MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lawn | 2025-10-20 18:12:09+00:00
The semantics of Elixir are much closer to Erlang than Gleam is and Elixir handles dynamic types on the same manner as Erlang, so interop is very seamless (much more than with Gleam).

Don't pay too much mind on the ruby-like syntax. I also prefer the syntax of Gleam, but Elixir really isn't bad when you get used to it.

JSON handling in Gleam was also something that annoyed me and made be scrap a hobby project and go with Elixir instead. I wish they had a proper macro system so you could derive json encoding/decoding like you do in Rust...
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-20 18:12:18+00:00
Is your data corrupted? Yes, the data is saved to a database. Yes, that database is queryable by me, an even more efficient path than a third party querying something as ridiculous as a database of stool pictures?

Okay, then it should be easy to answer: What got logged on March 12th at 2:43 AM, 2003?

Or even just last month? Do you know how the average amount of mass has changed over the last 6 months with any accuracy, or are you eyeballing it and assuming that there's no variation?

> But besides the point, are you like some vested interest in poop-cam? Or why all the intense defense of this ridiculous idea? Is it your baby I am pointing flaws out in through some satire?

Rule of thumb: Ad hominem never makes your position stronger.
by rfwhyte | 2025-10-20 18:13:01+00:00
AI of the sort that will be sold via subscriptions or monetized through advertising (Or something similar to advertising yet even more insidious that is still yet to come) will be the exact opposite of a "Friend," it will in fact be your enemy, though it will dress itself in the vestments of friendship all the same.

"Friends" don't manipulate you to maximize profits for nameless third-party corporations, though that is precisely what these "AIs" are being built to do. They are not your "Friend" they are corporate employees, pretending to be your friend in service of corporate profit, and every "Friend" like behavior they exhibit will be carefully crafted to maximize their manipulative potential in order to get you to do more of whatever makes them money.

AIs will deceive, manipulate and outright lie to you to get you to buy consumerist crap the companies who own the AIs are being paid to promote, and they will bend, distort and break the truth to promote the sociopolitical biases of the companies who own them and various nefarious corporate and state actors who pay them to do so on their behalf.

People think AI is going to help them find the best deals on a flight or a new car, whereas what will actually happen is the AI will just recommend whatever airline or automaker the company who owns the AI is being paid to promote. People think AI will help them find the truth, but in reality it will just peddle whatever lie the company behind it is paid the most to perpetuate. People think AI will provide them the connection and companionship so sorely lacking in the modern world, but in reality it will just serve to isolate them further, whilst merrily manipulating them to buy crap they don't need and that won't make them happy.

AI is not going to be anyone's friend, it is going to be yet another tool of class control and wealth extraction used by the ruling elites to ensure their power and privileged is protected. AI is going make the rich richer, the poor poorer, and will likely destroy whatever is left of democracy in the process.

And yes, sure people can "Roll their own" AIs and hopefully have some control of the technology in order to mitigate the problems I mentioned above, but this is functionally irrelevant, as 99%+ of AI users are not going to be people with the technical skill to implement their own AI on their own devices, but will rather be using Chat GPT or whatever other AI as a subscription or "Ad supported" AI as a service type things that come after it. I have yet so see a single consumer facing at scale AI company that's actually selling a user owner / controlled and self-hosted AI product, as all the AI gold-rushers realize that's not where the money is. The money is in scaling a platform to replace Google and selling ads through that platform just like Google does.
by card_zero | 2025-10-20 18:13:16+00:00
Yes, but you can see this both ways. You could also say that there isn't any purpose to be found anywhere else, so all the purpose must be in the recursive grind of continuing - or growing, or exploring, which are a couple of other values. Learning. If we have this idea of purpose, why not attach it to some candidate quest or value? What's wrong with recursion anyway? Too meaningless to be your goal? You must have higher ideas of purpose, then.

People have a ton of different values, but a lot of general agreement, because this is some knowledge about reality, moral knowledge, a work in progress.
by samus | 2025-10-20 18:13:25+00:00
Roughly speaking, an aircraft must fulfill a certain amount of economy (cheap, low cost to operate), safety, and performance.

If you compromise on safety, you get something that is still suitable for the military. If you don't care about economics you can participate in the space race.

But for commercial air travel, you don't have the luxury to pick just two; a competitive commercial airliner has to perform exceedingly well in all three regards.

