MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zamalek | 2025-10-20 19:29:00+00:00
The problem isn't specifically getting locked out of GCP (though it is likely to happen for those out of the loop on what happened). It is that Google themselves can't figure out that a social media ban shouldn't affect your business continuity (and access to email or what-have-you).

It is an extremely fundamental level of incompetence at Google. One should "figure out" the viability of placing all of one's eggs in the basket of such an incompetent partner. They screwed the authentication issue up and, this is no slippery slope argument, that means they could be screwing other things up (such as being able to contact a human for support, which is what the Terraria developer also had issues with).
by giardini | 2025-10-20 19:29:26+00:00
Trees reach a certain size, grow old and then they die. You either remove them or let their parts fall.

We have a nearly 50-year-old oak in our backyard. It is dying. Limbs are falling off it. We trim it. But it WILL die. We will dismantle it in an orderly manner rather than wait for a hurricane to hurl its parts into neighborhood homes.

There are methods for cultivating otherwise large-growth trees. I've seen them in French literature. Roughly they trim the tree each year and limit its above-ground height to human height. The trunk is allowed to grow significantly thick and branches are limited in length. I do not recall the name of the technique but IIrc it is primarily used in growing fruit.
by zaptrem | 2025-10-20 19:29:42+00:00
The problem with that is we want the model to learn to deal with its own mistakes. With continuous diffusion mistakes mostly look like noise, but with what you’re proposing mistakes are just incorrect words that are semantically pretty similar to the real text, so the model wouldn’t learn to consider those “noise”. The noising function would have to generate semantically similar text (e.g., out of order correct tokens maybe? Tokens from a paraphrased version?)
by indoordin0saur | 2025-10-20 19:29:57+00:00
This 100% seems to be what they're saying. I have not been able to get a single Airflow task to run since 7 hours ago. Being able to query Redshift only recently came back online. Despite this all their messaging is that the downtime was limited to some brief period early this morning and things have been "coming back online". Total lie, it's been completely down for the entire business day here on the east coast.
by mamonster | 2025-10-20 19:30:23+00:00
>Then why aren't they leading in the generation of unique IP?

The simple answer is that they are still in the "copying" stage.

China is what, like 30k GDP on a PPP basis? I think they are still in the stage where the marginal returns on simply copying stuff are higher than frontier research for most of the industries they are in.

They don't have the problem of something like Switzerland, where we need to figure out what a 110k GDP PPP looks like (the countries above us right now cannot be replicated for obvious reasons). China can mix match its way to 40,50,60,70k PPP for the next 10 years.
by cube2222 | 2025-10-20 19:30:40+00:00
This is quite nice!

I'm using Claude Code locally a lot, occasionally with a couple parallel session.

I was very happy when they made the GitHub Action - I used it quite a bit, but in practice I got frustrated that I effectively only get a single back-and-forth out of it, I can't really "continue the conversation without losing context" - Sure, I can respond to it in the PR it makes, but that will be a fresh session with a fresh empty context.

So, as much as I don't like moving out of my standard development workflow with my tools, I think this could be quite useful. The ability to interrupt and/or continue a conversation should be very nice.

My main worry is - usually my unit tests and integration tests rely on a postgres database running on the machine, and it's not obvious to me if I can spin that up here?
by lunias | 2025-10-20 19:30:43+00:00
IMO most slang is interesting because of the etymology, but 6-7's etymology seems tenuous, made up, almost as if it were invented post-meme. If the origin story is accurate, then I think widespread adoption of 6-7 is "brain rot" only because if you ask someone why they're saying that they probably respond, "Dunno. Funny. 6-7 lol."
by hellisothers | 2025-10-20 19:31:12+00:00
As an alternative perspective I found no good decaf coffee. I tried maybe 8 different coffees, all very well regarded, very hipster, none came close to creating good pour-over coffee. I admit it’s all about expectations but if you’re currently enjoying pretty fancy coffee and want to go decaf you’re going to be disappointed. Decaf black tea was even worse…
by ykl | 2025-10-20 19:31:15+00:00
One of the open secrets of AWS is that even though AWS has a lot of regions and availability zones, a lot of AWS services have control planes that are dependent on / hosted out of us-east-1 regardless of which region / AZ you're using, meaning even if you are using a different availability zone in a different region, us-east-1 going down still can mess you up.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-20 19:31:53+00:00
> Who's going to decide here what's incorrect and what's not in some cases?

