MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jvanderbot | 2025-11-10 17:55:54+00:00
I mean, it's entirely possible that a historic quirk 300+ years ago leads to an increasingly distant relationship today.

It's definitely possible to intepret this the way Russia speaks about Ukraine - "They shouldn't even be a country *except for a historical quirk", but a charitable interpretation would be more along the lines of "things could have gone slightly differently and we'd be countrymen, but instead we brothers from a different mother (country)".
by whoknowsidont | 2025-11-10 17:55:56+00:00
>I just honestly can't believe that someone who managed remote teams in 2005 thinks it's the same as managing in 2025

Because it ruins your narrative, not because it's a factual observation lol. The software your entire life is based on was built using remote teams.

>As the other commenter stated

Surely if you're able to read their comment you're able to read my response. All of these points were addressed and voided.

Go on wikipedia and read about the era or something, instead of larping as someone who was actually there.
by SR2Z | 2025-11-10 17:56:02+00:00
On the contrary - a doctor over their lifetime is an immensely valuable asset to society. They prevent people from dying or being permanently injured - getting an extra year of functionality out of someone's body easily results in tens of thousands of dollars of GDP, if not more.

It's not an art degree that it's just debt with no expectation of usefulness. The government should be offering medical training for free if it can afford it.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-11-10 17:56:31+00:00
Assuming that you're in the US, what's been your experience with JLCPCB recently re:the tariff situation?

I'm getting ready to have a couple prototypes made soon and trying to decide between getting boards made at OSHPark and hand-stuffing/reflowing myself or having JLCPCB do all of it.
by simianwords | 2025-11-10 17:57:17+00:00
> And if the set up is like most apps, you will likely need both running to debug most issues because most issues happen at the system to system interface

wrong. well architected services would have a good interface and problems rarely span multiple services.

>- has an old bespoke Ant + Maven + Jenkins + Bash + Perl build and deploy system that has been built up over the last 30 years -> you can have the same problem on a micro service architecture, you can actually have that problem multiplied by 10 and now you can spend a whole sprint updating dependencies. Fun!

this is no un-nuanced. the point is if you have decomposed the codebase into smaller ones - migrations are easier.
by soerxpso | 2025-11-10 17:57:17+00:00
> 2

I see people say this literally every time someone complaining about lack of interviews posts their resume. We shouldn't have a system where every job seeker is supposed to be more of a resume formatting expert than the average HR rep. The fact that someone looking to hire is going to see an okay resume of a highly qualified candidate and say, "LOL too long; didn't read" is the most glaring symptom of what he's talking about.
by irusensei | 2025-11-10 17:57:41+00:00
I wish we had more options. AFS never left the laboratory and stuff like AFP and whatever Novell had died a slow death.

I have the impression we stalled on NFS and CIFS and I don't think webdav and s3 are good replacements because those don't respect file system ACLs.

NFS would be great if you didn't had to chose between KDC infrastructure or "trust me bro I'm uid 501".
by fidotron | 2025-11-10 17:58:27+00:00
The most damning thing about this is the Canadian gov would struggle to find 300k people in the rest of the population that it would trust with skilling up in those ways. Federal public servants will be the last bastion of the values they try to force on everyone else.

It is in the process of spending vast amounts of money to remove guns from legal gun owners that are subject to absolutely amazing amounts of oversight already.
by graemep | 2025-11-10 17:58:34+00:00
> Europe is currently investing billions in uncoupling its reliance on both Russia (for natural resources) and the US (for defence and natural resources)

Russia, yes.

I do not see any real expectation of Europe not being reliant on the US. See the many discussion here about reliance on US cloud services. Where else are these natural resources to come from? Where is the technology or the money to scale up to what the US has?
by DiabloD3 | 2025-11-10 17:58:37+00:00
The first link aligns with what I know about it: above 70 ng/ml is where side effects start happening. I stay below 70 with 5000, but for other people, they may need less or even more, depends entirely on where you live, and other factors that are known to burn through Vitamin D (such as being overweight or drinking caffeinated beverages or experiencing high stress).