If you're an airline using expensive aircraft you will go bankrupt. If your aircraft is too slow then your competitors will eat your lunch, and if you have a reputation of being unsafe then your customers will run away or the government will pull the plug (likely both).

IMHO affordable commercial air travel is one of the biggest marvels of 20th century engineering.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-20 18:13:28+00:00
I think people’s aren’t seeing the big picture is that it used to be, even going back to the minicomputer age with DEC that price/performance for mainstream platforms improved over time. It still does for Apple’s M-series processors but the rest of the industry is stuck which is why a PS6 looks impossible now.

X86 is going the way of the VAX but Microsoft and Qualcomm have failed the ARM transition so many times that it seems they just can’t do it, even if Apple doesn’t want to be the budget laptop king it might win at it by default.
by jkshenawy22 | 2025-10-20 18:13:36+00:00
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by grafmax | 2025-10-20 18:13:40+00:00
Groceries and other necessities are produced. 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.

There is indeed a case to be made for universal access to basic necessities but the case against rent extraction is more basic than that.

To your point about people preferring renting to owning who have the option of both, I am not directing my argument against this case but the general case instead - most people do not have the option of affording housing except through the rentier capitalist avenues of rent or mortgage. It is these people who are being parasitized by this form of economic activity.
by WalterBright | 2025-10-20 18:13:46+00:00
Scratch the surface, and people are the same.

There's a short story about a man who dies and goes to heaven. A person appears, and says the man can have whatever he wants. The man asks for this, and that, and voila! He gets it. Whatever he wants. His slightest wish gets fulfilled immediately.

But after a while, he gets bored. He asks the person, he didn't think heaven would be so boring. The person replies, you aren't in heaven, you're in hell.

Be careful what you wish for.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-20 18:14:01+00:00
No. You'd need an even more magical material that can witstand at least double the tensile strength (since the parts that go above and below the GEO anchor would be pulling with about the same force in opposite directions). And if you destroyed the GEO point anchor, the cable would just split in two - everything that's below GEO would fall, everything that's above would float away.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-20 18:14:24+00:00
We've seen big outages already but nothing that lasts too long. If an outage became prolonged enough, people would find solutions. We don't know what this massive outage would even look like, so whatever preparation you do, it might still break.

Also there are some outages that affect real life like airlines, but tech news overstates some like Facebook. It turns out that FB and IG can be totally broken for a whole day, the world will keep spinning, and they won't even lose users.
by thunky | 2025-10-20 18:14:42+00:00
> Having to pay bills is part of current socioeconomic reality.

This is a man-made reality though, and we have as much power to change it as we did to create it.

> Deriving satisfaction from being a useful member of society and social ties is part of human psychological nature.

I can't get behind this idea that "work" is the only way that a person can feel like a useful member of society. This is just the result of our (man-made) programming that makes it seem like the only way. We've essentially been brainwashed into accepting the backwards idea that we need work even if work doesn't need us.

> If we are acting in good will, we should dedicate effort to addressing the concrete impact

I agree, but i don't think the right answer is to stop the tech and keep digging holes and filling them in just to get a paycheck. The solution is to fix the humans. Unfortunately our government is trash so yeah we're probably screwed unless we first figure out how to get govt to actually represent the people. Andrew Yang is the only politician-adjacent I've seen take this conversation seriously.
by giardini | 2025-10-20 18:14:45+00:00
aeonik says >"We don't know exactly how consciousness works in the human brain, but we know way more than "comes from the abyss"."<

You are undoubtedly technically correct, but I prefer the simplicity, purity and ease-of-use of the abysmal model, especially in comparison with other similar competing models, such as the below-discussed "tarpit" model.
by npodbielski | 2025-10-20 18:14:50+00:00
It depends of your needs and resources of course but you can keep in some drawer or basement some old or small PC and you basically do not have to spend money on this, but for paid servers you have to spend 20-50$/month for something sensible. 1tb of backup in some s3 service costs like 120$ per year, and 1TB is not that much. In reality paid servers will be close to 1k$/year and in that price you can have sensible machine.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-10-20 18:14:54+00:00
Look at rentals in college towns… education is already expensive so the tenants just want cheap housing. This attracts many landlords of the slumlord variety but because there’s a contract involved they’re given a pass. But even then they don’t necessarily abide by the contract and students don’t have the time and money to deal with small claims court so they just pay up (or accept the loss). Landlords absolutely take advantage of this situation.

As for squatters, yeah they’re taking advantage of lax enforcement but they’re few and far between despite what you’d read on the internet.

