MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simplyluke | 2025-10-20 18:28:04+00:00
I was there at the time, for anyone outside of the core networking teams it was functionally a snow day. I had my manager's phone number, and basically established that everyone was in the same boat and went to the park.

Core services teams had backup communication systems in place prior to that though. IIRC it was a private IRC on separate infra specifically for that type of scenario.
by paddleon | 2025-10-20 18:28:10+00:00
"We the People of the United States, in Order to

- form a more perfect Union,

- establish Justice,

- insure domestic Tranquility,

- provide for the common defence,

- promote the general Welfare, and

- secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,

do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Yeah, seems like a good idea to me
by rahkiin | 2025-10-20 18:28:10+00:00
Game engines do not own their main loop anymore either. A lot of host platforms are event based now, including ios, macos, android, web, and to a lesser extend windows. This means you tell the host ‘call this function every X milliseconds’. This also means you do not have full control of a main loop and you get event calls. It is moving more towards event based like in web:) it prevents lockups
by aresant | 2025-10-20 18:28:19+00:00
"When I was a kid, science fiction was off in the future somewhere. . . now it’s kind of science fact. . . AI and social media and all these influences are driving progress so quickly, at a pace that I think many of us, as human beings, are having a hard time keeping up with."

This is a quote from Alex Proyas (director of Dark City, irobot, the crow etc), he has long observed that humans are biologically under-adapted for a modernity of silicon-fueld complexity

https://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/alex-proyas-dark-...
by coffeecoders | 2025-10-20 18:28:56+00:00
The idea of slowing down and finding joy in small routines assumes you've already escaped the constant anxiety of bills. It’s hard to be at peace when your baseline reality is a few paychecks away from chaos.

There’s a quiet cruelty in how modern economies make stability feel like a luxury. Owning a home, having savings, or even time to be bored used to be normal milestones, now they are privileges. Until the basics are within reach again, the “boring” life will remain a fantasy for many who’d give anything for that kind of peace.

Most of us here work in tech and make six figures, but not everyone has that luxury.
by basfo | 2025-10-20 18:29:09+00:00
Some people reading this (systems engineers with a career) could probably retire, or at least downshift. Work just enough to pay for groceries, and spend your days doing what you actually want.

Today we can access, easily and cheaply (often free), almost every song ever recorded, every book ever written, every movie ever filmed, every video game ever made. You can write and reach thousands. You can film and reach millions. Twenty years ago, that was a millionaire’s life.

It’s the need for more and more and more that alienates us. Do you really need that shiny new car? Do you really need to take a vacation? Do you really need that promotion?

For some, work (and the status that comes with it) became their identity. Take it away and there’s nothing left. Others keep constant noise and stress around just to avoid hearing themselves think.

What if you chose a peaceful life?
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-20 18:29:13+00:00
Sure. Are the "experts" going to pony up the cash to build in redundancy, or change the market fundamentals that make it make more sense for a startup to rush to product on a shoestring and then keep adding features instead of building against not-yet-happened failure modes?

If not, I look forward to the next single-point-of-failure outage. And the next. And the next.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-10-20 18:29:13+00:00
Business idea: Allergen Aerator

Generate a miasma of benign pestilence in your child's crib, mimicking the protective inoculations provided by early exposure to peanuts and other potential allergens, "farm" air, and the like. It could be packaged with Flonase for sneezing parents and an 'essential oils' scent dispenser to cover the barnyard smell.

Use AI to tailor the precise blend of aerosolized rodent feces and tree nut dust to optimize your child's immune system, and et voila: funding!
by zamadatix | 2025-10-20 18:30:17+00:00
One person's "design mistake" is another person's "market segmentation".

x16 GPU + x4 NVMe + x4 USB = 24 direct CPU lanes covers 99% of the market, with add-ons behind the shared chipset bandwidth. The other 1% of the market are pushed to buy Threadripper/Epyc.
by lenerdenator | 2025-10-20 18:30:36+00:00
I don't think they care nearly as much about that as many suspect.

