MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by the_other | 2025-10-20 13:22:17+00:00
This wording caught my attention:

> have to come up with names for one-off element-specific styles

You never have to “name styles”. You have to identify the target element as different from other similar ones. There’s a subtle difference. I wonder if acknowledgement of that difference leads developers to pick different tools to help them manage their CSS.

> have to jump between multiple files for their pseudo, colour scheme-specific and responsive styling.

I’m gonna infer from this you’ve worked on large CSS codebases and know what you’re doing. I’m not trying to discourage you from whatever your doing: use Tailwind if it helps.

I’m just really interested in the problems and mental models that lead people towards Tailwind and similar tools. I’ve never felt drawn to them, despite also feeling the pain of sprawling CSS codebases. (I’ve worked on legacy CSS files so large that versions of IE stopped parsing them; I’ve refactored CSS repeated-but-not-quite across multiple teams’ reimplenetations of the main menu widget, etc).
by Muromec | 2025-10-20 13:22:25+00:00
Just a reminder, that Red Cross (for example) uses whatever current catastrophe or war to raise donations even if they don't actually do anything there, don't have access, or do pure stunts like partnership with coca-cola to truck bottled water to a city on a river with functioning tap water system.

Don't blindly throw money to feel good when people who you this kind of ads, check what they actually do.
by randallsquared | 2025-10-20 13:23:23+00:00
I've read that a number of times, but this is the first time since the rise of vibe engineering.

> I predict that no tool of any kind which too greatly amplifies the productivity of an individual will ever be permitted to most developers.

There's a new essay in here, somewhere, about why copilot and AI coding is succeeding at bridging this gap.
by falcor84 | 2025-10-20 13:23:23+00:00
That's a good point, but I'd just s/Amazon engineers/AWS leadership/ , as I'm pretty sure that there's a few layers of management removed between the engineers on the ground at AWS, those who deprioritise any longer-term resilience work needed (which is a very strategic decisioN), and those those who are in charge of external comms/education about best practices for AWS customers.
by sgarland | 2025-10-20 13:23:38+00:00
> APIs that don’t do what they document

Oh god, this. At my company, we found a bug recently with rds.describe_events, which we needed to read binlog information after a B/G cutover. The bug, which AWS support “could not see the details of,” was that events would non-deterministically not show up if you were filtering by instance name. Their recommended fix was to pull in all events for the past N minutes, and do client-side filtering.

This was on top of the other bug I had found earlier, which was that despite the docs stating that you can use a B/G as a filter - a logical choice when querying for information directly related to the B/G you just cut over - doing so returns an empty set. Also, you can’t use a cluster (again, despite docs stating otherwise), you have to use the new cluster’s writer instance.
by segmondy | 2025-10-20 13:23:54+00:00
may backfire? it's a bit too late for that.

go to 2024, western labs were crushing it.

it's now 2025, and from china, we have deepseek, qwen, kimi, glm, ernie and many more capable models keeping up with western labs. there are actually now more chinese labs releasing sota models than western labs.
by thebytefairy | 2025-10-20 13:24:08+00:00
You would go back to an old vulnerability infested OS that nobody builds for anymore instead of dealing with a UI change every few years? I have elderly parents on windows 11 and they've been fine, as long as the browser works, outlook loads, and they can scan and print (and tbh a Chromebook may be even better for non techy folks)
by bluGill | 2025-10-20 13:25:52+00:00
Air is the only substance that compresses to any significant amount. When you apply pressure to a battery from one side it may deform, but I would expect that the battery wouldn't be crushed because the pressure is from all sides - unless of course there is air in the battery - I'm not a battery chemist so take everything I say with some salt.

Note that I would expect water to seep into a battery at this pressure and that will cause all kinds of issues - including chemical fires underwater. Just not crushed batteries.
by throw0101d | 2025-10-20 13:26:13+00:00
> imagine if the electricity supplier too that stance.

Imagine if the cloud supplier was actually as important as the electricity supplier.

