MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by technothrasher | 2025-10-05 23:31:19+00:00
I typically find the people who do track their family constantly the more neurotic. I get people explaining to me at length why they track when I never asked. I was more than once accused of being a "distant parent" when people found out I didn't track my teenager. I get exasperated looks when I say I have no idea where my wife is currently. I don't feel the need to track my family, and I really don't care at all if other people do or don't. But the 'pro-tracking' people are always trying to convince me I'm somehow in the wrong. I find that bizarre.
by Veedrac | 2025-10-05 23:32:24+00:00
For sure; the US kills literally hundreds of thousands of people in ways other countries have solved, and bigger faster vehicles seems at odds with the lack of driver and infrastructure responsibility here. I don't want to make light of that.

I just had the numbers run to check this. About 650,000 fewer people would have died over my short life so far, if the US had the vehicle fatality rate of my home country.
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by san10 | 2025-10-05 23:33:20+00:00
Ty for the question.

The system is new (built last week), so I don't have reliable production data on false positive rate yet.

Right now my current detection logic is basically: - 25%+ CCU growth vs 7-day baseline - YouTube video mentioning game within 48h - Keyword match (currently using regex and exploring other methods)

If I have to guess where the false positives are going to come from: - YouTuber plays game (drives CCU) but doesn't mention new mechanic - CCU (concurrent users) spike from external event (streamer or holidays) - Generic update videos that don't indicate mechanic type

Next step is running it for 30 days and tracking precision/recall. More of that in the GitHub itself.

Appreciate the question, since it's the main thing I need to validate.
by klardotsh | 2025-10-05 23:33:38+00:00
If you can remember all of that off the top of your head and find it ergonomic to type out, then sure. But much like how I prefer someone else to do my content syncing as an ergonomic appliance rather than using FTP + curlftpfs + a VCS [1], I quite like this idea of a focused toolbox (written in a language that compiles to native code) and welcome it rather than having to store these massive snippets in my head (or write shell wrappers for them).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
by seec | 2025-10-05 23:34:36+00:00
I think you answer your own question: because it doesn't matter if they can sell it and still make a profit.

Microsoft has a lot of already existing clients and those clients (mostly) trust them. They don't need to do a lot of convincing or marketing/sales to get them to use just one more thing from them even if it is moderately useful. If they can manage to resell whatever the LLM makers have made and still generate a profit, that's all they really need. They can figure out later how to make their own version if that turns out to be profitable enough.

This is the same thing with the browser; there is not much money to be made from building/maintaining an engine in the end. But packaging an already existing one with their own UI and tools (and ads) that may make them money indirectly is a good enough approach.

The thing that impresses me the most about Microsoft is that they rarely come up with the best solution right away but they always manage to stick to the new stuff and work out over time the useful parts that will make money. It's quite ruthless but in the end it's good business and this is why they manage to stay relevant. Good old, "embrace, extend, extinguish" is quite effective indeed.
by Deeptiman | 2025-10-05 23:34:58+00:00
Imagine the Elliptic Curve Method as exploring Palm Jumeirah, Dubai’s iconic palm-shaped island. The island is the elliptic curve (y² = x³ + ax + b (mod M)), a structured algebraic space defined over a composite modulus M. Each frond of the island corresponds to a j-invariant, classifying the curve’s isomorphism class and defining a unique section of the island. Points on the curve (x, y) are like coordinates along a frond, while the group order corresponds to the frond’s area.
by naren87 | 2025-10-05 23:35:16+00:00
Great benchmark! It highlights an important but often downstream problem. In real-world pipelines, the bigger issue comes before this: extracting tables from PDFs or scans without breaking their layout. Once the structure is lost (merged headers, nested cells, footnotes, etc.), no data format can fully recover it.

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by Devasta | 2025-10-05 23:35:22+00:00
The issue is that BlueSky was never intended to be a site for its userbase of furries and LGBT people: It was always meant to be a site for blockchain freaks.

