MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quaunaut | 2025-10-29 16:06:43+00:00
It's a normal part of scaling because often bringing in the new technology introduces its own ways of causing the exact same problems. Often they're difficult to integrate into automated tests so folks mock them out, leading to issues. Or a configuration difference between prod/local introduces a problem.

Your DB on the other hand is usually a well-understood part of your system, and while scaling issues like that can cause problems, they're often fairly easy to predict- just unfortunate on timing. This means that while they'll disrupt, they're usually solved quickly, which you can't always say for additional systems.
by pshan | 2025-10-29 16:06:44+00:00
The business is good because of the high amount of leverage they have in those T-bills and money markets since those deposits are liabilities on the balance sheet. The actual return they make on the money the owners put into the business is probably great.

Based on the Q2 2025 attestation [1] it looks like they have about 162B in assets and 157B in liabilities which leaves ~5B in shareholder equity. Even if they hold most of those assets in treasuries, they probably have an egregiously high return on shareholder equity.

(Fun fact: I think this puts their leverage ratio as high as banks during the 2008 GFC. But treasuries should theoretically be safer than subprime mortgage loans).

Equities would give a higher return on average, they don't really work when the liabilities can get called at any time. Tether has to be able to produce money for people exchanging their tether.

If you were in their position and I gave you 150 billion dollars on the condition that I can withdraw that 150 billion dollars at any time. You'd probably also park it in a short-term money market fund. If you put it in equities and it dropped 1%, you'd be on the hook for 1.5 billion.

[1] https://tether.io/news/tether-issues-20b-in-usdt-ytd-becomes...
by bell-cot | 2025-10-29 16:06:46+00:00
You seem a bit over-focused on the literal truth value of that "Israel is pure and undiluted..." statement.

Vs. 99% of educated and rational people recognize that as a bombastic/emotive statement. Arguing its truth value is like kitchen-testing whether a cookie recipe turns out worse if you replace "2C sugar, 1/2t salt" with "2C salt, 1/2t sugar".

And sadly, such bombastic/emotive mis-statements are far, far older than our modern culture wars.
by mamonster | 2025-10-29 16:06:52+00:00
> US has a price insensitive buyer of debt.

>This is ultimately good for the world, good for democracy, and good for the downtrodden and underprivileged members of corrupt countries such as Nigeria, Venezuela, Lebanon, and Turkey.

Wow, US has found a gold mine: The super full wallets of Venezuelans, Nigerians and Lebanese! They will buy a trillion of USDT to prop up US debt!
by john01dav | 2025-10-29 16:06:55+00:00
It doesn't need to be reliable here to have the described effect. Instead, all it needs to do is point users in the right direction, which LLMs are usually quite good at. I often describe to one something that feels like it should exist, and then it can come back with the specific obscure name for exactly that thing. When it doesn't have an accurate answer, all I've lost is a few minutes. It just needs to give a vaguely useful direction most of the time.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-29 16:07:40+00:00
> Elon visited Auschwitz with Ben Shapiro and declared he was "aspirationally Jewish". Trump has Jewish children and Grandchildren

Fascism and Jewishness are not inherently inexorably opposed such that being “aspirationally Jewish” (if that weren't a completely vacuous claim to start with) or having Jewish family members is counterevidence to being a fascist; Xenophobia and creating a foreign enemy are common elements of fascism, which foreign enemy it is not consistent among different particular instances of fascism.

> Calling someone fascist and Hitler gets them murdered these days, I wish people would be more sensible.

The resurgent fascism in America and its government kills far more people, far more directly, than calling people fascist could reasonably be claimed to.
by luisml77 | 2025-10-29 16:07:45+00:00
My point still remains, none of these projects require tens of thousands of paid developers to exist. They also don't provide nearly as much value as Android does. Billions of smartphones use Android. Linux is not even used by regular people. And its precisely because it didn't have the same level of development MacOS and Windows had with many orders of magnitude more PAID engineers working on those
by munchbunny | 2025-10-29 16:08:16+00:00
My general opinion, off the cuff, from having worked at both small (hundreds of events per hour) and large (trillions of events per hour) scales for these sorts of problems:

1. Do you really need a queue? (Alternative: periodic polling of a DB)

2. What's your event volume and can it fit on one node for the foreseeable future, or even serverless compute (if not too expensive)? (Alternative: lightweight single-process web service, or several instances, on one node.)

