MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by agedclock | 2025-10-01 22:27:14+00:00
> It's hard for me to accept the reality that a government that starts out well-meaning definitely can tilt toward totalitarianism, and that the lack of good chokepoints on the citizens (such as this hypothetical ability to control payments) may well be a key prevention mechanism

You are making the assumption that any politician or government is "well meaning" or started out as such. I am in the UK and I look at the politicians and the state apparatus with absolute contempt.

I suggest you listen to some of Dominic Cummings interviews about his experience with Whitehall (UK) during COVID. There was one situation that he described which really stood out to me. There was particular situation early in the pandemic where the NHS was going to run out of a key medical supplies in about 2 weeks and as a result thousands could die. These supplies were shipped from China and it took about 3/4 weeks (I forget the exact time frame).

For some reason it was written into law that they had to be shipped. He had the Prime Minister sign a legal waiver so they could be air-lifted, explained this to key officials in Whitehall. Everyone agreed what needed to be done and then nothing happened for 3 days. These people had to be threatened with losing their jobs and their pensions otherwise they wouldn't do their job, they fully understood the consequences of not doing the job (thousands of people might die) and still did nothing. It is an apathy of evil.

This behaviour is commonplace in ossified organisations unfortunately and I wasn't surprised one iota when I heard this.

As for mechanisms that reduce state power as prevent totalitarianism. No one thing will prevent it. It would be a combination of things.

It is similar to how running Linux (or any alternative OS) won't by itself stop the strangle hold of large tech players over most of the tech/online space. It will at least help you reduce your dependence on these large companies. Combine that with self hosting and/or using alternatives at least you can be somewhat free from the worst of it.

> I think the left wing in the US likes to frame suspicion of those kinds of things as silly preparations for a future that won't happen, and the right frames roadblocks to government power as being in place to make that bad future harder to bring about.

Silly partisan politics is going to have both sides pretending that the other side doesn't have any merit in their positions. I would just ignore the noise and actually read the facts about things and draw your own conclusions.

I believe that most of the politics you see is really theatre. It keeps people squabbling over things that are ultimately unimportant.
by diggan | 2025-10-01 22:27:36+00:00
You should really try it in WSL or proper Linux, the experience is vastly different. I've mostly been using Codex (non-interactively though) for a long time on Linux. I tried it out on Windows just the other day for the first time and quoting + PowerShell seems to really confuse it. It was borderline unusable for me as it spent most of the reasoning figuring out the right syntax of the tooling, on Linux there is barely anything of that.
by sodpspsosk | 2025-10-01 22:28:37+00:00
> What inventory of housing do you think you will unlock when migrants leave?

For legal migrants, many of them are in respectable homes. For the illegal yes it’s lower quality, but regardless supply and demand will hold true. Safety in many of these lower quality homes will increase as well.

> The jobs they hold are available to you today. No one wants farm wages.

Because we’ve allowed capital to increase their bottom line at the expense of labor. The conditions and pay today are only what they are because we let capital play by different rules. We should not structure America to benefit the few.
by bigwheels | 2025-10-01 22:28:49+00:00
Small related discussion from yesterday:

YouTube to pay $24.5M to settle lawsuit over Trump's J6 account suspension (apnews.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420966 - 8 points, 3 comments

As well as this flagged dead submission from a few minutes ago:

White House ballroom construction to continue through shutdown, official says (go.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442819 - 7 comments

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-liv...
by Bender | 2025-10-01 22:28:54+00:00
I feel like they jumped the gun on this article. 3.22 does not have a merge-usr package/script in http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.22/main and 3.23 does not yet exist otherwise I would test the merge script right now on a throw-away VM. Looking at the merge request it appears the Finish step is not yet completed or the pipeline was skipped or I am reading this incorrectly. Perhaps they are just missing an estimated deployment date in the article.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-01 22:29:12+00:00
> Republicans would have to change the Senate rules which currently require 60 votes

That's not quite correct. Senate rules are set by simple majority, but the the proposed rule change itself can be filibustered mid-term, except for when someone can exploit procedural rules of cloture to squash it.

