoted. Eventually, you will learn the sales pipeline, BD, capture, execution, deal closing etc. You will even learn deal qualification, so you can help leadership focus on the winners. Tech Skills + Sales will pay dividends.
by utyop22 | 2025-09-08 14:23:08+00:00
The US as it stands is a dictatorship, that thankfully, has some checks and balances to control Mr Trump.

One only has to watch that recent White House dinner of the Big Tech figures getting together (minus Scamath) and the forceful nature in which Mr Trump made Zuck and Cook issue statements of large investment amounts.

Nothing of that nature goes in Europe, at least not so blatantly.
by rroblak | 2025-09-08 14:23:11+00:00
You should read Postman's Technopoly. He critiques "context-free" news as leading to a confused viewership and argues that it's an unexpected consequence of modern news media: trying to give the viewer a fully-coherent understanding of current news simply wouldn't play as well as shallow, quick stories.

This creates a skewed information-action ratio, where people are inundated with information about problems they have no power to influence. Consequently, news is reduced to a form of trivia, and the act of being "informed" becomes a passive— and ultimately meaningless— ritual.
by vharuck | 2025-09-08 14:23:12+00:00
I listened to an interview with one of the article's authors, and she said the reason non-violent protests defeat a state willing to order violent crackdowns is because the soldiers performing those crackdowns are regular people. They are not the people who most benefit from an authoritarian state. So when they find themselves being told to beat up or shoot a nun sitting in the street, there's a good chance the soldier would defect.
by ghaff | 2025-09-08 14:23:25+00:00
That's the reality with a lot of stuff. I do donate books to my library's book fair every year. But having gone to the book fair, I have little doubt that most of the donations will end up being pulped in the end.

Most things that people don't want don't really have value to most anyone else either. They may be recycled at some level. But mostly it's just friction to get rid of it.
by mxkopy | 2025-09-08 14:23:48+00:00
I guarantee that a 20 hour workweek would fix this problem without having to invade anyone’s privacy, but we can’t have that for obvious reasons.

My friends with healthy attachments to social media had healthy and present parents. You have to make sure your kid doesn’t want to drop out of society by being too overbearing, and obviously you need to be there to tell them the pitfalls of addiction and superficiality that only experience can reveal. Walking this line every day while your kid is kicking and screaming at you is way harder if you’ve already been kicked and screamed at work for 8 hours, so you just put them on the iPad and hope for the best -> and that’s how we get here. It begins and ends with capitalism’s productivity fetish
by treetalker | 2025-09-08 14:23:51+00:00
Hear me out. Try the following techniques:

- note-taking by hand (including analog mind-mapping);

- rewriting/reorganizing your notes once or twice, again by hand;

- writing a succinct, ELI12 explanation of the subject, again by hand (a/k/a the Feynman method), then later trying to do it again from memory, and comparing the version from memory to the original to see what you forgot to include.

Sometimes making and reviewing voice recordings of you explaining everything aloud can work similarly, but there is something special about handwriting.

Once you've actually learned everything, you can put it into a spaced recall system like Anki to actively recall/review periodically to prevent forgetting, but at that point it should be pretty well internalized.

I find Obsidian and its ilk good to store, link, and share a "final product" of something you have already learned. That final product can also be original work based on something you already know and have internalized — but at that point you're an expert.

In my experience, trying to use Obsidian to do the learning and the memorization/internalization is barking up the wrong tree.
by mindslight | 2025-09-08 14:23:52+00:00
When I had my wisdom teeth out, they gave me percocet (oxycodone + tylenol). "Take one every 4-6 hours." I split the pills in half and took one just as the pain was starting to come back, generally right after 2 hours. It worked great. Then after several days the pain started coming back in my knees and other joints. Wait... I don't generally have joint pain. I guess that's withdrawal from developing a tolerance, aka addiction. I quickly ramped down and stopped using them shortly thereafter.