Based research I've seen, for optimal wakefulness and cognitive ability, 50-60 is optimal, below 40 is too low, above 70 is too high.

You may have to adjust dosage over time to dial this in.
by kristoff_it | 2025-11-10 17:58:39+00:00
Some people like Zig because it makes it easier to learn how to program the machine sitting in front of them.

It's better at that than Rust because it's less abstracted, and it's better at that than C because you don't have to worry all the toolchain nonsense / weird conventions / weak type system of the C ecosystem.

As a small example wrt Rust: resetting an arraylist/vector while reusing its memory is a weirdly complicated trick https://lobste.rs/s/emvkea/why_we_didn_t_rewrite_our_feed_ha...

I think I don't need to provide references for C.

It's a new pathway to mastery that really works well for some people. That in itself is much more valuable than any new specific feature the language has to offer, although the ability of the toolchain to cross-compile reliably not only Zig but also C and C++ code does play into that.

And, while not yet 100% there, instant incremental rebuilds also help to achieve faster feedback loops.

People like Zig because it's a tool that helps them become better programmers, faster.
by csallen | 2025-11-10 17:58:48+00:00
It's not "my views," it's "my political allegiances." There's a difference.

Deciding what political party to vote for is entirely a matter of picking a team, which is entirely dependent on who is on that team. Of course it's "everyone else's fault" whose team you decide to pick. That is literally the game. People are picking representatives. Deciding what representatives to pick is 100% a case of who those representatives are, how they act, and what they believe.

If one team antagonizes you and attempts to harm you, and you therefore decide to vote for the other team, not only is that so reasonable as to be completely unsurprising, but it's also quite justifiable to say, "This is their fault."

Somehow people have forgotten that politics is about garnering willing votes, not smugly browbeating and shaming people about our superior morals and ethics.
by incomingpain | 2025-11-10 17:58:52+00:00
Canada has been running about 1% of gdp military spending, despite obligation of 2%; with new promise to meet 5%. a 500% increase to the size of our military in short order is the promise.

Our reserves are at about 40,000. They announced the plan to go to 400,000. 10x the size. It's not so much about any outside fears, it's just meeting our obligations.The fear about Russia or China is unfounded. The problem is that the USA our greatest ally isn't letting us use them as a shield.

>Federal and provincial employees would be given a one-week training course in how to handle firearms, drive trucks and fly drones, according to the directive, signed by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan

There's only about 300,000 federal employees. Greater on the provincial sides, but Canada isn't that big. Conscription will be necessary to fulfill these numbers

>The public servants would be inducted into the Supplementary Reserve, which is currently made up of inactive or retired members of the Canadian Forces who are willing to return to duty if called.

It says voluntary, but given the very significant % who need to join and be subject to immediate activation. I dont expect many to volunteer. Reserves at least pays you to have this cost. Conscription will be necessary. They are forcing those government employees ultimately.
by simianwords | 2025-11-10 17:59:29+00:00
i keep seeing "but this is only relevant if you are working at FAANG scale" but most productive applications work at similar scale. there's little fun or education just speaking about mocks or prototypes.

sure there are a lot of startups that start off and don't have much traffic. but i don't like that we dismiss real world _productive_ applications because not many companies hit that scale. but most productive applications hit that scale!!
by nycdatasci | 2025-11-10 17:59:31+00:00
I ordered one that arrived last week. It seems like a great idea with horrible execution. The UI shows strange glitchy/artifacts occasionally as if there's a hardware failure.

To get a sense for use cases, see the playbooks on this website: https://build.nvidia.com/spark.

Regarding limited memory bandwidth: my impression is that this is part of the onramp for the DGX Cloud. Heavy lifting/production workloads will still need to be run in the cloud.
by pseudalopex | 2025-11-10 17:59:32+00:00
> Even early in its history, Microsoft was famous for merging these together into a single role: "developer".

