MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crystal_revenge | 2025-09-26 06:13:14+00:00
This is an odd comment, do you not know any right wing people? Especially in the non-coastal parts of the country?

This opinion comes from having many conversations with (real, not online) people who literally state that they consider that the government is inherently evil and it's sole function is to rob people of their liberty and hard earned money. I've spent a considerable amount of time doing business travel and working in parts of the country where I've heard people, in an public office conversation, voice that support for public radio is literally fascism to nodding agreement among their peers. I once mentioned an experience I had in the beginning of the pandemic and the response was "oh yea, that's when people still thought it was serious right?"

I don't think these people are inherently evil, they believe the government is evil and that those who work for it are working to undermine everyday Americans. If you actually had a conversation with anyone deep in the MAGA community you would know that harming the federal government, for them, is seen as a victory and virtuous.

It's baffling to me that anyone can still not understand the foundation of the MAGA community and growing extreme right. For years they have increasingly felt that their way of life has been robbed from them (and to be fair, it has been, rural communities in the US are in trouble), and they sincerely believe that this is caused by sinister forces working in the federal government, immigrants, the global elite, and "radical" woke leftists that want to harm their children.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-26 06:13:44+00:00
There's a lot of money pouring into stablecoins for "internet native payments". I'm cautiously optimistic about a net powered by flows of money and not ads, so incentives can align around user preferences. But to work I think a first use case will need to come out that really displaces existing usecases or builds a wholly new experience. An integrated LLM-assistant experience, if the thesis is to be belived.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-26 06:14:15+00:00
So you said

"Instead, all we have is an opinion by a reporter at an organization with a known bias for promoting the increase of government"

Then

"My problem is I’m tired of living in a world where everyone assumes that anyone not in 100% agreement with their policies must of course be doing something nefarious"

It doesn't matter if the person is bias or not, what matters is it they backed their opinion up with facts
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-26 06:16:11+00:00
"I'll use postgres" was going to be your conclusion no matter what I guess?

I mean what if an actual benchmark showed Redis is 100X as fast as postgres for a certain use case? What are the constraints you might be operating with? What are the characteristics of your workload? What are your budgetary constraints?

Why not just write a blog post saying "Unoptimized postgres vs redis for the lazy, running virtualized with a bottleneck at the networking level"

I even think that blog post would be interesting, and might be useful to someone choosing a stack for a proof of concept. For someone who to scale to large production workloads (~10,000 requests/second or more), this isn't a very useful article, so the criticism is fair, and I'm not sure why you're dismissing it off hand.
by chii | 2025-09-26 06:16:19+00:00
drafting specific, targeted policies in the hopes of achieving a targeted outcome (without any unintended consequences) is very difficult - it's almost as if human minds are not smart enough to consider all possible outcomes, and all possible ramifications!

That's why i dislike gov't intervention - in most cases, these policies are drafted by vested interests, to the exclusion of some other group (who often then bear the brunt of the externalized cost of such a policy).
by Peteragain | 2025-09-26 06:16:43+00:00
Having followed rpi from the start, I suspect the choice of "200" is a marketing ploy to make the potential customers compare it to a refurb laptop. The company has a good product with a massive peripheral market, and you can open it up and add bells and whistles (literally). And a mechanical keyboard! I'd get one in an instant except my pi 5 with a Bluetooth keyboard is still going strong.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-26 06:17:08+00:00
How do you have a “local entrepreneurs startup” that has a global catalog of hotels all around the world?

The problem with the EU in general is that every time they try to pass a law they run into the pesky problem of free will and users preferring the offerings of the BigTech companies not realizing that all of the laws they pass further entrench the big companies because they have the resources to both desk with the regulations and they can create and nurture their business in more favorable countries like the US and then use those resources to expand.

The reason that the tech environment is so anemic in the EU is not because there aren’t enough laws and regulation.
by skinkestek | 2025-09-26 06:17:43+00:00
> the findings of the world's leading association of genocide scholars,

Like IAGS whose findings were widely reported until it turned out the biggest qualifications for its 500 expert members was that they had paid a $30 membership fee? And whose openly accessible member list included "Adolf Hitler"?

