MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by celsoazevedo | 2025-11-13 20:42:00+00:00
> You have one server in one datacenter.

It doesn't have to be only one server in one datacenter though.

It's more work, but you can have replicas ready to go at other Hetzner DCs (they offer bare metal at 3 locations in 2 different countries) or at other cheaper providers like OVH. Two or three $160 servers is still cheaper than what they're paying right now.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-13 20:42:03+00:00
They either aren't rerunning or aren't on the 2026 ballot. Some are taking an exit package. Others hope this blows over when 2028 or even 2030 come for reelection.

If you believe the commentary of one of the defectors, he said (Paraphrasing) "I got my first good sleep since the shutdown began... I didn't have to worry about people eyeing me as I walked into work". So if you take that at face value it was everyday interactions that had him fold. Easier to crush the hopes of the invisible population you represent than look uncouth to your visible peers.
by JoeAltmaier | 2025-11-13 20:42:12+00:00
If they are blind, and communicate via pheromone symphonies?

If they are jellyfish with tentacle exchanges of salts?

If they are crystalline and ring with resonances in the audible and radio ranges, with phase shift memes and holographic memory payloads?

We've seen too much Star Trek with rubber-suited humans, speaking with different nouns and calling that 'alien'.
by alistairSH | 2025-11-13 20:42:23+00:00
Don't forget the filibuster - most votes actually require 60 Senators to pass.

For most day-to-day legislation, we can have 59% in favor and still have a deadlocked Senate. The House has no means to bypass/override the Senate.

But, that's probably a whole other topic and way in the weeds.
by jcranmer | 2025-11-13 20:42:31+00:00
> A PGP key is the only standardized cryptographic passport for the internet

I think this rather gives the game away.

For people for whom PGP is important, their PGP key is their identity. And there is a community of people like this. But it's small--I'd guesstimate maybe a million people or so at best, a true rounding error in terms of the internet.

For most people, however, their online identity is generally tied around one of a few core providers. The de facto identity for open source is GitHub, for better or worse. Do I like that we've moved to centralized identity management? Not particularly. But it is telling that in the shift towards identity management as a concept (e.g., OAuth2) in the past decade, PGP hasn't played a factor.

And in all of your passionate defenses of PGP, where you've complained that things don't support the PGP identity model, you've never really addressed the issues that a) most people don't have a PGP identity, b) PGP identity doesn't provide any practical value over existing identities, or c) things already work well enough with other identity models, that PGP identities don't integrate well with.
by mjburgess | 2025-11-13 20:42:51+00:00
I mean, I agree. I think most L's are either engaged in a rhetorical performance of the kind you describe, or theyire averse to cognitive effort, or ignorant in the literal sense.

There are a small number of highly technical cases where an L vs S debate makes sense, biological categorisation being one of them. But mostly, it's an illusion of disagreement.

Of course, the pathological-S case is a person inviting distinctions which are contextually inappropriate ("this isnt just an embedding vector, it's a 1580-dim! EV!"). So there can be S-type pathologies, but i think those are rarer and mostly people roll their eyes rather than mistake it as an actual "position".
by cthalupa | 2025-11-13 20:42:58+00:00
> One big change along the way was an amendment that capped the size of the House at 435 members to avoid it growing ever larger as the population expanded. Now the 435 are allocated to the states based on population.

Thankfully, the Permanent Apportionment Act is not actually a constitutional amendment and could be corrected with the passing of legislation rather than needing to go through a full amendment process.
by ifwinterco | 2025-11-13 20:43:16+00:00
Gold and banknotes also have the property of being bearer assets but they're less worrying if you're the authorities because they're physical.

You can (and people often do especially with banknotes) do crime and tax evasion with them, but you can't transport them across borders in large quantities easily.

