MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-20 19:19:21+00:00
How can one analyze this? Actually reaching the stage of some essential resource exhaustion leads to war, starvation, or other event that causes the society to no longer exist, and thus you are left with survivorship bias by studying the ones that remain.

But also, merely surviving is not the problem trying to be avoided. It’s all the decrease in quality of life on the way to adapting to the scarcity of the resource (which very well could mean thinning the herd) that is the issue.
by afro88 | 2025-10-20 19:19:30+00:00
> Isn't this just an emulator or rebadged something-or-other?

>The Commodore 64 Ultimate from the only original Commodore® brand (est. 1958) is brand new hardware-based Commodore 64 technology. It features SID chip-reactive LEDs (case, keyboard, power light), the world's first transparent keyboard PCB, original and modern creators’ autographs etched in copper, and an updated FPGA that replicates the original C64 motherboard (not emulation). All customisable via a new, easy main menu. It’s a fully authentic new build from Commodore - who else?

I was hoping they would have authentic SID chips. The analog side of the SID is a large part of it's sound so it comes down to how well they can model that.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-20 19:19:38+00:00
> What dispute do they have with Pakistan

You’re the one who straw manned to territorial disputes!

Beijing culturally projects in Pakistan. Capitalism with Chinese characteristics, a growing prevalence of Mandarin being taught as a second language [1], requiring Islamabad embrace Beijing’s foreign policy, et cetera.

(To be clear, this seems fine. Both Pakistan and Russia have proven dangerously incompetent as fully sovereign states. Perhaps being under Beijing is more stable and prosperous.)

[1] https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202210/19/WS634f462aa310f...
by ubj | 2025-10-20 19:20:04+00:00
Very curious to see what usage limits are like for paid plans. Anthropic was already experiencing issues with high-volume model usage for Pro and Max users. I hope their infrastructure is able to adequately support running these additional coding environments on top of model inference.

Just to be clear, I'm excited for the capability to use Claude Code entirely within the browser. However, I've heard reports of Max users experiencing throttled usage limits in recent months, and am concerned as to whether this will exacerbate that issue or not.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-10-20 19:20:45+00:00
Bad reading comprehension.

You're talking about recognizing IP, I am talking about stealing IP AND selling stolen IP in our markets.

1st: yes force can be used to discourage the theft of IP. This is merely an obstacle, not a total blocker 2nd: yes force can be used to block IP from our markets. This is actually incredibly trivial and would have been very easy 40-years ago.
by sunrunner | 2025-10-20 19:21:46+00:00
The 'experts' also made similar criticisms with the Fastly outage in 2021 and did anything obvious change as a result? In a week's time no national newspapers will be talking about this.

Meanwhile, everyone that spends actual time in these areas:

- Knows that running an operation at AWS scale is difficult and any armchair critism from 'experts' is exactly that. Actions speak louder than words.

- Understands that the cost of actually accounting for this kind of scenarios is incredibly high for the benefit in most cases

- Knows that genuinely 'critical' services (i.e. health) should be designed to account for this, and every other 'serious' issue such as 'I can't log in to Fortnite' just shows what the price and effort of actually making that work is versus how much it costs affected companies when it happens

- Knows how much time national newspapers spend actually talking about the importance of multi-region/multi-cloud redundancy, that is, it's zero until the one day where it happens and then it's old news

- Is just curious as to just what exactly happened from a technical perspective

This isn't to say that good blameless post-mortem shouldn't happen to figure out process and technical issues, but the armchair criticism with no actual followup? All noise, no signal.
by crubier | 2025-10-20 19:22:20+00:00
I can believe that your abstract thoughts in latent space are diffusing/forming progressively when you are thinking.

But I can't believe the actual literal words are diffusing when you're thinking.

When being asked: "How are you today", there is no way that your thoughts are literally like "Alpha zulu banana" => "I banana coco" => "I banana good" => "I am good". The diffusion does not happen at the output token layer, it happens much earlier at a higher level of abstraction.
by altairprime | 2025-10-20 19:23:19+00:00
Any world history source, such as Wikipedia, yes. (If that’s not the reason you brought it up, I only saw your first two words in the discussion; perhaps your reply was truncated unexpectedly?)

This definitely ties into a weakness in the U.S. speech laws — we rarely view obscenity as relevant to non-erotic topics, so our social edifices are ill-equipped at considering this topic at all: by social assumption, a non-erotic text such as the old testament bible is unconsciously assumed exempt from obscenity concerns even though it is blatantly NSFW. (I can’t speak to how other countries handle this topic.)
by krst252009 | 2025-10-20 19:23:53+00:00
Totally resonate with this. I’ve felt the same frustration — especially when trying to make informed decisions as a citizen or entrepreneur. Most news feels reactive, not reflective.