From the perspective of the Bluesky team, you shouldn't care about the treatment of queers or people of color, rather you are supposed to care about more important things like making sure your monkey jpegs aren't funged.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-05 23:35:39+00:00
I read the article and it seems that, that thing happened because their account got deleted and here is something from the article you linked

Google Cloud is supposed to have safeguards that don't allow account deletion, but none of them worked apparently, and the only option was a restore from a separate cloud provider (shoutout to the hero at UniSuper who chose a multi-cloud solution).

If you are working with really important software, please follow the 3-2-1 EVEN with cloud providers I suppose if you genuinely want ABSOLUTE guarantee I suppose, but it depends on how important the data is I suppose for the prices.

I have thought about using some cheap like backblaze and wasabi and others for the 3-2-1 for backups I suppose I am not sure but I do think that this incident was definitely a bit interesting to read into and I will read more about it, I do remember it from kevin fang's video but this article is seriously good and I will read it later, bookmarked.
by Areibman | 2025-10-05 23:36:11+00:00
>AI-generated code needs to be reviewed, which means the natural bottleneck on all of this is how fast I can review the results

I also fire off tons of parallel agents, and review is hands down the biggest bottleneck.

I built an OSS code review tool designed for reviewing parallel PRs, and way faster than looking at PRs on Github: https://github.com/areibman/bottleneck
by privatelypublic | 2025-10-05 23:37:06+00:00
I'll need evidence of "Top power at Top Voltage." Since so little capacity is at that part of the curve, It'd make sense to design around (as in avoid, not feature) it rather than use it.

I suspect theres inductance and capacitance enough that even if the motors can't handle the voltage, it can be "clipped" until the pack comes down. (Especially since fmu these are 3phase AC motors, the motor driver is already regulating voltage and current to produce whatever the optimal waveform is)
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-05 23:37:50+00:00
Yes, you might want to tune your NFS parameters, stick to NFSv4.2, consider if caching is appropriate for your workloads and at what level, and how much of your NFS + networking you can keep in kernel space if you decide to further upgrade your network's throughput or really expand it.

Also consider what your server and client machines will be running, some NFS clients suck. Linux on both ends works really well.
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by hnuser123456 | 2025-10-05 23:37:56+00:00
This was an interesting time. In some ways I felt like the internet was even more bifurcated then than now, between US political parties. This is when primitive chatbots, before GPT LLMs, could have mostly only been used by large nation states. This is when concerns about significant numbers of bot accounts on reddit became plausible. It felt like a time when the internet was being manipulated in a more subtle way than it is now.
by bdangubic | 2025-10-05 23:39:33+00:00
not everything in the career is about money, your entire post is related to compensation which is also core reason why many people in the industry endure fucked up place to make an extra few bucks. there is a much better path in the industry that isn't built around "jumping ships" and chasing every dollar there is to chase. and that path is much better for your long-term physical and mental health as well everything else that surrounds your life, especially in the years that matter, when you are young and full of life in the late 20's, 30's and 40's. having stress-free life in your 30's and 40's (coupled with normal working hours etc...) beats the hell out of having financial freedom in your 50's
by justinram11 | 2025-10-05 23:39:39+00:00
As a mostly java dev, I choose Rails 8 w/ Jumpstart Pro [1] for my latest startup and it's been a joy to work with.

There is something about Rails' convention over configuration that plays really well with LLMs, and I love not having to fiddle with _too_ much javascript (it's still tbd whether hotwire and stimulus is actually better than react from my POV).

I've recently started also exploring Hotwire Native to get mobile apps launched and so far have been really impressed that it "mostly just works".

If I'm successful, I'm sure I will get to a scale where I'm wishing for static typing, but so far I've been able to accomplish way more with Rails in the same amount of time than I have in any other stack.

To answer your question, I'm very open to paying for features that I think will save me time (such as JumpStart). From what I've read, however, I think that's a hard road to go down to be frank.