But since you mention it, there are instances of this and provisions for getting back up and running:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
by lproven | 2025-10-20 13:26:37+00:00
Well, you do you, and indeed, the entire community is free to do as it wishes.

What I find surprising is that there are multiple entire Amiga-themed Linux distros – for example:

https://www.commodoreos.net/CommodoreOS.aspx

I reviewed it. I was not very impressed.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/commodore_os_3/

And ones which put an Amiga emulator front and centre:

https://cubiclenate.com/pimiga/

https://wilkiecat.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/pimiga4-by-chris-...

(Which I looked at, but decided that there wasn't enough here to review.)

And new hardware like the A1200NG:

https://www.a1200.com/index.php/the-a1200-ng/

Which is an Arm board running Linux running a full-screen Amiga emulator.

And AROS Portable:

https://arosnews.github.io/aros-portable/

Which I also reviewed:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/aros_live/

Given this visible interest in running Amiga stuff on Linux and integrating AmigaOS (and AROS) I am very surprised that in ~30 years, nothing has progressed beyond a simple window manager.

Intuition isn't that big or complicated. It's already been recreated several times over, in MorphOS and in AROS.

I am so tired of seeing Linux desktops that are just another inferior recreation of Win95.

I want to see something different and this seems such an obvious candidate to me.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-10-20 13:27:10+00:00
I've been in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica.

The streets are flooded with cheap Chinese cars and I see more BYD than American cars. If the car wasn't made in Japan or Korea which probably account for most of the cars, it was likely made in China. Moreover, I haven't been in countries with the closest ties to China.
by pakostina | 2025-10-20 13:27:29+00:00
If the content piece is well done, you shouldn’t be able to tell it was AI-assisted. And if it’s valuable, you shouldn’t really care how it was made. You probably don't want mediocre content at all. But mediocrity existed long before AI. But when you use AI with a critical mind, as part of a thinking process, it can actually push your ideas further than your own perspective alone. That's what I argue in the article.
by acdha | 2025-10-20 13:27:49+00:00
Think about the change we saw in combat death tolls when things went from flintlock muskets to machine guns, or when battleships gave way to aircraft, and how many people died unnecessarily due to the generals who were slow to update their tactics. Deepfakes are like that because they lower the cost and improve the success rates enough to be transformative and they cause harm which can’t easily be countered. We’re not going to instantly train society to be better at media literacy and the police can’t just ignore reports of sex crimes, so we’re just having to accept that it’s easier to hurt people than it used to be.
by zdragnar | 2025-10-20 13:28:34+00:00
Plenty of things are illegal for no reason other than they might cause harm. Speed limit laws on roads, fire hazard regulations in buildings, negligent discharge of a firearm, etc

They tend to civil, rather than criminal, offenses, at least up until a certain level of severity or until they actually cause harm.

The tricky bit with the corporations you mention is that responsibility becomes diffuse, unless there is concrete evidence of a direct order to violate the law. What you're basically asking for is to make people into scapegoats because it feels good, not because there's actual justice involved.
by tom1337 | 2025-10-20 13:29:10+00:00
IAM control plane for example:

> There is one IAM control plane for all commercial AWS Regions, which is located in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. The IAM system then propagates configuration changes to the IAM data planes in every enabled AWS Region. The IAM data plane is essentially a read-only replica of the IAM control plane configuration data.

and I believe some global services (like certificate manager, etc.) also depend on the us-east-1 region

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/disaster-re...
by d_burfoot | 2025-10-20 13:29:30+00:00
I think AWS should use, and provide as an offering to big customers, a Chaos Monkey tool that randomly brings down specific services in specific AZs. Example: DynamoDB is down in us-east-1b. IAM is down in us-west-2a.

Other AWS services should be able to survive this kind of interruption by rerouting requests to other AZs. Big company clients might also want to test against these kinds of scenarios.
by solumunus | 2025-10-20 13:29:58+00:00
Over 90% of my optionals have their own tables and it’s the cleanest and most maintainable database I’ve ever worked with. I will always design databases this way going forward. That’s my experience.