Trump's a loudmouth idiot and the Dutch government has to look like they're doing something about it. Telling a nation that they're "not" going to share intelligence is one way to "do" that.

The only problem is, spies are born liars and the world of espionage is inherently opaque to the public, so what this really means for US-Dutch intelligence sharing is probably going to depend on what the intelligence is, what the Dutch have to gain from sharing it, and what could be prevented should it be shared.

If the Dutch government thought that they could benefit from what Trump's doing, they'd go through with it, humanitarian consequences be damned. Nations don't have values, they have interests. People in Amsterdam aren't going to stop drinking coffee en masse because of the coffee trade's reputation for economic exploitation of the global south, and they're not going to stop talking with the US if they can get to draw benefit from it, either.
by lbhdc | 2025-10-20 18:30:45+00:00
Elm has always seemed interesting, but the early breaking changes around the 0.19 release seemed to deal a mortal blow to the language.

Looking at the official repos, it looks like much of it hasn't been worked on in years.

What is the status of the project? Is there a fork that has taken over development, or is it a mostly dead curiosity?
by abyssknight | 2025-10-20 18:30:46+00:00
I loved this movie, and I appreciate the overall premise of the letter -- simplicity can be freeing, because it allows you time to breathe and discover what really fulfills you. That said, I will never have just 3 hobbies. That's not who I am. I did, through the clarity of the pandemic, learn that there is more to life than money and climbing the career ladder. I don't know that I would have learned that without that time to be alone with my own self trying to find ways to be fulfilled in a time where my job at the time wholeheartedly sucked.
by crote | 2025-10-20 18:30:54+00:00
> our Dutch government and related services all run on AWS and Microsoft Office/Azure

And this is already being criticized over and over again. With various German government organizations now actively moving away from Microsoft and demonstrating that you don't need Outlook & Office 365 to run a government, I would be quite surprised if the possibility of doing the same here won't at least be discussed any time something needs an overhaul.
by adwn | 2025-10-20 18:30:54+00:00
> If you somehow manage to get magnetic fields involved, so you are not afraid of friction with the cable itself, at 1.3 max apparent acceleration […]

This means that half-way after 58 minutes, the climber is traveling at 0.3 * 9.81 m/s² * 60 * 58 ~= 10.2 km/s ~= 36,720 km/h (!!!) relative to the cable. A tiny imperfection or wobble is going to make the climber crash into the cable, destroying both.

A climber with a mass of 10 tonnes requires 10^4 kg * 1.3 * 9.81 m/s² ~= 127.5 kN of force to accelerate at 1.3 g. At the ~56 minute mark, the climber reaches a speed of ~9,888 m/s. This means it requires a power output of 127.5 kN * 9888 m/s = 1.26 GW (!!!) to achieve this acceleration, plus overhead for the power electronics and transmission. Even at a voltage of 1 kV, that's around 1,500,000 A (!!!) of current that you have to transmit and invert.

If you have a way to reliably transfer that amount of power without touching the cable which is moving at 10 km/s relative speed, or with touching but without immediately melting the cable or the collector, let me know :-)

> So totally feasible

lol no
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-10-20 18:30:55+00:00
I would make two points.

The first is that where labor is allocated is a function of culture. We currently live in a consumerist culture. Consumerist culture wants cheap stuff and lots of it and it wants it now. Convenience is god. And we want money so we can keep buying more things and newer things, so we work and work to make that money. Old things are frozen into museum pieces alien to everyday life instead of undergoing use and development and enrichment, because they make no sense to us and we can't develop things as we don't have a direction. So whereas a gothic church may have previously received baroque spires if the gothic was meager, today, most modifications are bound to look like a downgrade. Think of the really awful proposals for the rebuilding of Notre Dame. Save for a few brain damaged architects, nobody liked them.

