MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reactordev | 2025-10-14 19:35:31+00:00
Yes yes it’s the children’s fault. We didn’t hold them to high standards. We didn’t… give me a break.

It’s declining because media is shifting. It’s declining because tools are replacing that need. Smartphones yes but more advanced computers as well. Communication has increased in speed and people have never had more access to speech platforms to spread whatever diatribe they wish. Test scores that test one’s general knowledge are going to show gaps as we specialize.
by xmprt | 2025-10-14 19:35:42+00:00
If you hire hammer experts then you're going to end up using a lot of hammers in your construction. The Azure experts aren't pitching Azure because they're trying to sell more Azure products. They do it because that's all they know and most likely because you don't know it so you'll be likely to come back to them for support when things inevitably need to evolve.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-14 19:35:53+00:00
Despite their wishes, most people won't become millionaires. The part you can control is your own lifestyle. For the average person, this means your lifestyle will have more impact on your longevity than wishful thinking about one day being a multi-millionaire who can hire doctors to fix the problems you created by being sedentary, eating poorly, and overindulging on alcohol or other substances.
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-14 19:36:23+00:00
> Forking his project while using the name

The don't use the name. They use Turso. Even the HN title is wrong - the article title doesn't mention SQLite.

They refer to SQLite, but how could you not if that's what you forked from, and that's what has the functionality you're changing. That would be a very weird article if we didn't have that context.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-10-14 19:36:24+00:00
These numbers add up fast when you have dozens or hundreds of components on your board. A $3 part is often one of the most expensive items on a board! If you're trying to get something shipped to consumers for $20 each, with an enclosure, packaging, shipping, retail markup, and profit...that's a huge price disparity.

Also, and perhaps more importantly, the test rig is a lot simpler and a lot cheaper if you can generally trust manufacturer data. Sure, send off a few samples (likely prototypes with parts from Digikey instead of LCSC) to run extended testing in an environmental chamber with thermal imaging, build an endurance test rig that pushes the button once a second for four weeks to simulate once-daily use for years, whatever you want to do...but after that, if TI says it's good from -40 to +125, you're going to trust them on a lot of the edge cases.

Do 100% testing of the things you can test in-circuit if you can - power it up at room temperature and make sure it works once - but that doesn't mean you get the actual rated performance across all published environmental conditions.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-10-14 19:36:33+00:00
You’re lost in abstractions. ‘King’ and ‘queen’ and 'man' etc etc aren’t algebraic symbols, they’re mapped to vectors of real numbers. The model learns those mappings, then we just add and subtract numbers element wise. That’s it. You’re giving a group theory lecture about an operation that’s literally just a[i] + b[i]. The semantics come from training, not from some deep mathematical revelation you think everyone missed.
by cyphar | 2025-10-14 19:36:50+00:00
> the CA would be immediately distrusted by browsers, not as punishment but to deter state actors

This is not practically possible for browsers to do, as it would also cause all of the legitimate certificates signed by that CA to become distrusted and break large swathes of the internet. This was one of the main complaints Moxie Marlinspike had in his 2011 talk on TLS (the contents of which are sadly just as true today as they were then)[1].

In fact, there is fairly credible evidence that the NSA did actually do this already back in 2011 with the DigiNotar hack to steal the contents of Iranian emails[2]. This case was so egregious that DigiNotar did get distrusted by browsers, but other hacks like that of Comodo did not result in their CA certificates being distrusted.

The CAB does apparently block CAs more aggressively than they did a decade ago, but I wonder if they would actually block a big CA like LetsEncrypt if it came out they did something shady or got hacked. It just seems incredibly unlikely they would flip the "turn off >60% of the internet" switch regardless of what LetsEncrypt hypothetically did (for reference, in 2011 Comodo signed only 20-25% of website certificates).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UawS3_iuHoA [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar
by antonvs | 2025-10-14 19:37:30+00:00
Tomcat and Jetty are not application servers according to the Jakarta EE definition. They're just servlet containers.

