MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Multicomp | 2025-10-29 14:19:39+00:00
Hey there, thanks for the good faith, here's what I hope is reciprocal.

> I'll reply here in good faith: I just don't see how you connect those dots, or why this has anything to do with gender.

That's a reasonable opinion to doubt that gender affects this at all. I'm not certain it does myself, but I thought it was worth discussing in case there is a role there.

> Citation(s) needed. I've never heard an argument for this or even seen someone suggest it before.

I heard it in person from my sister over a year ago, I don't have scientific data at all for this. Totally 'just, like, my opinion, man.'

Having said that, here's [1]/[2](archive link) some Forbes blogger who relatively compactly lays out the theory of how young women are creators of mass culture for their generation.

> Even if we take your previous statements as true, what does that have to do with peoples' independence?

I mis-spoke here I should have expanded 'independence' there to represent people's awareness of the 'slow life history path' that is more common today.

> To me (and my own confirmation bias pet issue), it seems much more likely that having recordings and visible online identities the way we do now with smartphones, ever present cameras, and social media causes people to think a lot more about how they're perceived by others.

You know I think this is very fair and probably more relevant than my comment. If everybody is watching us all the time, we act on our best behavior and are not (for better/worse) feeling as much at liberty to be our unfettered deviant selves.

> And, the flip side, spending so much time seeing other people via tv, online videos, social media, etc constantly reinforces what "normal" behavior looks like.

Also fair. There are many subcultures now, from fountain pen collectors to fantasy writers to Managed Democrats (as a random and /definitely/ not specific-to-me example), and you can tailor your behavior to what the community expects just as the royal we used to do back when we would use internet forums and learn what they liked/didn't like.

> People are also so absorbed in modern media that they just do way less interesting stuff overall imo.

I could see that. I do a lot of potentially interesting things in-person or in LAN that I will never let go WAN, I know that the public web is the largest/harshest critic out there and the downside risks are ever yawning while the upside risks are not that much. So if others come to similar conclusions, then the only online stuff that most normal people will put up will be the curated social media appropriate highlight reels.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradsimms/2024/05/30/teenage-gi...

[2] https://archive.is/PlfV0
by xbar | 2025-10-29 14:19:57+00:00
I agree strongly.

I drink things that taste bad. No, not always. But when an option exists that I think might taste bad, I always choose it. Someone has determined that it is a worthy drink and unless I explore their thinking, I will never know whether or not I agree. Once explored, I have some data that I can use to compare with other implementations of such an horrific recipe. At once, I am a connoisseur of this awful thing.

Let me know if you are interested in the worst place to get a bean-paste mojito with a cactus apple sidecar. I still search for the best.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-29 14:19:57+00:00
I'm also on the jetbrains train, but I stopped using it for a while because they're sluggish. An editor's interface should never lock up, an editor should never have popups that demand focus, etc but both intellij and vs code do this.

At the moment I'm on VS Code again because Sublime Text isn't keeping up to date anymore (its ecosystem has mostly been dormant since 2014 or 2016) and Zed is still fully in development and doesn't have some of the extensions and tools that I sometimes use in VS Code.

If I were to go back to e.g. Java I'd probably use IntelliJ again, but then, the enterprise I work for would be shelling out for it.
by danhor | 2025-10-29 14:20:08+00:00
My "Homeserver" with its database running on an old laptop has less downtime than AWS.

I expect most, if not 99%, of all businesses can cope with a hardware failure and the associated downtime while restoring to a different server, judging from the impact of the recent AWS outage and the collective shrug in response. With a proper raid setup, data loss should be quite rare, if more is required a primary + secondary setup with a manual failover isn't hard.
by warmwaffles | 2025-10-29 14:20:12+00:00
I was on sublime text for the last 12 years. I made the switch to helix and although I missed some features, it's been a great change. I never could get into the vim bindings, but helix's defaults are great and I don't need to go plugin hunting in order to make the editor functional.

