MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nyrikki | 2025-11-01 17:39:29+00:00
That was only the proximate cause, the ultimate cause was cultural. As complex systems and efforts run into problems, it is trivial to blame the unit conversion when they had been ignoring people for months who had concerns [0]

> ... ground controllers ignored a string of indications that something was seriously wrong with the craft's trajectory, over a period of weeks if not months. But managers demanded that worriers and doubters "prove something was wrong," even though classic and fundamental principles of mission safety should have demanded that they themselves, in the presence of significant doubts, properly "prove all is right" with the flight

Dropping units on the NASA side also was problematic but really culture was the cause of the actual crash.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-the-mars-probe-went-off-course
by lisbbb | 2025-11-01 17:40:15+00:00
I'm willing to give ICE a little extra leeway right now because of the dire situation we face in terms of losing our nation by being swamped with uncontrolled immigration. The previous Administration sure had a big plan that they were very successful at executing. The mass influx has ruined two school districts in my area--they have had to spend ridiculous amounts of money on interpreters, the quality of education has fallen, and our state keeps coming up with more ways to tax us into oblivion while pandering to people who aren't even citizens! It all needs to stop for at least 10 years. If not, we will probably hyperinflate the currency (and may do so anyways--the damage is largely already done). I very much resent the Maoist approach to "tear everything down in order to seize control" type of power play. It is obscene and inhumane and uses poor people as pawns in a gambit to amass total control. That is not "democracy" that is anti-democratic in every possible way. They have continually chipped away at a citizen's franchise here in the US and now we are being taxed and inflated to death.
by nonethewiser | 2025-11-01 17:40:16+00:00
That's because the DOM is mostly used as a render target instead of a semantic document.

I think semantic HTML is a great idea but it's kind of jaded to expect it at this point.

It also doesn't help that semantic elements have styling. That right there gives people good reason to use a neutral container as a baseline. In fact I would go as far as to say that having both div and span is a bad design decision. They are just aliases for css `display` values.
by yread | 2025-11-01 17:40:19+00:00
I'm a bit confused. The point of this article is that the author used .NET Interceptors and TagWith to somehow tag his EF Core operations so that they make their own busy_timeout (which EF Core devs think is not necessary https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/28135 ) or do a horrible global lock? No data is presented on how it improved things if it did. Nor is it described which operations were tagged with what. The only interesting thing about it are the interceptors but that's somehow not discussed in HN's comments at all.
by jasomill | 2025-11-01 17:41:26+00:00
Same here: I paid about twice as much for my 2013 Mac Pro that I’ll probably keep using until I replace it with an M5 Mac Studio at some point next year, which I’ll then plan to use for at least 5 years.

As for camera lenses, I expect my collection of manual focus F-mount Zeiss primes to have a longer useful life than their owner.
by paulcole | 2025-11-01 17:41:36+00:00
No.

I think that there is some limit to how much additional information is useful to the AI tools that I use. I don’t know where that limit is and I also think that models are getting better all the time, so storing the data now for later use might be useful.

I have no idea how much it would cost to store/analyze 14-18 hours of data a day? I’m assuming that it could be post-processed and delete the useless stuff?

Obviously I understand the privacy-zealots issues with this technology. But I’m going to be dead in a couple decades and this idea sounds interesting to me. To me, whatever risk there is would be worth the unknown reward.
by glitchc | 2025-11-01 17:42:26+00:00
Your proposal flies in the face of what people actually want. Everyone wants a detached home with a yard. No one wants to live in a condo, an oct or a quad, or even a row house, as a permanent life-long dream. Not the people who currently own detached homes and not the people looking to buy homes. Everyone sees high-density housing as a stepping stone towards detached home ownership. Detached home ownership is the dream, the more land it comes with, the better.
by mwagstaff | 2025-11-01 17:43:00+00:00
Very nice! I've also used the Rail Data Marketplace (terrible name) to build an app that uses the live departure board data (https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/traintrack-uk/id6504205950), and it's great the data is freely available.

