MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by taneq | 2025-10-24 13:20:44+00:00
I spent my teens explaining to my mum that main memory (which used to be 'core', she interjected) was now RAM, a record was now a row, a thin client was now a browser, PF keys were now just function keys. And then from this basis I watched Windows Forms and .NET and all the iterations of the JDK and the early churn of non-standardized JavaScript all float by, and thought, 'hmm.'
by bux93 | 2025-10-24 13:20:54+00:00
Don't limit your thinking to taking photos - video also works fine. It's how The Mandalorian is produced. Instead of green screens, the actors are in front of floor-to-ceiling LED screens with live rendered CGI.

In old movies, going back to the 1930s and 40s, back-projection is usually seen when characters are driving in a car, and you can usually spot it. These days, not so much.
by jantissler | 2025-10-24 13:21:10+00:00
In case you are still reading this: Any plans to add RSS etc.? I might be in a small minority, but for me my feedreader is the central source. If I can't subscribe via feed, it doesn't exist for me. That's the way I'm following Techmeme and also Hacker News (with the minimum points set to 80 to show up in the feed). It's kind of annoying how many sites even in the tech field don't offer an RSS feed anymore.
by cool_man_bob | 2025-10-24 13:21:26+00:00
> For the other half the country, we really don't want to Federal laws to be decided by people in other states that don't share the same values.

Funny people can look at Arabs or Indians and identify “these people have a diametrically opposed culture and cannot peacefully coexist with me”, but can’t extended that to people that look like them and are also diametrically opposed.

It’s delusional to try and maintain a country that’s developed such opposed cultures. You can try to force peace for a while, but it always bubbles back up.
by specialist | 2025-10-24 13:21:46+00:00
Yes and: our first-past-the-post form of elections begets gerrymandering.

My future perfect world:

proportional representation for assemblies (eg US House), some arbitrarily low number of reps per citizens (200k - 400k?), no upper assembly (eg US Senate), approval voting for executive positions (eg Mayor, Sheriff, President), only public financing of campaigns, limit campaign season to maybe 6 weeks.

Friendly amendments to my wishlist cheerfully accepted.

There's so many reasonable, impactful reforms which could be done. And my wishlist is based on my (imperfect) understanding of best available (political) science. And I'm all ears about SCOTUS reforms. And I doubt any reforms will stick, so long as our gini coefficient is so out of whack (wealth vs democracy, the timeless struggle).
by consp | 2025-10-24 13:22:03+00:00
Looks like near-IR of some sort but media calls everything x-ray since it's what people know. X-Rays would go through cards anyway. But you'd get nice pictures of peoples hands though, and cataracts after a night of play.

edit: now I think of it: if the cloth is thin enough you don't even need near-IR. Old fashioned IR camera's (those without any fancy filter) from the '00 showed though some relatively thin opaque synthetic material with a tiny IR source so ...
by ozgune | 2025-10-24 13:22:12+00:00
If the benchmark doesn’t use AIO, why the performance difference between PG 17 and 18 in the blog post (sync, worker, and io_uring)?

Is it because remote storage in the cloud always introduces some variance & the benchmark just picks that up?

For reference, anarazel had a presentation at pgconf.eu yesterday about AIO. anarazel mentioned that remote cloud storage always introduced variance making the benchmark results hard to interpret. His solution was to introduce synthetic latency on local NVMes for benchmarks.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-24 13:22:38+00:00
> I don't want the government policing what is and isn't fair in a poker / NBA / etc game.

Operating a business that defrauds people is the domain of government enforcement.

I think you’re trying to reduce this to some sort of small scale friendly poker game between friends. It was not. It was an organized crime business operation that was systematically committing fraud.

Fraud is illegal and within scope of government enforcement.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-24 13:23:02+00:00
"They attacked Finland for the same reason the British invaded Iceland: they knew it would not be able to remain neutral, and they wanted to ensure that the Germans could not use it."

Given that this forum has some rules about being polite, I will just stop here without saying something awful.

