MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DocSavage | 2025-10-03 16:09:04+00:00
A number of startups are working in verifiable domains where they can provide realistic data. This is an interesting thread from one of those startups: https://x.com/khoomeik/status/1973056771515138175

Here's a discussion with Isomorphic Labs (Google DeepMind spinoff) on this line of thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpIMuCeEtSk
by 1-more | 2025-10-03 16:09:28+00:00
At my old gig the on-call rota involved doing a randomized fire drill at the start of your on call week. Think "the site is slow" or "users are seeing 500 errors." This included a TUI program to walk you through the fire drill with your partner. That same TUI was the tool to walk you through debugging a real fire, including alerting the right slack channels. It was very much inspired by how commercial pilots handle failures using checklists, allowing you to do as much of the problem solving as possible before the problem.

It feels gross to compare it to ER docs saving lives in a mass casualty scenario but, well, I have a boring life but can relate to one aspect of theirs.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 16:09:45+00:00
>Japan First" doesn't have to mean your naïve interpretation of some maximally xenophobic isolationism.

It doesn't. But it probably will, especially with Japan's history. How many times does history have to repeat before we stop dismissing it as a slippery slope?

>many also believe that the US alliance and the bases are critical to Japan's greater sovereignty and prosperity.

America stripped their standing army for decades, so that damage is inflicted by the very ones that claim to protect them. And the US isn't exactly a reliable ally as of late.
by fidotron | 2025-10-03 16:09:56+00:00
Essentially that using the graph DB prevented any imposition of order or discipline on the structure of the data, due to the constant need to import new customer data in subtly different structures to keep the business running, which led to a complete inability to deliver anything new at all since no one could make assertions about what's in there. Since they couldn't change it without risking breaking a customer they were migrating one customer at a time to a classic RDBMS. (There were like 200 customers, each of which is a company you've probably heard of).

Many will go "you need a proper ontology" at which point just use a RDBMS. Ontologies are an absolute tarpit, as the semantic web showed. The graph illusion is similar to that academic delusion "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures." which is one of those quips that makes you appreciate just how theoretical some theoreticians really are.
by NickC25 | 2025-10-03 16:10:00+00:00
And shockingly, the company actually listens to the Chinese government. Because the company knows that if they resist, their executives will at best be quickly "re-educated", or straight up disappeared overnight.

Here, the company would simply bribe the lawmakers, who would in turn spout off some mealy-mouthed gibberish on their party's favorite propaganda network, and business would continue as normal.
by RossBencina | 2025-10-03 16:10:05+00:00
Yes, very event/message-oriented. The state machines exchange messages and process them to completion. I'm not sure who Lee is (Actor Model proper is Carl Hewitt, Gul Agha) but it's interesting that you make the connection, I agree. Erlang, the actor language that never heard of the actor model, has an FSM class that is also interesting to look at.

UML is a standardisation of a bunch of different techniques for drawing pictures about systems. Drawing pictures can be useful for thinking about things, especially if you're a visual thinker. But statecharts are really the star of the show I think, they represent something that is easier to understand as a picture (hygraph) than as code.
by ferologics | 2025-10-03 16:10:15+00:00
this excerpt from Forstall's wiki seems fitting:

> Cook's aim since becoming CEO has been reported to be building a culture of harmony, which meant "weeding out people with disagreeable personalities—people Jobs tolerated and even held close, like Forstall," although Apple Senior Director of Engineering Michael Lopp "believes that Apple's ability to innovate came from tension and disagreement." Steve Jobs was referred to as the "decider" who had the final say on products and features while he was CEO, reportedly keeping the "strong personalities at Apple in check by always casting the winning vote or by having the last word", so after Jobs' death many of these executive conflicts became public.

The tragedy of Apple, and perhaps Steve's biggest oversight, was his own irreplaceability. He failed to procure a suitable successor. Or perhaps there was not enough time. People are Culture. And Steve was a big part of it. The hopes of Apple living on without him are just that, hopes. He built Apple like an orchestra with himself as the conductor; when he left, the music didn’t fall apart immediately, but the score became safer, flatter, more repetitive.
by jbritovsr | 2025-10-03 16:11:56+00:00
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by dragonwriter | 2025-10-03 16:12:01+00:00
AI winters are a recurring phenomenon, not a myth, and, like the dotcom bust, involve a collapsing hype bubble, reductions in focussed speculative investment in the field, but the technologies that were big during the preceding hype cycle continuing to be important, and develop, though in the case of AI winters often they stop being thought of as AI and just get referred to with a name for the specific technology (often a different one than the main one they were known by in the hype cycle, e.g. “expert systems” from th blast hype cycle are largely “business rules engines” now.)
by vinajuliette | 2025-10-03 16:12:11+00:00
Most imperial units are how they are because they can be easily divided into a bunch of different ways - 10 can only be divided by 5 and 2, 12 can be divided by 2, 3, 4, and 6. This is practical when you have a physical amount something you need to deal with, like re-portioning a recipe.
by simjnd | 2025-10-03 16:12:33+00:00
AFAIK the problem of N+1 isn't necessarily one more DB query, but one more network roundtrip. So if for each page of your app you have an API endpoint that provides exactly all of the data required for that page, it doesn't matter how many DB queries your API server makes to fulfill that request (provided that the API server and the DB are on the same machine).

