MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by k310 | 2025-10-25 23:07:48+00:00
Mirrored at Business Times.

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion-features/meet-real-...

Archive today and even archive.org are not working with safari on this iphone. I'll have to debug.

FWIW, I'm senior, and when you're not 100%, you just sit and read or listen to the radio (preferably classical music). Being a techie and infovore, Hacker News fills the bill. Where else do you get links to WWII proximity fuses (schematic included) or high tech gambling cheat devices. And programming languages, something of interest to me since "Computer Lib: Dream Machines"?

I felt great yesterday and hiked a lot, but some days, the connected screen replaces the ipad over the piano and the camera screen. Screens all over. Grabbed a sunrise this morning before just chillin most of the day.
by rconti | 2025-10-25 23:08:14+00:00
Yep. The previous high was in 2006(!). Overall, statewide energy consumption seems to be flat or declining.

In 2020, there were extremely high heat days in August, with wildfire smoke covering the state. Thankfully I was out of town, but my wife was suffering, unable to cool the house OR open a window. In 2021 or 2022 I finally broke down and bought a window-mounted AC unit for my office, as I work from home. In 2024 and 2025 I didn't even bother installing it, the summers have been so mild.

https://www.caiso.com/documents/californiaisopeakloadhistory...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-25 23:08:21+00:00
> Interesting how they never mention that these are Tesla Megapack 2 XL units

It's a story about California's battery storage. Tesla hasn't built all of that capacity.

For a Tesla (or other battery producer) press release? Sure. For an article about the general phenomenon? Irrelevant to the point that if it were included I'd be suspicious of the article being a plant.
by majormajor | 2025-10-25 23:08:38+00:00
Malls aren't that dead yet, for starters.

"Hey come over to my place" also works.

"Let's grab dinner."

If they weren't constantly driving themselves to distraction most people would be able to make at least 1 or 2 friends at work or from a shared hobby, based on the experience of all the decades prior.

The US not having "third spaces" went into the founding story of Starbucks. The big difference today is people not even having friends and no longer knowing how to even do so, thanks to the addiction machines. Why risk rejection when you can just go back to your scroll?
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-25 23:09:26+00:00
>A strategy to be fired. This is not viable.

Not true at all. Plenty of invisible people in the world who don't get fired. You're ignorant.

Your initial post talked about lack of visibility, now you're talking about it as if it's required comically to the point of claiming that "invisible" people are absolutely on the path to get fired or that people who keep their head low and don't grab attention isn't a strategy. Ever heard of the saying the tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut? Also have you seen how Xi, the current leader of China rose to power?

Part of being a principal is the perception of principled and expert reasoning/expertise. That means being able to flip what you're saying on the fly so that other people continue to perceive you as an expert who knows what they are talking about. Did you say something that was completely off and wrong and it made no sense? How do you hide this from the people above you?

You expertly did this with your response. First you say you take none of the credit, now you say taking credit and being visible is required. Expert pivot and THIS is truly the primary skill of a principal engineer and you display it unequivocally.

You don't even need to actually be responsible for all the changes you claimed to have influenced. You just need people to perceive the reality as if you were responsible. And I see this kind of BS in many, many engineering organizations.

A lot of this is self delusion too. These high level strategies and directions aren't hard to come up with. Likely tons of lower engineers have thought of the method too, they just don't have the "visibility" or the time to actually drive that direction into the organization. Some people tend to think the ideas they have are genius and that these ideas are what makes them "principle". No. It's mostly politics that puts you into a position to take credit for ideas anyone can come up with.
by jchw | 2025-10-25 23:09:28+00:00
Given the use of the word "container" that seems to be using Linux namespacing rather than KVM. In case of containers, the isolation is provided solely by the Linux kernel, plus of course any additional defenses you add on top of it. While Guix shell having a built-in way to spawn isolated containers is extremely cool (I use NixOS. As far as I know, Nix does not have an equivalent feature) it seems like from a security standpoint, it would just be similar to using bubblewrap or Firejail directly. Though I like this idea. Seems very useful and convenient.

