MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by instig007 | 2025-09-07 19:35:17+00:00
> This was my experience in Google Search infrastructure circa 2005-2010 [...]

> Reports from other large teams at google

> teach everyone how that works, etc.

> Or we could just tell people to wrap the thing in a `message`

It really sounds like a self-inflicted internal google issue. Can you address the part where I mention isomorphism of (oneof token) and (oneof (token {})), and clarify what exactly do you think you'd have to teach other engineers to do, if your protocol's encoders and decoders took this property into account?
by themafia | 2025-09-07 19:35:33+00:00
I use my AWS security key to run local tests. It works perfectly fine. You just need a ~/.aws/credentials file appropriately configured.

I have a makefile system which controls lambda deployments. One step of the deployment is to gather the security requirements and to build a custom IAM role for each individual lambda. Then I can just write my security requirements in a JSON file and they're automatically set and managed for me.

The real joy of AWS is that everything works through the same API system. So it's easy to programmatically create things like IAM roles like this.
by munificent | 2025-09-07 19:35:35+00:00
I held this same belief for many years, but now find myself the renter of an interminable storage unit. Its contents are almost entirely:

* Boxes for various bits of electronic gear that I may sell at some point and will net a better value if I have the original packaging. This has proven worthwhile in the past as I explored my synth hobby.

* Halloween and Christmas decorations, because my wife decorates for the holidays like an exuberant goth Clark Griswald.

The unit is 90% the latter.

I've thought long and hard that we shouldn't own more than we can hold on our property. I've even thought that maybe we should move into a bigger house with more storage in order to achieve that goal.

But then I realized that a storage unit is essentially a much cheaper version of that second sentence. Here in Seattle, uprgading to an even slightly bigger house would be an enormous increase in our mortgage, would incur a large costly move, and risks having to change schools for my kids.

Compared to that, a storage unit is a much cheaper, easier option.

I would still prefer to not have it, and I'm enough of a minimalist that I could get by fine without it. But marriage is a partnership and those decorations bring her (and the rest of our neighborhood) a lot of joy, so here we are.
by sungam | 2025-09-07 19:36:39+00:00
Thanks for your kind words with regards to the app and well done for getting such a high score!. I agree that BCC is often subtle. My practice is also largely focused on skin cancer. I would say that the majority of melanomas (and SCCs) that I diagnose would be obvious to a patient that underwent a short period of focused training and checked their skin regularly. A possible explanation for the difference in our experience is that the incidence of skin cancer (and also atypical but benign moles) a lot higher in Australia than in the UK.
by jtbaker | 2025-09-07 19:37:24+00:00
That is sweet! The extent of my cluster is a few Pis that talk to the Mac Mini over the LAN for inference stuff, that I could definitely use some headroom on. I tried to integrate it into the cluster directly by running k3s in colima - but to join an existing cluster via IP, I had to run colima in host networking mode - so any pods on the mini that were trying to do CoreDNS networking were hitting collisions with mDNSResponder when dialing port 53 for DNS. Finally decided that the macs are nice machines but not a good fit for a member of a cluster.

Love that AMD seems to be closing the gap on the performance _and_ power efficiency of Apple Silicon with the latest Ryzen advancements. Seems like one of these new miniPCs would be a dream setup to run a bunch of data and AI centric hobby projects on - particularly workloads like geospatial imagery processing in addition to the LLM stuff. Its a fun time to be a tinkerer!
by swayvil | 2025-09-07 19:38:06+00:00
That's a pretty darn cool looking thing.

Funny how, guided by pure mechanical necessity, pretty stuff can arise.

I've always thought that clockwork, chips and other machines were pretty.

And fractals. ( https://fleen.org/i40.png ) And plants and animals too. And weathered rock.

Which leads me to consider what isn't pretty. Naivety?
by odie5533 | 2025-09-07 19:38:23+00:00
The tabs on the page switch between different static content. Yet each time you click, it requires a new network call to load the content.

Why not have a little bit of vanilla JS or alpine JS? The alpine homepage has similar tabbed content, but it doesn't need new HTTP calls to load each one. https://alpinejs.dev/

I feel like the Raku site would be better in HTML + vanilla JS. There's almost no interactivity, and this HTMX interactivity is worse than vanilla JS.
by metalman | 2025-09-07 19:39:24+00:00
8500+ ft² Victorian, with every last thing to fill it in style, and every last thing that was purchased along the way, functional, identifiable, or niether, objects going back generations, 2~300 lbs of photos and negatives 2500 + books, very large furniture,and mountains of pure junk in a never emptyied out in 165 years attic.12 or more full pickup loads to the dump, and 3 or 4 to the local hospital donation, thrift store.