It's the same question as "Who watches the watchers?", I don't think a centralized architecture, like F-Droid or Android itself, can solve it.

In this case PWAs appear to be a good option for that kind of content, if only we could make their installation and use as seamless as using the playstore. They might be on par with F-Droid, however.
by simonh | 2025-10-20 19:32:05+00:00
I don’t think anyone here is advocating for freaking out about it, and I do not see any suggestion we should that you’re replying to.

Also, it’s pretty clear from the IPCC report that holding the environment stable isn’t an option. At this point about 0.5m minimum sea level rise this century is probably locked in. However a 1m rise might not be.

So yes, the issue is that either way policy planning needs to be considered in the long term.
by elchananHaas | 2025-10-20 19:32:37+00:00
For DynamoDB, I'm not sure but I think its covered. https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/sla/. "An "Error" is any Request that returns a 500 or 503 error code, as described in DynamoDB". There were tons of 5XX errors. In addition, this calculation uses percentage of successful requests, so even partial degradation counts against the SLA.

From reading the EC2 SLA I don't think this is covered. https://aws.amazon.com/compute/sla/

The reason is the SLA says "For the Instance-Level SLA, your Single EC2 Instance has no external connectivity.". Instances that were already created kept working, so this isn't covered. The SLA doesn't cover creation of new instances.
by twixfel | 2025-10-20 19:32:39+00:00
This is just American nonsense. Literally every single country in Europe is capitalist. Socialism is the democratic ownership of the means of production. Nowhere do we have that in Europe. Frankly this is the real problem with America, about half the population are extremely poorly educated and yet extremely arrogant. A deadly combination, clearly, as it’s led to the very sudden decline and fall of the American Empire.
by toast0 | 2025-10-20 19:32:40+00:00
Monitoring is one of those things where you report on what's easy to measure, because measuring the "real metric" is very difficult.

If you can take a reasonable amount of time and come up with something better for your system, great; do it. I've worked with a lot of systems where noisy alerts and human filtering was the best we could reasonably do, and it was fine. In a system like that, not every alert demands immediate response... a single high cpu page doesn't demand a quick response, and the appropriate response could be 'cpu was high for a short time, I don't need to look at anything else' Of course, you could be missing an important signal that should have been investigated, too. OTOH, if you get high cpu alerts from many hosts at once, something is up --- but it could just be an external event that causes high usage and hopefully your system survives those autonomously anyway.

Ideally, monitoring, operations and development feed into each other, so that the system evolves to work best with the human needs it has.
by RealityVoid | 2025-10-20 19:33:02+00:00
Methinks you were targeting some wierd-ish ISA that had near/far addressing and a larger memory space than the but core could address directly. Those have all sorts of quirks needed to make code work properly, quirks GCC probably never bothered to implement or optimize for. It's also probably why it never worked. Oh... you have a pointer? That's nice, but this is a near pointer and the data is outside of how much it can express.
by coffeecoders | 2025-10-20 19:33:39+00:00
Sure, for most of human history, survival was a daily concern. It's just unnatural that in a time of record productivity and abundance, many still feel the same survival anxiety.

My point isn’t that we’re worse off than pre-industrial farmers. It is that progress was supposed to free us from that precarity, not repackage it with Wi-Fi and subscriptions.
by general1465 | 2025-10-20 19:33:42+00:00
As a pragmatic opportunist

- Setup a massive array of antennas in space for reception only

- Try to decode their radio traffic and understand how they are exchanging information

- Steal their their knowledge and use it to advance human race forward.

- Reduce all our electromagnetic emissions to minimum to deny them the same advantage. Forbid anyone from sending signal towards them so we have time to technologically catch up to them without them noticing.

