MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by floundy | 2025-10-20 13:42:37+00:00
Good approach, and was valuable and necessary prior to AI.

I learned this lesson in my early 20s. Nearly every entity that you interact with is trying to transact with you, in a way that benefits themselves. Whether that's a legitimate transaction (money exchanged for a product/service exactly as advertised), a misrepresented transaction (the product/service is not as advertised), taking your money for nothing, or simply taking away your time and attention (advertising).

Even before AI, if you were unable to get a good sense of legitimate transactions, you'd lose all your money on misrepresented transactions to scammy used car salesmen, door-to-door salesmen, and whole life insurance salesmen. These parasites and their ilk prey on people who are trusting by nature, and people who will say "yes" to avoid disappointing a stranger. It's unfortunate that the world has come to this, but you need to be untrusting of others' motivations by nature to not be taken advantage of financially.
by phlakaton | 2025-10-20 13:42:40+00:00
If you think of bat as in the same category of functionality as a pager, I think it works.

Unlike cat, bat already seems deeply interested in the presentation of text on a terminal. Pagination involves several aspects of presentation of text on terminals. So, it's still arguably one thing from a conceptual perspective.

Not knowing much about bat (so I don't know how much this has already been thought of), I could even see bat and pager integrating in a way that you couldn't easily as separate programs. Supporting a feature where the opening lines of a paragraph, or a new section, are deferred to the next page, for example.
by vidarh | 2025-10-20 13:42:42+00:00
> The takeaway I always have from these events is that you should engineer your business to be resilient

An enduring image that stays with me was when I was a child and the local supermarket lost electricity. Within seconds the people working the tills had pulled out hand cranks by which the tills could be operated.

I'm getting old, but this was the 1980's, not the 1800's.

In other words, to agree with your point about resilience:

A lot of the time even some really janky fallbacks will be enough.

But to somewhat disagree with your apparent support for AWS: While it is true this attitude means you can deal with AWS falling over now and again, it also strips away one of the main reasons people tend to give me for why they're in AWS in the first place - namely a belief in buying peace of mind and less devops complexity (a belief I'd argue is pure fiction, but that's a separate issue). If you accept that you in fact can survive just fine without absurd levels of uptime, you also gain a lot more flexibility in which options are viable to you.

The cost of maintaining a flawless eject button is indeed high, but so is the cost of picking a provider based on the notion that you don't need one if you're with them out of a misplaced belief in the availability they can provide, rather than based on how cost effectively they can deliver what you actually need.
by runjake | 2025-10-20 13:43:11+00:00
And, sadly, moving to cheaper, thinner materials with a lesser lifespan.

I’ve personally seen it in the appliances I’ve bought where I’ll run an appliance for 15-20 years, but the same model. They will largely look identical but when disassembled, the newer model trades metal part for plastic or the material is thinner.
by basch | 2025-10-20 13:44:03+00:00
This article is an example of generalization. Because Paw Patrol is normal and popular, the author assumes weird tv doesn't also exist en mass. It's just that there is more than ever, and you cant use merchandise on shelves to determine what to watch.

I would suspect even Tumble Leaf would captivate her kid.

It is also very odd to see Spongebob in the 'normal' category. It descends from Loony Toons, Ren & Stimpy, and Rockos Modern Life; and does a great job of capturing what made those shows weird. The Amazing World of Gumball isn't all that obscure. It is also 15 years old.

A better thesis would be that most television uses lowest common denominator technique to be attention consuming. Bright lights, rapid edits, shouting voices, hyperactive music, chaotic plot. Most TV isnt Mr Rogers.

There is a probably a second thesis about how the volume of content leads to less shared experiences in the long run. In 30 years Levi won’t be bonding with people over watching as much of the same stuff, because there is so much choice.
by time0ut | 2025-10-20 13:44:18+00:00
Interesting day. I've been on an incident bridge since 3AM. Our systems have mostly recovered now with a few back office stragglers fighting for compute.

