MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lossyalgo | 2025-10-17 12:19:24+00:00
I'm confused - you used FreeNAS on a single disk? I wasn't even aware that was possible.

Thankfully you were able to recover! I think almost everyone has learned to make backups the hard way at some point. I am the local IT guy among a lot of friends (and by extension, their friends) and so I was always the go-to when things got bad. At some point 15+ years ago, I bought "Restorer2k" which was able to save a lot of data from not-quite-dead drives, some of had to go into the freezer overnight in ziplock bags to try and unlock a frozen read-head (rarely helped), others I was able to replace the controller via eBay. One friend lost an almost finished PhD dissertation (months of work). I remember the tears when I was able to recover that :)

At some point I got tired of data recovery and started telling people to buy a Mac + cheap external drive and use the Time Machine feature. Interestingly, I haven't gotten many phone calls the last few years ;)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-17 12:20:12+00:00
Every time a company refuses to use a framework for a large web project, they end up reproducing all of its features - badly.

And, when a new developer comes in who knows React, they can ramp up fast and even if they don’t, there are plenty of resources instead of asking Bob how something works - if Bob is even still working there.
by b3lvedere | 2025-10-17 12:20:30+00:00
I get where you're coming from, but in the field can somehow differ greatly from theory. I have had no real errors since i've used this big NAS.

I do admit i personally have a lucky track record regarding harddisks. I think in the more than 25 years i have used spinning hardddisks, about 3 or 4 ever failed me. I don't know why, but most technology i use just keeps on working pretty long. :)

I stil have lots of 500 and 1TB disks around in various old NAS devices i haven't booted up in ages. When electricity got quite expensive i decided to stop using those.

The amount of data i really really want to protect is less than 1TB in total i think. All the other stuff on the big NAS is 'nice to have' but not life crushing should it be gone forever.
by cdfsdsadsa | 2025-10-17 12:20:42+00:00
> TV was found to be a massive benefit in increasing vocabulary

By who, and for who? My kids (ages 5+7) watch significantly less TV than their peers (as well as currently almost zero internet access), and are frequently complimented on their command of vocabulary and ability to express themselves.

>And if we are talking about the internet in general and not just twitter/tiktok, then its largely NOT doomscrolling and ragebait.

By amount of time that people spend on the internet, it is mostly doomscrolling and ragebait. If only we could take that part of it away.
by reify | 2025-10-17 12:20:48+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45356226

More promo

Olivia8 16 days ago

Speaking about voice AI, I have been checking several and find Coldi AI one of the best solutions for leads generation.

I believe AI’s impact on the labour market will be a mixed bag over the next decade. Many roles will shift, tasks that are routine and repetitive will be taken over, while people will be in charge of communication, strategy, ethics and human judgement.

The demand will definitely increase for experts in AI governance, prompt engineering, data science, etc. And this knowledge is in high demand today. More and more companies in the mentioned above industries use AI voice agents which are efficient and cost saving solutions, boosting productivity and relieving human employees of time consuming and repetitive tasks, while AI calling agents interact with customer, reply their inquiries, provide information, make appointments, etc.

They are able to qualify leads and forward to the sales teams only interested clients if we are speaking about anything related to sales.
by spacechild1 | 2025-10-17 12:21:33+00:00
> If the activity itself is enjoyable then that reason no longer exists and it's only natural that you'll have a harder time making a living wage from it.

This doesn't make any sense. People have jobs because someone has to do them. (This includes art and culture.) Whether that job is enjoyable or not is not really relevant. Just because someone finds a job enjoyable doesn't mean that they should work for less money or for free...

Also, not everything about being an artist is enjoyable. For example, nobody enjoys writing grant applications, booking gigs, organizing rehearsals, accounting, typesetting scores, etc. Not to mention the financial insecurity.

> If they don't earn enough from those people the perhaps the value they produce isn't as great as you think.

Art and culture cannot work in a purely capitalistic logic. Most art is subsidized in one way or another. Just like many other parts of society.