The second is that leisure is the source of all culture. I'm not talking about recreation or relaxing by the pool with a piña colada (nothing wrong with that per se, but this is not what leisure means). Leisure is activity that isn't oriented toward practical ends, at least not in the intention. They are the activity of a free man, at least at that moment. This spirit of leisure was at times festive, at times contemplative and worshipful (the highest form of leisure), at times something artistic and musical. Today, we live in a world of total work. Work defines us. Whereas the cultures that produced the beautiful architecture we all admire today worked for the sake of leisure, today we work for the sake of work. We are engines running in a parking lot. We can rev them at high horsepower, perhaps even move aimlessly around the parking lot, but we aren't going anywhere. We don't have an address to go to.

The word "culture" is related to the word "cult" and "cultivation". Whereas in previous ages people believed in the transcendent end of human persons, a belief that ordered their lives and generated their culture, what does a consumerist culture take as the highest good? What is the end of our lives if not the ash heap? This can only produce weariness and distraction and entertainment that has no patience for authentic play or for the kinds of efforts that outlive us. There is no love in consumerism. There is no heroism. There is no genuine awe inspired by a great, honest-to-God promise. There is no festivity or celebration. The salt has lost its flavor and is good for nothing except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
by pardner | 2025-10-20 18:31:01+00:00
In early 80s when I was a wee nerd in college a gentleman named Ray who owned Laboratory Microsystems was nice enough to give a poor college kid a copy of his excellent Forth implementation for the then-nascent IBM PC.

I breadboarded a little EPROM programmer (driven by a parallel printer port with the programming code done in Forth because I couldn't afford a real one). Then breadboarded implemented a little Z80 system with a bunch of general purpose I/O and a Forth "OS" in EPROM.

Used that little setup as the basis for a number of projects, including a home alarm system with phone-based control plus voice synthesis phone-based alert calling (which a couple silicon valley VCs were gracious enough to take a meeting about).

Forth gave me wings. Despite it's reputation as a "write-only language". Good times.
by Jensson | 2025-10-20 18:31:03+00:00
> To me, it forces you to pay attention so you know how to organize what you write

But that is worse than just listening and doing that in your head, so people who already listens the right way the note taking gets in the way, writing things down is strictly inferior if you know how to listen since it adds an unneeded extra step.

I never wrote things down in lectures and I could ace the math exams without studying more because I listened to the lectures. None of the people who took notes could do that, and neither could I the times I tried to take notes.
by dakotacarrasco | 2025-10-20 18:31:50+00:00
Author here. I've been prototyping with a modified snowboard helmet + Raspberry Pi + IMU sensors to map routes down mountains in Santa Fe.

The idea: groups of 4 race down custom lines with AR displays showing mini-maps, waypoints, live positions, and trick multipliers.

Inspired by Anduril's Eagle Eye release, but for sports we actually play. Think Strava meets Mario Kart on real slopes.

Technical challenges I'm working through:

Low-latency multiplayer on mountains (spotty connectivity)

Wide FOV display integration into helmet form factor

Motion detection for tricks (distinguishing backflips from bad falls)

Safety systems (speed governors, designated zones)

Just moved to SF and looking to build a working prototype this winter. Tahoe is 3 hours away for testing.

Happy to discuss the technical stack or answer questions about the safety/resort partnership angle.
by pmontra | 2025-10-20 18:32:07+00:00
I can drink three coffee cups at midnight and sleep well. It doesn't even make me feel more awake in the morning. Nothing. Apparently I'm immune.

I drink coffee especially in the form of cappuccino (the Italian one, in case the name is shared by many different drinks) and I could quit at any time, but I like it so I won't.
by lenerdenator | 2025-10-20 18:32:50+00:00
> Regarding "their loss": the self-destruction of the US on the international stage is directly leading to a "massive scale-up" of the way various European agencies work together. If anything, I'd call that a win.

