MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by pgedge_postgres | 2025-09-20 04:24:52+00:00
pgEdge came about from a pglogical foundation, actually! from one of our blogs:

> pgEdge emerged in late 2024 as a serverless distributed Postgres managed cloud service, delivering low latency and high availability in three minutes or less. The pgEdge Platform (for on-premises distributed PostgreSQL) as well as pgEdge Cloud (for deploying in the cloud) was largely inspired by the original capabilities of the pgLogical extension.

https://www.pgedge.com/blog/navigating-distributed-postgresq...
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-20 04:25:16+00:00
Forgot to mention that Denmark of TFA is today (culturally*, already) much more socialist than Sweden-- if you are open to that transient but indeed ontopic (state-driven) Nordisk connection

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania#Culture

would be considered uh unglamorous in Sweden
by darknavi | 2025-09-20 04:25:16+00:00
We've worked a lot on the Typescript/JavaScript APIs available for Bedrock so most content on Bedrock platforms (console, mobile, etc) is heavily script-based.

It will always be more limited that Java modding but is catching up in large areas of functionality.

Amazing seeing what people are making in Bedrock running on old Android phones, Switch, and company.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-09-20 04:26:14+00:00
You seem to be saying that what happened is fine because it never actually got to a truly unconstitutional or get-in-the-streets worthy level of censorship. You seem to be saying if they actually revoked the license, that would be the red line. But because they never did, no harm, no foul.

What we are saying is that just by making the threat, the censorship has full and complete effect. They don't need to revoke the license to use the power of the government to influence constitutionalally protected speech. They just need to threaten.
by vrmiguel | 2025-09-20 04:26:23+00:00
I find that Employers of Record (EoR) make this a non-issue.

I work for an American startup, remotely from S. America. I'm hired according to the (extensive, and expensive) local labor laws, while my startup likely knows absolutely nothing about the intricacies of how my countries' labor laws work, the EoR just handles everything and sends the employer a bill every month.
by thisisit | 2025-09-20 04:26:39+00:00
Consumerism and apathy is the main problem.

People just wanted cheap goods while not caring how the sausage was made. People didn't care to understand the long term damage just that today's needs should be served. Then companies learned that they can/need recruit 10x cheaper in other countries to make it cheaper that is what they did.

Now the apathy shoe is on the other foot. This government's action have ensured there cannot be any study to show impact of these rules in an impartial manner. Everything has to be for or against these rules. That means people don't care to understand the long term damage just that today's needs should be served.
by willemlaurentz | 2025-09-20 04:27:13+00:00
Just for folks reading this and being unfamiliar with Apple's options, here are some of their capabilities that sets them apart in a UX way:

AirPods: can simultainiously be paired with iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Mac. The switching between the audio you hear is fully automated and generally "just works" using sensors on both the AirPods and your 'source device'. e.g. listen to audio from your mac, but get a call? You can 'just pick it up' without any Bluetooth hassling or switching.

AirDrop: the hardware Wifi chips in your device actually gets configured in a peer to peer mode that enables (very) high capacity transfers. Think of pushing multiple gigabytes. It does not require any configuration, the devices can figure it out themselves if nearby and unlocked. It also works between Mac's, iPads and iPhones.

Find My: It's not just for devices, you can share your location with family and friends, with reasonable control over things like 'for how long'. You can set alerts for leaving or arriving a particular location (Apple informs both parties of such geofencing). It also integrates with the workout app or navigation app, e.g. keeping folks updated on the ETA.
by pgedge_postgres | 2025-09-20 04:27:13+00:00
We're a little different in that we're not just 100% open-source, but also 100% compatible with community PostgreSQL. see https://pgscorecard.com for comparisons between pgEdge and YugabyteDB, CockroachDB on that front.

More thoughts on why we feel that's important here: https://www.pgedge.com/blog/considering-distributed-postgres...

and the Buyer's Guide (https://www.pgedge.com/landing-pages/distributed-postgresql-...) referenced within does list more technical details and comparisons between us and YugabyteDB / CockroachDB.
by zuminator | 2025-09-20 04:27:33+00:00
> That's because actual malice IS rare. Corporations are not filled with evil people,

Corporations don't have to be filled with evil people for malice to be rampant. All it takes is for one person in a position of power or influence who is highly motivated to screw over other human beings to create a whole lot of malice. We can all think of examples of public officials or powerful individuals who have made it their business to spread misery to countless others. Give them a few like-minded deputies and the havoc they wreak can be incalculable.