Something like monero has the potential to be almost as fast and convenient as a fiat bank transfer but able to be done in any size and be untraceable - that's a combination that doesn't win you many friends in western governments
by comex | 2025-11-13 20:43:29+00:00
I tried asking for a shot from a live-action remake of My Neighbor Totoro. This is a task I’ve been curious about for a while. Like Sonic, Totoro is the kind of stylized cartoon character that can’t be rendered photorealistically without a great deal of subjective interpretation, which (like in Sonic’s case) is famously easy to get wrong even for humans. Unlike Sonic, Totoro hasn’t had an actual live-action remake, so the model would have to come up with a design itself. I was wondering what it might produce – something good? something horrifying? Unfortunately, neither; it just produced a digital-art style image, despite being asked for a photorealistic one, and kept doing so even when I copied some of the keyword-stuffing from the post. At least it tried. I can’t test this with ChatGPT because it trips the copyright filter.
by w_for_wumbo | 2025-11-13 20:43:30+00:00
Yes, that is a serious skill. How many of the woes that we see is because people don't know what they want or are unable to describe it in such a way that others understand it. I believe prompt engineer to properly convey how complex communication can be, when interacting with a multitude of perspectives, world views, assumptions, presumptions etc. I believe it works well to counter the over-confidence that people have, from not paying attention to what gaps exist between what is said and what is meant.
by tecoholic | 2025-11-13 20:43:30+00:00
Got it. In India, I am used to the concept of Government hospitals vs Private hospitals. Things are pretty clear on how they work. Insurance was introduced a couple of decades or so back in my home state, which allows people to use private hospitals at govt expenses (premiums paid by govt), but it’s still heavily govt (free) vs private (paid). Here it seems like there are no “govt hospitals” if I understand correctly. So things are a little more complicated.
by munk-a | 2025-11-13 20:43:40+00:00
Ignorance is not a defense for breaking a law and I do hold my politicians (and hope other voters also hold their politicians) to a similar standard when it comes to passing a bill. Lawmakers exist because we've all got food to put on the table and can't handle the constant effort required to understand the intricacies and implications of legal code maintenance - it's the job they've been hired to do and if they're not doing it they shouldn't have that job anymore.
by analog31 | 2025-11-13 20:43:56+00:00
Rejection is when the fun begins. Note that I'm not a lawyer, but I do have 20+ patents, none in the software realm. Rejection means you get to revise your application and re-submit with a new deadline and new fees. Your chances of getting it accepted on the second or third try can vary.

Applications are seldom withdrawn or ultimately rejected altogether, but may be granted with severely narrowed claims. Also, you can revise the claims without changing the text, within limits, which results in granting of a patent with a very broad text followed by narrow claims
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-13 20:43:57+00:00
That assumes they have a sense of sight similar to our own. What if their only well developed sense is smell; their equivalent of writing is depositing scent onto paper and their "non-verbal" movements were the movements required to produce, project, and receive, scent? How would we "look" to them? What is to say that they share any senses with us?
by gpm | 2025-11-13 20:43:59+00:00
The first chart does in fact a compelling reason to believe the effect is not that at all. If the "easy" code was predominantly being rewritten you would expect to % new memory unsafe code and % memory safety vulnerabilities to scale at different rates as the difficult to work on areas remained in C and kept causing new memory vulnerabilities.

Personal experience also provides a compelling reason, my experience is absolutely that people are more inclined to rewrite the things that are causing trouble in a new language.

It's not a blinded randomly controlled trial of course, it's observational data. You can't be completely sure there isn't a confounding factor that explains the data, but it seems far more likely than not that it is a real effect.
by tux3 | 2025-11-13 20:44:02+00:00
That has definitely not been my experience. I like Gitlab, but they've had regular incidents all along. If a git push failed I wouldn't question it, it's almost never my network. I'd just open Gitlab's Gitlab and find the current active issue.

To Gitlab's credit their observability seems to be good, and they do a good job communicating and resolving incidents quickly.

