MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by faxmeyourcode | 2025-10-05 21:54:05+00:00
Curious how text-aligned tabular formats work for LLMs considering humans probably find them more readable than other formats

System Sales(a) Number of Units (in Millions) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── KFC Division 31,981 $ 34,452 Taco Bell Division 8,757 17,193 Pizza Hut Division 20,225 13,108 Habit Burger & Grill Division 383 713 YUM 61,346 $ 65,466

I'm seeing pretty good success with extracting data out of 10-Qs which are formatted like this by default using the `edgartools` library's default `filing.text()` method.
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-05 21:54:20+00:00
> distract us from what our rulers have been doing to us domestically

America doesn’t have rulers. It has democratically elected politicians. China doesn’t have democracy, however.

> if we were to have sincere solidarity with Chinese people against the international ruling class

There is also no “international ruling class”. In part because there are no international rulers. Speak in more specifics if you want to stick to this claim.

> Concentration camps, genocide, suppressing free speech, suspending due process

I’m not sure what country you are talking about, but America definitely doesn’t fit any of these things that you claim. Obviously there is no free speech in China. And obviously there is no due process if the government can disappear people like Jack Ma for years or punish free expression through social credit scores. And for examples of literal concentration camps or genocide, you can look at Xinjiang or Tibet.
by codr7 | 2025-10-05 21:54:29+00:00
Exactly, it doesn't work very well in practice.

Even when working alone, the complexity gradually creeps up on you.

Because it's all made to work together, start pulling anywhere and before you know it you're using another feature, and another, and so on.

And many features interact in exotic and hard to predict ways, so hard that entire careers have been spent on trying and failing to master the language.
by mh- | 2025-10-05 21:55:07+00:00
Maybe, but I wouldn't suggest doing it even if you figure it out. It has some really annoying side effects on subscription management for Claude, and additionally they mark up the plan cost by 20%. Which I didn't care about on the $20 Pro, but now with $200 plans.

I haven't figured out* how to switch to a direct subscription other than cancelling and resubscribing, and I'm afraid of messing up my account access.

* Caveat that I haven't spent more than 20 minutes trying to solve this.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-10-05 21:55:22+00:00
> So you can always just allocate more physical pages to the stack as needed, similar to the heap.

You set the (max) stack size once when you create the thread and you can’t increase the (max) size after that.

Processes see a virtual address space that is handled by the OS, so you would have to involve the OS if you needed to add to the stack size dynamically.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-10-05 21:55:31+00:00
I define B2C businesses on main street as everything from a regional chain of plumbers to a medical practice with 10 or 15 doctors in one area, to a realtor.

It sounds like you are very much motivated by optimizing processes and profitability, and/or the income that doing so provides you. What I've realized is that in many ways I'm not sufficiently motivated by that. What motivates me is the gratification I get from seeing every day people impacted by my work.

Nothing wrong with that, just different things for different people. In fact, you may be a more "enlightened" being because you can focus on the longer term rewards.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-05 21:56:31+00:00
>The underlying question behind my post is essentially, does Cal Newport’s theory of success - so good they can’t ignore you - hold?

Sure. But that bar is sky high now because it's very easy to ignore you otherwise. If you're not already running a successful company, releasing some viral piece of media, or publishing some novel research, you're going to be ignored. Having a 4.0 GPA with multiple interesting side projects and even an internship isn't necessarily getting you a job out of college anymore. Or at least, for now. Things you need to do to be noticed basically mean you already have means to somewhat sustain yourself.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-05 21:56:32+00:00
I'm aware of a big cloud services provider (I won't name any names but it was IBM) that lost a fairly large amount of data. Permanently. So that too isn't a guarantee. They simply should have made local and off-line backups, that's the gold standard, and to ensure that those backups are complete and can be used to restore from scratch to a complete working service.
by KKosana | 2025-10-05 21:56:50+00:00
Hey! Kesav here (co-creator of BookMyFlight).

We've included chat as an option for those who prefer it. I personally find it easier than clicking a bookmark and manually adjusting the dates each time. However, we understand that many people prefer entering fields themselves, so our UI supports that as well.

We see chat evolving into a concierge that can handle the same tasks you’d give a human assistant: planning entire flight + hotel itineraries, rescheduling flights, checking in to upcoming trips, etc.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-05 21:57:05+00:00
What I think is mostly missing the mark is treating this as an expertise that you learn in college, i.e. straight out of high school you go to college and then do a PhD and you interact in a bubble of people who are the same way. And you try to comment on the greats of literature, without any real world experience.

I value it much higher to read critiques by different authors and artists, in a kind of Viennese coffeehouse gossip culture way.

