MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mzajc | 2025-10-27 21:04:16+00:00
> The snippet above was called as a server function. This is React's new way of calling server side code from the client side.

Tangential to the post, but mixing client-side and server-side code sounds like a recipe for disaster. There are already one too many services that perform authorization client-side, and I have a feeling making it harder to tell what runs where only makes the situation worse.
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-27 21:04:22+00:00
I don't think you can arbitrarily leave out all the other parties in the agricultural system: the bank, who the farmer may need to borrow from to buy seed, the politicians, who may or may not accept money from the companies producing GMO seeds to produce favourable legislation, the public, who may vote with their wallets when purchasing the resulting crops, and so on...
by leventov | 2025-10-27 21:05:03+00:00
> It seems like a web version of claude code + skills + marketplace, but with an encrypted database, and permissions that let you feel safe using yolo mode. I’m going to try it.

I'm building infra for exactly this thing :) Here I posted about it today: https://engineeringideas.substack.com/p/tasklet-is-the-o1-mo...

Architecture TLDR: In Fly.io, org-per user, manage keys in Fly secrets. A Postgres db with transparent data encryption (TDE), the master key is stored on user's computer in the keychain or in the password manager. Thus the nobody can read the data at rest. All containers are distroless so nobody can ssh onto them. Postgres is backed up via pgBackRest to Wasabi object storage with customer-provided encryption keys that are injected into the containers via Fly secrets.

Apart from the database for record-like things (chats, emails, tables), vectors for larger things (such as web pages) are stored in serverless LanceDB on Wasabi, too.

Also Bifrost (https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost) as LLM gateway and Agentgateway (https://github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway) as MCP and OpenAPI/REST API gateway.

Agents/apps themselves (Open WebUI, Zero Mail, etc.) are separate Fly apps, and have their separate schemas and users in Postgres. They also cannot go to public internet directly (prohibited via https://community.fly.io/t/new-feature-network-policies/1917...), only to Postgres, Bifrost, and Agentgateway.

Postgres, pgBackRest, pgBouncer and another Go sidecar for pg (a la Pocketbase, but with Postgres backend), live in a single container managed by Horust. Bifrost and Agentgateway live in separate containers, but the same Fly machine. This machine might be 1.5gb, 4 vCPUs. LanceDB is on a separate machine because it needs burstable memory and may be infrequently used.

All machines (core, lance, and all individual app/agent machines) are suspendable, so they almost don't cost anything when not in use.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-27 21:05:18+00:00
Most people would be absolutely astounded how bold you can get with a safety vest and/or a clipboard, and how passive most people are to an obvious suspicious situation.

I have used a grinder to take off a bike lock (I owned the bike) in broad daylight in Downtown Denver on a main street. A local business even allowed me to use their power outlets. Not one person questioned me or asked me to see proof of ownership. I was fully prepared to have to deal with cops or at least a good samaritan, but nope, plenty of people watched me do the exact thing a bike thief would do and didn't ask any questions.
by p1necone | 2025-10-27 21:05:31+00:00
In practice I don't think this really changes anything at least for moderation. It takes a bunch of time and effort to moderate online communities - under the process outlined by the post you linked most communities are going to have a single effective clientside moderation list you can subscribe to anyway.

Totally unmoderated internet communities would be completely unusable because of spam, and it's also questionable whether you could even stay up with no serverside moderation - you'd have to delete stuff otherwise it just takes one script kiddie with a botnet to flood your disk space with garbage.

(User produced ranking/filtering algos though I can see being viable)
by golly_ned | 2025-10-27 21:05:50+00:00
I talked to my manager just now. He knows of some cases where engineers have had bad experiences with him, but not others. Some apparently just talk to me but don't raise it to our manager. He still knew he was a problematic engineer, but wasn't getting the same confirmation that I was getting. I gave him the names of two more engineers with recent experiences with the guy he can talk to, one within the team and one outside the team.

I also gave the feedback to my manager that I don't think he's handled this well. I brought up that he's, each time, mentioned another excuse for the difficult engineer. He agreed, and apologized to me. He was sincere, and apologized more than once. Meanwhile, I apologized for bringing this up again.

