MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piokoch | 2025-11-05 07:49:08+00:00
Oh, those memories!

He was sentenced to pay $10,050, today he would not get away that easily I guess...

Another thing I didn't know (citing Wikipedia):

"In 1995, Morris cofounded Viaweb with Paul Graham, a start-up company that made software for building online stores. It would go on to be sold to Yahoo for $49 million[14], which renamed the software Yahoo! Store. "

and (same source):

"He is a longtime friend and collaborator of Paul Graham. Along with cofounding two companies with him, Graham dedicated his book ANSI Common Lisp to Morris and named the programming language that generates the online stores' web pages RTML (Robert T. Morris Language) in his honor."
by KronisLV | 2025-11-05 07:49:11+00:00
For development use cases, I switched to Sonnet 4.5 and haven't looked back. I mean, sure, sometimes I also use GPT-5 (and mini) and Gemini 2.5 Pro (and Flash), and also Cerebras Code just switched to providing GLM 4.6 instead of the previous Qwen3 Coder so those as well, but in general the frontier models are pretty good for development and I wouldn't have much reason to use something like Sonnet 4 or 3.7 or whatever.
by overfeed | 2025-11-05 07:50:09+00:00
I had early "insider" info on COVID admissions from a Pulmonologist spouse, and an understanding of exponential growth (doubling every few days).

I took the initiative to be the first person to WFH in my org, which I did as a pre-emptive quarantine as I was at risk of being infected: several of my spouse's colleagues subsequently got infected. Unfortunately, I didn't link my WFH circumstances that with investing in Zoom.
by thesumofall | 2025-11-05 07:50:37+00:00
While I fully agree that there are a lot of complicated rules for edge cases, for simple (non self employed) cases it is very straightforward. In fact, you don’t have to do anything at all in many cases and still won’t be screwed over as the German IRS will assume typical deductions. There is an official free filing software and if you spend 20-30 USD a year you’ll get access to super easy to use professional filing software. My situation is more complicated than most and I spend 2hrs a year for my entire family
by preommr | 2025-11-05 07:50:48+00:00
Left wing candidate wins in extremely Left wing city, against "Cuomo"[0], to become mayor and people are celebrating this like it's some historical achievement.

Everyday I grow more blackpilled about the balance of powers in the US if this is what the left-wing has going for it.

[0] His name alone should be a synonym for how bad of a candidate he was, there's no single label good enough (like sex offender) to cover how bad he was.
by FreakLegion | 2025-11-05 07:51:03+00:00
Cuckoo filters can do even better with the small adjustment of using windows instead of buckets. See "3.5-Way Cuckoo Hashing for the Price of 2-and-a-Bit": https://scispace.com/pdf/3-5-way-cuckoo-hashing-for-the-pric.... (This significantly improves load factors rather than changing anything else about the filter, and ends up smaller than the semi-sorted variant for typical configurations, without the rigmarole.)

My fairly niche use case for these kinds of data structures was hardware firewalls running mostly on SRAM, which needed a sub one-in-a-billion false positive rate.
by FootballMuse | 2025-11-05 07:51:11+00:00
Uncompressed, absolutely we need another generation bump with over 128Gbps for 8K@120Hz with HDR. But with DSC HDMI 2.1 and the more recent DisplayPort 2.0 standards is possible, but support isn't quite there yet.

Nvidia quotes 8K@165Hz over DP for their latest generation. AMD has demoed 8K@120hz over HDMI but not on a consumer display yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Refresh_frequency_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Refresh_frequency_limits_...

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/graphics-cards/compare/
by Unroasted6154 | 2025-11-05 07:51:25+00:00
It's a bit weird to present it as an alternative to S3 when it looks like a persistent cache or k/v store. A benchmark against Redis would have been nice for example. The benchmark for rocks DB is also questionable as the performance depends a lot on how you configure it, and the article's claim that it doesn't support range read doesn't give me confidence in the results.

Also for the descried issue of small images for a frontend, nobody would serve directly from S3 without a caching layer on top.