Both parents in a care home, together and I am working to be able to take them back to the house for day trips, so installing a wheelchair bathroom, and a "day suite" off the kitchen selling whatever is worth cash, and has no real sentimental value to pay for it all.
by morcheeba | 2025-09-07 19:39:25+00:00
AC is only popular because it works with transformers to step up/down the voltage, and it would be more expensive to step up/down a DC signal using electronics (which usually involves converting to AC internally anyway).

AC Voltage is specified in RMS volts, which is based on the average power the AC transmits. The peak voltage (top of the sine wave) is 1.414x the RMS voltage. The insulator only cares about the peak before it breaks down, so because DC doesn't waste time at lower voltages, can transmit more power for the same insulation.

These are coax cables, just by the nature of the external physical shielding required (steel cable sheath). So, the EMF should be contained inside and not affected by the salt water. But, I'm not an expert there and could be missing something.
by cameronc56 | 2025-09-07 19:39:30+00:00
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I have experience building CICD build/test/deploy pipelines and developer environments from the ground up at multiple companies of all sizes, to the scale of hundreds of repositories and developers at a time, and have also transformed companies existing legacy CICD infrastructure. In my most recent role, I have also been getting involved in SRE type work, implementing monitoring and participating in oncall and incident responses.

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by nodesocket | 2025-09-07 19:39:32+00:00
Thanks for clarification, but I believe my private-market health insurance plan even though high deductible is not eligible for a HSA. I believe you have to use a healthcare.gov plan to be eligible for HSA which are significantly more expensive. So, not sure the benefits are there if your monthly premiums are 25-40% more expensive (HC.gov + HSA) than a private-market plan.
by munificent | 2025-09-07 19:39:39+00:00
> It's because life moves faster now.

In a little more detail, I think that previous generations were time-rich and stuff-poor. Objects were laborious to make so people had few of them but also more time on their hands. That meant it was reasonable to obligate someone to spend a little time keeping and maintaining an object even if you weren't likely to use it often.

But now thanks to automation, globalization, and other stuff, physical objects are cheap. And thanks to an infinite number of media services who want to vacuum up every moment of our attention, time is costly. So objects come and go in our lives because it's not worth spending any time holding on to a thing you could just buy again when you need it later.

While I certainly take advantage of the convenience of cheap stuff, I don't think our current situation is really healthier.
by HeavenFox | 2025-09-07 19:40:10+00:00
This is a significant problem for Chinese H1B holders, because the visa sticker for Chinese passport is only valid for one year. You can stay for longer, but cannot come back if you leave the U.S. Historically folks have been getting their visa renewed in Canada or Mexico, and this is already a huge annoyance - not only do you have to make a pointless trip, but also appointments in these countries are very hard to get as a Third Country National (TCN).

Sure, most other countries don't allow TCNs to apply for visa, but they also don't require their long term residents to leave the country to renew their visa.

So, the correct solution to this is Domestic Visa Renewal. A pilot program was run last year, but it was limited to Indian H1B holders. Without this program in place, disallowing TCNs is simply cruel.
by jwilber | 2025-09-07 19:41:25+00:00
In one year alone, used car prices rose over 40%. That market has not corrected itself since then.

That is not as simple to dismiss as, “prices rise everywhere: inflation.”

https://www.collegecounts529.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/...

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/used-car-prices-have-su...
Show HN: Serverless Workflow Builder – Visual drag-and-drop editor library
by Kshitiz1403 | 2025-09-07 19:42:03+00:00
Hey HN! I built a visual editor for creating Serverless Workflows with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface using React Flow. It also comes as a reusable React library that you can integrate into your own applications!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/serverless-workflow-builder-li...

Live Demo: https://kshitiz1403.github.io/serverless-workflow-builder

GitHub: https://github.com/Kshitiz1403/serverless-workflow-builder

NPM Package: serverless-workflow-builder-lib

I at my organisation, we rely heavily on serverless workflows specification. This is my effort on creating a library so that you can integrate this in your own little frontend, and with all the necessary hooks provided, can have a working drag and drop serverless workflow builder using React Flow.

Would love to hear your feedback!
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-07 19:43:26+00:00
>No comments section or any other distractions.

I think in this age of information wars where my country's administration is unironically posting memes about their policy: it's almost as important to be informed of the "pulse" people have towards news as it is to understand the news itself. In a increasingly post-truth society, being informed of reality isn't enough.
by CM30 | 2025-09-07 19:43:57+00:00
Becoming? It's been that ever since social media was invented, if not before. Entire YouTube channels exist that do nothing but report on random internet drama and whoever the 'main character' is today.

Of course, you could say that's just a niche thing, and that the communities and creators dedicated to this aren't in the mainstream. But it feels like some of them are big enough that they do have at least some level of following among the general public as well, and almost anyone on social media in general sees this sort of drama on a regular basis.
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-07 19:44:38+00:00
Looks like you need the "quiet part" said out loud:

Chances are, the company was fishing for (or at least wouldn't mind) VC investment, which requires things being built a certain (complex and expensive) way like the top "startups" that recently got lots of VC funding.

