MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheChaplain | 2025-10-10 09:33:40+00:00
Think what you will about Amazon, but they proved their usefulness to me last week.

It was two days before a birthday and I needed a present, which interestingly was as unusual as a spotting scope. I found it on Amazon, paid a tiny amount extra for express delivery, and it arrived the next day at lunch time. Fully functional, no scams or trickery.

Before I bought it, I checked with all shops in mine and nearby cities, no luck. I went on PriceRunner, where the cheapest option was 30% more expensive and everyone had (at best) 3-5 days delivery. Then as a last check, I went on Amazon.

I don't love Amazon, there seem to be a lot of things that doesn't seem right. Plus they easily push out small shops everywhere.

But they do deliver.
by alejoar | 2025-10-10 09:34:40+00:00
Opposing a dictatorship at great personal risk, being exiled, banned from elections, and still leading a democratic movement isn't "nothing".

I think this prize recognizes her courage and fight for human rights.

Dismissing that as "just being in the opposition" ignores the reality of what it takes to stand up to Maduro's dictatorship.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-10-10 09:36:07+00:00
Great analysis, but the solution is so simple: RAII.

And this is offered as `unique_process_handle`[1] in the Windows Implementation Library (WIL)[2].

This is a fantastic addition to the Windows developer's toolkit, which everyone should be using from the outset. The Windows C API is unnecessarily verbose (although this can be said of any OS, Windows' is particularly bad), and simple mistakes can and will happen.

Let RAII help you, let the mighty close-scope token `} ` be your best friend.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/wil/blob/1f20cd086e07b9be54e70d...

[2]: https://github.com/microsoft/wil
by pgedge_postgres | 2025-10-10 09:37:42+00:00
It technically is source-available, as of Nov 2024, anyway: https://news.itsfoss.com/cockcroachdb-no-open-source/

So yes, license (and compatibility - see https://pgscorecard.com) are two major differences between pgEdge and CockroachDB.

pgEdge version updates also come in very close alignment with upstream PostgreSQL intentionally to make sure security patches/bugfixes and the latest features get to users ASAP.
by eru | 2025-10-10 09:37:52+00:00
Just the opposite. It's to the 'benefit of the market' to let insiders trade. That is, if you think that the point of a prediction market is to get accurate predictions (and the point of a financial market is to get accurate prices).

However, I agree that they might get rules against this. But not to benefit the market, just because people think this would be proper. Social desirability bias is strong.
by skywhopper | 2025-10-10 09:38:04+00:00
Yes. While I personally don’t like this practice, it is so widespread and there is so much demand for it that it’s not unusual given their privacy policy makes explicit mention of it.

The best argument you could make is that gem owners should be able to see “who” downloads their gems. If they were self-hosting the packages, they would have that data. Of course, charging for it is the ookier part.
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-10 09:39:30+00:00
1. Alternation matters because circles spawn most often, triangles next, squares least. I avoid 3+ in a row almost religiously; 2 in a row is fine unless that segment is already stressed. If I can cheaply flip a segment into triangle-circle-triangle (or similar), I do it.

2. Where to put big junctions: Squares are rare magnets, so giving every line access to at least one square prevents square-bound riders from piling up on transfers. My "major" hub is usually a square near the geographic center or a bridge choke, and I try not to merge too many trunks into one block-split load across two nearby interchanges if possible. If you have special shapes (stars, etc.), connecting each special to exactly one line that meets others only at an interchange keeps flows predictable.

3. Crossing lines away from stations: It's not catastrophic, but on busy trunks the cumulative hit adds up. I'll avoid mid-block crossings on high-throughput segments; elsewhere I don't contort the whole map just to eliminate a single crossing. Net: treat it as a tax, pay it only when it saves tunnels or ugly detours.

4. Random station getting swamped: Triage in this order: turn it into an interchange (boarding speed), add a loco, then a carriage on the most burdened line, and only then re-route another line to cross it. If nothing stabilizes, drop a short "shuttle" micro-line from that station straight to a square/triangle sink, then delete it once the queue clears. Pausing to redraw aggressively is part of the game.

