MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by retrochameleon | 2025-11-10 01:00:46+00:00
In my eyes China seems to have a very strong position. They have invested so heavily in optimizing their industries, regulations, etc. that they really seem to operate many orders of magnitude more efficiently than anyone else.

They also have a great advantage in their communistic structure. If they decide on a big project, pivot, allocation of resources for long-term strategy, they just do it. You don't have to convince citizens or states. They just do it if it makes strategic sense.

Those benefits often seem to outweigh the issues of citizen happiness, cohesion, government support. China has gotten incredibly good at controlling their citizens such that dissent seems like a pretty small issue for them to deal with.

As I understand, China is facing some difficulty scaling up food production for strong food security. I'm not familiar with their issues regarding power generation, but I'm curious to know more. While I'm not surprised they are indebted, like almost every other country in the world, I don't see that stopping them from ignoring the rest of the world when they don't think anyone else can stop them. Whenever tensions reach a breaking point.

On top of all that, China seems to have a lot of good talent, particular in the technology sector. We are at the precipice of an AI and drone-enabled world war, and if a country were to make vast strides in that technology to get ahead of peers, the power differential could be quite scary. And if any country has the industry and resources to produce tons of such weapons at scale, I'd expect it to be China, maybe with some help from their allies.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-10 01:02:59+00:00
> It is the diacrimination based on protected classes like race and sex that people have a problem with.

Well, its discrimination based on protected classes that has a higher legal bar to be acceptable to the government defining those classes, but protected classes (even in the US) differ between states and between the states and the federal government and, even within the same jurisdiction, for different kinds of activities.

But, no, what is more restricted by law and what people have problems with are not the same thing! Many people have problems with discrimination on bases which are not currently protected classes, and many people endorse discrimination on bases which currently are protected classes.
by hewwwww | 2025-11-10 01:03:04+00:00
I continue to work on My Financé, my personal finance tool.

I’ve been struggling to find substantive traction, so I’m trying to niche down to make the tool really helpful for people who want to quit their jobs.

I built a rudimentary planning and forecasting engine, and am trying to run paid ads to see if the signals resonate with people. I don’t love ads, but maybe trying to understand them will further inform my opinion on them.

One thing I would love to come up with is a way to make the app fully local first, while continuing the ability to sync accounts via plaid. It would be great to not be able to see people’s data at all. Im trying to figure out if there is a good user experience I could provide while minimizing the amount of data I actually have access too. Maybe this feature won’t matter to my primary customers though, I’m not really sure.

I still have a ton of fun working on it, and if it never really makes any money I consider it a great success for my personal learning.

Link for the curious:

https://myfinancereport.com/
by nurettin | 2025-11-10 01:03:58+00:00
I've seen both kinds. GF projects where the senior devs feel that they have to get something right from the beginning, spending a year just on that piece (a set of widgets, a data ingestion framework, a state machine that covers the entire underlying algorithm). And other GF projects which have frequent updates and are open to development with very few speed bumps.

Of course you can call out the former examples as incompetent or hubris, and they will probably occur less and less, but nevertheless they exist.
by sbinnee | 2025-11-10 01:05:33+00:00
I am finally making my own blog. I have been only planning for ages. I found that I had a lot to say for the past years working on AI, and I want to record them somewhere. I do not expect a lot of visitors or at all in fact. The blog is going to be just for me to remember stuffs and to keep track of them.

I am using hugo to build suckless static pages. LLM helped me so that I don't need to read all their docs. I haven't finished it yet nor posted a single blog. But there will be one soon.
by tbrownaw | 2025-11-10 01:05:49+00:00
> you should be opposed to this kind of clawback threat because it nakedly represents an attempt to place a non-profit in a double bind

The clawback is this sentence, yes? "NSF reserves the right to terminate financial assistance awards and recover all funds if recipients, during the term of this award, operate any program in violation of Federal anti- discriminatory laws or engage in a prohibited boycott."

How exactly is "you must follow anti-discrimination law" a "naked" attempt at a double-bind?

(And, um, I'd be more worried about that "prohibited boycott" thing. It's mentioned explicitly in the sentence with the clawback, and I don't see where it's defined.)
by burningChrome | 2025-11-10 01:06:45+00:00
>> My name isn’t super known, but it happened to be the same as that of a very big fish in the financial institution I worked for.

Same thing happened to me. My name in outlook was the right under a high up VP. Outlook auto correct would bring my name up at the top of the list so people would just hit enter and write their email.

Same thing, I was getting some emails I clearly should not have been viewing, with budgetary spreadsheets and names of people who were being considered for layoffs.