There are many things that you personally may not need, but society as a whole still wants to support.

> Then why are you here replying to my comment if you get nothing out of it? Sure, the value is tiny but that is also true for most art.

Sorry, but this is just dumb.

> so a few chosen special people are exempt from the market crushing everyone else.

If you think that people become artists because it's a cozy life, you are mistaken. It's a lot of work for little money.
by danaris | 2025-10-17 12:21:50+00:00
See, there's a fundamental flaw in your logic, at least based on my own:

I don't believe that any human being is "only worth" $10/hr, or whatever arbitrary level you set.

Every human being deserves to have the resources to live. And to a first approximation, every human being is capable of doing enough work to be worth that. (The exceptions are people with various kinds of disabilities, whom we should be caring for, without question or reservation, and providing accommodations for those who can work, if they aren't just expected to Not Be Disabled.)

If a job wants to create a position to do [thing], but [thing] will only bring in, say, $5/hr worth of profit...then the job simply shouldn't create that position as-is. Either the owner needs to do it themselves, or they need to find a way to change what the job does so that it makes them enough money to cover labor costs.
by hyperionplays | 2025-10-17 12:21:52+00:00
There's tonnes of companies out there who have smart remote hands in the major cities who can respond in sub 1hour to an outage at your choosen DC.

Refurb servers will still blast AWS, and spares are easy to source.

I know HE.net does a rack for like $500/mo intro price and that comes with a 1G internet feed as well.
by jnsaff2 | 2025-10-17 12:22:13+00:00
There is a graph database which does disk IO for database startup, backup and restore as single threaded, sequential, 8kb operations.

On EBS it does at most 200MB/s disk IO just because the EBS operation latency even on io2 is about 0.5 ms. Even though the disk can go much faster, disk benchmarks can easily do multi-GB/s on nodes that have enough EBS throughput.

On instance local SSD on the same EC2 instance it will happily saturate the whatever instance can do (~2GB/s in my case).
by nullwarp | 2025-10-17 12:22:27+00:00
I've had better experience with Armcrest cameras but same setup. Moved from using Arlo to a completely local setup and do not regret it one bit.

Worst part was just running ethernet to the spots where the cameras needed to go (only crawlspace access) but nice not having to charge batteries and even nicer knowing i'm not sending video to netgear anymore.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-17 12:22:59+00:00
> Just like human rights, progress is never guaranteed.

There is a sense of optimism/hope I have in humanity, not in short term, but long term (decades later)

I hope that the pendulum swings in an optimist manner. As a vegetarian who watched earthlings documentary, I recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqwpfEcBjI&t=25s

I feel like the pendulum depends on all of us. We all gotta be hopeful and hope that other fellow beings also are like us and that gives hope I guess. We can swing the pendulum whatever side and its up to us in some aspect, so we personally need to do the best we can till the limit of our abilities
by spoiler | 2025-10-17 12:23:21+00:00
Eh. I agree there's complexity in them, and that a lot of the ecosystem indirectly use them because of derive macros, but I wouldn't call it a wart, and the "syntax" for writing proc macros isn't that bad if you use the syn/quote crates. I agree that decl macros usually make me sigh and open the docs though
by tom_alexander | 2025-10-17 12:23:49+00:00
I thought these days the fabs in water-scarce areas collect their waste water. re-purify it, and re-use it. So their actual drain on outside water sources is far lower.

> It will initially have a water recycling rate of around 85 percent, with a goal to achieve 90 percent. Currently, the company’s water resource center has an efficiency rate of 65 percent, converting industrial wastewater for use in the company's operations.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/tsmc-breaks-groun...
by sehugg | 2025-10-17 12:25:09+00:00
Spritemate is built with TypeScript + Vite + JQuery, and has a pretty organized structure: https://github.com/Esshahn/spritemate (I do not condone its use of the 'any' type everywhere tho)

I wouldn't use JQuery for a new project, as you can do almost everything it does with straight DOM manipulation. But there are still some strategic vanilla JS/TS packages that come in handy, e.g. clipboard, mousetrap, file-saver, split.js.

