MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HankStallone | 2025-09-12 16:24:21+00:00
I was listening to a book-review podcast that was talking about one of Ernest Cline's books. They were on a section where the 17-year-old protagonist is remarking on how his personality probably reflects his dad's interest in something or other, and one of the hosts laughed and said no 17-year-old does that kind of self-analysis. I immediately said, "Au contraire, maybe you didn't, but plenty of them do." I certainly did.

There may be something about the kind of mind that's drawn to tech that correlates with navel-gazing. We like to know how things work, and that doesn't necessarily only apply to computers and gadgets.

Of course, that only explains why we think about it; not why so many of us write about it like we think other people need to hear it. That probably comes down to being smarter than average and thinking you've got everything figured out by the age of 15, also a common trait of tech people. Fortunately some of us manage to outgrow it and be embarrassed by what know-it-alls we were.
by hackingonempty | 2025-09-12 16:24:42+00:00
I did this, wrote an Essence-prime program to generate Minion solver code for a simple instance of the knapsack problem, as part of a startups "solve one of these and get an interview" challenges. Because I had used those tools recently for a contract job (and wrote/presented a paper on invitation of the solver authors,) I thought it would be fun and didn't really want the job. Got an interview but every dev was like "why did you use a cannon to swat a fly?" and were clearly concerned that without strict supervision I would create baroque towers of garbage for them to clean up.
by catoAppreciator | 2025-09-12 16:24:43+00:00
Zero discussion of the 3:1 premium limit in the ACA. The ACA mandates that you can only charge older people 3x the premium you charge younger people. Older people account for an extremely outsized portion of healthcare services received. This means that no matter how little healthcare you need as a healthy young person, you have to pay 33% of the estimated cost of care for someone who is end-of-life and possibly consuming hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more) worth of medical care.
by giobox | 2025-09-12 16:24:45+00:00
> It wasn't popular outside of college until 2015.

This just doesn't hold up - FB ended Q1 2014 with ~1.3bn MAUs. I don't know when I would argue FB exploded beyond colleges but by 2014 it had already happened, long before.

> Facebook was still called The Facebook in 2013 when we were on our 3rd phones.

Facebook dropped the "The" and became "Facebook" in 2005.

I'm prepared to accept an argument that social media has contributed, but these dates don't make any sense.
by diggan | 2025-09-12 16:24:58+00:00
> You must be joking.

You must be joking, are you still not using a password manager at all?

When you create the username+password combo you either do it yourself, then put in the password manager the domain, or you use whatever the password manager infers at the registration page, then that's basically it, for most sites. Then 1% of the websites insist to use signin.example.com for login and signup.example.com for signup, so you add both domains to your password manager, or example.com.

Now whenever you login, you either see a list of accounts (means you're on the right domain) or you don't (which means the domain isn't correct). And before people whine about "autofill doesn't always work", it doesn't matter, the list should (also) show up from the extension modal/popup, so even if autofill doesn't work for that website, you'd be protected, since the list of accounts are empty for wrong domains.

It's really easy, and migrating to a password manager just sucks the first couple of days, every day after that you'd be happy you finally did it.
by burntsushi | 2025-09-12 16:25:54+00:00
My bluesky post was the one quoted in the OP.

I do think it was a decent attempt. A phishing attempt making it past gmail's spam filter is somewhat rare for me. Certainly less than weekly. And something this targeted is definitely a ~yearly occurrence (or less).

The major tip-offs for me were:

1. It was weird to be getting this from the Rust Foundation. The phishers likely don't understand Rust's governance structure. It's a common misconception shared by outsiders.

2. If a security incident like this would have occurred, there would have 100% been some kind of public communication about it on the rust-lang.org domain. I get notified whenever there's a new post there. So I knew this wasn't referencing a real event.

3. I also knew that crates.io doesn't manage authentication. It farms that out to GitHub. So the crates.io people wouldn't be communicating to me about my GitHub credentials being compromised. It didn't make sense.

And then finally, the URL is funny.

The somewhat scary part here though is that all of my points above come from being pretty dialed into the Rust organization and how things actually work.

But yeah, as a general rule of thumb, I always question any email asking me to log into something that wasn't just activated by me (like a "forgot my password" flow or something).

Finally, when I worked at Salesforce, the IT team there would occasionally send out fake phishing emails and ask you to report them to the team. I never fell for one, but I assume if I had, I would have been notified about it. I thought it was a very effective campaign because it always kept me on my toes.
by xenocratus | 2025-09-12 16:26:55+00:00
> If someone solves a leetcode hard with a constraint solver and you don't hire them, you are an idiot.

I do hope you're exagerating here, but in case you aren't: this is an extremely simplistic view of what (software) engineers have to do, and thus what hiring managers should optimize for. I'd put "ability to work in a team" above "raw academic/reasoning ability" for the vast majority of engineering roles, any day.