The reason Spring includes those libraries is partly historical - Spring is old, and dates from the applications server days. Newer frameworks like Micronaut and Quarkus use more focused and performant libraries like Netty, Vert.x, and Undertow instead.
by mk_chan | 2025-10-14 19:38:06+00:00
This is very important to write on. A lot of people believe news is worth consuming for the truth and often cite it as a primary source of information. News producers may not necessarily lie but they cherry pick to maximize reach and that content plays on peoples belief that what they see on the news is all the information you need.

The news in a vacuum can actually be quite misleading and I too believe people should realize that it is not the ‘whole’ truth.
by NickC25 | 2025-10-14 19:38:08+00:00
Shares of a company are indeed money - or can be used as money in a roundabout way.

They can be placed as collateral in exchange for a loan or other similar ways to access capital immediately.

If Zuck walks into a bank and asks for a million dollars cash on the spot and is willing to place a few thousand shares up as collateral, he gets that done in minutes.
by jf | 2025-10-14 19:38:23+00:00
It’s weird, and a little unnerving, to have a line from Anathem by Neil Stephenson immediately come to mind:

“Can you read? And by that I don’t just mean interpreting Logotype…” “No one uses that any more,” said Quin. “You’re talking about the symbols on your underwear that tell you not to use bleach. That sort of thing.”
by manquer | 2025-10-14 19:38:47+00:00
DC-3 was an exception[0]

The point was not on any specific technical or economic factor. It was to illustrate that rapid evolution in comfort, or speed and also safety[1] means people will prefer adoption of newer tech quickly and not be concerned about longevity and actively devalue slightly older products.

When the improvements start becoming marginal only then longevity start to matter. The planes developed from 90s to now have lot to offer operators but not much new[2] to passengers, we are still designing(not just operating) new 737 variants after all. Most people cannot tell the age of the plane if the cabin has been refreshed.

This preference for newer generation of tools has little to do with previous generations having different values as nostalgically some like to ascribe to, but simply to technology maturity was my point.

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[0] As impressive the 100 year history and the longevity of a pre-war design has been. We have to keep in mind the dynamics of unpressurized plane operating at less than 300 knots with a service ceiling of less than 25,000 feet is hardly comparable to that of any modern passenger aircraft cruising at 0.90+ mach for 12-15+ hours daily at 37,000 feet going through tens of thousands pressurization cycles.

[1] Airframes perhaps were not a popular safety concern directly, pressurized and reduced noise in cabins were major selling points.

Air safety regulations were famously said to be written in blood. It is undeniable that was massive drop in fatalities in 80-90s from 60-70s after safety became concern and everyone held both operators and manufacturers accountable.

[2] Improved range or better engine reliability that meant we can do longer ETOS on twin engine etc do benefit passengers indirectly.
by tuna74 | 2025-10-14 19:38:50+00:00
"> is drag and drop extraction from Nautilus (or other file managers) really that important?

Why, yes it is! It's even worse if you go and _break_ drag'n'drop support on X11! I'm not even using Wayland!"

It is apparently not important enough for anyone to actually work on it. But maybe it is for you?
by cardanome | 2025-10-14 19:39:22+00:00
Dropbox works fine on Linux so you should be good. OneDrive has a community developed client, not sure how good it works.

Gaming works great on Linux, arguably better than on Windows. Show stoppers are mostly aggressive anti-cheat or DRM stuff so multiplayer can still suck but for anyone doing single player it is amazing. I have a windows installation I can dual boot into but I haven't in like half a year, I prefer gaming on Linux.

Linux Mint with Cinnamon has a traditional Desktop close to Windows. I highly recommend checking it out.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-14 19:39:29+00:00
> don't think the public understands how far behind they are

The public watches cropped launch videos and then scrolls on to the next issue. Most Americans probably couldn’t say what Starship is.

> it has been slower than both Apollo and Shuttle

For a fraction of the cost.

