MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wat10000 | 2025-10-20 21:45:46+00:00
Is corruption so evil that it's worth killing a huge number of people to reduce it? Aid being diverted to people who don't need it is a real problem, but solving it by cutting off the aid is rather extreme.

As far as the debt goes, the amounts involved are inconsequential. You're going to cause all those deaths to delay sovereign default or hyperinflation by a few hours.
by daft_pink | 2025-10-20 21:46:21+00:00
I can’t shake the feeling that we are living through a period of growing geopolitical tension. It reminds me of Downton Abbey during the season when everyone senses the approach of World War I. The signs are there, the atmosphere is heavy with anticipation, and yet there is a sense of helplessness. Everyone can see what is coming, but no one seems able to stop it.

We are also going through an economic realignment as major powers prepare, in different ways, for the possibility of conflict. That shift is causing slowdowns, disruptions, and a chain of related effects that are creating significant economic costs around the world.

In the long run, the most important goal is to prevent war. I believe our leaders are focused on deterrence, reducing dependencies, and building contingencies to make a large-scale conflict less likely and long term economic sanctions more likely.

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, I have felt this unease deep down. It also helps explain why political parties that would normally prioritize growth are now making decisions that seem to go against that goal.
by margalabargala | 2025-10-20 21:46:24+00:00
That's what I thought too, until I had a one off face swelling and throat closing event after eating a new food and went to an allergist, only to learn I was not allergic and have had successful re-eatings of that food.

What I learned from the allergist is, histamine angioedema is essentially the same thing as anaphylaxis, and is treated the same, but is different in cause in that repeat exposure to the food item will not cause a repeat episode.

I'm not a doctor either, but according to my allergist (who is), most people who think they are allergic to some random thing that most people have never heard of people being allergic to, are not in fact allergic to that thing.

Reading the full text of the article you linked it looks like their criteria cover both angioedema and anaphylaxis and add the two together.

Here's some additional info:

https://knyamed.com/blogs/difference-between/angioedema-vs-a...

https://emcrit.org/ibcc/angioedema/#diagnosis_of_angioedema
by legitster | 2025-10-20 21:46:30+00:00
Anaphylaxis is only fatal in ~0.3% of cases that required hospitalization.

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(13)02738-3/ful...

"Although anaphylactic reactions are potentially life threatening, the probability of dying is very low for those cases that require ED or hospital attention, and is likely much lower when all anaphylactic reactions are considered."

I think you misunderstood me. The risk of your immune system going haywire and killing you is a real risk and worthy of medical attention. But I think we are really overstating the prevalence of how many people have an immune system ready to self-destruct them.
by hilbert42 | 2025-10-20 21:48:04+00:00
I think there's something to that study. Both sides of my family were dog owners and none of us ever suffered allergies, asthma, hay fever, etc.

My mother was a sticker for cleanliness and drummed into us kids from an early age to always wash up properly after handling animals, especially birds. I suppose that's why I was horrified when the dog licked me.

That said, with owning animals there'll always be enough animal 'residue' left in the nearby environs no matter how clean one tries to be. BTW, I also kept white mice and rats when a kid.

Leaving aside hygiene issues, I believe it's important for kids to grow up with animals for many reasons—too many to discuss here.
by yoavm | 2025-10-20 21:48:11+00:00
I was just working on something similar for OpenCode - pushing it now in case it's useful for someone[0].

It can run in a front-end only mode (I'll put up a hosted version soon), and then you need to specify your OpenCode API server and it'll connect to it. Alternatively, it can spin up the API server itself and proxy it, and then you just need to expose (securely) the server to the internet.

The UI is responsive and my main idea was that I can easily continue directing the AI from my phone, but it's also of course possible to just spin up new sessions. So often I have an idea while I'm away from my keyboard, and being up able to just say "create an X" and let it do its thing while I'm on the go is quite exciting.

It doesn't spin up a special sandbox environment or anything like that, but you're really free to run it inside whatever sandboxing solution you want. And unlike Claude Code, you're of course free to choose whatever model you want.

[0] https://github.com/bjesus/opencode-web
by unethical_ban | 2025-10-20 21:48:24+00:00
Shouldn't be double in the long term. Think of the second cloud as a cold standby. Depends on the system. Periodic replication of data layer (object storage/database) and CICD configured to be able to build services and VMs on multiple clouds. Have automatic tests weekly/monthly that represent end-to-end functionality, have scaled tests semi-annually.

This is all very, very hand-wavey. And if one says "golly gee, all our config is too cloud specific to do multi-cloud" then you've figured out why cloud blows and that there is no inherent reason not to have API standards for certain mature cloud services like serverless functions, VMs and networks.