Whilst HN is on the case, does anyone know of an API (inside Rail Data Marketplace or elsewhere) that acts as a journey planner for UK national rail, i.e. you can input source + destination stations and it will output journey options?
by epistasis | 2025-11-01 17:43:11+00:00
Frying pan PM2.5 is pollution, and has been linked to increased childhood asthma, on of the easier and more immediate readouts from exposure. Linking dementia to that is a far harder scientific task due to the amounts of exposure and variability over time. Here's one blog post going over some of the evidence linking gas stoves to asthma:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/have-a-gas-stove-how-to-...
by toogle | 2025-11-01 17:43:48+00:00
I built a custom code-completion server: <https://github.com/toogle/mlx-dev-server>.

The key advantage is that it cancels generation when you continue typing, so invalidated completions don’t waste time. This makes completion latency predictable (about 1.5 seconds for me).

My setup: - MacBook Pro (M3 Max) - Neovim - https://github.com/huggingface/llm.nvim

Models I typically use: - mlx-community/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-4bit-mlx - mlx-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
by techblueberry | 2025-11-01 17:43:48+00:00
Look, I think that redistributive policies impact markets in unpredictable ways, often with negative externalities on prices. But the idea that Mr 300 million dollar gilded ballroom is practicing anything remotely resembling fiscal responsibility is bananas.

Yes, health care costs will probably go down, as demand falters when poor folks die from lack of healthcare. Yes, education costs will probably fall if you dramatically reduce the number of people who can afford education. But personally? Not a great trade off.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-11-01 17:44:15+00:00
I'll add the amount should be enough to cover at least a cursory review. A full review would be better. I just don't want to price out small players.

The papers could also be categorized as unreviewed, quick check, fully reviewed, or fully reproduced. They could pay for this to be done or verified. Then, we have a reputational problem to deal with on the reviewer side.
by generationP | 2025-11-01 17:44:20+00:00
Look for anything written by Jesse Singal or Charles Murray for the well-researched anti-woke content I'm referring to (and there is a lot of more; these are just two authors who made it their focus; some of the best stuff comes actually comes from journalists with wider purviews).

I don't know what "Cult of Personality" you are referring to; unless you are hallucinating this particular reference, I've gone to school in the wrong country for that particular report to be part of my assigned reading (and the right country, sadly, seems to have skipped it entirely; there might be an update out in a few years...). Either way, what is the relevance here? What I've been saying is that I'm far from sure of this project's success and would be doing it quite differently. Musk's personal characteristics may well be the reason why he did it the way he did, but ultimately the project won't live and die by them (already because he himself will likely lose interest soon enough).
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-01 17:44:35+00:00
> It's a very lazy way to travel, and I guarantee I got way more out of my travel than you did if we visited the same places

It's funny, I'd say the same to you! :)

How often do you sleep over on the couch or floor of strangers homes, waking up when they wake up, participating in something that isn't overflowing with tourists already? Or got to experience how a day is for someone who works and lives in the place you're visiting for the first time?

Granted, it's not for everybody, but we both feel the same about each other, which hopefully means we at least enjoy our own lives, even if we wouldn't like each others. But I won't say you're lazy just because you don't try to truly experience other cultures when you travel, we just have different ways of traveling and enjoying life. And that's OK, as long as you enjoy what you do, and I enjoy what I do :)
by halJordan | 2025-11-01 17:44:36+00:00
24 is a great example of it. Watching the flanderization of that show is incredible bc what they flanderize is exactly what you're talking about. In the first seasons it was clear that what Jack did was wrong in the sense that it broke well intentioned rules; we were just in such an extreme scenario that the rules themselves broke down.