What I think we're really after though is something like gVisor, where the guest program is completely isolated from the host kernel, and the daemons that allow the guest program to reach the outside world are themselves highly locked down by the host kernel using technologies like seccomp-bpf and namespacing, on top of whatever constraints and validation they apply on their own. While nothing is foolproof, this feels like, if done carefully, it would give you a very good layer of isolation that would be extremely challenging to bypass. I reckon that the sandbox would cease to be the most interesting attack target in a system like gVisor, since in any complicated system, there will probably always be some lower-hanging fruit. (And of course, TinyKVM seems to be basically in the same wheelhouse. None of these solutions are designed to run GUI software, though I reckon it probably could be made to work.)
by HumanBojack | 2025-10-25 23:10:35+00:00
I don't think the extension is installed by people that wanna dislike, rather by people that wanna see the dislike count. I used to have it since it's very useful to see if something like a tutorial is a scam.

Also if I remember correctly, the extension was created before youtube completely removed the count, and it scraped the actual value from youtube to add it to the db while the count still was available
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-10-25 23:10:43+00:00
This particular piece has been shared near me several times, in the context of this recent AWS outage, the previous big AWS outage, non-AWS outages, and others. Every time, I feel like I'm in vague agreement with the author, and at the same time, none of it is the least bit actionable. Even if Cook is correct, so what? There's no concrete change I can make in my working.
by baobun | 2025-10-25 23:11:24+00:00
> Open source: Anyone can fork and run their own network

Yet the only source code on the linked github where "we can verify" is the markdown files backing the marketing website

> Our infrastructure is decentralized. Exit node registry is on blockchain (immutable).

Which blockchain? Is there a smart contract? How is the infrastructure decentralized, apart from using a blockchain for the node registry component?

> Even if our website is seized, clients can discover nodes from blockchain. Anyone can fork the code and run their own network.

There is no way this can be true since there is no public code.

> Decentralized by design: No single point of failure

> Even if our website is seized, clients can discover nodes from the blockchain. Even if we shut down, the code lives on.

Also a lie.

The "free forever, zero tracking or data logging, no bandwidth caps" looks very dubious.

> We've worked on Tor, Signal, and other privacy tools. We've seen firsthand how censorship destroys lives—journalists silenced, activists imprisoned, families separated.

Does "worked on" just mean "used" or are authors actually claiming to be past contributors to Tor Project and Signal? Looking at tge solo contributor to the github I don't see any relevant contributions to privacy tech. Their most notable repo seems to be https://github.com/EmperorMew/unstoppable_spam_bot.

There is nothing to try or check out beyond aspirational marketing here so I don't see why this should be on Show HN.
by musicale | 2025-10-25 23:11:53+00:00
I think it's a bit more than that. I like that I can easily swap the SSD and DRAM in my Thinkpad. But Apple has definitely done some interesting things including:

- good thermals (especially vs. Thinkpad P series), even supporting fanless operation on the MacBook Air

- excellent microphone and speaker array (makes people much more intelligible on both sides during Zoom calls)

- excellent multitouch trackpad with good palm rejection (though for a trackpoint device Thinkpad is your best bet)

- unified GPU and CPU memory with up to 135 GB/s bandwidth (downside: DRAM is not upgradable)

- host-managed flash storage (downside: SSD is not upgradable)

And of course the 10-20 hour battery life is hard to beat. Only downside is I'll forget to plug in at all.

