MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by singlepaynews | 2025-10-05 18:11:12+00:00
I don't see how I (or LinkedIn) is making you do anything? LinkedIn is a place I can post data. I choose to do so in an attempt to market my resume. I fully expect that the data I post on LinkedIn's server becomes and is the property of LinkedIn, and wish it was more effective at extracting value from it?

Because LinkedIn is less effective than I'd like, I support 3rd parties scraping the data I posted there, again on the hope that they'd be more successful at marketing that data, which I would benefit from as the data is my resume.
by shermantanktop | 2025-10-05 18:11:13+00:00
I’ve noticed that, but I think it hit the humanities in the 1980s and arrived at STEM more recently. It’s just the MBA-driven financialization and enshittification of everything.

But it’s ultimately down to the fact that a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class, so it matters a lot what degree and from which school.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-05 18:11:15+00:00
Gamepass has a lot more than AAA’s (Silk Song for instance) and if you haven’t been sticking with consoles in particular over the last 10-15 years the back catalog of tentpole titles is actually pretty impressive.

I’ve had many conversations with people in their 30s who have not touched video games since the 360/PS3 era. Gamepass, even if just for a few months, makes a ton of sense for them if they have the time.

I say this as somebody who absolutely does not think people should be paying $30 for gamepass generally speaking and I think Microsoft/Xbox is incredibly weak right now. But there are certainly cases where it makes a ton of sense and Sony isn’t exactly offering a better alternative unless you want a Final Fantasy machine that’s library is dominated by PS3/PS4 remasters (which in many ways mimics the value prop of gamepass for those who have not been gaming for years).
by wiether | 2025-10-05 18:12:57+00:00
I think the difference is in the intent.

If someone is going to restaurants serving variations of a dish, or if they travel to cemeteries where their ancestors are buried, that's qualify as hobbies.

Whereas, if they go to all the trending restaurants or countries/cities on social networks, that's not hobbies.

In the first case, they make active decisions on what they do; in the second case, they are just following the decisions made by others.

To be clear, both are fines, as long as they feel happy with how they spend their free time and money.

But I know with who I'd like to spend some time, listening them explaining what they did in the last months.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-05 18:12:59+00:00
At that speed the limiting factor likely moves from raw power output to things like cornering ability on the track, grip of the tires, aerodynamics, downforce, driver skill, mechanical linkages, etc.

There's a reason why all the world's land speed records since the 1930s [1] get set at the Bonneville Salt Flats or similar flat desert terrain. FWIW, the speed listed in this article was exceeded in 1937. The hard part is not necessarily going fast, it's going fast in a street-legal vehicle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_land_speed_records
by singlepaynews | 2025-10-05 18:13:52+00:00
Yes; post was updated after my comment

In my experience chatGPT solves the challenge handily, but it does get to the level of problem that GPT requires my code review for, so either I'm not as good at using chat as I could be or they've found the point at which someone has to prove they can actually do code review to filter; nice.
by daxfohl | 2025-10-05 18:14:01+00:00
I agree with your main point, though with an asterisk.

I don't think concise is necessarily better than long, nor do I think long is better than concise. The thing is, humanity tends to go in cycles. Poems for Babylonians, long epics for the Greeks, back to poems for Shakespeare and Goethe, then the Russians brought back epics. Kind of a mix during the 20th century, but poetry seemed to slowly fade, and novels trended generally shorter. (All of this is very 30K foot-view; of course there were many exceptions in every era).

Philip Roth predicted the end of the era of the novel at some point, long (relatively) before AI [1]. He said that, similar to poetry in the early 20th century, humanity has evolved past the meaningfulness of the long-form novel.

This doesn't mean "the humanities is dead." It just means that we're entering another cycle where a different from of humanities needs to take over from what we've had in the past.

Anyone arguing that the death of the long-form novel is equivalent to the death of humanities is missing the fact that "humanities" is not a precisely-defined set of topics written in stone. Though it can seem like this is the case at any one point in time, humanities can, and must, exist in many forms that will invariably change as humanity's needs do likewise. That's why its prefix is "human".

