MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-09-26 02:08:54+00:00
They're wacky because people want to live in a wacky world of cults and Satan and aliens and ciphers and wheels within wheels, where at least something is in control and there is an order to reality, however obscure and evil, as opposed to a world of chaos and mundane grasping evil where there is no purpose beyond rich bastards getting richer.
Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
by alex77456 | 2025-09-26 02:09:47+00:00
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-digital-id-scheme-to-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwydl81dg13t

https://www.theverge.com/news/786323/uk-digital-id-plans-man...
by array_key_first | 2025-09-26 02:12:49+00:00
I think the reality is that as technology advanced for weapons, so too does it for information.

What I mean is, if we have super bombs or whatever, we would also certainly have unbreakable encryption. I mean, we have unbreakable encryption now basically.

So we're back to square one - terrorists terror, civilians are oppressed.

Also, if such weapons DO exist, the first people to use them would be government. Of which you cannot organize against, because you let them break your communications.
by nh2 | 2025-09-26 02:13:04+00:00
I'm still not sure which exact Ceph concept you are referring to. Thre is the "minimum allocation size" [1], but that is currently 4 KB (not MB).

There is also striping [2], which is the equivalent of RAID-10 functionality to split a large file into independent segments that can be written in parallel. Perhaps you are referring to RGW's default stripe size of 4 MB [3]?

If yes, I can understand your point about one 4 MB RADOS object being erasure-coded to e.g. 6 = 4+2 "parity chunks", making it < 1 MB writes that are not efficient on HDDs.

But would you not simply raise `rgw_obj_stripe_size` to address that, according to the k you choose? E.g. 24 MB? You mention it can be changed, but I don't understand the "but still the tuning is based on the size of the block to be coded" part, (why) is that a problem?

Also, how else would you do it when designing EC writes?

Thanks!

[1]: https://docs.ceph.com/en/squid/rados/configuration/bluestore...

[2]: https://docs.ceph.com/en/squid/architecture/#data-striping

[3]: https://docs.ceph.com/en/squid/radosgw/config-ref/#confval-r...
by o11c | 2025-09-26 02:13:36+00:00
Obviously it depends on how many live variables there are at any point. A lot of nasty loops have relatively few non-memory operands involved, especially without inlining (though even without inlining, the ability to control ABI-mandated spills better will help).

But it's guaranteed to use `r8` and `r9` for for a function that takes 5 and 6 integer arguments (including unpacked 128-bit structs as 2 arguments), or 3 and 4 arguments (not sure about unpacking) for Microsoft. And `r10` is used if you make a system call on Linux.
by chasil | 2025-09-26 02:13:44+00:00
I have heard that the Alpha architecture maintainers said that their options for improvements were limited, and themselves advocated ending development.

What I also know is that DEC chose ARM for low-power applications, because the design of the Alpha was simply not capable of scaling to lower power usage.

"According to Allen Baum, the StrongARM traces its history to attempts to make a low-power version of the DEC Alpha, which DEC's engineers quickly concluded was not possible."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM

Power efficiency was soon to become a chief concern. This alone would have ended the Alpha.
by thordenmark | 2025-09-26 02:14:28+00:00
The comments here are crazy. Excuse me if I don't find Wired and a bunch of disgruntled ex-fed employees to be a credible unbiased source. The US Govt is so clearly bloated and inefficient it had to be trimmed and optimized. At least some here recognize that cuts in the 90's also worked. And I'm old enough to remember people crying bloody murder then too. People hate to be pulled off government's gravy train.
by mchiang | 2025-09-26 02:14:55+00:00
We have relationships with many providers and I don't want to be seen as promoting or not promoting a specific provider. Some decent privacy-preserving vendors - Brave, Exa, Parallel Web Systems, DuckDuckGo etc

We will continue to monitor what's good to improve the output quality and results. Sometimes it could be the combination of providers to yield even better results. If I say one combination right now, and realize another combination is better, and make changes, I wouldn't need to broadcast it each time or risk misrepresenting the feature, which is to have amazing search and research capabilities that can augment models for a superior output.
by bobbiechen | 2025-09-26 02:15:15+00:00
(creator here) I thought it would at least be easy to transcribe screenshots of just text, which were a common part of the dataset. These are harder to misinterpret so I figured automated alt text would be a win.