As for Hitler, if we can't even agree that orchestrating and facilitating the death of millions of innocent people is malicious, then malice has no meaning.

C. S. Lewis has written a great many excellent things, but his quote there strikes me as self-satisfied sophistry. Ask people being carpet bombed or blockade and starved if they're grateful that at least their adversary isn't trying to help them.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-20 04:28:01+00:00
However the same website they describes the exceptions and limits:

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#JOUR...

> Hoaxes. The broadcast by a station of false information concerning a crime or catastrophe violates the FCC's rules if:

> The station licensee knew that the information was false

There quite a few other rules, obscenity and violence and such. But they probably got Jimmy on the crime that was just committed + spreading false information.
by jopsen | 2025-09-20 04:28:58+00:00
Underpaid or overpaid doesn't really matter.

Sure it's sound to argue that wages would be higher with more constraint supply.

BUT: The network effect of all SWE talent from across the globe moving to the US is also huge.

Probably, you'd have a smaller overall tax base without H1B. Make no mistake most countries would like to keep their H1B expats :)

If you really wanted to grow US supply of engineers, you'd have to start by fixing the education system, making it cheaper, and then wait 5 years.
by Animats | 2025-09-20 04:30:47+00:00
> They were men after all, not gods - as they warned later generations to remember.

Indeed.

A digression:

If you read the Federalist Papers, or the debates of the Constitutional Convention, you can get a sense of what they were trying to do, which was to come up with some form of government that would work reliably. They had a few specific things they wanted to avoid.

First was a king. They'd fought a war to get rid of a king, and didn't want that again. (Well, Hamilton wanted to be king, but few others agreed.)

They wanted a stronger central government than the Articles of Confederation the country was then running under. That was like the United Nations - a group of sovereign states that could only act as a group if everyone cooperated. It wasn't working too well, which was the reason for a constitutional convention.

They wanted to avoid anarchy. The French Revolution was about to happen, and the run-up to it wasn't looking good.[1]

Those were the design constraints. Most of the arguments were over how strong the executive branch should be vs. the legislative branch, and how strong the federal government should be vs. the state governments.

As working models, they had the state governments, where a governor and two houses was the usual pattern.

They ended up with a reasonably practical design. It's come unglued because Congress, which is supposed to be in charge, can't get its act together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_French_Revolut...
by yieldcrv | 2025-09-20 04:32:17+00:00
I think most commenters are missing that a local broadcaster monopoly used their own freedom of association to drop the show

The FCC and Trump merely dogpiled on this

For Disney, they need to court the broadcaster monopoly as a key stakeholder to their revenue, this is all private sector and not a constitutional issue

But when Disney is getting kicked and then an expensive fight with the government looms while their revenue is already threatened and would be expensive to resolve with the government , they buckled

Thats the calculus here

but because they buckled, now their customers are using their own freedom of association to disassociate, hampering Disney’s revenue more from that angle

Press F to Pay Respects
by AngryData | 2025-09-20 04:32:23+00:00
The US is large enough to have basically every material resource it could need. The problems comes from the cost/pollution of mining and refinement and the cleaner you are the more costlier it gets, and actually possessing the equipment, processing facilities, and experienced workforce to utilize those resources, which we have a huge lack of because we spent decades outsourcing most of that work. Again because doing it cleanly costs more money, and investors won't get as good of a return on their investment so outsource it.

Nobody invests in operations that only make a token profit when they could instead invest it overseas and earn a substantial profit.
by kldg | 2025-09-20 04:33:06+00:00
I picked up some 1GB Rock-2F boards while available in the US for ~$10/ea. Seems they aren't shipping the 1GB boards to the US anymore though. Before this, I had a couple Raspberry Pis; one I fried, and the other acted as a web server for a few years.

My realization in ordering the Rock-2Fs is I really only need an MMU (that is, an SBC instead of something like an ESP32) when I'm running something with a graphical desktop, which is, outside my workstation, never (except for kiosks, which I use Android tablets for). -OR when I want to plug something into a bloated SBC board which saves me from having to solder a connector on, which is sometimes.

I use one for running a timelapse camera (camera is USB) while another is a portable mp3 player I can put in shirt pocket and which has aux port (tho its aux line is noisy). -So that's two of the four Rock-2F boards in use.... but it took me far less time to think up uses and deploy 25/25 of seeedstudio's ESP32C3 boards I ordered a couple years ago, and have used ~5/25 of the ESP32C6s I ordered early this year. They're so cheap, and use so much less energy than ARM boards, that it's difficult to justify using the SBCs anymore.