Some companies that shall not be named have status pages that always show green and might as well be a static picture. Some use words like "some customers may have experienced partial service degradation" to mean "complete downtime". Gitlab also has incidents, but they're a lot more trustworthy. You can just open the issue tracker and there's the full incident complete with diagnosis.
by alexpotato | 2025-11-13 20:44:07+00:00
In my experience, politics can happen at any sized company.

e.g. I've worked at firms with 300,000 people and 150 people. The smaller company had MORE politics in some ways.

Or as a manager of mine in Hong Kong once said:

"In Chinese there is a saying: if there are 3 people then there will be politics"
by paganel | 2025-11-13 20:44:36+00:00
> Based on your comment history, you have already done so. You've been carrying water for Russia on HN for the longest time.

I'm talking physically, for better or for worse that is still not the case. I don't want to see Romanian men (which would include me) leaving their (our, in fact) bones on the Ukrainian steppe up to the Volga, once was enough.

> Apparently, you don't know. You think you know. Romania could be the Switzerland of Eastern Europe,

Yes, I do know, and yes, and I am completely and utterly annoyed by Westerners lecturing us on our geo-strategic future.
by rglover | 2025-11-13 20:44:39+00:00
This is the nature of tech now (perhaps the whole time due to being a relatively "new" field). Most people don't have the slightest clue what they're doing beyond their ability to parrot buzzwords.

Mean? Sure. Reality? You betcha. It's incredibly rare these days to encounter truly competent professionals. Most are just hoping the guy below them doesn't know enough to spot their shortfalls and speak up.

This aligns shockingly well with Uncle Bob's rough stat: “The number of programmers doubles every five years or so. This means that half the programmers in the world have less than five years of experience.”
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-11-13 20:45:14+00:00
I'm not saying we put every insignificant little thing on the ballot, but lets say once every 4 years we take the real hot button issues that congress perennially uses as political football, and put them on a ballot. Abortion legal before the age of viability, yes or no. Medicare for all, yes or no. Legalizing cannabis, ditto.

I am sick and tired of congress basically ignoring the will of the people because some rich dudes with superpacs feel otherwise.
by fsckboy | 2025-11-13 20:45:14+00:00
>Show me one useful software patent that ... (b) benefits society by being granted a monopoly. Just one!

that's a bullshit criterion, and nothing about what you said applies to software in particular.

it's generally agreed that monopolies are bad for society, but patents only grant a temporary monopoly to reward innovation, in exchange for which society gets disclosure (at the time patent systems were promulgated, many ideas died with their inventors as trade secrets) and encourages more R&D by creating a system for payoff.
by keeda | 2025-11-13 20:45:25+00:00
Hmm, this is an interesting framing of the lawsuit. If it's about outputs and not just training, are the outputs really orthogonal to the training?

In traditional computer systems, no, outputs are always a function of inputs. LLMs throw a wrench into this reasoning because they apply opaque statistics to a combination of training data and the user prompt to produce outputs, so the input-output relationship is much less clear, but fundamentally it still holds.

So then this case should also be about training. The question then is: did OpenAI intend to have these models be able to regurgitate large amounts of content? Or is it yet another emergent property that nobody anticipated?

I would suspect the latter, because if you view these models as a lossy compression of the whole Internet (cf "Blurry JPEG of the Web" article) it is a surprising outcome that they are able to losslessly reproduce so much of the original content.

So this might come down to intent. Maybe the NYT would need to show that OpenAI intentionally designed for this property, e.g. by rewarding reproductions of entire segments of the original content in its training. In which case, it's looking in the wrong place for evidence.
by btilly | 2025-11-13 20:45:40+00:00
Huh. Some of the books will be ones about doctors, like https://www.amazon.com/Doctors-Think-Jerome-Groopman-2007-03..., which you have to read to find how they talk about cognitive dissonance. Others will be about cognitive dissonance in general, like https://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-but-Third/dp/03583..., which you have to read to find how they use the medical profession as starring examples.