Those rules were exploited in 2013 to remove the judicial filibuster and again in 2019 for the Supreme Court. It's called the "nuclear option" for a reason, but the road is already paved.
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by justcallmejm | 2025-10-01 22:29:36+00:00
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by tsimionescu | 2025-10-01 22:30:20+00:00
What's this "Office 365" you're mentioning? Microsoft has, I kid you not, actually renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Of which Copilot is one part, like Word and Excel. Yes, a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription gives you access to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Copilot. Please don't confuse it with GitHub Copilot, a completely different product. Or with Copilot Search in Bing.
by Rumudiez | 2025-10-01 22:30:30+00:00
I've been my own manager more than once and on teams from a few folks to a couple dozen in size. Rigid schedules and expectations absolutely make me less productive. My last 2 startups were chock full of fast paced, high quality work that got us off the ground and up to hundreds of thousands of users with me as the single engineer building apps for web, iOS and Android by myself. That is, until we hired engineering managers who tried too hard to get a glimpse inside my head, after which productivity dropped off a cliff. My current startup now has around 10 app devs and it feels like we deliver fewer features over longer timelines at a lower bar for quality than ever.
by matt-p | 2025-10-01 22:30:46+00:00
Massive props for getting it done anyway. For others reading: In general a switch should never run DHCPd, but will normally/often relay it for you, your arista's would 100% have supported relaying, but in this case it sounds like it might even be flat L2. Normally you'd host dhcpd on a server.

Some general feedback incase it's helpful.. -20K on contractors seems insane if we're talking about rack and stack for 10 racks. Many datacentres can be persuaded to do it for free as part of you agreeing to sign their contract. Your contractors should at least be using a server lift of some kind, again often provided kindly by the facility. If this included paying for server configuration and so on, then ignore that comment (bargin!).

-I would almost never expect to actually pay a setup fee (beyond something nominal like 500 per rack) to the datacentre either, certainly if you're going to be paying that fee it had better include rack and stack.

-A crash cart should not be used for a install of this size, the servers should be plugged into the network, and then automatically configured by a script/IPXE. It might sound intimidating or hard but it's not, doesn't even require IMPI (though frankly I would strongly, strongly recommend it, if you do't already have it). I would use managed switches for the management network too, for sure.

-Consider two switches, especially if they are second hand. The cost of the cluster not being usable for a few days while you source and install a replacement even here probably is still thousands.

-Personally not a big fan of the whole JBOD architecture and would have just filled by boots with single socket 4u supermicro chasis. To each their own, but JBOD's main benefit is a very small financial saving at the cost of quite a lot of drawbacks IMO. YMMV.

-Depending on who you use for GPUs, getting a private link or 'peering' to them might save you some cost and provide higher capacity.

-I'm kind of shocked that FMT2 didn't turn out much cheaper than your current colo, would expect less than those figures possibly with the 100G DIA included (normally about $3000/month no setup).
Show HN: Blackjack with AI Powered Dealers
by blcksearcher | 2025-10-01 22:31:28+00:00
the new wave of online gambling caused me to think about the aspects of these games that people enjoy. a lot of it is the thrill of gambling itself of course. but a particular game i've seen people play stood out to me: livestreamed "real" blackjack tables. human dealers are employed somewhere not in the US to deal you cards and react to your play / comments. this is ~fine but it makes the game slower and the UI clunky. I'm also not sure what the ethics there are. I figured we can now combine the best of both worlds: 1. have a seamless UI much like the regular one -- you can even play from your phone 2. have AI powered dealers that react to your play and you can chat with

this means the game can be much more seamless and quicker, while maintaining the fun of having someone to chat with while you play. plus you still have the thrill of the game since you're playing with Solana! just connect your wallet, deposit some SOL, and cash out at any time! the backend itself is just a smart contract and the funds are non-custodial.

lots of things to polish here regarding latency etc. but figured this is still a fun little demo some people might enjoy.

any feedback is much appreciated.

good luck!
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-01 22:31:29+00:00
I was directly replying to this parent reply:

> You can see the court just outright ruling based on the preferences and not law.

And my reply was:

> The Supreme Court is playing "Calvinball" now, and that's not me saying it but (a member of) the Supreme Court saying it.

Who the Court decided for in the OP linked article is completely irrelevant to my reply.

It was merely reinforcing the idea that the Court appears to many to be making up the rules as they go along to suit their preferences, which is quite analogous to the rules for Calvinball.

My reply was not worded as, nor meant to be, an indication that I disagree with their ruling in the OP article.

How they ruled on any single specific matter is irrelevant to the case that they've made a lot of rulings lately which are at odds with precedents including some of their own.
by zahlman | 2025-10-01 22:31:59+00:00
It was against many people's aesthetic sense. Including mine. But in theory it can be ignored completely, and in practice it is barely ever used (and indeed nobody forces you to add more uses).