> Tenants can get away with murder.

Sounds like hyperbole

I guess my rant is just that renters get shit on because of a few squatters but landlords barely ever get criticized because there’s a contract involved. Some of the stuff I’ve read on the contracts isn’t even legal but a lot of tenants aren’t savvy to cross check laws or they’re owned by huge conglomerates who use stuff like RealPage.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-10-20 18:15:06+00:00
One thing that a lot of people seem to miss is that we talk about sea-level rise so much in relation to climate change because it's one of the things we can at least reasonably predict (even if the how much and when is hard). But the impacts of climate change increasing become hard to model as the world falls out of predictable patterns.

A great example of just how extreme things can get was the last major climate change event ~10,000-20,000 years ago (which will likely be minuscule in comparison to what we're going through now in the geological sense once this plays out).

The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington[0] have a very distinctive geology. For many years it was believed that these features were carved out slowly over hundreds of thousands of years. It turns out they we created in hours, around 15,000 years ago (humans were already living in WA at that time). They were created by the Missoula floods. There used to be a glacial lake over what is now Missoula Montana which would have current day Missoula under 1,000 feet of water. The glacial damns holding back this lake started to break down resulting in frequent floods the scale of which it's hard to fathom. The peak flow is estimated to have been 6.5 cubic miles per hour (for context, the peak flow observed over Horseshoe falls was 0.0055 cubic miles per hour, the Amazon river flows at an average of 0.18 cubic miles per hour)

Imagine driving East on 1-90 from Seattle towards Spokane, then as you get through the Cascades you suddenly see a 200 foot wall of water racing towards you across the horizon.

That event was in the past and it still took us a long time to piece together what actually happened. As we head into states of climate never witnessed by humans, it's genuinely hard to predict what might happen other than "this probably won't be good". Humans have made a lot of progress in the last 10,000 years, but it's no coincidence that the last 10,000 years have been some of the most stable in the Earth's climate history.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channeled_Scablands
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-20 18:15:33+00:00
> Sometimes, all we want to do is shout "CRTs were magic, bro, just trust me!"

I certainly feel that way when watching interlaced video. There's far too much bad deinterlacing out there. One of the biggest problems that I encounter is that deinterlacers tend to reduce the frame rate. (IE, 60i -> 30p instead of 60p, or 50i -> 25p instead of 50p)

(That being said, when I would watch interlaced live TV on a 30" or more TV, I'd see all kinds of interlacing artifacts.)
by hunter2_ | 2025-10-20 18:16:20+00:00
So if my browser auto-completes their domain name and I accept that (causing me to navigate directly to their site and then I click AWS) it's not a report; but if my browser doesn't or I don't accept it (because I appended "AWS" after their site name) causing me to perform a Google search and then follow the result to the AWS page on their site, it's a report? That seems too arbitrary... they should just count the fact that I went to their AWS page regardless of how I got to it.
by punchfunk4lyte | 2025-10-20 18:16:46+00:00
For sure but I don't think you do your cause any favors by commenting that books about taking turns in conversation and understanding how to respond when a family member dies is imperialist and heteronormative without providing any context as to why you believe that. I'm sympathetic to your position but my immediate reaction was, "that's nuts." I went to look at the link and, while I saw some outdated language, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the "Social Stories" hadn't aged well either, it was apparent to me that this was a basic educational tool that some children would really benefit from. And it's difficult to understand why you would object to that.

If you wanna help people to understand your critique I think you should add context and not use such absolute language. That can really only reach the converted. If you feel it is your civic duty to represent these values, perhaps it's your duty to represent them in a way that's accessible to people who disagree but are reachable?

I understand your passion, I sympathize with your position, and this is my attempt at constructive criticism.
by sumtechguy | 2025-10-20 18:17:07+00:00
Many companies idea of a disaster plan is to make it after the disaster.

You have to build it in. That takes time money and training. Do you do failovers? Do they work? What is your backup situation? What is your list of work items to do during the failover? How long does it take? Do you even HAVE a failover plan? Can your services handle being in 'split brain'? Do you have specialty services that can only run in one place?

The unfortunate reality is this planning happens many times too late.
by Arathorn | 2025-10-20 18:17:08+00:00
Unfortunately that really does sound like an iOS beta problem - iOS betas are infamously unstable, and effectively used by Apple to hunt crashes that they've introduced when existing apps run.