There's missing features I really want, but they'll be added eventually. Git blame in line, some scripting support, better find-replace across a project and not just the opened buffers.

Just give it a try for a week or two straight. No using your other editors. Cold turkey. You'll be surprised at how quickly you'll relearn. It took me about three weeks using it full time to get decent. The first day or so were brutal.
by hndc | 2025-10-29 14:20:16+00:00
> DevOps was a reaction to the fact that even outsourcing ops to AWS doesn’t entirely solve all of your ops problems

DevOps, conceptually, goes back to the 90s. I was using the term in 2001. If memory serves, AWS didn't really start to take off until the mid/late aughts, or at least not until they launched S3.

DevOps was a reaction to the software lifecycle problem and didn't have anything to do with AWS. If anything it's the other way around: AWS and cloud hosting gained popularity in part due to DevOps culture.
by moate | 2025-10-29 14:20:19+00:00
Exactly this. If I have 100,000 followers on YT for my software related content, why wouldn't I use that platform to post my content? Some people are also visual more visual learners and while straight text is helpful, having a trusted source going screen by screen/prompt by prompt and comparing to their machine is helpful.

So it's both content and communication preferences. HN is a self-selecting group of a certain type, but not everyone on the planet thinks like the average HN dude
by rglover | 2025-10-29 14:20:56+00:00
I really dislike how this industry oscillates between various states of epiphany that things that are overcomplicated and expensive are overcomplicated and expensive. As an industry, we must look like utter clowns to the world. It's really sad that saying "own or control your own servers" seems to be a sword in the stone moment for far more people than it should. Things that used to be a "duh" are now a "wow" and it's deeply unsettling to watch.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-10-29 14:21:15+00:00
If someone hasn't written a blog titled "Should we be worried about Cloudflare?" yet, I think it would be a good subject to explore. I find the idea that they could decide one day to ban you from all of their network pretty worrying. And if they did, how much fingerprinting are they doing and would the bad extend far beyond just a random IP address.
by gnurizen | 2025-10-29 14:21:15+00:00
CUPTI is kind of a choose your own adventure thing, as you subscribe to more stuff the overhead goes up, this is kind of minimalist profiler that just subscribes to the kernel launches and nothing else. Still to your point depending on kernel launch frequency/granularity it may be higher overhead than some would want in production, we have plans to address that with some probabilistic sampling instead of profiling everything but wanted to get this into folks hands and get some real world feedback first.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-29 14:21:29+00:00
I had a friend that would allow her kids to watch YT videos. One day they were watching a video in my backseat as we were driving where I could hear the audio. The person was trying to tell the kids how to get free stuff for some game or other. The instructions provided had my jaw in my lap. This was years ago so I don't remember the exact details, but it was straight up instructions for installing malware.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-29 14:21:51+00:00
Slackware always brings out the inner teen in me. I feel giddy like in the old days. I need to install and maintain it somewhere some time, just for kicks.

I support FOSS wholeheartedly, and believe that it's possible to have a device which is completely Free (not Open but, Free) from hardware design to firmware and software.

On the other hand, there are some nasty realities which bring hard questions.

For example, radios. Radio firmware is something nasty. Give people freedom and you can't believe what you can do with it (Flipper Zero is revolutionary, but even that's a tongue in cheek device). Muck with your airspace and you create a lot of problems. The problem is not technology, but physics. So, unless you prevent things from happening, you can't keep that airspace fair to everybody.

Similar problems are present in pipelines where you need to carry information in a trusted way. In some cases open technology can guarantee this upto a certain point. To cross that point, you need to give your back to hardware. I don't believe there are many hardware security devices with open firmware.

I use MacBooks and iPhones mostly because of the hardware they bring in to the table. I got in these ecosystems knowing what I'm buying into, but I have my personal fleet of Linux desktops and servers, and all the things I develop and publish are Free Software.