> It's making the 2027 Artimis III moon landing increasingly unrealistic

The entire Artemis programme has been a boondoggle. But while SpaceX is building a new launch vehicle and tackling propellant transfer, Lockheed can’t stop fucking up a legacy heat shield.

(I’m still like 4:1 on Orion, not HLS, being the reason Artemis 3 is delayed [1].)

> Keep in mind Starship hasn't even achieved orbit yet

It’s in development for reuse at a scale of rocketry we’ve never done before. It’s weird to hold a literal moonshot R&D project to consumer timelines like this.

After this (11) test, if Block 3 and Pad 2 validate (12), we could see an orbital attempt in Q1 ‘26 (13). I’d be shocked if orbital insertion is not succeeded in 2026; the big question is how much refurbishment will be required. (Given SpaceX is basically the only group in the world to have solved this problem, I wouldn’t hold my breath.)

Beyond Artemis, it looks more likely than not that Starship will be delivering cargo to LEO by the end of 2027. This not only represents a major leap in capacity and cost advantage, it obsoletes several rockets on the books in Europe and Asia through the late 2030s.

[1] https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasa-delays-...
by NoiseBert69 | 2025-10-14 19:39:35+00:00
Ultra high-speed ADCs are extremely ugly to handle with microcontrollers. That's mostly FPGA territory: toggle its pins, suck the data from the ADC and offer them on a friendly parallel bus for a microcontroller (USBC->Parallel interface from FTDI).

They need a lot of pins to be toggled. Otherwise they spit out no data.

And a lot of manual stuff means it's super DMA unfriendly. And you need DMA for high-speed stuff.
by andrepd | 2025-10-14 19:39:39+00:00
How is making a factual assertion (there is no conseusus in the discipline of economics) somehow "disparaging economics"???? There is no consensus, unlike harder sciences such as physics or biology, and like social sciences such as sociology or anthropology. Because economics is the latter and not the former.

And please do me the favour of not assuming I "have very little idea of what it's actually about". It's contrary to the site guidelines (and it's very annoying).
by zackmorris | 2025-10-14 19:39:59+00:00
This is really interesting, and I'm surprised that I had never looked at JIT compiling as self-modifying code (SMC). Also that I had never heard of copy-and-patch.

There are whole classes of problems that can be more easily solved with SMC. That's part of what got me into FPGAs back in the 90s, before I abandoned them due to their lack of exponential growth and proprietary placement and routing tools.

This could have implications for faster in-app scripting like in games. Also for building more powerful shaders. I wonder if there are analogs of the article's mprotect(ret, 256, PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC) calls for GPUs.
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-14 19:40:51+00:00
Yes I know about elites who went to Ivy Leagues. Hell Bush Jr. went to Harvard.

But looking at Hegseth's family history (Father was a basketball coach, Mother was a "executive business coach") maybe they were upper middle class but definitely not elite so I suspect that his academic credentials played a major role in his admission and not any monetary contribution.

>He might have been a genius at one point (though I doubt it), but I do not think that a Fox News host who brags about never washing his hands [1] is smart. Maybe drinking messed up his brain.

Hence why I wondered if he got "damaged" in some way during his military career(three tours overseas, one at Gitmo).

On a side note: I find it absurd that people are mass downvoting something that is literally just one google search.
by antonvs | 2025-10-14 19:40:55+00:00
What are you thinking of specifically? Because using WASM doesn't sound like "replicating application servers", but rather like an attempt to address things like the startup speed of typical large Java apps.

Unless you just mean that using Kubernetes at all is replicating application servers, which was my point. Kubernetes makes language-specific application servers like Wildfly/JBoss or Websphere obsolete, and is much more powerful, generic, and an improvement in just about every respect.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-14 19:40:59+00:00
Kind of cool to see work on this. I do hope that the final db file result is still binary compatible with SQLite 3 in whatever direction Turso moves towards though... Rust or not.

I've been advocating with several projects over recent years to get SQLite3 as an archive/export/interchange format for data. Need to archive 2019 data from the database, dump it into a SQLite db with roughly the same schema... Need to pass multiple CSVs worth of data dumps, use a SQLite file instead.