I think they're asking $50 for a base 2GB Pi4B, now -- that's 10 ESP32C3 boards (with integrated WiFi and BMS, btw!) -- and the Pi5 is even less competitive except in what I'd characterize as a very unusual scenario where you need high compute at edge (where it's both needed AND the latency of computing at the edge is lower than sending it to central server for processing), OR you need the security of protected memory, OR you have no central server and an ESP32 isn't going to cut it (I'll say, though, that one can run a thermostat with multiple WiFi-connected thermometers, and run a web server interface just fine.).
by saddington | 2025-09-20 04:34:18+00:00
i know this is kind of morbid, but this is one of those "special interests" that i have... i am fascinated by death. i really think it's one of the more interesting topics of study.

eh, that's besides the point.

i've been talks with my dad for over a decade about death because he's a hospice chaplain and his job is in the "industry" of death. but, he's in service of it, helping individuals and families begin to process the event and start their healing process. the stories that they share with him as the time approaches are, well, spell-binding.

one that kept coming up though was this idea of "final messages" to loved ones or even instructions to friends about things they cared about, like social media accounts, pets, and even instructions for the funeral and more. there are an infinite number of reasons why a "death note" or final note makes more sense than sharing it while you're alive.

functionally, it's a "digital" dead man's switch, which isn't a new concept. to my count there are 20+ services that are doing similar things and i support those, not as competitors but as partners cause honestly, this shit isn't supposed to scale (60m ppl die a year, so, that's the "TAM" if you will. lol).

but the real inspiration was the death note anime series. if you haven't seen that then i'd recommend it. it forces you to wrestle with the boundaries of good and evil and the practical application of ethics in a world very much like our own. except for the shinigami (or maybe not).

the concept of writing someone's name down and them dying is the exact inverse of what this is but conceptually it's the same. a note with final instructions except in this case you're writing your own name down (was that even ever mentioned as a possibility in the anime? i don't think so...).

anyways, i've loved building it with some friends. it's a side project that would be fun to become a full-time project but there's no rush. i just thought i'd share as i wait for something to compile.

love thoughts, suggestions on how to make it better, and whatever.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-09-20 04:34:22+00:00
I don't know, but when I was playing with finite difference code as an undergrad in Physics, all of the docs I could find (it was a while ago, though) assumed that I was going to use MPI to run a distributed workload across the university's supercomputer. My needs were less, so I just ran my Boost.Thread code on the four cores of one node.

What if you had a single server with a zillion cores in it? Maybe you could take some 15 year old MPI code and run it locally -- it'd be like a mini supercomputer with an impossibly fast network.
by nout | 2025-09-20 04:35:31+00:00
If you have a preference for this style of definition, then we could say that

Nostr is a protocol that's well suited for creating decentralized applications that need publicly verifiable identity, censorship resistance and event based communication.

For example, https://zapstore.dev/app is an Android AppStore that uses nostr to provide a decentralized way to verify the developers and remove "fake" apps.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-09-20 04:36:03+00:00
Is it not much simpler to parallelize by having different "readers" (using the same model parameters/weights) process different parts of the corpus in parallel? reader A is reading book A, while reader B is reading book B etc...?

Is there a deeper reason why more complicated parallelization as in the OP or the article it references is more desirable?
by jopsen | 2025-09-20 04:36:33+00:00
Sure, but if the local market is that high you probably have sever supply constraints.

If you don't fix the supply constraints, you'll depress growth.

You could fix the education system - good luck - and then wait 5 years before you cut H1B.

But yes, obviously it depressed wages, which at a certain point is probably a good thing.
by andirk | 2025-09-20 04:37:48+00:00
Couple jobs ago they set a list of action items for everyone to follow to help productivity or whatever. One was stand at standups. I followed all the items to a T, including standing when everyone went back to sitting. I led new initiatives. I got more work done than my equal engineers. When the axe came, it was me who was let go first. The lesson I refuse to learn: stay in line, don't stand out.
by 1gn15 | 2025-09-20 04:38:33+00:00
Nostr has a better UX than ActivityPub IMO, for the basic reason that you do not need to learn how to self-host a server or depend on an unaccountable admin that might shut down the server at any time. In Nostr, you just create an account and go!

