MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wiether | 2025-09-25 16:06:25+00:00
The negatives are probably around the fact that Cloudflare is soon to be the master of the web (80/443)

If they launch an email service and are as successful, they could become the master of the email (25/465)

So soon, they'll be the master of the entire Internet

To be clear: I don't share this view, in part because Google and Microsoft already are the masters of the email
by Jcowell | 2025-09-25 16:06:25+00:00
This seems like a bit of an over exaggeration. A pull request isn’t just a chunk of code thrown at people. it’s an entire process with a Title , description, pipeline checks that all come together to say I want this in another branch.

As the PR author it should be your job to: * Self Review the PR * Ensure you adhere/fulfill to all the expectations and requirements a PR should have before it’s pulled out of draft * That all pipeline test pass * That for a given request X there is test that validate X, Not X , and edge cases of X and are ran in the pipeline. * Has a clear description of what you’re changing/adding/removing, why, how, and the rollout plan , roll back plan , & the risk level.

The peer review process should make the reviewer engage in a rubber duck process to review their code , loop the team in for changes that can change their mental model of how a system they own works, and to catch things that we might not catch ourselves.

Not to the mention the security implications
by divbzero | 2025-09-25 16:06:38+00:00
To be clear, Cloudflare Email Service is not a full-blown email provider like Fastmail, nor is it even comparable to email services like AWS SES or SendGrid. Cloudflare already offered email routing and Cloudflare Email Service just adds the ability to send email via Cloudflare Workers, so there’s a long way to go before Cloudflare could be an option for replacing Fastmail.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-09-25 16:06:45+00:00
One of the most dramatic job effects of AI is a brutal market for lemons effect. Carl wants to buy a widget, and the going rate for a widget was 150 dollars pre ai, and carl pays someone reputablish (accenture say) 150 for a widget and gets 70 cents of tokens.

Carl is not going to try another $150 with another provider, he’s just going to leave the market. The pre-ai widgeters all lose their jobs whether or not ai actually is able to solve Carl’s problem.
by ktosobcy | 2025-09-25 16:07:13+00:00
I'm fully aware why it's an issue with official image. But even with debian (or any other "packaging") there are hoops to be hopped through due to said missing upgrade handling which IMHO is very annoying.

They do handle minor versions upgrade so the code handling upgrading is there but devs seems to be quite adamant against adding major version upgrade. I (well, a lot of people judging from votes and comments in https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/37 and stars in https://github.com/tianon/docker-postgres-upgrade) would love that, and only between subsequent version would be more than enough…
by gloosx | 2025-09-25 16:08:01+00:00
>What was lost, and who lost it?

What's lost is opportunity. All that wealth could have gone into projects that produce lasting value: infrastructure, innovation, healthcare. Instead, it was sunk into an activity with no return. Misallocation of capital is a loss measured in foregone progress, society ends up poorer than it could have been, because while we could have had a new hospital or brigde, workers were busy digging some literal shithole. Does it answer your question?
by EasyMark | 2025-09-25 16:08:04+00:00
Maybe they're referring to the way the system is set up. You're probably not going to shop around for the lowest cost heart surgeon unless you have no insurance. Will they even say how much they charge? Couple that with emergencies. I think the only hope for America is a movement to stop a lot of this stuff before they become issues. Early diagnosis of cancer, national movement to unfat America (whatever that mean), people feeling more responsible for their own health inasmuch as they can.
by lm28469 | 2025-09-25 16:08:23+00:00
And if it doesn't work out ?

People can't tell what they'll eat next sunday but they'll predict AGI and singualrity in 25 years. It's comfy because 25 years seems like a lot of time, it isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

> I'd wager in 25 years we'd get there so I think his opinion still has a large percentage of being correct.

What percent, and which maths and facts let you calculate it ? The only percent you can be sure about is that it's 100% wishful thinking
by rendx | 2025-09-25 16:08:26+00:00
I often find myself guilty of not reading the article but only the comments here myself, so in case this is you: Go take the time and read it, even if it's painful.

I read a lot of heavy stuff, but this collection of quotes makes me sick to my stomach.

And even more so: how this inhumane, perverted treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of whether you fantasize/reason that DOGE does net good for the planet, finds no mention yet in the comments here, at all. To add to that, these are people who have spent much of their life in public service, for the benefit of society.

To be honest, I don't even know what is worse; the quotes, or that.
by gregates | 2025-09-25 16:08:31+00:00
Availability zones are not durability zones. S3 aims for objects to still be available with one AZ down, but not more than that. That does actually impose a constraint on the ratio relative to the number of AZs you shard across.