The biggest miss on our side is that, although we designed a multi-region capable application, we could not run the failover process because our security org migrated us to Identity Center and only put it in us-east-1, hard locking the entire company out of the AWS control plane. By the time we'd gotten the root credentials out of the vault, things were coming back up.

Good reminder that you are only as strong as your weakest link.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-20 13:44:57+00:00
If this were actually correct, than any event ending would be a freak accident: since, according to you, the probability of something continuing increases drastically with its age. That is, according to your logic, the probability of the wall of Berlin falling within the year was at its lowest point in 1989, when it actually fell. In 1949, when it was a few months old, the probability that it would last for at least 40 years was minuscule, and that probability kept increasing rapidly until the day the wall was collapsed.
by tasuki | 2025-10-20 13:45:21+00:00
I mean, you're the sysadmin, so I probably shouldn't explain things to you. But I spent 20 years with Ubuntu and recently switched to Debian. The tutorials work the same.

The disadvantage of Ubuntu is its weird mixture of apt and snap. The snaps self-update when they feel like it (eg when you're on a train, wasting your precious data). Debian uses apt for everything. It's a lot simpler and you have more control over it.
by tom1337 | 2025-10-20 13:45:27+00:00
Hmm yea with a self hosted runner this could work. Gotta need to set the dockerd config into the VM before the runner starts I assume - unfortunately GitHub itself does not allow to change anything for the prepare stage - and it's a known issue for 2 years at least...

https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/1445#issueco... https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/76636
by bluGill | 2025-10-20 13:45:52+00:00
It matters what topics are taught in elementary school, and how they are taught. We as society need to figure out what is going to be important in 40 years (when current kids are 45-50 years old) and ensure those things are started so they slowly have time to get the concepts.

I can be reasonably confident that logical thinking will be important, which you can get from Math (philosophy also has logic - is that useful too? My background is math so I don't know about that side). I'm sure other parts of math will be useful but not what. The BASIC I learned in school was worthless (it would have been useful as an introduction if my teachers didn't teach/test so many "facts" that were wrong - I was too shy to tell them that back then and now I'm mature enough to know I'd get in trouble without changing anything so there was no point)
by nicoburns | 2025-10-20 13:45:56+00:00
The release announcement doesn't contain much information, but Servo does publish regular "This month in Servo" updates on their blog which contain lots of details:

- Blog: https://servo.org/blog/

- Most recent TMIS post https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/25/this-month-in-servo/

Check them out if you're interested in what's going on with Servo.
by Cyphus | 2025-10-20 13:46:04+00:00
I’m in the same boat with a lot of these tools, but bat is different in that it’s compatible enough to be safe to alias to the command it's replacing[1]. You can continue to use cat as usual, with the benefit of getting syntax-highlighted output.

[1]: Assuming you use the `--paging=never` flag in your alias as the README suggests.
by kmacdough | 2025-10-20 13:46:15+00:00
> But that's something else, that's no longer just OCR ("Optical Character Recognition").

Lines often blur for technologies under such rapid evolution. Not sure it's helpful to nitpick the verbal semantics.

It is a fair question whether the OCR-inspired approach is the correct approach for more complex structured documents. But saying it's "not OCR" do doesn't seem meaningful from a technical perspective.
by sofixa | 2025-10-20 13:46:15+00:00
> "Ansible" and "Jenkins" .. which while are both great

I would strongly argue that there is nothing great about Jenkins. It's an unholy mess of mouldy spaghetti that can sometimes be used to do achieve a goal, but is generally terrible at everything. Shit to use, shit to maintain, shit to secure. It was the best solution because of a lack of competition 20 years ago, but hasn't been relevant or anywhere near the top 50 since any competition appeared.

The fact that to this very day, nearing the end of 2025, they still don't support JWT identities for runs is embarrassing. Same goes for VMware vSphere.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-20 13:46:40+00:00
I think anti-immigrant rhetoric will have the most impact against the US. A lot of the people innovating on this stuff are being maligned and leaving in droves.