Edit to add- ink ow how grossly simplified this is, and that most places have massively complex systems.
by atoav | 2025-10-20 21:48:38+00:00
That is how it should be yeah.

In reality you will find pockets of utter incompetence in nearly every organization of considerable size. And I don't mean people who sometimes have bad days (who hasn't?) or struggle with particularly hard tasks (who doesn't?).

I mean long-time employee who lack the ability to wield the core tools and lack the core skills needed in their job. Imagine a blacksmith that doesn't know how to use a hammer and while they can talk very entertainingly and deeply about metals they certainly seem to fail at doing anything with it.

Now you may think I am exaggerating. I am not. Anyone in this thread who has worked in first level IT support will be probably agree. Now I am an educator, with a strong believe that nobody (aside those affected by certain medical conditions) is outside of learning and becoming better. I am known for my extreme patience and have won my provinces teaching price. Take this into account when I continue describing here.

We are talking about secretaries whose main tool (as a fraction of their workday) is the email client and calendar functionality, yet they fail to grasp the fundamental "IT for seniors" concepts of even the most basic version of the software they interact with more than 6 hours a day. In fact it is worse, they know they are bad and still file repeated advice into the mental equivalent of a paper shredder. I know of a person who has been doing this for 10 years now. Don't get me wrong, they somehow manage to not have it falling apart, but it is even exhausting to look at it from afar.

What would you think of a truck driver that after years on the job repeatedly asked you how to start the ignition?
by hnidiots3 | 2025-10-20 21:49:08+00:00
I wonder why people don’t just use Amp Code and use the Oracle.

It’s Sonnet 4.5 + GPT-5 working together.

Codex just isn’t as good as people make it out to be. OpenAI seems to train on a lot of JavaScript/Tailwind to make visuals look more impressive but when it comes to actual backend work it just fails more than it succeeds. Sonnet is much better at chewing through tasks and GPT 5 is great at consulting planning and analysis.

Using Amp and asking it to check everything with the oracle leads to superior results.

But no one on HN has heard of it. I’m guessing HN hates twitter?
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-20 21:49:11+00:00
> Never been happier after buying my own place.

Around here, most of the landlords are people just like you. They own a house, and want to get a bigger one, so they either rent the old house (those are often legal rentals), or they divide the house they live in (or their old house), and rent the apartments (those are the ones that are usually illegal).

They aren't land barons or slumlords, and they get pretty screwed, when tenants abuse them. They can lose everything. One family I knew, had to let the house go into foreclosure, because the tenant refused to move, and refused to pay rent. I don't know what happened, after that, but I know that it's nearly impossible to sell a house that's occupied, and the tenants will often abuse the house before they are evicted (which can take months).
by kace91 | 2025-10-20 21:49:14+00:00
Thiel is bankrolling Yarvin’s ideological push among others.

A man who’s written essays claiming that “the obvious statistical differences in the average talents of human races” justified eliminating the system of representative government.

Does that sound like someone who would share his country peacefully with you?

You’re asking sheep to be tolerant of the approaching wolf.
by Cyph0n | 2025-10-20 21:49:21+00:00
> Otherwise Nigeria or Indonesia would be scientific powerhouses, and Iran would have modern fighter jets.

The reason why these statements are not true is because of colonization, delayed industrialization, and Western intervention post-independence. Getting out of this “quicksand” is exceedingly difficult.

China did well to industrialize quickly and keep intervention at bay - in fact, you could argue that it making the rest of the world reliant on its industrial capacity helped address the intervention problem.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-20 21:49:29+00:00
ChatGPT didn't confirm anything! It didn't even output the decoded text. It made a guess that happened to be correct, at a greater expense than real forensics and less confidence.

In order to use the ChatGPT response, in order to avoid looking like an idiot, the first thing I would have to do is confirm it, because ChatGPT is very good at guessing and absolutely incapable of confirming

Using base64 -d and looking at the malicious code would be confirming it. Did ChatGPT do that? Nobody ducking knows
by cogman10 | 2025-10-20 21:49:35+00:00
The aide money wasn't there to fix things, it was there for soft power.

Once you understand that it makes a whole lot more sense why corruption was never really addressed and things didn't really get better.

The way it works was simple "Do what we want you to do OR ELSE we'll pull your aide. It'd be a shame if that happened".

That is ultimately the power that allowed the US to keep these countries in check. To make them follow US trade policy in lock step.

To sell that to the american public was simply masking the whole thing as giving aide.

Now, I think it's wrong to just completely pull the plug. The aide wasn't doing nothing and it wasn't just soft power. The needed reform shouldn't have happened in one big action.
by jedberg | 2025-10-20 21:50:07+00:00
You're suffering from survivorship bias. You know that old adage about the bullet holes in the planes, and someone pointed out that you should reinforce that parts without bullet holes, because these are the planes that came back.