Historically, Apple has innovated quite a bit in the laptop space, including: moving the keyboard back for the modern palm rest design (PowerBook, 1991); active-matrix color display (PowerBook 180c, 1993); integrated wi-fi and handle antenna (iBook, 1999); Unix-based OS that could still run MS Office and Photoshop (Mac OS X, 2000 onward); full-featured thin metal laptop with gigabit ethernet (PowerBook G4 Titanium, 2001); pre-ultrabook thin laptop that fits in a manila envelope (MacBook Air, 2008); high-resolution display and all-flash storage in an ever-thinner design ("Retina" MacBook Pro, 2012); going all-in on USB-C/Thunderbolt and 5K external "retina" display (MacBook Pro, 2016); unprecedented performance, and a tandem OLED display with <10ms touch-to-pixel latency, in an absurdly thin iPad, which can also be used as a "laptop" (iPad M4 + magic keyboard, 2024); etc. Some of the innovations also failed, such as the touchbar, dual-controller trackpad, and "butterfly" keyboard which plagued the 2016 models.
by electroly | 2025-10-25 23:13:00+00:00
I believe it depends on the era and system, but there were various APL codepages (i.e. definitions for the upper 128 characters) for both EBCDIC and ASCII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_encoding_of_APL_symbol...

In the very earliest IBM Selectric teletype-based systems, some APL symbols were constructed by entering one character, hitting backspace, and overstriking a second character. For instance, ⍋ is | overstruck on ∆. It's why a lot of APL symbols look like that.

https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Overstrike
by aftbit | 2025-10-25 23:13:07+00:00
Who has access to tanks _and_ needs to be protected from citizen reports on their activity?

I'm not conflating the two - Google told 404 Media they were a vulnerable group, while Apple applied a guideline that has previously been used on protected classes, which it seems Migrant Insider interpreted as:

>The decision effectively treats federal immigration agents as a protected class — a novel interpretation of Apple’s hate-speech policy that shields one of the most powerful arms of government from public scrutiny.

Google:

https://www.404media.co/google-calls-ice-agents-a-vulnerable...

Apple:

https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-ag...

though that link seems dead so archive.org to the rescue:

https://web.archive.org/web/20251010134146/https://migrantin...
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-25 23:13:32+00:00
I literally see the opposite. What I'm seeing is if you're not using AI, you're going to be left behind. What used to take a week or more is now expected to be finished in a day thanks to AI. The expectations have shifted by a lot.

I do know there are entire companies who have not bought into AI yet because the paradigm shift happened so quickly. The AI of 1 year ago could not make someone 10x. The AI of today can and if everyone knew about it, they would be using it.

>I didn't understand the point of managers until I got a good one. Perhaps you've just been unlucky

There is a point. The point is to set direction and to shield the engineer from politics. That is the point. Let me make it utterly clear: The role of leadership and management is REQUIRED. I never said otherwise.

My point, however, is to say that the primary skill involved in setting direction and shielding the engineer from politics and all this "leadership" stuff is this:

it is hard work, but it is not skilled work. The garbage man works hard, but anyone can do his job. There are certain people who do a shit job at being a garbage man and there are people who do a good job, but the overall job is considered unskilled labor. That is essentially what "leadership" is. And like the garbage man, the job is required.

The main difference between the garbage man and the leader is essentially perception. Because leadership is essentially a form of control, perception is controlled. That means leaders are perceived to be better and they are thus paid more but the on the ground truth is that what they do is not skilled work.
by ajross | 2025-10-25 23:13:36+00:00
Meh. Look, it broke code. "Still works like you expect" is 100% false.

The deprecation argument is at least... arguable. It was indeed retired from POSIX. But needless deprecation is itself a smell in a situation where you can't audit all the code that uses it. Don't do that. It breaks stuff. It broke the updates in the linked article too. If you have an API, leave it there absent extremely strong arguments for its removal.
by tacker2000 | 2025-10-25 23:14:19+00:00
Yup, this is the incompetence that we see all over the place since these new frameworks have come and front end devs have no idea what HTML actually is or how it works.

Buttons are for submitting forms and nothing else.

In HTML a link is created using an <a> element.

React has a <Link> element for this purpose, it will be rendered as <a>.

Please OP, at least try to learn a little bit about the underlying technologies.
by courseofaction | 2025-10-25 23:16:17+00:00
The Malacca straits will certainly be important, but the US will have to reach past China and Chinese allies to the south to blockade it, and will be sitting ducks for drone and missile attacks (see the black sea fleet for a demonstration). China has heavily invested in submarines to avoid exactly this situation.