Any kind of contact will ends up in abysmal disaster as we have seen in the past, when advanced civilization shown up on shores of less advanced one.
by kiwicopple | 2025-10-20 19:33:51+00:00
hey DANmode - supabase ceo here. similar to the sibling thread I want to make sure I know what happened here:

1. someone created an website using supabase with email logins (and possibly edited the template / opt-out link) 2. someone signed you up to that service - you received an email from that app 3. you sent us an email (to support@supabase.io or similar) to report abuse 4. we emailed a few months later with the generic email you posted

First, I'm sorry you had a bad experience. we have been historically very on-top of our support emails, but this year the tickets have grown ~10x while our team can only grow ~2x. We have had to make short-term trade-offs (automations) which are sub-par so that we can catch up with the growth and primarily focus on the paying customers

I'm be the first to acknowledge that this is something we want to improve. Unfortunately that will take time and iterations - you are experiencing our support (i hope) at it's worst. We sent an email to the backlog of unanswered free-plan emails just to acknowledge and redirect them somewhere we can offer more support

For security/fraud, we have a slightly different process: https://supabase.com/.well-known/security.txt

This process is to ensure that we _don't_ miss emails, like we did with yours.

You post here is helpful for us to figure out the areas that we need to improve. Again, I'm sorry that we didn't give you a good impression the first time - all we can do is iterate based on feedback like yours. If you want to share more my email is in my profile
by butlike | 2025-10-20 19:34:12+00:00
Tinnitus is one of the ones that scares me. There's no accepted cure, and a loud impulse of noise can permanently damage the ears.

I've always thought of it as a sunburn; you don't get cancer the first time, but if one keeps going out in the sun, one's chances go up. If I keep going to shows without hearing protection, then I might not get tinnitus the first time, but eventually the damage will be done. It's why I wear hearing protection every time.

That all being said, this looks promising and I'm glad people are working in this space.
by nkrisc | 2025-10-20 19:34:16+00:00
That's quite a bit of alcohol to be drinking, but that alone does not make it a "problem". Ill-advised? Sure. But whether it's a "problem" depends on other factors - for example there's a big difference between drinking a can of <5% ABV beer and >9% ABV beer per inning. Drinking too much alcohol one time does not a problem make.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-10-20 19:34:27+00:00
My first thought is that I wouldn't want to go through life disambiguating myself from a detergent brand.

But now I realize that's shallow.

So yes, let McDonalds name their sons Ronald, Bonds name their sons James, and Crockers name their daughters Betty.

Now we just have to convince the other eight billion people these children might encounter in life that there's nothing silly about it.
by mlhpdx | 2025-10-20 19:34:36+00:00
The data layer is DynamoDB with Global Tables providing replication between regions, so we can write to any region. It's not easy to get this right, but our use case is narrow enough and rate of change low enought (intentionally) that it works well. That said, it still isn't clear that replication to us-east-1 would be perfect so we did "diff" tables just to be sure (it has been for us).

There is some S3 replication as well in the CI/CD pipeline, but that doesn't impact our customers directly. If we'd seen errors there it would mean manually taking Virginia out of the pipeline so we could deploy everyehere else.
by hbn | 2025-10-20 19:34:48+00:00
I started playing Policenauts recently, and when I first booted the game I was straining my eyes trying to read the blocky pixelated text. I only recently started using RetroArch, but I did some digging and figured out how to enable a CRT filter and immediately it was 1000% easier on my eyes.

The anime art and FMV sequences looked way better too.
by tredre3 | 2025-10-20 19:35:08+00:00
I could get onboard with your theory that Epipens are overused (or at least over prescribed). But I really don't agree that when someone can't breath we should "wait and see because it's the body trying to save itself", though.

Children of Gen X and Millenials have been ruined by their helicopter/bubble parents, they have allergies and that's that. Future generations can and must learn from their mistake, but we can't force allergic people to simply grow out of it. We're not talking itchy throats here.
by roryirvine | 2025-10-20 19:35:16+00:00
But the Mozilla Foundation's purpose is "protect and improve the Internet as a public resource, open and accessible to all".