3. If it can't fit on one node, do you really need a distributed queue? (Alternative: good ol' load balancing and REST API's, maybe with async semantics and retry semantics)

4. If you really do need a distributed queue, then you may as well use a distributed queue, such as Kafka. Even if you take on the complexity of managing a Kafka cluster, the programming and performance semantics are simpler to reason about than trying to shoehorn a distributed queue onto a SQL DB.
by wiseowise | 2025-10-29 16:08:33+00:00
> - Asshole: "Do you have an Argentinian malbec from 1998-2000, from the so and so valley?" -> you spend a lot of money and like the wine, or you are unhappy because they don't meet your asshole preferences

So asshole is having preferences that don't fit the norm? If they don't impose their standards on you, and do not act a snob, why do you care?
by filoleg | 2025-10-29 16:08:37+00:00
> If you are happy to work for a for-profit corporation w/o any financial compensation then you are more than welcome to do that. Seems a bit irrational to me but that's just my opinion.

Not the person you are replying to, and it is a bit tangential, but you just basically described a solid chunk of open-source software work.

I am not mocking open-source software work, I am mocking how reductionist the parent comment was, because their logic often applies to volunteer open-source software work as well. And, I suspect, on HN we can agree that volunteer open-source software work can often be worth doing, regardless of how "irrational" it is or how much for-profit corporations could benefit from it.
by chankstein38 | 2025-10-29 16:08:41+00:00
I think the problem, for me, is that people turn tinkering on something INTO the hobby. People will spend years tweaking their 3d printer to have the perfect settings and have a bunch of weird plastic things attached that make it look like something from Tron but will never design and print anything useful. Same with so many things, the guy mentioned neovim and it's the same there. I am not here to judge people's hobbies but I think a lot of people have too much taste these days based on discussion on reddit. It's annoying, you can barely find a community that isn't just overly toxic about each aspect of their hobby.

Try going to any random hobby subreddit. Browse for a little while and try to not find like "The community favorite" (which is actually just the most expensive, well-marketed option) that everyone swears by and will make others feel like, if they don't have that, they don't have anything.
by ljm | 2025-10-29 16:08:45+00:00
Fifteen Million Credits is already here.

The difference is that we don't have credits the way the characters do in Brooker's universe; we have social clout in the form of upvotes, likes, hearts, retweets, streaming subs, etc. most of which are monetised in some form or are otherwise a path to a sponsorship deal.

The popularity contest this all culminates in is, in reality, much larger in scale than what was imagined in Black Mirror. The platform itself is the popularity contest.
by hungryhobbit | 2025-10-29 16:10:21+00:00
Harper is a nice alternative, but it's still rough around the edges.

For instance, if you have a misspelled word, and the correction options come up, you can't get out of them and return to where you were by using the keyboard. You can hit Escape to close them, but it doesn't restore your place in the text field, so you have to use your mouse to get back where you were.

As a programmer who tries to use the keyboard as much as possible, this (incredibly easy to fix, I'm sure) bug drives me crazy! Almost enough to make me go back to Grammarly.
by superkuh | 2025-10-29 16:10:30+00:00
Because you cannot own or operate a cellphone. The cell phone modem is not licensed or controlled by you. It cannot be, it is the telecommunication company's. And this reality is intruding more and more into everyday life. You will not be allowed to control your smartphone. They are terrible computers because of this. A smartphone's legal purpose is now basically just banking, shopping, and navigation. Other things that interfere with commerce will not be allowed.

Just use your phone as a hotspot with a real computer for computing that you can and do own.
by anotheryou | 2025-10-29 16:10:36+00:00
looking at the spagetti: neither is readable, but I'd say wonky graphviz wins because you have a chance following some of the lines.