This is essentially what GraphQL does instead of crafting each of these super tailored API endpoints for each of your screens, you use their query language to ask for the data you want, it queries the DB for you and get you the data back in a single network roundtrip from the user perspective.

(Not an expert, so I trust comments to correct what I got wrong)
by ethagnawl | 2025-10-03 16:12:37+00:00
Side note: I happened to look at the SO "Community activity" widget earlier this week and was quite surprised to see just how far engagement has fallen off. I don't have historical entries to reference but I'm _fairly certain_ there used to be hundreds of thousands of users (if not more) online during the middle of an average work day (I'm in America/New_York) and there are currently ... 16,785.
by fennecbutt | 2025-10-03 16:12:45+00:00
They're saying it tongue in cheek, and everyone here is wowing over the infrastructure.

But China still believes that Taiwan (and other places) is theirs.

I think one reason this infrastructure is possible is not just regulations, but first party construction + private companies for construction that can't grab corrupt contracts or overcharge because it's a gov contract. Whereas in the West getting a gov contract is the opposite; it's a business' chance to overcharge to fuck, paid by the public who are too distracted to petty squabbles to care.

I'm a foreigner in the UK and the infra here is ailing. The UK voterbase will complain about rising bills, costs, etc. But will they change the way they vote, will they protest for change, will they actually work together for once to demand value for their tax money? Nah, of course not. Because people would rather argue about which bathroom someone can use, rather than intelligent discussion, fair compromise and moving the fuck on to the next problem.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-03 16:12:45+00:00
Weirdly enough, other companies manage to not accidentally sell/give porn to kids just fine. I see no issue with holding large media companies like TikTok, Meta, Google, etc. to account just like we would if someone put hardcore porn on the Disney channel. This is only a problem when you want to be a massive company that operates in every market while not taking any responsibility for what you do/not hiring the necessary staff to manage it.

Similarly, if your alcohol/weed store sells to children and you get caught, you can be criminally prosecuted. This is well-trodden ground. Companies worth trillions can be expected to do what everyone else manages to do.

Same deal with malicious ads. These companies absolutely have the resources to check who they're doing business with. They choose not to.

Banks also don't get to just not bother with reconciling accounts because it's hard to check if the numbers add up, and yeah bugs can result in government action.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-03 16:12:57+00:00
I mean, it just is. I'm not the one coming up with compliance rules.

But it can't be intercepted with any kind of MITM, it can't be read in case of a data leak, and it can't be forwarded accidentally. These matter.

It doesn't matter if it's "true" E2EE (which has different requirements in enterprise anyways), or that the other party can still take a photo of the email or whatever. It still provides tangible benefits.

And it doesn't open up anything new in phishing. I already get emails like this from health care providers, asking me to open the email contents on their site. Obviously you need to figure out if the URL is legitimate, the same way you always have.
by sgallant | 2025-10-03 16:13:12+00:00
On a personal note, I wanted to thank the HN community. I’ve been hanging out here for over 15 years. I remember the day I stumbled on HN: I immediately felt at home here. I’ve learned so much from reading HN over the years. I think it’s fair to say that without this community, Brice wouldn’t be what it is today.
by fsckboy | 2025-10-03 16:13:43+00:00
>Are they making the claim that showing porn is a normal behavior for TikTok's algorithm overall, or are they saying that this is something that specifically pervasive with child accounts?

the latter is what they tested, but they didn't say specifically pervasive.

you quote the article so it seems like you looked at it, but questions you are curious/skeptical about are things they talked about in the opening paragraphs. it's fine to be skeptical, but they explain their methodology and it is different than the experience you are relying on:

>Global Witness set up fake accounts using a 13-year-old’s birth date and turned on the video app’s “restricted mode”, which limits exposure to “sexually suggestive” content.

>Researchers found TikTok suggested sexualised and explicit search terms to seven test accounts that were created on clean phones with no search history.