It's the equivalent of wanting to become an expert on the philosophy of ethics without ever having to resolve a real ethical conundrum in real life, like pulling the plug on someone's medical support or advising about authorizing an artillery strike or whatever other thing may arise with difficult tradeoffs outside neat thought experiments. It's being clever from the sidelines.

So, I don't think it's a field of expertise, I think it's a teaching job. And teaching about art and literature and helping the new generation process the message therein is good. But it doesn't make it a research field. Indeed, the idea that a humanities teacher at university should have regular novel thoughts and innovations is a very new idea, from the 19th century, originating in the Humboldtian reform of German universities. Before that, teachers would read the classics to students and comment on them, but they mainly passed down the same type of commentary that they received in their education, of course with some of their own flavor, but it wasn't really seen as producing new knowledge, just making it easier to digest the existing high-prestige work of literature.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-05 21:57:15+00:00
So, I was curious because I have this pretty cool like vintage looking popcorn maker, and I was wondering, is industrial design really dead? So I searched Amazon for "vintage mp3 player" and found this, "MECHEN M30 HiFi MP3 Player"

https://a.co/d/hJyBsyw

So, like most things, It seems like Industrial Design is alive and well, just not from the big dominant players; and isn't that what you would expect? Wouldn't you expect you'd be celebrating smaller indy shops than the big monopolies?

But, for some reason these small shops have become so anonymized that they're out of our collective consciousness, and I think there's truth to this, the problem in a sense isn't that industrial design is dead, or there are no interesting electronics, but there are in fact too many players making interesting electronics, and there's no "middle class" anymore.

TV's and smartphones are an interesting place to start though, I'd generally say that TV's and Smart Phones have improved by just being a big screen. Cars seem to me like a better example, where it feels like even companies that used to pride themselves as being different (Volkswagen) now basically all cars look the same.
by mmaunder | 2025-10-05 21:57:22+00:00
Are we talking about actual portable thunderbolt 3 connected RAID 5 G-drive arrays with between 70 and 160TB of storage per array? We use that for film shoots to dump TB of raw footage. That G-Drive?? The math checks at 30GB for around 3000 users on a single RAID5 array. This would be truly hilarious if true.
by cweagans | 2025-10-05 21:57:43+00:00
Hey hey! Good to see you here!

Talos is absolutely incredible. There's a learning curve to it, but it's not as steep as it seems.

I started with Ansible, but found myself getting really annoyed at the amount of YAML I was shoveling around for basic things, so I ended up writing a series of bash scripts that rsync files out to where they need to go, run actions when a particular file changes, etc. Provisioning scripts are bundled up and piped to the remote machine over SSH. It's been pretty nice. I'm thinking about building that out into a separate project somewhere.

I'd love to check out what you're working on! The link seems to be broken though.
by cryzinger | 2025-10-05 21:58:04+00:00
Part of me agrees with the design takeaways here, and part of me admittedly prefers when my devices are as slim and unobtrusive as possible (no amount of lost desk space is worth the aesthetics of a zany computer monitor for me), but either way I'm always a little wary of these "remember the good old days of tech?" comparisons. Sometimes it feels like they're creating a false dichotomy where yesterday's devices were more pleasant to look at because they weren't tainted by corporate greed, and that today's devices are somehow uglier because all companies care about now is profit.

But these have always been mass-produced consumer devices. Even if you prefer the aesthetics of the original iMac to today's iMac, and even to the extent that corporate greed has arguably gotten worse, your relationship to Apple is the same either way--when you buy their products, you make them a lot of money.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-05 21:58:21+00:00
France has had a reputation for being especially active in industrial espionage since at least the 1990s. Here's an article from 2011 https://www.france24.com/en/20110104-france-industrial-espio...

I always thought it was a little unusual that the state of France owns over 25% of the defense and cyber security company Thales.
by skissane | 2025-10-05 21:59:06+00:00
I spent a week of my life at a major insurance company in Seoul once, and the military style security, the obsession with corporate espionage, when all they were working on was an internal corporate portal for an insurance company… The developers had to use machines with no Internet access, I wasn’t allowed to bring my laptop with me lest I use it to steal their precious code. A South Korean colleague told me it was this way because South Korean corporate management is stuffed full of ex-military officers who take the attitudes they get from defending against the North with them into the corporate world; no wonder the project was having so many technical problems-but I couldn’t really solve them, because ultimately the problems weren’t really technical
by jacquesm | 2025-10-05 22:00:18+00:00
> I really hate this dismissal of "well it's affecting YOU now so now it's an issue". I'm not just "knowledge worker" and have grown up seeing the dangers of the internet, social media, invasion of privacy, and radicalization through seemingly benign channels. I've witnessed wars, unrest, and oppressions throughout all stages of my life.