Not that the latter doesn't matter, of course, but it's by no means the one and only measure.
by AnneHunte | 2025-09-12 16:27:03+00:00
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by GaggiX | 2025-09-12 16:27:13+00:00
>to today's subsidized pricing, which they can't keep up forever.

The APIs are not subsidized, they probably have quite the large margin actually: https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep/

>Why would you pay OpenAI when you can host your own hyper efficient Chinese model

The 48GB of VRAM or unified memory required to run this model at 4bits is not free either.
by iCeGaming | 2025-09-12 16:27:37+00:00
Totally agree. Doctors won’t leave their EHR systems or install new software.

That’s why Cloud Patient is entirely web based. No installs, no setup, just a browser. Even if doctors never touch it, patients can still submit their records, when/if they have them.

If a doctor wants to add a note and upload a test result, it takes seconds. The goal is to keep it so simple that using it feels effortless.
by philipallstar | 2025-09-12 16:27:39+00:00
> The disadvantages are equally apparent. It alters the core driving logic learned from the beginning – "press the accelerator to accelerate and press the brake to decelerate." When applied to the crucial acceleration and deceleration control of a vehicle, the associated safety risks are considerable.

Well, in most vehicles if you take your foot off the accelerator you start to decelerate. It would be good if strong deceleration lit the brake lights, I agree, but that's a separate issue.
by gbin | 2025-09-12 16:28:13+00:00
I am not sure because this assumes a very well informed and educated population.

Think about this one, start a populist stupid referendum like: "Should the gov give you $10M?", I could bet it will end up at 90% yes and the entire country ends up in ruins. So democracy is good but you need some sort of trust in the middle. With this backward law, the trust is eroding.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-09-12 16:28:20+00:00
See in another branch. However, regarding this:

> There are three to four orders of magnitude of difference in how inflammatory each side is.

Not really.

One can only agree with this statement if he considers that calling Trump and his supporters Nazis, fascists, racists, etc, is not an inflammatory rhetoric, but a totally acceptable objective truth that just truthfully describes them. (Btw, do Nazis deserve to be shot on sight?)

However, if one doesn't consider this an objective truth, but a violent dehumanizing rhetorics, then suddenly he finds that one side routinely smears the other in the worst ways possible, and that the total amount of such rhetoric vastly drowns the messaging from another side.

> You are wagging your finger and scream "Here’s a monster!" but what you are looking at is a mirror.

That's a nice straw man you made. Please, refrain from messaging me again, if you don't plan to argue in good faith.
by BlackjackCF | 2025-09-12 16:28:56+00:00
This is the way.

I’ve been going to the gym regularly now for over a decade.

I have many days where I don’t want to go because I have no motivation. I tell myself I only have to put on my gym clothes and go through the motions. If I hate it after 10 minutes I can go home. I always end up there for at least 40 minutes this way because by the time you’re at the gym with your shorts on, it’s very much like “well… I’m already here…” It might not be the greatest workout, but consistency of just showing up is the key.
by yostrovs | 2025-09-12 16:28:58+00:00
Armed intruders can demand something one minute and something else the next. They may be mentally deranged, they may be sexually devious, there's a good chance they don't have a lot of moral limitations. The issue is not material things. That there's an optimal approach to dealing with them, when you're unarmed, is just not true. You must do what seems best given the situation.
by conductr | 2025-09-12 16:29:02+00:00
iPhones weren't ubiquitous for at least a few years after the initial release. Parents of teens and younger weren't the first adopters but it came on relatively quickly. The Social Network movie came out in 2010 which Facebook had already opened up to general public in 2006. Also was 2006 that News Feed was released and introduced the concept of doom scrolling and constantly checking into things. Respectfully, if you did not experience it's popularity until ~2015 I do not think you are representative of the overall trends; they hit a billion users in 2012 and that certainly wasn't just college students.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-12 16:29:02+00:00
One of the worst, my SO approved "notifications" on some website.. and was getting viral alert notifications via that system. It looks like a typical tray notification in windows, and other than it's got a chrome header, it would be pretty easy to fall for. And this is why, before they passed, one of my Grandmothers was on Linux, and my other was on a Chromebook... no cleaning off random Windows malware twice a year.
by gambiting | 2025-09-12 16:29:18+00:00
>>You could argue that the entirety of Europe declaring war on itself over the death of one royal (and not even a reigning monarch; an heir-apparent) is such an example

I mean that was just an excuse, in hindsight it's completely obvious that Europe was gearing up for war for years prior to the event. Just like now it seems completely possible that we might end up in a war or even civil war in some countries over a (seemingly) minor event - it's just going to be a spark that sets off the powder keg.
by Pannoniae | 2025-09-12 16:29:22+00:00
Yeah, and we can actually afford to do it nowadays. I'm currently making a game with very retro graphics (think Minecraft-level pixelated stuff)

Sure, the textures themselves aren't too high fidelity, but since the pixel shader is so simple, it's quite feasible to do tricks which would be impossible even ten years ago. I can run the game even with 8x SSAA (that means 8x8=64 samples per pixel) and almost ground truth, 128x anisotropic filtering.