On those early "beginner's luck" highs: seed luck is real but also the game rewards ruthless mid-game rebuilds more than early cleverness. Don't be sentimental about lines-pause, re-lay, and keep every line touching a square.

I have not heard of or seen a secret level!
by Ray20 | 2025-10-10 09:39:42+00:00
What's illegal? Changing prices? Giving discounts? As I understand it, the EU, as always, is using solutions to problems that are worse than the problems themselves.

And so, instead of a situation where the price, taking into account the fake discount, becomes, on average, a little higher on the day of the sale, we get a situation where... the price, taking into account the fake discount, becomes, on average, a little higher on the day of the sale, and much higher the whole month before that.
by florkbork | 2025-10-10 09:40:37+00:00
I hate to ask; but

- Account created 14 hours ago.

- Posts article crammed full of accusations

- Has a strong well formed opinion about "it's a crime", but didn't? read the content where the subject of the accusations has.... Already disclosed they had access in both private and public.

My account is also very new, because I have opted to discard my previous ones. I have used it to comment predominantly on this topic, as I sympathise with the maintainers.

So in the interests of making a similar disclosure is there any chance you are affiliated with RubyCentral through a business relationship with them, their legal counsel, a marketing or PR agency or anything of that nature?
by superpope99 | 2025-10-10 09:41:35+00:00
I think the "successful arrival" framing isn't accurate. Or at least not comprehensive. Granted, "Commuter travel" vs "Leisure travel" are probably two quite different products.

Marketing guy Rory Sutherland talks about the product of the train journey a lot. I think there's a lot of wisdom in the idea of spending finite budget trying to make the travel experience more enjoyable rather than trying to make the journey quicker. (excuse the shortform slop) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bywe3NUOB1I
by skywhopper | 2025-10-10 09:42:40+00:00
Also seems pretty obvious that there was no clear chain of command for the operators. The board themselves certainly aren’t deeply involved given the statement by the one board member about how they couldn’t be bothered to communicate with the community about what was happening because they are so busy in their day jobs.

So who should Arko contact? The guy who’s his “boss” just suspended a bunch of access, twice, and emailed contradictory things. Given how sloppy the overall security situation clearly was and continues to be, I’m guessing no one really understands how AWS security works except for Andre anyway.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-10 09:42:42+00:00
Psychological tip (and maybe an idea for a browser extension?):

- Never look at the sale percentage, just look at the price.

Yes, it might be "75% off!!", but is it still worth 200€ to you?

It takes some mental trickery and fortitude to drag your mind away from the "OMG IT WAS 800€ and now it's only 200!!" and only look at the current price vs features.
by jimnotgym | 2025-10-10 09:43:13+00:00
I feel like my move to Amazon over the last 25 years has been little to do with price and more a symptom of my lack of free time when shops are open. I simply can't get to most physical stores during the week. And my weekends are rammed with all the things I didn't get to do during the week...

Then there is the issue of what physical stores have done to become more competitive. In many cases they have reduced their range. So now I'm worried that they simply won't have what I need.
by jll29 | 2025-10-10 09:43:44+00:00
Thanks for sharing; small is beautiful. A couple of points of feedback:

- check return value from malloc();

- consider using your own arena allocator (which gets a larger block of memory with a one-time call of malloc, then calls an in-process allocator that assigns part of that block);

- use a library prefix e.g. Lavandula_ before API functions like get() or runApp() to avoid name collisions.

- The JSON function is not spec-compliant; why not use an existing library? (I understand external dependecies may introduce unwanted bloat, but in this case, there are many compact and efficient options.)
by moefh | 2025-10-10 09:44:12+00:00
I don't understand why people think this is safer, it's the complete opposite.

With that `char msg[static 1]` you're telling the compiler that `msg` can't possibly be NULL, which means it will optimize away any NULL check you put in the function. But it will still happily call it with a pointer that could be NULL, with no warnings whatsoever.

