MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abraae | 2025-10-20 20:34:46+00:00
I haven't done any RFP responses for a while but this question always used to make me furious. Our competitors (some of who had had major incidents in the past) claimed 99.99% availability or more, knowing they would never have to prove it, and knowing they were actually 100% until the day they weren't.

We were more honest, and it probably cost us at least once in not getting business.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-20 20:34:56+00:00
I'm not sure I trust the people who get more work to do, more budget and more power out of the beavers being there anymore than I trust the farmers who would be better off with the beavers gone.

A painter will always tell you you need paint.

A roofer will always try and sell you a roof.

A tire shop will always try and sell you tires.

But we can take these people at face value?
by vorpalhex | 2025-10-20 20:35:03+00:00
Well backed RCTs have generally shown >95% of sleep issues are solvable, with sleep hygiene (this means using your bed only for sleep and sex, keeping your room dark and quiet eg no blinking leds, and getting up and getting light exposure if you don't fall asleep in 20 mins) resolving ~70% of cases. Anxiety treatments resolved most of the rest.

You could be in that last 5%! But that is extremely unlikely.

Cut caffeine and alcohol entirely, turn off lamps and hide your phone two hours before bed, read a paper book or write in a paper journal.
by naasking | 2025-10-20 20:35:53+00:00
> FRP "events" are kind of like the kind of signals being discussed here, but there are still big differences.

I don't think the differences are that significant, JS signals are basically `latch(frp-event-stream)`, eg. FRP events yield edge-triggered systems and JS signals yield level-triggered systems, and latches transform edge-triggered to level triggered.

I understand why people can see JS signals as FRP behaviours though, as both have defined values at all times t, but the evaluation model is more like FRP events (push-based reactivity), so I think edge vs. level triggered is the real difference, and these are interconvertible without loss of information.

IIRC, the FRP literature calls both of them "signals" as a general category, just two different types.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-10-20 20:36:06+00:00
Maybe better tooling to manage both? My $DAYJOB builds systems where we use Qt as the Linux GUI, with real-time processing outsourced to a microcontroller and the toolkit on that side is usually IAR. It's a pretty common configuration across industry, TBH.

My first thought is that they can extend Qt's test library to also manage test data across a pipe to the embedded processor.
by sunrunner | 2025-10-20 20:36:06+00:00
> but with good observability I am guessing the business notices it more when performance drags for the other 8742 hours of the year

This is really good point that aligns with my experience. Today's event was LOUD and (compared to other incidents) long, but perhaps not really that long compared to the situation you describe that for most businesses is going to be more pernicious.

Business intelligence and analytics-type folks at $DAYJOB are _very_ watchful for the year-on-year deviations and even periods where the prediction lines didn't match up for even just a few hours.
by mmaunder | 2025-10-20 20:36:18+00:00
Have tried all and continue to eval regularly. I spend up to 14 hours a day. Currently recovering from a herniated disk because I spent 6 weeks sitting at a dining room table, 14 hours a day, leaning foward. Don't do that. lol. So my coverage is pretty good. I'm using GPT5-codex-high for 99% of my work. Also I have a team of 40 folks, about a third of which are software engineers and the other third are cybersecurity analysts, so I get feedback from them too and we go deep on our engineering calls re the latest learnings and capabilities.
by NewsaHackO | 2025-10-20 20:36:34+00:00
Nope, proven wrong upthread :)

>A recent article[1] from this year says "OpenAI looks to meet its full-year revenue target of $13 billion and a cash-burn target of $8.5 billion, the report added."