If we assume 3 AZs, then you lose 1/3 of shards when an AZ goes down. You could do at most 6:9, which is a 1.5 byte ratio. But that's unacceptable, because you know you will temporarily lose shards to HDD failure, and this scheme doesn't permit that in the AZ down scenario. So 1.5 is our limit.

To lower the ratio from 1.8, it's necessary to increase the denominator (the number of shards necessary to reconstruct the object). This is not possible while preserving availability guarantees with just 9 shards.

Note that Cloudflare's R2 makes no such guarantees, and so does achieve a more favorable cost with their erasure coding scheme.

Note also that if you increase the number of shards, it becomes possible to change the ratio without sacrificing availability. Example: if we have 18 shards, we can chose 11:18, which gives us 1.61 physical bytes per logical byte. And it still takes 1 AZ + 2 shards to make an object unavailable.

You can extrapolate from there to develop other sharding schemes that would improve the ratio and improve availability!

Another key hidden assumption is that you don't worry about correlated shard loss except in the AZ down case. HDDs fail, but these are independent events. So you can bound the probability of simultaneous shard loss using the mean time to failure and the mean time to repair that your repair system achieves.
by vel0city | 2025-09-25 16:08:44+00:00
Your reason here is the exact same as mine. Non-emergency cases go to the ER because they have nowhere else to go to deal with their needs.

Your symptom is mostly just a rephrasing of my same symptom. ERs are flooded and have worse outcomes overall because of the crowding of non-emergency cases.

So no, I don't think I'm confusing anything.

And in the end, sure. I only gave one potential solution to "give them somewhere else to go", but in the end the solution is still to have them go somewhere else regardless of how we accomplish that. I personally think providing "free" primary care is one of the better ones. Seems like the charity route isn't working out well enough. You're not going to get people with nearly no money to "pay for abusing the ER system" unless you're talking about jailing people (rats according to you) just trying to access the only point of healthcare they have access to. While you might make some healthcare a bit cheaper with deregulation you'll probably still have crowds of people unable to afford it and you might also end up with a lot of other worse outcomes depending on the regulations you cut. Looking around the globe, it seems like funding primary care for all usually leads to the best outcome for society overall and would do a ton to reduce the reason we both agree leads to bad outcomes in ERs.

We're already paying for their primary care, we're just paying for it in the least efficient manner. Its not really new money we'll have to find. Far cheaper for them to just stroll into a regular clinic and get these services than have them use up precious and expensive ER resources.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-25 16:09:38+00:00
> You called me a liar

No, I didn't you snowflake.

I said what you said isn't the truth, that doesn't make you a liar. People say false things all the time without lying. You can deeply hold incorrect beliefs, that doesn't make you a liar.

But it's telling that that little pushback has your feelings hurt.
by dev_l1x_be | 2025-09-25 16:09:56+00:00
Yes, or government intervention that looks good on paper and disastrous in practice.

Somehow people have this notion that healthcare should be treated differently than other service industries.

I would argue that the least amount of government control yields to the best result. There is only the size limitations (antitrust) that had potentially good outcomes. We could simply ban m&a above a certain size and make the externalities have an impact on revenue and that would be probably enough.
by rorylaitila | 2025-09-25 16:10:15+00:00
MidJourney not being the first organic spot is a bad experience. But it's normal practice that you can place ads on users searching for other company names.

This seems counter intuitive at first, but I think its reasonable. You don't get to exclude every advertiser from any random search string just because you have a domain name with it. How would that be enforced? There are many reasons to bid on brand names that are not necessarily squatting. Such as if my product is an integration of the tool. Many brand names are just basic words. Many brand names are very similar in SMBs.

But you can't use another company's trademark in your headline or adtext. Using another companies name is asking to get your ads taken down and lead to an account ban.
by slt2021 | 2025-09-25 16:11:05+00:00
Fun fact, that the famous Holocaust five digit number is still used today in IBM mainframe RACFs, this is coming from the punch cards era, when the census data was tabulated in Nazi Germany with the help of Thomas Watson.

I worked at a large US bank, and we used IBM mainframes at the core, including user identity.

Every employee had a five digit number as login, no different than Holocaust prisoner number, with a prefix, indicating user account type (employee, non-employee, service acct, etc).

My IBM number was 23579
by philipallstar | 2025-09-25 16:11:34+00:00
> We are rapidly and increasingly falling behind at least two other nations in terms of science and health breakthroughs.

Perhaps you are, but I'm not convinced. What's the metric?

> The things that make the US seem like the worst place in the world are mostly a result of political gridlock, which is advantageous (in the short term) for a small group of people who thrive under the status quo, who do everything possible with their outsized power to manipulate the electorate to keep it that way, out of cowardice.

