MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DenisM | 2025-10-30 19:15:27+00:00
IUUC they built a EBS replacement on top of NVME attached to a dynamically sized fleet of EC2 instances.

The advantage is that it’s allocating pages on demand from an elastic pool of storage so it appears as an infinite block device. Another advantage is cheap COW clones.

The downside is (probably) specialized tuning for Postgres access patterns. I shudder to think what went into page metadata management. Perhaps it’s similar to e.g. SQL Server buffer pool manager).

It’s not clear to me why it’s better than Aurora design - on the surface page servers are higher level concepts and should allow more holistic optimizations (and less page write traffic due to shipping log in lieu of whole pages). Is also not clear what stopped Amazon from doing the same (perhaps EBS serving more diverse access patterns?).

Very cool!
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-10-30 19:15:45+00:00
There has been a concerted effort to tie Jewish identity to the modern state of israel. It certainly doesn't help that the birth of said state came in the wake of the Jewish people nearly being wiped out by an industrialized genocide. Add to that the previous 1000 years or so of systematized antisemitism and it's easy to see why the proposition can be very appealing to a Jewish person who had (and sometimes still has) very material reason to fear for their safety.

This was leveraged (some might say exploited) by unsavory actors in the creation of a reactionary, settler-colonial ethno-state. This should not be too surprising, given that zionism arose in the same sociopolitical milieu that gave us modern nationalism and pan-nationalist ideologies.
by gowld | 2025-10-30 19:16:41+00:00
It's nothing like that at all. First, when you are awake you still see whatever is literally in front of you, even if it's your eyelids. Second, when you fail to recall something in detail, it isn't a sketch or child's drawing, it's just... incomplete sensation. We don't imagine things the way a painter paints a picture bit by bit (unless you are an experienced painter!)
by shahbazamagsi | 2025-10-30 19:17:10+00:00
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by weepinbell | 2025-10-30 19:17:21+00:00
https://www.pangram.com/history/f119a8ee-7e60-442a-8d0c-3fa0...

I show this more of as a discussion point than as a definitive answer. There is more research on this tool than others: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02936-6

And I think it's interesting that it flags it as confidently AI generated. I also got a whiff of AI and I'm never sure how to take confirmation bias from AI detectors - though that said, I've gotten a whiff of AI before and had this detector say it's confidently human.

Reading this I kept waiting for the... point? I feel like the whole thing was more like saying "UDP is like a convertible because you can strap a tarp on top when it rains". Like... sure? But that tarp is going to be crappy compared to a real roof. And the idea that that tiny layer is "the best of both worlds" is frankly ridiculous to me.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-30 19:17:33+00:00
Burying power lines is extremely expensive and does nothing to actually prevent wildfires, which existed in California before the advent of electric utilities. You're complaining about a $50M salary while insisting that they do something ineffective that costs $20B. Then you'd get to pay the cost of burying the power lines and the cost of the fires. Is that actually better than just moving the cost of the fires back to the insurance companies to begin with?
by chasd00 | 2025-10-30 19:17:34+00:00
One of my (highly educated and successful) buddies thinks it some sort of alien interstellar probe. I told my 13 year, who keeps up with these kinds of things, and asked what he thinks. He just kind of stared at me and then said "i think it's a comet from outside the solar system." and went back to playing DCS. heh from the mouth of babes..
by cloudflare728 | 2025-10-30 19:17:43+00:00
Can it find broken UI?

Human can find and report broken UI easily by using common sense.

Even though it is simple for human. Computer has no common sense and I am a machine learning expert. I tried and mostly failed to build a broken UI detector in my previous company. They had automated plugin upgradable process. That periodically broke UI.

I tried to detect it my taking long screenshot, and you could select a image as working version, then later finding diff between 2 images. I kind of worked but not satisfactory.
by bccdee | 2025-10-30 19:18:06+00:00
Oh, vim's keybindings are fine. But vim is missing LSP, completion, file pickers / fuzzy finding, surround operations, easymotion jumps, and displaying buffers in the tab line. Those need to be added with plugins.

That's what's clogging up my init.lua, not keybindings. I'm glad I can adjust keybindings in both helix and vim. It's the plugins I resent, and with helix, these features are bundled in.
by varenc | 2025-10-30 19:18:08+00:00
It might be including the cost of the entire cybersecurity business sector? Salaries of security engineers, security vendors, etc. Not just fallout from hacks.

edit: cybersecurity ventures seems to be the real source for the 10.5T number: https://cybersecurityventures.com/cybercrime-damage-costs-10...

Apparently their methodology is just assume $3T cybercrime cost in 2015, then compound it by 15% annual.
by zahlman | 2025-10-30 19:18:27+00:00
FFMpeg's command line is practically a programming language.