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-first-half-revenu...
by mordymoop | 2025-10-20 20:36:41+00:00
I'm on the same page here. I have seen this sentiment about Codex suddenly being good a few times now, so I booted Codex CLI thinking-high back up after a break and asked it to look for bugs. It promptly found five bugs that didn't actually exist. It was the kind of truly impressively stupid mistake that I haven't seen Claude Code make essentially ever, and made me wonder if this isn't the sort of thing that's making people downplay the power of LLMs for agentic coding.
by bamboozled | 2025-10-20 20:36:45+00:00
The three you mentioned have over 60% market share which is why this article exists at all. Knowing what I know about cloud ifnra, anyone who is actually anyone is hosting on the big three. So it's not just a market share, it's market share + impact / importance.

You could also argue that YT is on GCP (to some level) and that would probably bump that number up much higher.

The vast majority of people hosting things on the internet are on these providers. But you get downvoted for pointing that out now.
by corimaith | 2025-10-20 20:37:09+00:00
>History has shown that withholding technology from China does not significantly stop them and they'll achieve it (or better) in a small number of years.

I don't think you can really produce a definite counterfactual that they would or wouldn't have taken longer or shorter without it, but certainly they were pushing for self sufficiency long before technology restrictions. But we're not going to be handing our technologies to our competitors on a silver platter, and it's also best for businesses to start weaning themselves off the Chiinese market. Virtually every market reliant on them today is in big trouble.

As for hubris, I think that's more a projection of your part if you want to start bringing up race cards with regards to contributions, that kind of argument would be applicable to everyone. And AI research is highly diverse and international, Chinese names don't dominate the list more than Turks, Greeks, Malaysians, etc.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-10-20 20:37:15+00:00
'''Our key insight is that many everyday social interactions may follow predictable patterns; efficient "scripts" that minimize cognitive load for actors and observers, e.g., "wait for the green light, then go." We propose modeling these routines as behavioral programs instantiated in computer code rather than policies conditioned on beliefs and desires. ''' yet, as far as I can tell, did not cite the relevant literature.
by MiiMe19 | 2025-10-20 20:37:25+00:00
First, you failed to read past the first entry in my list of reasons, second you still do not seem to understand what I am saying. You tell me about how half the population of the country that I live in is poorly educated, stupid, and arrogant while you probably do not even live there and then tell me I remind you of a rapist because of that. You do not seem to notice that, if what you are saying is true, you come off as all of those things as well (not the rapist part though lol) because you are doing the exact same thing that I am, talking about something you have little to no direct experience in.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-20 20:37:46+00:00
>Individuals must have a complete context for the environment in which they operate in order to build "correctly." Permit reviews, building codes etc. codify that context so that builders don't need to carry the entire system context, even if they could, which often they can't.

What a backwards explanation. I've seen straighter shooting logic from politicians.

If not for the complex "system" these people would not have all this complex context to track. The system literally makes work that would not exist by being complex.

> And as a result, buildings don't randomly fall over or catch fire with nearly the same frequency as they used to

And we are just supposed to believe that this is the regulatory system and nothing to do with technological advances in materials and methods.

It's not like there's a control group. For all we know if one existed it may have done better and the system is slowing advancement rather than mandating it.
by Arathorn | 2025-10-20 20:38:00+00:00
In Matrix 2.0, all calls are group capable (much like Matrix itself doesn’t specialcase DMs - they are just rooms with 2 people). So yes, no coturn is needed.

We haven’t got as far as interop between legacy Matrix 1:1 calling and Matrix 2.0 style MatrixRTC though, which I can see being annoying - but overall the admin burden should be simpler than running a coturn.

We’ll update the synapse docs to explain that coturn isn’t needed for MatrixRTC calls.
by zb3 | 2025-10-20 20:38:03+00:00
Populism is when people get what they vote for, as opposed to "democracy" where parties don't actually implement what they promise. "Democracy" is when the government thinks people are idiots and shouldn't be listened to because the "elite" knows better.

So if you vote based on your happiness and thigs you care about as opposed to voting to optimize the "GDP", then you're a populist voter.

And if you get what you want (instead of increased GDP at all costs) then the government is populist.