The political lines are clear. You can see endless interviews with kids on college campuses who've been indoctrinated to believe the silliest things. That America is the worst, most racist and sexist place in the whole world.

> The US voter in general has been horribly misinformed, misled and manipulated into supporting things that are both against their own personal interest and against the greater good for the country as a whole.

This seems a tad myopic itself. While I agree people are being misled, I would count both you and I as "people" in that regard, and equally not knowing what's best for everyone. If we did, we could just be the only two voters and it would all be perfect.

> I don't know how to fix this, but I personally don't think making grand proclamations about how great we are/were while pointing blame fingers around to obfuscate the more obvious reasons for the average citizen's discontent is a smart or ethical way to approach the situation.

No idea what this means, as there were no grand proclamations previously mentioned.

I think part of the problem is America can do huge numbers of things right, and carry quite a lot of the advances that help the whole world on its taxpayers' backs, but still be mostly criticised and teased as a country from the citizens of other, generally older, now less high achieving countries. Who only acknowledge those massive, ground-breaking contributions when they are withdrawn and can be used to complain about the USA.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-25 16:11:35+00:00
speaking only for recent graduates I know personally well: ambitious students also want to be writers, for example. If only it were so easy as writing more makes you a better writer! So if you have to sit around and get life experiences that are interesting to write about (a good way to be a good writer), do you want to do that while working for Stripe, drinking kombucha and getting free lunches and being able to live in New York? Yes. You don’t want to do that while being an investment banker or a doctor or a YC founder.

The thing is those kids still have massive cognitive gifts - I’m not going to use a loaded word like talented or whatever - and have worked very hard in the past. It’s just that the journey to the thing they want to do no longer rewards hours.

Paul Graham is like the Mr. Beast of seed investing. He wants to make the best SEED STAGE INVESTMENTS in the world, to mock a Mr. Beast PowerPoint. He doesn’t want to get the kids with the highest potential, or the kids who work the hardest. They are very sincere and supportive - I mean, who the hell in your life is willing to risk $525,000 on an idea with no traction?? - but they are not out to anoint a category of kids as the “ambitious” ones versus the unambitious ones. You can be ambitious about being a writer and find success and wind up writing very little!
by bArray | 2025-09-25 16:11:46+00:00
The issue that people have with Israel's actions is the death of civilians, not the death of Hamas, the widely recognised terrorist. I believe it also to be true that the IDF do not want to kill civilians, and that their target is only Hamas.

In which case, is it prudent to remove the IDF's ability to successfully target the correct people? Precise military intelligence is absolutely necessary for minimising civilian casualties.
by MichaelRo | 2025-09-25 16:11:52+00:00
In the old days, TV was chock full of ads, sometimes to such a degree that you watched more ad time than movie time during a movie, assuming you didn't switch to other channels in between, always either missing the beginning of next part of the movie, or resigned yourself to watch some ad content afterall in order not to miss that beginning.

Ads will always be around, I guess. Doesn't Google offer a pay search version too, without ads? Like youtube...
by pmdr | 2025-09-25 16:11:56+00:00
I usually have the same (residential) IP for weeks on end and there's absolutely no malware or scraping or whatever the heck it is that Cloudflare thinks it's protecting against going on in my house. Yet I still get blocked or captcha'd.

Website owners may understandably be appreciative of CF. But as as someone browsing the web, I think it's done a lot of irreversible* damage to the open internet.

* I say irreversible because I don't think they'll be looking to improve this anytime soon, but rather add more restrictions.
by lima | 2025-09-25 16:12:01+00:00
Your copy&paste does not support your argument. Just looking at the top items on your list, it's basically a bunch of Safari-only features which no other browser vendor ships:

- CSS Canvas Drawings is not a web standard. It's a WebKit-specific feature, only Safari implements it. Chromium removed it in order to replace it with an actual web standard (CSS Painting API).

- Likewise, the CSS filter() function is Safari-only.

- U2F API has been deprecated for years, was replaced by WebAuthn, and only Safari still implements it.

- Same with SPDY, which was replaced by an actual web standard (HTTP2). Only Safari still ships it, but has marked it deprecated.

- SVG Fonts were removed from the SVG spec.

- HLS, JPEG-XL, HEIF/HEIC are essentially Safari-only as well.

CSS hanging-punctuation and audio/video tracks are new features that haven't been widely implemented yet.
by conradludgate | 2025-09-25 16:12:05+00:00
My recommendation: don't treat the development process as the final draft.

Write everything in one go, and then afterwards rework the commits to tell the story you want to tell. This does require getting very comfortable with git rebase, but I can absolutely recommend it.