As a secondary, I wonder if it's possible to actively use a SQLite interface against a database file on S3, assuming a single server/instance is the actual active connection.
by fidotron | 2025-10-14 19:41:12+00:00
But this is why using the AI in the production of (almost) deterministic systems makes so much sense, including saving on execution costs.

ISTR someone else round here observing how much more effective it is to ask these things to write short scripts that perform a task than doing the task themselves, and this is my experience as well.

If/when AI actually gets much better it will be the boss that has the problem. This is one of the things that baffles me about the managerial globalists - they don't seem to appreciate that a suitably advanced AI will point the finger at them for inefficiency much more so than at the plebs, for which it will have a use for quite a while.
by kcplate | 2025-10-14 19:41:24+00:00
Nothing for me to concede. You are arguing against the Mayor’s words and meaning, not mine. I am taking them at face value within the context of the entire statement.

> The "abuse of the right to protest" has nothing to do with violence from protesters, which is a detail that you've conjured up yourself.

It’s kind of telling how you chose this phrase to suggest that I have “conjured” up apparent violence. Context counts. Prior to that “abuse” sentence, she said this:

“There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad.”

Then it’s the next one after the abuse statement makes the difference and alludes to violence:

“Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home”. (The emphasis is mine)

That provides further context. From my perspective on the outside looking in, she appears to be suggesting that things are escalating and she appears to be placing some of that blame on the protesters.

Maybe her statement was inarticulate. Maybe it was total BS. Maybe she is playing to both sides. Maybe it reflects reality. Whatever the case may be its what is out in the news now and on its face, it doesn’t feel like things are as peaceful as the mayor would prefer them to be. Good for her trying to de-escalate.

Frankly, I am just happy it’s not happening in my community.
by leobg | 2025-10-14 19:42:03+00:00
For the impatient (and those without ad block):

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> ASAF (Apple Spatial Audio Format): A revolutionary format that anchors sounds to real-world physical space and incorporates room acoustics, not just device-relative positioning. Works with APAC (Apple Positional Audio Codec) for delivery at up to 768kbps.
by alganet | 2025-10-14 19:42:57+00:00
> here are some example ideas that are perfectly true when applied to regular software

Hm, I'm listening, let's see.

> Software vulnerabilities are caused by mistakes in the code

That's not exactly true. In regular software, the code can be fine and you can still end up with vulnerabilities. The platform in which the code is deployed could be vulnerable, or the way it is installed make it vulnerable, and so on.

> Bugs in the code can be found by carefully analysing the code

Once again, not exactly true. Have you ever tried understanding concurrent code just by reading it? Some bugs in regular software hide in places that human minds cannot probe.

> Once a bug is fixed, it won’t come back again

Ok, I'm starting to feel this is a troll post. This guy can't be serious.

> If you give specifications beforehand, you can get software that meets those specifications

Have you read The Mythical Man-Month?
by pwillia7 | 2025-10-14 19:43:32+00:00
I got pretty into this alt archaeology stuff and eventually had to move away from it.

I totally agree that the tepes challenge our timeline of when humans made cities and whatnot, but so much of their arguments is the perfect fit of stones or how flat stones are and saying it _must_ be done by modern tools.

I think they have left out how much you can get done from a construction standpoint when you have forced labor or no labor rules like we have had for some time now all over the world and especially in the West.

When I was first in Delhi and went to the Red Fort, I was shocked when they said they built the whole thing 100s of years ago in 9 years. Think about how long it would take us to build something like this now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fort

So, I really want the ancient atlantis civ in the Sahara to be true, but the guy's I've seen promoting this are too removed from the scientific method to really be taken seriously.

This guy does some good debunking of a lot of the Netflix/Youtube Alt Archaeology people -- https://www.youtube.com/@miniminuteman773
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-14 19:43:42+00:00
At this point, the phrase "politics they disagree with" is transparently rage-bait. It serves primarily to dismiss and invalidate the reasons for the disagreement without addressing them in good-faith discussion. People using this phrase are not intending to empathize with another's point of view.