And if then you're happy, then you're a fascist.
by fxtentacle | 2025-10-20 20:38:08+00:00
I call bullshit on this: "The attacker is using a public blockchain - immutable, decentralized, impossible to take down - as their C2 server."

"There's no hosting provider to contact, no registrar to pressure, no infrastructure to shut down. The Solana blockchain just... exists. "

Yes, but you still need to connect to it. Blocking access to *.solana.com is enough to stop the trojan from accessing its 2nd stage.

"Connections to Solana RPC nodes look completely normal. Security tools won't flag it. "

Then your security tools are badly configured. Lots of crypto traffic should be treated as a red flag in almost any corporate environment.

"there's literally no way to take it down"

There is, you just have to accept that Solana goes down with it. Why is A-OK in a work environment.
by hansmayer | 2025-10-20 20:38:22+00:00
> I mean, let's be honest there. This is much different than the blockchain bubble, in which 2/3 of the population is actually utilizing or interacting with AI daily.

You do remember that by the time the blockchain bubble burst, literally everyone and their mother were "interacting" with it?

> AI will/has fundamentally changed how we work in the matter of 3 years

For people in bullshit jobs creating workslops, yes its probably an absolute blessing. Enjoy it while it lasts.
by nawgz | 2025-10-20 20:38:47+00:00
Cool write-up. Seems pretty unintuitive to me that Unicode would allow someone to serialize normal code as invisible characters and that something like an IDE or a git diff has never been hardened against that at all.

In my mind it's one thing to let a string control whitespace a bit versus having the ability to write any string in a non-renderable format. Can anyone point me to some more information about why this capability even exists?
by legitster | 2025-10-20 20:39:05+00:00
If they were having an active anaphylactic reaction, they should have gone to the ER, not trying to buy an Epipen. Even when an Epipen is administered as directed, it is only to buy time to get to the hospital.

> The idea that everything the body does is harmless natural magic that should be allowed to run it's course is killing people.

Not sure where you got this from my point that the risk is overemphasized.
by lherron | 2025-10-20 20:39:37+00:00
Still a toss-up for me which one I use. For deep work Codex (codex-high) is the clear winner, but when you need to knock out something small Claude Code (sonnet) is a workhorse.

Also CC tool usage is so much better! Many, many times I’ve seen Codex writing a python script to edit a file which seems to bypass the diff view so you don’t really know what’s going on.
by lysecret | 2025-10-20 20:39:40+00:00
Just played around with it the fact it’s on the phone is a big bonus.

I have setup a little workflow where given linear tags it sets up a work tree on my dev box installs deps and starts the implementation so I can take it over I prefer this workflow to the fully managed cloud based solutions.

This kind of fits in for issues where I’m basically sure I won’t have to take it over (and it can do it fully on its own). Which aren’t that many.

Very simple example there was a warning pop up on something where I thought there shouldn’t be now it’s done fully automatically from my phone in 5 mins. I quite like that these small changes become so easy.
by compootr | 2025-10-20 20:39:40+00:00
I still think this is an acceptable footgun (?) to have. The expressiveness of downloading an image tag with a domain included outweighs potential miscommunication issues.

For example, if you're on a team and you have documentation containing commands, but your docker config is outdated, you can accidentally pull from docker's global public registry.

A welcome change IMO would be removing global registries entirely, since it just makes it easier to tell where your image is coming from (but I severely doubt docker would ever consider this since it makes it fractionally easier to use their services)
by danaris | 2025-10-20 20:39:47+00:00
You have posted a link to a question asking about it that does not actually appear to have a valid answer provided. Someone mentions using F2 (which does not change the Enter behavior), and someone talks about using some third-party utility to globally remap Enter, which is definitely not a good way to do that (as they even point out).

Again, I'm willing to believe that it may be possible—but you have not provided any evidence thereof.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-10-20 20:40:01+00:00
The more I read and learn about people's experience with art and literature, the more I'm impressed with the pervasiveness of a certain unspoken belief: that there is a metaphysical essence that accompanies a work that cannot be be produced by a computer.