The emperor has no clothes and no amount of reports from the royal court of UN will change that:

It is plain for everyone to see and the emperors naked butt is disgusting.

It is also insulting to actual victims of actual genocides.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-26 06:19:05+00:00
You can learn all about the details of how and why Alpha was developed:

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10273826...

Its in Part 2.

If I remember correctly, it was basically 64bit because Alpha was basically a (good) virus inside of DEC. Or maybe like secret society that revolted against the leader of the company.

Olson had killed 32 bit PRISM and they already had VAX that was 32 bit and people making processor for it. To get people all over DEC to buy into Alpha (Alpha barley had any budget of it own) it had to be something new, and winning 64 bit did make sense.

Olson really killed basically everything that make sense, that DEC survived so long with Olson as CEO is kind of crazy. The amount of horrible decision starting as early as the early 70s is kind of crazy.

VAX had also been early, driven by Gordon Bell not Olson, very few of the competitors had 32 bit processors then, and people like Data General and Prime struggled to develop them in response. Funny enough a hardware guy on the VAX team basically proposed RISC-like architecture but it was rejected because they optimized for code size. To bad that they didn't hit on the idea of compressed instructions.
by Ancapistani | 2025-09-26 06:19:27+00:00
I've given this a lot of thought.

Unfortunately, in addition to being dangerous to others, this approach pretty much always comes with increased exposure to prosecution and increased penalties.

The optimal approach seems to be vandalism - spray painting over the front of the cameras, placing other objects to block their view, or permanently blinding them with lasers. All of these things are still illegal and would likely subject you to the legal system, but they at least require on-site intervention to remedy and keep the actor out of prison (but maybe not jail).

The least risky approach I've found is also the least effective - they're often on public property, so place _yourself_ in front of them. It takes them out of commission for a while and should be legal. Coordinated action would likely get the attention of Flock, law enforcement, and the media. Unfortunately, even that could be construed as "interfering with law enforcement operations" or similar, and/or conspiracy if you're organizing or participating in mass resistance.

If the federal government decides they want to step in on Flock's behalf, they could put you under the jail. :\
by skinkestek | 2025-09-26 06:20:22+00:00
less than 60 000 people were killed in the Blitz against London.

By your logic most of what happened in 1944 and 1945 when 350 000 to 500 000 German civilians died were probably injustice.

But in the real world we need to deal with the people who again and again attack their neighbors in vicious ways.

And we need to finish it.
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by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-26 06:21:21+00:00
Sure, they could try adding “your data is our data” on the renewal of a few million dollar enterprise contract and see how that goes - probably a redline with a nasty Zoom call attached. They could rug-pull this on free and small business users to a degree, but I don’t even see how it would be worth it. It’s such a small proportion of their traffic, and the fact that this is even a thing on their platform would scare away regulated customers for sure.
by Koffiepoeder | 2025-09-26 06:21:54+00:00
If you look at their lab [0], it seems his NAS is separate from his kubernetes nodes. If he hasn't tuned his networking and NAS to the maximum, network storage may in fact add a LOT of delay on IOPS. Could be the difference between fractions of a millisecond vs actual milliseconds. If your DB load is mostly random reads this can really harm performance. Just hypothesizing here though, since it is not clear whether his DB storage is actually done on the NAS.

[0]: https://dizzy.zone/2025/03/10/State-of-my-Homelab-2025/
WTF is up with everything using Android?
by george3d6 | 2025-09-26 06:22:02+00:00
I was recently looking at VR & AR devices

(As an aside: Because the res has improved enough where I can code, and the peak coding position is with a pants keyboard on an inversion table -- very suboptimal for a monitor)

I noticed all of them sans apple run Android.

I understand why Android has become the unfortunate standard for mobile, but it seem absurd to me that it is now taking over VR (as well as "IoT" devices, car computers and so on)

It seems like a very inelegant OS that essentially committed itself to the wrong paradigms in everything:

- Committing to JVM usage instead of supporting static compilation -- locking itself in a dead ecosystem that can't see the light of either Rust or simple scripting language - Having heavyweight security abstraction that don't really achieve much beyond a linux kernel - Dependant on a bunch of proprietary modules for <anything> - And (now) having a bunch of new features rooted in backwards compatibility hell

I can't even comprehend the monumental effort to get the sort of GPU-intensive and RT capabilities a proper VR experience requires running onto something like this (vs a minimal RT focused linux distro)

Am I just being unfair to android and missing a core benefit? Is it mass psychosis ? Am I missing an underlying reason why it's getting so popular ?