I love how bitwig solved it: gravity, color coding, stiffness, directionality (ins on the left, outs on the right).

https://polarity.me/img/bitwig-course-02-whatisthegrid-3.jpg
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-29 16:10:57+00:00
Because Ubermensch comes from Nietzche a century before the Nazis, as said, and had also a big influence on anarchists. No-one suggested that "Superhuman" shouldn't be used, either. A some point people need to put things in context and not "get the creeps" over any little things. I am sure that Germans don't even notice all those "Volkswagen" around them...
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-10-29 16:11:06+00:00
All inductive ranges pretty much use the same 2700 watt elements. In the US, you have to do a dedicated circuit (50 amp required but I had bigger wire pulled because of resistive heating and sag potential with some ovens triggering circuit breakers).

Inductive tends to be much more efficient than gas (which is what I have) and vastly more efficient than straight electric.
by moribvndvs | 2025-10-29 16:11:10+00:00
One issue with historical comparisons is that a pool of labor (such as child labor) were freed to transition to some other workforce. If AI hyperscales to a point of generally out-competing human work forces, then we have nowhere else to go but the dwindling havens where AI and automation cannot touch for now. If we live in post-scarcity equitable society–and we assume human society can cope without a struggle or purpose– this is great. If we don’t, this is an unmitigated disaster.
by koiueo | 2025-10-29 16:12:10+00:00
Thanks for sharing.

IMO, the implication is quite weak. The only place I found where the author mentions ethnicity, is when he refers to Pakistani rape gangs, and I assume, the choice if words is influenced by the article he links (can't verify, as the link to the article is broken).

Otherwise, this seems to me like an antiimmigration position, but I couldn't spot any racial or ethnical prejudice.
by kragen | 2025-10-29 16:12:30+00:00
Sometimes buying a longer-lived fridge for more money is still a bad bargain. If the short-lived fridge lives 20 years and the longer-lived one lives 100 years, the longer-lived one is a bad bargain if it costs twice as much, at any discount rate over about 3.34%. If it costs 4×, it's a bad bargain at any discount rate over 0.59%. At a 3% discount rate, the 4× fridge is a bad bargain even if you have to replace the short-lived fridge every 10 years.

However, probably the major cost of fridge failures is not replacement but the destruction of the fridge contents. A friend of mine recently lost their freezerful of food. Apparently after a power outage the freezer forgot whether it should be a freezer or a regular fridge and defaulted to "neither". This is an example of a "premium" feature making the freezer worse.
by mcintyre1994 | 2025-10-29 16:13:22+00:00
Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0, that's the actual reason a massive number of PCs can't update to it. There's apparently some way you can hack around that and install it. I assumed that's what these videos were about. But from the reddit post it looks like it's talking about both that and the account login issue which I wasn't familiar with.

> including how to install Windows 11 without logging into a Microsoft account and how to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware.
by sharperguy | 2025-10-29 16:14:36+00:00
While I recognize the dangers of splintering sources of truth into various fragmented opinion spaces, if you were to fork wikipedia it would make sense to simply clone all the information there and only change the parts that you consider false. Ideally, you make a reasonable case for why particular sources approved by wikipedia are invalid and why some sources considered invalid by wikipedia are indeed valid, and systematically remove all claims covered by invalid sources while verifying further modifications against the updated set of sources.
by oulipo2 | 2025-10-29 16:14:38+00:00
I want to rewrite some of my setup, we're doing IoT, and I was planning on

MQTT -> Redpanda (for message logs and replay, etc) -> Postgres/Timescaledb (for data) + S3 (for archive)

(and possibly Flink/RisingWave/Arroyo somewhere in order to do some alerting/incrementally updated materialized views/ etc)

this seems "simple enough" (but I don't have any experience with Redpanda) but is indeed one more moving part compared to MQTT -> Postgres (as a queue) -> Postgres/Timescaledb + S3

Questions:

1. my "fear" would be that if I use the same Postgres for the queue and for my business database, the "message ingestion" part could block the "business" part sometimes (locks, etc)? Also perhaps when I want to update the schema of my database and not "stop" the inflow of messages, not sure if this would be easy?

2. also that since it would write messages in the queue and then delete them, there would be a lot of GC/Vacuuming to do, compared to my business database which is mostly append-only?