It's discouraging that he didn't have as many other people talking about the guy to him as they have to me. It makes me think I may just have way more problems with him than me, and that I've overestimated how problematic he is; though I also think the other engineers who've complained about him to me are conflict-averse and wouldn't want to raise this to a manager who may pass it on to the difficult engineer. I was also disappointed that my manager said that he doesn't think it's personal, and that that's just how the difficult engineer is to everyone; it's clear to me that that's not the case since I'm living it first-hand.

It was also hard to get to a concrete, specific, actionable behavior change to request the difficult engineer to commit to. It's easy to say "don't condescend to your teammates". It's hard to say what behaviors that entails.
by otterley | 2025-10-27 21:06:11+00:00
Lots of solutions appear to work in a steady-state scenario—which, admittedly, is most of the time. The key question is how resilient to failure they are, not just under blackout conditions but brownouts as well.

Many people will read a comment like this and cargo-cult an implementation (“millions of workloads”, you say?!) without knowing how they are going to handle the many different failure modes that can result, or even at what scale the solution will break down. Then, when the inevitable happens, panic and potentially data loss will ensue. Or, the system will eventually reach scaling limits that will require a significant architectural overhaul to solve.

TL;DR: There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for most distributed consensus problems, especially ones that require global consistency and fault tolerance, and on top of that have established upper bounds on information propagation latency.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-27 21:06:30+00:00
I've run into so many people that think "git pull" doesn't do anything unless you run "git fetch" first.

In my 10+ year career, I'm not sure I've ever run "git fetch" manually. I've never had a time where I wanted to fetch upstream changes, but not merge (or rebase) them into my branch.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-10-27 21:06:51+00:00
You do understand that your requirement effectively cuts out many modern non-GMO seeds?

One of the big advancements in the turn of the 20th century was heterosis, or the systematic exploitation of hybrid vigor. If you maintain two (or more) extremely inbred but different from each other germlines, but cross them to produce seed, you get seed that is much more heterozygotic than is naturally common. This seed is then dramatically more viable and productive. But if you replant what it yields, you only get very disappointing yield.

That is, it has been normal for farmers to buy new seed each season from some provider that specializes in making very productive seed for more than a hundred years now. Part of getting developing countries to raise their agricultural productivity to modern standards is getting them to start doing this, instead of continuously replanting their old seeds.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-10-27 21:06:53+00:00
Hold on, I'm not a sysadmin guy. Are you folks saying the server should not know what part of the world its in, that basically it should think it's in Greenwitch?

I would have thought you configure the server to know where it is have it clock set correctly for the local time zone, and the software running on the server should operate on UTC.
by NumberCruncher | 2025-10-27 21:07:03+00:00
On the first glance this seems to be a very bad idea. But re-readig this:

> Get answers about any cell in seconds: Navigate complex models instantly. Ask Claude about specific formulas, entire worksheets, or calculation flows across tabs. Every explanation includes cell-level citations so you can verify the logic.

this might just be an excellent tool for refactoring Excel sheets into something more robust and maintainable. And making a bunch of suits redundant.
by k310 | 2025-10-27 21:07:44+00:00
One of them was being lead on a field team that had to reset routers at a customer site and reboot servers on 9/11/2001. We went into the office and everyone was excused from work for the day, so we spent the evening with cleaning people watching events unfold on TV monitors. Pretty grim, though others obviously had it a lot worse.

Maybe not hard, but a bit startling was asking the Coast Guard Recruiter when I'd be off to Cape May NJ. He said "This afternoon". Oh? Later, at boot camp, I wasn't much of a swimmer, so diving 8 feet into the water feet first was rough for me. I had to take my glasses off for the dive, otherwise they'd be lost for who knows how long, and could barely see the water, but did pass the swim test.

And picked up my glasses from the deck.

Just to lighten things, it's like my visit to the optometrist. He asked me what were the smallest letters I could see on the wall. I asked "what wall?"
by StickTIGLiIon4 | 2025-10-27 21:07:52+00:00
Heh, I'll have to watch for that sale.