I’ve been exploring ways to simplify decision-making in other domains (like personal finance), and I think the same principles apply:

Context matters — trends > isolated events

Follow-through matters — what happened after the headline?

Signal over noise — monthly summaries or curated dashboards could help

Curious if anyone here has tried building or using tools that track long-term civic or legal outcomes. Would love to see something like a “public impact tracker” that connects headlines to actual changes.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-10-20 19:23:53+00:00
I don't really get it. There are two possibilities here:

* You control all the IO, and then you can use some cooperative mechanism to signal cancellation to the thread.

* You don't control IO code at the syscall level (e.g. you're using some library that uses sockets under the hood, such as a database client library)... But then it's just obvious you're screwed. If you could somehow terminate the thread abruptly then you'll leak resources (possibly leaving mutexes locked, as you said), or if you interrupt syscalls with an error code then the library won't understand it. That's too trivial to warrant a blog post fussing about signals.

The only useful discussion to have on the topic of thread cancellation is what happens when you can do a cooperative cancel, so I don't think it's fair to shoot that discussion down.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-20 19:23:57+00:00
The problem is in the fact that we have been treating more and more banal construction projects as if they were chemical factories.

The permiting process for a normal residential block of flats in Prague takes several years, because every NIMBY can have their say repeatedly.

Everything can be overdone and we as a civilization might have overdone it with safetyism. On a similar note, look at the "free range kid" movement, which is fighting hard to give children at least some freedom which, 40 years ago, was considered absolutely natural.
by baal80spam | 2025-10-20 19:24:13+00:00
> There’s a quiet cruelty in how modern economies make stability feel like a luxury. Owning a home, having savings, or even time to be bored used to be normal milestones, now they are privileges.

Ehh, I don't know. Didn't people for vast majority of our history worry about what (if anything) they would eat not even next month, but next week?
by bentley | 2025-10-20 19:24:36+00:00
As a 12‐year‐old I encountered this passage during my first complete read of the Bible and wasn’t bothered by it. It’s a colorful metaphor that uses sexual promiscuity to symbolize Israel’s religious impiety, a common theme that occurs elsewhere in the Bible (e.g., Hosea whose commitment to his unfaithful wife was used as a symbol for the love of God to an unfaithful Israel). These are basic theological ideas that were not hidden from me at church even at that age.

I encountered actual prurient material on the shelves of the school library, and heard far worse obscenity in the locker room during gym class. The most erotic stuff in the Bible, Song of Songs, is quaint by the standards of a century ago, let alone today.

If F‐Droid is trying to drum up opposition to the UK’s extreme suppression of pornography, they've muddled it. They could have defied the unjust restrictions, or they could have leaned into it and marked Wikipedia apps, Reddit apps, Mastodon apps, and Project Gutenberg apps the same way.

That they did neither indicates that they have chosen to specifically target religious content, and not just by marking it. F-Droid developers openly state (https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/252#note_2578531026) that (1) new NSFW apps will not be added, and (2) existing NSFW apps will be removed.

It's bad on principle: F-Droid is akin to a distribution package repo, and should not prohibit apps based solely on ideology (nor should Debian, Gentoo, BSD ports…); and it's also impractical: given the looming threat of government suppression of app stores, F‐Droid (already an underdog) should not be driving away supporters by taking up anti‐religious ideology.
by gabiteodoru | 2025-10-20 19:25:10+00:00
Do you know which method is this? Euler's by any chance? And do you have an idea how one would prove that it creates a magic square? It's actually one of my inspirations for writing this, the relationship between the code that does something and the proof that the code actually does what it claims. I'd argue an LLM would find the proof helpful if it were asked to generalize an existing function in some way
by bpt3 | 2025-10-20 19:25:16+00:00
> Rent and mortgage payments are based on selling access to resources - nothing of value is produced through rent extraction. It is a purely parasitic process economically.

I have to assume you have never been responsible for maintaining a property. Unless someone is renting out a cave on a triple net lease, your statement above is hilariously inaccurate.

> most people do not have the option of affording housing except through the rentier capitalist avenues of rent or mortgage.

If most people can't afford it, then why do most people live in a home that is owned by a member of their household (either themselves, or their parent/guardian)?
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-20 19:25:42+00:00
Yes, but that noise has a frequency that is way higher. It is the same as with new motors/electric motors. While it is technically true, that the loudness of the sound is less, they are more annoying, so you trade a fine sound that also serves as an easy diagnostic, to a obtrusive noise, that also conveys less semantics.
by tudelo | 2025-10-20 19:25:47+00:00
Alerting has to be a constant iterative process. Some things should be nice to know, and some things should be "halt what you are doing and investigate". The latter needs to really be decided based on what your SLI/SLAs have been defined as, and need to be high quality indicators. Whenever one of the halt-and-do things alerts start to be less high signal they should be downgraded or thresholds should be increased. Like I said, an iterative process. When you are talking about a system owned by a team there should be some occasional semi-formal review of current alerting practices and when someone is on-call and notices flaky/bad alerting they should spend time tweaking/fixing so the next person doesn't have the same churn.