It's a interesting read for fun, but I am not sure what it solves in the end.
by spwa4 | 2025-11-05 07:52:45+00:00
More general one would wish that Kubernetes had a few extra ways to get images, so you could grow on a scale from "minimal infrastructure" to "fully CI/CD". Starting with just sending the image in the RPC itself or even just on local disk (you figure out how to get it there), all the way up to registries with tightly controlled versioning.
by qubex | 2025-11-05 07:53:14+00:00
An interesting question that arises naturally but is entirely unaddressed in the article is “why (and how) would evolution select for this kind of final behaviour?” Given that by definition the process of death occurs well after the phase of out-reproducing others, how would evolution even have an opportunity to select for this “closing of the curtains” moment. It would have to be the byproduct of something that enhances reproductive fitness during the fertile period or extends that period of fertility. Maybe those who have less traumatic near-death-experiences go on to have children (or more children) than those who faced a nihilistic experience? That really seems to be utterly marginal and likely to be swamped by genetic drift. Also remember that arguably it’s the genes that are using us to procreate, not the other way around (selfish gene hypothesis). I really don’t understand how this could arise, and insofar as I don’t understand how it could arise, I’m fairly skeptical that it’s actually occurring (slightly skewed take on scientific empiricism I know, but I’m a Bayesian at heart).
by thereitgoes456 | 2025-11-05 07:54:28+00:00
Sadly we do not have, and will never have, the resources to help everyone, even to a baseline of human dignity. Surely we can't give people unlimited talk therapy, MRIs, and cancer treatment for free. But some people sorely need these things.

Preventative/propylactic care is orders of magnitude cheaper than treatment once a disease has manifested. It makes sense to me to punish people for not doing this care, thereby choosing to impose more strain on an already overburdened system.

Note that GP only mentioned things we have control over -- exercise, weight, not smoking. Of course I agree that it would be cruel to disadvantage pre-existing conditions.
by toolazytologin | 2025-11-05 07:56:14+00:00
Or “politics” are too much of their identity and they always vote for “their guy” regardless of the merits. Education does not matter when the vote has nothing to so with rationality and is only rooting for a team.

Corruption will never be solved. It could possibly be reduced if there was less ROI. I expect that would require shrinking the government so there is less centralized power. A limited federal government and more administrative power handed back to the states (within reason) would be interesting.
by sillyfluke | 2025-11-05 07:56:41+00:00
Yeah, but this only strengthens the parents point that "It works in europe" is not a good rallying cry in the states. It's also too easy for opponents to counter and point to random europeans who complain about their own system and win cheap debate points on that front. It might be better to just lean into the exceptionalism and say, "We're America, we're richer, we can make a better system." Or something along those lines.
by whoooboyy | 2025-11-05 07:57:12+00:00
That's what people are saying when they say defund. Reduce funding for. Consistently this is what anyone who says defund the police has always meant. You gotta take off the tin foil hat, my guy.

"We'll find out" haha, you think he's going to shut down the nypd? They have an operating budget of what, $6 billion dollars annually?

He's not going to shut them down, you can't just stop a $6b organization. You can, however, defund it. Maybe they could do just fine with $5 billion. If the city has an extra billion to spend on building housing or improving transit or providing health care or services to the homeless... a billion dollars a year buys a lot of things.
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-11-05 07:58:18+00:00
Correct AWS gives you availability zones. It is easy to spin up a cluster over them and have little or no downtime.

But a burning data centre is just one problem. Another is e.g. the USE1 issue AWS had. AZ didnt help here. Having compute in a other region an rerouting might. But maybe we aint talking startup concerns here. (If you have a simple enough "app" just deploy again in another region and update dns.)
by byroot | 2025-11-05 07:58:37+00:00
> can be any of latin-1, UCS-2 or UCS-4, as described in PEP 393

My bad, I haven't seriously used Python for over 15 years now, so I stand corrected (and will clarify the post).

My main point stands though, Python strings have an internal representation, but it's not exposed to the user like Ruby strings.

> Article also says PHP has immutable strings. They are mutable, although often copied.