Chances are, the company wanted an invite to a cloud provider's conference so they could brag about their (self-inflicted) problems and attract visibility (potentially translates to investment - see previous point).

Chances are, a lot of their engineering staff wanted certain resume points to potentially be able to work at such startups in the future.

Chances are, the company wanted some stories about how they're modern and "cloud-native" and how they're solving complex (self-inflicted) problems so they can post it on their engineering blog to attract talent (see previous point).

And so on.
by craftkiller | 2025-09-07 19:44:50+00:00
Also works on FreeBSD. FreeBSD maintains ABI compatibility within each major version (so 14.0 is compatible with 14.1, 14.2, and 14.3 but not 15.0): You also can install compatibility packages that make binaries compiled for older major versions run on newer major versions.

$ pkg install git rust $ git clone https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep.git $ cd ripgrep $ RUSTFLAGS='-C target-feature=+crt-static' cargo build --release $ ldd target/release/rg ldd: target/release/rg: not a dynamic ELF executable $ file target/release/rg target/release/rg: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, for FreeBSD 14.3, FreeBSD-style, with debug_info, not stripped
by godelski | 2025-09-07 19:45:37+00:00
> But US and China lead. Americans work way more hours than Europeans do

Okay, by your logic we should also see: Mexico, Vietnam, India, South Korea, Indonesia, Russia, and Israel to be ahead because they all work more hours.

I think we can all agree that there's more to this problem than hours. Now the question is if it is just money. Probably not considering that list, but hey, that money doesn't hurt either.

No one is arguing that hours aren't needed. People are arguing that output is not linearly correlated to number of hours worked. Personally, I think it tends to look more S-curved. Imprecise because sometimes 30 minutes of work can be very useful and sometimes it can be even detrimental. But it can take some time to get into the zone and be very productive. At the same time, too much and you are less effective.

The only situations where more working hours directly equates to more output is when you have a very clear widget machine. We've already automated a lot of tasks because of this, but hey there are still hard problems like fruit picking. Though I think it isn't hard to understand how the human becomes less productive as they get tired... I'm not sure why you think that isn't true about coding. I'm really not sure why you think that is true when it comes to doing research. Some of the most famous scientists in history famously worked <6hrs per day because frankly in a research job you're working most hours in the day even when you're doing something else.

tldr: I think you vastly oversimplified the problem.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-07 19:45:38+00:00
The expectation is that arithmetic operators are performing the corresponding arithmetic operations, so overloading for different arithmetic types (int, float, complex) doesn't produce any surprises or need to lookup operator definitions.

Applying arithmetic operators to non-arithmetic types starts to become a problem, even if some cases (set union/difference, string catenation) are natural...

The same goes for other operators... overloading '[]' indexing for maps as well as arrays seems natural, but would be highly confusing if you overloaded it for something unrelated to an index-like concept.
Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
by linotype | 2025-09-07 19:46:51+00:00
Recently I received a lot of negative feedback from a few HNers about an AI summary I posted about a complex immigration concept (changes to non-Immigrant visas in the US). The post received a number of upvotes but the comments were negative from Anti-AI folks. I’ve seen a number of negative posts about AI here as well. Would there be any interest in a static site that would regularly scan the public HN posts from their API and generate AI summaries of the content without a comment section?
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-07 19:47:24+00:00
My main fear with things like this is that using it will get me into a pattern of thinking I'm safe, so that then when I'm doing something on another system that doesn't have this, I'll accidentally make a mistake and won't be able to undo it. This is a fundamental problem with nearly all attempts to make things easier or safer. A lot of what makes things safe or unsafe has to do with our level of attention to what we're doing; conveniences that allow us to reduce our attention can paradoxically make things less safe unless they're baked in at the very lowest level.
by ghaff | 2025-09-07 19:47:28+00:00
There may be state-related licensure requirements. Smaller companies, especially, may not be set up to have the legal provisions in place to handle employees living in all states.

There may be other things but I'm not an employment lawyer. So people can move but they may not continue to be employed across state lines.

Yes, in many cases, people can commute across state lines to do their actual work. But the companies often still need a legal entity in that person's state to pay them. I'll leave aside edge cases related to custodial matters and so forth.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-09-07 19:47:47+00:00
From Reuters:

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that the U.S. and the European Union could heap "secondary tariffs on the countries that buy Russian oil," pushing the Russian economy to the brink of collapse and bringing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-ready-phase-two-r...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-07 19:48:33+00:00
>if you find yourself disagree, then it's because of your political position

How does your political leanings affect how you react to clickbait? NPR makes clickbait, Fox makes clickbait. Images make it easier but text can still be effective.