But later it flanderized into, we want to break the rules. The rules are an impediment to goodness, not the guarantor.
Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)
by samrolken | 2025-11-01 17:45:18+00:00
I spent a few hours last weekend testing whether AI can replace code by executing directly. Built a contact manager where every HTTP request goes to an LLM with three tools: database (SQLite), webResponse (HTML/JSON/JS), and updateMemory (feedback). No routes, no controllers, no business logic. The AI designs schemas on first request, generates UIs from paths alone, and evolves based on natural language feedback. It works—forms submit, data persists, APIs return JSON—but it's catastrophically slow (30-60s per request), absurdly expensive ($0.05/request), and has zero UI consistency between requests. The capability exists; performance is the problem. When inference gets 10x faster, maybe the question shifts from "how do we generate better code?" to "why generate code at all?"
by verdverm | 2025-11-01 17:45:20+00:00
Yes, blame immigrants for the problems our politicians created. Gold star reasoning

Immigration rates have not drastically shifted in the last 4 years from the 20+ prior, averaging 1M a year, or .3% of the population. Without immigration, we are below replacement rates

By leeway, do you include the beating people and excessive use of force, or should those agents face consequences?
by gpm | 2025-11-01 17:45:57+00:00
It's hard to imagine their is some malicious financial incentive to choosing a different language to write the package manager with...

The obvious potential motivations are things like making a more reliable product, or making their employees more productive by giving them access to modern tools... I guess I could imagine preparing for some sort of compliance/legal/regulatory battle where it's important to move towards memory safe tooling but even there I rather imagine that microsoft is better placed to say that they are and any move on canonical's part would be defensive.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-11-01 17:46:23+00:00
It would be so much fun to use these as a setting for some kind of gaming experience. Like, I wanna hide behind parts of these and pop around a corner and blast my friend with a laser. Or to race gocarts along the surface of one, or I dunno, something frogger-esque to get a feel for the directionality of the flows... I love how they look, but I need more interaction to get a feel for the thing.
by dathinab | 2025-11-01 17:46:36+00:00
they might run Debian but not upstream Debian/stable

you mainly find that with systems needing certification

this are the kind of situations where having a C language spec isn't enough but you instead need a compiler version specific spec of the compiler

similar they tend to run the same checkout of the OS with project specific security updates back-ported to it, instead of doing generic system updates (because every single updates needs to be re-certified)

but that is such a huge effort that companies don't want to run a full OS at all. Just the kernel and the most minimal choice of packages you really need and not one more binary then that.

and they might have picked Debian as a initial source for their packages, kernel etc. but it isn't really Debian anymore
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-01 17:46:42+00:00
Most good solar panels have a 12-15 year warranty on the panel, and a 25-30 year warranty on performance.

But this is a warranty, and you have many panels. If they're all going to fail, they will fail sooner. If one fails or breaks eventually, even if it's not under warranty, replacing the panel is dirt cheap. Of course you need to replace it with an identical panel, so it makes more sense to buy extra panels and just assume some will die. But even if you paid for a replacement, that's already just $100-$200, and it'll probably be cheaper in the future.

So the warranty isn't really that important long-term. They're more important for the short term, and a Tier 1 solar provider's so reliable that you don't really need it anyway.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-01 17:47:06+00:00
If you're single platform (Fil-C is x86-64 only), if the program is finished (Fil-C doesn't magically make maintaining a C project any easier to handle) and if performance isn't relevant (Fil-C is and despite its originator's confidence always will be bigger and slower than what you have today) then I agree.
by convolvatron | 2025-11-01 17:47:13+00:00
well, given that the current US regime has been dancing around the notion that criticism of the state of Israel should be _illegal_. Such criticism has already been used as the pretense to detain and deport legal residents. Combined with the popular notion that law enforcement should be digging around in people's social media accounts to ascertain if they are a member of the 'enemy within', some people might be legitimately concerned about posting anything that casts doubt on the morality of the current conflict in Gaza.
by bigbuppo | 2025-11-01 17:47:29+00:00
You're very much wrong. Two of the key tennets of libertarianism is that your rights end where my nose begins and the respect of property rights . Your AI bot is causing problems for me, then you should be compensating me for the damage or other expense you caused. But the AI bros think they should be able to take anything they want whenever they want without compensation, and they'll use every single shady behavior they can to make that happen. In other words, they're robber barrons.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-11-01 17:47:44+00:00
(using he as gender neutral here)

he didn't say he didn't want to have photos on licenses and passports, indeed it seems to me as the support is for standard ids that he would want these things as they are part of the standard id set.

