MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rcarmo | 2025-10-21 06:56:57+00:00
I stopped using Postman when it magically started connecting to a central server for… nothing useful, really. I have no idea why people would design software this way, especially a development tool that should work with any web server, under any network condition (including fully offline against localhost).

Now I just have a Makefile with a bunch of curl invocations, or Python tests with requests to match against expected responses.
by mock-possum | 2025-10-21 06:58:14+00:00
> antinatalism, the philosophical position that coming into existence is always a harm

> a decrease in the human population would prevent a significant amount of human-caused suffering

Ridiculous. Without coming into existence there is nothing anyway - by that logic, coming into existence is always a pleasure too, it’s always a joy, it’s always a triumph and a fulfillment. Existence is always existence, nothing is always nothing. It’s a useless tautology.

If you’d rather be nothing then give up on living. I’m perfectly happy existing.
by kn0where | 2025-10-21 06:59:05+00:00
Google can be an excellent place to work, but most of the people working there are not contributing to the company’s profits. Whether or not you think that still has value, leadership is trying to “optimize” by squeezing everyone harder and demanding they show productivity gains using AI. Some teams will adapt and keep being a nice team to work on, but many employees are getting “optimized” out of the company and replaced with vendorization and consultants.
by kkapelon | 2025-10-21 06:59:16+00:00
> For example - if a "self hosted" service supports off-site backups is it self hosted or just well designed?

There is a big difference between communicating with external services (your example) vs REQUIRING external services (what parent is complaining about).

If in your example the system can run correctly with just local backups I would consider it self-hosted.
by giuliomagnifico | 2025-10-21 06:59:42+00:00
Yes but you can continue to invest in other sectors.

They’re saying that:

> "Generative AI still appears set to deliver a rapid acceleration in task automation that will drive labor cost savings and boost productivity, with our baseline estimates suggesting a 15% gross uplift to economy-wide US labor productivity following full adoption," the company wrote.

>It expects that adoption to take place over the next 10 years.

>The only possible hiccup, Goldman wrote, was that investors are betting heavily on companies early in the process. First movers are not always the ultimate winners in battles like this.

For example the adoption of generative AI in china is only at 35%.

There’s still lot of space.
by HaZeust | 2025-10-21 07:00:31+00:00
Yahoo is a disingenuous parallel here. Yahoo lost because they didn't correctly embrace their market position in what's otherwise the very ripe industry of search engines. Search engines created the 4th most valuable company in the world (Google).

We don't know how ripe OpenAI's industry or market position is, yet. Yahoo knew what they had lost pretty early onto its spiral.
by ohman876 | 2025-10-21 07:00:44+00:00
I migh sound negative but when I was reading through this website it looked a bit like free energy scams to me, "stick a rod into the ground and voila, bulb is lit". drawings of magnets with two poles adjecent to the same pole- when I was attending physics course our proffesor told us that magnet would rearrange so there would be 2 poles if we tried tricks like this.. I'd like to see the 'how it's built' before I can attempt to get rid of my scepticism..
by Ym7K8KUf | 2025-10-21 07:00:57+00:00
In my days, this was called a simple CRUD app, not a CMS. While technically being a CMS, many things would fall under this category that clearly are not. Now AI will have a breeze creating a simple CRUD proccess, especially if you invest some time. However as soon as it gets even a bit more complex, in my experience everything starts to fall apart. However I think it's really nice that people, coming from a different background have a way easier time, getting into coding than I did when we had to StackOverflow every single thing for hours. It can be a real learning-boost if you apply AI correctly. And from the vibe, that's what I am seeing this person getting out of it.
by Arainach | 2025-10-21 07:01:04+00:00
>You might be right about the hours the teachers work, but they're not doing it to avoid being fired. It is entirely self-imposed stress. Teachers have unions and tenure.