No. Microsoft was famous for having a role called Software Development Engineer in Test.

> Remember Steve Balmer chanting "Developers, developers, developers" (in about 2000)? That's why.

No. Ballmer's chant was about 3rd party developers.
by atourgates | 2025-11-10 18:00:21+00:00
This was interesting:

> Still, Mixter and the team were labeled "ghouls and pirates," and "the state of Michigan actually passed a law against recording bodies on shipwrecks that are less than 50 years old," he said.

Assumedly, as of today, the Edmund Fitzgerald has aged out of that law?

The latest episode of the NYTimes book review podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sinking-of-the-edm...] is a really interesting interview with John U. Bacon who just wrote a book on the Edmund Fitzgerald, called The Gales of November. Quite interesting if, like me, you didn't know anything about the historical event beyond the song.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-10 18:00:23+00:00
Well I think one can justify it emotionally or logically. People identifying as anti-corporate are probably more likely to align as pro-environment. The emotional POV would be that non-person-personhood isn't good or bad intrinsically, it just depends if we approve of the area where the doctrine's applied.

The more logical reason is that if corporate personhood sucks and we have it anyway, then like it or not, now we need to extend it elsewhere just to level the playing field. If anti-environmental interests can hide behind it as a justification that makes their fight easier, then let the environmental interests do the same thing.
by nine_k | 2025-11-10 18:00:25+00:00
It's a bit like the famous HN post where somebody said that Dropbox is not needed if you have rsync and friends.

Technically this can even be correct. You can build and operate a good, secure solution for yourself if you have time and skill to build. Could make sense for a company handling sensitive data. Would hardly make sense for most individuals who are not professional SREs / SWEs. (To check how it feels, an engineer can try to sew themself a pair of pants to wear daily, or do something similarly mundane in what they are not skilled.)

A solution that can reliably work for non-experts is very important.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-10 18:00:28+00:00
I am not sure I have understood this fully.

Should not a query towards some provider about the online-data about some citizen be protected by the first amendment? In other words, if a search warrant would be required to enter a house, unless invited, why would this not apply to online data stored somewhere? There are only very few situations where a warrantless search may be conducted, e. g. such as when driving a car and a cop has an objective and reasonable suspicion. When the court systems is no longer involved, it then means that people objectively have lost certain basic rights, freedoms and safeguards against any governmental overreach.
by buran77 | 2025-11-10 18:00:37+00:00
> I can only attribute the angry skepticism in the comments to willful ignorance or lack of in-the-seat experience

Next to "the latest version really fixed it, for realsies this time", the "anyone who doesn't like it is ignorant or has irrational hate for Tesla" must be the second most sung hymn among a small but entirely too vocal group of Tesla owners. Nothing brings down a conversation as quickly as someone like you, trying to justify your purchase by insulting everyone who doesn't agree with your sunk-cost-fallacy-driven opinions.
by sebastiennight | 2025-11-10 18:00:40+00:00
> charging people to use toilets on-board

AFAIK this has never happened.

This is a PR stunt that is regularly used (like the idea of standing-room-only tickets) to generate a new round of press for the company and highlight how cost-efficient and ruthless they are, which aligns with their branding and keeps the story alive.

I understand the sentiment but as sibling comment points out, you're very light in the way of stating facts to back up these claims.
by drob518 | 2025-11-10 18:00:55+00:00
It’s easier swapping an engineer into a module associated with a well-architected monolith than swapping them into a microservice. Given a monolith uses function calls that are fast and don’t fail when the network cable is unplugged or DNS gets misconfigured, it’s arguably a lot easier. There are fewer failure modes and overall lower complexity. No circuit breakers, back offs, retries, etc.
by atoav | 2025-11-10 18:01:09+00:00
For me it goes like this:

Ok if we are already extending personhood to corporations, who with their sheer power transcend individuals, why not also extend that fiction to other entities that would actually need active protection?

