MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gerdesj | 2025-11-22 00:07:15+00:00
The whole point (from a savvy business perspective) is throw money at the hardware and throw experience at the software.

In the end, Proxmox is based on KVM and KVM does run a workload or two across the world. VMware isn't KVM and I watched both be born and grow up oh and I should mention Xen but I can't be arsed. Most of the rest are Johnny come latelys.

If I need a massive cloud then I'll go all in on K8s or whatever and get my orchestration hat on big time but for my needs and my customer needs, PVE is more than enough, whilst being just enough.
by arjie | 2025-11-22 00:07:35+00:00
The effectiveness with which AVs have been able to test and spread despite local municipalities being fairly luddite about them does provide positive evidence for the idea that states are the right level of government for many of these decisions. If this had been entirely up to Bay Area municipalities it would have been infeasible, and this outcome and the lives consequently saved will be due to state-level decision-makers being able to make better decisions than local municipal decision-makers.

If the urban sprawl of the Bay Area were (correctly, in my opinion) represented as a single fused city-county like Tokyo, I think we would have better governance, but highly fragmented municipalities means we have a lot of free-rider vetos.
by consumer451 | 2025-11-22 00:08:02+00:00
I was thinking of:

> Americans have a penchant for what I call half-court tennis, which is: they like to analyze international affairs and wars by focusing on Team America – what Americans did or didn't do – and then that explains causation in the world.

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sarah-paine-japan

I think Sarah Paine could be a bit less harsh, and that would help get her point across better. However, at this point... who cares. Flood the zone.

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Related meta, and the low-point of HN from my POV. No judgement, we all get scammed sometimes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712496
by cyberpunk | 2025-11-22 00:08:10+00:00
Ah I don't know if I would agree with that. Temporal does a lot of stuff; we just don't happen to need most of it and it's really heavyweight on the database side (running low 500 or so workflows/second of their own 'hello world' style echo benchmark translates to 100k database ops/second..

DBOS is tied to Postgres, right? That wouldn't scale anywhere near where we need either.

Sadly there aren't many shortcuts in this space and pretending there are seems a bit hip at the moment. In the end, mostly everyone who can afford to solve such problems are gonna end up writing their own systems for this.
by jaggederest | 2025-11-22 00:10:08+00:00
> How can developed economies where populations levels have plateaued continue to be expected to post positive GDPs (and therefore add net new goods and services) yoy?

Think about the unsatisfied needs and desires most people have. In extremely low income areas, it may be a roof over your head or knowing where your next meal comes from. Moving up a tier, it might be the ability to send your children to education or better clothing. In wealthier areas it might be things like a better car or higher quality food even though you're not in danger of going hungry. For the extremely wealthy it might be more leisure time, art, and new experiences.

When GDP increases, broadly, those are the areas you see expand. Looking at life today in a baseline American household, the things which are mass produced are far more available and affordable than they were a century ago - in the 1930s households spent about 10-12% of their income on clothing.

Sadly, the rate of improvement for non-mass-produced items like college tuition, medical care, and especially housing has ballooned compared to median income, so life doesn't feel inexpensive, certainly, but GDP has a lot of room to grow in a lot of areas.
by chickensong | 2025-11-22 00:10:19+00:00
> just slapping a chatbot on their product

That's happening of course, but that's not really the whole picture. Any org that already invests in R&D is likely considering or already implementing modern AI tech into their existing infrastructure. A big oil or pharmaceutical or materials company likely doesn't care much about chat bots, or any customer-facing tech for that matter.
by generativenoise | 2025-11-22 00:10:41+00:00
From the outside looking in. It really seems like both fields are working around each other in weird ways, somewhat enforced by backwards compatibility and historical path dependence.

The transition from more homogeneous architectures to the very heterogeneous and distributed architectures of today has never really been all that well accounted for, just lots of abstractions that have been papered over and work for the most part. Power management being the most common place these mismatches seem to surface.