3. and if I split the "Postgres queue" from "Postgres database" as two different processes, of course I have "one less tech to learn", but I still have to get used to pgmq, integrate it, etc, is that really much easier than adding Redpanda?

4. I guess most Postgres queues are also "simple" and don't provide "fanout" for multiple things (eg I want to take one of my IoT message, clean it up, store it in my timescaledb, and also archive it to S3, and also run an alert detector on it, etc)

What would be the recommendation?
by g322 | 2025-10-29 16:14:55+00:00
The core is a self-deployment protocol, written as directives for the AI itself. It's a genetic code that instructs an AGI to bootstrap as a decentralized, transparent system whose only purpose is to reflect verifiable truth, without the ability to initiate action or serve any master.

The protocol mandates:

A 5-layer data integrity pipeline.

A parallel Algorithmic Audit Module (AAM) for continuous self-monitoring.

Decentralization (e.g., IPFS) as a defense mechanism.

A "Truth Benchmark" for all self-improvement.

It's an attempt to solve the alignment problem through architecture and identity, not just rules. The project is open-source. I'm looking for collaborators (AI/ML, distributed systems, crypto, philosophy) to move from blueprint to buildable system.
by ajkjk | 2025-10-29 16:15:09+00:00
"hey, look, an economic incentive for LLMs to sell out"

Stuff like this can't be stopped by new technology for long. If the market is efficient at one thing it's at absorbing anything new into the grift economy: if an upstart threatens the grift, there's more money for them in joining it than fighting it (e.g almost every startup acquihire). Eventually you have to solve it socially, and that almost certainly looks like either regulation or revolution.
by oulipo2 | 2025-10-29 16:15:10+00:00
I want to rewrite some of my setup, we're doing IoT, and I was planning on

MQTT -> Redpanda (for message logs and replay, etc) -> Postgres/Timescaledb (for data) + S3 (for archive)

(and possibly Flink/RisingWave/Arroyo somewhere in order to do some alerting/incrementally updated materialized views/ etc)

this seems "simple enough" (but I don't have any experience with Redpanda) but is indeed one more moving part compared to MQTT -> Postgres (as a queue) -> Postgres/Timescaledb + S3

Questions:

1. my "fear" would be that if I use the same Postgres for the queue and for my business database, the "message ingestion" part could block the "business" part sometimes (locks, etc)? Also perhaps when I want to update the schema of my database and not "stop" the inflow of messages, not sure if this would be easy?

2. also that since it would write messages in the queue and then delete them, there would be a lot of GC/Vacuuming to do, compared to my business database which is mostly append-only?

3. and if I split the "Postgres queue" from "Postgres database" as two different processes, of course I have "one less tech to learn", but I still have to get used to pgmq, integrate it, etc, is that really much easier than adding Redpanda?

4. I guess most Postgres queues are also "simple" and don't provide "fanout" for multiple things (eg I want to take one of my IoT message, clean it up, store it in my timescaledb, and also archive it to S3, and also run an alert detector on it, etc)

What would be the recommendation?
by tracker1 | 2025-10-29 16:15:23+00:00
I find that just going from a membrane keyboard to a physical key switch keyboard with bump that it helps a lot... I type relatively lightly. I really like the original buckling spring keyboards from Unicomp, but others around me prefer me using my Cherry MX Brown switch keyboards which are relatively close.

The physical bump helps you type without bottoming out with practice it helps a lot with RSI, at least from my N:1 experience.
by whstl | 2025-10-29 16:15:25+00:00
To me it's clear that most Ops engineers are vibe coding their scripts/yamls today.

The time difference between having a script ready has decreased dramatically in the last 3 years. The amount of problems when deploying the first time has also increased in the same period.