There's practically zero temporal aliasing and zero spatial aliasing.[0] Now of course, some people don't like the lack of aliasing too much - probably conditioning because of all the badly running, soulless releases - but I think that this direction is the future of gaming. Less photorealism, more intentional graphics design and crisp rendering.

(edit: swapped the URL because imgur was compressing the image to shit)

[0] https://files.catbox.moe/46ih7b.png
by revx | 2025-09-12 16:29:35+00:00
""" Microscopic invaders were more of the threat nowadays. Just to name one example, there was Red Death, a.k.a. the Seven Minute Special, a tiny aerodynamic capsule that burst open after impact and released a thousand or so corpuscle-size bodies, known colloquially as cookie-cutters, into the victim's bloodstream. [...]

Such inventions had spawned concern that people from Phyle A might surreptitiously introduce a few million lethal devices into the bodies of members of Phyle B, providing the technically sweetest possible twist on the trite, ancient dream of being able instantly to turn a whole society into gravy. [...]

What worked in the body could work elsewhere, which is why phyles had their own immune systems now. The impregnable-shield paradigm didn't work at the nano level; one needed to hack the mean free path. A well-defended clave was surrounded by an aerial buffer zone infested with immunocules—microscopic aerostats designed to seek and destroy invaders. [...]

It was always foggy in the Leased Territories, because all of the immunocules in the air served as nuclei for the condensation of water vapor. If you stared carefully into the fog and focused on a point inches in front of your nose, you could see it sparkling, like so many microscopic searchlights, as the immunocules swept space with lidar beams. [...] The sparkling of tiny lights was the evidence of microscopic dreadnoughts hunting each other implacably through the fog, like U-boats and destroyers in the black water of the North Atlantic. """

Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
by valorzard | 2025-09-12 16:31:11+00:00
Ada is something I've always wanted to get into (it interests me that there's a low level programming language that came around at the same time as C but just never took off)

Ada has a bunch of features built into it already, including concurrency support with tasks [0]

I just haven't found the right motivation to figure out what to do with it yet. Maybe I could play around with the Raylib bindings [1] at some point?

There's also the SDL bindings, which a LOT of work has seemingly gone into [2]

[0] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/task...

[1] https://blog.adacore.com/ada-gamedev-part-3-enjoy-video-game...

[2] https://github.com/ada-game-framework/sdlada
by itissid | 2025-09-12 16:31:31+00:00
Long time ago, just for fun, I wrote a constraint solver problem that could figure out which high yield banks to put money into that were recommended on doctor of credit(https://www.doctorofcredit.com/high-interest-savings-to-get/) based on <= `X` money and <= `Y` # of transactions on debit cards maximize the yield and other constraints(boolean and real valued)

I played it for a while when interest rates were really low and used the thing for my own rainy day savings(I did get tired changing accounts all the time)
by koakuma-chan | 2025-09-12 16:32:02+00:00
Yeah one time there was maintenance in the subway and they ran substitute buses, and it was also a super rainy day, and I got into the bus, sat down, looked to my right and there was a guy sleeping on the back seat, but you couldn't see him unless you were actually up close, so people kept coming up trying to sit, but then they saw (and smelled) the guy sleeping there and made funny faces lol.
by vbezhenar | 2025-09-12 16:32:36+00:00
I'm living in a third-world country and I think this is madness. It's unimaginable here, to be afraid of "methheads" so much and giving up on your own property. I never saw "methhead" in my life, but I sure would do my best to protect my valuable property. May be I need to work more to buy a car, compared to average Canadian, I don't know.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-12 16:32:38+00:00
Some of the drones that entered Poland the other day were made from styrofoam. The cost to intercept probably need to go close to 100$ because the drones that attack are going super cheap.

In Ukraine both sides don't even use anything exotic or high precision, the engines they use don't need to work for more than a few hours so the current ones are probably an overkill as they use hobbyist jet engines etc.

I have a feeling that these things can be scaled to mind blowing proportions. Engines are just bent metal, electronics are printed. Sure, these require advanced machining but they don't look much more complicated than crazy cheap devices that are sold for the price of a burger on TEMU or Alibaba.

If they optimize those things, it feels like they should be able to achieve continuous delivery like on strategy games where you pump units just as fast as they are destroyed.