I remember working on ERP systems with 40+ column tables, most of which were null. With no clear constraints on which options should or shouldn’t enable or make mandatory other options. This becomes incredibly obvious and natural when you group in additional tables.

My tables are incredibly concise and the cache loves this.
by ivolimmen | 2025-10-20 13:30:00+00:00
Yeah I know of it's existence but I always forgot how the interface in aptitude works. It is not intuitive for me. I prefer apt for command line. 99% of the time I mostly use 'apt install x' and that is it. Changing a package to a specific version and other really niche stuff I will use synapic for. With this tool I can actually search and install and that is really nice. When I do not know the name of a package I needed to switch from command line to synapic as I do not know all commands to do so from the command line and that breaks my flow. One should not need to know all different options by heart of package manager on the command line, and with this I do not need to.
by robin_reala | 2025-10-20 13:30:14+00:00
The reasonable solution to this is to legally require every single image and video (or at least those used in commercial / charitable / public sector / journalistic settings) to be marked with a flag indicating the level of amendment. If it’s untouched apart from cropping / colour grading etc no mark needed. If it’s had some touch-up work require that to be flagged at minimum in the image metadata. And if large chunks or all of it has been imagined by an AI, require a visible watermark along with metadata tagging.

Yes, this would require government regulation. That’s a good thing here, and is what regulation should be used for: requiring the things that the market won’t adjust for.
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-10-20 13:30:33+00:00
>The idea you can click your way to a highly available, production configured anything in AWS - especially involving Dynamo, IAM and Lambda

With some services I'd agree with you, but DynamoDB and Lambda are easily two of their 'simplest' to configure and understand services, and two of the ones that scale the easiest. IAM roles can be decently complicated, but that's really up to the user. If it's just 'let the Lambda talk to the table' it's simple enough.

S3/SQS/Lambda/DynamoDB are the services that I'd consider the 'barebones' of the cloud. If you don't have all those, you're not a cloud provider, your just another server vendor.
by 112233 | 2025-10-20 13:30:35+00:00
Fixed local model? Maybe. An online service like google, chatgpt or whatsapp? No you cannot. It does not matter how well you are aware of risks, symptoms and effects of psychological self-manipulation by current batch of models. All it takes is either an update or one lapse in your psysec procedures, and you will get to observe from front seat your personality getting dismantled and corroded.

No safe dosage.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-20 13:30:36+00:00
Because you ignored on purpose the at() method.

https://godbolt.org/z/6PY1ve8ev

Or to use one of the beloved compiler extensions,

https://godbolt.org/z/6KKjcM7bP

Additionally these extensions are now part of C++ as soon C++26 gets ratified, given that P3471R4 has been accepted.

Whereas in C that isn't even an option.
by lproven | 2025-10-20 13:31:01+00:00
I happily defer. I've reread the trilogy 6 times now and they do all blur together a bit.

You look to be right:

https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/space-elevator

And I'm not the only one to notice the cross-reference:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kimstanleyrobinson/comments/pv6zh9/...
by _def | 2025-10-20 13:31:07+00:00
I think these two topics need to be looked at a bit separately, similar to for example WhatsApp, where you have e2ee but there are still lots of privacy risks.

In the matrix ecosystem, as far as I understand, having only one user from the matrix.org homeserver in your room already undermines metadata privacy to some degree. Also, there still are issues with decrypting messages from time to time with certain combinations of clients, rooms and homeservers, which effectively means that the "failsafe" option for getting messages across the network is using unencrypted rooms.

Having free, secure, federated, usable instant messaging is still not solved imho, and I think it's not easy to solve. So far matrix is the best attempt in my book, but it's also not there (yet?).
by resoluteteeth | 2025-10-20 13:31:17+00:00
One thing that's interesting to me is that a lot of the ai-generated images shown in the screenshot of the stock image site seem like they are emulating the style of national geographic photographer Steve McCurry who has had some controversy due to editing his images and also allegedly has staged images (which is something that you aren't supposed to do for documentary photography), and also I think has been criticized as feeding into stereotypes about different places.