I also use Apple devices because I don't want to manage another server esp. in my pocket (because I also manage lots of servers at work, so I want some piece of mind), yet using these devices doesn't change my mind into not supporting Free Software.

At the end, as I commented down there the problem is not the technology itself, but the mindset behind these. We need to change the minds and requirements. The technical changes will follow.
by alwa | 2025-10-29 14:22:28+00:00
I imagine it depends on which country makes that request, its legal basis, and how their gag order is written.

I find it hard to imagine a federal US order wouldn’t proscribe this cute “wink” payment. (Although who knows? If a state or locality takes it upon themselves to raid a bit barn, can their local courts bind transnational payments or is that federal jurisdiction?)

But from the way it’s structured—around a specific amount of currency corresponding to a dialing code of the requesting nation—it sure sounds like they’re thinking more broadly.

I could more easily imagine an opportunistic order—say, from a small neighboring state compelling a local contractor to tap an international cable as it crosses their territory—to accommodate the “winking” disclosure: by being either so loosely drafted or so far removed from the parent company’s jurisdiction as to make the $billions contract worth preserving this way.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-29 14:23:20+00:00
It's a transient state. Food for thought: how much of Linux being a daily driver depends on you having a modern Android or iOS smartphone?

If you need a locked down phone that passes remote attestation to authenticate yourself to a remote service, then whatever you use to access the service UI doesn't really matter: the only device that's necessary to have to use the service is the one you don't fully control, and which gets to control your patterns of use.

An intuition pump I like: imagine you want to put a widget on your desktop that always shows you the current balance of your bank account. You want it to just work ~forever after initial authentication (or at least a couple weeks between any reauth), and otherwise not require any manual interaction. See how hard it is (if it's even possible), and you'll know how badly you're being disempowered already.
by torginus | 2025-10-29 14:23:27+00:00
Unfortunately it's not, and it gets more difficult the more cloud-y your app gets.

You can pay for EC2+EBS+network costs, or you can have a fancy cloud native solution where you pay for Lambda, ALBs, CloudWatch, Metrics, Secret Manager, (things you assume they would just give you, like if you eat at a restaurant, you probably won't expect to pay for the parking, toilet, or paying rent for the table and seats).

So cloud billing is its own science and art - and in most orgs devs don't even know how much the stuff they're building costs, until finance people start complaining about the monthly bills.
by wnevets | 2025-10-29 14:23:38+00:00
> It is absolutely not. People who say it mean what they say. Pointing out that it's a reference to a Stephen Colbert joke is an attempt at retroactively inserting plausible deniability into their intentions after they've been called out for it.

I quoted the joke verbatim. The performative pearl clutchers on HN are very entertaining.
by gspencley | 2025-10-29 14:23:48+00:00
I share your bias, but something to consider is the prevalence of smart phone usage these days, and the fact that reading text on a smart phone can be as awful as trying to watch a video on a desktop when all you want is a quick text summary.

I've always hated the trend of moving towards video as well. But if my desktop was currently in the process of installing the operating system, leaving me without a web browser, and all I have is my phone as a secondary device ... I might actually prefer watching a quick video over trying to read text on a tiny screen and having to pinch zoom and horizontal scroll. Of course this depends a lot on how the text is presented, but in general I think video is easier to absorb on a phone and text is easier to skim / read / zoom / copy-paste on a desktop.
by benterix | 2025-10-29 14:24:17+00:00
So this basically depends on how you intend to use. All big corporations use tons of copyleft software, starting with Linux. But if your aim is to take a piece of software, modify it, and don't share your modifications, and this scenario makes you not to choose this particular project, then yes, the license is working as expected. Whether the net benefit of this is positive or not is another question.
by ogogmad | 2025-10-29 14:24:32+00:00
I think the family tree model of linguistic history is not very useful for English. Saying English is Germanic to the exclusion of everything else is not very useful.