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/books/philip-roth-apprasi...
by ksec | 2025-10-05 18:14:19+00:00
Agree it is definitely less of an issue. It also used be Xeon and EPYC ( or Opteron ) exclusive for higher core count. But Desktop CPU has caught up and now offer up to 32 vCPU for $600.

Although in 2025 AMD decided instead of people using Ryzen for server they launched EPYC Grado instead. Which is similar if not slightly cheaper than Ryzen at 32 vCPU and offer official ECC Memory support.
by eqvinox | 2025-10-05 18:14:42+00:00
This was the "sign a CNDA" step. They just refused to give one to sign. The specific case was about Thunderbolt controllers, I guess they fact that they're selling licenses to the Thunderbolt trademark might also be a factor. The datasheets themselves have leaked on Mac forums, but that's not enough to build a design on…

…so the alternate option now is ASMedia USB4 chips…
by Spivak | 2025-10-05 18:14:50+00:00
I mean the decent alternative is object storage if you can tolerate not getting a filesystem. You can get an S3 client running anywhere with little trouble. There are lots of really good S3 compatible servers you can self-host. And you don't get the issue of your system locking up because of an unresponsive server.

I've always thought that NFS makes you choose between two bad alternatives with "stop the world and wait" or "fail in a way that apps are not prepared for."
by ben_w | 2025-10-05 18:15:39+00:00
That rips off the advertisers and/or leaves the poor poorer.

For any given ad supported service, one of two things must be true:

(1) the ad spend was more than or equal to the cost of the service for those users

(2) the ad spend was less than the cost of the service for those users

From fork (2), it follows that the service isn't sustainable anyway.

From fork (1), it follows that the buyers of the ad slots in turn only make a profit if those ads led to sales higher than the ad spend.

But for any given poor person, buying that which was advertised on the ad supported service necessarily means spending more than they would have on a non-ad-supported version of the same ad supported services.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-05 18:15:41+00:00
I totally understand their point of view considering the sensitivity of your data.

In power platform it's very easy to make an oopsie and expose huge volumes of data on some unprotected object storage or an external platform. We have a big review process on such developments, we certainly don't want users to cowboy that on their own.

It's basically the old "Thumbdrive left in a taxi" these days. With the huge difference that these things now lead to huge fines under GDPR etc.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-05 18:16:44+00:00
I think that's honestly been a success for Rust nobody really talks about. It's enabled people who would never write in a non-garbage collected language to do just that.

Between the borrow checker and Cargo, it's brought system engineering to a whole group of people that never would have touched it before. People who don't want to deal with memory management can write code that doesn't require a GC. And they can easily pull in dependency for things they don't want to write.
by pvankessel | 2025-10-05 18:16:58+00:00
Except many STEM graduates are having a harder time finding jobs right now than liberal arts and humanities majors: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:....

For what it's worth, I have enjoyed a very successful career in data science and software engineering after taking some AP STEM courses in high school, followed by three liberal arts degrees. Many of the best engineers I've known have had similar backgrounds. A good liberal arts education teaches one how to think and learn independently. It's not a substitute for a highly-specialized education in, say, molecular biology, but it provides a really solid foundation to easily pick up more logic-derived technical skills like software development. It's also essential for an informed citizenry and functional democracy.
by wltr | 2025-10-05 18:17:17+00:00
On the other hand, I did this, cut my cables, and after I needed to reorganise things slightly, it was very difficult, even a centimetre was at luxury. Also, when I need to move a computer for some reason, there’s no room, at all. These days, I’m trying to leave at least some extra cm (usually that’s an inch or two, depending on their location) for that. I’d do very tight cable cut only for situations when I’m super sure nothing will ever move. Again, even then, I’d rather leave some extra inch, just in case.
by panny | 2025-10-05 18:17:32+00:00
https://archive.is/2acJn

I don't think anyone is forced to live in the bay area. For what you spend to live in the bay area, you could just buy a really nice house in the midwest and raise a family.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/402-W-Prospect-St-Kewanee...