Web Components with Lit is kinda fun, though you'll have to deal with DOM shadow roots or disable them.

I would challenge that using a framework leads to less security. In vanilla JS you've got to use something like dompurify religiously to avoid XSS bugs, and you're tempted by the shiny candy-like innerHTML attribute.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-17 12:25:16+00:00
The public cloud is priced as if availability, reliability, durability, and latency matter to your business. If they don't, you can get far with just a single machine.

A great deal of the work in cloud engineering is ensuring the abstractions meet the service guarantees. Similarly you can make a car much cheaper if you don't need to guarantee the driver will survive a collision. The cost of providing a safety guarantee is much higher than providing a hand-wavy "good enough" feeling.

If your business isn't critical then "good enough" vibes may be all you need, and you can save some money.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-17 12:25:28+00:00
I actually agree.

I have said this in another comment but I feel like its up to us. Slavery wasn't eradicated suddenly and became suddenly morally bad, I think that slowly but steadily we got better though till the point that now everyone mostly considers slavery morally evil.

Lets hope the same can be the case with animals as well.

I can't emphasize the impact of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqwpfEcBjI&t=25s (earthlings documentary) had on me. I am mostly vegan (well aside from some eggs which I also can easily quit), I highly recommend it.
by 9cb14c1ec0 | 2025-10-17 12:25:55+00:00
Cogent just offered me this colo deal:

Full Rack = $100/month* with $500 install, Power (20A) = $350/month with $500 install, DIA (1Gbps) = $300/month

Total = $750/month plus $1,000 Install on 12 month term
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-17 12:25:56+00:00
> They can then make statements that plainly make it clear they did that because of what the non-citizen wrote.

I kind of hate the thing where people want to make this the part that matters, because Trump is a massive outlier who doesn't care about that and says the thing he's not supposed to say.

But the people who still do the prosecution under the pretext and then don't admit to why are even worse, because they're doing the same thing and then lying about it on top of that. If all you do is punish people for not lying, that's not going to solve anything. You need to take away their ability to trump up charges against random people.
by csande17 | 2025-10-17 12:26:38+00:00
Dubious "regular expression denial of service" vulnerabilities seem like a general issue with the CVE bureaucracy lately. Like, maybe CVE-2020-10735 had a point that Python's default "int" type having unbounded size and a quadratic-time "str()" was a bit of a footgun, but now it's getting to a point where any use of backtracking in any context is just asking for a "high severity" ticket from the regex police.
by NemoNobody | 2025-10-17 12:26:43+00:00
Capitalism is Luddite at a fundamental level - if their isn't competition, there is absolutely no reason to innovative, change, or maintain a quality level - so, in a capitalist economy all participants are always incentivised to grow as large as possible, above all other things, bc at some point, they really will become "too big to fail" - whether in a small monopolized niche or a massive but dominated industry, that is always true, without fail as profits are always most important.

It works with everything in a capitalist system too - all production, resources, and outputs of a society that allows unchecked greed, will grow until it stops due to market consolidation (not always nefarious either). Google search as an example, we all picked it first, then they got greedy - even if they were saints that always was going to play out like that, bc of capitalism.

Once a market is controlled by a few players - ALL TRUE GROWTH STOPS and bare minimum, most cost effective to profit ratio "limited/controlled/planned" growth follows.

Hard drives for my adult life are my singular example. Lots of tech is like that actually.

Capitalism without competition will naturally evolve into full on Feudalism and Serfdom if it is allowed to.
by dboreham | 2025-10-17 12:26:44+00:00
Interested to hear more about your use case and threat model, if you are willing to share. I ask because although I've looked into (and done some prototyping) with secure cloud hosting, I/we came to the conclusion that there's no current technology that is "actually secure" and so abandoned the approach. Curious if things have improved now, or if you're operating in some security theater context where it's ok.
by protocolture | 2025-10-17 12:26:48+00:00
>government surveillance policies are more popular then some folks in HN circles would suspect.