It's artistic essentialism, and similar to copyright, evokes a sense of "what color are your bits."[1]

1. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-20 20:40:05+00:00
I suspect by "note what it leaves out" you are referring to, e.g. unpaid work like caregiving and household labor, as well as inequality and environmental costs.

I would point out that GDP also has shortcomings in that it does not measure well-being directly (happiness, mental health, life satisfaction) nor does it account for non-economic quality of life factors like political stability, personal freedom, safety or social cohesion.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-20 20:40:41+00:00
The moot question isn't what will happen after Earth receives and confirms an alien signal.

The question is moot, because any alien species advanced enough to send directed signals across solar systems, can and will reach, overwhelm and subsume Earth with ease, once we Earthlings manage to contact such aliens.

And if such events happened in the past, that might explain a few interesting notions we humans tend to have.

"Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God." ~Shermer's last law

But what if that was their intention from the very beginning? What if Earth itself is just yet another alien farm?

What if Earth's beautiful and bountiful life (flora and fauna) was the result of terraforming, by aliens, but indirectly using spores tacked onto cosmic flying objects (comets, meteors, asteroids) that they knew will cross such solar systems and crash into inhabitable planets on some not so random chance?

Abiogenesis is the emergence of life from nonliving organics. It is the leading theory regarding how life spawned on Earth, but it is being questioned due to recent evidence.

Conditions for Life: For life to exist, certain conditions must be met. These include:

* Presence of Water: Essential for biochemical reactions. * Organic Compounds: Building blocks like carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen are crucial. * Energy Source: Sunlight or geothermal energy can drive life processes.

Evidence and Research: While no definitive evidence of extraterrestrial life has been found, scientists continue to explore environments on other planets, such as Mars and Europa, which may harbor conditions suitable for life. The study of extremophiles on Earth—organisms that thrive in harsh conditions—provides insights into how life might exist elsewhere in the universe

One prominent theory regarding the extraterrestrial origin of life is Panspermia.

The Panspermia Hypothesis suggests that life, or the building blocks of life, may have been transported to Earth via comets, asteroids, or space dust.

There are several forms of panspermia:

* Naturalistic Panspermia: Life evolves on another planet and is ejected into space, eventually landing on Earth.

* Directed Panspermia: Intelligent beings from another planet intentionally send life to Earth.

* Intelligent Design Panspermia: Life is designed and seeded by extraterrestrial intelligences.

I believe Earth life is the result of Natural Panspermia. But if SETI or other observatories detect and confirm alien signal, then Directed Panspermia might be our origin.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a66036689/a-scientist...
by WXLCKNO | 2025-10-20 20:40:46+00:00
I agree with this and actually Claude Code agrees with it too. I've had Codex cli (gpt-5-codex high) and claude code 4.5 sonnet (and sometimes opus 4.1) do the same lengthier task with the same prompt in cloned folders about 10x now and then I ask them to review the work in the other folder and determine who did the best job.

100% of the time Codex has done a far better job according to both Codex and Claude Code when reviewing. Meeting all the requirements where Claude would leave things out, do them lazily or badly and lose track overall.

Codex high just feels much smarter and more capable than Claude currently and even though it's quite a bit slower, it's work that I don't have to go over again and again to get it to the standards I want.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-10-20 20:40:56+00:00
Replying to this post because the thread's getting too deep.

What was painful about switching to web tech for UI? I've proposed it at work a few times for exactly the same reasons: get away from Qt and ease of finding developers. Since our GUIs all run on Linux (we usually do the realtime stuff on an external ARM processor) it seemed like an easy transition, but I've been shot down every time.

Would be nice to hear what the downsides are.
by judahmeek | 2025-10-20 20:40:57+00:00
I recall reading that when the costs of distribution (but not the costs of discoverability) are low, generally you end up with a power law sort of distribution of consumers to providers, where provider #1 has exponentially more market share than provider #2 and provider #2 has exponentially more market share than provider #3, #4, etc.