No, and no. Your perception of modern labor markets is dated and disconnected from reality. Schools are constantly facing budget cuts and a huge chunk of teachers aren't even full time (instead getting things like a 60% time position - less pay, no security, but enough hours that good luck working a second job). Those that get full time positions still face the elimination of their positions.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-21 07:01:24+00:00
> But that logic, Matrix is less encrypted than Whatsapp, too, which is a crazy thing to say.

From a protocol perspective, it is. Without an open-source WhatsApp client and independent protocol security analysis, it's hard to judge the effectiveness of the encryption, of course.

> means that there is a single target server to attack for the metadata

Signal does not collect or provide much metadata. It has IP:port mappings, for sure, and keeps track of when a user last checked in, but the protocol itself is extremely well-suited to resist analysis.

A lot of information Matrix provides you for "free" once you break the HTTPS tunnel needs advanced analysis to get it out of Signal. Signal's protocol security is really impressive, I don't think there's anything comparable out there.
by supportengineer | 2025-10-21 07:05:47+00:00
I have a great example of this. For our first kid, we had created a Sterile Field in our kitchen for pacifiers, baby bottles, etc. The sanctity of the Sterile Field was never violated. We would wash things by hand and then BOIL them and place them into the Sterile Field. This kid is allergic to tree nuts and a few other things.

For baby number 2, soap and water is enough. There's no time for Sterile Field nonsense. This kid isn't allergic to anything.

There was a local mom who had 4 thriving kids. When their baby dropped the pacifier in the dirt, it just got brushed off and handed back to the baby. I don't think those kids had any allergies.
by microtonal | 2025-10-21 07:07:36+00:00
A few years later and you (or at least I) can't remember what the previous UI looked like. So if I don't complain about the change, it's only because I don't remember enough to recall what it used to be.

There was a similar amount of hate around the iOS 7 design. Apple toned it a bit down (like they are doing with Liquid Glass now), but you can compare the screenshots before and after and iOS 7 was certainly better in hindsight.

One day my dad dug up his old iPhone that was still running pre-7 and the UI was kind of meh.

All the non-techies in my family don’t seem to care about Liquid Glass? They went ‘oh it looks slightly different’ and went on with their lives.

By the way, I don’t think Windows 9 exists. They went 8 -> 8.1 -> 10.
by binoct | 2025-10-21 07:08:05+00:00
Primary energy sources are what they are, both your comment and the linked article seem to imply discussing them should lead to a deserved punch in the face. Can you help me understand why?

As far as I can tell, your link argues that if we overcome all the practical challenges (politics, resources, financing, technical innovation) and go all-electric for global energy, we only need ~1/3 as much input energy potential as we use today for the same useful work. That’s useful, but the hard part lies in those practical challenges. And the primary sources of global human energy use are a long way away from that goal.

So should we strive to get there? Sure. Should we be tactical about how? Yes. And the link seems to argue that as well. But is it reasonable to hit our 2050 goals based on the current global fossil fuel usage? Not really. So I’m really missing how this refutes Smil’s article, and why “primary energy” is such a stupid thing.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-21 07:08:17+00:00
I’ve seen many examples of a similar phenomenon. Modern compilers are impressively good at generating bit-twiddling micro-optimizations from idiomatic code. They are also good at larger scale structural macro-optimization. However, there is a No Man’s Land for compiler optimization between micro-optimization and macro-optimization where the effectiveness of compiler optimizations are much less reliable.

Intuitively I understand why it is a hard problem. Micro-optimizations have deterministic properties that are simple enough that optimality is all but certain. Macro-optimization heuristics create incidental minor pessimization effects that are buried below the noise floor by major optimization effects on average.

In the middle are optimizations that are too complex to guarantee effective optimization but too small in effect to offset any incidental pessimization. It is easy to inadvertently make things worse in these cases. Most cases of surprising performance variances I see fall into this gap.

It is also where the codegen from different compilers seems to disagree the most, which lends evidence to the idea that the “correct” codegen is far from obvious to a compiler.
by layman51 | 2025-10-21 07:08:44+00:00
I vaguely remember seeing a small help text on YouTube when you try to share an unlisted video where they tell you as the user that it's unlisted and to "be mindful" about sharing it. I think most people who read that don't understand what that means so maybe that's why I believe they don't show it anymore. I wonder if it has anything to do with that `si` URL parameter that the Share button introduces into the URL.