Authoritarianism in China has a significantly different flavor to US authoritarianism. The US is serving the goals of their dominant elite industries - finance and tech. China has an engineering culture amongst the elite, and is inclined to solve problems with productivity and megaprojects rather than handing money to purely extractive industries.

For an example of the difference between their flavors of authoritarianism and the outcomes they bring, compare their health care systems - the USA has one of the most expensive in the world at ~$14,500 per capita, and poor outcomes due to privatized corruption, while China's 14th 5-year plan has brought universal health care for approx ~$650 per person. China's average life expectancy is higher than the US's.

The US is, objectively, extremely corrupt, and is transitioning to authoritarianism to protect that corruption. China's authoritarianism achieves measurable goals, and has broad (though not universal) public support.

The USA will get curb stomped in a war. They just don't have anything but a massive military buildup from decades of pork barrelling unnecessary military contracts. Their population is sick and stupid. They have alienated their allies. They will lose.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-25 23:17:57+00:00
> That information does not fit the narrative so it is left unsaid

This is a good opportunity to calibrate your sense of truth.

The LA Times is owned by this South African-born immigrant [1]. (Himself the the son of "Chinese immigrant parents who fled China during the Japanese occupation.") He is, like Elon, pro-Trump (after, like Musk, supporting Democrats when they were in power) [2]. And he, like Elon, has censored his publication to reflect his views, including by opposing anti-Musk content [3].

If you're reading an article in the LA Times and, being upset it isn't mentioning Tesla, concluding it's part of an anti-Musk conspiracy, you're dead wrong. But you're probably also wrong about other adjacent hypotheses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Soon-Shiong

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/13/la-times-owner-mane...

[3] https://www.status.news/p/los-angeles-times-patrick-soon-shi...
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-25 23:19:44+00:00
> This is moving the goalposts yet again. We go from what is in effect "C/C++ compilers would never break backwards compatibility by adding language extensions!" to "You're correct in that they have done it, but it's mostly not a problem".

Do you consider old program now compiles, that previously didn't to be a serious break in backward compatibility? I think they do not, and so do I.
by jampekka | 2025-10-25 23:19:48+00:00
Much of the critique is that it's large and complicated because of bad design.

"Because SQL is so inexpressive, incompressible and non-porous it was never able to develop a library ecosystem. Instead, any new functionality that is regularly needed is added to the spec, often with it's own custom syntax. So if you develop a new SQL implementation you must also implement the entire ecosystem from scratch too because users can't implement it themselves.

This results in an enormous language."
by cbmuser | 2025-10-25 23:21:39+00:00
The electricity mix in France is still way cleaner than in California:

- France: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/FR/5y/yearly

- California: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/US-CAL-CISO/5y/year...

And their kWh costs less than 20 Cents in the standard plan:

- https://particulier.edf.fr/content/dam/2-Actifs/Documents/Of...

They even offer flex prices going down as low as 12,32 Cents/kWh.

Nuclear power rules.
by aftbit | 2025-10-25 23:22:23+00:00
I'm not sure exactly what kind of armored vehicles ICE has. I'm pretty sure some of them would qualify as tanks at least in WW1. The war to end all wars... if only.

There are actually valid reasons for BORTAC to be armed to the gills, but they're meant to point all that firepower at organized crime (cartels) in the border zone, not Americans in Chicago.

But fair argument - words matter. I was being glib with "tanks". What I really mean is that anyone backed by the power of the US government to extrajudiciously kidnap people and deport them without due process is not a vulnerable group (by definition) and should not be a protected class (in my opinion).
by bawolff | 2025-10-25 23:23:09+00:00
> People in the East of Greenland speak a language that has similarities, but is different enough in vocabulary and sounds that it's often considered a separate language and not a dialect.

If this is true, then the easy solution would be to just have two separate wikipedia editions (assuming there is interest).