One of them I sent back to the VP and diplomatically explained the mixup. I didn't get any emails for a few months and wondered how they fixed the situation. I guess they gave the VP and underscore in his name instead of the normal firstname.lastname@company.com so now when I typed in my name, his came up first.
by ra0x3 | 2025-11-10 01:07:34+00:00
systemg - "Systemd, for busy people".

https://sysg.dev

https://github.com/ra0x3/systemg

I'm personally tired of getting stuck in config/deployment hell every time I want to deploy a long-lived web service. Sure I eventually learned how to use systemd, but systemd has SO many things baked into that I simply don't need. systemg is a lightweight process supervisor that features everything you'd typically want when running/managing production web services in the wild.

Would love feedback.
by eternityforest | 2025-11-10 01:07:40+00:00
Disenhackifying one of the last pieces of my KaithemAutomation server that still feels not best practicesful.

Device driver plugins used to have a very simple flat key value, strings only format, with a set_config_properties function to tell the host what kind of UI to show.

That's all getting replaced with JSON schemas, with some auto-upgrade shims so old config keeps working.

It's one of many things that now seems completely insane, but made sense when I had way less experience a long time ago!

Also still on and off working on my BLE/WiFi based Meshtastic-alike.
by vacuity | 2025-11-10 01:07:57+00:00
Note: IPC performance isn't the only factor in overall OS performance. Especially for a "traditional microkernel", where programs are split up into separate processes liberally, performance degrades due to the sheer number of cross-boundary interactions. A whole system is performant if the design of the whole system, not just the design of the kernel, is aligned with performance. This is not to put down seL4; on the other hand, it continues the trend of L4 microkernels demonstrating the viability of stricter designs. But keep in mind that more time and effort is necessary to implement larger systems well.

I'm bullish on capabilities too, but I don't know much about MAC. Can you explain your last sentence?
by vacuity | 2025-11-10 01:08:14+00:00
Note: IPC performance isn't the only factor in overall OS performance. Especially for a "traditional microkernel", where programs are split up into separate processes liberally, performance degrades due to the sheer number of cross-boundary interactions. A whole system is performant if the design of the whole system, not just the design of the kernel, is aligned with performance. This is not to put down seL4; on the other hand, it continues the trend of L4 microkernels demonstrating the viability of stricter designs. But keep in mind that more time and effort is necessary to implement larger systems well.
by GianFabien | 2025-11-10 01:08:50+00:00
When you look beyond office jobs, you see many real opportunities.

For example, there is a housing crisis. Not enough trades persons, building supplies, capital to solve that problem.

The unemployment statistics aren't detailed enough to show IBM, MS, Facebook, Amazon, etc laying off tens of thousands of employees a year, each. Last I read, over 500,000 staff have been laid off in the past couple of years.
by hekkle | 2025-11-10 01:08:57+00:00
To be fair, I think this is most countries, they just don't have as much political power as the US. The UK's Online Safety Act is a good example.

My country (Australia) tried to legislate in 2016 that no one is allowed to use encryption, and if they were required to, for other obvious reasons like for medical data, then they were required to code in a back-door for law enforcement.
by simondotau | 2025-11-10 01:09:38+00:00
Driver profiles seem like a terrible answer to the question of choosing a maximum speed, both for the driver of the vehicle, and for Tesla — because it shifts the understanding of the car's behaviour from the driver to Tesla. I think it's insane that Tesla would take that risk.

IMHO, it's okay for the driver profiles to affect everything other than max speed, including aggressiveness of acceleration and propensity to change lanes. But since exceeding speed limits is "technically" breaking the law, the default behaviour of FSD should be to strictly obey speed limits, and drivers should be given a set of sliders to manually override speed limits. Perhaps like a graphic EQ with sliders for every 10 MPH where you can manually input decide how many MPH over that limit is acceptable.

This would be an inelegant interface, and intentionally so. Drivers should be fully in control of the decision to exceed the speed limit, and by how much. FSD should drive like a hard-nosed driving instructor unless the driver gives unambiguous permission to do otherwise.

[0] Note that I am describing this based on my understanding of the US environment. I am Australian, and our speed limits are strictly enforced at the posted speed, without exception. On any road, you should expect a fine if going 3—6 km/h [2—4 MPH] and caught by a fixed or mobile camera. This applies literally anywhere, including highways. By contrast in the USA, I understand that 5—10 MPH on highways has been socially normalised, and law enforcement generally disregards it.)
by tank-34 | 2025-11-10 01:09:58+00:00
it's not bound with pydantic-resolve, for vanilla fastapi user if the business model are well designed and composed, it can benefited from this visualization approach too.

the goal is to make the dependencies clear for developers, and figure out the potential impacts from one node to others.

pydantic-resolve is just another my project to make the process of data composition close to ER model and get rid of glue codes like 'for loops'.
by jorvi | 2025-11-10 01:10:12+00:00
Bias is not the same as censoring.

Censoring is "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave".