Same. Thank you for the correction, I'll update the post.
by saghm | 2025-11-05 07:58:48+00:00
So if someone goes and pirates something on their own time on a whim, it's a criminal issue, but if 100 people correctively pirate a few orders of magnitude more stuff because their boss's boss's boss's boss told everyone to, it's just a licensing issue? Here's my suggestion: either throw out all the convictions that have ever occurred for software piracy and allow them to sue for reparations, or charge the people that are making those backroom deals for extortion and obstruction of justice. Either it should be a crime for everyone or no one; being rich enough to bribe your way out of it isn't just, and it's preposterous to claim otherwise.
by gitonthescene | 2025-11-05 07:58:56+00:00
Just to double down here I took a code base written in this style (not exactly atw but inspired by him) and spent about a day expanding it to this point: https://codeberg.org/growler/k/src/branch/expand/a.c My guess is it would only take a week to get it to what people here are calling “acceptable”.
by general1465 | 2025-11-05 07:58:56+00:00
I have tried to install it and got absolutely nowhere.

1. sudo apt install cargo on latest ubuntu and on attempt to "cargo install bluetui" it will say something about edition 2024 error. Because ubuntu is installing rust from 2023 and nobody bothered to update it?

2. Installing from https://rust-lang.org/tools/install/ will install rust only after removing existing version from 2023 (Why you won't just rewrite it?). Now I don't have cargo at all.

3. On attempt to use rustup it will tell me that path was not found. I need separate installation?

I am sorry but WTF is this garbage? Seems like whole rust ecosystem is broken...
by skwee357 | 2025-11-05 07:59:21+00:00
I never understood the appeal of AWS like cloud for non corporate. Sure, when you run a BigCo, you have all the money and people to throw at big cloud providers, obtaining pointless certificates, and configuring obscure IAM roles.

But why small businesses like them, I can’t I understand. I host all my stuff on Hetzner. It’s easy, it’s affordable and I “move fast”. I don’t need certificates to be able to manage the servers, and there is tone of information available online. But maybe it’s because I’m old, and I used to ssh to a Linux machine, git pull the latest version, and call in a “deploy”. But modern developed seems to be afraid of raw machines.

The only thing I miss is a good transactional email provider with PAYG pricing, and EU data residency.
by ryan_lane | 2025-11-05 08:00:39+00:00
There's also (relatively) strong renter protections, including effectively frozen rent.

Yes, it's possible to increase rent, but only if the surrounding areas prices have increased, and even then the renter has to agree or it otherwise goes to court and the court tends to not side with landlords.

> and depreciating home values incentivize building new real estate

Yes and no. Most housing in Tokyo is apartment complexes and/or condos, which do not depreciate very much (and in fact in the past few years have appreciated by ~30%). Standalone houses depreciate, but the land appreciates. That leads to new construction for those properties, which often then turn into apartment complexes.

Basically, it's a matter of mostly becoming more dense over time, while also restricting price increases of rents.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 08:01:04+00:00
> Just not having that legislation, letting employment & insurance decouple and a sane market for healthcare develop might easily be better than the ACA.

Maybe? But what is the mechanism by which employment gets decoupled from health insurance? That would require a different law, I suppose?

But that wasn't what I suggested: I said having the ACA is better than not having it, not that having the ACA is better than other possible alternative laws. I can think of quite a lot of alternative healthcare reform laws that would be significantly better than the ACA.

And I think it's reasonably safe to say that in "ACA vs. nothing else", ACA wins, if we judge by the millions of people who will lose healthcare coverage if the ACA were to be repealed and not replaced with anything new.
by astrange | 2025-11-05 08:01:05+00:00
Households can have more than two incomes - roommates, children who work, grandparents etc.

In practice, household sizes have gone down over time as more people live on their own, which means the income graph is lower than it otherwise would be.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=cWvT

As for dual income families, they're mostly a good thing that happens when women can afford to pay for childcare. That is, that book The Two-Income Trap was mostly false. This is part of the topic of Claudia Goldin's economics Nobel, the other part being that the gender wage gap is caused by motherhood interrupting women's careers.