Sorry for not having given you an easier cookie crumb.
by philistine | 2025-11-13 20:45:46+00:00
The sale success of the Steam Deck proves you wrong. The PC is the strongest platform for exclusives because most of everything ends up there eventually. The Xbox has no exclusives anymore, Sony is publishing everything on PC eventually. Only Nintendo remains as never publishing on PC. If you are flexible about your choice of multiplayer-only titles (if you're even interested in that type of things) then the Steam Machine is the best console.

Sony's in trouble; their crown jewels are all on PC right now! You can buy a Steam Machine next year and play all the Spider-Mensch, the Lost Hose, the Ghouls of Yo-Kai!
by aduwah | 2025-11-13 20:45:55+00:00
CRDs in helm are such a freaking nightmare! You want a clean install because you are in a hole? No worries let's remove all the crds and delete/create everything else relying on them. Separating the two (crds and other objects) is a solution but then you have a bastardize thing to maintain that is not latching upstream

Also I cannot count how many times I had to double/triple run charts because crds were in a circular dependency. In a perfect world this must not be an issue but if you want to be a user of an upstream chart this is a pain
by the_gastropod | 2025-11-13 20:46:56+00:00
The ACA was literally dreamed up by The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank. This idea that it was some partisan thing Democrats forced on the country is hilarious. It was always a bending-over-backwards compromise solution to maintain the for-profit system.

There’s a reason that, after 15 years freaking out about it, Republicans still have no plan for replacing it. Virtually any change, outside of more socialization, will make health outcomes worse.
by skissane | 2025-11-13 20:47:03+00:00
We don’t expect 100% reliability from humans-humans will slack off, steal, defraud, harass each other, sell your source code to a foreign intelligence service, turn your business behind your back into a front for international drug cartels-some of that is very low probability, but never zero probability-so is it really a problem if we can’t reduce the probability to literally zero for AIs either?
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-13 20:47:12+00:00
Funny, another commenter on this post was saying the opposite, that Rust was likely being used to just port existing features and that was easier because there were probably good tests for it already.

If you've actually written considerable amounts of Rust and C++, these statistics don't require justification. In my opinion it's completely expected that Rust code is easier to write correctly.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-13 20:47:18+00:00
I believe lrvick said that the spec isn't perfect but works fine in practice, and advises against old broken implementations of it. We will see. In any case, imperfection does not imply fundamental flaw.

I might have missed it. Have you elaborated on why you think OpenPGP is fundamentally flawed? Do you know of any GPG replacements (or rather, OpenPGP replacements)? I want encryption, signing, key management, email integration (optional), multiple recipients, subkeys, revocation certificates, web of trust (even if unused), smart card support, and so on.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-13 20:47:20+00:00
> would much rather take our most contentious issues (abortion, M4A, etc) put them on a national ballot and let the general public decide

Those are actually great examples of where federalism plus direct democracy works better than aggregated democracy. There are fundamental worldview differencs on abortion that a plebescite can't reconcile. The failure of direct democracy is it short circuits deliberation. So to make it work, you need another layer where deliberation occurs.

The Swiss seem to have solved this neatly: the representative body deliberates, and then the population gets and up-down vote.
by pndy | 2025-11-13 20:48:17+00:00
There's sadly whole business and services sector that relies on deals with MS.

My mother mid pandemic placed an order for a hearing aid which is partially supported with money from our healthcare system. Unlike 10-15 years ago nowadays everything is digitalized and done by the Internet - clients are no longer running around the city with paper forms. Sadly that means every personal information, data is exposed to Windows and with W11 it's even less possible to avoid being harvested. Not mention always online browser software used for hearing tests that surely collects on its own.
by andreysheva | 2025-11-13 20:48:43+00:00
My AI bill was getting out of control from user queries and RAG workflows, a third of them generated the same output. I built Kento to fix it. It's a semantic cache that you add by just changing the base_url parameter in your OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google client. It catches duplicates (exact or semantic), serves instant responses, and gives you a dashboard to track hit rates and costs. Faster for your users, cheaper for you.

We have a free dev tier and would love your feedback.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-13 20:48:44+00:00
>Those 8 people still needed to agree to change their vote and the responsibility is ultimately on them

Cool, so we're hoping for a Christmas Carol to come in and show them the error of their ways in a dream?