The end result is that with an "unsafe" `char *msg`, you can at least handle the case of `msg` being NULL. With the "safe" `char msg[static 1]` there's nothing you can do -- if you receive NULL, you're screwed, no way of guarding against it.

For a demonstration, see[1]. Both gcc and clang are passed `-Wall -Wextra`. Note that the NULL check is removed in the "safe" version (check the assembly). See also the gcc warning about the "useless" NULL check ("'nonnull' argument 'p' compared to NULL"), and worse, the lack of warnings in clang. And finally, note that neither gcc or clang warn about the call to the "safe" function with a pointer that could be NULL.

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/qz6cYPY73
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-10 09:44:15+00:00
The notion that the Nobel prize is of any moral value, whatsoever, is faulty.

The Nobel Foundation is an attempt to make amends for the harms done by its founders invention of explosive materials - which subsequently birthed the military-industrial complex.

Its use of its material wealth to invest in index funds derives a great deal of wealth from weapons manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon Technologies .. In that sense, it has only been since 2017 that it has exclusively attempted to avoid profiting from investments in the Wests' military-industrial complex. However, there is a growing voice of discontent which claims that the Foundations' policy change to "avoid investing in controversial weapons systems" is a PR move, and not a real force for change.
by velvet_thunderr | 2025-10-10 09:45:01+00:00
Yes you’re right that real GDP fell by about 26–30% from its peak during the Great Depression which is slightly less than “nearly half.”

As for the unemployment part, national averages never reached 50% but some local communities like industrial cities saw much higher unemployment rates. For example Cleveland hit around 50% and Toledo (Ohio) reached as high as 80% during the early 1930s.

So the “up to 50%” talks about the extreme hardship in certain regions rather than the U.S. as a whole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United...
by Paracompact | 2025-10-10 09:46:08+00:00
> because you missed a config, or a preparation step

If the specific values of parameters of your mutable state are material to the outcome, then the example is incomplete if they are not specified. Similarly, you wouldn't use `fib(x) = 3` as an example without specifying `x = 4` in your context.

> don't understand how to process the results

Not sure when this would be the case. Do you have an example in mind?
by asimovDev | 2025-10-10 09:46:36+00:00
congratulations. as someone who is a bit of a finnaboo and lives there, it's my dream to have had contributed something to the linux kernel. I was wondering if you used the same email for the commit as your github profile so that it shows up in the contributor list in the github mirror of the kernel and on your profile? I don't think I see the contribution when taking a quick glance at your github
by alias_neo | 2025-10-10 09:46:44+00:00
I wonder what the scheme is here though; Why overprice something by ~50% and add a voucher for the same amount off; is it some sort of anti-deal tracking thing?

It always puts me off from buying something expensive because I wonder if somehow I could end up worse off (in terms of returns, or warranty or something) because I bought something that was X but only paid Y due to the voucher.

Realistically, I probably wouldn't buy a high-end computing product from Amazon anyway, unless is was notably cheaper than the specialists I'd normally buy from. Something like a £2000+ mini PC isn't the sort of thing the typical UK PC retailers I buy from would stock.
by Lutger | 2025-10-10 09:47:06+00:00
As an old man myself, I am quite sure the other old man has a good reason to yell at this particular cloud. Software is tremendously complex. It is one thing to write it, it is another to amend the thousands and thousands of bugs that inevitably follow, and implement the even bigger amount of adjustments and improvements successful software requires. The latter is the bane of any kind of code generation, whether is RAD, no-code, low-code or LLM ported codebases.

Any kind of code generation that proves incredibly productivity in the writing of software is kind of like saying you have a lot of money by maxing out your creditcard. Maybe you can pay it back, maybe you can't. The fact that there is no mention of future debt is exactly the kind of thing that old men get suspicious about.

I'm not saying the old men are correct. I'm just pointing out the reason for the yelling.
by eru | 2025-10-10 09:47:13+00:00
Yes, I'd say anything you can get with noob gains is fair game. By noob gains I mean everything you can get from just increasing the weight a bit every time you hit the gym.