[1] https://jumpstartrails.com/
by trhway | 2025-10-05 23:39:51+00:00
Such coincidences do happen. 20 years ago the plane which was carrying all the top brass of the Russian Black Sea Fleet as well as the Fleet’s accounting documentation for inspection to Moscow burst in flames and fell to the ground while trying to get airborne. Being loaded with fuel it immediately became one large infernal fireball. By some miracle no top brass suffered even minor burn/injury while all the accounting documentation burned completely.
by lucb1e | 2025-10-05 23:39:54+00:00
Rephrasing that to be more understandable because I didn't get this as it was: "Making sure no one buys expensive electricity from coal or gas plants when the grid is full of cheap renewable energy and almost-free stored energy."

I'm frankly still not sure what you're trying to say even if I understand the sentence now, e.g.: what free storage?! Isn't germany's projected storage capacity by 2050 somewhere between negligible and tiny?
by totallymike | 2025-10-05 23:40:03+00:00
I read into it because your tone was very much that of someone who feels entitled to other people’s effort and time, and you spammed the exact same comment all over the place.

You could have written “I’d love to learn more, do you have a tutorial or walkthrough that you found helpful?” or formulated the question in any other way that demonstrates a respect for the commenter’s time and any effort they may put into finding a tutorial they think you would enjoy.

“So, where is the walkthrough” implies (at least to me) that what you are really saying is “obviously you must have written a walkthrough, or else your comment has no value, so why haven’t you given it to me.” It reads like a challenge, and given the way you’re communicating now, I feel justified in this reading.

A simple question can still be rude, and yours definitely sounded rude. I tried to give you room to exercise the benefit of the doubt, but based on this and your other comment, you just are entitled. Have a nice day.
by lkey | 2025-10-05 23:42:55+00:00
Understood, then we disagree only about the appropriate response. I opt instead to ignore all messages written by AI. I can even feel myself developing instant blindness to its 'house' style in the same way I stopped being able to see ads in the earlier days of the internet, prior to ublock.

That said, I do have the advantage of effectively absolute financial security, so I'm privileged enough to be choosy about who I interact with. I do understand that sometimes there's no real choice but to wade through slop in the pursuit of a paycheck.
by ajross | 2025-10-05 23:44:05+00:00
> There are US highways like US-101 or states ones like CA-99.

Neither of which has anything but a vanishing fraction of areas more than 100 miles from a supercharger.

Your other examples are real, though pretty spun. It's true! There are a handful of remote[1] areas[2] where EVs are still going to be... well, "less convenient" than a gas car. You can absolutely visit the Wallowas or transit Nevada in your Tesla, and people do.

Claiming "The USA is really big and has a lot of uninhabited desert" as evidence for corporate mismanagement of Tesla is... really weird, honestly.

[1] Just checked: the Pendleton charger to Wallowa Lake is 110 miles. So... not really "pushing it" except in a SR model 3.

[2] They didn't name it "loneliest" because of EVs!
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-05 23:44:40+00:00
Mate, this is better than an entire nation's data getting burned.

Yes its pricey but possible.

Now its literally impossible.

I think that AWS Glacier at that scale should be the thing preferred as they had their own in house data too but they still should've wanted an external backup and they are literally by the govt. so they of all people shouldn't worry about prices.

Have secure encrypted backups in aws and other possibilities too and try to create a system depending on how important the treat model is in the sense that absolutely filter out THE MOST important stuff out of those databases but that would require them to label it which I suppose would make them gather even more attention to somehow exfiltrate / send them to things like north korea/china so its definitely a mixed bag.

my question as I said multiple times, why didn't they build a backup in south korea only and used some other datacentre in south korea only as the backup to not have to worry about encryption thing but I don't really know and imo it would make more sense for them to actually have a backup in aws and not worry about encryption personally since I find the tangents of breaking encryption a bit unreasonable since if that's the case, then all bets are off and the servers would get hacked too and that was the point of phrack with the advanced persistent threat and so much more...

are we all forgetting that intel has a proprietory os minix running in the most privileged state which can even take java bytecode through net and execute it and its all proprietory. That is a bigger security threat model personally to me if they indeed are using that which I suppose they might be using.
by bitwize | 2025-10-05 23:44:52+00:00
I wonder if this motivates the recent interest in "cyberdecks", computers cobbled together out of bits and bobs designed to resemble futuristic computers cobbled together out of bits and bobs, replete with offset displays, displays with unusual aspect ratios, nonstandard ergonomics and form factors, etc. The design of these devices is definitely intended to inject style and pizzazz into a field largely dominated by gray rectangular slabs.