But I found that even that was not easy to do with "traditional" OCR, notes here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/image-transcription-humbled-me
by AndrewDavis | 2025-09-26 02:15:17+00:00
I can only speculate, but maybe they're referring to the same thing Andrew Morton meant when he described ZFS as a rampant layering violation.

ie ZFS isn't just a file system. It's a volume manager, raid and file system rolled into one holistic system vs for example LVM + MD + ext4.

And (again I'm only speculating) in their micro kernel design want to have individual components running separately to layer together a complete solution.
by markus_zhang | 2025-09-26 02:15:34+00:00
Yeah you definitely have to be a patrician to be the Emperor. But you gotta remove many other patricians too.

My thought is, the US reached the peak of all Empires. It is Pax Americana, and every empire imploded whenever it stopped expanding. We had some pretty good time in the late 1800s and better time back in 1945 and 1990. There were struggles but we always managed to plow through because there were spaces to expand, and the elites back then, TBF, were better than this batch (I was reading Baltzell's books a while ago). But the good time was over, and there is not much space to expand, so the "safer" way is to reform -- but we rarely saw this happen, e.g. both Brother Gracchus were killed by the Senate -- and eventually Caesar came up and swept the floor, and I have no faith in this batch of elites.
by ckemere | 2025-09-26 02:17:48+00:00
There are multiple generations of folks who've been trained to believe that Ronald Reagan was delivering divine wisdom when he said "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem" / "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

I know many folks that don't have any animus to individual people. They just have been brainwashed since early childhood...
by etchalon | 2025-09-26 02:17:59+00:00
I have had many such conversations (Texas is a fun state) and while many don't consider themselves bigoted, their policy preferences amount to, essentially, "but I'd rather we not treat people equally."

They don't "hate gay people". (They have gay friends!) But they don't think gay people should be able to marry or adopt children. Sometimes Leviticus comes up.

They don't "hate Black people" (They have black co-workers!). They just think the disparities in the justice, education and financial systems are all Black people's own fault.

They don't "hate immigrants" (They love Mexico!), they just think they're not assimilating, taking American jobs and draining tax payer resources.

Trans people seem to be the only group they'll outright admit to hating.

Oh, and Democrats. They really hate Democrats.

As I said, Texas is fun.
by neverkn0wsb357 | 2025-09-26 02:18:22+00:00
I’ve been there highly recommend; check out the gardens he has what I can only describe as psychedelic elephant statues in the gardens that are pretty wild.

You’re walking down a path, and out of the corner of your eye within view down a row in the foliage, kind of visible will be a surreal looking elephant-thing will appear tall as can be.

Really really cool.
by nickm12 | 2025-09-26 02:19:08+00:00
I've used a lot of social networking systems over the years based on a lot of technologies. I deeply understand the nostalgia for blogs and RSS—I had a blog for many years and have used an RSS reader continuously since probably 2002. I still enjoy reading blogs to this day.

The problem with blogs, though, is that there is no great solution to limit the visibility to certain audiences. It really limits the types of things you can share. At least with Facebook, you can limit posts to your friends or groups of friends. But even that is not really practical—it's too much effort to have every person curate every other person they know into groups for access control (Remember "circles" on Google Plus? It didn't work).

I think the right model is to allow distributed communities to form organically and then use those communities for sharing permissions. By "distributed communities" I'm thinking of things like email lists, Discord servers, phpbb forums—communities where membership is symmetric and there is a shared sense of who is in the community. Blogs don't have anything like that.
Ask HN-(Remote Full-Stack Roles)Engineer Who Ships – From Idea → Production
by Parbhat-Kapila | 2025-09-26 02:19:15+00:00
I'm an Engineer with a track record of turning ideas into production-ready tools. Over the past year, I've architected and launched multiple developer tools from concept to production, focusing on solving real pain points in the development workflow. Recent projects/products I've built:

- Vector Mail: An enterprise-grade, privacy-first email system engineered for speed, scalability, and security.