Someone who only wants to convert from one format to another, and isn't accustomed to CLIs, is far better served by "drag the file here -> type an output filename and extension in the text box".

The problem (and the reason both FFMpeg and Handbrake exist) is that tons of people "only" want to do two or three specific tasks, all in the same general wheelhouse, but with terrible overlap.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-30 19:18:49+00:00
The tuition rate for any public university in France (for EU citizens) is €250/year. So your tuition was not 100x, it was just 44x what you'd pay for those.

Let's say that's unfair, since the state pays your tuition (though this is the common experience for most French students!). In Amsterdam, one of the best universities in the world, TU Delft, charges €2k/year tuition. Your tuition was less than 10x this, true, but not that far from that. Also, for a common 4 year bachelor's degree, that's €8k in total - your $100k total is more than 10x this.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-10-30 19:18:57+00:00
as others have noted there are elements of vanity associated with mirrors. But that is not all of the reason, generally when one makes a decision in a story there are many things leading into the decision and the mirror is superior to a painting. The reasons follow:

1. A mirror does offer a current view of who you are, she asks it who is the fairest of all and looks at herself, but one day the mirror tells her she is not the fairest when she looks at it. This is as noted vanity, but it is also true. She is vain to ask the mirror who the fairest is, expecting the answer to be be her, but the mirror is truthful.

2. paintings do not move, a mirror moves, it is a better subject to query. You look at yourself in the mirror you move it moves, people can talk to themselves in the mirror. The painting of yourself offers the past and should stay untouched. This is why the picture of Dorian Gray does not say untouched, it behaves as a mirror, showing the truth while Dorian behaves as a painting showing the past and falsehood. The mirror is a better object to interrogate, the painting a better object to observe.

3. I believe at the time mirrors were known and more valued as objects to possess by the lower classes. This is just my belief. It is difficult for me to conceive of poor people thinking boy, I sure would like to have a portrait of me done up super fine. That would be sweet! Whereas I can totally imagine them thinking Wow, having a really large mirror would be super luxury and so useful! Damn I wish I had a mirror!!

on edit: obviously there can be many more reasons for choosing a mirror, these are just the three that immediately spring to mind if I were writing the story what I would choose.
by sebastiennight | 2025-10-30 19:18:58+00:00
It... is just multiplication. And can't talk about GP's experience, but I can tell you that going through scientific schooling and engineering schools in the French system you'll learn exactly how to calculate the math and never have a single example such as mentioned above.

We're here to build bridges, not count stashes of money after all!

You'd probably get those if you went through "economic studies" (which is a different track and where math includes a lot more statistics even in high school).
by naet | 2025-10-30 19:18:59+00:00
I definitely support NaN not being equal to NaN in boolean logic.

If you have x = "not a number", you don't want 1 + x == 2 + x to be true. There would be a lot of potential for false equivalencies if you said NaN == NaN is true.

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It could be interesting if there was some kind of complex NaN number / NaN math. Like if x is NaN but 1x / 2x resulted in 0.5 maybe you could do some funny mixed type math. To be clear I don't think it would be good, but interesting to play with maybe.
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-10-30 19:19:28+00:00
How cool is it that, as a species, we developed tools to allow us to continue watching an interstellar object zapping the void on the other side of the sun!!!

Seeing how everything is going, though, I strongly feel like we peaked as a species and that, while we'll continue up for a (short) while, the downgrade is just inevitable.
by abetusk | 2025-10-30 19:19:41+00:00
Yes, I often don't realize I'm asleep and dreaming while I dream. It's a common experience for me to dream and think I'm experiencing reality while I'm asleep. Are you saying you have never had a visual dream?

Sometimes when I'm close to sleep or when I'm lucid dreaming, I can visualize things with good fidelity. While I'm awake, I'm almost completely unable to.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-10-30 19:20:01+00:00
I think it's really cool they can get AI money from the people who want to pay that, to give away the core for free. I can empathize with feeling their focus will be elsewhere (whatever increases revenue) but I figure AI isn't magic, they need to have the rest of the creative suite work well to, yaknow, synergize

Edit: I'll add that I much prefer purchasing perpetual licenses for software that can work without a cloud component. Opus, Sublime, Mathematica, totally agree that paying for software aligns incentives. But if it is online, it's a SaaS, and they can't very well offer you cloud services forever at a one time cost. (Rsync.net has a deal to prepay ~4 years worth upfront and they'll let you use it for life but it's capped at 1TB)
by fao_ | 2025-10-30 19:20:04+00:00
> When challenged on the extent of this intelligence collection, Cohen stated with absolute certainty that he alone knew the scale of the operation: "You know how many equipment I mean treated equipment that we have in these countries? You can't. You don't. I do". When asked to name specific countries, he equivocated but revealed that this treated equipment is spread across virtually every potential theater of operation, confirming that these devices are present "in all the countries that you can imagine".