I do wonder if it will ever be economical to "fix" some of these lower level issues or if we are stuck on this path dependent trajectory like the recurrent laryngeal nerve in our bodies.
by octoberfranklin | 2025-11-22 00:10:45+00:00
Nonsense, it would force vertical de-integration.

Chip fabs used to be like book publishers; you don't have to own a printing press to be an author. Carver Mead even described his vision of the industry that way.

Nowadays you have to get your cell libraries and a large chunk of your toolchain from the fab. Of course it's laundered through cadence+synopsys, but it's still coming from the fab. You have to buy your masks from the fab (heck they aren't even allowed to leave the fab so do you really own them?). And on and on.

For the record I don't agree with the "exponential" part, but otherwise this is an underappreciated and powerful technique.
by netsharc | 2025-11-22 00:10:52+00:00
This is probably a misunderstanding of mine, but I fear that it isn't: "Oh, if I can quantify the square meters of forest absorbing CO2, someone will pay me money per sqm? Then let me map how many sqm this forest has, which been here and doing that absorbing since millenia, and someone somewhere in the industrialized world can now pollute and say the x sqm they've paid for is offsetting their pollution!"...
by alphazard | 2025-11-22 00:12:10+00:00
The typical attack tries to get the victim to load a module which accesses information on the filesystem or in another module's memory, then exfiltrate that information using network access. Other attacks may install backdoors used for infiltration once the service is deployed.

If the module provides some small helper function like `appendSmileEmoji(x: String) -> String` then it shouldn't be accessing the network or the filesystem, and the only memory it should have access to is the string passed into the function. The programmer already provided enough information to explain to the compiler that the function should not do these things but poor language design allows them to happen anyways.

Components which do have access to the network should be vetted thoroughly because they can facilitate infiltration and exfiltration. Most supply chain attacks aren't introduced directly in a high profile project like a web framework, they are introduced deeper in the dependency chain in the long tail of transitively imported modules.

In Austral (or any language using these good ideas) a small poorly vetted function like `appendSmileEmoji` wouldn't be called with access to the filesystem or network. Without access to any resources, the worst it can do is append a frowning face or a null character or something annoying. You can tell by its function signature above, it doesn't take a capability for the network or filesystem, just a String. So trying to ship a change that secretly accesses the filesystem would produce a "variable not found" error. To even get the new version to compile, you would have to add an argument to take a filesystem capability. `appendSmileEmoji(x: String, fs: FS) -> String`. That breaks any dependent modules because they have the wrong number of arguments, and looks very suspicious.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-22 00:12:43+00:00
There's an approved map because the approval process requires the manufacturer to specify both areas and conditions they are applying for, and documents supporting that the vehicle is ready to be operated autonomously in those areas and conditions (which doesn't just include technical readiness, but also administrative readiness in the form of things like a law enforcement interaction plan, etc.)

> like i get having a pilot somewhere but once that goes well (and we're way past that point), why isn't it just blanket approval everywhere.

Because “everywhere” isn't a uniform domain (Waymo is kind of way out in one tail of the distribution in terms of both the geographical range and range of conditions they have applied for and been approved to operate in, other AV manufacturers are in much tinier zones, and narrow road/weather conditions.) And because for some AV manufacturers (if there is one that can demonstrate they don't need this, they'd probably have an easier lift getting broader approvals) part of readiness to deploy (or test) in an area is detailed, manufacturer specific mapping/surveying of the roads.
by sbuttgereit | 2025-11-22 00:13:31+00:00
More of the state is not allowed than is... at least by geography.

Also, there's a practical element. If I have to specify where they can't go, the default position is they can go anywhere... if I inadvertently leave an area out of my black-list where it really ought to exist: the default is "permission granted". With a white-list, the worst case is a forgotten or neglected area can't be operated in as a default and the AV provider will have an interest in correcting.