Bias is "actually, Elon Musk waved to the crowd."

Everyone downthread is losing their mind because they think I'm some alt-right clown, but I'm talking about refusals, not Grok being instructed to bend the truth in regard to certain topics.

Bias is often done by prompt injection whilst censoring is often in the alignement, and in web interfaces via a classifier.
by nine_zeros | 2025-11-10 01:10:35+00:00
> The twentieth century spent a lot of intellectual and moral effort glorifying labour because economies needed people to show up every day. The twenty-first century is starting to build machines and systems that do not need quite as many of us.

And herein lies the real, consitent, and real anxiety among the youth - leading to lower birth rates. I myself feel the same.

And then I look at the elected corrupt pedophiles, and there is just no hope.
by tavavex | 2025-11-10 01:10:50+00:00
Your concerns are true, but I'm not sure if this answers the question above. After all, the shift to service economies started a very long time before the crisis ramped up to what it's like today. And even today, under a crust of rent-seeking businesses, circular investing and outright scams, there's plenty of quiet, boring businesses that provide actually important and relevant services. It can (and probably will) still get so, so, so much worse than this. So clearly, there's more factors in play here that made most of the first world transition to providing services, since we weren't remotely close to running out of ways to extract and sell goods then (and still aren't, not yet).
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-10 01:11:01+00:00
>I agree with you that ICE agents should absolutely show their faces. That said, it's not unprecedented. I also think it's naive to think there would not be retaliation against them personally.

And if that occurs, whoever is responsible should be prosecuted.

You know that whole "rule of law" thing that seems to be so unfashionable, among certain masked folks and the liars who run them, these days?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-10 01:11:25+00:00
It's a good callout. Also important to note that ~4M Boomers retire a year, ~11k/day, ~2M people 55+ die every year, about half of which are in the labor force; that means ~13k-14k workers leave the labor force every day in the US, ~400k/month.

There will be jobs, but also, it might take more time and energy to find them (~12 months vs ~6 months historically). Plan accordingly (structural living expenses, cash on hand, etc).

> Last I read, over 500,000 staff have been laid off in the past couple of years.

https://layoffs.fyi/
by buran77 | 2025-11-10 01:11:26+00:00
> I really don't believe this

> I don't believe

> this is an artifact of people who just irrationally hate Tesla

> more of the same emotionally driven desire to see a pattern

Don't you find it curious that every opinion you don't like must be from irrational people hating Tesla, but opinions you do like are all rational and objective? It's as if we didn't define the sunk cost fallacy for exactly this. You're a rational person, if Tesla was confident in the numbers wouldn't we have an avalanche of independently verifiable stats? Instead we're here playing this "nuh-uh" games with you pretending you're speaking with an authority nobody else has. Does any other company go to such lengths to bury the evidence of their success? The evidence that supports their claims?

And of course I can tell FSD drivers, literally nobody else on the street will so often brake hard with absolutely no reason, or veer abruptly then correct and straighten out so hard it wobbles, both on highways and in the city. If it's not the car then it must be the drivers but they wouldn't make such irrational moves.

P.S. The internet is full of video evidence of FSD making serious and unjustified mistakes. Every version brings new evidence. How do you explain those? Irrational haters inventing issues? Car misbehaving only for them? Because you see, even if you film 10 times and get the mistake only once it's still very serious.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-11-10 01:12:00+00:00
> Million-to-one bugs are real, not theoretical. They happen during initialization and restart, not runtime. When they trigger, they cascade - 2,500 errors from one root cause. In high-restart environments, rare becomes routine.

Million-to-one bugs are not only real but high enough to matter, depending on which million. Many years ago I had a rare bug that corrupted timestamps in the logs, with an emperical probability of about one to 3--5 million (IIRC). Turned out that that seemingly benign bug was connected to a critical data corruption issue with real consumer complaints. (I have described this bug in detail in the past, see my past comment for details.)
by throw-52 | 2025-11-10 01:12:51+00:00
You're right of course, I'm taking for granted that we've been there and done that. The question is, would we do it again and would that usage really be allowed to expand to soak up whole data centers? We might since I don't think a cynic has made a bad prediction in years..

IMO the most likely way to soak up the extra capacity is actually yet another iteration of AI rather than say, doing productive but boring work with any other techniques for curing disease or something. Still, a crash and a next iteration might be more likely to involve fresh ideas on architecture, or focus on smaller expert models that have less fake results and actually empower users. Right now I think there's a clear bias in research and execution. OFANG does want results, but also wants results that tech giants. Are subsymbolic techniques really the best techniques, or are they just the best at preserving the moat of big-data and big-compute?
by ipnon | 2025-11-10 01:12:56+00:00
It is easier to start your own business than to get a job for a certain class of people in our industry. There is just not enough supply of jobs for people who “did everything right.” It’s a painful economic signal that US economy has run out of cushy Big Tech jobs and now needs an influx of innovative firms. This is difficult to explain to your relatives over Thanksgiving turkey but it is nonetheless the truth in my experience. If I could go back in time I would have gone to an Ivy League, gotten the proper internships, moved straight to the Bay during ZIRP, but alas I don’t have a Time Machine.
by scuff3d | 2025-11-10 01:13:19+00:00
Care to link to a few?