Let's check the boxes here:

Walkable

Public transportation (Amtrak station)

Fiber internet

Blue state politics

And this isn't like a cheap house. This is the second most expensive house in town.
by LinXitoW | 2025-10-05 18:17:47+00:00
But the "simple" system will be full of repetition and boilerplate, meaning the same bugs are scattered around the code base, and obscured by masses of boilerplate.

Isn't a GC also a Magic? Or anything above assembly? While I also understand the reluctance to use too much magic, in my experience, it's not the magic, it's how well the magic is tested and developed.

I used to work with Play framework, a web framework built around Akka, an async bundle of libraries. Because it wasn't too popular, only the most common issues were well documented. I thought I hated magic.

Then, I started using Spring Boot, and I loved magic. Spring has so much documentation that you can also become the magician, if you need to.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-05 18:17:51+00:00
I think that’s pretty much what I said, right? She wasn’t a demon. It’s not her fault the seating was arranged so horribly. I wasn’t angry with her. And yet, the distance from the back of my seat to the reclining back of hers was shorter than the length of my legs, from rump to knee. It was physically impossible for me to put my legs together and I was physically in pain. I was annoyed with the airline, not the woman who just wanted to get a little more comfortable.
by rglullis | 2025-10-05 18:18:44+00:00
> Frankly, in here EU did a good job

People in the EU are still using Instagram/Facebook/WhatsApp. Zuckerberg did a "ok, if you don't want us to track you, you can pay 12€/month" and everyone just smashed the "I consent to get my data mined forever" button.

Not to mention that we *still* have lobbying for chat control.

Every measure from the EU is, as always, meant to look like our beloved bureaucrats are doing something but absolute ineffective at changing the status quo.
by zahlman | 2025-10-05 18:18:55+00:00
> but for sure setting up a local network with top-level open source self-hosted alternatives is the easiest it has ever been ever.

Sometimes HN makes me feel like I'm the literal last remaining person on the planet who just... uses a desktop computer, and stores data on SSDs and HDDs, all physically connected to the machine, and never worries about how to access this data from another device because there are no other devices from which it should be accessed.

I mean, okay, fine, I do things like publishing to GitHub. But I still have a local copy, and I'm in control.
by yongjik | 2025-10-05 18:20:00+00:00
It's even worse. According to other articles [1], the total data of "G drive" was 858 TB.

It's almost farcical to calculate, but AWS S3 has pricing of about $0.023/GB/month, which means the South Korean government could have reliable multi-storage backup of the whole data at about $20k/month. Or about $900/month if they opted for "Glacier deep archive" tier ($0.00099/GB/month).

They did have backup of the data ... in the same server room that burned down [2].

[1] https://www.hankyung.com/article/2025100115651

[2] https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/area/area_general/1221873.html

(both in Korean)
by root_axis | 2025-10-05 18:20:05+00:00
GamePass is the worst thing to happen to gaming in the last two decades. It's an unsustainable race-to-the-bottom business model that devalues games and incentives shoveling out crap instead of producing quality titles. Worse yet, it conditions players to dismiss challenging, innovative, or unusual game mechanics due to the siren song of a functionally infinite catalog tempting them to just load up another title at the first sign of struggle.
by cowpig | 2025-10-05 18:20:16+00:00
I associate the University of Chicago with a kind of religious exercise in economic theory, a movement dedicated to justifying a political stance in pseudo-intellectualism at the direct expense of empiricism.

The University of Chicago is basically Number Go Up University.