Aside from geography, attracting talent from all over the world is the one edge the US has a nation over countries like China. But now the US is trying to be xenophobic like China, restrict tech import/export like China but compete against 10x population and lack of similar levels of internal strife and fissures.

The world, even Europe is looking for a new country to take on a leader/superpower role. China isn't there yet, but it might get there in a few years after their next-gen fighter jets and catching up to ASML.

But, China's greatest weakness is their lack of ambition and focus on regional matters like Taiwan and south china sea, instead of winning over western europe and india.
by Spivak | 2025-10-20 13:46:41+00:00
Any news organization that does this deserves to burn, but I think it makes sense for aid organizations because they want to be able to portray the work they're doing / have done but might have some pause showing real people's faces while they're suffering. In a way a dramatization seems more "humane" and preserves the dignity of the individuals involved.

I've run photos I've taken through AI so I could post pictures of myself without opening myself to being doxxed.
by yuliyp | 2025-10-20 13:46:50+00:00
No, that's not the stance for electrical utilities (at least in most developed countries, including the US): the vast majority of weather events cause localized outages (the grid as a whole has redundancies built in; distribution to (residential and some industrial) does not. It expects failures of some power plants, transmission lines, etc. and can adapt with reserve power, or, in very rare cases by partial degradation (i.e. rolling blackouts). It doesn't go down fully.
by api | 2025-10-20 13:47:00+00:00
My contention for a long time has been that cloud is full of single points of failure (and nightmarish security hazards) that are just hidden from the customer.

"We can't run things on just a box! That's a single point of failure. We're moving to cloud!"

The difference is that when the cloud goes down you can shift the blame to them, not you, and fixing it is their problem.

The corporate world is full of stuff like this. A huge role of consultants like McKinsey is to provide complicated reports and presentations backing the ideas that the CEO or other board members want to pursue. That way if things don't work out they can blame McKinsey.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-10-20 13:47:06+00:00
> But in n out is close.

You said "Many businesses ARE fully vertically integrated." so why name one that is close to fully vertically integrated, just name one of the many others that are fully vertically integrated. I don't really care about discussing things which prove my point instead of your point as if they prove your point.

> open source projects, many are close to perfectly verifically integrated

Comparing code to services seems odd, not sure how GitLab the software compares to GitLab the service for example. Code is just code, a service requires servers to run on, etc. GitLab the software can't have uptime because it's just code. It can only have an uptime once someone starts running it, at which point you can't attribute everything to the software anymore as the people running it have a great deal of responsibility for how well it runs, and even then, even if GitLab the software would have been "close to perfectly vertically integrated" (like if they used no OS, as if anyone would ever want that), then the GitLab serivice still needs many things from other suppliers to operate.

And again, "close to perfectly verifically integrated" is not "perfectly verifically integrated".

If you are wrong, and in fact nothing in our modern world is fully vertically integrated as I said, then it's best to just admit that and move on from that and continue discussing reality.
by ho_schi | 2025-10-20 13:47:27+00:00
ThinkPad + Linux = Love

I can only recommend to use Linux by wanting Linux. This way you can replace stuff which is holding you back.

Just leaving Windows because Microsoft sucks is often failing, you are still within the vendor lock-in of the applications. The authors only port if they

I made a clear cut and lost my favorite game. Luckily Valve decided some years later to port it natively to Linux.

Which leads to two options: Drop proprietary applications. And spending money on Linux support.

Design applications seem one of the most troublesome areas?
by palmotea | 2025-10-20 13:47:44+00:00
> It’s really showing the real picture of all the aid agencies. They aim for your money. That’s the single purpose.

There might be some like that, but not all. You can't paint with such an all-or-nothing brush. Be specific about the organizations you think are a "scam" and are only after "your money."

> Because they can’t provide photo documentation of they work on the site where apparently the aid happened. So sad. And many people fall for this scam.