Anyway, maybe I didn't fully comprehend your article, but it still seems a bit mysterious to me how a database of unlisted YouTube videos could exist. Is it just based on user submissions? If so, how are they finding the URLs to the videos in the first place? In my experience, the way they might leak is if the uploader mistakenly adds an unlisted video into a public-facing playlist, but that doesn't seem to me like it would be a common error among content creators.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-10-21 07:08:46+00:00
Page doesn't seem to be all-inclusive in vein of awesome lists (such as github:schemedoc/awesome-scheme) but concentrated to author's own projects (Gauche and apps/libs). And maybe doesn't get updated beyond those (e.g. Bigloo homepage has been moved to https://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/ years ago; probably before Chez became open which may be another reason it didn't made it to the list).
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-21 07:08:47+00:00
> where parents sheltered their kids from everything. It seems like all it's done is make people more vulnerable as adults.

I don't agree that this is "all" that it has done.

There are many cases where reducing exposure as much as possible is the correct thing to do. Lead is the best-known example.

As the other reply pointed out, the second-order effect, the nuance that comes later is that sometimes this isn't the right thing to do.

But it would be basically incorrect to reduce it to blanket, binary, "all good" vs "all bad" black-or-white conclusions, just because the there is a smaller course correction when it's found out to be not entirely good. Concluding that "all it's done is cause problems" is a knee-jerk reaction.
by ggm | 2025-10-21 07:09:24+00:00
A lot of money got made by shovel makers, laundries, gin shoppers during every gold rush.

There's a heap of civil construction, systems integration, electricity supply and cooling arbitrage going on as well as a land grab. If you can invest in land zoned for a DC or in supply and distribution of power or in tilt slab concrete systems, you're going to make a lot of money.

Or, if you broker premade DC to new cashed up clients as the olds tank and you pick it up in a fire sale.

If GS say there's money to be made I suspect they aren't wrong, even if I am an AI skeptic.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2025-10-21 07:10:17+00:00
Where's the "practical" one that site really reflected?

I liked scheme as a learning tool and got highest grades. That doesn't change my impression that most of the sites covering it are mental masturbation. Puzzles, or programs for the sake of scheme itself. Where's the stuff to solve real world problems? (OK, mostly solved by other languages anyway... Still: where is the content that really wants a junior to try it out for routine problems and the senior tonstay with it?)
by whatever1 | 2025-10-21 07:10:18+00:00
Tech will learn like manufacturing folks did that experience is not fungible. You can try to replace someone, but the new guy also needs to accumulate the scars from the system for years before taking over.

You cannot just keep abstracting and chopping systems to smaller and smaller subsystems to make them easy to digest.

At some point someone needs to know how these coordinate and behave under disturbances. At some point someone needs to know at a low level what the hell is going on.
by smt88 | 2025-10-21 07:10:31+00:00
> For everyday people increased screening of all types has risks, but overall the benefits massively outweigh the risks.

This is just not how math works, and it's why we still need doctors to order tests -- to protect people from themselves. You clearly don't know what you don't know, but you have a huge amount of confidence that you do, apparently.

Here's a list of different types of cancer screenings and where the risk/benefit falls: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/balancing-the-benefits-and...

The risk of any cancer screening has to be calculated with variables like:

- how risky is the test?

- what are the risks of a false positive?

- how does a true negative affect the person's behavior in the future?

- what is the likelihood that the patient has asymptomatic cancer, based on risks like genetics and age?

- how difficult is the cancer to treat in different stages?

Without looking at all of those things, you don't know if the test is going to increase or decrease all-cause mortality risk.
by Root_Denied | 2025-10-21 07:11:57+00:00
The fun part is realizing that any and all exercise comes with risks, and running probably is bad for your knees in the long term - but maybe the long term health benefits to the rest of your body of running outweigh the risk of damage to your knees.