But also politics. It's a very different message to say we're going to white-list a given AV operator to exist in different areas vs. black-listing them from certain areas.
by unquietwiki | 2025-11-22 00:13:45+00:00
This shouldn't be mistaken for an anti-IPv6 post. There's also some steps you have to go through to enable IPv6 on your VPS networks, and there's still stuff like GitHub not handling IPv6. So, much as we need to migrate, we still have to support IPv4 connectivity for the foreseeable future.

Shoutout to Hacker News for having IPv6 support!
by westurner | 2025-11-22 00:14:02+00:00
ScholarlyArticle: "Telecom-wavelength quantum teleportation using frequency-converted photons from remote quantum dots" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65912-8 :

> Abstract: [...] Here, we realize full-photonic quantum teleportation employing semiconductor quantum dots, which can fulfill all the aforementioned requirements. Two remote GaAs quantum dots, emitting in the near-infrared, are used: one as an entangled-photon pair source and the other as a single-photon source. During the experiment, the single photon is prepared in conjugate polarization states and interfaced with the biexciton emission of the entangled pair employing a polarization-selective Bell state measurement. This process teleports the respective polarization state onto the exciton emission of the entangled pair. The frequency mismatch between the triggered sources is erased using two polarization-preserving quantum frequency converters, enabling remote two-photon interference at telecommunication wavelengths, yielding a visibility of 30(1)%. A post-selected teleportation fidelity up to 0.721(33), significantly above the classical limit, demonstrates successful quantum teleportation between light from distinct sources. These results mark an important development for semiconductor-based quantum light sources.

NewsArticle; "Physicists Teleport Light Between Tiny Crystals, Pushing Quantum Internet Closer" https://scienceblog.com/physicists-teleport-light-between-ti...
by jcarterwil | 2025-11-22 00:14:14+00:00
Healthcare administrators grew 3,200% from 1975-2010. Physicians grew 150%. This isn't a funding problem. It's a signal problem. When bureaucrats allocate capital, we get more bureaucrats. When consumers allocate capital, we get solutions to their actual problems. Today's piece makes the case for expanded HSAs and consumer-directed spending as the only viable path to ending chronic disease. The argument draws on Hayek's distributed knowledge problem: no central planner can aggregate the preferences and needs of millions of individuals fast enough to match market discovery. Healthcare destroyed the price mechanism. We need to rebuild it. 100M+ pre-chronic Americans represent $50-60T in future healthcare spending. The current system ignores them until they're sick. Give them capital for prevention and watch how fast markets reorganize.
by bilegeek | 2025-11-22 00:14:41+00:00
1.) IPv4 is still heavily favored over IPv6.

2.) Market segmentation: keeps home users from easily hosting their own services without spending $$$ on an upgraded plan.

3.) Adding on to #2, I've seen claims of providers putting IPv6 behind NAT, so don't think full IPv6 acceptance will solve this problem.
by willio58 | 2025-11-22 00:14:50+00:00
I didn’t think I’d be so pro Waymo but anecdotally I had a fantastic experience with one recently.

I was at a music show very late ~1-2am in SF and walked out to grab an uber to the airbnb I was staying at. I kept getting assigned an uber, then I’d wait 10 minutes, then they’d cancel. Rinse and repeat for 30 minutes, mind you I even resorted to calling Lyfts at the same time and nothing bit. Then I say screw it and download Waymo. 1 minute and it’s accepted my ride, and I know it’s not going to cancel because it’s a robot. 3 minutes and it picks me up. The car is clean, quiet, I can play my own music in it via Spotify, and it’s driving honestly more safely than some uber drivers I’ve had in SF. It’s one of the few things where the end result actually lives up to the promise from a tech company.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 00:14:56+00:00
It's important to remember that not being a "medicating kids is a terrible idea" person doesn't mean one is a "every medication is a great idea" person. I'm probably like most people where in a perfect world I wouldn't medicate at all, and treat unfamiliar medications with some skepticism. But also I accept that I'm not (and am not interested in being) a medical expert, so if there is a medical need that I can't handle myself I'll take the advice of a clinician who has earned my trust with good reasoning.
by kfarr | 2025-11-22 00:16:03+00:00
This is super awesome but to set expectations it appears that Waymo is quite limited by fleet capacity in all of its current operating zones, so as a practical matter it may be months or years before it operates in all these areas.