He said he was against computer vision identifying people, and gave as a reason that they are a computer vision engineer implying that they know what they are talking about. Although that was only implied without any technical discussion as to why the distrust.

Then you say they trust a piece of paper you hand them, which they never claimed to do either, they discussed established processes, which a process may or may not be more involved than being handed a piece of paper, depending on context and security needs.

>You can't be serious.

I sort of feel you have difficulties with this as well.
by kevstev | 2025-11-01 17:48:05+00:00
I saw what was possible with emacs via systemcrafters: https://systemcrafters.net/emacs-from-scratch/

And I should note I have been using it for about 25 years, and was mostly in the dark about what it was capable of, though many of those years were in environments where I was using versions 5-10 years out of date, and completely locked down/out of things like melpa.

As far as keeping up with whats latest and greatest, I think the real answer is there isn't a good online resource. There are emacs meetups and conferences and some are virtual, and you can ask around other power users and see what they are doing. I even find emacs packages to be pretty poor at selling themselves on why you should use them.

As an example, Ivy and Counsel are kind of game changers to the UI, but I don't think you get any idea of that from their manual or main github page: https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper
by e40 | 2025-11-01 17:48:22+00:00
You didn't say which platform you're on. For Linux, just use the emacs that comes with the distro. For Windows, download the official build for Windows. For macOS, I used to use emacsformacosx.com's version but now I use Homebrew's emacs-plus. It has a native-compiled version and is hella fast.

I use the regular package manager for emacs (package-install).

Been a user since the first version of GNU Emacs, back when RMS was trying to reproduce Gosling's emacs (which I used for a couple of years). That was the early 80's.
by jasonlotito | 2025-11-01 17:48:32+00:00
You said: "If I was in the country legally..."

A legal resident would say "As someone here legally..."

> ICE can use this information to confirm I am the person I say I am

1. You cast doubt on your legal status.

2. The APP says you are not here legally.

3. You have no opportunity to present those things proving you are here legally.

> It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them not pretending to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.

It's amazing how much conservative dicourse is just them literally not understanding things, thus making discourse impossible.

Consider the literal evil stuff you support, discourse with you is 100% worthless.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-11-01 17:48:36+00:00
What a bunch of fearful people in the comments.

Gambling , especially in person gambling such as poker is basically a toned down version of combat sports where you are socially allowed to take something from somebody else because the other person accepted the conditions by sitting at the table or entering the casino.

Much like a boxer accepts the risk when they enter the ring.

The same thing happens on your beloved stock market, you just don't see it.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-01 17:48:41+00:00
Isn't the whole thing (or two) with Kickstarter is that if it's not funded, everyone gets their money back and if it's funded, the creator tries to deliver the goals according to the timeline but if they don't, they're not held liable for that? So if for some reason the creator run out of money before they could send actual products, you as a donator don't have the right to get your money back? Maybe I misunderstood the whole concept of Kickstarter.
by mcintyre1994 | 2025-11-01 17:49:27+00:00
Javascript arrays have functions for all of that, so if you use something like React and renders your table from data arrays then it's all pretty trivial. I guess the point is that if you have to use JS to do those manipulations, then at some point it's going to be easier to just the React(/Vue/Svelte/etc) approach than manipulating the table yourself using the API described in the article.
Show HN: Proxmox-GitOps: Container Automation Framework
by gitopspm | 2025-11-01 17:49:45+00:00
By encapsulating infrastructure within an extensible monorepository - recursively resolved from Git submodules at runtime - Proxmox-GitOps provides a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) abstraction for an entire, automated, container-based infrastructure.

