MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-21 23:33:54+00:00
> Sharepoint with another 2 RCEs. Not shocked, the software is terrible. However, it's only software that will stand up under load and let us shard it easily. All open-source software is one of those, runs fine in Homelab, likely falls down under load. Few Open Source Developers want to work on this stuff which I get because it's tedious work interfacing with computer illiterate end users. I'd rather chug sewage then do this work for free.

All just empty claims without showing any evidence. Did you ever set up a multi-client syncthing setup to test your theories about it falling over? Or do you have any references, pointing us to analysis, that shows, that any such tool doesn't hold water? What about some bit torrent setups? There are many options in this space, and one doesn't even have to lump synchronization and viewing in a web UI into one service. If one doesn't, then there are many tools that can accomplish the job better than Sharepoint.

And btw. paid MS Office doesn't even hold water for some 80 people, delivering me my e-mails some half an hour later, at a snail's pace, one or two a minute, while my 1 EUR per month free software using e-mail provider (posteo) manages to give me all my new e-mail almost instantly, the moment I open Thunderbird.
by cubefox | 2025-10-21 23:34:01+00:00
Starship (the upper stage) can launch from Mars and bring humans back to Earth. The problem is that they need a lot of propellant to do this, and they can't bring that much from Earth. Their current plan is to generate it on Mars, which requires complex infrastructure built by unmanned missions. A simpler approach could be developing a smaller ascent vehicle:

https://spacenews.com/how-carrying-enough-water-to-make-retu...

https://spacenews.com/crewed-mars-missions-will-require-a-ne...

But I'm sure that approach also has drawbacks.
by gr4vityWall | 2025-10-21 23:34:19+00:00
> Coding is the means to an end, not the end itself. > That may be fun for you, but it doesn’t add value

I'm not disagreeing with you per se, but those statements are subjective, not an objective truth. Lots of people fundamentally enjoy the process of coding, and would keep doing it even in a hypothetical world with no problems left to solve, or if they had UBI.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-21 23:34:32+00:00
> Every garbage collector has to constantly sift through the entire reference graph of the running program to figure out what objects have become garbage.

There's a lot of "it depends" here.

For example, an RC garbage collector (Like swift and python?) doesn't ever trace through the graph.

The reason I brought up moving collectors is by their nature, they take up a lot more heap space, at least 2x what they need. The advantage of the non-moving collectors is they are much more prompt at returning memory to the OS. The JVM in particular has issues here because it has pretty chunky objects.
by sombragris | 2025-10-21 23:34:47+00:00
In my case, it's my distro since always. I'm not at all one of those h4xx0r types, I'm just a lawyer, translator and theologian (and professor) doing my job with Linux. I started using Linux in May 2000 with a boxed version of Red Hat 6.2, then went to Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, then switched to Mandrake until 9.2 came about, and the dependency hell really irked me. So I searched alternatives. About 2003-2004 (not sure really) I began to use it. It was easy for me to configure it. I always used my Linux on laptops, at that time if I wanted to be online I had to setup a Winmodem, and maybe other hardware. That meant that even on "friendlier" distros such as Red Hat or Mandrake I had to tinker with the command line and config files.

Thus, when the time came, upgrading to Slackware came naturally. And I appreciated that it always was fast and lean, consuming much less resources than other distros. Now that's not so crucial, but in the early 2000's it was quite important.

Slackware was there at the right time, offering me what I needed, and it was fast and lean. And I like its simple approach to system maintenance; I can get a good grasp of the whole system.

Also, at the time Gentoo was just beginning and (again) I was using dialup Internet, paying by the minute, and I really didn't appreciate the prospect of compiling almost everything. Other distros (such as Arch) were also beginning.
by tw04 | 2025-10-21 23:35:17+00:00
>Personally, I think it matters whether its achieved by a private company versus by society.

How exactly are you making the distinction? Space-X wouldn't exist without governemnt funding. CATL sells launches to commercial entities as well as servicing the government.