You may be interested in https://learning-python.com/python-changes-2014-plus.html for a sense of what some old-timers' aesthetic sense is like. (I agree with many of these complaints and disagree with many others.)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 22:32:10+00:00
Basic game theory, as well as the nature of the problemset. working with 30k items is very different from 30m items. You need different algorithms to efficietly solve each one.

This will sound very mean, but when you open up your voterbase to more people, you open up democracy to be swayed more by pathos rather than ethos/logos. An educated, informed voterbase can make smart decisions and have a 3rd party rise up and defy the philosophy of the splinter vote.

Now, the US is 300m+ people with a voter base of about 170m. the searches for "is Biden running for president" on elecion day spiked more than the day he stepped down. Sentiment at this size adjusts too slowly to have a 3rd party rise at the national level, and if one gains momentum, the panic of a lost election will scamble all that progress.

If we want 3rd parties, we need to vote to enact voting that ancourages it, like ranked choice voting.
by godelski | 2025-10-01 22:32:18+00:00
> The Republicans absolutely could change the rules, and don't require that same supermajority to do so, so this is squarely on them.

Fuck that. Seriously. It isn't even a good idea for Republicans to do this. The point of a 3/5th majority is to enforce compromising. That thing that is essential to a democracy.

Remember, changing the rules means all future rulers can play by those rules. The extensions of these types of powers is exactly the type of thing that leads to Turnkey Tyranny.
by chermi | 2025-10-01 22:33:05+00:00
Thank you so much! For context, this for a "driver" running on a pi that controls actuators on an esp32 via MQTT. So the the most basics states just clones of the states (On/Off) on the esp32, while more complicated states would combine actions like fan + humidifier. I've written everything on the pi in python so far. But that was all V1 and I'm starting over so maybe I'll try something new.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-01 22:33:09+00:00
I'm no expert, but as I understand the 2.4GHz band has more lax requirements than the cellular bands, but it's not like ridiculously difficult, it's "just" a matter of money. Especially if you're using off the shelf modules.

But at a practical level, there's really extremely few situations where you actually need a WWAN modem. There's almost always wifi available and if not you almost always have a phone with an internet connection. That aside, a big part of why people make these devices is specifically to get away from always-connected internet devices.

It also may or may not need approval from whichever telco operator you're trying to connect to, and the user has to provide their own SIM and do the legwork to get a subscription. It's just not super practical. Not impossible, but a big pain in the ass for not much benefit.
by ang_cire | 2025-10-01 22:33:11+00:00
> Code of conduct is not about that. It's about how to behave.

Behavior is who people are. It's the 'content of their character' that MLK spoke of.

> My community is not that special that you need a user manual on how to behave, you should have learned it by age 10, latest.

And yet different communities have vastly different concepts of acceptable behavior. CoCs let people know whether their behavior is acceptable in a community.
by crote | 2025-10-01 22:33:12+00:00
The problem is that nuclear had a fixed cost per year, not per unit produced. A reactor sitting idle costs about the same as a reactor running at 100% capacity.

This makes them fundamentally flawed as backup generation. Nuclear is already the most expensive source of electricity when operating at full capacity, having it run only 5% of the time makes it completely unaffordable as it'll cost 20x as much.

When used traditionally, nuclear costs about $175/MWh. Solar and wind costs about $50/MWh. Use nuclear as backup and it'll cost $3500/MWh. Orrr, you've suddenly got a $3450/MWh budget to spend on storage for renewable energy...
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-01 22:33:29+00:00
There's plenty of reasons to prefer Rust to a memory-safe C. For example, I work on safety-critical code. That means that I have to review and affirm "This code implements my design". Making C memory-safe doesn't make the semantics of all UB defined or appropriate.

Safe rust doesn't have UB, and validating unsafe rust isn't meaningfully different than doing it for C++, except that it's limited to tiny leaf functions with well-defined interfaces where a code reviewer can challenge you.
by csmp | 2025-10-01 22:33:53+00:00
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by citizenpaul | 2025-10-01 22:33:54+00:00
I've always suspected if someone were to make a spreadsheet app that solves most spreadsheet problems it would collapse most companies.

As I see it the limitations of spreadsheets are what keep them from becoming the official way of doing things. At some point most of the stuff in the spreadsheets has data provenance in a properly managed IT system somewhere. If companies could get rid of this part of IT they would suddenly find themselves in a trillion dollar pit of lost money/inventory, As the spreadsheet mess spiraled out of control with no source of truth.
by mikeyouse | 2025-10-01 22:34:00+00:00
Also the current OMB director along with the President have apparently decided they can just carry out rescissions of any spending they don’t like, even though the spending is congressionally mandated. Republicans in the house don’t care to address the fact they’ve ceded the Purse to the White House so why would Democrats negotiate a spending bill when the president can decide he’s not going to follow-through on D priorities after the bill is approved?
by lauryakonguina | 2025-10-01 22:34:06+00:00
Would be cool if it was opiniated with ready to use and interactive components like in FastUI (https://github.com/pydantic/FastUI)

If you do this, i'll use it. But maybe that's not the goal?