Of course it would be tempting to wax poetic about how I just needed to use my willpower to stop, and so can anyone else - just-world-fallacy while singing my own praises. But it's more honest to admit that while things worked out fine that time, control can be quite illusory. I wouldn't hesitate to use opiates again for extreme pain, but I sure would set up some social accountability systems beforehand.
by kelsey98765431 | 2025-09-08 14:24:29+00:00
Doing things that way (virtualization rather than containerization) fell out of vogue specifically because of how bad vmware was to work with. CPU quotas were probably what pushed serious people away from the product instead of machine licenses. I was early in my career but working with vmware products was the bane of our existence because if we wanted to make any sort of configuration change or spin up a test machine or really do anything at all it had to run through accounting which was just an instant non starter. we all started fiddling with alternatives and docker swiftly became reliable at least for spinning up a new web server or testing the latest and greatest whatever. vmware did this to themselves.
by gingerBill | 2025-09-08 14:24:43+00:00
I am not sure how you got this conclusion from the article.

> So let's handle the hell manually to feel the pain better

This is far from my position. Literally the entire point is to make it clearer you are heading to dependency hell, rather than feel the pain better whilst you are there.

I am not against dependencies but you should know the costs of them and the alternatives. Package managers hide the complexity, costs, trade-offs, and alternative approaches, thus making it easier to slip into dependency hell.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-09-08 14:24:58+00:00
Should residential properties and industrial properties really compete for the same electricity?

This is like a perfect place for the government to step in and create a formula that forces electricity companies to allocate a percentage of their energy to each of these groups. So, demand from manufacturing or data centers does impact the cost of turning on the air conditioning in my home.

Great example of where business isn't incentivized to care about the greater good, so government needs to adjust things.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-09-08 14:25:36+00:00
Well, it's only way they could stay afloat.

The moment average 16 bit DAC become cheap and games stopped using builtin synths/MIDI it was over, CPUs were fast enough that offloading audio was not a big deal any more and anyone could make good enough one. EAX was fun gimmick but exclusivity probably hurt the idea in the end
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-08 14:25:58+00:00
- Instruments list should have more instruments

- Would appreciate other temperaments: Pythagorean-C temperament, perfect 5th, etc. See the gstrings app for example.

- Base note selection only provides tone and sharp options (C, C#, D, D#...) but as you know, outside of equal temperament, C# and Db (and so on) are different pitches.
Show HN: Pyziggy – Python code generator and runtime to work with Zigbee2MQTT
by dr_traktor | 2025-09-08 14:26:06+00:00
I didn't like the existing solutions for writing complex home automation scripts. I don't jive with YAML. I like to code in an IDE with full code completion and as much type safety as I can get from the given language. I like to debug programs when something weird happens. I don't like copying and pasting strings. Pyziggy is my entry in the yet another automation framework category. Big thanks to Zigbee2MQTT for doing the heavy lifting.
by gingerBill | 2025-09-08 14:26:41+00:00
> So what does the solution look like?

There are no solutions, only trade-offs. And the point is that not everything needs to be, nor ought to be, automated. And package managers are a good point of this.

And yes, a language with an ill-defined concept of a package in the language itself is a problem of the language, but the package managers are not making it any better.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-08 14:26:53+00:00
I don’t believe that for a second.

If parents only had to work 20 hours… watch half care more about their kids, while the other half gets a second job anyway to buy a boat, or immediately goes into an addiction spiral, their job previously being the time restraint. The jobs that keep us from our hobbies, are also checks on the darker sides of human nature.

On that note, even this doesn’t fix the problem; as now the iPad is still an all-or-nothing device, unless the parent knows how to fluently manage multiple endpoints on multiple operating systems - and this is so universal the law can safely consider it handled. I think that’s less likely to work than a genocide-free communist state.
by graemep | 2025-09-08 14:26:54+00:00
I was thinking exactly the same. I was not there at the time, but I have family there and have lived there.

It was amazing how many people who were not usually politically active joined the protests, and that they attracted support across racial divisions.

I think one of the problem with outside experts is that they try to reframe it in terms of the issues in their countries. For example, I have read articles trying to use Sri Lanka's excessive borrowing as a warning against modern monetary theory, which is either dishonest or incompetent - and I very much doubt the govt were even thinking in terms of MMT.

BTW I have probably met you at some point. I know Gehan from when i worked at Millennium (I was only there about an year).
by JohnFen | 2025-09-08 14:27:03+00:00
The article is talking about car sales, you're talking about revenues. Those are two different things. For instance, a very large portion of Tesla revenues comes from leasing and carbon credits rather than car sales. In terms of car sales, Tesla's share of the market is at it's lowest point since 2017. In most of the world, Tesla sales are very significantly down.
by hamdingers | 2025-09-08 14:27:12+00:00
> If Ruby is "easy to read" and assuming you know a similar programming language (such as Perl or Python), how difficult is it to learn Ruby and be able to write the code yourself?