The family tree model seems to assume that every language has only 1 direct ancestor. It seems to have been inspired by phylogenetic trees in biology. In phylogenetics, single-parent trees work fine because distantly related species can't breed with one other. By contrast, different languages borrow features from one another all the time. It could perhaps be useful for some languages, but not for English. I reckon.
by torginus | 2025-10-29 14:25:03+00:00
The weird thing is I'm old enough to have grown up in the pre-cloud world, and most of the stuff, like file servers, proxies, dbs, etc. isn't any more difficult to set up than AWS stuff, it's just that the skills are different

Also there's a mindset difference - if I gave you a server with 32 cores you wouldn't design a microservice system on it, would you? After all there's nowhere to scale to.

But with AWS, you're sold the story of infinite compute you can just expect to be there, but you'll quickly find out just how stingy they can get with giving you more hardware automatically to scale to.

I don't dislike AWS, but I feel this promise of false abundance has driven the growth in complexity and resource use of the backend.

Reality tends to be you hit a bottleneck you have a hard time optimizing away - the more complex your architecture, the harder it is, then you can stew.
by bvisness | 2025-10-29 14:25:17+00:00
To get more precise, we benefit from knowing the nesting depth of each block. This plus reducible control flow is enough to reliably find loops. We also know exactly which edges are loop backedges; it’s easiest when these are explicitly annotated but perhaps it would be possible to derive that info from other loop info. (In Ion we have a dedicated “backedge block” per loop, which makes it obvious what we should do, but which other compilers likely wouldn’t have.)
by WaitWaitWha | 2025-10-29 14:25:51+00:00
to your point, not exactly a one-to-one, but several discount airlines (e.g., RyanAir, PLAY, Allegiant, Frontier, Spirit, Wizz, Flair, AirAsia) already require an app to check in for a flight, or pay a fee. No app (or the horrors, no mobile), it cannot be done on a regular computer, must go to a ticket counter and pay a fee.
by nradov | 2025-10-29 14:26:02+00:00
I have seen Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) work in multiple real program teams. Doing it successfully requires total commitment at multiple levels and many organizations are culturally incapable of making the transitions.

To be clear I am not claiming that SAFe is necessarily the best possible methodology. There is certainly room for improvement. But empirically it can work in real life.
by tpierce89 | 2025-10-29 14:26:18+00:00
I also do similar work and have run tests on many models. I have listed a few here with sample images using one prompt with a single run. I know it isn't a comprehensive review like OP, but it's something. My personal preference through experience is epicRealismXL.

https://imgchest.com/p/xny8e23jpyb
by MisterTea | 2025-10-29 14:26:44+00:00
At work we run a lot of machinery with motors and its obvious when phase loss happens. From my office I can tell if the lights go out/dim and the usual shop "hum" becomes a buzzing grunt that is immediately identifiable. Older machines have to be manually powered down but the machines I rebuilt have phase loss protection in the PLC thanks to a power monitoring terminal in the IO (Beckhoff EL3453.) Since the PLC is on 24V DC I have a capacitor backup module fronted by a 24V PSU that takes the 480V three phase power which tolerates a phase loss. The machine safely stops the process and shuts down the pumps and any other AC loads, then waits to be manually powered off as the PSU and DC side doesn't care.
by odyssey7 | 2025-10-29 14:26:48+00:00
Oh gosh, even with the laws that should provide cover, the pushback you’ll encounter in academia from so many individuals with limited life experience who are trained only to rigidly follow blanket policies.

But if you feel like you won’t speak up because it’s not that bad, remember the next person who will come after you. When you have the capacity to push systems to do better, it’s better for everyone if you exercise it.
by rayiner | 2025-10-29 14:27:17+00:00
Society faces many problems—individuals don’t need to have an opinion as to the causes of all of them. I’m not an education expert, so I can’t tell you what causes lower admissions rates. If you think the reason is universities are discriminating, then it’s incumbent on you to build a case for that. I’m sure I’d support enforcing the laws against discriminatory conduct that you can show is happening. But I’m not going to support indicting people without evidence of wrongdoing.
by jb1991 | 2025-10-29 14:27:28+00:00
I've been doing it that way for years on the free account, never seemed like a bother to me. I usually have a tweak I want to make to the code anyway. But I suppose some might find it inconvenient.