It's going to take time and resources to match what any sort of "lost" cooperation with the US had, assuming they even can match the capabilities. That's a naturally bad thing for intelligence agencies in the interim.
by stefs | 2025-10-20 18:33:13+00:00
> The reasoning was that more horses are needed to remove the manure, and these horses produce more manure.

i think that even then, that's not a problem, as one horse drawn cart can remove a lot more manure than it produces, i.e. a small number of extra horses can remove the excess manure of all horses and the overhead the extra horses introduce is mimimal.
by Covzire | 2025-10-20 18:33:27+00:00
That doesn't really clarify anything, but if I read between the lines, they're saying "we don't share information if we determine it will help (Trump) politically"

On one hand, this is the modus operandi of every political institutional from the CIA, to the CCP to city states to small towns in California, everyone acts in their own self-interest all the time. They're claiming nebulous "human rights" violations but don't state what they are. Could they mean blowing up boats suspected to be carrying drugs or precursors? I'd like to see Trump stop that myself, it's a pretty dangerous game he's playing.

On the other hand, I would expect the CIA/NSA have much greater potential value for the Dutch intel agencies than the reverse, so them prodding an administration after he was nearly assassinated twuce and many of his closest political officers and supporters were arrested and subjected to lawfare over the last 4 years doesn't seem like a particularly wise course of action. It's true this iteration of Trump is a lot more in tune with the way DC works so I wonder how wise the statement even is, they can accomplish what they're doing without announcing it, except now they announced what they're really up to and should probably expect some kind of retaliation.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-20 18:34:47+00:00
Don't underestimate the AIVD/MIVD. They have quite the history infiltrating Russian networks and operations and operate a rather useful satellite listening post.

That said, the current American administration probably doesn't see Russia as a threat.

America has always been spying on Europe, making it a bit harder by not willingly providing intel is a step in the right direction at least.
by nosianu | 2025-10-20 18:35:00+00:00
I don't know which exactly, but everyone in the East was restricted. I can only report my observations. Those systems I mentioned were mostly private imports through gifts, not regular imports on a business level. Not sure if something like an Amiga would have been a problem though anyway? I don't think any of the 8-bit systems should have been a problem in any case, no?
by catgirlinspace | 2025-10-20 18:35:00+00:00
Hoping there’s a new iOS version soon then so I can get off the beta, has been annoying dealing with crashes but at least element x launches really fast.

Really glad to hear that notification badges are almost fixed! I left an upvote on the spoilers issue but don’t really have anything to add other than it’s annoying to not have a way of even seeing the contents.
by shawa_a_a | 2025-10-20 18:35:12+00:00
I think that's going to be hard to find, depending on your definition of 'regular', tbh.

The BEAM's grown up along with Erlang and so the culture and optimisations are built up all around function application, list processing, recursion, and pattern matching etc.

https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages is a decent list of the diverse languages that have been implemented on it, but nothing quite like 'regular for and while loops'.

The BEAM itself is a plain aul register machine though, so it could be done!

https://www.erlang.org/blog/a-brief-beam-primer/
by rurban | 2025-10-20 18:35:28+00:00
I lived there. The rich districts have enough trees, from above everything looks green. A giant forest. I lived on the 15th floor overlooking River Oaks, and it was fantastic.

But the poorer districts are concrete all over, and nobody will care. As I worked as city planner before I tried to get into a district council once, but no chance. That was Ted Cruz' district
by dang | 2025-10-20 18:35:29+00:00
I believe you that you didn't mean it as a generic religious flamestarter, but in that case your intent didn't come across in the comment. So it's predictable that people responded with flaming reactions of their own.

