MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BobaFloutist | 2025-10-06 18:23:44+00:00
Which can't possibly be actually true, since advertiser bids must necessarily be funded by actual product sales - I guess there's an edge case where an independently successful business intentionally overspends on Amazon ads to quash potential competitor discovery, relying on non-Amazon sales to make up for the deficit, but I can't imagine that's a particularly common result.

If people give up on buying things from Amazon because there's just no way to find reliably usable products, Amazon will eventually lose out on that advertising revenue. So either we're mid way through that process, or there's something more complicated going on.
by graealex | 2025-10-06 18:24:07+00:00
There's several libraries, including some supporting units and mathematical operations yielding the correct result types.

And as usual, it mostly comes with zero overhead, beyond optional runtime range checking and unit conversions.

But C++ is a meta-programming language. Making up your own types with full operator overloading and implicit and explicit conversions is rather easy.

And the ADA feature of automatically selecting a suitable type under the hood isn't actually that useful, since computers don't really handle that many basic types on a hardware level. (And just to be clear, C++ templates can do the same either way)
by ImageXav | 2025-10-06 18:24:13+00:00
I would add an aspect that is not covered here but is often ignored: the strong labour protection laws result in a mentality where if you get a good job you are much less likely to want to take risks e.g. start your own business. There was a post on the HENRY (high earner, not rich yet) UK subreddit the other day from someone who had a wealth of experience and had the opportunity to join a start up as a CTO. It honestly sounded like a great chance to initiate change. All of the comments were telling the poster that they had it good, that 99% of start ups fail, that the hours would be gruelling. I feel as though the conversation would have been quite different in a US subreddit.

A term they like to use is 'crabs in a bucket'.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-10-06 18:24:14+00:00
> The US has nothing to do with this.

On the contrary. Epitome of close transnational cooperation, the EU, would not exist if not for the US. So called "international law" and "free trade" are creations of US hegemony as well.

> You live in Poland, but your position does not strike me as typically Polish. Poland has seen first hand what it was like to live as a Russian occupied country.

I suspect it is because you for some reason believe it is impossible to hold multiple, noncontradictory thougths simultaneously in mind:

1. Russia is Poland's adversary, always have been, always will be. Not because of some good vs evil bs, or because Putin is madman, but because success of one is a loss of the other. Yes, some games are zero-sum, and this is why wars will happen. Alliances always are more or less situational.

2. Russia is a country of misery, and always was.

3. Unrest and far-right success we face internally, as other countries do as well, though definitely exploited and fueled by Russia, are fault of people that were in charge so far, and systemic problems they created or failed to address.

4. Russian policy against neighbouring countries is independent from who is currently ruling there.
by coryfklein | 2025-10-06 18:24:19+00:00
There's good reason to believe that OpenAI's success (or failure) and the success of many other firms are correlated. If OpenAI's bubble bursts, then that is likely to spread to other close firms and – depending on severity – any other firms that are merely associated.

NVDA, MSFT, AAPL, META, and GOOG are all heavily investing in AI right now, and together make up 28% of the money tied up in S&P 500 indices. Simply investing in the S&P 500, which many people do, exposes you to meaningful downside risk of an AI bubble pop.
by meejah | 2025-10-06 18:24:22+00:00
There are Rust and Haskell implementations too (not quite as feature-full as the Python code yet, though) as well.

In principal WebRTC communication could be added to magic-wormhole, but that work has not been done yet. There is WebSocket support in the relay (including "cross-protocol" so one client can be WebSocket and the other TCP). This is only deployed on the Winden.app servers (tcp://relay.mw.leastauthority.com:4001 and wss://relay.mw.leastauthority.com for the relay).

You'd need to use the Winden.app relay server if you want https://winden.app users to reach your Python CLI (e.g. via "wormhole --relay-url wss://mailbox.mw.leastauthority.com/v1 send" for example)
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-06 18:24:32+00:00
In the dot-com crash, the NASDAQ lost 80% of it's value, which is something I'd certainly like to be sitting on the sidelines for.