I don't see why this university, out of all of the high-prestige American schools, would care about humanities in a time when the conservative political movement has wholly embraced anti-intellectualism. The political movement no longer cares about presenting Number Go Up Theory as some kind of elite intellectual practice.
by stockresearcher | 2025-10-05 18:20:20+00:00
You should have no trouble finding it used for single-digit dollars. If you decide to get it, read the first and last chapters. Like, actually read them. They are the chapters that don’t have any design patterns in them, so pretty much nobody reads them. But you should. Whether or not you study any of the design patterns in the book is up to you. They don’t really apply to a lot of things people are doing these days.
by meesles | 2025-10-05 18:20:40+00:00
I'm not at all surprised, US agencies have long since been political tools whenever the subject matter crosses national borders. I appreciate this take as someone who has been skeptical of Chinese electronics. While I agree this report is BS and xenophobic, I am still willing to bet that either now or later, the Chinese will attempt some kind of subterfuge via LLMs if they have enough control. Just like the US would, or any sufficiently powerful nation! It's important to continuously question models and continue benchmarking + holding them accountable to our needs, not the needs of those creating them.
by oritron | 2025-10-05 18:21:17+00:00
I watched a video of the speed test a few days ago and it looked like the BYD car was still accelerating when the top speed was reached, such that it could have gone faster than the record they were aiming for—there was a speed curve and it wasn't plateauing. Of course there are lots of possible reasons why the car couldn't have managed a higher speed, but I wonder if it's like incredibly tall skyscrapers having secretly validated a taller version in the wind tunnel so they can change plans if competition catches up during construction.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-05 18:21:40+00:00
When I was 13 my parents would let me have a (small) glass of wine with dinner.

I'm sure many parents place proxy sports bets for their kids. Maybe to teach them how to use betting as a form of entertainment and learning how your money can also just disappear. I can see it being a good thing if done carefully. I can also see it going wrong.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-05 18:21:45+00:00
I don't think there's any evidence of that. Megafauna aren't that easy, and there's no general evidence of overhunting all the animals. People weren't going hungry because medium-sized animals were still around, and there are so many more of them!

Agriculture, at first, simply made life easier. You didn't have to be nomadic always looking for more food, you could just stay in one place. Your food was right there. It was awesome.

The problem was, it was so insanely successful -- you were having so many more children because of all the food -- populations shot up and suddenly there wasn't enough food anymore when you had a bad year.

So it's actually the opposite of what you're describing -- from what I understand, famine wasn't really a thing until agriculture caused populations to increase massively.
by hbogert | 2025-10-05 18:21:51+00:00
> A big fuss about nothing. If you don’t pay for the IDE they will train on your data unless you opt-out and they will ask you if you want to opt-out _before_ they collect any data (on first launch after the update).

Not sure what I'm missing with spacemacs + LSP compared to vscode. (Spac)emacs does not train on my data. I don't pay for spacemacs.
by zahlman | 2025-10-05 18:22:10+00:00
> Online advertising is the keystone keeping this pile of shit upright and I can't wait until that bubble finally pops. That is when the narrative will change.

This can't happen until there's another viable revenue stream. Which requires smoothing out everything about microtransactions, creating a culture where people now expect to pay, and building trust that it won't get stuffed with ads anyway.
by 1f60c | 2025-10-05 18:22:19+00:00
> Change root password

Don't do this; just create a new user and give it sudo privileges.

The utility of changing the SSH port is debatable, but it would lead to less noise in logs. Also, instead of limiting SSH connections to a source IP, you might consider putting the server behind Tailscale and only allowing incoming SSH connections over its interface: https://tailscale.com/kb/1077/secure-server-ubuntu (this also solves the logs problem)
by scuff3d | 2025-10-05 18:22:23+00:00
Yeah in general I think agents are a mistake. People are desperately trying to make these things more useful then they are.

It's more useful as a research assistant, documentation search, and writing code a few lines at a time.

Or yesterday for work I had to generate a bunch of json schemas from Python classes. Friggin great for that. Highly structured input, highly structured output, repetitious and boring.
by sethammons | 2025-10-05 18:22:52+00:00
Göbekli Tepe is direct evidence of an advanced society over 11k years ago.

Humans are story tellers. Stories last a long time. The youngest fossils of Megalania, which grew up to 7 meters (23 feet) in length and weighing over 600 kg (1,300 lbs), which is the largest terrestrial lizard known to have ever lived, date to around 50,000 years ago, confirming that it was alive when the first Aboriginal people arrived in Australia. Early human inhabitants and the giant lizards would have shared the same environment, and Aboriginal oral traditions about giant goannas may be based on these ancient encounters.