Using this technique, I've managed to merge several large refactors lately with no issues, and the reviewers didn't hate me.
by layer8 | 2025-09-25 16:12:36+00:00
What GP is effectively saying is that you don’t value independence enough to invest the necessary money and (for personal use) time into self-hosting.

And there is a spectrum to this. For example, using a small, independent email or hosting provider may cost a little more time, but makes you more independent from big tech, and maybe more importantly, contributes to reducing the power of big tech. We are all paying for it, down the line.
by myrmidon | 2025-09-25 16:12:44+00:00
For the record: With "classical free market selfregulation" I mean something that is quite far from any civilized system. Standards of care, education of caregivers and even pricing levels to some degree are all regulated in your example (which I think is a good idea).

I would literally expect overpriced snake-oil from actual free market healthcare, and there is significant empirical evidence that this would happen from my point of view.
by yieldcrv | 2025-09-25 16:12:54+00:00
Virginia is the worst state in the union.

In other rich states, you can do everything with a little bit of money, just pricy. In poor states, they're often theocratic and tightly regulate things but you can still do everything with a little bit of money.

Virginia on the other hand, wealthy various economic drivers and still regulate everything fun out of existence in the least entertaining way possible. Winning the prize of worst state in the union.
by mtlynch | 2025-09-25 16:13:05+00:00
>I don't even know how could commits only benefit the author; if they're poor they won't help him either, if not as a log of how much work he's done.

Intermediate commits are just checkpoints of unfinished code. The author knows that they made them and can revert back to them or use git log --pickaxe-S if there's code they saved to a checkpoint and want to recover.

Intermediate commits can have meaningful commit messages if the author chooses, but they could also just be labeled "wip" and still be useful to the author.

It's really easy for a note someone writes to themselves to be useful to that person without being useful to other people. If I write a post-it on my desk that says "beef," that can remind me I need to pick up beef from the store, even though if my co-worker reads it, they wouldn't know what the note is trying to communicate.

>PRs will most often be composed of series of changes; the individual commits, if crafted carefully, will let you review every step of the work of the author quickly.

I don't understand this expectation that an author produce this.

What if the author experimented with a lot of approaches that turned out to be dead ends? Is it a good use of the reviewer's time to review all the failed attempts? Or is the author supposed to throw those away and reconstruct an imaginary commit history that looks like their clean, tidy thought process?

If someone sends me a short story they wrote and asks for feedback, I can give them feedback without also demanding to see every prior draft and an explanation for every change they made until it reached the version I'm reviewing.

The unit of change for a code review is a PR. The intermediate commits don't matter to the reviewer. The unit of change for a short story is the story. The previous drafts don't matter to the reader.
by monkeydust | 2025-09-25 16:13:06+00:00
Did my Accenture stint a long time ago, spent about a year there, was 'pimped' out to a banks at a crazy day rate and saw a tiny fraction of that. Had to build decks during lunch and evenings for the partners. It was very much about shipping more people to clients not making existing ones and capabilities more productive and in the end realized it was not for me so left. Its a dead model imho.
by hmokiguess | 2025-09-25 16:13:14+00:00
Appreciate your reassurance on this, and I believe this is indeed _currently_ the case.

My worry is on the direction and positioning as it stands _now_ when looking _out_.

I guess time will tell, and I have no problems being wrong here. In fact I even desire to be wrong.

Excited to see what DeltaDB is all about and how it affects the company direction too, especially now with Sequoia pulling some strings.
by fair_enough | 2025-09-25 16:13:51+00:00
I'm getting great mileage out of LibreWolf on macOS (currently running Sequoia). I don't know who at Apple thought it was a great idea to permanently kill off ad blockers in Safari, but it was a terrible idea that made the world a worse place.

Of course I say macOS is getting along fine for me, but I'm posting this comment from my workstation PC running Ubuntu 24.04. I'm pleasantly surprised by how much better my Linux experience is now than it was in 2013. It seems from my personal experience so far like a free desktop OS that can run a web browser and play games better than the paid alternatives is a solved problem. I find this machine much less frustrating than my M4 Macbook Air- many of the "security" behaviors are just annoyances.
by palmotea | 2025-09-25 16:14:10+00:00
> End result is a gazillion hood rats showing up to the emergency room with an "STD" or the flu "muh 20 hour a week job that provides no health insurance needs a doctors note" and meanwhile the dying guy has to deal with the drain those people impose on resources, not all of which can be mitigated away by triage.

The solution to that problem is to give those people real healthcare, not kicking them onto the street because they had the temerity to try to access healthcare in the one place that can't turn them away.