4x12AH batteries, that's gonna be over $1200.

I doubt you could charge them faster than the welder can run them down, so you might want three sets and two gang chargers if you want production anything like a plug-in machine.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-27 21:08:18+00:00
In-group dynamics are further ingrained as the group gets bigger. If you have 4 friends in a group, their opinions aren't as strong. If you have 40 friends in a group, not only are their opinions stronger, they'll fight vigorously to defend the group's commonly accepted beliefs. So a growing social circle does reinforce the group dynamic. (this is well established by lots of studies)

But increased polarization around the world isn't because of this. There's the typical environmental factors: an increase in changes (or challenges) to traditional values increases polarization; an influx of migrants increases polarization. But then there's also social media, where mastery of "engagement" by businesses for profit has been adopted by political groups looking to sow division to reap the benefits of polarization (an easier grip on power). The rapid rise of polarization is a combination of both.

It's nothing new of course, political/ideological groups have been doing this forever. We just have far more advanced tools with which to polarize.
by gowld | 2025-10-27 21:08:41+00:00
> But it would still halt. Infinity is weird like that

What are you tring to say?

> The probability of having a 2:1 ratio of heads/tails - at some point - in an infinite sequence of fair flips is 1, is it not?

Yes, but "probability = 1" absolutely does not mean "will happen eventually" in pure mathematics. Infinity is weird like that.
by Madmallard | 2025-10-27 21:08:44+00:00
first the Microsoft guy touting agents

now AWS guy doing it !

"My team is no different—we are producing code at 10x of typical high-velocity team. That's not hyperbole - we've actually collected and analyzed the metrics."

Rofl

"The Cost-Benefit Rebalance"

In here he basically just talks about setting up mock dependencies and introducing intermittent failures into them. Mock dependencies have been around for decades, nothing new here.

It sounds like this test system you set up is as time consuming as solving the actual problems you're trying to solve, so what time are you saving?

"Driving Fast Requires Tighter Feedback Loop"

Yes if you're code-vomiting with agents and your test infrastructure isn't rock solid things will fall apart fast, that's obvious. But setting up a rock solid test infrastructure for your system involves basically solving most of the hard problems in the first place. So again, what? What value are you gaining here?

"The communication bottleneck"

Amazon was doing this when I worked there 12 years ago. We all sat in the same room.

"The gains are real - our team's 10x throughput increase isn't theoretical, it's measurable."

Show the data and proof. Doubt.

Yeah I don't know. This reads like complete nonsense honestly.

Paraphrasing: "AI will give us huge gains, and we're already seeing it. But our pipelines and testing will need to be way stronger to withstand the massive increase in velocity!"

Velocity to do what? What are you guys even doing?

Amazon is firing 30,000 people by the way.
by otterley | 2025-10-27 21:08:44+00:00
I work for AWS; opinions are my own and I’m not affiliated with the service team in question.

That a DNS record was deleted is tangential to the proximate cause of the incident. It was a latent bug in the control plane that updated the records, not the data plane. If the discovery protocol were DNS++ or /etc/hosts files, the same problem could have happened.

DNS has a lot of advantages: it’s a dirt cheap protocol to serve (both in terms of bytes over the wire and CPU utilization), is reasonably flexible (new RR types are added as needs warrant), isn’t filtered by middleboxes, has separate positive and negative caching, and server implementations are very robust. If you’re doing to replace DNS, you’re going to have a steep hill to climb.
by jjtheblunt | 2025-10-27 21:08:55+00:00
counterpoint: i had a 2014 bmw i3 (electric, no range extender) for just shy of 8 years, 80,000 miles, charged at home or at work, and some hard data: fuel cost per mile is about 1/5 of efficient ICE (which i also have had, i charge at home at least expensive time window), total expenditure on maintenance was about $ 150 over 80,000 miles, not counting new tires which lasted about the same as my ICE cars' tires.