In any case, to say you can't put your own apps on your phone without paying a fee is incorrect, which is the comment I was responding to.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-29 14:28:43+00:00
I read a comment somewhere, possibly here by an ex-Apple engineer who claimed that they optimized the thing mathematically for the performance it exhibits.

So, considering its silicon parts, Rosetta 2 is more of an Apple endeavor and technology.

On the other hand 5-7 years a very typical timespan for Apple. So, I don't think licensing fees were that important while ending support for it.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-10-29 14:28:59+00:00
Focused Ion Beam workstation, decap the relevant IC & probe its internal connections directly. If protected by a mesh, also use the FIB to deposit extra metal to bypass the mesh to make the probe holes. If protected by light sensors, also bypass them. Create glitches by shining highly focused lasers onto specific transistors at specific times. Etc. The sorts of attacks Christopher Tarnovsky did on a bunch of TPMs & talked about at DEFCON.
by SteveChurch | 2025-10-29 14:29:41+00:00
Thanks so much! That is lovely to hear :D - It has been so much joy to work on and having only a 12 second deployment time makes it even more fun to get new features out the door.

Please do join the Discord + Reddit thread, I would very much like to get more Supabase Realtime back into the game if the price was more viable too. I am somewhat of a Supabase fan-boy so being able to say 100% of the backend is powered by SB would be a dream for the game.
by NaomiLehman | 2025-10-29 14:29:48+00:00
that's the thing. latency to RAM is everything. I would take 10x lower bandwidth in RAM vs 100x better latency from CPU to RAM.

The only x86 CPU that does this is the Xeon Max: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...

There are other possible solutions but they are expensive.

the problem with Macs, among other things, is lack of ECC RAM.
by Zigurd | 2025-10-29 14:30:15+00:00
The other side of this coin is that investors of the techno reactionary species love the way Elon splashes around his money on right wing parties in the US and Europe.

Imagine yourself pitching investors and telling them that a humanoid hand for a humanoid robot is going to make an amazing surgeon. Just imagine that. Your potential investor audience no doubt is familiar with existing surgical robots. Do you think they could suppress a laugh while you tell them that. And yet, the big investor class continues to give Tesla a price to earnings ratio above 300.
by saghm | 2025-10-29 14:30:58+00:00
Your argument basically boils down to "kids don't know any better than to use something else than what's pushed on them by the tech conglomerates or be aware that screenshots are a thing". I'm not claiming that there can't possibly be a reason that videos might work better for some people, but I don't think you've made a particularly strong case that you understand their mindset rather than judging them under the guise of claiming that I was the one doing that.
by NoraCodes | 2025-10-29 14:31:09+00:00
Are there actually fewer genuinely unique deviant subcultures out there? Maybe. But I've seen more than one dark corner, all very different, most not very welcoming to outsiders, and none sponsored by MasterCard. There are plenty of places people go where they can't use their real names for fear of losing employment, just like in the bad old days; I think you might just not be spending time in them.
by Multicomp | 2025-10-29 14:31:12+00:00
> that every space must now accept everyone

Okay, this is good answer here because this is more of what I was after. I would initially lay this effect exclusively at the feet of feminism, but I agree now that there are a lot of other movements that could be put into that slot as well.

If we could keep the input focus gains of feminism/$movement while identifying/losing the output-focus overreaches of $movement, I think we would all be better off. Moderation is the key.

Politics jumps in to find that level of moderation, and I've already used all of my 'stir the HN pot' tokens for this month so I will leave further discussion there alone.

Thanks for a good comment that expands the discussion further in the direction I wanted to go but couldn't articulate in my post.