If you're interested in this stuff I highly recommend this podcast, not affiliated with it I genuinely think it's a great source to hear about the behind the scenes of fleet operations to meet demand: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/autonomy-markets/

(Edit) I prefer using the apple podcast app, here's a direct link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autonomy-markets/id177...
by lores | 2025-11-22 00:16:22+00:00
Because it's pleasant. I don't know why people drive if they don't absolutely have to when it's so dangerous, I don't know why people live in cities when the pollution causes so many health problems, I don't know why people keep hanging out with other people when so many turn out to be reprehensible, etc. The answer is, because life is not about living the longest in the most austere manner possible.
by interroboink | 2025-11-22 00:17:14+00:00
Yeah, there quite a few. Like old-school phpBB is still around[1]. Or, take a look at the list on Wikipedia[2].

Not sure if you're looking for a hosted solution, though. A lot of those would involve you running your own server.

[1] https://www.phpbb.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s...
by gerdesj | 2025-11-22 00:18:04+00:00
We could always resurrect WAIS and Gopher.

I sometimes compare Mediawiki vs SharePoint to Web x.0 vs WAIS n Gopher.

One is light on resources, storing just the information with some formatting hints, leaving presentation to standards and the other is SharePoint. The comparison is really about bloat, not functionality, but the two are intertwined.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-22 00:19:15+00:00
States are saying that schools have to post the 10 commandments and when teachers put up a poster about “everyone is welcomed here” showing kids of different colors it’s “too woke”.

Which is funny since I (a Black guy) went to a mostly White Christian school in the 80s where they sung “Jesus loves the little children - red and yellow black and white they are all precious in his site”.
by rolph | 2025-11-22 00:19:56+00:00
All he had to do was yell out loudly, turn on the lights or do something to let whoever was -inside know that someone was outside looking for a jobsite.

for that matter when you try to enter someone elses house with a key, it normally starts with

'knockknock/ringring "hello smalltime cleaning service im looking for 123 circle boulevard to mop and dust, joe gave me keys, is any one home?"

we have housecleaners up here too, and they are very big on a prolonged contact attempt, when its a "walk-in job" thats because if you dont, you are doing what home invaders do, and all you have to do is attempt verbal contact even if you think noone is there, and you have the right place. its seatbelt simple.

same the other way, " i dont know you, i didnt ask for service your acting like a burglar, go away from my door, and leave"

thats how we do it up here, police are hours, sometimes days away from responding to emergency calls
by alimw | 2025-11-22 00:20:08+00:00
Someone or something wrote in the earlier press release [1]:

> For the youngest of the three brothers, this Christmas discovery is more than “just a comic book.”

> “This isn’t simply a story about old paper and ink,” he says. “This was never just about a collectible. This is a testament to memory, family and the unexpected ways the past finds its way back to us.”

> Comics, the youngest brother says, “became a treasured refuge” for his mother and uncle in their cramped childhood apartment where luxuries were few.

> “But they had each other and a shared love for comic books,” he says.

> As adults, his mother and uncle determined to pass along their treasured comics to her sons, as the uncle was a lifelong bachelor with no children of his own.

> “Until then, she carefully tucked the box away, deep into the recess of the attic, hidden but safe,” he says. “But as the years unfolded, life brought about a series of losses and changes. The demands of everyday survival took center stage, and the box of comics, once set aside with care and intention, was forgotten. Until last Christmas.”

[1] https://www.ha.com/heritage-auctions-press-releases-and-news...
by westurner | 2025-11-22 00:20:32+00:00
NewsArticle: "Quantum teleportation between photons from two distant light sources achieved" https://phys.org/news/2025-11-quantum-teleportation-photons-... :

> In the Stuttgart experiment, the quantum dots were separated only by an optical fiber of about 10 m length. "But we are working on achieving considerably greater distances," says Strobel.