Official ownership? Because China seems to think a lot of what Space-X is doing can only be accomplished by the commercial sector and is funding startups in China to do the same thing.

https://spacenews.com/chinas-landspace-secures-state-backed-...
by okanat | 2025-10-21 23:39:02+00:00
That's why participation from opposition and actual members of the public in the area of election is important. If you and your friends / family are afraid of intimidation, you show up. Gather as many people as you can as observers. In my countries (of residence), being there is your unalienable right. Nobody can legally kick you out. If 50 black people show up in a station where KKK tries to intimidate them, KKK will back down given an actual democratic state.

If those people still feel unsafe, they are not living in a democracy but under an authoritarian regime. You cannot really have a non-violent, fair democracy under such regime. Democracy isn't just elections. It is creation of bunch of non-elected institutions that guarantee the fairness of the elected stuff. Judicial branch, expert organizations and regulators are all part of it. This has to come from realization that the alternative is violence. Sometimes needed violence. Most resilient democracies in the world like France are direct results of multiple violent events happened because institutions were not capable of striking the balance. Suppressing large swaths of people is just a powder keg. In true democracies, people from all views should have a good mutual understanding that alternative governance systems exist and may even be viable or more stable, but they will be murdering each other and they themselves will eventually be victims to the violence too.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-21 23:39:28+00:00
Some of the garbage I've been involved with that I either had to avoid or bail out of an edit or revert war:

* A claim on "Fisting" that "seasoned fisters can insert their arm up to the shoulder into the anus", "supported" by a deleted PornHub video.

* Fighting on a Production Car top ten list when Tesla announced that Ludicrous Mode was coming the next year and "expected" to have certain performance stats, where multiple editors fell over each other to make sure it stayed at the top of the list, even when they eventually had to add a column just for Tesla where every other result had "Actual Results" and the Tesla had "Projected/Expected Results".

* A collation of John Deere tractors that described multiple models as "light years ahead of the competition".

* An article on an Australian drug smuggler where exhibits from court case were being removed as "biased".
by glenstein | 2025-10-21 23:40:00+00:00
>about what the Mozilla Corporation is currently doing.

I don't know if you ever saw the movie Dark City, but one aspect of the plot was that everyone thought they knew the way to Shell Beach, but could never actually tell you how to get there if you asked [0]:

>Murdoch learns that he came from a coastal town called Shell Beach, which everyone knows, though no one remembers how to get there and Murdoch's attempts to visit fail.

And, look at this thread! 90% of the time it's young adults with no financial literacy misinterpreting non-profit filings.

Which, again, it's not to say there's no issues. Adtech is bad. CEO pay is bad-ish. But most of the time the best anyone can manage is sweet nothings like "you know... all the... stuff they're doing!" It's filed away in the Shell Beach part of their brains.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_City_(1998_film)
by electroly | 2025-10-21 23:40:05+00:00
Assuming you're playing the "only pay for a business support plan when you actually need to file a ticket" game like me, with a very slight amount of effort this works in your favor instead of being a downside. Put your expensive-but-reliable stuff (e.g. large 24/7 EC2 instances, your S3 buckets) in one account and your cheap-but-fiddly stuff (e.g. your EKS cluster) in another account. When you need support on the fiddly stuff you're only paying a percent of that account.

At work we did not follow this advice, so we have a single account and we're vulnerable to an unnecessarily high support bill if we happen to need to file a ticket in an expensive month. We could have avoided this with account segmentation; our expensive stuff tends not to be the stuff we need support on.
by travisgriggs | 2025-10-21 23:40:21+00:00
> I would love to read a study on why people so readily believe and trust in AI chatbots.

We associate authority experts with a) quick and b) broad answers. It's like when we're listening to a radio show and they patch in "Dr So N. So" an expert in Whatever from Academia Forever U. They seem to know their stuff because a) they don't see "I don't know, let me get back to you after I've looked into that" and they can share a breadth of associated validations.