Examples of this are Windows/Mac, McDonalds/Burger King, Playstation/Xbox, Nvidia/?, AWS/Azure?, Android/iPhone, etc...

Basically, the majority of users all using the same dependency/platform/product is basic economics.
by Hizonner | 2025-10-20 20:41:00+00:00
> Mostly agree, but some people do consult religious texts for work.

Well, sure, if you're a priest/rabbi/pastor/imam/whatever (why isn't there a generic word for this?), you're going to consult religious texts for work.

And if you're a game critic, you'll play games for work.

And if you work at Pornhub, you'll presumably watch porn for work.

Normal jobs don't involve any of them. Presumably we're talking about the norm.

> not as unambiguous as say, 18+ content

I will not take the easy bait. I will not take the easy bait. I will not take the easy bait...
by ghawr | 2025-10-20 20:41:02+00:00
This is not a serious person.

Taken from the About page:

Who are you? Hi, I'm the author. I've been dabbling in investing since 2015 and I decided to get more serious about it in 2023.

Is this financial advice? No. In fact, everything you read here is be half-baked by design. If it were fully-baked, then I wouldn't have felt the need to write about it in order to distill my thoughts.
by exceptione | 2025-10-20 20:41:46+00:00
> Seems like the definition is "when people dont vote the way I like".

You should give the message another try, sincerely. It might come across like that if the environment has become a polarized world, where it is not about policy, but about the tribe one identifies with. I guess you are sick of that, and I am sure the author doesn't mean anything like that.

What he talks are real world consequences if politics doesn't concern itself with policy for the people, but rather focuses on the bare quest for maximum of power, often helped by the 0.01%, by deliberately misleading people, usually to advance the interests of those 0.01%, and so getting the populus to vote against their own interests. That phenomenon is known and measurable, as the article demonstrates.
by maxboone | 2025-10-20 20:42:31+00:00
That's not the definition, the definition of populism w.r.t. this paper is well defined. It is literally on page 2:

> We benefited greatly from the fact that the academic literature of recent years has converged on a consensus definition of populism that is easily applicable across space and time and for right-wing and left-wing populists alike. According to today’s workhorse definition, populism is defined as a political style centered on the supposed struggle of “people vs. the establishment” (Mudde 2004). Populists place the narrative of “people vs. elites” at the center of their political agenda and then claim to be the sole representative of “the people.” This definition has become increasingly dominant, and is now also widely used by economists (see Section 2, and the recent survey paper by Guriev and Papaioannou, 2020). Populist leaders claim to represent the “true, common people” against the dishonest “elites,” thus separating society into two seemingly homogeneous and antagonistic groups.
by Johnny555 | 2025-10-20 20:42:34+00:00
I'm not surprised, I used to work for a cloud SaaS provider, everything we had ran on Linux, everyone in the office ran on Macs and Google Docs.

Then as we grew the finance team, they found that Google Docs couldn't handle the spreadsheets they needed, and even Excel on Mac wasn't compatible.

So, the Finance team started running VM's where they could run Windows and native Excel. Then as they grew (in size and power) they found themselves using the VM so much that they started moving from Mac to Windows laptops. Then as our windows footprint grew, more and more departments started requesting Windows.

When I left around 25% of the ~1000 person company was on Windows (almost all on the corporate admin side, engineering remained overwhelmingly on Mac), and the Windows support team was twice as large as the team that managed the Mac infrastructure.
by margalabargala | 2025-10-20 20:42:52+00:00
From the article:

> There are obviously countless issues in any analysis of this type, like how a populist government is defined, how you do the counterfactual, how you ensure you are not getting reverse causality (i.e. bad economic times encourage the election of populists etc) and so on. For those interested in those issues the paper is very readable.

Did you read the paper in question?