Those stories lasted 50k years.
by jmward01 | 2025-10-05 18:24:19+00:00
'reasonable' is the keyword here. I do not expect an airline to provide medical care on a flight but I do expect some level of accommodation for people with medical issues. We have crosswalks that acknowledge the blind but streets that are still far from perfectly accommodating for them. There is no 'perfect' but there is reasonable accommodation and there is a discussion what 'reasonable' is and what a 'reasonable' accommodation for extreme bodies are. I personally don't find it objectionable to require two seats to be purchased for someone that is that far away from average, but there is a discussion to be had for sure. For instance, how common is it? If it is pretty uncommon then just providing two seats, without extra cost, is probably the easiest thing for all parties involved since special cases are expensive. But now we are, again, playing the airline's games. 'blame the outlier', 'blame a passenger', 'blame security theater'. In the end they want us to blame everyone but them for the terrible service they provide. I have been stranded twice out of the last 5 times I flew because they didn't make their schedule. One of those times I had to sleep on the airport floor and had no compensation or even an 'I'm sorry' from the airline. Their bad, unprofessional and unacceptable level of service needs to end and the core of the problem is the airlines. Not the passengers.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-05 18:24:47+00:00
The anthropological research that came up with 2-3 hours of work per day only looked at time spent away from camp gathering, hunting, and fishing. When you account for food processing, cooking, water collection, firewood gathering, tool making, shelter maintenance, and textile production the numbers go way up. 40-50 hours per week for a modern hunter gatherer tribe is the floor, and the numbers for a prehistoric hunter gatherer society likely looked significantly worse. Once migrations are taken into account (which is why they do 2-3 hours per day of hunting), the numbers really don’t look that rosy.

This compares to a floor of 50-70 hours per week for premodern agriculture. The other side of it is that many of our estimates for agriculture come from hierarchical societies where a significant fraction of the work performed every year was heavily taxed. It’s hard to disentangle how much work was performed for sustenance of one’s family or village compared to the greater societies development (noble extravagance and all).
by eptcyka | 2025-10-05 18:25:17+00:00
For a top speed run, cornering ability is next to useless. You need grip to put down the power and be stable at speed, the corners taken for top speed runs are fairly wide. The bigger issue here is for how long can a BEV sustain max power output - it can deplete its battery in 2 minutes. EVs also can only produce top power whilst battery is at top voltage, since draining it drops voltage, max power drops with charge levels. The tyre grip itself is fine, the issue is tyre durability - they can usually last less than 20 minutes at top speed.

It is an impressive feat of engineering to get to a vmax record in a BEV.
by asa400 | 2025-10-05 18:25:30+00:00
Not the OP but I'll take a stab: I see "waiting faster" as meaning roughly "check the status of" faster.

For example, you have lots of concurrent tasks, and they're waiting on slow external IO. Each task needs its IO to finish so you can make forward progress. At any given time, it's unlikely more than a couple of tasks can make forward progress, due to waiting on that IO. So most of the time, you end up checking on tasks that aren't ready to do anything, because the IO isn't done. So you're waiting on them to be ready.

Now, if you can do that "waiting" (really, checking if they're ready for work or not) on them faster, you can spend more of your machine time on whatever actual work _is_ ready to be done, rather than on checking which tasks are ready for work.

Threads make sense in the opposite scenario: when you have lots of work that _is_ ready, and you just need to chew through it as fast as possible. E.g. numbers to crunch, data to search through, etc.

I'd love if someone has a more illustrative metaphor to explain this, this is just how I think about it.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-10-05 18:25:47+00:00
> all documents be stored exclusively on G-Drive

Does G-Drive mean Google Drive, or "the drive you see as G:"?

If this is Google Drive, what they had locally were just pointers (for native Google Drive docs), or synchronized documents.

If this means the letter a network disk storage system was mapped to, this is a weird way of presenting the problem (I am typing on the black keyboard and the wooden table, so that you know)