Once you need more complicated programming to make progress, your noob phase is probably over.

For what it's worth, I got up to 170kg backsquats at about 72kg body weight back in the day. The most complicated programming I did was a weekly cycle. ('Texas method'.)

But that was only down to thighs parallel to the ground. Years later I worked more on my flexibility to be able to squat all the way down (but with less weight).
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-10 09:47:23+00:00
Tell me the percentage of passengers that get on a train not intending to arrive at their desired destination ..

>Granted, "Commuter travel" vs "Leisure travel" are probably two quite different products.

The distinction is irrelevant, since both groups are travelling and, presumably wish to effect the end result of that travel: to arrive.

Sure, travelling in style and class and comfort - for sure, these are secondary sub-products/-services. But I don't get on the train for its food or for the disco car - I do, eventually, actually want to arrive in Hamburg.
by maxbond | 2025-10-10 09:47:51+00:00
Even if you are profitable your investors could pressure you to exit to some other company so that they can recoup their investment. But I doubt they were profitable. Going by the article they had about 100 employees and about $2M in revenue before they downsized. Assuming a median salary of $100k that would put their payroll alone at $10M. But the napkin math is kinda beside the point because they did keep raising money [1].

[1] https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/113831-02
by ErneX | 2025-10-10 09:49:12+00:00
See I truly respect President Boric from Chile, it’s one of the few progressive leaders from the region that has been outspoken about the Maduro regime and calling it what it is: a dictatorship. Unlike other leaders of the region who could be doing way more.

It’s pretty understandable for Mrs. Corina to take whatever support she gets internationally.
by ChildOfChaos | 2025-10-10 09:49:17+00:00
It's about convivence. It's not been about big ticket items for me on such days lately, but more to stock up on essentials, prime day is a day I can assure they are usually all on 'offer' at the same time so it makes it easy to do a large order of everything and stock up.

Sure, might not be the absolute best price of the year, but it's a decent price for everything all at the same time, with the odd bigger ticket stuff if a real deal exists.

This year I bought a lot of household items, toiletries and even a few food cupboard items, all of which according to price tracker plugins are about the lowest they get to, even if they go that price sometimes throughout the year, it's a great time to do one big shop and not have to deal with the pain of receiving so many deliveries.

I don't see it as an issue, what amazon does is what everyone else does on their sales, you just need to do your research and stay aware, like with anything.
by mananoreboton | 2025-10-10 09:49:56+00:00
Don't get me wrong, but perhaps what was missing was greater media coverage and genuine interest in Venezuela's situation. María Corina Machado orchestrated a HUGE covert months long operation to collect tally sheets from the overwhelming majority of voting machines during the 2024 presidential election. Her team trained poll watchers to demand vote receipts (as legally permitted) then capture and transmit that data through various channels, even from the most remote regions of the country. There are documented cases of people—poll workers and participants in the plan—being imprisoned or even killed for their involvement. Thanks to this operation, the website resultadospresidencialesvenezuela2024.com exists, where venezuelan can verify the actual vote count per candidate, backed by fingerprint records and the serial numbers of both the software and hardware used. These verified results confirm that Edmundo González was the true winner of the election. The data provides undeniable evidence that Nicolás Maduro installed himself as a dictator, with the full support of the national electoral authority, which, to this day, has refused to release the official election results (a procedure that has historically been routine).

You can also verify the results here https://macedoniadelnorte.com/ (a whole story behind this hostname). Again, only possible by the María Corina's huge effort
by phoronixrly | 2025-10-10 09:50:12+00:00
We're way beyond that. We're at a point where DHH rants publicly that people must not be allowed to live in London unless they're native Brits, where the definition of 'native Brits' (apart from being xenophobic by definition) looks to suspiciously exclude non-white people (thus levelling up to outright racist)...