The notification badge issue is this mess: https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/issues/3151 and is almost solved (but not deployed yet).

Spoilers is https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/issues/2839 but isn't really on our radar - please can you upvote / comment on it.

Thanks for keeping the faith :)
by amrrs | 2025-10-20 18:17:22+00:00
It's heartbreaking and sad. His video a couple of days back was literally titled "You thought I was gone! Speedrun retruns"

The comments on that video was so kind and heartwarming where people wished him well.

While we don't know the exact cause, we can all agree that he was subjected to extreme bullying and no one stood up for him - most importantly FIDE!
by jjice | 2025-10-20 18:17:24+00:00
We got off pretty easy (so far). Had some networking issues at 3am-ish EDT, but nothing that we couldn't retry. Having a pretty heavily asynchronous workflow really benefits here.

One strange one was metrics capturing for Elasticache was dead for us (I assume Cloudwatch is the actual service responsible for this), so we were getting no data alerts in Datadog. Took a sec to hunt that down and realize everything was fine, we just don't have the metrics there.

I had minor protests against us-east-1 about 2.5 years ago, but it's a bit much to deal with now... Guess I should protest a bit louder next time.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-20 18:17:33+00:00
In general, the more tensile strength you want in a cable made of a given material, the thicker you need to make that cable. Now sure, we can imagine whatever magical properties we want of our space elevator cable material, since no known material that could do this exists anyway. But it's far more likely that you'd need a cable that's a kilometer or more in diameter to achieve the tensile strength needed to support its weight at 35000 km of length, than it is to be a few inches wide.
by miamibre | 2025-10-20 18:18:01+00:00
After rereading my comment I think I was a bit vague, but i'll try to clarify.

Most leagues DO sell their rights to other big companies to have them handle it however they see fit for a large annual fee.

MLB does it partially, some games are shown through cable tv (There are so many games a year that only a small portion is actually aired nationally) the rest are done via regional sports networks (RSNs) that aren't shown nationally. In order to make some money out of this situation MLB created MLBtv that lets you watch all games as long as there are not nationally aired or a local team that is serviced by a RSN. Recently there have been changes because one of the biggest conglomerate of RSNs has gone bankrupt forcing MLB to buy them out and MLB is trying to negotiate a new national cable package with the big telecoms. I believe ESPN has negotiated with MLB to buy out MLBtv but details are scarce.

MLS is a smaller league and Apple bought out exclusive streaming rights for 10 years for some ungodly amount of money. NFL and NBA also have some streaming options but I am less knowledgeable about them but I assume it's similar to MLBtv where there are too many games to broadcast so you can just watch them with a subscription to their service.

In the end of the day these massive deals are the biggest source of revenue for the leagues and the more ways they can divide up the pie among different companies they can extract more money in total. Just looking that the amount of contracts for the US alone is overwhelming.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_broadcasting_contracts_...
by pixelatedindex | 2025-10-20 18:18:18+00:00
> but you certainly cannot do a "rapid eviction" on an illegal or unscheduled apartment.

But isn’t that the risk? You’re doing illegal stuff so you’ll attract sketchy folks.

> whole job of the landlord (even good ones!) is to work out which tenants know how to play the game and not rent to them.

Sounds like discrimination to me, tbh. But you can’t prove it so that makes it “fair” I guess
by AppleBananaPie | 2025-10-20 18:18:38+00:00
I see way too many couples that are passive aggressive with each other that I would wonder.

This made me realize just now the functional* couples I know would never wear somethings so blunt.

This is all purely anecdotal but just sharing my personal observations :)

*I need a better word that just describes the objective truth with no baggage please help lol
by constantcrying | 2025-10-20 18:18:43+00:00
>No idea since I can't read German, but that looks like a news site not a scientific site to me.

It is one of the largest German magazines, which certainly has the ambition and ability to shape public perception of issues. What they are saying matters more than any scientific journal.

>I'm talking about things written by scientists, not reporters or talking heads.

Then you just ignored my post. I was talking about how science is communicated, I was explicitly saying that how scientist talk about this issue and how journalists talk about it are different.

It is journalists who shape how an issue is perceived, not scientists. My point was, again, that the uncertainty scientists have in their models is not adequately reported.

>I do think it's telling that you felt the need to reach for things written in a foreign language to try to make your point on an English language discussion site

It is not a foreign language to me. I brought it up because it is what I am seeing. This is not far right propaganda, it is how the main stream center left is covering the issue of climate change in Germany.