2 things.

1. Few people understand most surveillance legislation, including journalists.

2. Most governments use thought terminating cliches involving child safety to force compliance on the middle set of people who dont like surveillance and understand a minimum amount of what the legislation does.

These points leave anti surveillance campaigners fighting an uphill battle. Most people, when they have these laws clearly articulated and arent in danger of being called a pedo for opposing them, oppose them.
by basilikum | 2025-10-17 12:27:05+00:00
How is paying for a DRMed book ethical? I agree that buying a DRM free book is clearly right, but if someone is only providing a book in a way that infringes on your rights, why would you give them money for that? If someone sells a book that you want to read and you have the money to pay for it, by all means, buy it. But if you are unable to buy the book because the author decided to publish it in a way so that you cannot legally gain an actual copy of the book – opposed to limited access under the terms set by a company that they can arbitrarily alter at any time, leaving you with nothing but a pinky promise – why would you give them and, out of all the things in the world, Amazon money for that when you then have to retrieve the copy of the book you were after otherwise?
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 12:27:10+00:00
"Consistently" is hard, people's experiences tend to differ with every company out there, even by what country you're currently in. For example, I've always had quick and reasonable replies from Coinbase support, but I know friends who've had the complete opposite experience with Coinbase, so won't claim they're consistent. But their replies to me has been consistent at least.

Probably the company most people have had any sort of consistency from would be Stripe I think. Of course, there are cases where they haven't been great, but if you ask me for a company with the best tech support, Stripe comes to mind first.

I'm not sure it's active anymore, but there used to be a somewhat hidden and unofficial support channel in #stripe@freenode back in the day, where a bunch of Stripe developers hanged out and helped users in an in-official capacity. That channel was a godsend more than once.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-17 12:27:20+00:00
> Now I'm left trying to define/design what a "spec" for communication between humans and coding agents would look like, to power what Birgitta called spec anchored.

I feel that now with AI this is something that we have to finally do. Define how we write out a spec and record an architecture semi-formally, and in a way that is human-readable and human-manageable. And in a way that can 1) be consumed partially by an LLM context, rather than entirely (because it may be too big), and 2) have that partial ingestion be enough for it to do real work, either on the spec itself on or on the code, without deviating from the core intentions and architecture.

We tried and failed with the UML and Rational Rose type stuff, I think because it didn't record intentions well enough, was mostly pictures and not words, and seemed to be something that you would create after you finishd a project rather than fill in the details and guide you while you were building it. Hence, the whole idea fell away because it wasn't useful for anything but documentation, maintenance or refactoring; you were already selling the product before the spec became at all useful.

I'm left looking at vague leftfield ideas like https://c4model.com/.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-17 12:27:47+00:00
I’ll ignore the slight about “you must be new here,” but I don’t flag all political stories, just the ones that are high-noise, low-signal.

But rather than arguing in the abstract, let’s look at the data. Here’s what I’ve flagged recently:

> Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules

> State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments

> Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy

> Yes, Jimmy Kimmel's suspension was government censorship

> Tylenol-maker shares hit after report RFK Jr will suggest autism link

Each of those you can find on any other outrage-based pseudo-news site across the internet: Twitter will be in echo chamber flame wars over them, CNN will be in breaking news mode, NYT, WSJ, and the Washington Post will cover them, Reddit and Facebook and Instagram will push them…

Are those the stories you’re really fighting to keep on here? Do you have objections to me flagging any of those? Who am I depriving of an opportunity to learn about those rare, insightful pieces?