Reading code doesn't mean you can write it, as any programmer will tell you.

If I want to know if a string in ruby begins with another string, is the method starts_with or start_with or startwith like python or is it like perl where I have to use some completely different method? I don't know, better google it.

But if I'm reading and see `str.start_with?("https://")` I know instantly what it's doing.
by y1426i | 2025-09-08 14:27:12+00:00
Over last 6 months, since their latest upgrade, I have been driving my Tesla mostly on FSD. And it is nothing short of amazing, out of this world. The car drives like a pro and exceptions have become very rare. You have to drive this to believe it. Unlike Waymo which is full of gizmos, this is just a regular car that drives itself. The bet on camera and simplified architecture shows here.

If you just extrapolate what has already been possible and bet on the pace of growth of AI algorithms and techniques, robotaxi is almost a certainity and humanoid robots a possibility.
by account42 | 2025-09-08 14:27:25+00:00
I think it's fair to recognize that giving gifts, especially repeatedly over a long time, can create an obligation as people become dependent on those gifts and alternatives they might have relied on otherwise disappear or never materialize in the first place.

And that's before going into the effort of other people that goes into making an open source project successful but who don't have any legal ownership over the source code and thus no legal say in the future of it.
by ok123456 | 2025-09-08 14:27:33+00:00
"You used AI!" is now being weaponized by project maintainers who don't want to accept contributions, regardless of how innocuous.

A large C++ emulator project was failing to build with a particular compiler with certain Werror's enabled. It came down to reordering a few members (that matters in C++) and using the universal initializer syntax in a few places. It was a +3-3 diff. I got lambasted. One notoriously hostile maintainer accused me of making AI slop. The others didn't understand why the order mattered and referred to it as "churn."
by nartho | 2025-09-08 14:27:41+00:00
Not that it's currently possible, but having the infrastructure designed around self driving cars (meaning the road and signs themselves are built to communicate useful information to the car ) and the network of cars communicating with each other, we could achieve high speeds, smooth insertion in traffic etc. The benefits would be stopping congestion in cities, reducing pollution as well as reducing/eliminating car crashes

In that case, there would be absolutely no way we could allow manual driving. The benefits are just too great. Obviously I'm talking about a best case scenario where things actually work as they should.
by ux266478 | 2025-09-08 14:28:01+00:00
In those situations, the functions that contain a singularity should return an Either monad, and in order to bring the resulting data back into the bloodstream of the program, you have to deal with that potential singularity. Unfortunately, scientific computing seems like it's stuck in the age of the dinosaurs with tooling choices and much of the advancements in type systems of the last 40 years are nowhere to be seen. I always found that curious, given its adjacency to academia.
by javier123454321 | 2025-09-08 14:28:13+00:00
I just cannot relate at all to someone actually thinking that equates Elon's success to gambling on roulette. Of the million things you could criticize him for, there is this fixation by his detractors on trying to tear down his character as though he is not competent. It seems important for people that disagree with him to attack that angle, even when there's a mountain of evidence to the contrary.

It is as though people need it to be true that someone holding opposing opinions CANNOT possibly also be smart and competent, it's like the ideology possessing his detractors can't conceive of opposition as intelligent. (Notice that this is a phenomenon from left leaning to right leaning, though the right to left version of this phenomenon is something along the lines of: 'this person is smart but ${"evil" | "lacking common sense"}'). I'm fascinated by this.
by boothby | 2025-09-08 14:28:58+00:00
Forth is a bit of a headtrip for people due to (a) how it parses and executes and (b) the stack-based nature of it. Particularly, symbols traditionally considered syntactic are fair game* for user-space definitions, and some words are "immediate" which means that they act at compile time, where others act at runtime. This combination seems particularly challenging for students of languages which don't mix compile-time and runtime, only use a stack for function calls, etc.

I'm of the opinion that one must write a forth to grok forth, and I'm far from alone in that. However, I'd not quite call forth itself esoteric. But to many, it's a language family... of which most of the members are esoteric inasmuch they only have a single user.

* shout-out to my friend whose forth supports lists, hash tables, and structs through syntactic sugar... https://github.com/cstrainge/sorth