I think EVs can be excellent fits for many commmuting patterns, and certainly for people who learned driving manual transmissions and who have had high performing cars.

To the parent comment's point, it's sort of personal preference.
by baruchel | 2025-10-27 21:08:56+00:00
> It really is mind bending how fast this function grows.

While the BB function is obviously a well-defined function over the integers, I find it helpful to think of it as a function over qualitatively heterogeneous items—such as stones, bread toasters, mechanical watches, and computers. The key idea is to view the underlying computing devices not as “a little more powerful” than the previous ones, but as fundamentally different kinds of entities.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-27 21:09:11+00:00
They're definitely total write-offs.

Yes* most of the time. The purpose is the Pentagon doesn't want adversaries or anyone else getting their hands on classified gear or aircraft systems because it's basically flying around with a datacenter nowadays. If it's in deep water, NAVSEA may bust out FADOSS gear and make it a OJT exercise for junior recovery personnel.

In recent memory, the scorecard is:

- Truman (CVN-75): 1: JUL-22, 1: DEC-24 (friendly fire), 1: MAY-25, 1: APR-25

- Nimitz (CVN-68; decomm APR-26): 2: OCT-25

(Consider there are 9 additional carriers too.)

Nimitz does an average (mean) of 18.4 arrested landings a day over a span of 52 years.

Truman went 75000 landings (10-11 years) without a major mishap once upon a time™.

~7-8k fixed-wing landings per year per ship, roughly.
by pedalpete | 2025-10-27 21:09:13+00:00
You wouldn't measure your diet based on how much time you spend chewing. So why do we think time is an appropriate measure of sleep?

Sleep takes time, but time does not define the restorative function of sleep.

You've probably had days where you've slept a "full" 8 hours, but can still barely drag yourself through the day. Have you also had days where after just a few hours you feel great and can take on the world?

How can we all have had both of these experiences, yet we still obsess over sleep time.

Sleep is about Restorative Function, the neurological processes that occur during sleep.

Yes, you have been told that you need to get X amount of sleep or you will get Alzheimer's. You were also told that you needed to eat fat free foods in order to lose weight.

Our understanding of sleep and the brain is about where our understanding of diet and exercise was in the 70s. We knew it was important, but we had no idea what we were talking about.

I'm not recommending people sleep less than what they need. But you need to understand what YOUR needs are. A blanket "everyone needs 8 hours" is doing harm to people who require more, while leaving people who need less questioning what is wrong with them. I regularly answer questions like this on reddit, "why can't I get 8 hours sleep?

So our start-up isn't focused on sleep time. We don't alter sleep time, we increase the restoratative function of sleep, in the time you get.
by dgacmu | 2025-10-27 21:10:28+00:00
I think that it's more useful to think of all defenses against physical intrusion as increasing the cost of intrusion in some way, be that time, skill, risk of being caught, access to specialized devices, etc.

Most "normal" locks don't increase the cost too much but they do raise it - perhaps enough for a thief to pick another target, or perhaps enough for the thief to choose another method of entry such as kicking in the door (which itself comes with additional risk of detection).
by verdverm | 2025-10-27 21:10:37+00:00
Electing a reality tv star turned social media addict was the recipe to what we are "enjoying" now... sorry world

Now the others in regime is trying to replicate the idea that story, not facts, are what matters... which might be sadly true? They are certainly far more savvy in the current media environment, basically defining and framing everything that gets talked about. Everyone else is left to reactionary takes
by caconym_ | 2025-10-27 21:10:41+00:00
s/important/significant/, then, if that helps make the point clearer.