(And by the way, 3/5 of those were flagged by the community as well. So it seems like the community agrees with me more than it disagrees.)
by linuxftw | 2025-10-17 12:28:03+00:00
I'm currently leasing an EV for 24 months 7.5kMi/yr. The residual price is over $20k lower than MSRP. Without subsidy and steep discounts, nobody would buy these things. And IMO, the residual is about $5k higher than it will be worth based on low-mileage used vehicles of the same model for sale. That finally gets us to the price, almost 50% lower than the MSRP, which I personally value this car new with 0 miles.

These EVs should be much cheaper. Either batteries are so outlandishly expensive that this will never be economically viable for the vast majority of the world outside of cities, or companies are playing accounting games.

In any case, when purchasing a used EV, you're essentially risking the entire purchase price if you get a battery lemon. Buying a Bolt or what have you for $15-$20k, and having to replace the battery at 60%+ of your purchase price, that's too much risk. Whereas if you bought a used ICE vehichle for $15-20k, and your engine fails, you might might need to spend $1500-5k for a repair, it's not all or nothing. And with a moderate amount of research, you can determine which makes or models are prone to early large repairs.

If EV manufacturers would sell a no-questions-asked insurance policy that guarantees the life of the battery to 250k miles, there would be no issue.
by Thorrez | 2025-10-17 12:28:40+00:00
People have been charged/convicted of torturing chickens:

https://whyy.org/articles/upper-darby-pennsylvania-sentenced...

https://www.wave3.com/2023/04/25/man-accused-abusing-chicken...

I believe the difference is if you're causing the animals pain because you enjoy the pain itself vs causing the animals pain to provide food.
by frm88 | 2025-10-17 12:29:18+00:00
you want to use more brainpower, hop over to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and read one of their long articles. In particular they have a great set of articles on US policy thinking around China right now. It's pretty saddening to read HN commentary on China and compare it to CEIP's readings.

Why do you think, an US centric, vaguely leftist think tank focused on US politics with seat in Washington, financed by American donors, initiates the use of brainpower and understanding? More than any other media, that is. There is such a thing as the rest of the world (95% of the world population) who may be more incentivised to ask honest questions on HN than reading yet another U. S. publication that regards them as a remark in the margins, as demonstrated by the CEIP front page https://carnegieendowment.org/?lang=en
by xpe | 2025-10-17 12:29:24+00:00
Two things. First, some economists study stated versus revealed preferences. [1] The idea is to figure out what people do rather than what they say they will do.

Second, in the case of people making feature requests, it could be a net-societal-gain [2] if feature requesters made some kind of binding commitment. (See also the hold-up problem [3].) Perhaps a potential customer would commit to "if/when feature X gets added, I will commit to using the product for 2 hours." or "... I will spend $10 on the associated cloud services." (The question of what happens if the customer reneges also has to be agreed upon up front.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference

[2]: known as social welfare (not to be confused with welfare programs -- this is the neoclassical economic framework after all!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_welfare_function

[3]: this paper discusses the hold-up problem in the context of vaccine investment and development: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28168/w281...
by dsego | 2025-10-17 12:29:32+00:00
Not sure how you avoid reinventing any of the component frameworks. Writing custom JS component backbone style seems tedious and error prone. Manually modifying the DOM on changes means writing the same logic several times, once for the initial render and then repeated in every event handler that has change the state of the UI. Alternatively, you might just be nuking your DOM with inner html and then running everything again through the initial rendering logic. But this isn't ideal, components loose focus, there can be glitches, and it can get slow. Not sure how you could make the type of complex UI heavy apps and have any greater flexibility or faster maintenance.
by hopelite | 2025-10-17 12:29:40+00:00
"Just trust us" ... said the people who constantly instigate conflicts and wars and orchestrate and perpetrate false-flag operations to then claim they had to attack and murder people.

What the public does not understand though is that THEIR complicity and facilitation is not only integral, it is even necessary in a "democracy" where a psychological "consent" must be manufactured, not dissimilar to basic grooming tactics. And no, it's no coincidence that all the western leadership and institutions are effectively all various types of groomers, i.e., psychological manipulators and abusers.