So it's like there is a certain genre of photograph that is what people have come to associate with poverty in developing countries that may not be realistic in the first place, and then as an additional level of detachment from reality, ai is then reproducing the conventions of that genre without even involving real people or places.
by adzm | 2025-10-20 13:31:52+00:00
From the blog at https://servo.org/blog/2025/10/20/servo-0.0.1-release/

> Today, the Servo team has released new versions of the servoshell binaries for all our supported platforms, tagged v0.0.1. These binaries are essentially the same nightly builds that were already available from the download page with additional manual testing, now tagging them explicitly as releases for future reference.

> We plan to publish such a tagged release every month. For now, we are adopting a simple release process where we will use a recent nightly build and perform additional manual testing to identify issues and regressions before tagging and publishing the binaries.

> There are currently no plans to publish these releases on crates.io or platform-specific app stores. The goal is just to publish tagged releases on GitHub.
by datameta | 2025-10-20 13:32:24+00:00
While your disambiguation is valid, they very much wanted to minimize the potential fallout from individuals staying in, say, a Norwegian hotel and sampling the local culture only to return and speak fondly of said trip "beyond the curtain". Usually this was outweighed by the national prestige (and subsequent propaganda opportunity) from having a Soviet Nobel recepient but the KGB had an extremely heavy hand in deciding who got to go, regardless of scientific breakthrough.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-20 13:32:25+00:00
One thing has become quite clear to me over the years. Much of the thinking around uptime of information systems has become hyperbolic and self-serving.

There are very few businesses that genuinely cannot handle an outage like this. The only examples I've personally experienced are payment processing and semiconductor manufacturing. A severe IT outage in either of these businesses is an actual crisis. Contrast with the South Korean government who seems largely unaffected by the recent loss of an entire building full of machines with no backups.

I've worked in a retail store that had a total electricity outage and saw virtually no reduction in sales numbers for the day. I have seen a bank operate with a broken core system for weeks. I have never heard of someone actually cancelling a subscription over a transient outage in YouTube, Spotify, Netflix, Steam, etc.

The takeaway I always have from these events is that you should engineer your business to be resilient to the real tradeoff that AWS offers. If you don't overreact to the occasional outage and have reasonable measures to work around for a day or 2, it's almost certainly easier and cheaper than building a multi cloud complexity hellscape or dragging it all back on prem.

Thinking in terms of competition and game theory, you'll probably win even if your competitor has a perfect failover strategy. The cost of maintaining a flawless eject button for an entire cloud is like an anvil around your neck. Every IT decision has to be filtered through this axis. When you can just slap another EC2 on the pile, you can run laps around your peers.
by jccc | 2025-10-20 13:32:56+00:00
Was wondering the same the moment I posted.

Here’s what appears to be the prior version from archive.ph, which does align more with the submitted hed:

Authorities are now considering whether a falling object, possibly from space, caused damage to the windshield and frame on a United 737 MAX over Colorado on Thursday. Various reports that include watermarked photos of the damage suggest the plane was struck by a falling object not long after taking off from Denver for Los Angeles. One of the photos shows a pilot’s arm peppered with small cuts and scratches. In his remarks after the incident, the captain reportedly described the object that hit the plane as “space debris,” which would suggest it was from a rocket or satellite or some other human-made object. Some reports say it was possibly a meteorite.

Whatever hit the plane, it was an enormously rare event and likely the first time it’s ever happened. The plane diverted without incident to Salt Lake City where the approximately 130 passengers were put on another plane to finish the last half of the 90-minute flight. Apparently only one layer of the windshield was damaged, and there was no depressurization. The crew descended from 36,000 feet to 26,000 feet for the diversion, likely to ease the pressure differential on the remaining layers of windshield. Neither the airline nor FAA have commented.

Would be nice to update the HN hed though.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-20 13:32:57+00:00
She was fairly big, in the 1970s (I’m old). She played Archie Bunker’s daughter, in All in the Family.