- Repo Docs: A developer-first platform that transforms codebases into living, auto-updating documentation.

- Visura: A high-performance data visualization suite delivering instant, actionable insights.

Tech stack:

- Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS

- Backend: Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

- DevOps: Docker, AWS/Vercel, GitHub Actions, CI/CD

- Currently exploring: PyTorch, LangChain, and building RAG applications

What I bring:

- Self-directed learner who can own features end-to-end

- Experience across the entire product lifecycle from ideation to deployment

- Strong focus on developer experience and clean, maintainable code

- Remote-first mindset with excellent async communication skills

Seeking a remote full-stack role where I can contribute to products that developers love. Excited about startups where I can wear multiple hats and grow with the team.

Email: parbhatkapila4@gmail.com

Portfolio: www.parbhat.dev
by Jon_Lowtek | 2025-09-26 02:19:18+00:00
Consultation documents and published feedback: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...

The documents link the DMA page on the EC website: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/consultation-first-...

Interestingly there is no published filing by Apple, yet, and the consultation is closed for two days. Maybe they filed late and publishing the feedback takes time, due to the EC reading it before putting it on their website. Or quite possibly Apple did not actually file anything as part of the official process and is instead publishing their opinion on their blog.
by throwaway0223 | 2025-09-26 02:22:21+00:00
It's interesting to see the number of folks apparently in favor of DMA and the strict regulatory environment in EU. Genuinely curious: what is the concrete benefit for users (and does it offset the negatives)? And does this foster a healthy and thriving environment for innovation?

In my liberal view it sounds awful for users and entrepreneurs alike. Wondering what are the arguments in favor (other than "apple/google = bad").

E.g.

Consider the DMA’s impact on Europe’s tourism industry. The DMA requires Google Search to stop showing useful travel results that link directly to airline and hotel sites, and instead show links to intermediary websites that charge for inclusion. This raises prices for consumers, reduces traffic to businesses, and makes it harder for people to quickly find reliable, direct booking information.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-26 02:23:25+00:00
It's crazy talk. Who's got the time to standardize messaging and data for WWAN modems on mobile devices? It's not like any operating systems ever implemented userland emulation of Android or iOS APIs and delivered a roughly identical experience to customers. Way too unrealistic, we're talking about space age technology here.

We should be happy that Google and Apple don't charge us more for all their hard work. If they leave there are no other phone manufacturers in the world, Europe would simply return to the dark ages.
by 1gn15 | 2025-09-26 02:23:26+00:00
Ah, I see their end goal here. You can either use a full browser to download data from websites (which is what most people will still do), but they provide a temptation to just pay CloudFlare to bypass their Turnstile (which corporations might go for, then they'll probably try to expand this to the average person too).

Basically, "pay to bypass our CAPTCHA!".
by kjs3 | 2025-09-26 02:24:05+00:00
I dunno if you meant it this way, but I've heard waaaay too many people say things like this meaning "if Intel compiler guys didn't suck...". They didn't, and don't (Intel C and Fortran compilers are to this day excellent). The simple fact is noone has proven yet that anyone can write compilers good enough to give VLIW overwhelmingly compelling performance outside of niche uses (DSPs, for example). I remember the Multiflow and Cydrome guys giving the same "it's the compiler, stupid" spiel in the mid-80s, and the story hasn't changed much except the details. We bought a Multiflow Trace...it was really nice, for certain problems, but not order-of-magnatude-faster, change-the-world nice, which was how it was sold.