I cannot tell you that it objectively matters whether or not an article was written by a human or an LLM, but it should be clear to anybody that it is at least a significant difference in kind vs. the analogy case of handwriting vs. typing. I think somebody who won't acknowledge that is either being intellectually dishonest, or has already had their higher cognitive functions rotted away by excessive reliance on LLMs to do their thinking for them. The difference in kind is that of using power tools instead of hand tools to build a chair, vs. going out to a store and buying one.
by philipkglass | 2025-10-27 21:10:57+00:00
It's impractical even for tinkerers. YouTube claims to get over 20 million videos uploaded daily and it has well over 10 billion stored videos in its corpus. The metadata alone is tens of terabytes. The usual introduction-to-recommendations approaches out there are going to completely fall over on an item set of this size, even if you have disk space to spare.
by extr | 2025-10-27 21:11:08+00:00
Speak for yourself and your own use cases. There are a huge diversity of workflows with which to apply automation in any medium to large business. They all have differing needs. Many excel workflows I'm personally familiar with already incoporate a "human review" step. Telling a business leader that they can now jump straight to that step, even if it requires 2x human review, with AI doing all of the most tediuous and low-stakes prework, is a clear win.
by nxobject | 2025-10-27 21:11:15+00:00
I agree, and I can see where it comes from (at least at the state level). The cycle is: bad trend happens that has deep root causes (let's say PE buying rural hospitals because of reduced Medicaid/Medicare reimbursements); legislators (rightfully) say "this shouldn't happen", but don't have the ability to address the deep root causes so they simply regulate healthcare M&As – now you have a bandaid on a problem that's going to pop up elsewhere.
by rented_mule | 2025-10-27 21:11:20+00:00
All the school buses near where I live (Sierra Nevada mountains in California) have these - it's cool to watch them lower and start spinning.

But chains aren't enough in some common situations around here that locals, including school bus drivers, know well. When we get a good size snow storm (multiple feet) and the sun comes out a day or two later, thick ice forms on the sections of road that the sun hits - snow melt runs across the road during the day and freezes at night, getting thicker and smoother each day. When that happens on our steeper inclines, chains on AWD/4WD vehicles are not enough to get up those inclines or to stop on the way down them. Locals know where those spots are and take other routes in those situations. It's hard for me to imagine autonomous vehicles having such local information in remote areas like this anytime soon.
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-27 21:11:28+00:00
>Also, Bernie should have one, but the DNC leadership absolutely cheats... this was incredibly apparent in 2016 and 2024. Talk about an oligarchy/autocracy...

How, exactly? Clinton received 12% (55.2%-43.1%[0])/three million-plus more primary election votes than Sanders.

And he only received that many because Clinton wasn't a great candidate, and more importantly, the decades-long campaign to smear her and her husband.

What's that? 'Muh "superdelegates!"' Those actually didn't matter -- the actual votes by actual Democratic voters is what did it.

What's more, even if Sanders had not lost by 12% and had become the Democratic nominee, the ads just write themselves:

Pan in on Bernie Sanders saying "I am a proud Socialist!" with shimmering backgrounds of the Soviet and CCP flags and portraits of Stalin and Mao smiling down on him. "I'm Joe Stalin, and I approve this message!" Then video of Soviet/Chinese armies parading with tanks and all sorts of other "socialist" imagery.

and on and on just like that, over and over. As such, Sanders would never have won the general election and it wouldn't have been nearly as close as the actual one.

Go ahead. Call me a liar. But actual vote counts from actual elections have nothing to do with "superdelegates" or any of that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_Party_presiden...

Edit: Added more detail to the imagined "campaign ad"; Fixed prose.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-27 21:12:07+00:00
It is bad in a very specific sense, but I did not see any other comments express the bad parts instead of focusing merely on the accuracy part ( which is an issue, but not the issue ):

- this opens up ridiculous flood of data that would otherwise be semi-private to one company providing this service - this works well small data sets, but will choke on ones it will need to divvy up into chunks inviting interesting ( and yet unknown ) errors

There is a real benefit to being able to 'talk to data', but anyone who has seen corporate culture up close and personal knows exactly where it will end.

edit: an i saying all this as as person, who actually likes llms.
by MattGaiser | 2025-10-27 21:12:07+00:00
> Mistakes are rampant in spreadsheets

To me, the case for LLMs is strongest not because LLMs are so unusually accurate and awesome, but because if human performance were put on trial in aggregate, it would be found wanting.

Humans already do a mediocre job of spreadsheets, so I don't think it is a given that Claude will make more mistakes than humans do.