I am not sure how OP can spin this as being 'very outspoken with his beliefs that open source software should be a-political and open to all instead of the political purity tests the activists were pushing'...
by pedrogpimenta | 2025-10-10 09:51:46+00:00
I agree. I would just like that they didn't have to exploit workers. It seems something that could be done. Have more people taking smaller or less frenetic shifts and pay them the same or more. It can be doable, seeing the amount of money Bezos amasses, right? I love the service but despise how the workers are treated. And nothing compares, there's no real competition.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-10 09:51:50+00:00
A friend of mine has done something similar, albeit he turned it into quite an engine for creating CA universes:

https://wizard23.github.io/evocell/cellspace.html

"All rule lookups and most of the collission detections are calculated on the GPU."

Every time I swing by Evocell to have a look, I am impressed with the performance he has managed to gain ..
by ben_w | 2025-10-10 09:52:18+00:00
They argue it is fair use. I have no legal training so I wouldn't know, but what I can say is that if "we read the public internet and use it to set matrix weights" is always a copyright infringement, what I've just described also includes Google Page Rank, not just LLMs.

(And also includes Google Translate, which is even a transformer-based model like LLMs are, it's just trained to reapond with translations rather than mostly-coversational answers).
by Symbiote | 2025-10-10 09:53:21+00:00
I was recently a guest staying at an elderly woman's large house.

The room I slept in was full of junk, but what caught my eye were envelopes with stamps from the 1950s/1960s. The "From" name was the woman's late husband, and they were all from two African countries that were then part of the British Empire.

I had heard her talk about when her husband was working in Africa, but until I saw the big pile of letters I hadn't considered that this was the only way the young couple could keep in contact when someone's work required long periods of international travel.
by Orygin | 2025-10-10 09:53:22+00:00
On a Macbook M2 Pro, on a project with loads of services, 210k loc, a full rebuild takes 70 seconds. Incremental takes 36s. For one service, full rebuild in 16s and incremental 0.6s. It's not blazing fast but considering the scale of the project, it's not that bad, especially since I rarely rebuild every service at the same time.
by roenxi | 2025-10-10 09:53:26+00:00
It is a good quote, but the article you link actually undermines it slightly. Keynes' words are relying on a non-expert in construction being confident that construction is easy despite the fact that the systems we use to measure cost-benefit indicating that it cannot or should not be done.

No evidence is mentioned that there was enough available in the way of bricks, mortar, steel, cement or labour. The banker quite likely hadn't checked any statistics or made any estimates. There is no particular reason to consider his opinion even informed on the topic. Britain had just had suffered around a half-million war casualties drawn disproportionately from their able-bodied labourers and their factories for things like steel and cement had probably suffered a few hard blows and were likely being run ragged.

They could have forcefully reallocated resources away from something people thought was more important towards building houses; but the issue that is being glossed over is if someone thought that there were higher priorities than building houses ... what if they were right? The thing about economics is prices aren't arbitrary, they encode a combination of how easy a good is to produce and how much demand there is for a good. They can't just be overridden expecting a good result without factoring in those things.

If Britain had some magic ability to just build whatever they want and there were enough resources available to do whatever then the empire wouldn't have collapsed shortly afterwards. They were way over-extended in terms of what resources they needed vs what they had available.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-10 09:54:36+00:00
> I believe that the fanatics in the rust community were the biggest factor.

I second this; for a few years it was impossible to have any sort of discussion on various programming places when the topic was C: the conversation would get quickly derailed with accusations of "dinosaur", etc.

Things have gone quiet recently (last three years, though) and there have been much fewer derailments.
by lazide | 2025-10-10 09:55:20+00:00
Only individually if significantly more effort is given for specific individuals - and there will be outliers that are essentially impossible.

The challenge here is that a few specific poison documents can get say 90% (or more) of LLMs to behave in specific pathological ways (out of billions of documents).

It’s nearly impossible to get 90% of humans to behave the same way on anything without massive amounts of specific training across the whole population - with ongoing specific reinforcement.

Hell, even giving people large packets of cash and telling them to keep it, I’d be surprised if you could get 90% of them to actually do so - you’d have the ‘it’s a trap’ folks, the ‘god wouldn’t want me too’ folks, the ‘it’s a crime’ folks, etc.