You're putting too much faith in "photo documentation." A lot of stuff can't, or can't practically be documented with photos. I'd say the benefits of aid are one of those things. A picture of people distributing food from a truck? Could be a staged photo-op. And there's the issue of "poverty porn," where you take photos of someone's miserable situation so some better off people can gawk and judge.
by achierius | 2025-10-20 13:47:52+00:00
> most of what western companies have created has had significant contribution by Chinese scientists or manufacturing, without which those companies would have nothing. If you look at the names of AI researchers there's a strong pattern even if some are currently plying their trade in the west.

While I don't disagree with your overall point, it's important to recognize that this is only a phenomenon of the last ~30 years, and to avoid falling into the trapn of Han racial chauvinism. E.g. there were ~no Chinese scientists in Germany in the 70s but they were heavily innovating nevertheless.
by segmondy | 2025-10-20 13:48:16+00:00
i'm not calling a winner, i'm just saying that the chinese have caught up despite the embargo. google, openai & anthrophic have phenomenal models. i stopped using openai & anthropic after they called for open weight/source regulation. i use google because they offer gemma and i got a year gemini-pro subscription for free, use openai gpt-oss-120b since i can run it at home, and the only model i currently pay for is a chinese model.
by dijit | 2025-10-20 13:49:29+00:00
The fundamental difference boiling down to trust isn't primarily in the cryptography; it's entirely down to the infrastructure and the root of control.

Signal is widely regarded as the gold standard for centralised E2EE, but its architecture forces you into two massive, non-negotiable trust compromises:

1) You must trust the Signal corporation with all your metadata. Every routing and handshake detail passes through one single choke point that they control. That is an unacceptable risk for security-minded users.

2) You rely completely on Signal to truthfully publish a pre-compiled binary that actually reflects the open-source code. For the vast majority, this is unverifiable in practice. It's a critical client-side act of faith.

Matrix’s design fundamentally eliminates these single points of failure, shifting the root of trust squarely to the user (or a group you trust):

1) Self-hosting; This is the game-changing feature. Host your own Synapse/Dendrite instance. Your metadata never leaves your control. You move the trust boundary from a corporation to yourself. You genuinely achieve "no communication outside your control."

2) Matrix uses an open specification. You can use FluffyChat, Nheko, or Element. This breaks the coupling between the server and the client. Even if you rely on a third-party server, you can use a client built by a completely different team, making the client-side code independently auditable and verifiable across projects. This is the ultimate defence against subtle backdoors in a single vendor's binary.

TL;DR: Signal offers "trusted third-party" crypto running on a single, unauditable binary. Matrix is decentralised, verifiable zero-trust communication. The comparison isn't about the strength of the AES key or which data it has been applied to; it's about the architectural freedom to not have to trust another entity with either your data or your code. That freedom represents an essential leap in trustworthiness.
by rpcope1 | 2025-10-20 13:50:01+00:00
I wouldn't bother using a smart plug. The other thing that's real dangerous about them that I didn't really elaborate on is the relay. There's a reason on something like a pump, fridge, AC unit, etc. you'd see a real contactor instead of a relay, and it's because relays are inappropriate and have dangerous failure modes for big loads like that and are typically way too small.

In most real non-resi situations, you'd probably isolate the hot leg and put a good CT (current clamp) on it and read that. The great thing about that is you haven't added anything in the power path for the device, like a shunt which is what most smart plugs use. Current clamps are good for a lot more current (though I guess a proper shunt could do it too). The easiest way to do this in your setting is to find a good UL-listed electrical box with cable glands, a short piece of DIN rail, a male and female plug pigtail, some proper THHN wire and wirenets and a Shelly 50A EM Pro, and just graft the EM Pro into the box and wire it up with it's CT. You've now got something signficantly more durable and probably safer (and correctly specced for the load). I've done other things like using an HV Labjack and some good CTs or other one or few off designs. There's lots of stuff in the commercial/industrial space that does this well but it tends to be $$$. Again, for the sake of my own family, I wouldn't use non-UL stuff (most plugs and things that go in gangboxes that are "smart" aren't UL listed, and MAYBE are ETL) as you who knows how much or how well it's tested.
by philipallstar | 2025-10-20 13:50:04+00:00
It is definitely not true that only big companies can do this. It is true that every regulation added adds to the power of big companies, which explains some regulation, but it is definitely possible to do a lot of things yourself and evidence that you've done it.