Now, to be clear, a lot of these folks and their ideas moved the state-of-the-art in compilers massively ahead, and are a big reason compilers are so good now. Really, really smart people worked this problem.
by ggm | 2025-09-26 02:26:06+00:00
They're not wrong on the problem side but I think we depart on the solutions side. I'd be aiming for Swedish maternity/paternity leave models, and Dutch "five kids is a kindy up the street" levels of fully funded childcare, and an NHS, not to mention free tertiary study.

They're a free market think tank. I think they're more attracted to the Israel religious sentiment solution: women as home makers. Single income? Kids not happening for a lot of people.
by boomer_joe | 2025-09-26 02:26:22+00:00
Gemini 2.5 Pro feels heavily lobotomized for me lately, failing at very simple tasks with a frequency far above what I was used to seeing back when it first released. The personality seems to be getting worse too - I'm getting very tired of those dumbed analogies it loves to spew.

Would like to know whether Flash exhibits these issues as well.
by arcbyte | 2025-09-26 02:26:24+00:00
I was working for a federal contractor when we had a release go out that had a problem. Some digital service folks got sent in, arriving about the same day we figured out the environmental problem planted by the previous contractor for the program. The digital services folks were extremely useful in getting us in contact with other gov folks to speed up releasing the fix, but otherwise they didn't do anything. They took all the credit afterward though.
Show HN: Home Information – open-source spatial data management
by tcassandra | 2025-09-26 02:27:45+00:00
I built Home Information because I was tired of hunting through scattered files, apps, and drawers for home-related information. I am a very visual person, so spatially organizing the data on a floor plan seemed obvious.

I also use some home automation systems, which is part of the overall information I need to manage. These home automation systems are splintered systems, offer poor UIs and are entirely device-centric. They combine to just make life more complicated. The Home Information system is meant to unify all the information in one place and have one interface to manage it all.

The app works today, with integrations for Home Assistant and ZoneMinder. I'm looking for early adopters who can help identify what's working well, what needs improvement and what directions to take it in.

It is built with Django + JavaScript, has a one-line Docker install.

Looking for feedback from homeowners, developers, and home automation enthusiasts.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-26 02:28:35+00:00
The engineering tyrannical drive for plain English doesn't fit in the web's protocol philosophy. It's a place where all styles and forms belong. "Written communication" is by nature jargon when specializations are interdisciplinary, otherwise monoculture takes root. If you don't understand something, ask or search - this is the web, dude. Nothing ends here.
by StrangeDoctor | 2025-09-26 02:29:12+00:00
I don’t think it’s microkernels in general but their microkernel design which wants as much as possible in userspace. They want each component to have its own memory space. ZFS blurs the layers between filesystem and the volume management. This kinda bothers layers of abstraction model folks. And I assume combined with their posix like model it just sorta clashes with what they want to do. Not impossible to integrate, but they want something a little different.
by evilduck | 2025-09-26 02:30:24+00:00
Not who you asked, but I upgraded NextJS in a couple of repos by just telling Claude Code to do it. I've had it swap out and upgrade libraries successfully in one shot too. It will usually create good enough Page Objects for E2Es and scaffold out the test file, which speeds up the development process a bit. Same for upgrading Node versions in some Lambda projects, just tell it to go and come back later. Instruct it to run the test and build steps and it's also like having a mini CI system running too.

Personally, I think it really shines at doing the boring maintenance and tech debt work. None of these are hard or complex tasks but they all take up time and for a buck or two in tokens I can have it doing simple but tedious things while I'm working on something else.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-26 02:30:29+00:00
My point is to highlight the hypocrisy in HN casting stones from a glass house. I don't really believe you're beholden to fixing it (as I said, I'm a US citizen too). We just have to accept that the United States started this and is the only nation on Earth that can stop it. American surveillance technology is the role-model for abusive regimes and perfectly sensible governments around the world.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-26 02:30:35+00:00
Language as a self-refuting system, doesn't evolve, or evolve us, it devolves towards increasing arbitariness, the faster it's used, particularly once automated.