Sorry, but my comment wasn't about you in particular. It was about the tech domain in general. I know absolutely nothing about you so I would not presume to make any statements about you in that sense.

> But society's given them ways to either retire or seek new work if needed. I'm not seeing that here.

No, not really. For the most part they became destitute and at some point they died.

What you are not seeing is that this is the end stage of technological progress, the point at which suddenly a large fraction of the people is superfluous to the people in charge. Historically such excess has been dealt with by wars.
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-05 22:00:27+00:00
I don't really get why Postgres is touted as "boring" technology. It's literally the "exciting" SQL server.

Surely you mean MySQL / MariaDB.

With Postgres I literally have to re-read docs every time there is a major version upgrade because I need to remind myself how to dump the database and re-import it into the new version because it's 2025 and Postgres still hasn't come up with a way to not have you do this.
by msla | 2025-10-05 22:01:03+00:00
> The peak here was arguably achieved during the 1990s and early 2000s

Interesting coincidence how the peak was achieved right when most of the audience would have been children or young adults, and therefore a time they're likely to be nostalgic for.

Talking about TVs the article goes all the way back to 2007, and not the console TVs which were actual wooden pieces of furniture with scope for artistry in the enclosure, not just "industrial design" or "Frutiger Aero" or some other buzzword.
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-10-05 22:01:26+00:00
It doesn't depend on the outcome. If a bank only does prime loans and spreads out it's loans multiple borrowers, has a good reserve ratio etc. and still loses it all, that still wasn't gambling. This is more clear if you consider that storing value in money is also risky. When you get paid in a currency, you automatically begin investing in it at the same time. This is even more clear with foreign currencies. If you got paid $1 million in Turkish Lyra and do not store that value somewhere else, that is more gambling-like than putting it in the S&P. I guess you can say that any time you increase the amount of risk in an investment to get more reward you are gambling. But you can invest in something other than USD with the same risk but with greater reward. For example you can invest it in US bonds (over multiple issues) which has a similar risk to the USD but a greater reward. Still, under such a definition, any business is gambling. We can accept that, but then we have no word that differentiates owning a grocery store from betting all your money on a coin flip, so then the word "gambling" becomes much less useful or really useless in my opinion.
by supportengineer | 2025-10-05 22:02:22+00:00
I will never forget what it was like to grow up in the 80s. As a child often I was at some kind of child care. After school programs, or a neighbors house. I remember what it was like, wanting my parents to pick me up. I lived in a place that was surrounded by bullies and abusive religious zealots. Often times I would be staring out the window or looking towards the road wondering when my loving parents would come and get me and take me away from the nightmare situation. Endless hours staring, wondering, hoping. Praying for them to pick me up and take me away.

And that is why I happily allow my wife and my children to track me at all times.

So they will never feel that kind of pain and despair that a young child once felt.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-10-05 22:02:23+00:00
> In my head I thought, "I don't care how much garlic bread we sell...this is not why I'm on the planet".

This is a great analogy, because I feel like "I don't care how we optimized the conversion rate for the ads directing traffic to the website for your new data enrichment tool...this is not why I'm on the planet"

You are right, in many ways its related to the products impact more than it is the source of funding. I have found that oftentimes VC-backed products of all sorts, regardless of their mission, get backed into a corner where founders are focused on an exit over real impact. That the model inherently discourages really caring about your customers.
by credit_guy | 2025-10-05 22:02:36+00:00
I'm not sure that's still the case. It used to be the case, but I doubt it continues to be. OpenAI had $6.7 BN costs for the first half of 2025. I doubt they spent $3 BN in training and research. They have 700 million weekly users, and many of these users are really heavy users. Just taking myself: I probably consumed a few million tokens with GPT-5-Codex in the last 3 days alone. I am a heavy user, but I think there are users who burn through hundreds of times more tokens than me.
by hobs | 2025-10-05 22:03:14+00:00
I would say there are times that doing math with a primary key is a useful property (say, getting the Nth primary key (or so)) but if you are exposing it in an API I would say you would never even want a primary key projected in the first place.

A primary key is almost an implementation detail - a key that an API knows about something is one of many things that might point to this thing, might need to change, and generally might need a different representation (so don't make it your primary key.)

I also tell people to just use the bottom of any primary key space (when choosing monotonic stuff) but so many engineers just complain that they dont like the numbers (and yet many of them have had to deal with the migration a few years later so ... enjoy that I guess.)
by password-app | 2025-10-05 22:03:39+00:00
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A little bit of background on why I decided to build this app, I saw that Chrome’s Password Checkup tools shows I have 77 passwords that I need to change for several reasons. Some passwords are compromised and available in some corner of the dark web, or I’ve reused some passwords (I used the same password a lot back in college) or they’re just plain weak passwords. Since there were so many, I focused on the most important sites and started to change the passwords, but I quickly got tired. It was the same repetitive actions - log in, go to the change password screen, have Google suggest a password, make sure it’s stored, then move to the next. I wished there was a way to automate this digital labor of keeping my accounts secure. That’s when I started exploring a solution for this problem - what if there was a way to automatically rotate my passwords to something more secure? Better yet, what if that solution could rotate my passwords every 3 months? Even better, what if I could just delete accounts in websites that I don’t care about anymore, so that removes the need of even having to manage the password?

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If done right, this app can provide instant peace of mind for users who care about security but don’t have the time to properly enforce it.
by cwmoore | 2025-10-05 22:03:40+00:00
Found only “emerge” while searching these comments for the exact term “merge”.

The bifurcations of communications is unmanageable.

Why is my own timeline is still manual, while presumably all the datacenters can combine, search and sort (merge) dated datapoints?

I want a Personal Palantir or something, and no, not vibe coded in a weekend.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-05 22:05:33+00:00
There was a war, people fled and were expelled from their homes for various reasons, Jews lost their homes as well due to the war. Sometimes fleeing a conflict is the least bad option. I have grandparents that had to flee their homes due to living in a country that was on the losing side of a war, they never got their homes/land back. I would probably even be considered a refugee by the UNRWA definition of refugee used for Palestinians. After Israels independence most Jews living in Arab countries were also forced out of their homes/land, I don't see Jews trying to get their original homes back in those Arab countries either. We can't go back in time and fix all the historical wrongs in the world, we have to move forwards.
by brynet | 2025-10-05 22:05:34+00:00
I used ICONs in school growing up in Ontario, Canada, they were so cool. It was a sad day when Windows PCs replaced them in the computer lab.

All but a few of these computers were destroyed by the ministry of education. And without the LEXICON server that accompanied them, they're basically useless.

For a bit of fun, I ran the DOOM shareware demo using the official QNX4 port on a 486SX with 8M of ram.

https://brynet.ca/video-qnxdoom.html

I picked up QNX6 again as a hobbyist later in life... until self-hosted QNX was killed, no bootable .ISOs after 6.5. Then they killed the hobbyist license, killed the Photon desktop GUI, dropped any native toolchain support in place of a Windows/Linux-hosted IDE. Porting software became difficult, pkgsrc no longer maintained.

They are completely noncommittal as a company, nothing short of actually open-sourcing it under the MIT/BSD would convince me to use it again.. and not another source-available effort that they inevitably rug pull again.

https://www.osnews.com/story/23565/qnx6-is-closed-source-onc...
by cweagans | 2025-10-05 22:05:46+00:00
This is definitely one of the purchasing decisions that I regret. My backups are robust and trustworthy enough that I don't have data loss concerns, but the software is atrocious and the customizability is extremely limited.

e.g. I wanted to serve tftp directly from the NAS. I can log in and `apt install tftpd-hpa`, but that package has to be reinstalled every time the NAS updates.

I'll be replacing this in the medium term, but I'm not buying more hardware for a little while lol
by lolive | 2025-10-05 22:06:35+00:00
My company is insanely profitable, plagued with bozos as middle managers. But after some years you have your network of righteous fellows, and live with them much more than with your organization chart. So that is not a big deal.

But I agree that promotion is not exactly an option, as I would become crazy only surrounded by bozos.

There is also an expert path, for people wanting to be promoted, but for their technical excellence. Guess what? There too, the political tricks have led to empower not so excellent people, i.e bozo-compatible ones.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-05 22:06:52+00:00
<< What was these citizens crime besides living in apartments in Chicago?

Friend. You want to cry me a river over militarization of police and following the basic rules of engagement, I am all ears. In the meantime, detained is not arrested. Based on your overall posture, I must assume that you know this. Hell, cop can detain you during a traffic stop if they so choose. How is it any different for a building full of people?

You are upset, but it is not entirely clear to me why. In a sense, those inalienable rights were preserved if the above is understood, which means you are upset over something else.

Can you focus on what that something else is? I am not egging you on. I am trying to understand your world model.

edit:

Separately, I spent some quality time with the article you cited and, I wonder if you would like to have an opportunity to reconsider your stance:

"Four U.S. citizen children were taken from their parents during the raid because the parents lacked legal status, DHS said, alleging that one of the parents was a Tren de Aragua member."

Sadly, this is the reality made by the permissive policies US has had. Does it suck? Yeah, but those kids wouldn't have been citizens if those people did not enter US illegally. Everything here stems from multiple cascading bad decisions. We are at a point, where public sympathy for this is.. low.