What's more likely for medical at least is that if you make your own app, that your customers will want to install it into their AWS/Azure instance, and so you have to support them.
by candiddevmike | 2025-10-20 13:50:59+00:00
I thought this would be for tenants, but this seems more geared towards landlords. Most landlords have some kind of SaaS platform that will automate all of this for them as part of rent collection, I don't think you'll get many bites on this TBH.

I'd love to see some kind of 50 state tenant resource center, geared towards providing tenants with advice and legal resources.
by gampleman | 2025-10-20 13:51:05+00:00
I don't know how to feel about this entirely. Like I get the whole AI generated images bad angle, but on the other hand as someone running a charity I can see the benefit of not wasting donation money on sending a professional photographer to an actual slum and paying probably tens of thousands of dollars to get good quality photos and instead getting usable pictures for free-ish.

When running a charity you need to spend money on things that aren't strictly the mission (such as fundraising) so that you can continue to operate, but every dollar that goes towards those activities is in a sense wasted. Knowing where investing is necessary and where to skimp is the essence of good charity management. I can't really see the argument that promotional photography wouldn't be the latter.
by post-it | 2025-10-20 13:51:24+00:00
However,

> Well, there’s nothing special about the timing of my visit. I’m just travelling—you know, Europe on five dollars a day—and I’m observing the Wall because it happens to be here.

It's relatively unlikely that you'd visit the Berlin Wall shortly after it's erected or shortly before it falls, and quite likely that you'd visit it somewhere in the middle.
by hank2000 | 2025-10-20 13:51:24+00:00
Very location dependent. But when you learn to write the characters you understand the variants differently. They look like random strokes to an untrained eye. But they’re not. I’m not sure if that makes sense.

Take a lowercase a in English for example. This font writes it differently than a child. Or in cursive. Or probably than you would write it. But you recognize all of them and don’t really think about it.
by ho_schi | 2025-10-20 13:51:31+00:00
Sweden and the “Coop” disaster:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57707530

That because people trust and hope blindly. They believe IT is for saving money? It isn’t. They coupled their cash registers onto an American cloud service. The couldn’t even pay in cash.

It usually gets worse, when not outages happens for some time. Because that increases blind trust.
by bluGill | 2025-10-20 13:51:37+00:00
You cannot usefully change/review architecture decisions in 1 year. The point of architecture is to make the hard decisions that you will regret getting wrong in the future to try to get them right now (often without enough information to make them). If you decide to make a free for all an architecture will emerge that is a mess that you cannot change.

Architecture should not be "we have always done it like this". If you don't write down why though it will become that. Often there are good reasons that things have always been done like that - those reasons may or may not still be valid but if you don't know what they are it is hard to evaluation. More than once I've seen someone rethink a "we have always done it like that" and discover the hard way why they always did it that way.

I've never seen a company with a good way to write down why they do things though. When someone even tries nobody reads those documents.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-10-20 13:51:38+00:00
>> You can't and the correct response is a total lack of trust by default because that's the easiest way to protect yourself.

This has slowly eaten away at the idea that we used to live in a high trust society that has now completely transformed into a society where you cannot trust anything, ever, in any capacity.

I felt like I had kind gained back some control from not clicking on any links in emails and using my phone sparingly. But with this new crop of AI tools, you're right, it makes it a lot easier to separate you from your money and the criminals are becoming way more sophisticated and persistent in their attacks.