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024

.at some point a direct contact must occur between knowledge and reality. If we succeed in freeing ourselves from all these interpretations – if we above all succeed in removing the veil of words, which conceals the true essence of things, then at one stroke we shall find ourselves face to face with the original perceptions.. Ernst Cassirer The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-09-26 02:30:45+00:00
Republicans routinely discuss:

- Trans people being an issue.

- Gun problems being an issue of the person holding the gun or gun related deaths being a necessary evil - evidence from practically every country on earth with strict gun rules shows otherwise. Less guns = less gun deaths full stop.

- Climate change being fake, chemtrails, Geoengineering, weather manipulation.

- Science, particularly medical research being fake. Covid vaccines being harmful, etc.

- "The great replacement theory"

- White genocide in countries around the world

- Jan 6th not being an atrocity.

- Ending non-existent wars.

Among many others.
by jrowen | 2025-09-26 02:31:13+00:00
I wouldn't say words are metaphors, I think of a metaphor as like a pointer, words are the actual mapping of arbitrary sounds to concepts that are relatively universally relatable to human experience. Children can learn language easily by associating those sounds with contemporaneous objects and situations from their experience. I feel like AIs will continue to be regurgitative borg-brains-in-a-vat until they have some semblance of a relatable, "lived" experience that they can map words to instead of just analyzing the patterns.
by linguae | 2025-09-26 02:31:16+00:00
Nostalgia is one aspect of retrocomputing to me, but one of the things I also like about retrocomputing is being able to experience platforms I never got to use during their heydays, either because I wasn’t around when those platforms were available, or because I couldn’t afford them. For example, I’m the owner of a NeXT Cube setup, which I’ve had since 2021. I was born in 1989, not too long after the 1988 announcement of the original NeXT computer. I’ve never heard of NeXT until 2004, when I started learning about Mac OS X and its history.

I also think people can learn a lot from the platforms of the past. While computers have gotten objectively more capable over the decades, I think there’s a lot we can learn from the systems of the past. I feel this is especially true in the area of usability. There was a lot of work done in the 1980s and 1990s on usability research, and Apple and Microsoft published human interface guidelines describing how software written for the classic Mac OS and Windows should behave. However, consistency has been sidelined in favor of branding and other marketing concerns at the expense of usability. Using applications designed for Macintosh System 7 or Windows 95 will give people the experience of using applications back when conforming to UI guidelines was a big deal.

Nostalgia is great and is one reason I retrocompute, but it’s more than that for me.
by hattmall | 2025-09-26 02:31:25+00:00
Don't be hyperbolic. You don't need to be a billionaire by any means. You only need about 3 million a year. $3 million is enough to have any sort of professional most people make appointments for come to you as needed. Doctor, Lawyer, etc. It's enough to fly private anywhere in the US and First Class the rest of the world. It's enough to get the best seats at any sporting event or concert and enough to stay in the nicest places when you travel and have any sort of luxury or accommodation arranged for you. It's enough to own amazing homes, boats, cars, horses, and even have a small jet with a pilot. It's enough to do all that and still donate life changing money to multiple people every year. It's enough to get a seat at any politician's table. Of course all of that used to be possible with only 1 million and quite a bit of it still is, but you would have to make some choices.

Anyone that is making 3 million or more and still works to make more money is basically suffering some sort of mental issue and should be helped and treated. Of course there are exceptions for many people who don't make their money in a sustainable way like entertainers and athletes etc.

The real world is generally run and controlled by people who are making between 3 and 10 million dollars. The billionaires are not really respected or considered meaningful as anything other than sources of funds and markers of extravagance.
by nobodyandproud | 2025-09-26 02:31:33+00:00
I’d say it’s worse.

Incompetent treatment is worse than not being treated at all.

It’s not to say that noctors can’t be competent within a narrow domain; it’s that they’re being taught to increase their scope of treatment beyond their training.

If it becomes common, then it’d be safer and more cost-effective to pay out of pocket and get treatment in another Westernized nation.