Every single one of these policies that I've seen over the last 20 years, including my role as a hiring manager in my past career, were aimed at leveling the playing field and providing equal opportunities to people who aren't in the majority. The only effect I've seen is that now people who look like me actually have to compete with others.

Edit: For the record I'm asking for links from reputable companies who would realistically be setting the tone for the industry. Not some random ass listing for contract work.
by majormajor | 2025-11-10 01:14:13+00:00
We're animals, the brain wants power and control and is not just a statistical machines counting up our wealth. Dogs in cages aren't happy either despite not having to work for their meals like their ancestors.

You throw around terms like "imaginationless" while ranting that "material comfort" is all anyone should be expected to find interesting in life? When you confuse non-consecutive "free time" with consecutive years of leisure and power? Please.

My claim is that we have the means, now, that we can build a better society, with happier people, if we try. We have staggering abilities that people of the past did not. Let's fucking use them better. You're telling me to give up and be a good happy little peon. Raise your sights.
by acdha | 2025-11-10 01:14:25+00:00
This is like seeing a food poisoning outbreak at a fast food restaurant and concluding that it must be CIA/FSB/Mossad bogeymen trying a bioweapon. These breaches are things like not validating authentication tokens (at all, not just correctly) and that would be a big drop in professionalism from what we’ve seen from nation-state level attacks:

https://labs.watchtowr.com/get-fortirekt-i-am-the-super_admi...
by slyn | 2025-11-10 01:14:48+00:00
Used to work as a manager at a pizza place and we had a guy apply to deliver who had the same name as... their son.

Allegedly Jr. had a lengthy record including some drug offenses and something like a DUI / DWI. Naturally Sr. And Jr's records got crossed since they have the same First, Last, and Address, which caused Sr. many headaches including that we required a driving record check that would fail on a DUI / DWI.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-10 01:15:05+00:00
My gripe with VO2 max on my Apple Watch, at least, is that Apple has dozens of different workout options, but none of them include the option of changing your body weight. So my VO2 max was climbing steadily until I added rucking to my workouts, and now it's been dropping. Nowhere do I have the option of telling the watch that I'm intentionally carrying extra weight. This should be trivial to add into the UI and factor into the calculation.
by tdjholder | 2025-11-10 01:16:38+00:00
Originally started in 2012, I’m (still) building log.soccer - a stat-tracking tool for amateur soccer players. This is the third or fourth iteration of the site, which until this year mostly served as a glorified résumé project to showcase the latest framework or tool I had just learnt.

Thanks to ChatGPT, my productivity went through the roof this year, and I finally shipped an MVP that might actually be useful.

It’s a standard Django + React + AWS stack. My raison d’être is to build an Apple Watch app that tracks match scores in real time. 2026 hopefully.

https://log.soccer
by rester324 | 2025-11-10 01:16:39+00:00
I haven't read the paper, but what I am curious about, how much of the damage can be turned back if someone becomes physically active after a long sedentary period? Let's say someone already had low fat oxidization and/or cardiovascular disease, how much of that can be "cured" by being active?

This post claims: the good news is, this is reversible. But is that so? Is it also proven to reverse things in all cases? I would imagine there are caveats, and things are not that rosy in reality.

The reason I am asking because if the answer is "None. It can only keep the symptoms from worsening" then it's not really reasonable to expect people with such physiological situation to become active again.

They will most probably need to put in much more effort to achieve much smaller gain compared to a healthy individual, which is as I said is unreasonable. Especially because some people simply have worse genetics and or social circumstances which they might not be able to change.

So I appreciate these findings, but how I read this: you need to be aware of this to prevent the ill effects. And I doubt the reversible claim (although I have not much of an argument to corroborate that).
by ajr0 | 2025-11-10 01:16:57+00:00
ahhh what is this?

> The completely unrelated

> In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.
by cube00 | 2025-11-10 01:17:44+00:00
My company had an onshore hiring freeze, while still hiring offshore. C-suite had the nerve in an all hands to say they were expanding offshore because there was a "local talent shortage", all while an onshore hiring freeze was still in effect.

This wasn't even a secret; in our stand ups our immediate manager said that they were blocked from hiring onshore and only had offshore quota available if they wanted any more team members.

C-suite seem to think they can lie straight to our faces and know they'll get away it.