Core Concepts:

- Recursive Self-management: Control plane seeds itself by pushing its monorepository onto a locally bootstrapped instance, triggering a pipeline that recursively provisions the control plane onto PVE.

- Monorepository: Centralizes infrastructure as comprehensive IaC artifact (for mirroring, like the project itself on Github) using submodules for modular composition.

- Single Source of Truth: Git represents the desired infrastructure state.

- Loose coupling: Containers are decoupled from the control plane, enabling runtime replacement and independent operation.
by fn-mote | 2025-11-01 17:50:22+00:00
I would be much happer if you explained your _reasons_ for disagreeing or your _reasons_ for agreeing.

I don't think publishing a PGP key with your work does anything. There's no problem identifying the author of the work. The problem is identifying _untrustworthy_ authors. Especially in the face of many other participants in the system claiming the work is trusted.

As I understand it, the current system (in some fields) is essentially to set up a bunch of sockpuppet accounts to cite the main account and publish (useless) derivative works using the ideas from the main account. Someone attempting to use existing reasearch for it's intended purpose has no idea that the whole method is garbage / flawed / not reproducible.

If you can only trust what you, yourself verify, then the publications aren't nearly as useful and it is hard to "stand on the shoulders of giants" to make progress.
by gitopspm | 2025-11-01 17:50:41+00:00
I'd like to share my open-source project Proxmox-GitOps, a Container Automation Framework and Platform for provisioning and orchestrating Linux containers (LXC) on Proxmox VE - encapsulated as comprehensive Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Originally, it was a personal attempt to bring industrial automation and cloud patterns to my Proxmox home server. It's designed as a platform architecture for a self-contained, bootstrappable system - a generic IaC abstraction (customize, extend, .. open standards, base package only, .. - you name it ;-)) that automates the entire infrastructure. It was initially driven by the question of what a Proxmox-based GitOps automation could look like and how it could be organized.

It's a noncommercial, passion-driven project. I'm looking to collaborate with other engineers who share the excitement of building a self-contained, bootstrappable platform architecture that addresses the question: What should our home automation look like?

I'd love to hear your thoughts!
by jitl | 2025-11-01 17:51:15+00:00
DuckDB is similar as an in process SQL database, but lacking btree-style ordered indexes makes it a poor performer in key lookups and order-by / range scans if your table is any size larger than trivial.

It’s the classic OLAP (DuckDB) vs OLTP (SQLite) trade off between the two. DuckDB is very good at many things but most applications that need a traditional SQL DB will probably not perform well if you swap it over to DuckDB.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-01 17:51:30+00:00
Easily solved.

If someone shows the regulator an ad for fanduel that shouldn't exist, they pull their permit to operate.

We have already seen that you can ban ads pretty effectively. I can't remember the last time I saw a cigarette ad, hell, where I live you can't even display them openly in stores, I can't even recall the last time I saw a cigarette logo.

I have yet to see any 'grey market' cigarette ads.
by dingnuts | 2025-11-01 17:52:33+00:00
Mickey Peterson's blog/book Mastering Emacs is where I wish I had started.

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/beginners-guide-to-em...

Sacha Chua maintains a blog roll with a huge part of the Emacs community represented, also: https://planet.emacslife.com/

Also everything Prot writes is great, here's his getting started guide: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-11-28-basic-emacs-confi...
by mwagstaff | 2025-11-01 17:53:50+00:00
Unfortunately, I believe it's limited to TfL stations only (e.g. Overground) rather than National Rail.

Oh, and I should have mentioned that I'm also aware of this, but it's not free so automatically outside of my app development budget. :/

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/developers/online-journey-pla...