Upon reading (or rather, listening to) Neuromancer again, I get the feeling that the original "cyberspace deck" envisioned by Gibson was a plain, rectilinear device not at all like the greeble-encrusted gadgets you find on r/cyberdeck. It's very sparsely described, but we do know it has a built-in keyboard, "trodes" for the brain-computer interface to serve as a display, and with all this talk of "ROM constructs" and "slotting in" it accepts software via cartridge. In short—it probably resembled a 1980s home computer, like a TI-99/4A or an Atari 800XL. Gibson's technological world in his early cyberpunk works is very much informed by a cursory examination of the tech of the day, combined with a lot of imagination and guesswork.

Modern cyberdecks draw much more inspiration from all the cyberpunk stuff that emerged after Neuromancer: movies like Strange Days and The Matrix; video games like Cyberpunk 2077, Shin Megami Tensei, and even Wipeout; and anime like Ghost in the Shell or Serial Experiments Lain, all of which provide glimpses into a world in which technology might have evolved, visually and ergonomically, in a different direction from what it did. I find this sort of technofetishism fascinating for its role as a sort of roleplay of an imaginative alternate universe where modern-era tech was still cool and fun. A specific subgenre of this is the Amiga enthusiast community, where people soup up old Amiga hardware with modern, very expensive FPGA-based addons (the nearest a solo hobbyist can get to modern "custom chips") in an effort to show what computing might be like had Commodore not failed.
by SilentM68 | 2025-10-05 23:45:09+00:00
It's interesting but I remember seeing Radio Shack TRS80 Model 100 Laptop at the RadioShack store and wanting it, but mom said no. I had to settle for the Color Computer, since it was somewhat cheaper. People usually remember IBM PC but don't realize that there were many other brands out there. In my high school days, we had access to Apple I & IIs as well as TRS80 Model III machines. TRS80 machines came with DOS, BASIC & Editor Assembler, which were taught at our high school digital class.

TRS80 100 https://www.oldcomputers.net/trs100.html

TRS80 Model III https://www.oldcomputers.net/trs80iii.html

COCO https://www.oldcomputers.net/coco.html
by linguae | 2025-10-05 23:45:37+00:00
To be fair, Steve Jobs acknowledged this in a 1990s interview:

"And they showed me, really, three things, but I was so blinded by the first one that I didn't even really see the other two. One of the things they showed me was object-oriented programming. They showed me that, but I didn't even see that. The other one they showed me was really a networked computer system. They had over 100 Alto computers all networked using email, etc., etc., but I didn't see that. I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me, which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I've ever seen in my life."

https://youtu.be/J33pVRdxWbw?si=D6lfFFCXGcKNAQ4S&t=386

Jobs would revisit object-oriented programming and networked computing when he started NeXT in 1985. NeXT is closer to the Smalltalk environment than the original Macintosh was, with its support for networking thanks to its 4.2BSD underpinnings and with its object-oriented APIs and programming environment, coded in Objective-C, which is essentially the Smalltalk object model on top of C.

There's another Xerox PARC-inspired technology that was a core part of the NeXT experience: Display PostScript, which was NeXTSTEP's foundation for rendering graphics. While PostScript is an Adobe product, Adobe was founded by the creators of Interpress, an earlier page description language that was a Xerox PARC project.

Steve Jobs definitely knew a good thing when he saw it :)
by throwaway2037 | 2025-10-05 23:46:05+00:00
> South Korean corporate management is stuffed full of ex-military officers

For those unaware, all "able-bodied" South Korean men are required to do about two years of military service. This sentence doesn't do much for me. Also, please remember that Germany also had required military service until quite recently. That means anyone "old" (over 40) and doing corp mgmt was probably also a military officer.