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2023/12/goldin-lecture-sl...
by somat | 2025-11-05 08:01:22+00:00
As best I understand it fascism originally described a sort of reverse socialism, I mean realistically it was socialist, it was after the same end goals as socialist policy, but it achieved them in the opposite manner, Where socialism seeks to balance corporate power usually by increased regulation and control of the corporations which has the side effect of incorporating them into the state. fascism seeks to balance state power by having corporations run the state. Which is the same end result, the corporations are incorporated into the state.

But any way you swing it fascism did not stand for that very long and now days usually is intended to mean a police or military state. Or more often because nobody knows what fascism is but everyone knows that it is objectively bad it is what you call your political opponent. case closed, argument won.
by xeroc | 2025-11-05 08:01:46+00:00
I'm the developer behind Tributary, a protocol we built to enable automated recurring payments on Solana using token delegation. Users sign once to set up subscriptions, donations, or installments without locking funds (non-custodial).

We built the MVP from scratch, including:

• Smart Contracts: Rust/Anchor programs for payment logic and token delegation. • SDK: TypeScript SDK with React components for easy integration. • Demo Flows: Four working demos (create, pause, resume, delete subscriptions). • Infrastructure: Full docs, CLI tools, and Devnet deployment.

As an example integration, https://contribute.so uses Tributary for monthly donations in USDC/SOL. Creators can accept recurring support where users delegate once and payments flow automatically.

The SDK and docs are available if you're building on Solana and need subscriptions.

Links: Website https://tributary.so | GitHub https://github.com/tributary-so

What are your thoughts on recurring payments for Solana?
by simulator5g | 2025-11-05 08:02:40+00:00
I drive 50k miles a year in a snowy area with regular all season tires and front wheel drive. Its completely doable! You just have to git gud, like for real, ice isn't going to change your trajectory so just avoid a spin and you'll quickly reach the end of the ice patch. Anyone can learn this skill. Just spend some time sliding around an icy parking lot at night. Then again. and again. and again.
by rcarmo | 2025-11-05 08:02:51+00:00
I think this is somewhat disingenuous since not everyone uses the latest thing, and people tend to stick to “what works” for them.

Models are picky enough about prompting styles that changing to a new model every week/month becomes an added chunk of cognitive overload, testing and experimentation, plus even in developer tooling there have been minor grating changes in API invocations and use of parameters like temperature (I have a fairly low-level wrapper for OpenAI, and I had to tweak the JSON handling for GPT-5).

Also, there are just too many variations in API endpoints, providers, etc. We don’t really have a uniform standard. Since I don’t use “just” OpenAI, every single tool I try out requires me to jump through a bunch of hoops to grab a new API key, specify an endpoint, etc.—and it just gets worse if you use a non-mainstream AI endpoint.
by akdor1154 | 2025-11-05 08:03:18+00:00
How's the latency? Latency is what makes Zoom et al painful for me now - it ruins the ability to politely interject, give confirmatiom, etc. Does Apple do a better job of this than Google/Zoom? In theory you could get 20-30ms (just spitballing numbers I used to get playing shooters!) but i've never got anywhere near that with vid conferencing.

Even so, latency-in-zoom kind of becomes an attribute of the medium and you learn to adapt. How does it feel with the Vision Pro though? The article talks about a really convincing sense of being in the same place with someone - how does latency affect that? (And does it differ based on if you're all physically in Silicon Valley or not?)
by whoooboyy | 2025-11-05 08:03:30+00:00
Why does queer liberation means defund the police sounds dumb to you?

You know that for generations the police have been beating, arresting, and accosting queer people just because they are queer, right? A practice that continues to this day? (Just this year, Seattle police raided gay bars because they were gay bars)

You know that defund is not the same as abolish, right? And that the nypd has an operating budget in the billions annually?

You know that queer health care, particularly access to prophylaxis and safe facilities is woefully under funded, resulting in high homeless, violence, and drug abuse rates in the queer population right?