Wouldn't corporations do just fine and we would live in a better world if we stripped any form of personhood from corporations? The biggest collision area stemming from corporate personhood is its collision with other, actual persons. The only reason corporate personhood is a thing is because it allows corporate lawyers to pick from a bigger pool of personal rights in a perversion of the spirit of these original rights. Thus watering down the existing right.
by altruios | 2025-11-10 18:01:37+00:00
> Most people who (quite reasonably) hate corporate personhood would probably have a knee-jerk reaction that personhood for a river can/should be normalized.

Three replies now, all saying that this is nonsense (including this one). I would venture to say it's the other way around: if you are okay with a river having 'personhood' then that logically leads to being okay with a group of people having 'personhood'.

Elephants, on the other hand, have a better case for 'personhood' than a river. An elephant has autonomy, is thinking, can feel pain, has emotions... a river has none of these things, nor does a corporation (even if the parts {humans} consisting of a corporation do).
Show HN: a1 - determinism-maxing JIT compiler for AI agents
by calebhwin | 2025-11-10 18:01:44+00:00
Hi HN!

a1 is a cost-optimizing AOT/JIT compiler for AI agents. I thought I'd post here and see if folks are interested in early using/contributing/providing feedback.

Paper coming soon.

-- Caleb (PhD student @ Stanford MAST)
by Loughla | 2025-11-10 18:01:55+00:00
Our best approach was to run fiber in the ground in the public right-of-way on county or local streets and avoided the state highways. It was much easier to get easements with property owners and local towns than the state (as far as I know, our request is still sitting unread with the state). That meant we had to build twice, essentially. Once for the north of the major highway that bisects the area, and once for the south. But that cut out all of the nonsense with existing agreements from the state. So that helped.

Most property owners we had to cut across were willing to forego payment of any kind for free fiber hardware, and access at reduced rates for 10 years. So that was nice.

We didn't evaluate wireless, just because of the terrain, but I do know a local chap who is providing that for folks using grain bins for line-of-site access points. That's seemed to work well for his use case.
by simianwords | 2025-11-10 18:01:56+00:00
>How often do you think a ChatGPT user walks away not just misinformed, but misinformed with conviction? I would bet this happens all the time. And I can’t help but wonder what the effects are in the big picture.

this is so wrong! i simply can't get ChatGPT to admit something clearly wrong. it can play both sides and gives nuance which is exactly what i expect. but it is so un-sycopanthic that it won't leave you feeling like you are right. any examples of it doing so are welcome! show me examples where it takes a clearly wrong or false idea and makes it look as if it is a good idea (unless you specifically ask it to do it).
by Kon5ole | 2025-11-10 18:01:56+00:00
I think the fragmentation is good, it allows many talents working in the same area at once and lets users choose what fits best. The problem is that this leaves a lot of the polishing work to the users, and the defaults - which most stick with - are often the most boring, safe choice.

I think what DHH did with Omakub (and Omarchy) was a constructive solution here - use the myriad of options to pick out a set of components and configs that work well. Polish the selections, hide and ignore the capabilities that don't fint in, and document how to use the resulting "bundle" in great detail.
by hex4def6 | 2025-11-10 18:02:09+00:00
Because it's a strategic issue. The internet is critical infrastructure. While TP-Link might not have contracts with ISPs and datacenters, it doesn't take a lot of imagination to think what damage you could have with 30% of the home / small business routers under your control.

This could range from plausible deniability stuff (like the examples in the article), to targeted investigations / attacks (Bob who works at the Gov Accounting office for Miliary Spending), all the way to a 100-million unit botnet turning to provide a few days of distraction ("Bad hackers compromised our OTA system. Sorry!") on while a certain island is being eminant-domained.