It's not clear to me why that requires a sizeable team of developers - surely they'd be better off working for MoCo (the commercial subsidiary who make the browser and who provide a large portion of the MoFo's income)?

MoFo's activities are centred on philanthropy and advocacy. You'd expect most of their staff to be experts in things like community engagement, policy research and development, grant-making, campaign strategy, volunteer welfare, reporting & transparency, and management of investments.

Sure, there'll be some engineering needed to support that, but it shouldn't be their core focus.
by mynameisvlad | 2025-10-20 19:35:40+00:00
I get respecting the family while grieving but let’s be real here, is anyone from the family realistically going to even find let alone care about random strangers speculating on a random internet platform that isn’t even related to chess?

The chance of this even reaching them is infinitesimally small. We’re not standing around talking about it with them in the room, we shouldn’t be pretending like we are.
by _heimdall | 2025-10-20 19:35:45+00:00
If you're one who sees progress as an end goal unto itself, what you describe is a good thing. When one party is attempting novel solutions to outcompete the competition we will be faster to whatever the next change is.

That said, I'm not sure what the US policies specifically have to do with this. Countries are always in competition with one another, and if one industry or technology is considered a national security threat they will guard it.
by shagie | 2025-10-20 19:35:46+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth#Pressure_a...

90% of the atmosphere is below 16 km.

16 km * (12" / Earth diameter) :: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=16+km+*+%2812%22+%2F+Ea...

0.015 inches, 0.38 mm

... and tossing sheets of paper into that ( https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=thickness+of+paper ) ...

16 km * (12" / Earth diameter) / thickness of paper :: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=16+km+*+%2812%22+%2F+Ea...

4

Note that that's copy paper rather than card stock...

Adjusting this to 5.6km (the 50% atmosphere amount) ...

5.6 km * (12" / Earth diameter) / thickness of paper :: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=5.6+km+*+%2812%22+%2F+E...

1

So it's a matter of selecting the proper globe, proper paper, and proper threshold for the atmosphere.
by conductr | 2025-10-20 19:35:49+00:00
> are not going to be able to convince the bean counters that it would be worth it to have that storage bill from multiple vendors

Because it rarely is. Occasional downtime is just a cost of doing business. It is, or should be, rare enough that you just take it as it comes instead of trying to have a redundancy. We don't build tunnels everywhere as a backup for surface roads on snowy days. We just cancel school and work for the day and make up for it later. Do some important things get impacted? Sure, but most things are as mission critical as we make them out to be. The press coverage of an AWS outage makes it so easy to shrug it off and point fingers.
by fxtentacle | 2025-10-20 19:35:56+00:00
I observe serious financial commitments towards walking away from US tech:

The EU is pumping money into what they call "digital sovereignty" left and right. Germany just cancelled their Microsoft subscriptions and replaced them with self-funded Open Source for Schleswig-Holstein, which is roughly 5% of all government employees. That's one hell of a trial run. Germany's "OpenDesk" and France’s "La Suite numérique" even made into the new "Franco-German Economic Agenda 2025", which self-describes as "bilateral coordination to full swing for a more sovereign Europe".
by hinkley | 2025-10-20 19:36:06+00:00
In a parallel universe where Africa is covered by world powers, Mount Kilimanjaro would make a pretty good launch facility. Reduced rocket equation needs for being nearly 3 miles high. If you start in thinner atmosphere you need less fuel to punch through it. You’re also higher when you hit Max Q.

This is essentially what Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic were trying to do with their cargo plane system, only you don’t have to worry about the ignition timing because you’re not in free fall.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-20 19:36:08+00:00
My inclination is to say it is all hypochondria, that it's a slander against peanut farmers, etc. I know a lot of women, for instance, who don't like insects and are terrified that they might get stung by a bee or a hornet because they don't know if they are allergic to stings because they've never been stung.

On the other hand, I've seen kids have a bad reaction to peanuts and the tiniest dose can be dramatically dangerous.