After all if we have en, sco, jam and ang, surely there is room for two greenlandics. The limitting factor is user interest.
by nandomrumber | 2025-10-25 23:23:47+00:00
> they burn extremely hot and cannot be extinguished with water, which can trigger a violent chemical reaction. The blaze emitted dangerous levels of nickel, cobalt and manganese

> In the first six months of this year, CAISO’s grid was powered by 100% clean energy for an average of almost seven hours each day.

emitted dangerous levels of nickel, cobalt and manganese

100% clean energy
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-25 23:23:52+00:00
Let me clarify. I know there are principals with no directs. I’m more calling out that the “scope” of a principal is a high bar at Big Tech and if he is spending all of his time coding at a startup, I doubt that he is working at the level of a principal at BigTech.

My own anecdote is that the level of work I was doing as an “architect” at a 60 person startup where I was the second technical hire when the new CTO was hired to bring tech leadership in house from a third party consulting company mapped to a mid level L5 consultant at AWS ProServe (to be fair I only had two and a half years of AWS experience at the time I was hired by AWS) and now while I’m a “Staff consultant” at a third party AWS consulting firm with around 1000 people, looking at the leveling guidelines and expectations at my current company, AWS and GCP, it maps to a “senior”
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-25 23:23:57+00:00
Unless I'm misunderstanding the word, "tampering" implies "making alterations to"

Every thread on this topic has some hackers making bad assumptions about how law works based on naive definitions. You've got to understand that law doesn't operate on binary distinctions and that interpretation is an extremely moveable feast.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45153
by pclmulqdq | 2025-10-25 23:24:21+00:00
Using "unsafe" for things that really need it structurally is incredibly unwieldy and makes all your code a total mess. A single instance of "unsafe" is clean and fine, but if you want or need to use patterns that do not follow the religious "single ownership known at compile time" dogma, you end up spewing "unsafe" in a lot of places and having terribly unclean code as a result. And no, "Arc" is not a perfect solution to ths because its performance is terrible.

I encourage you to write a doubly linked list in Rust if you want to understand what I mean about "un-kosher" code. This is a basic academic example, but Rust itself is the rabbi that makes your life suck if you stray off the narrow path.

I write a decent amount of system-level software and this kind of pattern is unavoidable if you actually need to interact with hardware or if you need very high performance. I have probably written the unsafe keyword several hundred times despite only having to use Rust professionally for a year.
by cpard | 2025-10-25 23:25:18+00:00
A framework for optimizing LLM agents, including but not limited to RL. You can even do fine tuning, they have an example with unsloth in there.

The design of this is pretty nice, it's based on a very simple to add instrumentation to your agent and the rest happens in parallel while your workload runs which is awesome.

You can probably do also what DSPy does for optimizing prompts but without having to rewrite using the DSPy API which can be a big win.
by ilamont | 2025-10-25 23:26:23+00:00
From the intro to the original paper:

But deep conceptual shifts within twentieth-century science have undermined this Cartesian-Newtonian metaphysics; revisionist studies in the history and philosophy of science have cast further doubt on its credibility; and, most recently, feminist and poststructuralist critiques have demystified the substantive content of mainstream Western scientific practice, revealing the ideology of domination concealed behind the façade of ``objectivity''. It has thus become increasingly apparent that physical ``reality'', no less than social ``reality'', is at bottom a social and linguistic construct; that scientific ``knowledge", far from being objective, reflects and encodes the dominant ideologies and power relations of the culture that produced it; that the truth claims of science are inherently theory-laden and self-referential; and consequently, that the discourse of the scientific community, for all its undeniable value, cannot assert a privileged epistemological status with respect to counter-hegemonic narratives emanating from dissident or marginalized communities. These themes can be traced, despite some differences of emphasis, in Aronowitz's analysis of the cultural fabric that produced quantum mechanics; in Ross' discussion of oppositional discourses in post-quantum science; in Irigaray's and Hayles' exegeses of gender encoding in fluid mechanics; and in Harding's comprehensive critique of the gender ideology underlying the natural sciences in general and physics in particular.

https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgre...

And the reveal, including a brief discussion of the “ethical issues involved in my rather unorthodox experiment”: https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingu...