MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by prmph | 2025-10-14 12:56:18+00:00
You have to accept the new terms of their partnership with Check Technologies to continue using wave.

Some interesting excerpts:

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Now tell me again how this makes Wave Accounting better?
by andrewlgood | 2025-10-14 12:56:27+00:00
Have you ever been a c-staff? C-staff are employees as well. Usually more expensive employees. Well run companies are trying to figure out how to win in the marketplace. To do this they hire the employees they need to win. Investors do this with CEOs.

I agree that it is much more difficult for a CEO to get fired than a line employee as CEOs have significant influence in picking their boarda. However, the consequences to a company of replacing a CEO are generally more significant as well.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-14 12:56:37+00:00
>yes people are mostly chasing the latest trend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

15 years ago people were making the same "chasing trends" complaints. In that case there absolutely were people cargo culting, but to still be whining about this a decade and a half later, when it's quite literally just absolutely basic best practices.
by lossolo | 2025-10-14 12:57:08+00:00
> The “Negative List for Foreign Investment” explicitly bans or limits foreign participation in many areas (e.g., media, education, data services, telecoms, mining)

That's a very good for them, by looking at the list. Look at how big a problem the EU now has with its reliance on US tech and military. Sovereignty is very important in strategic industries and in those that allow foreign powers to influence your population.

> of use your example of Volkswagen, their ownership in China is structured around several joint ventures

Volkswagen is a cherry picked example, look at Tesla, which isn't a joint venture. BMW still uses a JV but now holds 75% of BMW Brilliance etc. And it's no longer required for car companies to use joint ventures, that rule was lifted in one of the recent years and more industries were actually opened in the same time.
by munksbeer | 2025-10-14 12:57:11+00:00
You don't have to say, but I'm curious where you moved to.

I'm not originally from the UK, but have lived here for over 20 years. I'm fully settled here, with a family, children at school, sports, hobbies, friends etc, but lately it just feels more and more gloomy.

The annoying thing is, I had planned to use geoarbitrage at some future point to sell up and retire somewhere on the European mainland, but that arbitrage opportunity has or is disappearing as places like Portugal become more expensive.
by culll_kuprey | 2025-10-14 12:57:57+00:00
I bust out loud laughing the other day when I saw two jobs listed here in rusty southern Ohio.

One was for a semi-skilled manufacturing position. A little more than just assembly line, but nothing super special or niche. The other was a janitor position at the local public school system.

The differential was not huge, but the janitor paid more. Probably less hours too.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-14 12:58:04+00:00
There's no "need" to get rid of the hardware (not sure whether you are talking from a personal or from an Apple-the-company POV).

However, for Apple TV (the service) to be enjoyed by millions of people worldwide (presumably the goal), then you cannot rely on Apple TV (the hardware). To be sure, Apple doesn't rely on Apple TV (the hardware) for people to use Apple TV (the service), since their Appel TV (the app) is available on all the major TV and streaming devices (which is where most people around the world watch TV shows and movies). I'm just saying that Apple TV (the hardware) doesn't seem like something worthwhile keeping alive. It isn't a force in gaming and Apple TV (the service) has to be available on non-Apple hardware for it to succeed. So Apple TV (the hardware) doesn't serve a strategic purpose.

Whether or not Apple TV (the hardware) is the "best streaming device" is debatable, but to each their own.
by al_borland | 2025-10-14 12:58:30+00:00
Tariffs are used all over the world for this exact reason, which is what is being attempted now. It will take time for it to pay off, more time than the current administration has, which is likely why business will drag their feet.

I think economic benefit goes beyond just having the lowest price. Having good jobs for people in the country means they have money to spend. If people make next to nothing, all they can afford is Temu quality. This is bad for the citizens, bad for US businesses, and bad for the environment. The only winner is China.
Wave Accounting now partners with Check Technologies to snoop on users
by prmph | 2025-10-14 12:58:47+00:00
Relevant privacy policy is here: https://www.checkhq.com/company/privacy

You have to accept these new terms to continue using Wave.

Some interesting excerpts:

> In order to analyze use of our Services, improve our Services, and maintain records required by law, we collect information about your activity on our Services. For example, we collect information about your computer and your use of the Services, such as your IP address, general geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit, button clicks, and mouse movement and page views. In addition, we collect device-specific information such as hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information including phone number.

> We also partner with third parties to manage our advertising on other websites and evaluate the overall performance of our Services. Our third-party partners may use technologies such as cookies and pixels to gather information about your activities on our Services and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests or help us track the success of our advertising efforts.

Now tell me again how this makes Wave Accounting better?
by maxglute | 2025-10-14 12:58:52+00:00
Autonomy is still prospective but high priority, US+PRC (even PRC) both have manning issues. Less total crew + different crew - cheaper to train mission specialists on software in office than actual exercises.

The problem is NATO subsurface barely exist outside of US, so they're not really relevant. Even surface fleet barely matters, if anything would probably drag US down because NATO would share US unrep. As for PRC industry they have AESA radars in <10k agriculture drones, their cruise missile gigafactory was CNCing turbofan blades, they expanded primary sub shipyard (bohai, huludao) to 24 bays (US has 5), which also does nuclear. When PRC smashes scale, it probably means they have unit costs down and something cooking.

>strategy "against" China

Honestly, I don't think there is one, or a sensible one. The "cope" strategy, is after distributing assets in 1IC, 2IC US+co can create survivable force structure that basically sinks all of PLANavy, which TBH was always the easy part. Somehow this translates to defeating PRC because it delays invasion. That's basically the TLDR of what most rational seems to boil down to. None of it talks about the fact that US+co can sink all of PLAN, but PRC mainland fires complex can basically dismantle US posture in 1st IC without a single ship, and basically lock down and islands (TW,JP,functionally SKR, PH) in perpituity. An umbrella of distributing assets are all the drone hellscape proposals that forgets PRC can outdrone everyone else. Or PRC medium/long range fires can hit/displace US posture 5000km around PRC, which includes CENTCOM/parts of EUCOM (no one ever looks west). Which is basically where thinking stops, i.e. all the strategy assumes because US can preposition hardware, it puts PRC at disproportion vunerability, but more and more we seek PRC capabilities will leak fighting outside of Indopac, including PRC pursuing global strikes, i.e. imagine if every US asset larger than 20 meters can be destroyed in under an hour. We're talking about all surface combatants, support ships, bombers, fuelers, awacs, fixed infra targets aka everything highend - the entire US expeditionary model. IMO is why golden dome exists, because PRC hitting CONUS is rocketry is a few years away from mainstream discussion. This without mentioning CONUS strategic targets. Or that if PRC dismantles US exquisit delivery platforms, they not only win the fires generation game (very hard to destroy sheltered launchers vs carriers, bombers that can be sheltered), or that in a both navy airforce gone scenario PRC has industrial base to reconstitute faster. Nevermind US+co has only fought vs adversaries with less than 50% US industrial output.
by ben_w | 2025-10-14 12:58:54+00:00
This is probably also true for 98% of startups.

I think most people don't realise that "10 million" records is small, for a computer.

(That said, I have had to deal with code that included an O(n^2) de-duplication where the test data had n ~= 20,000, causing app startup to take 20 minutes; the other developer insisted there was no possible way to speed this up, later that day I found the problem, asked the CTO if there was a business reason for that de-duplication, removed the de-duplication, and the following morning's stand-up was "you know that 20 minute startup you said couldn't possibly be sped up? Yeah, well, I sped it up and now it takes 200ms")
by sehansen | 2025-10-14 12:58:59+00:00
Yeah, no, the ROI on Xerox Parc was excellent for Xerox, because of the technology they _did_ successfully commercialize on their own: the laser printer. It helped Xerox to $8 billion in revenue in 1984, a level Apple didn't beat until 2006. Even Microsoft didn't beat Xerox in revenue until the year 2000, where Xerox had $19 billion in revenue. Apple didn't reach that level until 2010. So you could say that it took the iPhone to beat laser printers; the Machintosh wasn't enough.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-14 12:59:00+00:00
Additional citation:

> The US will struggle to generate the energy it needs to power growth in its tech industry without including wind and solar, according to JPMorgan’s global head of sustainable solutions. “It’s difficult to conceive of a situation in which they won’t need to tap into those sources of energy,” JPMorgan’s Chuka Umunna said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Tom Mackenzie ahead of the BNEF Summit in London on Tuesday. ...

> The concern with nuclear is that it “takes years to come on stream,” Umunna said. So “renewables are an essential part of the answer.”

JPMorgan Says US Needs Renewables to Meet Rising Energy Demand - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-14/bloomb... | https://archive.today/DFE2i - October 14th, 2025
by reactordev | 2025-10-14 12:59:21+00:00
I read this, and have the opposite experience. Your monolith will fester as developers step on each others toes. You aren’t solving for scalability, you’re solving for sovereignty. Giving other teams the ability to develop their own service without needing to conform to your archaic grey beard architecture restrictions and your lack of understanding what a pod is or how to get your logs from your cloud.

No, this whole article reads like someone who is crying that they no longer have their AS/200. Bye. The reason people use AWS and all those 3rd party is so they don’t have to reinvent the wheel which this author seems hell bent on.

Why are we using TCP when a Unix file is fine… why are we using databases when a directory and files is fine? Why are we scaling when we aren’t Google when my single machine can serve a webpage? Why am I getting paid to be an engineer while eschewing all the things that we have advanced over the last two decades?

Yeah, these are not the right questions. The real question should be: “Now that we have scale what are we gonna do with it?”
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by artemlive | 2025-10-14 12:59:55+00:00
Hello! Really appreciate the feedback.

1. Social login is almost done - decided to ship without it to get feedback faster, but it'll be added soon.

2. Yes! Automated health checks are there - check out step 4 on the tour page (https://upty.dev/tour). They automatically update component status when thresholds are crossed. Auto-creating incidents from health checks isn't ready yet, but you can use the API to create incidents programmatically in the meantime.

3. Good catch on the post-signup flow - I'll fix that.

4. Noted on the dashboard navigation, makes sense.

Thanks for the kind words about the privacy policy! Let me know if you hit any other issues.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-14 12:59:58+00:00
> citation needed

Most android flagships are about the price of iPhones.

> Android is short for AOSP.

This actually made me laugh out loud.

Uh, no. AOSP is a showcase project which currently cannot run on any phones produced on Earth.

Android is the most popular mobile operating system.

AOSP does not include code to run almost any viable hardware and also does not include code necessary to run android applications. Everything that is Google play services is not in AOSP.

Bear in mind Google play services isn't the Google play store. It's basic device functionality, like cellular service and GPS.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-14 13:01:08+00:00
Not in the way legitser wrote:

>On one hand, the economy is legitimately growing and shares are becoming more valuable

The implication here is that output and productivity is growing. Not that money is becoming less valuable. A more precise term than “valuable” is purchasing power.

Are Americans gaining purchasing power? Not really, because equity gains are being cancelled out by currency losses, if you’re an American that is lucky enough to even own significant equity.
by andrewlgood | 2025-10-14 13:02:16+00:00
Not correct. Capital Gains taxes depend on the holding period. Short term capital gains (stock held less than a year) are taxed at the same rate as salaries (ordinary income rate). Long term capital gains (stock held at least a year), are taxed on a reduced level that peaks out at 20% (depends on total taxable income) with a possible additional 3.8% Obama Net Investment Tax.
by Rochus | 2025-10-14 13:02:33+00:00
I think, the first mark‑and‑sweep collector was published in McCarthy's 1960 Communications of the ACM paper "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I". It's resonable to assume, that they already had it when Steve Russell implemented the first Lisp evaluator, but we don't know exactly when it was added.
by mjr00 | 2025-10-14 13:02:42+00:00
> The first problem every startup should solve is “how do we have enough money to not go bust in two months”, but that’s a hard problem, whereas scalability is trivially solvable by reading a few engineering blogs [...] Do you know what the difference between Google and your startup is? It’s definitely not scalability, you’ve solved that problem. It’s that Google has billions upon billions with which to pay for that scalability, which is really good because scalability is expensive.

Too true. Now that I've stepped into an "engineering leadership" role and spend as much time looking at finances as I do at code, I've formed the opinion that in 99.999% of cases, engineering problems are really business problems. If you could throw infinite time and money at the technical challenges, they'd no longer be challenging. But businesses, especially startups, don't have infinite (or even "some") money and time, so the challenge is doing the best engineering work you can, given time and budget constraints.

> The downsides [of the monolith approach]

I like the article's suggestion of using explicitly defined API boundaries between modules, and that's a good approach for a monolith. However one massive downside that cannot be ignored -- by having a single monolith you now have an implicit dependency on the same runtime working on all parts of your code. What I mean by this is, all your code is going to share the same Python version and same libraries (particularly true in Python, where it's not a common/well-supported use case to have multiple versions of library dependencies). This means that if you're working on Module A, and you realize you need a new feature from Pandas 2.x, but the rest of the code is on Pandas 1.x... well, you can't upgrade unless you go and fix Modules B, C, D ... Z to work with Pandas 2.

This won't be an issue at the start, but it's worth pointing out. Being forced to upgrade a core library or language runtime and finding out it's a multi-month disruptive project can be brutal.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-14 13:04:25+00:00
> Failures are astonishingly, vanishingly rare

You and I must be using different sites and different clouds.

There's a reason isitdownrightnow.com exists. And why HN'ers are always complaining about service status pages being hosted on the same services.

By your logic, AWS and Azure should fail once in a millennium, yet they regularly bring down large chunks of the internet.

Literally last week: https://cyberpress.org/microsoft-azure-faces-global-outage-i...
by CableNinja | 2025-10-14 13:04:31+00:00
I thought i knew about scaled deployments before i started working where i do now. After staring here, i realized i had no idea what an environment of huuuuge scale actually was. Id been part of multi site deployments and scaled infra, but it was basically potatoes comparatively. We have a team whose platform we, on IT, call the DoS'er of the company. Its responsible for processing hundreds of thousands of test runs a day, and data is fed to a plethora of services after. The scale is so large that they are able to take down critical services, or deeply impact them, purely due to throughput, if a developer goes too far (like say uploading a million small logs to an s3 bucket every minute).

We also have been contacted by AWS having them ask us what the hell we are doing, for a specific set of operations. We do a huge prep for some operations, and the prep feeds massive amounts of data through some AWS services, so much so, they thought we were under attack or had been compromised. Nope, just doin data ingestion!
by general1465 | 2025-10-14 13:05:17+00:00
I think that a lot of hardware which "does not support" Windows 11 actually does after BIOS/UEFI update or reconfiguration. I myself had 2 such examples from like 20 computers in the company.

- A board with AMD Ryzen needed to fTPM enabled

- A different board from Gigabyte I think had wonky Secure Boot support, but after BIOS update everything worked just alright and Windows 11 has installed itself without a problem.
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by tsuyoshi_k | 2025-10-14 13:06:47+00:00
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by gf000 | 2025-10-14 13:06:49+00:00
As opposed to what problem?

Like I can honestly have trouble listing too many business problems/areas that would fail to scale with their expected user count, given reasonable hardware and technical competence.

Like YouTube and Facebook are absolute outliers. Famously, stackoverflow used to run on a single beefy machine (and the reason they changed their architecture was not due to scaling issues), and "your" startup ain't needing more scale than SO.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-10-14 13:06:56+00:00
There's also the very real trap of traditional forum comments being ranked higher in your brain's algorithm for "relevance" since you can explain it as reading alternative perspectives. There's real FOMO in reading news without having comments for me sometimes, because what if there's a perspective that I'm completely missing here?

Of course, long term I know time spent this way is mostly wasted for the value I get out of it.
by aristofun | 2025-10-14 13:07:06+00:00
To be fair modern media companies (virtually every single one of them) has long been a weapon in someone’s hands.

Only idiot these days really goes to bbc or whatever your acronym of choice for “the truth”.

They all push some sort of agenda down our throats and already lick ass to some authority or sponsor. What difference does it make if they got just +1 little constraint.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-14 13:07:11+00:00
> New concepts like Rust's "ownership model", Smalltalk's "Object Orientation", Lisp's "Functional programming", Haskell's "Lazy evaluation", Java's "Green threads"

I sincerely want to ask if this was an ironic comment given the topic? Because obviously none of these core concepts were really new to the languages you ascribe them to.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-10-14 13:07:23+00:00
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by billy99k | 2025-10-14 13:07:25+00:00
So he should just eat the cost that will add up over time, which is an unsustainable business model? Plenty of people buy subscription-based services, so I think 'everyone hates' means you actually hate it.

It's a great product that you can just ignore and not buy and the subscription model is told to you up-front, so there are no surprises.

I think it's a great use of 2025 technology.