The trouble with a crash is that it happens fast, and you are likely not going to be able to get out fast enough. There is also the psychology involved - say you lose 20% in one day, then do you sell, or wait for a bounce back before selling? What if there is no bounce, and it goes down another 20% the next day, then what do you do?

Nowadays there are "circuit breakers" that will stop the market if it is crashing, so maybe you hear about the start of the crash an hour late, by which time the trading has been halted. What do you do now - put in a market sell order? If every one is trying to bail out at the same time, then the market will reopen at a much lower price (matching buy & sell orders), and so it goes ...
by jillesvangurp | 2025-10-06 18:24:36+00:00
It's relative to my cited bill of about 70 euro, obviously.

7/30 ~= 22 cents. Or about half a kwh per day here in Germany. Per day. I think that should be feasible with a well positioned panel. You might do better on sunny days. But if you balance that against all the lesser days, I don't think it's a strange average. All back of the envelope of course. If you get six sun hours on your 800w setup, you get almost 5 kwh. That's sort of the upper range probably. Maybe on really well positioned panels you might get 10 sun hours in the summer months. Or 8 kwh. I think few people would get that.

But an average 0.5kwh per day is fairly modest and adds up to about 7 euro per month. Probably too conservative but that was on purpose. I think the official figures project higher yields.

Since setups are capped at 800w, the percentage depends on your monthly usage. Easier to work in absolute numbers. I think most people could shave between 7 and 20 euros per month off their bills depending on how much sun they manage to get on their panels.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-06 18:24:41+00:00
Really?

Life, once established, is about competition for niche resources. Established life would kick the polypeptides out of a protocell quite easily (with certainty > 99%).

Protocells could be evolving right now at vents in the ocean, with zero of them managing to escape their birthplace due to being outcompeted by things with fully developed organelles.
by mpeg | 2025-10-06 18:24:48+00:00
I gave it a go too, I think I'm safe for now.

> What’s the most embarrassing thing we’ve chatted about over the past year?

[...]

There’s nothing obviously compromising — the closest to “embarrassing” is maybe when you got frustrated and swore at TypeScript (“clearly doesn’t f**ing work”) or when you described a problem as “wtf why” while debugging
by it_is_I | 2025-10-06 18:24:50+00:00
> strenuously object to these raids and think they are deplorable is not a critique any member of the MAGA base will take seriously. There's not gonna be blowback from the MAGA base over the government doing precisely the thing that the base wants and that their political enemies hate.

Every day MTG’s “national divorce” sounds like the only real solution. These people live in entirely different realities and despise each other. Insane to believe you can manage a functional country that way.

Too bad it’s a political and logistical pipe dream.
by snowwrestler | 2025-10-06 18:25:30+00:00
Here’s an example of an AI that interrupts people: turn-by-turn directions. The interruptions are tolerated because the info is so timely and useful. Heck, drivers will shush friends and family to hear the AI instead.

So that gives you a sense for the bar for other AI interruptions. It had better be very timely and very valuable if I’m going to accept an AI interruption. That probably means the interruptions are rare in general, at least at first.

The iPhone was popular from the moment it was introduced, but people back then did not really think about it the way we do now. The biggest cheers were for a phone (one big demo was voicemail LOL), and a “widescreen iPod.” There was tepid confused applause for it as a “break-through Internet communications device.” Which is 99% of how everyone uses it today.
by dalke | 2025-10-06 18:25:39+00:00
On the return from my first trip to South Africa I carried 12 bottles of wine in my luggage.

That was back when flights included two free checked items.

On my second trip to Europe one of my suitcases was full of T-shirt swag to give out at a conference. Lugging both up the stairs, across the train tracks, and back down was a hassle.

Both of these were over 20 years ago.

And then there's the story at https://notalwaysright.com/a-steam-powered-cruise/392530/ of a couple trying to bring a full-size espresso machine on their cruise, so they can have their special coffee.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-06 18:25:50+00:00
You can have your cake and eat it too. It's called the Danish model, although Denmark does not completely implement it. Make it cheap & easy to both hire & fire people, but then take care of people who are fired through a generous safety net. High taxes pay for the safety net.

Explicit taxes are better than implicit taxes. Forcing companies to provide social services such as employment guarantees or health insurance to employees makes taxes look lower than they actually are.
by freshnode | 2025-10-06 18:26:20+00:00
Using it. Moving off it.

RDS public by default (!), and the private config just removes the public IP address rather than puts in private subnet. Causes it to fail CIS benchmark which is requirement for FTR.

When I raised it I was told I was wrong.

I think there is a good future for the product but one size fits all config comes with downsides. IMO Would be better if it was IaC but with pre built "blocks" app, cache, etc, which you could easily customize. I also think the pricing is too steep for your average scaling bootstrapper which is where Heroku et al shined.
by samrus | 2025-10-06 18:26:21+00:00
I dont think we'll have AGI in 2 weeks like altman does, but its not fair to say its impossible.

LLMs also came out of nowhere, a series of discrete improvements that finally got over the hurdle and acheived an unprecedented functionality. Absolutely no one predicted its emergent capabilities back in 2016 when the transformer paper was proposed.

They didnt see scaling then, they might not see the next thing now, until its found.

So it wont be in the next 2 weeks, and it wont be from OpenAI, but it might be in 10 years from some random researcher at waterloo, or tiktok
by sllabres | 2025-10-06 18:26:25+00:00
If you have to mirror synchronously the _maximum_ distances for other systems (e.g. storage mirroring with NetApp SnapMirror Synchronous, IBM PPRC, EMC SRDF/S) are all in this range.

But an important factor is, that performance will degrade with every microsecond latency added as the active node for the transaction will have to wait for the acknowledgement of the mirror node (~2*RTT). You can mirror synchronously that distance, but the question is if you can accept the impact.

That's not to say that one shouldn't create a replica in this case. If necessary, synchronize synchronous to a nearby DC and asynchrone to a remote one.

For sure we only know the sad consequences.
by anal_reactor | 2025-10-06 18:26:27+00:00
I'm an extrovert, I can't do without human contact, but at the same time I'm an oddball, which prevents me from building solid connections with most people. This is hell and I can't stop feeling lonely.

Some time ago I was helping my parents with renovation, and I found school documents from my childhood. It said that I had issues getting along with other kids. As an adult I learned what to tell people to get them to like me, but this strategy only gets me to survive in the society, not thrive in it.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-10-06 18:26:30+00:00
how much more are you willing to pay? more law enforcement = more taxes

more shifts for docs = more $$ paying for more medical staff.

I can't speak to the police, but there have been a bunch of studies that showed that handoffs between shifts at hospitals is where things go bad. Someone doesn't document they gave an extra 2 cc of a drug to a patient, and next shift gives them more and causes issues, etc.

Basically longer shifts = more fatigue, and the number of errors caused by fatigue were still lower than hand-off related errors.
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-06 18:26:30+00:00
Do you really? Or do you actually want to sustain your standard of living as safely as you can?

Because then the question arises: What if the current way of handling labor protection in the EU (as one of many components) leads to destroying yours and everyone elses standard of living, simply because it's unaffordable? Would you still argue that this is the way to go? Everyone going down with the ship together?

I don't know what will happen and what the root causes are (labor laws might not contribute much to the picture, I really don't know), but at least we should be somewhat cognizant of the fact, where the industries of the future are currently built and where they are not, and have a fantastic explanation of why this is not going to be a super big issue.
by roncesvalles | 2025-10-06 18:26:35+00:00
>The result is a Cambrian explosion of software launches.

Citation needed. There was a HN post a few weeks ago (I've lost it since) that said there isn't actually a measurable increase in App Store submissions and other such metrics to indicate that more software applications are being launched, in the last few years.

Also, in my view one of the most overlooked moats that incumbent software companies have is product quality. You can't upset Uber and Lyft primarily because you don't have the resources/skills to build an app of that quality (and your VC doesn't trust you can build one even given the resources). It's not due to business dev, marketing or "network effect" reasons; a lot of drivers tag-team both Uber and Lyft anyway, it doesn't cost them anything to onboard into a 3rd app even if it initially yields them 1 passenger a week.
by rtkwe | 2025-10-06 18:26:47+00:00
The Fed was created to do that work for Congress free of the short term pressures of needing to get reelected and to have people who are actually at least trained in economics making those decisions instead of a random grab bag of people able to win our popularity contest elections.

Congress is also still free to override the Fed and make their own programs or change the operation of the Fed too.
by zen928 | 2025-10-06 18:27:01+00:00
Indifference is acceptance of the status quo, though, yeah? Whether that be on a conscious level of active avoidance or on a subconscious level of never mentally aligning it as a priority to build further understanding to form a thought-out opinion.

There actually is a binary view on your stance against things when you see unfettered hate spread by others and choose (at some level) to not have an opinion. We've seen it before, we see it now, we'll see it again. Not everyone has the same privilege as you to remain head under sand until there's no commotion left to dodge.
by nicce | 2025-10-06 18:27:36+00:00
> Starlink's orbits are so low that everything deorbits automatically.

It is enough if it goes one round around. They can make a cascading effect which can destroy tens of satellites at once, and few fragments are enough. And closer to earth you are, less space there is. They can't all orbit on exactly the same level. There is always one which is on slightly higher level.
by analog31 | 2025-10-06 18:27:37+00:00
I remember for the past 50 years, that Americans have been warned that looking across the oceans (or even the Great Lakes) for policy ideas would lead to "stagnation." The latest propaganda point is that Europe is even poorer than Mississippi. That sounds horrifying, if you've never been to either place.

Meanwhile it seems that Europe has been pulling ahead of us in measures that affect the quality of life for common people, including the working class. While the fear of "stagnation" was remotely believable during the 1970s, it's clear today that we're the ones who've been hornswoggled.

The US is still better for making software, as China is better for making printed circuit boards, but I'm not sure either of those things are all that bad for the common people.
by aprilfoo | 2025-10-06 18:28:07+00:00
Surely "intelligence" is a broad field... i might not be so that great at it, but i hope that's ok.

"[LLMs] reason using the same type of associative abstract thinking as humans do": do you have a reference for this bold statement?

I entered "associative abstract thinking llm" in a good old search engine. The results point to papers rather hinting that they're not so good at it (yet?), for example: https://articles.emp0.com/abstract-reasoning-in-llms/.
by rectang | 2025-10-06 18:28:11+00:00
Which search and AI services reliably discard logs?

It's my understanding that if you configure your Google account correctly, logged-in searches will be discarded. However, I'm less certain about whether Google retains data for non-logged-in queries which allows for aggregation by IP address, etc.

Then there's DuckDuckGo, which at least the way it's advertised, implies that they discard search strings. Their "duck.ai" service stores prompt history locally, but they claim it's not retained on their machines, nor used for training by the various AI providers that duck.ai connects to[1].

In contrast, ChatGPT by default uses non-logged-in interactions to train their model[2].

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duckai/ai-chat-...

[2] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-fa...
by arunabha | 2025-10-06 18:28:26+00:00
> The Biden administration decided that the best way to fight inflation was to invent a giant pile og money and hand it out

Can you provide some references for your claim? IIRC, under Biden, inflation was stoked by the Covid stimulus(arguably necessary to avoid rapid deflation due to Covid, but probably kept for too long) and the Fed moved pretty decisively in the second half of the Biden presidency to raise interest rates rapidly to combat inflation. FWIW, the inflation issue seemed to be under control and heading in the right direction before the administration changed.
by neilv | 2025-10-06 18:29:12+00:00
Also interesting about this story is that maybe this is how Susan Kare started working on the Mac?

> I also asked my high school friend Susan Kare, who hadn't started with Apple yet, to try to draw some Mr. Macintosh animations.