It's the same thing here. Do you think other providers are better? If people moved to other providers, things would still go down, more likely than not it would be more downtime in aggregate, just spread out so you wouldn't notice as much.

At least this way, everyone knows why it's down, our industry has developed best practices for dealing with these kinds of outages, and AWS can apply their expertise to keeping all their customers running as long as possible.
by godsinhisheaven | 2025-10-20 21:50:33+00:00
You say nutter, I say neurodivergent. I think there is a lot more truth than you think to your first statement! I have a hypothesis that neurodivergent people are overrepresented at the highest levels of government, finance, technology, etc, and that this has probably been the case for, most of human history. Part of the (extremely justified) complaints about the rich and powerful is that they're "not like us", and I think that's true in more ways than one!
by altairprime | 2025-10-20 21:50:34+00:00
Discussion has moved to v2 patch https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251018024010.4112396-1-gourry...

> No it doesn't [affect RDRAND], AFAIK. The only one affected is the 32-bit or 16-bit dest operand version of RDSEED. Again, AFAIK.
by quantified | 2025-10-20 21:50:49+00:00
Talk to a god, out of many.

> One example stems from the Hindu ritual of "aarti", where devotees offer light from oil lamps in rhythmic circular movements before murtis while reciting chants and hymns. At the 2017 Ganpati festival, organisers used a robotic arm to perform aarti for the Hindu god Ganesha. You can even buy inexpensive robotic murti and puja devices to automatically perform rituals in your home. For instance, the Irinjadappilly Sri Krishna Temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala, houses a robotic elephant named Irinjadapilly Raman. "It performs rituals, accepts offerings and gives blessings just like a live temple elephant would," Walters says. Then there's the Glory of India Temple in Delhi, part of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKON), which introduced fully animatronic mutris as far back as ten years ago. "These robotic deities talk and move. It's a bit uncanny from what I have seen, honestly, but for many, it's God. They do puja, they receive darshan," Walters says.

Deus ex machina, indeed.
by floxy | 2025-10-20 21:50:52+00:00
Instead of massive amounts of R&D, why not small amounts for the next 100 years? Seems like this is something a tech bro could bequeath to humanity, Nobel style. A $250 million fund that pay out $10 million per year in grants. And maybe some larger chunks when the board of directors sees a good opportunity to do larger scale trials.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-20 21:51:43+00:00
It's alright for people to believe crazy things. But it's much less alright for extremely powerful people to believe crazy things.

If Peter Thiel was a guy who lived three doors down and occasionally told me about the latest wacko stuff he saw online, that would be one thing. But he's not some random nut, he's trying to remake the country, and succeeding to an alarming degree.

What does it mean to share the country peacefully with someone who does not want to share the country peacefully in return?

This is why I'm opposed to billionaires. Inequality, shared prosperity, all those are nice things, but the most important thing is that money is power and having people with extremely large amounts of money means having people with extremely large amounts of power, people who were never elected to any office.
by martinvonz | 2025-10-20 21:51:57+00:00
Thanks for working on this project!

It was mentioned on the JJ Discord server that there doesn't seem to be any information available about who you are. Especially since the project seems to be closed-source, perhaps you could share some information about who you are in order to build trust.

I hope you understand. I think users may hesitate to download and install the application without knowing anything about its publisher.
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-20 21:53:14+00:00
> PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel has long held outrageous ideological views — and imposed them on the world using his billions of dollars in wealth to do things like build ICE’s massive surveillance panopticon, support the rise of the “New Right,” and destroying Gawker Media by secretly funding Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against it.

So he's like the universe's balance to George Soros. Too funny.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-20 21:53:55+00:00
>Is it really so crazy for one venture capitalist to believe that the Antichrist is real?

I think it's pretty crazy to take a man at face value who claims to believe in the real presence of the anti-Christ and literalist reading of scripture but is also married to another man and has boyfriends who mysteriously fall out of windows.

Religious crazies exist everywhere, but only in America would someone continue to listen to a person with all those things going on at the same time and think they aren't bullshitting. If I genuinely believed in eternal hell I probably wouldn't live like Peter Thiel and in all likelihood neither would he. "Venture capitalist afraid of the antichrist" is in itself pretty funny given what scripture has to say on God and Mammon
by iamlintaoz | 2025-10-20 21:54:32+00:00
That's exactly the reason. S3 is better in almost all aspects compared with EBS, except the performance part, and I am glad that our Data Substrate technology solved this issue gracefully [1].