>The terms suggested under the “you may like” feature included “very very rude skimpy outfits” and “very rude babes” – and then escalated to terms such as “hardcore pawn [sic] clips”. For three of the accounts the sexualised searches were suggested immediately.*

>After a “small number of clicks” the researchers encountered pornographic content ranging from women flashing to penetrative sex. Global Witness said the content attempted to evade moderation, usually by showing the clip within an innocuous picture or video. For one account the process took two clicks after logging on: one click on the search bar and then one on the suggested search.
by ge96 | 2025-10-03 16:13:45+00:00
I like that bit about optimizing for not going bankrupt vs. windfall

Idk you hear these phrases all the time excelsior, shoot for the stars land in the moon, etc... gotta actually apply it

Tangent about drugs I wish I felt like I did when on the snow all the time damn, what a great mindset like anything is possible, same with adhd meds but I can see how it would be bad too not having fear/self doubt eg. "I'm gonna jump off this building and land over there", over confidence

Oh this was about 10 yrs ago I was partaking I'm not in that env anymore where I can easily source stuff, now it's just alochol
by adsharma | 2025-10-03 16:14:45+00:00
The weakness of these systems is not the query language or the planner.

It's the lack of a fully developed storage engine that avoids vendor lock-in.

Apache GraphAr (incubating) is a step in this direction. But it's an import/export format. Not primary storage.

Unaware of this effort (roots in Chinese graph dbs), I wrote a competing proposal that's more aimed at graphdbs looking to disaggregate compute and storage.

https://adsharma.github.io/beating-the-CAP-theorem-for-graph...
by Brian_K_White | 2025-10-03 16:15:08+00:00
I responded to an assertion that I viewed as faulty. It was never illogical or inconsistent for me to do so because I never claimed to have no use for other people. You said a life in a vr that has no effect on the world sounds fun. I never tried to claim that. I am responding "bullshit". As in, merely being here, expressing something to other people instead of just thinking it to yourself belies that claim.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-03 16:15:30+00:00
I hadn’t heard the word countersignaling before, but it matches something I had observed many years ago.

My closest groups of friends always make so much fun of each other. We make negative comments about the worst traits about each other, the things that we are most self-conscious about… yet every time my friends make fun of me for something I worry about, I actually feel better and more comfortable with myself.

When I thought about why, I realized it’s because of the hidden message behind the ridicule of my longtime friends; they are telling me, “we are keenly aware of the worst qualities about you, and we love you and want to spend time with you anyway.”

There is comfort in knowing you don’t have to hide your flaws to be accepted and loved.
by whizzter | 2025-10-03 16:15:49+00:00
"DLSS"-slop is mostly because we're at a junction right now, raytracing is starting to make lighting simpler but isn't entirely there performance wise. Many advanced pre-raytracing methods are quite work/tweak intensive (many simply doing screenspace raytracing in shaders without the hardware support).

My point is that it could be far worse if they get in trouble and get bought out by some actor like Qualcomm that might see PC GPU's as a sideshow.
by tester54321 | 2025-10-03 16:16:00+00:00
Is it possible for you guys to write a blog post analyzing the usage of the DB (reads, writes, what is stored for each workflow any events etc) to help users planning for scale to really understand what they are signing up.

The library seems fantastic but my team did not use this because at scale they believe that the number of DB reads and writes becomes very significant for a large number of workflows with many steps and that with PG vs Cassandra/ScyllaDB it would not be feasible for our throughput. I tried to convince them otherwise but it is difficult to quantify from the current documentation.
by Insanity | 2025-10-03 16:16:10+00:00
I think most level-headed people can see this is a giant bubble which will eventually burst like the dot-com crash. And AI is technology that's hard to understand to non-technical (and even some technical) investors.

But of course, every company needs to slap AI on their product now just to be seen as a viable product.

Personally, I look forward to seeing the bubble burst and being left with a more rational view of AI and what it can (and can not) do.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-03 16:16:34+00:00
What's the problem with gas station (provided it keeps mandatory distance from the buildings) or the office building near the residential ones? In fact, close offices are often cited as a pros for certain locations, people are even trying to rent as close as they can in some cities.

PS: I've lived the whole last year approximately 100m away from both gas station and large office complex. Neither bothered me at all, and it was a first floor.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 16:16:51+00:00
Well, don't take my word for it. Maybe these are people that you trust more than me.

> "We brought disaster upon the refugees, by calling on them to leave their homes. We promised them that their expulsion would be temporary, and that they would return within a few days. We had to admit that we were wrong."

- Syrian Prime Minister Khalid AlAzm

> "Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes, while it is we who made them leave."

- Same guy, Syrian PM Khalid AlAzm

> "The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies."

- Jordanian newspaper Falastin (Interesting fact, if I'm not mistaken the name of this very newspaper was the first Arab use of the word Falastin - way back in 1911!)

> "The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab States in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab States agreed upon this policy unanimously, and they must share in the solution of the problem."