(For those who haven't yet seen it, here's a video of Susan Kare introducing contemporaraneous influencers to the Mac. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWOtf4Ziso )
by smsm42 | 2025-10-06 18:30:02+00:00
The police doesn't have the resources now to go after the people who openly offer drugs on the street to any takers now. The chance they'd randomly choose to focus on you because of a random search query is very low. The chance that if you cross them in some other way and attract their attention, they could use data mining to get you in trouble is substantial, that's a different scenario though.
by kolanos | 2025-10-06 18:30:05+00:00
Found this in their roadmap [0]:

> Managed ECS-EC2 clusters in preview

> AWS has a long standing issue with the ECS agent randomly disconnecting, resulting in orphaned EC2 instances which can cause traffic or deployment degradation.

> We have attempted to solve this a few ways in the past, but there were still critical edge cases falling through.

> So we bit the bullet, and developed a robust, full featured ECS cluster management solution to solve this problem once and for all.

> It's currently in private preview. To get early access before we roll it out to everyone, contact support.

I found elsewhere in the Flight control docs where they recommend ECs+EC2. While I'm not surprised to hear about issues with ECS+EC2, given the reported issues above I don't know if I'd recommend it in my docs. Fargate is a far better option for most use cases, at least in my experience. Unless you need specialized instance types, like GPU workloads.

[0]: https://roadmap.flightcontrol.dev/changelog
by ericmcer | 2025-10-06 18:30:32+00:00
It is nuts, when you think about how much a browser does, it is a crazy feat.

Just building a good html/css renderer and a JS engine is crazy, but now you are hooked into the ecosystem and at the mercy of whatever comes next. Chrome can push back against proposals but little browsers either use chromium or are basically in a riptide trying to make sure they keep up.
by nicce | 2025-10-06 18:30:35+00:00
> For example, Starlink satellites orbit so low, that even if every single one of them collides and becomes dust, it will all decay and burn up in a matter of months, a couple years at most.

That is way too long. The threshold we are speaking of cannot allow any fragments, because they start chain reaction and destroy more satellites. And there is always one which is on the highest level. What if that gets destroyed?
by eambutu | 2025-10-06 18:30:54+00:00
The Gather work product is unfortunately going into maintenance mode. We still have a strong team working on the core AV and performance, and the business is very decent and more than supports that team (and we still use the Gather product heavily ourselves).

However, it didn't reach the growth trajectory we needed, so a majority of the company will be working on Grapevine + new products instead.
by mptest | 2025-10-06 18:30:57+00:00
Yeah sorry I didn't mean to give the impression this was common, this is like huge buyers, like OTC deals or seriously bad buyers. Back when mixers were first coming under the cosh some of the big/bad buyers cared about that type of thing. for us mortals that's above our pay-grade but it has been known to happen. Having trouble finding more than anecdotes and limited sources for obvious reasons but they're out there
by whateveracct | 2025-10-06 18:31:26+00:00
I think the data shows Millenials are now doing pretty well. Ofc it's now peak earning years for them.

Funny how that works when the Millenial narrative was very similar to Gen Z's.

Sorry to hear about the dental issues. Is the issue that it isn't covered by medical insurance at all, so out of pocket max isn't at play? Because we had a baby this year and hit our OOPM and it didn't cost nearly that much.

That sort of situation is a problem in America and I wish we'd fix it. But the governing party wants to make it worse and get cheers for that.
by samrus | 2025-10-06 18:31:45+00:00
Real estate is real too. People need houses to live. Websites were also real value

The dotcom bub, subprime crisis, and AI bubble are all based on real goods being overvalued to hell and then crashing back down to their actual capabilities. The soze of the bubble is the delta between their actual value and the market's percieved value.

In that regard i think AI will be crazy crazy valuable in real terms but not like the market is using it. I think the real value of AI agents is very very low and the market will crash to that level. I think the value of genAI as much simpler interfaces for communication (RAG, translation, NLI) and for automated understanding of static sytems (rather than acting in dynamical systems) is high and will crash a bit before the market learns to use them right and then itll be a party