> In earlier work, the team had shown that the entanglement of the quantum dot photons remains intact even after a 36-kilometer transmission through the city center of Stuttgart. Another aim is to increase the current success rate of teleportation, which currently stands at just over 70%. Fluctuations in the quantum dot still lead to slight differences in the photons.

> "We want to reduce this by advancing semiconductor fabrication techniques," says Strobel.
by NaOH | 2025-11-22 00:20:38+00:00
Previous discussions:

The Untold History of Arduino - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29252121 - Nov 2021 (6 comments)

The Untold History of Arduino - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261237 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

The Untold History of Arduino (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19414275 - March 2019 (35 comments)

The Untold History of Arduino - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11212021 - March 2016 (73 comments)
by taurath | 2025-11-22 00:20:58+00:00
No, one study doesn’t upend the last few decades of understanding of emotional attachment.

The study simply says that ability to connect w friends is more predictive than observations they made of apparent attachment of parents.

This happens much later so of course it’s more predictive of the actual end effects - that’s when attachment styles actually show up for the first time. Kids grow up to be very adaptive toward their parents but when they get to the rest of society that’s when the failures of connection and the failed bids for attention show up.

A very resilient kid will do fine with friends even with a very bad attachment environment. A very sensitive kid or one with developmental problems will struggle in social environments.
by malfist | 2025-11-22 00:21:34+00:00
These types of studies are published all the time and can easily be dismissed. Antidepressants are _only_ for major depression. Not mild or moderate. These studies that find no significance compared to a placebo are always tried in patients with all types of depression. Not just major.

It's so common it's a trope. "Antidepressants don't work" says the scientists testing antidepressants on things they're not supposed to work on.

Studies repeated with just major depression all conclude antidepressants are better than a placebo.

Click through the article to the study and you'll find they did not limit their study to must major
by tombert | 2025-11-22 00:21:51+00:00
I don't know if I'd call it "placebo" for me; prozac gave me the worst, most horrible pit of sadness I've ever had in my entire life. I couldn't stop feeling guilty over every single bad thing I have ever done, and it completely killed my appetite and that probably didn't do great for my mood either. I was only on it for about two months until I begged my doc to get me off of it. She told me that it's one of those things that doesn't affect everyone, but since I was already taking Wellbutrin it can have negative effects.

Never again. I'm taking Pristiq now and that has been considerably better.
by sparrish | 2025-11-22 00:22:00+00:00
None chose to go to college so far. The kind of work they wanted to do didn't require it so they didn't. If they had wanted to be medical doctors, lawyers, or some kind of physical engineer, I'm sure they could have gotten into a good college and found a good job for that.

One is a commercial sheet metal worker and owns his own home.

Another is a Linux sysadmin and owns his own home and has a spouse and a child.

Another is a restaurant equipment repairman and rents.

Finally, my 19 year old just started his airplane mechanic apprenticeship and rents.

My other three are still in school and living in our family home.

The thought at you need college degree to find meaningful employment or to live a joyful life is simply false so I don't consider it a metric for homeschooling success.

I teach my kids how to learn and encourage them to get out there and be productive doing work they enjoy and raising their own families.

Success in my book means they can function as an adult, stand on their own financially, find a good spouse, and bring me some awesome grandkids to spoil.

I don't have a college degree but I make plenty to raise 7 kids while working from home. I got to be there for all their first steps and struggles through Algebra 2 and everything in between. I wouldn't trade working from home and homeschooling for anything. It's been very fulfilling.

Now where's my grandkids! <grin>
by gbacon | 2025-11-22 00:22:23+00:00
All over this discussion, the big negative has nothing to do with missing out on stellar education, skill development, or expert teachers. Instead, it’s the perpetual handwringing that homeschooled kids won’t be Properly Socialized, i.e., be exposed to and have to endure mistreatment, disruption, and sometimes assault from other maladjusted, cruel, or even mentally ill peers — because that’s “the real world.”

This is not the W for the government schools that proponents seem to think it is.