There isn't a simple way but having some tooling to go from alert -> relevant dashboards -> remediation steps can help cut down on the process... it takes a lot of time investment to make these things work in a way that allows you to save time and not spend more time solving issues. FWIW I think developers need to be deeply involved in this process and basically own it. Static thresholds usually would just be a warning to look at later, you want more service level indicators. For example if you have a streaming system you probably want to know if one of your consumers are stuck or behind by a certain amount, and also if there is any measurable data loss. If you have automated pushes, you would probably want alerting for a push that is x amount of time stale. For rpc type systems you would want some recurrent health checks that might warn on cpu/etc but put higher severity alerting on whether or not responses are correct and as expected or not happening at all.

As a solo dev it might be easier just to do the troubleshooting process every time, but as a team grows it becomes a huge time sink and troubleshooting production issues is stressful, so the goal is to make it as easy as possible. Especially if downtime == $$.

I don't have good recommendations for tooling because I have used mostly internal tools but generally this is my experience.
by gethly | 2025-10-20 19:26:03+00:00
There's an old saying - those who know, do. Those who don't, teach. In essence, you might have the knowledge, but you have no practice. That makes you mostly unemployable in tech.

But good news is that many companies want to fill some quotas and they require degrees, so you'll likely find some place in a larger company where what you can do means less than the letters that go before or after your name.

A situation from a personal experience - some years go, in a company where I worked at(advertising agency, i handled the websites), we were looking to hire someone. I do not rememebr what position it was. We were small company, 15-ish people. We got a ton of CVs. I rememebr one specific CV - there was a guy who had THREE university diplomas and was in his 30s, but had no work experience. This guy had 0 chance of being picked and his CV went straight to the trash bin. In tech, this is 10x more prominent as this sector is about what you can actually do and what you did in the past. Not what you know in theory and whatnot.

It is what it is. Good luck with your search. Definitely pick some popular language though, to broaden up your pool of opportunities. Don't be looking for Rust jobs or any of that nonsense. And don't expect large salary either. You have to earn it.
by bix6 | 2025-10-20 19:26:16+00:00
> “Our bear market signposts — the triggers that typically precede an S&P 500 peak — suggest additional caution,” Subramanian wrote. She noted that six of 10 bear market warning signs that the bank watches have been triggered. Typically, an average of 70% of those signs are set off before the market hits a peak and begins an extended decline.

Only 1 more domino to fall eh
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-10-20 19:26:30+00:00
You're right, alliances are not boolean.

From the US perspective, we have been asking ourselves "can we trust Europe's military capacity" for a very long time and the answer (prior to 2025) was: NO.

With Trump on one side and Russia on the other, it seems like the answer has shifted to: MAYBE.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-20 19:26:32+00:00
I feel like I don't really like AWS and prefer self hosted vps or even google cloud / cloudflare more but and so I agree with what you are trying to say but Let me be the devil's argument.

I mean I agree but what you are saying is that where else are you gonna host it? If you host it yourself and then it turns out to be an issue and you go down then that's entirely on you and 99% of the internet still works.

But if Aws goes down, lets say 50% of the internet goes down.

So, in essence, nobody blames a particular team/person just as the parent comment said that nobody gets fired for picking IBM.

Although, I still think that the idea which is worrying is such massive centralization of servers that we have a single switch which can turn half the internet off. So I am a bit worried from the centralization side of thing's.
by krst252009 | 2025-10-20 19:26:42+00:00
That’s a fascinating way to frame it — treating news as a dynamic context window, like how LLMs operate. I agree that selective exposure shapes not just what we think about, but what we’re capable of thinking with. It’s like trying to solve a puzzle with half the pieces hidden.

At the same time, I wonder if there’s a balance. Curating context might be necessary for mental clarity, especially when the volume of global news is overwhelming. Maybe the goal isn’t to consume everything, but to design systems (or habits) that surface the most structurally important signals — the kind that shape long-term outcomes.

I’ve been working on tools that simplify decision-making in finance, and this idea of “context compression” really resonates. Curious how others manage the tension between staying informed and staying sane.
by valiant55 | 2025-10-20 19:27:01+00:00
My first is allergic to peanuts and I don't think she lived in a bubble but she was born in late 2020 so probably a relative bubble compared to normal times. She was 8mo when she first had a lick of peanut butter, no other allergies and we quickly followed up with tree nut butter to head off anything else.
by myko | 2025-10-20 19:27:07+00:00
> Nah, just go play air hockey until your boss realizes Claude is what they need, not you.