The big issue is the lack of content, but that's a social problem, not a UX problem.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-20 04:40:01+00:00
Trump won't be able to stop Swedish/Danish/Polish/Estonian/Finnish militaries from defending EU soil from these kinds of intrusions. Whether putin has or does not have a hold over Trump is no longer relevant I think, US politics is so far down the toilet I don't think anybody here realistically believes that things will get better on their own, we're all just hoping that the US as a nation survives. For all our sake I hope it does too but it looks pretty grim.
by moondev | 2025-09-20 04:40:46+00:00
In the newest android there is now an option to enable a "Linux development environment" AKA crostini for Android.

It works the same way, there is a Linux terminal application that runs Debian inside a VM. They recently added a button to launch a display window. This then functions as your "monitor" and applications you launch that provide a GUI display there.

Still experimenting with it not clear if you can launch android inside that with waydroid or similar
by 1gn15 | 2025-09-20 04:41:35+00:00
A few differences: you don't need to learn how to self-host (this is why centralized services became so popular in the first place), it's two-way communication, and the point about relays is that as long as just one allows you to publish (which is very likely, and even if there's none, you can host one yourself), you can publish.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-20 04:42:19+00:00
A recent (July 2025) winning bid was $US51.59/kWh.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/watershed-moment-big-battery-sto...

> The latest auction in China offered 25 gigawatt hours of capacity for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries over a range of storage periods – 1 hour, 2 hour and 4 hours – and the results (the first time they have been broken down on storage duration) have stunned even seasoned onlookers. The knockout price was a bid of $US51.59/kWh for a four hour battery (the average was $US59/kWh), which Energy Storage News says represents a 30 per cent drop from 2024 levels, and others side was a 15 per cent fall from recent record lows.

It would be exciting if the price continues to decline 15-30 percent per year. Unsure if that’s sustainable at current manufacturing and learning rates, but exciting.
by staplung | 2025-09-20 04:43:20+00:00
For be it for me to knock what seems to be a successful idea but at a certain point, putting so many telescopes into the same place starts to seem a bit odd in that many of them are presumably pointing at the same things at the same time. This given the fact that there are 110 Messier objects and perhaps a dozen other things (planets mostly) that would be of much interest to astrophotographers.

Might be more efficient to get a large group to go in on bigger telescopes 'til you have enough of them that no matter what single thing you want to photograph, there'll be something pointed that way that's bigger than what you could afford on your own. Astrophotography isn't really about that of course but at a certain point this doesn't seem too different than reprocessing data from an observatory.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-09-20 04:44:54+00:00
FT was a rehash of a 1963 US hotel comedy featuring Jonathan Harris (Lost In Space), Don Adams (Get Smart), and a spanish-speaking bellhop. (which used the lines "Oh, the pain" and "Missed it by that much")

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I-jtYPHftfY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bill_Dana_Show
by mikewarot | 2025-09-20 04:48:34+00:00
It's obvious to me that the problem with H-1B visas is the same as that of undocumented workers, in that we've created a second class of people who are trapped in a system seemingly created specifically to exploit them, while simultaneously making things worse for the rest of us.

It's my opinion that anyone already here should have a path towards citizenship, or legal permanent residence. The exploitation of people needs to end, and the dignity of everyone in this country should be respected.

Of course we need to have rules, and borders that are secure. It's unreasonable to want to abolish them or close them completely.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-09-20 04:48:44+00:00
> Anyone can say anything.

This is illegal: "Nice business you've got here," the police officer says. "Shame that crime is on the rise. And we don't have as many officers to patrol. But give a donation and we'll take care of you. Don't and we'll stop answering your 911 calls."

Now replace with "We heard what you said about the mayor. Apologize or we'll stop answering your 911 calls."
by alephnerd | 2025-09-20 04:48:47+00:00
That's what's steadily happening, and why the pipeline crisis in cybersecurity and other segments of the tech industry is arising in the US.

The US system only worked because the US had the right mix of openness to domestic and foreign capital and talent.

A lot of people on HN and in our industry in the US need to recognize that they are competing in a global market, and need to upskill accordingly.

Just having a CS degree and knowing Leetcode isn't enough, and I'm not going to pay $150k base for an MLE who only knows how to use PyTorch wrappers and basic math, but little-to-no CUDA or Infiniband background, or for a new grad SWE to work on a CNAPP if they don't understand how eBPF and LSMs work.

And no, it is not our responsibility as businesses to incubate that talent if American admins are not helping us (though I shouted myself hoarse about this when I used to be in that space). Everything has become hyper-politicized in the US now, and that is not the kind of environment any business can operate in.