So there are, potentially-speaking, explosive devices controlled by Israel planted in consumer-devices, in every single country on the globe.
Is there a less evil version of Palantir?
by olafnub | 2025-10-30 19:21:42+00:00
this is a very reddit question but I wanted to post this on here to spark some vision and ideas for start-ups.

I think there should be more defense/military companies that works for the people instead of any country / money profitability.

This idea sparked after seeing what's happening in Sudan right now, and I believe we have the technology, or atleast are heading in the right direction, to have a non-human military that can respond to crisis & terror attacks.
by Caelrith | 2025-10-30 19:21:45+00:00
That's a totally fair point, thanks for the honest feedback.

You're right, the value isn't just speed—it's about integration. My goal was to build a single tool that replaces the entire grep | jq | awk | tail pipeline.

While Nushell is awesome for general structured data, LogLens is purpose-built for logs with features like built-in percentile stats (stats describe), structured watching (watch --where), and log context (-C 5) that are all designed to work together. The combined use of "query", "watch", and "tui" makes it very fast to pinpoint the exact logs you need.

The free search is the grep replacement, but the Pro tools are where the integrated workflow really shines. Appreciate you checking it out!
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-30 19:22:02+00:00
https://zeptobars.com/en/read/wch-ch32v003-risc-v-riscv-micr...

This page estimates 90nm for the CH32V003, and I found another post very roughly estimating 130nm. And a pi pico isn't all that fancy either at 40nm.

And should I be very worried about counterfeit microcontrollers? It seems like a lot of effort, and like it would probably still work.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-30 19:22:07+00:00
This may be a bit nitpicky of me but:

I guess I just find qualia skeptism to be generally unhelpful and on a purely personal level I find it annoying and think of it as an almost brain dead take. Uncharitable though that may be, I guess I need an explanation for the behavior because I just don't get it.

I distinguish this from being skeptical about specific qualia explanations (the voices in my head are demons talking to me) which I think is fair, you don't have to accept the attempt to explain.

People who were skeptical of post covid health complications (also called long covid) who just straight up asserted it must be false and it's not worth looking into.

I don't understand the knee jerk denialism of qualia, a thing widely understood to be essentially irreducible and "unsharable".
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-30 19:22:07+00:00
Today's Corel seems very much a "use at your own security/bug risk" license-selling factory. They still sell support contracts (because those are lucrative) and sometimes patch the software for big security issues, but they seem to do that on a staff that is far more salespeople and lawyers (to wrangle ancient B2B legal contracts and new "minimal effort" security support contracts) than software developers. Their business model doesn't seem to be as much "selling desktop software" as it seems to be "fulfilling old support contracts for the zombies of classic desktop software".

That said, yes, maybe PSP and CorelDraw will solve some uses of parts of Affinity's stack for people looking for an alternative and don't mind paying close to full price for code that is mostly frozen in time from the late 90s and early 00s.
by hmstx | 2025-10-30 19:23:30+00:00
Seems like it's,

- "good job on the acquisition and maintaining some kind of product" - how many of these are users?

- "this is now dead and completely useless to me, I am switching to something FLOSS this instant" - I'm betting v2-decayed-for-a-couple-years still beats GIMP/Inkscape from the future in at least UX for example, and it certainly does now)

- some "it's all a scheme for AI training" which would be more of what I'd expect, although for the time being, appears to be FUD when it comes to local files (surely Lord Vader will change the terms further as well)

For me it took a bit of self-discipline watching the video announcement first, before checking any comments anywhere.

I'm glad I got my v2 licences a few years ago, they've allowed me to dabble in graphics again without losing my mind to other even more affortable products. The strings that come attached with this and the potential lack of options for some workflows later down the line bother me. Just hoping v2 doesn't get too much more unstable with time.
by daemonologist | 2025-10-30 19:23:56+00:00
Regardless of the actual internal experience, it would be interesting that most people are quite certain they can "visualize" things, and a significant number of people are quite certain they cannot. This, in my opinion, would be worth discussing even if it was entirely down to the unreliability of people's self-descriptions.

However, the article mentions evidence that there is an actual physical difference here: fMRIs, and contraction of the pupil when imagining a bright light. Clearly something is happening.
by mywittyname | 2025-10-30 19:24:44+00:00
How are people here feeling about the future of AI, in terms of productivity and innovation?

I hear a lot of non-technical people saying things like, "if you talk to people in the know, it's going to revolutionize science in 5 years." But my personal experience has been that it's pretty difficult to really leverage effectively. For all the talk of it making the programming career disappear, the best I've managed to do with it is some shell scripts and a few bug fixes.