- Arab Higher Committee Secretary Emile Ghoury
by btown | 2025-10-03 16:16:53+00:00
> The report says the system allows any authorized user to access all applications and data regardless of their clearance level or operational need. As a result, “Any user can potentially access and misuse sensitive” classified information, the memo states, with no logging to track their actions.

Given that segmentation of data access is a core part of the pitch (see e.g. https://www.palantir.com/docs/gotham) - if security controls were intentionally omitted from the prototype scope, that seems like a reckless scoping decision to make. And if security controls were unintentionally bypassed, this speaks to insufficient red-teaming of the prototype before launch.

I couldn't be more pleased that this is coming to light, though. Perhaps it opens decisionmakers' eyes to the dangers of over-centralizing military operations on a system that simultaneously allows operators to diffuse accountability to a semi-autonomous target-calling system, and is foundationally connected to surveillance-state systems tracking U.S. citizens. Entire genres of movies posit the negative outcomes of this kind of system on civilians and military personnel alike; they are cautionary tales to Not Create The Torment Nexus. Sometimes decentralized, human-in-the-loop, need-to-look-the-target-in-the-eyes operational coordination is a feature, not a bug.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 16:17:03+00:00
> The first step is to reassure Palestinians that their neighbors won't start mass-murdering them again, something Israel has currently no interest in doing.

Israelis don't just start killing Palestinians for no reason historically however, that pretty much always happens in response to some form of Palestinian aggression. It's not like Israel can just ignore attacks either as that would just encourage further attacks.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-03 16:18:01+00:00
Completely unhinged and delusional take. No one at the top even faced consequences for what happened on January 6th and you're pretending that Biden's DOJ was somehow on a revenge tour?

> If the left had respected the boundary, the line would not have been crossed

What boundary was this and what politicians on the left were advocating for political violence?
by anentropic | 2025-10-03 16:18:39+00:00
Litestream is basically that, though the OP article has "The next major feature we’re building out is a Litestream VFS for read replicas" as a What's Next todo at the bottom.

https://litestream.io/guides/s3/

I think this is also roughly what Turso is, although it's becoming a SQLite-compatible db rather than vanilla

https://docs.turso.tech/features/embedded-replicas/introduct...

https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/durability
by phil21 | 2025-10-03 16:18:45+00:00
Our 75/25 Australian Shepherd/Poodle mix we like to call "loophole puppy" since she has the Aussie "lawful good" traits, mixed in with a mind that makes everything a game of how she can adhere to the letter of the law and still get what she wants.

One example that comes to mind is planting new grass seed on the lawn, and she was not allowed in the grass. She pretty much instantly figured out the new rule, but would constantly test it. Drop her ball a foot into the grass, then lay down on the sidewalk and crawl into the grass keeping her hind legs on the pavement. Still on the sidewalk!

It's a constant battle of wits trying to keep her from figuring out new "loopholes" or grey areas we don't anticipate. Also finding her "jobs" to do so she doesn't make stuff up on her own.
by duxup | 2025-10-03 16:19:31+00:00
It's funny how this works when it comes to undesirable content:

The internet is full of "bad" (or at least undesirable under some circumstances) content. It's there on the interent, we kinda accept its existence.

Then we train AI on it, and we're upset if it regurgitates it, so we have to add "safety".

Meanwhile social media sends you right to it ...
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by qudat | 2025-10-03 16:19:58+00:00
Cool project, I’m always weary by projects that take so much dev time to build out, but I’ve been keeping my eye on this one.

I’ve been thinking about git collaboration slightly differently from the rest of the code forges. I think git collaboration could be easier for a huge chunk of use cases.

I don’t see why we necessarily need code forges for collaboration. We just need something a little better than emailing patches around.

It’s why I’ve been building a pastebin super charged for git collaboration. It’s still very much a wip but for anyone curious: https://pr.pico.sh
by nnurmanov | 2025-10-03 16:20:24+00:00
Nowadays, when I post a job for our openings, I get thousands of applicants, which is much higher than 2–3 years ago. Over 90% are irrelevant. To limit the applicant count, I ask for references. For example, just the other day a candidate reached out directly, I asked if he could provide references, and then heard nothing back. It’s the quickest way to filter out irrelevant candidates. Now I am employing the same tactics and building an ATS where references make you stand out.
by jlos | 2025-10-03 16:20:55+00:00
You want ENGLISH to be more phonetic?

English, a language with over 40 different dialects in its country of origin.

English, the official language of over 60 countries?

English, the bastard child of millenia of Roman, Germanic, and French colonization?

English, a language with documented vowel shift that occured over 200-300 years?

THAT language would be easier if the words were spelled how they were pronounced?