That’s how I like to use them framework to quickly bootstrap a project in Python only.

I've started working on a FastAPI with HTMX wrapper also 4 days ago, it's not as advanced as your projects tho. There's not much there yet, but here's the link: https://github.com/lakonguina/devanture
by bitbasher | 2025-10-01 22:34:42+00:00
This article is quite shallow. It's essentially saying, in order to excel at something it needs to become a part of you.

There's some truth there, but Charles Bukowski said it much better and more succinctly with, "Don't try." [1]

1: https://poets.org/poem/so-you-want-be-writer
by amanaplanacanal | 2025-10-01 22:34:49+00:00
Sure. They vote to continue, and then the president cut what he wanted out of it anyway.

The Senate Republicans could simply get rid of the filibuster and pass it on their own. They won't, because this way they can blame the Democrats.

The Democrats have no power if the Republican Congress won't do their job and make the president obey the law. Blaming the Democrats for this mess is complete bullshit.
by copypaper | 2025-10-01 22:35:36+00:00
I understand this provides a way to interact with ts data via natural language, but is there any benefit to this over tool calling to a library that uses signal processing and/or rule based algos (or using machine learning if the data is noisy/variable)?

For example, you ask an off-the-shelf LLM to analyze your ECG data. The LLM uses a tool to call out to your ECG ts analysis library. The library iterates over the data and finds stats & ECG events. It returns something like "Average heart rate: 60bpm, AFib detected at <time>, etc...". The LLM has all the info it needs to give an accurate analysis at a fraction of computational cost.

On top of that, this requires a large annotated dataset and a pre-trained model. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's possible to have a "general" model that could handle arbitrary time series data. I.e. a model that is trained on ECG data would not be compatible with stock market data. And there isn't a way to have a model that understands both stock market data and ECG data.
by atombender | 2025-10-01 22:36:03+00:00
> How many people know their family history that far back?

Very common to be able to do this in Europe. I've traced my family back to the early 1500s via Ancestry.com, and my family tree isn't anything special. Before that period, records get very sparse among the common folk, though, and you pretty much need to have a strong connection with nobility to go further back in time.
by dgs_sgd | 2025-10-01 22:36:41+00:00
I have to disagree with the author's argument for why hallucinations won't get solved:

> If there were a way to eliminate the hallucinations, somebody already would have. An army of smart, experienced people people, backed by effectively infinite funds, have been hunting this white whale for years now without much success.

Research has been going on for what, like 10 years in earnest, and the author thinks they might as well throw in the towel? I feel like the interest in solving this problem will only grow! And there's a strong incentive to solve it for the important use cases where a non-zero hallucination rate isn't good enough.

Plus, scholars have worked on problems for _far far_ longer and eventually solved them, e.g. Fermat's Last Theorem took hundreds of years to solve.
by mentalpagefault | 2025-10-01 22:36:50+00:00
It didn't make the cut for the article, but I do recall trying to import older uberblocks still in the label ring buffer with zpool import -T at some point, but none were before the zfs destroy. I assume that was because TrueNAS logs to the .system dataset and presumably wrote through the entire ring buffer before I got to it.
by SilentM68 | 2025-10-01 22:36:52+00:00
The problem is that the people who own the platforms, are biased in one direction or the other, and hence influence the platforms to manipulate the platform users. There is no such thing as an unbiased platform or government since the platform owners also influence all governments, schools, and organizations world-wide. I understand it is a difficult concept, but the sooner people realize that they live in a biased society, based on self-interest, the faster they can figure out who to trust or not trust. Sadly, it has taken me more than 40 years to figure this out :(
by apparent | 2025-10-01 22:37:00+00:00
You replied to a two sentence comment. One of the sentences was about this case and the one that followed (which you quote in your most recent reply) appears to be about this case as well. When you take it out of context, it could be about this case or about the current court in general.

But anyone reading the parent comment and your comment would have no idea that in your mind, you were replying to a general reading of the second sentence.

It's also worth noting that none of Justice Jackson's colleagues (even the other liberal ones) joined her outraged dissent. It was essentially 8-1 against. The current decision proves that she was in fact incorrect.