And that when you put them all together you get, "taking money from the police, who have historically and contemporaneously abused queer people, and allocating those funds to the medical and social welfare of queer people would be liberatory".

That sure as shit doesn't sound dumb to me, that sounds extremely reasonable to be honest given the context, history, and needs of the queer community.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-11-05 08:03:44+00:00
Joe Lieberman and basically every Republican ever, for decades.

And the Republicans on the Supreme Court that hobbled what the Democrats managed to narrowly get through the political process.

But sure, direct all the anger for that towards Democrats, that will result in better Healthcare any day now. I hear Trump has concepts of a plan that he's been working on for over a decade that he'll let us know about in just 2 weeks.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-05 08:03:51+00:00
>ACA is a failure and the only thing it did was make it mandatory and unaffordable at the same time.

Compared to what? Is it really better to just be uninsured and go bankrupt over an ambulance ride?

This point alone makes your entire post suspect, even though parts of it are indeed true (it's a real shame guantanomo was not closed down).
by aadv1k | 2025-11-05 08:03:56+00:00
Hey, this is great :) I attempted to do something similar a while back https://github.com/aadv1k/deimos basically trying to build many of OpenCV's functions from scratch in C from first principles, though I was using stb for handling the images. I ended up putting the project on hold, primarily because I lost interest in computer vision at the time.

For a while I went deep into OCR, and built a rather rudimentary stroke width transform (https://github.com/aadv1k/swt.h) but again, the results were very hit or miss, likely because I never took the time to understand the logic behind why these functions would work.

1) Optimise many of the functions (a lot of room to use GPU, multi-threading and what not!). 2) Add new functions and improve the existing edge detection ones

I would love to know of a good resource for computer vision, the various algorithms, optimisation techniques etc. Thanks for sharing this project! Cheers
by omnimus | 2025-11-05 08:04:00+00:00
This is apologetic liberal tactic to keep the status quo. US president is still the most powerful political position on the planet. They can do stuff you know.

Obama is not some good hearted hero who had his hands tied. He ran on pretty progressive campaign because it polled well and when he came to office he just did what his sponsors wanted - keep status quo.

It was keeping the money in pockets of billionaires and corporations while talking about promise of potential change by the most charismatic president ever.

That's why people don't trust democrats.
by sofixa | 2025-11-05 08:04:05+00:00
Based on what?

The French tax system is pretty simple. Taxes are high, but simple. The website you use to file your taxes is also pretty simple, and every single field has a button that explains what it is about and in which cases you should write stuff inside.

The only annoying parts are if you have accounts outside of France, you have to declare them. And if you get dividends/capital gains in foreign currencies outside of the EU, you have to calculate yourself how much tax you owe using a bunch of tables per country and currency.
by gptfiveslow | 2025-11-05 08:04:52+00:00
GPT5 is HELLISHLY slow. That's all there is to it.

It loves doing a whole bunch of reasoning steps and prolaim how mucf of a very good job it did clearing up its own todo steps and all that mumbo jumbo, but at the end of the day, I only asked it a small piece of information about nginx try_files that even GPT3 could answer instantly.

Maybe before you make reasoning models that go on funny little sidequests wher they multiply numbers by 0 a couple of times, make it so its good at identfying the length of a task. ntil then, I'll ask little bro and advance only if necessity arrives. And if it ends up gathering dust, well... yeah.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-11-05 08:05:08+00:00
Personally, I prefer cool blog posts over "add another Copilot button that does nothing to something that did not require it anyway" or "paper over a perfectly fine API with a newer version that has 60% of the functionality and 120% of the bugs" (which is what Microsoft engineering mostly seems to boil down to these days), but you be you...
by IanCal | 2025-11-05 08:05:57+00:00
Hypothesis keeps a database of failures to use locally and you can add a decorator to mark a specific case that failed. So you run it, see the failure, add it as a specific case and then that’s committed to the codebase.

The randomness can bite a little if that test failure happens on an unrelated branch, but it’s not much different to someone just discovering a bug.

edit - here's the relevant part of the hypothesis guide https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/replayi...