Famous for her “whining” ads: https://youtu.be/bGTEKWRLJuQ

In some of them, she would be walking around in a destitute village, looking disgusted. Terrible ads.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-20 13:33:01+00:00
Can you suggest some mathematical reasoning that would apply?

If P(1 more minute | 1 minute so far) = x, then why would P(1 more minute | 2 minutes so far) < x?

Of course, P(it will last for 2 minutes total | 2 minutes elapsed) = 0, but that can only increase the probabilities of any subsequent duration, not decrease them.
by bluGill | 2025-10-20 13:33:07+00:00
I find notes useful only in that they need to try to to figure out what to write next keeps me from daydreaming. I have dysgraphia so there is no hope I can read any notes latter, nor is there hope that I could possibly transcribe what is said word for words so I'm looking for the main points - which is what is most commonly recommended you write down.
by padjo | 2025-10-20 13:33:10+00:00
My experience is that very few companies actually need those 9s. A company might say they need them, but if you dig in it turns out the impact on the business of dropping a 9 (or two) is far less than the cost of developing and maintaining an elaborate multi-cloud backup plan that will both actually work when needed and be fast enough to maintain the desired availability.

Again, of course there are exceptions, but advising people in general that they should think about what happens if AWS goes offline for good seems like poor engineering to me. It’s like designing every bridge in your country to handle a tomahawk missile strike.
by freeqaz | 2025-10-20 13:33:13+00:00
These are the best additional bits of information that I can find to share with you if you're curious to read more about Snap and what they did. (They were spending $400m per year on GCP which was famously disclosed in their S-1 when they IPO'd)

0: https://chrpopov.medium.com/scaling-cloud-infrastructure-5c6...

1: https://eng.snap.com/monolith-to-multicloud-microservices-sn...
by Yizahi | 2025-10-20 13:33:20+00:00
So, the cheapest Macbook Air 2025 (MW123, 16/256) is 1140 USD in Europe.

For that price I see multiple gaming 15-16" laptops with good CPU and GPU in the range of 4060-5050 mobile, same memory 16Gb and more storage. With 144-165 Hz FHD gaming displays.

Next I see Vivobook 15" with OLED HiDPI display, top Intel CPU and again more storage.

Yet another smaller Vivobook 14" with weight the same as Mac, good Intel CPU, FHD OLED, more storage again.

Zenbook 14", good Intel CPU, OLED HiDPI screen, even lower weight, more storage.

HP with Snapdragon X Elite CPU is also in the same range, HiDPI screen, low weight.

Basically there are around half a thousand SKUs in that price range (+-50$) and I wouldn't call them mid range really. There many laptops with top CPUs, top GPUs (for that weight) and top display panels.

And I'm not even comparing high memory models. Kit out your Macbook with more RAM and more storage, clearly made out of unobtanium and unicorn tears, and comparison to x86 will fail completely.
by DanHulton | 2025-10-20 13:33:27+00:00
I forget where I read it originally, but I strongly feel that AWS should offer a `us-chaos-1` region, where every 3-4 days, one or two services blow up. Host your staging stack there and you build real resiliency over time.

(The counter joke is, of course, "but that's `us-east-1` already! But I mean deliberately and frequently.)
by trentnix | 2025-10-20 13:33:49+00:00
The idea that the owners of "brownfield" land (either undeveloped or in disrepair) might have taken advantage of tax loopholes to avoid a tax penalty is ridiculous? I see why they pay you the big bucks.

The map shows numerous parcels in metropolitan Houston classified as "Ag" property. The devil is in the details, but the map justifies (and encourages) closer inspection.
by Alex-C137 | 2025-10-20 13:33:50+00:00
“They are so racialised. They should never even let those be published because it’s like the worst stereotypes about Africa, or India, or you name it,” said Alenichev.

This is a problem and always has been with AI, people have been saying this for at least a decade at this point. Type in "photorealistic picture of child in refugee camp" in any AI that lets you.