Your personal health profile or family history may also put you at higher risk for cartilage degeneration from running, which would shift the balance in the other direction.

Blanket statements about medical outcomes like that are useful for medical practice in general, but can be misleading for individuals making health decisions if they ignore other relevant factors. There's also plenty of doctors who will not take those other relevant factors into account and just go by whatever the last training or research they were exposed to (which, incidentally, is also why big pharma companies invest in salespeople to target doctor offices - because it works).
by darkwater | 2025-10-21 07:12:14+00:00
To the OP: nice karma trick posting the URL with the anchor to bypass the HN duplicates detector. Dang & co, this is a bug, it should be fixed.

I know because I stumbled on the same page following the links from the blog of the author of another post that made the frontpage yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589156), liked the TernFS concept, submitted it and got redirected to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290245
by rsynnott | 2025-10-21 07:13:59+00:00
Huh. I hadn't actually realised Maplin was gone entirely. They closed in Ireland a while back, but I put that down to a general trend of marginal UK high-street retailers (Argos etc) pulling out of Ireland, but still existing in some form in the UK.

Weird shop; they never really got rid of any stock that was even theoretically useable, so it was at least partially a museum of outdated gadgets.
by Panzerschrek | 2025-10-21 07:14:11+00:00
I think some people misunderstand how compiler optimizations work. it's not magic, which makes each piece of code faster, it's just a bunch of deterministic code transformation rules, which usually make code faster (considering large set of use-cases), but it's not proven that they always do so. So, by writing performant code one should always keep this in mind.
by pu_pe | 2025-10-21 07:14:40+00:00
It seems that you are offering up to 120x25s, or 3000s of Sora 2 video for $19/month. The API prices for Sora 2 are $0.10/second [1]. Are you just accepting a large loss to attract customers or is there a catch here?

[1] https://openai.com/api/pricing/
by pjmlp | 2025-10-21 07:15:07+00:00
Currently the way out of moc is C++26 reflection, there is only the question if it covers all required use cases, and when it becomes widely available across the compilers used by Qt's customer base.

https://wiki.qt.io/C%2B%2B_reflection_(P2996)_and_moc

C++ Builder still has a special place on my heart, Microsoft has never managed to create something as good on their C++ stack for doing GUI applications in C+*, there is nothing visual about Visual C++, unfortunely they seem not able to deliver anything better than MFC.

C++/CLI never had the same access to the GUI tooling used by VB and C#, C++/CX got sabotaged by an internal group that rather write IDL files in Notepad and push that experience to everyone, than caring about paying customers.

Regarding IAR, maybe it is a way to solidify their offering, and counter advances from Android, Electron and Flutter being adopted on the same industries.
by hyperman1 | 2025-10-21 07:16:17+00:00
Let me tell you about Belgium in 1830. It got attached to the Netherlands, and their king would not listen to the locals. Things got completely out of hand until we got huge protests. All the while, the idea at the Belgian side was things would calm down once their king would stop being so bloody minded and make some concessions. Well, the Dutch king didn't, the revolution succeeded, and we more or less accidentally liberated ourselves. France couldn't invade yet, and there was a general air of: whoops,we created a country, now what? Belgium is a country to this day, for no real reason.

You can start an armed revolt, but you have no idea what's going to happen afterwards.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-10-21 07:17:32+00:00
Gauche that is hosted on this site can do it. It does by statically linking the entire Gauche system so may not be the best option. Besides Chez (compiling to native code) that sibling comments mentioned, other options are CHICKEN and Gambit compiling to C (CHICKEN docs provide instructions to even cross-compile[0]).

[0]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Cross%20development#cross-deve...
by mort96 | 2025-10-21 07:17:39+00:00
Nah this is more like, "Why do you consult the vibes oracle to compute 7 * 5? Just use a calculator!"