(To be clear: I assume vision OS is bad, given that it's apple, it just confuses me why e.g. meta would not develop their own OS)
by Galanwe | 2025-09-26 06:22:18+00:00
I see Redox as an incubator of new developments for a low level Rust ecosystem. It's not a production ready OS, its purpose is to spark new ideas, propose alternative implementations, try on new paths, etc. I see them implementing a ZFS variant as completely in-line with this objective.

There needs to be projects like that for any kind of innovation to happen.
by throw954387543 | 2025-09-26 06:22:41+00:00
I find that SWE's and tech staff usually think -> if it take my job that means everything else is able to be automated and we no longer need people to automate things. This and other articles show me most professions have more than just the skill component to them unlike SWE. The more I read the more likely I think it will probably only be software and tech as a relatively high paid job (there are industries at lower pay that are disrupted too) that will be disrupted significantly by AI in the short/medium term. Its main moat as a job was skill difficulty which AI can overcome.

This article shows its more likely tech/software is probably the first major job to be disrupted significantly before other industries. There is an assumption from tech workers that you need a tech person to employ the AI to do the automation meaning they are the last to go. I think that assumption is questionable if AI gets good enough. Especially if I can get "spec writers/QA's/BA's/etc" to do the automation of industries once the regulation/liability side is worked out per industry. Hearing and seeing more than just rumors of AI tooling that mirrors whole software developer workflows being trialed in large tech firms now; SWE is the lowest juiciest hanging fruit.

I still assert that the next industry to feel the most pain is the SWE's and tech workers themselves. Skills and expertise in an AI world are no longer moats to your job security and ability to provide for yourself -> regulation, lack of data, physical world interaction, liability, locality. Most professions have some of the above.

Anecdotally in my local social circle as an SWE I'm now seen as the person with the least desirable job from a social status and security perspective, a massive change from 5 years ago. People would rather be a "truck driver" or in this case a "radiologist". I hope I'm wrong of course for my own personal sake.
by moooo99 | 2025-09-26 06:22:42+00:00
I mean, at least the direct to bezos bugs were damn cheap for what they were (smart devices) and in absolute numbers (I remember them literally being gifted to you when ordering specific stuff or signing up for prime for the first time).

These humanoid robots are cheap for what they are (admittedly very capable and high end robots), but their absolute pricetag remains far from being cheap.
by maxbond | 2025-09-26 06:22:43+00:00
> Non-sequitur,and imaterial to the discussion.

You said:

> The whole point of a TTL is to be able to tell whether a cache entry is still fresh or it is stale and must be revalidated.

So I responded to it. I don't really understand why you think that's nonsequiter.

> No.

I'm a bit confused. We're not using TTLs and we're not evicting things when they become invalid. What is your suggestion?
by qmr | 2025-09-26 06:22:52+00:00
One of the best games of all time.

This is what Warren Spector made while Romero was busy pissing money away and constantly rewriting Daikatana.

The one worthwhile thing to come out of Ion Storm.

Lots of emergent gameplay. Almost always more than one way to solve each puzzle. Stealth, brute strength melee, long range combat, explosives, computer hacking ...

Branching story with multiple endings.

A must play.
by gmac | 2025-09-26 06:23:37+00:00
… except that trying to out-Farage Farage (by being bastards to asylum seekers) will lose them many of their traditional supporters (who are not big on being bastards to asylum seekers) and seems unlikely to gain them many Farage supporters (why would they take some half-hearted populist bastardry when they can have the real deal?).

The ‘small boats’ narrative is ludicrously over-reported here. It’s such a clear case of those with most of the resources scapegoating those with none of the resources as the cause of everyone else’s problems.
by eru | 2025-09-26 06:23:52+00:00
https://lichess.org/@/Tobs40/blog/there-is-no-reachable-ches... describes how the author removed some more complicated rules in the first pass, and is willing to re-introduce them, if necessary. Ie if the solution found violates them.