Your food example is not the same. You can't trojan-horse an apple pie, or target an individual customer from the supplier-side (yet). If you decided to poison them, that's pulling the pin from the grenade right now.
by wmf | 2025-11-10 18:02:20+00:00
It's the same as DGX Spark so there are several:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586776

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008434

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713835

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575127

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45611912

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43409281

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739844
by bunderbunder | 2025-11-10 18:02:54+00:00
I'm not even sure it's bonkers if you have a lot of traffic. It depends on the nature of the traffic and how you define "a lot". In general, though, it's amazing how low latency a function call that can handle passing data back and forth within a memory page or a few cache lines is compared to inter-process communication, let alone network I/O.

The corollary to that is, it's amazing how far you can push vertical scaling if you're mindful of how you use memory. I've seen people scale single-process, single-threaded systems multiple orders of magnitude past the point where many people would say scale-out is an absolute necessity, just by being mindful of things like locality of reference and avoiding unnecessary copying.
by tempfile | 2025-11-10 18:03:31+00:00
The first amendment is not related. I think you are talking about the fourth amendment (protection from unreasonable searches and seizures). In this case the online data is stored by the provider, and there is no private location for which to obtain a warrant. The provider's database is not your private domicile. Legally, it is no different from a cop asking a store for footage from their cameras.

Of course, the claim is that it should not be considered this way, because it is bad for privacy. But the reasoning that led here is pretty comprehensible.
by fragmede | 2025-11-10 18:03:58+00:00
In that case, I have important news to tell you about! OpenAI has come out with am AI web browser! What is an AI web browser good for? I don't really know, but what you _can_ do, is log into hacker news with it, point it at your hacker news comment history, tell it to look at /newcomments page for stuff you'd want to comment on, and it'll shitpost for you!

What a wonderful time saver! Now you can get back to the important work of doing the dishes and folding laundry, and don't feel the need to personally participate in the denial of service attack on human intellect going on here.
by drewg123 | 2025-11-10 18:04:12+00:00
Agreed. I live the USA in a 100 year old apartment building, and can see a zillion ISP provided routers, all squabbling over the same handful of 5GHz channels. 6E is a game changer.

5Ghz is stuttery and laggy and makes it pretty much impossible to have a clean video call. I don't game, but gaming on it would be miserable. I've measured latency, and it regularly spikes above 1s.

6E is far, far better. Rock solid video calls. Latency testing sites show low, steady latency. The only real problem is signal attenuation seems to be far worse with 6E. Getting a signal 2 walls away from the router is nearly impossible. Though this is also a strength, as it limits the number of devices competing for spectrum.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-10 18:04:26+00:00
That's what makes Black Mirror so compelling. It's not flights of fancy with things like FTL traveling through space. It's taking slight twists to the darker side of where our tech leaders are taking us. At least someone is thinking these things through to the end even if our teach leaders are only thinking through to the $$$$. Too bad these stories are never enough to slow things down and used as "oooh, let's not let our tech come to that".
by mcv | 2025-11-10 18:05:07+00:00
> That's because in the US we don't give non-state organization power over other people.

How are credit ratings maintained again?

> At least not in the European way where you have to give your life to an org.

I have to what!? News to me.

> A US citizen has the freedom to disassociate with any organization at any time for any reason.

Maybe, but the EU is more militant in enforcing that right. Some US states are working on "right to be forgotten" laws, but they've got a lot of catching up to do, and I don't think there's a federal law in the works yet.
by xinbenlv | 2025-11-10 18:05:07+00:00
Wise @X friends: why have major authentication providers like @auth0 and @ClerkDev and @Google / @LinkedIn SSO have not supported "Multi-Signer Authentication": instead of a single signer, simply ask for more signers to authenticate an action (login, or approval).

For example, when traditionally a low risk action would be validated with a single email confirmation, a high risk action (change password, add passkey) will require two different email confirmation with two different email domains, and plus, a user can add N email addresses (trusted contacts) and a min M of these email addresses can help approve a change of email.

This is not very much different from what @safe achieves already using smart contract, but is massively backward compatible with emails

This will massively reduce the chance of social engineering.