It is very unfortunate that Stalinist apologia is still somehow acceptable in the West. It is a direct consequence of the fact that Stalin's concentration camps were never liberated by an external force that would forever document their horrors.

But at least I know whom I was talking to.
by JustFinishedBSG | 2025-10-24 13:23:38+00:00
I think I'm going to subscribe without any intention of using the app just as a "financing" donation.

I love, and hate, LaTeX and the idea of a LaTeX successor / alternative is incredibly appealing.

And the fact that they are aware that microtypography IS important and that they are working on it is a huge huge plus.
by nimbius | 2025-10-24 13:23:42+00:00
i wonder if we're not conflating xray with terahertz radiation perhaps? the former being used by a company called corrections one that produces a horrifying whole-body X-Ray of a prisoner to detect contraband (certainly not healthy.)

Terahertz radiation is used in airports with (arguable) safety and efficacy. the resolution is sufficient to read protest statements written under a passengers shirt in metallic ink. I wonder if it could read cards should they be specially crafted similarly.
by asim | 2025-10-24 13:24:25+00:00
On the one hand it's an incentive to shift away to smaller self management where you don't need AWS e.g as an individual I just run a single DigitalOcean VPS. But on the other hand if you're a large business the evaluation process is basically, can I tolerate this kind of incident once in a while versus the massive operational cost of doing it myself. It's really going to be a case by case study of who stays, who moves and who tries some multicloud failover. It's not one of those situations where you can blanket just say oh this is terrible, stupid, should never happen, let's get off AWS. This is the slow build up of dependency on something people value. That's not going to change quickly. It might never change. The too big to fail mantra of banks applies. What happens next is essentially very anticlimactic which is to say, nothing.
by bluedino | 2025-10-24 13:24:49+00:00
> I predict we will see a death of intel similar to the death of Chrysler in the next decade.

They have a ways to go.

Chrysler merged with Mercedes (Daimler). Then they were sold to Cereberus. Then filed for bankruptcy. Became 'new' Chrysler. Then bought by Fiat. Merge with Puegot.
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-24 13:25:01+00:00
I built something similar years ago. These are terribly hard to build, so I did a bit of digging.

1: This appears to be backed by a French company called Linagoria. I don't know much about the company, but they've been around for a bit.

2: I experimented with Mongodb for the similar product, and it turned out to be very unreliable. A lot can change since I used Mongodb, but in general, I'm weary of any product that uses it unless there's an expectation that data is lossy.

(Which was the problem Mongodb had at the time: Their CTO only wanted to target lossy data use cases, but the people interested in using Mondodb wanted a database that was easier to use than SQL.)
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-24 13:25:14+00:00
CS 1.6 ran just fine for me just now on NixOS. Literally just clicked install in Steam and ran it. Aren't Macs incapable of running most games? Get a $150-200 n150 mini PC and install Linux and it should run most things before like 2010 (and probably later) at 4k 60 fps while sipping like 10 W and running completely silently.
by dd_xplore | 2025-10-24 13:25:17+00:00
Haha I know! When I was even younger, we had a radio that could recieve SW,AM,MW,FM(in TV range as well). I used to hook up the antenna to various things like wire mesh or tv antennas etc and used to listen to short wave and AM for hours. I even got signals from far away countries, it was really fascinating!

Also I had seen some recon antennas in a certain campus (can't say much about that) when I was a kid. Those were like long wires hanging from towers. I believe they used to receive/decode SW/AM signals from far away. I realised this much much later in my life. But fascinating nonetheless. And adding to all these is SDR! That's a whole different thing.
by filoeleven | 2025-10-24 13:25:27+00:00
That plus hiding everything I've already watched from the feed has somewhat improved Youtube for me. The problem I have now is that it's so adamant on showing me shit I've already watched that I'll come to the main page and frequently get only 2-3 video options.

Youtube's increasing hostility to how I want to use it singlehandedly made me reinstall Firefox just so I could use uBlock on it.
by Skwid | 2025-10-24 13:25:32+00:00
I see a lot of advice being given in these comments, and I find it a little alarming that my own preference hasn't got a mention. Just leave them be? I've had plenty of wasp nests in sheds, roof spaces, garages etc and never had a problem peacefully coexisting with them. Almost everyone I've spoken to about it shares this sentiment, and generally wouldn't do anything about it unless it was in an especially risky location.

I get the impression most commenters here are from the US, whilst I live in the UK. Am I naive to the aggression of American wasps, or is it just more acceptable to kill creatures you find bothersome over there?

Does anyone with experience both sides of the pond have any insight?
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-24 13:27:02+00:00
If intelligent life evolved on a planet of a brown dwarf — a “failed” star — that was ejected from its original galaxy deep into intergalactic space, then that species would be spectacularly isolated.

Note that the “naked eye” stars we see in our night sky are all big, bright stars in our immediate vicinity.

Outside of a galaxy the night sky would be black, other than some fuzzy smudges of other galaxies.

It would be a long time before any such species would figure out what galaxies are, what stars are, and their own relationship to those things.

Their study of astronomy would take a wildly different path even assuming they end up at the same conclusions!

And then what? What missions could they envisage, tens of thousands of light years away from the next nearest… anything?
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-24 13:27:07+00:00
Some merchants in those countries have stopped. There isn’t a general stoppage of everything.

I just checked and you can still send goods between Japan and the US. There are still merchants selling the exact mentioned camera on eBay that will ship to the US.

Here is the exact camera mentioned, offered by a Japanese seller, that will ship to the United States: https://www.ebay.com/itm/317445808304

Can you source your claim that absolutely no courier is capable of shipping goods into the US? I can’t find anything using google, or on any courier websites.

FedEx does have information about how to correctly fill out the forms for the purposes of tariffs, but does not mention that they will not accept shipments.
by icedchai | 2025-10-24 13:27:08+00:00
At a previous company, we had a custom "database" (I use that term very loosely) built on memory mapped files. All startup, all pages were read to ensure the data was hot, unlikely to be any page faults. It worked well for the application, but obviously because the whole thing fit in memory and was preloaded. We also had our own custom write-ahead-log. Today, I'd probably use sqlite.
by uncircle | 2025-10-24 13:27:32+00:00
Please, how long does the lack of motivation and anhedonia last? I have been trying to quit during a particularly stressful time in my life, works great for anxiety, but after 5 days I couldn’t spare to stare at the wall any longer instead of being a productive member of society.

This week I am drinking only one cup of tea in the morning and I’m still not very productive, but I would like to quit caffeine for good.

(FWIW I used to only drink a double espresso in the morning and no more, but I am a very sensitive, and anxious, person)
by brachkow | 2025-10-24 13:27:44+00:00
1) My childhood which coincided with peak of unregulated lootbox-skin markets (around 2013-2015). And I and my CS-playing peers had a happy childhood because of… skins gambling.

Most of us were able to earn money to buy a pizza or some additional snack betting on teams, or trading keys. Some exceptionaly lucky or with natural born trading skills were earning serious money — from quater to multiple salaries of an adult.

Maybe because casino-tourism in Belarus made people here slightly less prone to gambling, or maybe parents were not used to gift their children micro-transactions — e-sports betting, gambling and trading was financed mostly via in-game drops, returns from these bets and trades, and of course, sometimes, pocket money (which, on average were like 3$ per week).

That said, in modern times where micro-transactions are so common that you are ok with giving your kid V-bucks as birthday gift, I want say that anti child gambling narrative is a good thing.

2) At that time, and afaik it is true even today — you could use skins as a virtual currency to pay for a real things. It was proto-cryptocurrency/NFT in terms of being KYC and AML free.

This is really big market. There are aritcles on NYT about real life terrorists buying real guns for skins.

But without US-centric sensationalism, I beleive you can still pay for VPN or ChatGPT in very sanctioned Russia in CS skins. This can be also done with crypto (and mostly done now), but crypto has learning curve and you already playing CS.
by Steltek | 2025-10-24 13:28:01+00:00
It seems like every network filesystem is irredeemably terrible. SMB and NFS the stuff of security nightmares, chatty performance issues, and awkward user id mapping. WebDAV is a joke. SSHFS is slow. You can get really crazy with CephFS or GlusterFS, and for all that complexity, you don't get much farther way from SMB/NFS issues with those either.

My solution: Share nothing and use rsync.
by benjiro | 2025-10-24 13:28:10+00:00
> CDB is only a transport medium. The data originates in PostgreSQL and upon request, stored in CDB and transferred. Writing/freezing to CDB is faster than encoding JSON.

Might have been interesting to actually include this in the article, do you not think so? ;-)

The way the article is written, made it seen that you used cdb on edge nodes to store metadata. With no information as to what your storing / access, how, why ... This is part of the reason we have these discussions here.
by morsecodist | 2025-10-24 13:28:17+00:00
I am pretty skeptical of how useful "memory" is for these models. I often need to start over with fresh context to get LLMs out of a rut. Depending on what I am working on I often find ChatGPT's memory system has made answers worse because it sometimes assumes certain tasks are related when they aren't and I have not really gotten much value out of it.

I am even more skeptical on a conceptual level. The LLM memories aren't constructing a self-consistent and up to date model of facts. They seem to remember snippets from your chats, but even a perfect AI may not be able to get enough context from your chats to make useful memories. Things you talk about may be unrelated or they get stale but you might not know which memories your answers are coming from but if you did have to manage that manually it would kind of defeat the purpose of memories in the first place.
by sandorscribbles | 2025-10-24 13:28:35+00:00
i have applied and interviewed at AlaskaAir in order to help my "hometown" airline + get free travel. its not shocking to state they are a very ancient infrastructure that is being run and protected by fiefdoms that refuse to even acknowledge best practices of any infrastructure tech released in the past decade. as a former business traveler of AlaskaAir, i stopped flying on them after the 6th flight in a row that was either delayed hours, or never showed up, with no humans at the gate to even provide updates. one of those flights was because Alaska Air had not trained their ground crews how to de-ice the plane and refused to use the deice-as-a-service, stubbornly keeping it in-house, which had their entire Alaska flight grounded at KSEA for an entire day for a light dusting of snow. the AlaskaAir app would consistently route me to the wrong gate, for a flight that was still two hours away, shouting notifications that boarding was closing. i used FlightAware and ignored the AlaskaAir app as it is completely worthless. now with their merger with Hawaiian Air the plan (from an insider) is to ignore all of Hawaiians modern-ish infra and just slam everything into Alaskas ancient tech stack. and if you are still not convinced, research how long Alaska Air was running without a Chief Safety Officer, before and after, Flight 261, and thought it was fine. a true disaster of an airline from the infrastructure culture to the safety culture. i now keep applying just to get on a call with anyone infra related to shout at them for ruining that hometown airline.
by unwind | 2025-10-24 13:28:55+00:00
If you have (young) kids, having active/plentiful wasps nearby might just not work. Wasps can be scary, especially to children who have been stung before, and they are super-impractical around kids eating/snacking, too. "Close your mouth and relax" just doesn't get through to a scared kid, in my experience. :|
by duped | 2025-10-24 13:29:14+00:00
So your paper design is most similar in spirit to CLAP. I would say that the actual audio/event processing bits are the "easy" part of the API.

> And here VST3, which has a defined model for parameter interpolation, is easier to deal with than plugin formats that do not define exact interpolation formula.

So I'll just reiterate that this is not true for either plugin or host developers and that's not a minority opinion. The parameter value queue abstraction is harder to implement on both sides of the API, has worse performance, and doesn't provide much in benefit over sending a sparse list of time-stamped events and delegating smoothing to the plugin.

> As I remember, plugins may also have output parameters, so it is possible to process parameter data using plugins.

The host forwards those output parameters back to that plugin's editor, not to other plugins. You use this as a hack to support metering, although in practice since this is a VST3 quirk, few people do it. Until 3.8.0 which added the IMidiLearn2 interface there was no way to annotate MIDI mappings for output parameters, which caused hosts to swallow MIDI messages even if they should be forwarded to all plugins. I doubt that the new interface will be implemented consistently by hosts, and now there's a problem where old plugins may do the wrong thing in new versions of hosts that expect plugins to be updated (this is catastrophic behavior for audio plugins - you never want a version update to change how they behave, because it breaks old sessions). There's also no good way to consistently send what are effectively automation clips out of plugins, since the plugin does not have a view into the sequencer.

And most importantly - plugins aren't aware of other plugins. If one plugin outputs an parameter change it is meaningless to another plugin. Maybe if both plugins implement IMidiMapping2 the host can translate the output parameter change into a MIDI event and then into another parameter change. Sounds a lot stupider than just sending discrete MIDI events.

Essentially, the design of parameters in VST3 is fragile and bad.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-10-24 13:29:32+00:00
This scheme doesn’t really make sense. Once you’ve convinced a wealthy person to play at your underground poker table, you’ve already won - just play better poker than them, ultra wealthy fish don’t have time to learn to play perfect poker and you do. Trying to extract slightly more money per hand via x ray tables etc kills the golden goose and doesn’t even necessarily increase total winnings, since it makes you win faster but doesn’t increase the amount the fish are willing to lose to have a good time.
by Vipsy | 2025-10-24 13:30:19+00:00
Open source drive tools live or die on three things. 1) Simple sync that never surprises. 2) Clean conflict handling you can explain to a non tech friend. 3) And zero drama upgrades.

If Twake nails those and keeps a sane on prem story with S3 and LDAP, it has a shot. The harder part is trust and docs. Clear threat model. Crisp migration guides from Drive and Dropbox. And a tiny CLI that just works on a headless box. Do these and teams will try it for real work, not just weekend tests.
by stantonius | 2025-10-24 13:30:46+00:00
> I've always conducted my thoughts in an "uncompressed format" and then eternally struggled to confine it all into words. Only then for people to misinterpret and question it.

This resonates so much with me. To a point where I don't write/contribute in public forums out of fear for this misinterpretation.

Strangely, your post has made me push through that exact fear to write this, so any perceived misinterpretation has positively impacted at least one stranger. This is a good reminder for me that focusing only on negative consequences misses the unintended positive ones of still putting something out there, even if its not a perfect representation of the "uncompressed format".

Thank you for sharing, and I wish you a speedy recovery.
by ajross | 2025-10-24 13:30:51+00:00
> This is not a rousing endorsement of the Unix shell environment.

It's surely not. The question wasn't how to rewrite the shell environment to be more "endorseable", though.

The point is that we have a half century (!) long history of writing code to this admittedly fragile environment, with no way to audit usage or even find all the existing code (literally many of the authors are retired or dead).

So... it's just not a good place to play games with "Look Ma, I rewrote /usr/bin/date and it's safe now!" Mess with your own new environments, not the ones that run the rest of the world please.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-24 13:31:05+00:00
The key is a lot of cash, or cryptocurrency.

If you run a Jimmy John’s, most of your customers will pay with credit cards. Everything runs through banks. You can’t launder that easily. It’s all traceable. It’s all taxable.

Run a poker operation and you can get your marks to give you crypto, cash, or small transfers.

$7 million in pure cash and crypto proceeds from a poker game is a lot more valuable than $7 million in revenue from a sandwich shop for an organized crime operation.
by benjiro | 2025-10-24 13:31:07+00:00
> If HTTP is involved, lets just give up and make the system as slow as possible?

Did i write that? Please leave flamebait out of these discussions.

The original author (today) answered why they wanted to use this approach and the benefits from it. This has been missing in this entire discussion. So i really do not understand where you get this confidence.

> Switching out to JSON will meaningfully degrade performance. For no benefit.

Without knowing why or how the system was used, and now we know it is used as a transport medium between the db/nodes, its more clear as to why json is a issue for them. Does not explain how you conclude it will "meaningfully degrade performance" when this information was not available to any of us.