This is a depressing comment.

I am apprehensive about the future of software development in this milieu. I've pumped out a ~15,000 line application heavily utilizing Claude Code over a few days that seems to work, but I don't know how much to trust it.

Certainly part of the fun of building something was missing during that project, but it was still fun to see something new come to life.

Maybe I should say I am cautiously optimistic but also concerned: I don't feel confident in the best ways to use these tools to build good software, and I'm not sure exactly what skills are useful in order to get them there.
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by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-10-20 19:27:32+00:00
Sounds like a pretty good shed! Like a lot of pithy commentary on the cloud, this ignores the fact the practical alternative to a shed in Virginia for most businesses is a shelf in the supply closet. "Oops, Jim Bob tripped over the power cord, guess we won't get any emails until the IT guy shows up" - this used to be a routine experience.
by greedo | 2025-10-20 19:27:52+00:00
I (like many) started playing chess online during COVID and despite being too damn old, I wanted to see how high I could climb in ratings. Soon I found Danya, then Gotham, then IMRosen. All who loved this damn game so much. Even found I liked Hikaru though as an oldster, so many of his memes went over my head.

I soon realized that no matter how hard I tried, I would never be ranked, and I was fine with that because lichess had become an outlet. An outlet from the horrors of COVID. An outlet from the shock of a brutal war in Europe. An outlet from my failing marriage. An outlet from the world turned upside down in the US. I could always find solace in a rapid game on lichess.

Danya... I plateaued around 1400 and often found it hard to follow his gameplay on his speed runs. He was thinking 4-5 moves ahead while I was trying to avoid simple blunders. But Danya was easy to listen to, humble, and he helped instill a love in me of being very honest in my game evaluation. He also seemed like an incredibly charitable player; when it was obvious someone was cheating, he always gave them the benefit of the doubt, even when stockfish made it clear what was happening. His charity and kindness was endearing.

The world is a much lesser place today.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-10-20 19:28:01+00:00
> Frontier LLMs aren't going to get cheaper

One of the main selling points to MOE, is that the architecture is designed such that you can re-train experts independently, as well as add new experts, change the size of an experts parameters, etc, without retraining the entire model.

If 80% of you usage comes from 20% of your experts, you can cut your future training costs SUBSTANTIALLY.
by wredcoll | 2025-10-20 19:28:06+00:00
Because we have elections that affect the government. Very broadly speaking, we do that by electing republicans or democrats. Republicans consistently do things like censor government agencies and attempt to alter history. Democrats do not.

Blaming "the government" becomes a way to shield criticism of the actual people doing it which means people are ever so slightly less likely to take appropriate corrective actions.

(Saying republicans instead of specific republicans is a bit the same, but there's a certain freedom of association there, if you're currently a republican it means that all of these republican actions are, at minimum, acceptable to you)
by throwaway894345 | 2025-10-20 19:28:17+00:00
Containers have nothing to do with storage. They are completely orthogonal to storage (you can use Dynamo or RedShift from EC2), and many people run Docker directly on VMs. Plenty of us still spend lots of time thinking about storage and state even with containers.

Containers allow me to outsource host management. I gladly spend far less time troubleshooting cloud-init, SSH, process managers, and logging/metrics agents.
by culi | 2025-10-20 19:28:18+00:00
I've used Sorbet a lot but don't really count it. I understand why others would but I find the type system is extremely shallow and limited and the overhead it adds to development (and even performance) is substantial.

Also Ruby has RBS now which is not inline and... much maligned to say the least. I think the entire ecosystem is at a crossroads rn wrt typed Ruby
by pythonaut_16 | 2025-10-20 19:28:30+00:00
I don't see how Docker makes that worse.

Before Docker you had things like Heroku and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk with a much greater degree of lock in than Docker.

ECS and its analogues on the other cloud providers have very little lock in. You should be able to deploy your container to any provider or your own VM. I don't see what Dynamo and data storage have to do with that. If we were all on EC2s with no other services you'd still have to figure out how to move your data somewhere else?

Like I truly don't understand your argument here.
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-20 19:28:30+00:00
Yeah, I get that landlords have financial obligations too, which is why I'm torn on it.

The mechanism exists so good landlords (who take the responsibility of having a tenant seriously) aren't scammed out by bad renters, but, it seems like most landlords aren't that way, instead utilizing every tool available to maximize their property value and minimize the ability for renters to own their own properties, regardless of the social harm they cause.