This may be helpful for avoiding this sort of outcome in the future: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-20 18:35:42+00:00
Yeah caffeine doesn't stay in the body all that long. If you stop all intake it will basically all be metabolized or eliminated within 24 hours. For most people, the effects diminish earlier than that, usually from 6-12 hours. It's not something that requires a long detox period. If you want to quit and are getting headaches, take an aspirin/tylenol/advil (check that they don't contain caffeine!) and drink plenty of water. I've found the headaches pass after a day or two.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-20 18:35:53+00:00
Probably society would look worse. Almost everything in the world is search-dominated. E.g. one might as well say “if I didn’t have to inspect every element in arrays imagine how much faster I can sort them”. Well then there are lots of arrays you can’t sort. That’s life.

A large amount of labour is dedicated to the search problem. “What is valuable?” is a tough question. Pepper, nutmeg, mace made us a seafaring people. Easy to think “what if we only did the stuff we need” but is meaningless sentence. “What we need” is not something someone can state.
by abhiyerra | 2025-10-20 18:36:45+00:00
"Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfil your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender." -Swami Vivekananda

When I was in my 20s and early 30s I read that and scoffed because I was hustling, building my career and company. But over the last few years, I realize all that hustling just leads to an empty shell of a life. I just want a simple life where I spend a lot of time with my wife, son and family.
by tensor | 2025-10-20 18:36:58+00:00
Since we're throwing around anecdotes. I quit coffee for two years to help with anxiety. It did help with that, but there were zero other benefits, and the significant downside of not having something tasty to sip on.

After the first few weeks I didn't feel groggy in the morning without the coffee, but I definitely wasn't feeling any more rested. It didn't help me get to sleep any easier either. It also didn't help me get going in the morning any faster.

It did have some benefit to anxiety, but after I improved the original source of that anxiety (work related) I eventually went back to having coffee again simply because I really enjoy the flavour.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-20 18:37:33+00:00
> All politicians, and the groups they control/communicate with, can't be easily trusted

This is bullshit. The American bureaucracy has been ridiculously reliable as an information source until tight around now. (Same as the British imperial services’ were.)

This baseless cynicism is a driver around why we’re losing that. (More specifically, the blog posts being disappeared aren’t impartial data. They’re the historic opinions of the previous FTC chair.)
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-10-20 18:37:47+00:00
The whole "western" or "the west" always makes me laugh. Half the time it's a dog whistle for "white". Like many right-wing commentators love saying "Western Values" to avoid saying "white, Euro-centric, Christian values".

Mexico is a modern country, an industrialized country, a country that is exactly as "western" as the US or Canada. They have the same religious beliefs, speak a dialect of a European language. They have European style cities, a long history of cultural contributions. Yet they're not white enough to be part of "The West".

I think at this point we should be honest with ourselves in it's usage. 90% of the time it's a racist dog whistle.
by zdragnar | 2025-10-20 18:38:14+00:00
I found the same thing with aeropress. I can drink coffee all day, and have the occasional Americano no problem, but twice had a shot from an aeropress over ice and it gave me awful anxiety attacks both times.

Interestingly, cold brew makes me a bit anxious but doesn't really satisfy the caffeine craving the way a traditional cup of coffee does.

YMMV I guess
by iJohnDoe | 2025-10-20 18:38:17+00:00
One really interesting aspect I have noticed -

As I have gotten older there are an increasing amount of things I'm not interested in, don't think about, or don't care about anymore.

Music. The latest hits have no appeal to me. It's just noise. I caught myself thinking, "What is this crap these days.". This 100% reminded me of my parents that no longer had interest in listening to the radio, which I thought was really weird and "uncool" as a kid.

Work Topics. I would be in the middle of every e-mail or work topic with great interest. Now, I just file certain e-mails away with never reading them. For the first time in my life I'm that person that can be reminded, "Didn't you read the e-mail that was sent out".

There are other examples, but you get the idea. As you get older certain things just fade away and only certain things occupy your mind. It may not mirror this article, but it's similar. What you enjoy or matters most tends to take focus as you get older, whether you realize it or now.