> > "Politics they disagree with" means racism, homophobia and ableism.

> No, it doesn't.

It literally and obviously does. The people making statements about his statements are the ones who decide what they mean with their statements about his statements. That is plainly obvious and doesn't need to be explained.

> And that perception is itself politically driven.

What I see is politically-driven dismissal of others' perspectives, such as by saying "politics they disagree with" instead of addressing the reasons for the disagreement.
by justapassenger | 2025-10-14 19:43:55+00:00
> Tesla has solved the problem of unit profitably manufacturing EVs. Outside America and other petrostates, these are broadly accepted to be the future of transportation. (It’s getting its ass kicked by BYD, which didn’t distract itself with a Cybertruck or what increasingly looks like an Optimus follow-on. But being the only American challenger in a new economy is not worthless.)

They solved it by borrowing from the future and gutting their R&D. That's the main cost in the car industry and Tesla basically just stopped developing new models many years ago, to the point that they struggle with a simple refresh.

> Tesla’s also lead by a man who has consistently made money for his investors. Even when bets are bad, e.g. Twitter, he’s financially engineered an outcome that ensured, at the very least, nobody who backed him lost money.

That man also walks a very thin line between engineering outcomes and fraud, let's not forget that.
by mikepurvis | 2025-10-14 19:43:56+00:00
It's totally reasonable to expect the native pad for single player games; my contention is more around couch multiplayer scenarios. When each pad costs as much as a day 1 game, it's a big investment to have four of them— so most players have just one or two.

As it turns out, there aren't all that many couch multiplayer games that are PS5-only, and a lot of what's there is two player only (Diablo 3/4, BG3, Hot Wheels, Borderlands, etc). So maybe the whole argument is moot, but the long and short of it is that any game which I think I might want to play with more than two people I buy on Switch instead, since I'm always going to have lots of those pads.
by daft_pink | 2025-10-14 19:43:58+00:00
1. Death isn’t preventable. We will all die, so if you prevent one cause of death in old age, you will just die of another cause of death. Sure it might extend your life a little bit, but I feel it’s entirely rational to seek out information on causes of immediate death as more relevant than causes of long term death. The probability of living much older than 100 is virtually nil. Probably good to have information on both though.

2. It’s possible they are major causes of early death, but I can’t figure that out from the article and it would be nice if the article provided that information.
by gopalv | 2025-10-14 19:44:51+00:00
> are array languages competitive with something like C or Fortran

The REPL is what matters - also while being performant.

Someone asks you a question, you write something, you run it and say an answer, the next question is asked etc.

I've seen these tools be invaluable in that model, over "write software, compile and run a thousand times" problems which C/Fortran lives in.
by oa335 | 2025-10-14 19:45:02+00:00
Acemoglu has argued that colonialism helped develop European economies:

"Our hypothesis is that Atlantic trade—the opening of the sea routes to the New World, Africa, and Asia and the building of colonial empires—contributed to the process of West European growth between 1500 and 1850, not only through direct economic effects, but also indirectly by inducing fundamental institutional change."

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jrobinson/files/jr_AERAtla...

Where has he argued the opposite?
by calvinmorrison | 2025-10-14 19:45:03+00:00
the press, the proxy of the elite and wealthy have waged an all out war on americans for decades. They've long lost their status as a 4th pillar of government and instead are complicit in a long list of crimes.

by "The Press" we're not talking about newswriters but organizations who are large, evil, and morally bankrupt.

Anyone is free to start up a paper and write what they please
by invalidator | 2025-10-14 19:46:40+00:00
If you need a specific version of one package: apt-get install hello=2.10-3

If you want to lock down versions on a system, Apt Pinning: https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#Using_pinning

If you have a herd of systems - prod environments, VMs for CI, lots of dev workstations, and especially if your product is an appliance VM: you might want to run your own apt mirror, creating known-good snapshots of your packages. I use https://www.aptly.info/

Containers can also be a great solution though.