I don't see the spin here. Yes, news across the spectrum is lying more and more. Or at least severly downplaying some heinous events. That shouldn't be a partisan stance.
by brnaftr361 | 2025-09-07 19:49:06+00:00
I expect that r.i.c.e. was overfit. Asian imports are called riceburners, ostensibly because asian cultures consume a lot of rice. I guess it could be contrived as racist, but it's relatively harmless in the scope of things...

I'm speculating further: but the imports were cheap and had a thriving aftermarket of bolt-on parts e.g. body and turbo kits. The low barrier of entry afforded opportunities for anybody to play. Ricing was probably a perjorative issued by domestic enthusiasts that was adopted ironically by Asian import enthusiasts. If you can imagine there was a lot of diversity, people who would bolt up body kits to clapped out Civics to people that would push 700hp with extensively tuned cars with no adornments. I think in particular ricing was the more aesthetically motivated of the crowd.

This was later adopted by computer enthusiasts that like to add embelishments to their desktops, things like rainmeter/rocketdock and Windows/Linux skins and etc...
by Nevermark | 2025-09-07 19:49:19+00:00
Wow, I hope it isn't 50!

I think the 50's, 60's and 70's (and beyond) are highly correlated with the challenges we take on.

Children thrive on regular, daily, habitual challenges, mental, social and physical. But so do people in their 90's.

The amount of regression or hard limits on progression associated with aging, that are actually inherent to aging, are surprising small.

Although, reversing long term regressions gets more difficult. And we can run into impediments and unfortunate events beyond of our control at any age, but age makes us more vulnerable.
by benjiro | 2025-09-07 19:49:42+00:00
DuckDB is a columnar database, and columnar DBs are way better for analytics, statistics... That is its main reason for its popularity, the ability to run specific workloads that row based databases will struggle/be slower at.

Nothing to do with the posters badly formatted complained about Sqlite. By that metric DuckDB has a ton of issues that even out scale Sqlite.
by nine_k | 2025-09-07 19:49:51+00:00
In short: they just heated some (simulated) Martian dirt, and this alone was sufficient to produce liquid iron, and then liquid iron-silicon alloy. No huge quantities of carbon were required. This is quite surprising to me.

Making steel, with controlled carbon content, would be quite another challenge. Carbon is readily available on Mars, but only in the form of CO2.
by motbus3 | 2025-09-07 19:50:06+00:00
I don't doubt you Stevie, but I wonder if you could share any sources, proofs of data regarding your remark #1 about people lying.

I believe it is happens and I assume there might be a number of drivers for it, but I wonder how big of a problem is it in reality and how much has it been abused.

For example, friends told me the scheme in the UK might be too prone for fraud on the other hand most of the anti immigration topics do not seem to ask it to be fixed but rather stopped. What is your opinion on that? Do you think immigration is a big source of corruption problem? And how big is it relative to other problems?

My question comes from a point that I question if this is a populist/nationalist act to create a common enemy, literally the Enemy from 1984, rather than actually addressing the root cause of the problems. I am referring to the UK mostly because I have many friends living and working in the UK and some are British and some others are not.

And it seems weird to me that tackling such issues ( eg of the asylum seekers and the illegal immigration) as root causes of the current economic situation. Is it going after those folks really make a change on the prospects of the economy or is it addressing emotional needs to feel that someone is in control and that someone will take care of you because they fight the "enemy"?

For example, one of my British folks pointed out, and I did not validate myself, that the cost per asylum seeker is of £40 a week and there about 110.000 people in that situation which would make an expenditure of 4M per week or 200M per year. Which seems quite a large amount of money to deal with humanitarian assistance. And it would represent about 10% of the total expenditure. Another friend pointes out that UK collects £2.7B in taxes considering Health care, skilled and senior staff workers. The deficit in the public accountants are rather debatable so I do not have an opinion. What do you make from it?
by librasteve | 2025-09-07 19:50:12+00:00
fair point

https://harcstack.org was used to built the new site in the spirit of use your own dogfood (other raku web modules are available)

HARC stack is centred on HTMX (thus the 'H') and Pico CSS (other CSS libs coming)

This version of HARC Stack implements the HATEOS version of tabs https://htmx.org/examples/tabs-hateoas/ since that allows for dynamic content service (but admittedly that is overkill for the current site)
by rurp | 2025-09-07 19:50:27+00:00
Eh, I worked on a large serverless project that worked hard to follow best practices but it was still very clunky to run and test code locally. The local serverless tools simply didn't work for our project and they had so many limitations I'm skeptical they work for most non-prottypes.

Deploying a stack to your own developer environment works fine and is well worth doing, but the turnaround time is still painful compared to running a normal web framework project locally. Deploying a stack takes much much longer than restarting a local server.

Serverless isn't all bad, it has some nice advantages for scaling a project, but running and debugging a project locally is a definite weak spot.