Thousands of drones just sounds wrong. It should be something like 1000s a day, maybe an hour.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-09-12 16:33:07+00:00
> the btrfs devs are also famous for being unresponsive to these sorts

No, Kent, they are not. Posting attacks like this without evidence is cowardly and dishonest. I'm not going to tolerate these screeds from you about people I've worked with and respect without calling you out.

Every time you spew this toxicity, a chunk of bcachefs users reformat and walk away. Very soon, you'll have none left.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-12 16:33:12+00:00
It's not that I ignore the responsibility of advertising companies. It's just that I take for granted that they are bad. They are an adversarial actor, and they aren't accountable to me. My governments (including the EU) are.

If your government passes some badly-designed regulations that cause a rat infestation, you can be as angry at the rats as you want, but that won't be very useful. If you want things to actually change, it's the government you need to complain against, not the rats.
by tiagorosadacost | 2025-09-12 16:34:20+00:00
Hi everyone!

I’m here today to show you the golang module named consumer-pgmq-go I created. The module took the responsibility of polling the messages and passing the messages to a handler function to process.

Why I created it?

Recently I discovered a feature queue on Supabase where I can implement a messaging queue using Postgresql database.

Spoiler if you have a Postgresql running out of Supabase you can use the queue feature too, you need only install the extension named pgmq. Link of instructions: https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq

But I noticed something missing on my opinion I didn’t find a solution to make the polling from the message and passing to a function I defined to execute something, so as result of it I created the module named consumer-pgmq-go where integrate with Supabase and Postgresql

What did I learn or review?

- Github actions + semantic-release to generate tags and simplify the process to create a release.

- Goroutine to distribute the demand between the goroutines

- Channel to allow to send the messages from main process to goroutines to process a message using the handler(function contains the consumer code logic)

- Use context to define timeout to handle a message.

Link of Github repository: https://github.com/tiago123456789/consumer-pgmq-go

#go #golang #supabase #queue #postgres
by diggan | 2025-09-12 16:34:29+00:00
> That's an exceptionally well crafted phishing email and landing page

I dunno, same was said about the npm email, but I think this one is even worse.

First off, crates.io doesn't even do their own authentication, it's GitHub auth all the way. So that smells incredibly funny immediately. What information would even be compromised here, the GitHub profile's email?

Secondly, why would the Rust foundation alert about this before the Crates/Cargo group does? It seems to come from the wrong people, but fair enough, most people don't have knowledge the Rust organizations I'm guessing.

Thirdly, if there truly was an security issue with crates, I'd expect that to be plastered all over the internet, not the very least official Rust website and crates.io, immediately. They wouldn't wait and reach out to authors first, then publicly announce it. Would be my guess at least.

In the end, a tired and/or stressed person could miss all of those things, which happens sometimes with phishing. We're all human after all, shit goes through the cracks sometimes, even to the best of us.

That's why it's really important that people stop trying to fight phishing by manually preventing it by processes, or going to the website instead of clicking links and so on. Just get a password manager that can connects domains with credentials, then when the list of accounts don't show up when you expect it to, pay close attention to what's going on. Otherwise you can just move forward without much thinking.
by kragen | 2025-09-12 16:34:37+00:00
This has barely more information, but enough to establish an order of magnitude:

> The drone developed under Project OCTOPUS was designed by Ukraine with support from UK scientists and technicians and has already proved successful on the battlefield, proving highly effective against the Shahed one-way attack drone variants used by Russia – despite costing less than 10% to produce than the drones they are designed to intercept.

What does a Shahed cost? https://www.twz.com/news-features/what-does-a-shahed-136-rea... says about US$50k, so they're saying that the Octopus drones cost on the order of US$5k, and "thousands" of them costs on the order of US$10M. So this is a single-digit percentage of Ukraine's yearly drone budget: not insignificant, but far from game-changing.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-09-12 16:34:59+00:00
> it’s also disingenuous to act like trump is not the most inflammatory and devisive leader America has had in modern history.

I'm not from the US, and do not have a horse in this fight, but I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of people in the US who believe that the most inflammatory and divisive leader America had in modern history was Obama. The main difference between Trump and Obama is that Trump is teared apart by the media, while Obama was cuddled by it.

(btw, speaking from my non-US experience, when a leader is cuddled by the press, it is a bad sign, not a good one)
by ManBeardPc | 2025-09-12 16:35:48+00:00
Maybe on the condition that the law was struck down by courts. Otherwise it would block iterations on any controversial topics that need time to reach consensus.

Some others here asked how would we decide what is the same law. That’s pretty easy: same as with many other not so clear things, if some sues a judge/jury hears both sides and makes a decision.
by bilekas | 2025-09-12 16:35:51+00:00
I just recently picked up a 32 inch curved 1440p screen and it's awful, for that size I should have realized I needed a 4k. Text is horribly pixelated and when looking dead on it feels like the aspect ratio is closer to 4:3 or something. Coming from an ultra wide 1440p I'm really disappointed.