.. which is, to be honest, a criticism I would make if I saw someone try to ask ChatGPT to do math

.. and, FWIW, that is exactly what's happening here; base64 decode is just math
by zippyman55 | 2025-10-21 07:17:44+00:00
My funny Scheme story. My work place was using it in production, 1999. A ton of code was written by a VERY SMART (and famous) person and of course it worked. He delivered it under pressure, ahead of schedule and it just worked. Ok, but my frustration was that we could not find anyone to support the decoders. So, I could have 300 resumes, and zero would reference scheme. So, there I was one Sunday, a church greeter, greeting people before church on a Sunday. And a fellow greeter brought up software, and I somewhat went off on Scheme as to how difficult it was to find interview candidates for the system. Then, I turn around to greet the next person, and he had a Fricken Scheme Polo Shirt with a prominent Lambda. I am not sure if he heard me.
by js8 | 2025-10-21 07:18:51+00:00
Sometimes you can prove mathematically that two different approaches are equivalent, but differ only in name or some parameter, and that's a unification of sorts, without proliferation of standards.

In case of UIs, this is still an open problem and will be for many years, but I suspect we could do it by defining, in some kind of fuzzy logic for example, what a good UI does look like. Then we could transfer elements from one UI into another.

Or we could just start at the edge. For example, we can unify what a "user input" is, and what a "widget on the screen" is. Formalizing everything would allow us to do such transformations on programs, for example, universal input/output remapping. And then we could continue to unify into more specific logic of what input is being read and how things are drawn on the screen.

Untyped lambda calculus (and its sibling combinatory logic) is just language for expressing logic, nothing more. And it already exists (arguably it's one of the first programming languages, predates Forth and Lisp by at least two decades) and is among the simplest ones we know. I actually became interested in LC so much recently because, believe it or not, expressing things in classical logic is often more complicated than expressing things in LC.
by motorest | 2025-10-21 07:19:00+00:00
> Try telling that to customers who can only do outbound API calls to whitelisted IP addresses

Alright, if that's what you're going with then you can just follow a AWS tutorial:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-v...

Provision an elastic IP to have your static IP address, set the NAT gateway to handle traffic, and plugin the lambda to the NAT gateway.

Do you think this qualifies as very complicated?
by johnisgood | 2025-10-21 07:19:23+00:00
> A common logical fallacy for our human brains is that we think, "Oh, I just got a test, so it's less likely I have cancer today," which is not how probability works.

Given my interactions with my doctors and their tests, they did seem to hold this belief, too.

In any case, the real mistake people make is failing to update their beliefs when new evidence (symptoms) appears. Rookie mistake. My doctors love to do (or rather, not do) this. Who needs differential diagnosis and re-evaluation when they can just keep the diagnosis and continue receiving a fuckton of money after you based on a secore-based system we have here?
by president_zippy | 2025-10-21 07:20:04+00:00
I guess I just assumed teachers have the same protections in deep blue Washington state that they have in Illinois and Minnesota.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. However, there's a fix for that: move to a state where the job prospects are better. That sounds like "let them eat cake", except that moving to another state as an American citizen is a lot easier than what of people went through fleeing the Sicilian Mafia or the Irish Potato Famine, let alone WW2 European front or the fall of Saigon.
by whiteboardr | 2025-10-21 07:20:49+00:00
In addition to this, glass also reflects light from around you, thus there is not the slightest chance of realistically recreating a glass effect on any device without having some sort of ambient vision which is incorporated into a real time rendering.

This is wrong on so many levels and I sincerely hope there will be an option for not just choosing less transparency but an entire UI-skin that is mature, clean and above all: legible.
by ronakjain90 | 2025-10-21 07:21:04+00:00
we[1] operate out of `us-east-1` but chose to not use any of the cloud based vendor lockin (sorry vercel, supabase, firebase, planetscale etc). Rather a few droplets in DigitalOcean(us-east-1) and Hetzner(eu). We serve 100 million requests/mo, few million user generated content(images)/mo at monthly cost of just about $1000/mo.

It's not difficult, it's just that we engineers chose convenience and delegated uptime to someone else.

[1] - https://usetrmnl.com