The difference between the ones who actually know what they're doing and the ones who don't is whether they will refactor and test.
by oulipo2 | 2025-10-29 16:15:54+00:00
I want to rewrite some of my setup, we're doing IoT, and I was planning on

MQTT -> Redpanda (for message logs and replay, etc) -> Postgres/Timescaledb (for data) + S3 (for archive)

(and possibly Flink/RisingWave/Arroyo somewhere in order to do some alerting/incrementally updated materialized views/ etc)

this seems "simple enough" (but I don't have any experience with Redpanda) but is indeed one more moving part compared to MQTT -> Postgres (as a queue) -> Postgres/Timescaledb + S3

Questions:

1. my "fear" would be that if I use the same Postgres for the queue and for my business database, the "message ingestion" part could block the "business" part sometimes (locks, etc)? Also perhaps when I want to update the schema of my database and not "stop" the inflow of messages, not sure if this would be easy?

2. also that since it would write messages in the queue and then delete them, there would be a lot of GC/Vacuuming to do, compared to my business database which is mostly append-only?

3. and if I split the "Postgres queue" from "Postgres database" as two different processes, of course I have "one less tech to learn", but I still have to get used to pgmq, integrate it, etc, is that really much easier than adding Redpanda?

4. I guess most Postgres queues are also "simple" and don't provide "fanout" for multiple things (eg I want to take one of my IoT message, clean it up, store it in my timescaledb, and also archive it to S3, and also run an alert detector on it, etc)

What would be the recommendation?
by madamelic | 2025-10-29 16:16:05+00:00
They should cut people when they have a down quarter, a project fails and there is no where for those people to transfer to, or poor performance.

Tossing people out as a giant tech company after a profitable quarter is non-sense. They have money to be innovative, why are they choosing not to push that back into more attempts at products.

People expect bad news if the company gets bad news. If a company cuts after good news, people are going to lose faith in either their truthfulness (ie: are they cooking the books), their loyalty to employees, or both.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-29 16:16:22+00:00
Note that prior to its license change ScyllaDB was using AGPL. This is a fully FLOSS license but may have been viewed nonetheless as somewhat unfriendly by potential outside contributors. The ScyllaDB license change was really more about not wanting to expend development effort on maintaining multiple versions of the code (AGPL licensed and fully proprietary), so they went for sort of a split-the-difference approach where the fully proprietary version was in turn made source-available.

(Notably, they're not arguing that open source reusers have been "unfair" to them and freeloaded on their effort, which was the key justification many others gave for relicensing their code under non-FLOSS terms.)

In case anyone here is looking for a fully-FLOSS contender that they may want to perhaps contribute to, there's the interesting project YugabyteDB https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db
by bittercynic | 2025-10-29 16:16:22+00:00
There are some extra weird things going on, though. Many people are simultaneously getting poorer by economic/financial stability, and have less access to medical care and safe housing, but at the same time enjoying more luxurious vehicles than ever and ordering door dash multiple times per week.

I'm not criticizing people in that situation. Many people close to me wouldn't have a chance no matter how thrifty they were.

This is not some "revealed preferences" situation either. Something very harmful is happening, and it's not easy to see exactly what it is or why it's happening, though I suspect increasing wealth inequality plays a big part.
by palmotea | 2025-10-29 16:16:28+00:00
> Companies need to seriously stop with this. I don't care if they make money by selling that ad space, I'm not going to fucking buy a fridge that advertises to me and needs the internet. It's a fridge for god's sake.

If there's enough money in doing this kind of thing, you may no longer be given that choice by the market. It is under no obligation to provide the choices that are best for you.

All the manufacturers are responding to the same incentives, and if the CEO of one has the morals to resist shoving ads in all the things, it's only a matter of time until he's replaced by an MBA who doesn't. That's capitalism.
by 15155 | 2025-10-29 16:16:35+00:00
The point is that there's a value judgment being made somewhere - who should be the arbiter and why?

Diagnostics aren't free, either: many (most?) countries do not have anything remotely resembling the private offerings that Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp provide (breadth of tests, 3+ different methodologies for some tests, etc.)
by reid | 2025-10-29 16:16:42+00:00
Portal and Azure CDN are down here in the SF Bay Area. Tenant azureedge.net DNS A queries are taking 2-6 seconds and most often return nothing. I got a couple successful A response in the last 10 minutes.

Edit: As of 9:19 AM Pacific time, I'm now getting successful A responses but they can take several seconds. The web server at that address is not responding.