Its the rest of the senator's responsibility to convince them. As it is their constituents. We're all a bit at fault here.

>When will anything be the GOP’s fault?

The evil within will always be worse than the evil you know. No one expects the devil to turn another leaf, but will chastise Judas for betraying Jesus.

Meanwhile the GOP has embraced the evil. They made things very easy for themselves.
by gpm | 2025-11-13 20:49:02+00:00
Eh, I don't think it's actually one or the other. Google has taken on rewriting some more problematic components in rust. See for example:

Binder kernel driver: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Media codecs: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-in-process-softw...
by Pfhortune | 2025-11-13 20:49:52+00:00
Amazfit is closed, Pebble is open. That's reason enough for me to avoid the former.

As enshittification encroaches on every corner of the technology ecosystem, a company putting out products in 2025 in a way that embraces its community and works in the open is laudable.

Maybe Pebble will turn evil one day, but at least the watches we have today will still work until they physically wear out, not when the company decides they should die.
by linkjuice4all | 2025-11-13 20:49:58+00:00
Hey I resemble that remark!

There's definitely a rush of people trying to upskill/reskill into this technology space despite having no formal training or background beyond basic dev skills. There's other people (such as myself) that came from the big data/NLP space (ads & search) that are trying to add AI to our extensive skillsets but aren't necessarily deep-math experts.

Unfortunately there's not a lot of room at the top and the vast majority of AI implementations at smaller companies are just OpenAI API wrappers. Essentially there's very little lived experience since it's expensive to experiment at home and smaller companies just aren't going to invest in self-hosted models that are expensive to run and quickly fall behind state of the art.
by arjie | 2025-11-13 20:49:58+00:00
I use Zed instead of my normal text editor because it opens instantaneously. But I don't write code in it, and still use my IntelliJ + IdeaVim with Claude Code and Codex in a separate terminal in Ghostty.

But Zed is an insanely fast text editor to open text files in. Just double click and it's on the screen. Love that. Maybe over time I'll do more in it.
by dcre | 2025-11-13 20:50:20+00:00
This article claimed they had single-digit monthly cash burn in August, when they had over $500M ARR (so let's say $41M monthly) and 150 employees. If that is true, they are spending way less than 200% of revenue.

"Anysphere runs pretty lean with around 150 employees and has a single digit monthly cash burn, a source tells me."

https://www.newcomer.co/p/cursors-popularity-has-come-at-a
by paganel | 2025-11-13 20:51:21+00:00
What's to be amazed about it? If I remember right you're from somewhere in the Low Countries, correct? Which means your country hasn't been part of a big land-war since the mid-1600s, give or take.

As I mentioned in another comment, I don't want to see us, Romanians, fight the West's wars anymore (like we fought Germany's war in the 1940s), I don't want for my grand-kids to tell their kids how their grandad barely managed to stay alive thanks to some Russian peasants close to Krasnodar who brought him (me) in their home in the middle of the Russian winter, i.e. the same story that has been actually directly experienced by a person close to me (now dead, of course, as are most of the WW2 veterans) on his way back from just outside Stalingrad.

Again, I don't want for my country, Romania, to be the West's sacrificial lamb for West's interests anymore, once was enough. And you should keep your pontificating for yourself, because you Dutch colonialists didn't fight sh*t on the steppes of Southern Russia / Southern Ukraine so you don't know s*it when it comes to fighting Russia in a great land-war, you were too busy, first, getting your asses kicked by the Japanese, and second, cutting the hands off of the Indonesian freedom fighters.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-13 20:51:32+00:00
The unsound bug tracker is were my heart gets all warm and fuzzy in Rust land.

All the ways to coerce and poke the implementation of what should be safe constructs to produce unexpected garbage - and people spending time fixing the issues because they are treated as bugs.

It’s like the best possible advertisement for ”we enable soundness and correctness for all your programs.”

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20la...