LLMs simulate this experience, by giving broadish, confident, answers very quickly. We have been trained by life's many experiences to trust these types of answers.
3 years post grad in AI, is now the optimal time to job hop?
by fishmeat | 2025-10-21 23:40:29+00:00
I just hit 3 years of experience exactly last month. Leading up to the milestone, I've been receiving cold dms for AI roles adjacent to what I'm working on from both FAANG, quant and start up firms. The comp range for these position is often 40-50% more than what I'm making in both cash and stock (currently I get 300k in the Bay Area.) Is now the best time for me to move?
by jjk166 | 2025-10-21 23:42:00+00:00
I don't know how you can claim a deadline that was achieved was not realistic.

Full stack testing was not cutting corners. After ground testing it was deemed that incremental testing would not be beneficial. Doing tasks in parallel instead of in series can introduce project risks, but that's not the same thing as cutting corners, which is where something necessary is not done at all.
by Waterluvian | 2025-10-21 23:42:23+00:00
I think it’s apt because the Ship of Theseus as a thought experiment is unanswerable. It’s both. It’s neither.

America does keep reinventing itself. It has few of the same parts as before, but it still resembles some concept of “America” in many ways. In that way it is the same ship.

But is it the same ship? Can it win a space race today that a previous manifestation of America could? Maybe it’s not the same ship and what it could do in the 60s it can no longer do today.

I certainly don’t think it’s a question that demands an answer. Perfectly valid to choose not to show up to the starting line. But having run that race under the same banner generations ago doesn’t tell us much about the America today.
by Levitz | 2025-10-21 23:42:54+00:00
Yes, biases which ideally you are aware of and try to account for.

For example, it would be stupid for me to entirely dismiss all of Wikipedia just because I know that there are some horribly biased articles and it'd be a disgrace if I shrugged such behavior off saying "hey, we all have biases, can't help it". That's what a child or even an animal would do.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-21 23:43:39+00:00
Yes, and if I am writing an API service, for example, I don’t want to suddenly add latency because I hit pages that have been swapped out. I want guarantees about my API call latency variance, at least when the server isn’t overloaded.

I DON’T WANT THE KERNEL PRIORITIZING CACHE OVER NRU PAGES.

The easiest way to do this is to disable swap.
by skydhash | 2025-10-21 23:43:41+00:00
2) I have eshell bound to a keybind, but I've never use it. I prefer shell-mode and shell-command. They make it easy to use cli utilities. TUI is something that I find myself no longer needing. And I've become so accustomed with the cli that the only two I'm using in a terminal is `less` and `top`.

3) I think the best way is to find some vanilla base config that will smooth out the rough parts, then, once you understand the internal concepts, tweak them to your liking. It's certainly a long term plan, but the pro is not having to wait on "features" from another company or group.
by okanat | 2025-10-21 23:45:04+00:00
Sure. Probably you shouldn't dump it at once but let the 7 year old ask questions one at a time. I think you can still explain it one at a time. I am aware that readers of HN are not 7 year olds.

Now try explaining any kind of encryption system that gives the same level of confidence to a high-scholer or even CS students in as many words as I used in that comment.
by duxup | 2025-10-21 23:45:26+00:00
So let's say you look like someone.

Who is the fake?

>To participate, people will need to submit a government ID and a brief video selfie to YouTube to ensure they are who they say they are and give the feature source material to draw from in its review. From there, it works similarly to YouTube's Content ID feature for finding copyrighted audio

Oh man like Content ID??? That's very discouraging ....
by afavour | 2025-10-21 23:45:27+00:00
> What you are obsessing with is about the writer's style, not its substance

They aren’t, they are boring styling tics that suggest the writer did not write the sentence.

Writing is both a process and an output. It’s a way of processing your thoughts and forming an argument. When you don’t do any of that and get an AI to create the output without the process it’s obvious.
by freedomben | 2025-10-21 23:45:57+00:00
I really love librivox for what they've done and their mission, so please don't interpret this as a criticism. It simply is what it is, and I appreciate all the effort people have graciously donated to make life better and information more accessible for their fellow humans.

That said, the vast majority of the recordings from Librivox I've listened to are pretty bad. There are some narrators that are decent, but many are borderline unlistenable. For those, an AI voice narrator would be much better, even with the current state of TTS. Is anybody working on an effort to produce these works with an AI voice?
by travisgriggs | 2025-10-21 23:46:06+00:00
Hats off to you and your company. I wish more companies could put up a notice like you did, much less show up as a CEO on frickin' HN and be willing to take responsibility as well as desire to do better. I honestly am a little confused how a person like you exists. The FAA should put someone like you in charge of Boeing.
by gnarlouse | 2025-10-21 23:46:39+00:00
I'm still shocked that there isn't basic functionality in chatgpt that allows you to fork conversations to have subtopical conversational threads off of a main one.

For example, I'm asking deep philosophical questions, or maybe reaching for a STEM concept slightly beyond my understanding, and that inevitably requires me to ask subquestions (eg "okay wait, what are Conformal Fields?"). Doing so still forces me to do a linear conversational format, and it just isn't functional.

Blows my mind that with all the great big AI minds at OpenAI they still can't do basic functionality.

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Like seriously, for some of us old heads, imagine having this in undergrad: a professor in your pocket that can handle your arbitrarily stupid recitation questions, one on one, with infinite patience. I think I could have aced electrodynamics and Calc III instead of just pulling Bs.
by incompatible | 2025-10-21 23:46:39+00:00
The Wikimedia Foundation is unlikely to last for 1000 years as an organisation because it doesn't exist within a social / economic system that will last for 1000 years. The US government is already actively plotting against it. Sure, they can try hopping from one country to another, but it won't be sustainable for that long.

It's not even certain if Wikipedia itself can exist for such a long period, given fragility of technological civilisation and data storage.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/27/wiki...
by rifty | 2025-10-21 23:47:31+00:00
I agree. Rush hour commutes requires a fleet owner to essentially provide equivalently as many commuter cars as commuters. So commuters may as well have their own for all of the benefits of something being just yours.

I do think autonomous delivery services will be the more important use case. I expect people without personal vehicles to use delivery services much more ubiquitously, and will end up travelling themselves personally much less.

There will likely be a period where some of these commuters will actually loan out their vehicle for taxiing people or products for people while they work. I just imagine eventually we'd see stripped down for product delivery only vehicles, removing a lot of the demand for personal loaning.
by eru | 2025-10-21 23:48:00+00:00
How long is long running? You should be getting the warm caches after at most a few hours.

> Secondly, Kernel swaps out unused pages to SWAP, relieving pressure from RAM. So, SWAP is often used even if you fill 1% of your RAM. This allows for more hot data to be cached, allowing better resource utilization and performance in the long run.

Yes, and you can observe that even in your desktop at home (if you are running something like Linux).

> So, eff it, we ball is never a good system administration strategy. Even if everything is ephemeral and can be rebooted in three seconds.

I wouldn't be so quick. Google ran their servers without swap for ages. (I don't know if they still do it.) They decided that taking the slight inefficiency in memory usage, because they have to keep the 'leaked' pages around in actual RAM, is worth it to get predictability in performance.

For what it's worth, I add generous swap to all my personal machines, mostly so that the kernel can offload cold / leaked pages and keep more disk content cached in RAM. (As a secondary reason: I also like to have a generous amount of /tmp space that's backed by swap, if necessary.)

With swap files, instead of swap partitions, it's fairly easy to shrink and grow your swap space, depending on what your needs for free space on your disk are.
by stickfigure | 2025-10-21 23:49:21+00:00
And yet we see nations like Russia (well, leaders like Putin) acting as if the world is a zero-sum game. The war in Ukraine vaguely looks like the Borg trying to assimilate every resource (geographical or human) in sight.

China (well, Xi) seems to be eyeing a similar path. I feel like there's something worth noting about the Three Body Problem being a product of its culture.
by casey2 | 2025-10-21 23:50:35+00:00
Yup, proves the old adage that you never let the tech fluent make tooling decisions for normal people. Nothing would kill a large orgs momentum faster than half their employees stuck reading man pages for trivial tasks. Microsoft is a good black and white, you can do this or you can't. Which works better organizationally than the "I bet I could hack this together in a few weeks" and have everyone wait around so one "10x dev" can feel like a special snowflake
by bawolff | 2025-10-21 23:50:40+00:00
To quote from the page:

"In May 2024, it was announced that Yasuke would be a major character in an upcoming video game (Assassin's Creed Shadows). While onwiki disagreement about Yasuke's status as a samurai predates this announcement, the historical figure's Samurai status became part of a culture war around video games (J2UDY7r00CRjH evidence) that media sources have described as a continuation of or successor to Gamergate, leading to an increase in attention to the article. (Symphony Regalia evidence)"
by justsomehnguy | 2025-10-21 23:51:55+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45007821

And that was like... two years ago? 1GB of RAM and actually ~700MB usable before I found the proper magik incantations to really disable kdump.

Also have used 1GB machines for literally years.

Strongly suggest you shouldn't strongly suggest.
by cubefox | 2025-10-21 23:52:27+00:00
I think the main problem for Starship is that they need to do a large number of tanker launches (about 20 I believe) in a timeframe in which the propellant in the LEO depot doesn't boil off. I assume they need to develop some good sun shielding for that. 20 launches could take quite a long time (multiple months? a year?) since it will probably take quite a few years till Starship, especially the upper stage, is rapidly reusable. They can't wait that long with Artemis 3, with Sean Duffy adding pressure.
by judahmeek | 2025-10-21 23:52:35+00:00
Fair enough.

Your reply of "everyone is doing it" definitely could a logical answer to the question of "Why is Musk allowed to be worth half a trillion dollars again?" instead of just a moral justification.

I would agree that Tesla's stock price is as high as it is because investors are betting that there are plenty of other suckers who will be convinced by Musk's unfounded claims.
by thwarted | 2025-10-21 23:52:37+00:00
No, I'm saying that it is more meaningful to use what is directly derived rather than what is an indirect assumption. There is already issues with people erroneously considering whatever LLMs output as truth, the last thing anyone needs is an LLM claiming someone like Idris Elba is a white Briton because of his accent. We don't need automated phrenology machines, and that's what "determined your race from your voice" is pretty close to.
by eru | 2025-10-21 23:52:50+00:00
Swap delays the 'fundamental issue', if you have a leak that keeps growing.

If your problem doesn't keep growing, and you just have more data that programs want to keep in memory than you have RAM, but the actual working set of what's accessed frequently still fits in RAM, then swap perfectly solves this.

Think lots of programs open in the background, or lots of open tabs in your browser, but you only ever rapidly switch between at most a handful at a time. Or you are starting a memory hungry game and you don't want to be bothered with closing all the existing memory hungry programs that idle in the background while you play.
by spankibalt | 2025-10-21 23:52:51+00:00
> The Mac hardware is vastly superior to most Windows laptops, especially enterprise Windows laptops.

Man alive, what you mean is normie "Apple-style" Windows laptops with a bit of an "enterprise" makeover. Mobile enterprise workhorses (e. g. Panasonic, Getac)? Apple has no hardware in this segment. Detachables with extended five-year warranties plus certified dual-OS support? Nothing. Some of you fruit afficionados need to get out more.
by ggm | 2025-10-21 23:53:39+00:00
Thats a "yes, but not him" or "not like that" response.

Look, I get it. We hate the top. It totally shits me to know my services are backed by Oracle, because I don't like Mr Ellison. But I didn't like Jobs, and yet I (and half the western hemisphere) use his product.

If we're going to go all "I cant trust him" on this, look no further than what people think about any ICT provider, anywhere in the supply chain.

Sometimes, the ones who persist surprise me. I had no idea the panasonic toughbook would simply go on. Or a post-IBM sale Lenovo. If you'd told me SONY would wind up being irrelevant at scale except for headphones, Toshiba would cease to sell consumer product in most of the west, Hell that Digital Equipment would wind up being bought by Compaq, trashed, and then sold to HP...