But I'd like to hear the State of HN on AI in 2025. Are you killing it with AI? Are you pretending to kill it with AI for that AI-powered paycheck? Are you still figuring out how to grok it?
by vee-kay | 2025-10-30 19:24:44+00:00
Umm, I don't want to nitpick, but what's the purpose of releasing a hotpotch shell of an OS, that doesn't work in even basic functionality?!

Meanwhile Tiny7, Tiny10, Tiny11 entered the chatroom..

And though they are 10x+ bigger in size, they are still barebones Windows OS (without all the clutter that Micro$oft tends to overload on Windows releases these days; I am looking at you Mr.Copilot) that work well for most use cases.

I personally used Tiny11 to set up my home PC, it is compact and usable.
by wood_spirit | 2025-10-30 19:24:46+00:00
Yeah different perspectives. Some people find diy easy and are quite happy to tinker with things. Where I live is currently suffering a wild boar infestation and I’m happily setting up an electric fence system for basically no money at all whilst a neighbour just paid a lot of money for someone to install it for them. I wish I had a good property for hydro or stored water batteries!
by lateforwork | 2025-10-30 19:24:54+00:00
Relevant Steve Jobs quote: "Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."

So yes, it is hard to make the simple version. You have to have a very good understanding of what the user wants out of your product. Until you have this clarity, every feature seems important. Once you have this clarity you understand what the important features are. You make those features more prominent by giving them prime real estate, then tuck away the less important features in a less visible place. Simple things should be simple. Complex things only need to be possible.
by shrubble | 2025-10-30 19:24:55+00:00
Israel reportedly has unredacted data feeds from the USA(this was part of the Snowden leaks, Guardian link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...).

This means that they can read even the personal email of Supreme Court justices, congressmen and senators.

However they have a gentleman’s agreement to not do that.

“Wink”
by Terr_ | 2025-10-30 19:24:59+00:00
> it also could just have a lot to do with the fact that, well, they have tiny articulators and tiny vocalizations!

Now I'm imagining some alien shrew with vocal-cords (or syrinx, or whatever) that runs the entire length of its body, just so that it can emit lower-frequency noises for some reason.
by phainopepla2 | 2025-10-30 19:26:25+00:00
I have sometimes wondered whether there is a personality or cognitive trait that makes one unable to respond to tests measuring personality or cognitive traits.

Every personality test I have ever taken, on many of the questions I've felt that I could answer almost anything and still be truthful.

When I see this apple scale, I simultaneously feel that both 1 and 5 apply to how I visualize an apple. It's hard for me to describe what's going on in my brain, and I don't think language or images are very helpful at illuminating it.

If such a meta-trait were to exist, which would have more to do with the narratives and metaphors we use to describe our mental processes than the processes themselves, it would be funny if that's actually a good deal of what was being measured all along.

(Or maybe it just means I'm a 5)
by kees99 | 2025-10-30 19:27:16+00:00
> 1Gbit uses easily reachable 125MHz clock

RGMII uses 4-bit bus, so that would be 250M state transitions per second.

Clock signal is 125MHz, yes. But data is sent/sampled at both edges (DDR), so PIO state machine has to be clocked at 250MHz.

That's still reachable with mild overclocking, I guess?
by vayup | 2025-10-30 19:27:20+00:00
Spot on. Defending simplicity takes a lot of energy and commitment. It is not sexy. It is a thankless job. But doing it well takes a lot of skill, skill that is often disparaged by many communities as "political non sense"[1]. It is not a surprise that free software world has this problem.

But it is not a uniquely free software world problem. It is there in the industry as well. But the marketplace serves as a reality check, and kills egregious cases.

[1] Granted, "Political non sense" is a dual-purpose skill. In our context, it can be used both for "defending simplicity", as well as "resisting meaningful progress". It's not easy to tell the difference.
by Kiboneu | 2025-10-30 19:27:29+00:00
TCP does not guarantee delivery, and there are cases where getting confirmation of receipt actually makes the /channel/ less reliable.

Again, the point is not to call UDP reliable, it's that it doesn't make sense for the reasons I stated above. If you choose the wrong tool for a usecase then the communication channel will be unreliable in either case. There's a lot of confusion about this -- it is valid to call a communication channel unreliable for the system to respond accordingly, not the protocol itself.
by seneca | 2025-10-30 19:27:41+00:00
I fully believe this to be real, but I struggle to internalize that there are people who genuinely can't picture an apple. That is a very useful simple tool. Thank you for sharing it.

Even this feels like only a partial scale. I can picture what an apple looks like, rotate it in my, and see how light would reflect off of it as it moves.

How about smell? Can you call you mind what it would smell like to slice open an apple and experience that in some sense? Or what it would sound or feel like? I'm curious if it's literally "seeing" or if it's the entire experience of imagining an event.