Interestingly, mixed integer linear programming solvers already support these. The technical term for this is 'row generation'. It comes from the usually way these problems are written in matrix form, where rows correspond to constraints and columns correspond to variables.

(Dynamically) adding a row is equivalent to introducing a constraint only if it's violated.

This approach is often used for the traveling salesman problem.

(Weirdly enough, Wikipedia has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_generation but nothing on row generation.)
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-26 06:24:53+00:00
Just pick a country and start digging. It's not difficult. You can easily find web pages from different government departments, detailing exactly which rights illegal immigrants have, for example when it comes to health care or accommodation. The government web pages usually have links and references to the exact laws which mandate this.

Illegal immigrants, as in people who have been denied asylum and ordered by the immigration authorities to leave the country. Yes, even those have right to many different benefits even though they refuse to leave the country.
by darkwater | 2025-09-26 06:25:22+00:00
Unresponsiveness is still a factor of size. First, there are numbers: typically only of X% of clients will have problems. As a company, you can either fix that problem or ignore it. If you ignore it, eventually the customer will churn. Now, if the market is made of 5-6 mega-corps, as a churned customer you have only a few options for a migration. That will rise (eventually) your bar to churn out.

If the market was made of 2000 small companies, you have much more options and companies are forced to better interact with you. Also, with a smaller user base a user churning is a higher percentage of revenue loss so, they are even more interested.
by immibis | 2025-09-26 06:25:38+00:00
Apple has repeatedly, willingly, knowingly, on purpose violated EU orders. Like when they were ordered to allow alternative app stores, they said "fine, but we have to approve both the app store and the apps it sells" and then just didn't approve anything that wasn't already on Apple's store. They were fined a few billions for this and told to fix it. They didn't. They were fined a few more billions. The fines will keep increasing until compliance occurs. That's why Apple is throwing a temper tantrum.
by arrowsmith | 2025-09-26 06:25:53+00:00
You are describing the current system. Employers can receive business-ending fines (at least in theory) for hiring illegal labour. I’ve never worked a job in the UK that didn’t require me to prove my right to work here, eg by showing them my passport. Digitising the IDs will make no difference.

And frankly, if you believe this is actually about immigration then I’m embarrassed for you. Everyone can see that they’re just using the current crisis an excuse to ram through the unpopular thing that they've wanted for decades.

It won’t stop the boats.
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by andyjohnson0 | 2025-09-26 06:26:44+00:00
I didn't watch the video, but have read other reports, and it's worth noting that the context for this is the Labour Party conference, which starts on Sunday. The UK govt are under pressure from the tories and Reform to do something about people entering the UK from France by crossing the channel in small boats. Nothing much seems to be working. So this announcement is about trying to control the narrative by making a big, distracting announcement. I'd mlbe surprised if many people in the government/police/civil service expect it to make a difference.

Also, seems to be intended to be mandatory and require a smartphone. Hows that going to work?

Also, what happens when the database is inevitably stolen?
by jterrys | 2025-09-26 06:27:46+00:00
The dialogue options and scenario possibility outcomes were very impressive for its time. Still kinda is today. It's more in depth than you'd think. The levels are pretty sandboxy with how they allow you to approach missions and it still holds up today. Deus Ex came out in that period of time where stealth games were popular, so there's a lot of emphasis on subterfuge mechanics.
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by JonChesterfield | 2025-09-26 06:28:43+00:00
I think this is a wrist geometry thing. A macbook dock that lifted the back, putting the keyboard on a slant, did serious damage to my wrists over the period of a year or so. That was the better part of a decade ago.

They've slowly partially healed since changing to a keyboard parallel to the desk surface. There are climbing moves I still cannot do because of it. Ymmv.
by bjornsing | 2025-09-26 06:28:55+00:00
I doubt it was due to network effects. I’m probably one of those top quartile potential H1-B holders that never applied. My main reason for not applying is that the random nature of the lottery reduces the RoI on finding a US job so much that it becomes rational to stay in Sweden and focus on local / remote consulting opportunities. As I understand it the way those Indian IT firms get around that is that they hire locally in India and send in applications for more staff than they want visas for. So they can get around the lottery dynamics through collective action, something I can’t do.