I think of how allergies to wheat were fashionable before COVID but seem to have been forgotten about in all the confusion. Now there is such as thing as a wheat allergy and I know people who eat the tiniest amount of gluten and their GI tract purges everything in both directions. I know about 10x as many people who have vague symptoms such as "bloating" or nonspecific fatigue who get told by an alternative health practitioner to go gluten free... and instead of eating traditional preparations of other cereals and pseudo-cereals (e.g. a bowl of rice) they seem to think life begins with sandwiches and ends with baked goods and eat nothing but sawdust "bread".
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-10-20 19:36:38+00:00
I'm not a doctor but it feels like there are a lot of holes here.

> Anaphylactic shock is extremely rare

~5% of people in the US have experienced anaphylaxis, but I don't know your definition of rare.

> it's only fatal in an even rarer number of cases

Could this be due to epipens being commonly carried by people likely to experience anaphylaxis?

> anaphylactic shocks is a biological reaction of your body to save itself, not kill itself

Because it is an immune response? Is the implication here that anaphylactic shock is actually a good thing?

And focusing on the conspiracy part itself

> the majority of the fears that we have been sold on allergies was a direct result of marketing efforts by the inventors of the Epipen.

Implying the increase in EpiPen prescriptions caused people to be more cautious about food allergies feels exactly backwards.
Ask HN: Is pivoting and focus shifting betrayal of existing users?
by taubek | 2025-10-20 19:37:03+00:00
Do you think that when startup change direction that they are lying and betraying current customers? Startup gets users based on one story and then it pivots in totally another direction. This is great for startup, but what about the users that have signed up for the original product and not the pivoted one. Did startup actually used them?
by hans0l074 | 2025-10-20 19:37:18+00:00
A sad day for chess and chess fans around the world. I smiled when I saw this news posted here - Danya would have loved being among the nerds (I always saw him as one). I will never forget the final game, game 14 of WC2024 between Ding and Gukesh commentated by Peter Leko and Daniel. His reaction[1] at 4:18:40, when Ding blundered with Rf2 is priceless. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqA9mvyI0j4
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-20 19:37:20+00:00
No. Why do user counts matter? High user count but with >4x thriftiness / aversion to spending is not an attractive market over iOS.

Globally in dollars spent, not human heads. iOS is over 2x larger than Android globally, and the gap is widening year over year.

iOS spending growth outpaces Android, which even shrunk during covid while iOS spending continued to grow

https://api.backlinko.com/app/uploads/2024/03/iphone-vs-andr...

Anthropic makes money off product sales, not ad revenue, so wallets count more than eyes for this. Free users who are less than 25% as likely to spend are a burden not to be prioritized for a product business with free tier access. They need to spend much more to get a paying user on Android.

If Android were the bigger market, they'd prioritize it
by jrowen | 2025-10-20 19:37:31+00:00
Or like this:

"I ____ ______ ______ ______ and _____ _____ ______ ____ the ____ _____ _____ _____."

If the images in the article are to be considered an accurate representation, the model is putting meaningless bits of connective tissue way before the actual ideas. Maybe it's not working like that. But the "token-at-a-time" model is also obviously not literally looking at only one word at a time either.
by taeric | 2025-10-20 19:37:44+00:00
But even in that scenario, you have a main function that is called under a deadline, no? You don't necessarily set the heart beat, but you do have a specific method that is called over and over.

That is, yes, I shouldn't have mentioned the "main" method. You don't even necessarily want to own the main loop, if you will. The logic that you do every iteration of the loop, though, is something you will almost certainly see in most games. I don't think I've seen many (any?) applications where you could identify the main loop logic. Is typically spread out over god knows how many locations in the code.
by wffurr | 2025-10-20 19:38:16+00:00
>> to be real I can't imagine reading so many books that you run out of room for enough bookshelves

I don't have anywhere close to enough bookshelf space for the number of books I've read over the years.

I moved my book boxes many times before I gave up on most of them. Now I don't even have space to put them all out. 88 square meters for a family of four with toys etc. doesn't go very far.