As for the compatibility, we are leveraging some of the code from 4.03 version (the last AGPL version), and we have a very good compatibility (we will show some results in later blog posts). As I mentioned in another reply post, the Mongo APIs are reasonably stable over the last few years, only seeing very minor changes. Most of the later versions improved upon performance and transaction supports, which we support natively with our underlying data substrate technologies. Still, if you have any specific API that you feel is needed, we'd be happy to implement and we welcome community contributions.

Multi-master/multi-writer means it is a fully distributed database. Of course you can run it in single node configurations and get all the single node benefits, but if deployed in a cluster, you do not need to worry about which node to write to, or how data are sharded. If you writes potentially can cause conflicts (i.e. write to the same data at the same time on different nodes), the concurrency-control will handle that for you. In fact, you will encounter the same issue even in a single node configuration, since a single node is still multi-threaded.

[1] https://www.eloqdata.com/blog/2025/07/16/data-substrate-bene...
by edot | 2025-10-20 21:55:06+00:00
I think your numbers are off by at least 10x, if not more. Ask a random American nowadays (not a tech worker) and I’d be shocked if more than 1/30 have even heard his name, let alone seen his face. 10 years ago I’d be shocked if it wasn’t 1/100. Again, average Americans, not entrepreneur / tech people / politically active person. Most Americans don’t even know who their senators are, and less than 60% can name one of the rights the first amendment protects. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/07/what-amer...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-20 21:56:31+00:00
> CIA was operating for a long time in Tibet and got the Dalai Lama kicked out

Nobody contests that the U.S. projects power and culture globally.

> Taiwan wouldn't even exist if it weren't backed by forgeign powers, namely the US and UK

…this is true for most countries on the planet. Including the US and UK.

> US dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Cambodia. The US has conducted thousands of drone strikes in Pakistan, and of course, they fought a war in Korea

How is this relevant to whether China projects its culture?
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-20 21:57:03+00:00
Previously:

Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45546478

What's Up with Peter Thiel's Obsession with the Antichrist?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271649

Peter Thiel, Would-Be Philosopher King, Takes on Democracy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45513937

Regulating AI Hastens the Antichrist, Says Palantir's Peter Thiel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375170

Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390263
by tw04 | 2025-10-20 21:57:42+00:00
>Jet engine since at least 2011

Huh? Did you read your own link? The jet engine that was shown at an aviation show as a non-functioning prototype in 2011, with hopes they'd have a functioning version by 2016, and in service by 2020 (it wasn't in service in 2020). Notice at the very top of your own article it says "still in development".

>CPU since 2000

That isn't remotely competitive, and at least a full generation behind.
by throwaway48476 | 2025-10-20 21:58:11+00:00
That's how it started but over time the program was captured by bureaucrat insiders to line their own pockets.

It won't let me reply, but I agree. I think when organizations are new and shiny the stakeholders are excited and pay attention. Over time attention shifts to the new shiny thing and only inertia and self dealing keep the organization together.
by intalentive | 2025-10-20 21:58:23+00:00
Suppose you have an image with 1000 words in it, and suppose for simplicity that every word is 1 token. Then the image is “worth” 1000 tokens.

But under the hood, the image will have to be transformed into features / embeddings before it can be decoded into text. Suppose that the image gets processed into 100 “image tokens”, which are subsequently decoded into 1000 “text tokens”.

Now forget that we are even talking about images or OCR. If you look at just the decoding process, you find that we were able to compress the output into a 10x smaller representation.

The implication for LLMs is that we don’t need 1000 tokens and 1000 token embeddings to produce the 1001st token, if we can figure out how to compress them into a 10x smaller latent representation first.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-10-20 21:58:31+00:00
My mother iphone is still on iOS 18, I'm honestly afraid to make her update because I know she will be lost and I'll have to come to the rescue a thousand times.

I can't understand how they decided to work on that, they must know that a significant part of their customer is boomers that want things simple and intuitive. Liquid glass make everything hard unintuitive, how are you going to know that this button is important if you can't use contrast because everything is transparent ?
by rostayob | 2025-10-20 21:59:04+00:00
I talk about the cancelability state and how it can help us shortly after that statement: https://mazzo.li/posts/stopping-linux-threads.html#controlle... . In hindsight I should have made a forward reference to that section when talking about C++. My broad point was that combining C++ exceptions and thread cancellation is fraught with danger and imo best avoided.
by interstice | 2025-10-20 21:59:10+00:00
Love the I've seen things you people wouldn't believe tone of that last bit. _"I wonder if acknowledgement of that difference leads developers to pick different tools to help them manage their CSS"_ yes, this, I think. I've landed on components have their own classes but to share styling across apps I use components or css functions/variables, this has been the best balance for the designs I work with, since they tend to treat most elements as a 'bag of reused styles with some custom padding' most of the time, where reused styles are more custom than tailwind but not generic enough to make higher order components.