MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jonas21 | 2025-11-05 16:15:00+00:00
San Diego's airport, on the other hand, has the a bustling restaurant district, an interstate with frequent bumper-to-bumper traffic, and a dense residential neighborhood all within a mile off one end of the runway -- and a popular shopping area, an elementary school, and a high school within just over a mile from the other end.

In addition, the terrain rises in both directions (so sharply on one side that planes can't use ILS when landing from that direction).
by cxr | 2025-11-05 16:15:01+00:00
Your response is like seeing the cops going to the wrong house to kick in your neighbors door, breaking their ornaments in their entry way, and then saying to yourself, "Good. I hate yellow, and would never have any of that tacky shit in my house."

As your first sentence of your comment indicates, the fact that it's supported and there for people to use doesn't (and hasn't) result in you being forced to use it in your projects.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-05 16:15:24+00:00
Autopilot in airplanes is a good example to disprove that.

Good in most conditions. Not as good as a human. Which is why we still have skilled pilots flying planes, assisted by autopilot.

We don’t say “it’s not as good as a human, so stuff it.”

We say, “it’s great in most conditions. And humans are trained how to leverage it effectively and trained to fly when it cannot be used.”
by 1dom | 2025-11-05 16:15:42+00:00
I agree. "production system" isn't a useful term without context.

Either it's production system in the context of "it's a business serving customers", in which case, there are many homelabs out there which have received paying traffic, or it's a production system in terms of functionality, downtime, technical features etc. Again, there are many homelabs out there that can tick all the same technical and performance boxes as "production system".

In the context of the original comment I was responding to ("...running and managing numerous DBs, k8s clusters, ci/cd pipelines and stateless container systems is simply impossible with a team of 1-2 people.") you're more evidence for my comment that it's perfectly possible for 1 - 2 people to run a small production system, just as it's possible for 1 nerd to run a medium - large homelab with the same technical features.
by andix | 2025-11-05 16:15:56+00:00
Sounds like the UX designers for the new applications didn't understand the requirements. I worked on two web app projects that required to be usable fast and with keyboards only. It's not that hard, if you define the requirements right.

Also no scrolling was a requirement. This was done by defining a min and max screen resolution, and designing everything exactly for that. The app was supposed to be used exclusively full screen, so no need for responsive design.

The result was a bit like a video game, very few loading delays and instant responses to user input.
by JimDabell | 2025-11-05 16:15:57+00:00
> They did not agree to remove it. This is a spun lie from the public posts I can see. They agreed to explore removing it but preferred to keep it for good reasons.

Mozilla:

> Our position is that it would be good for the long-term health of the web platform and good for user security to remove XSLT, and we support Chromium's effort to find out if it would be web compatible to remove support.

— https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1287#i...

WebKit:

> WebKit is cautiously supportive. We'd probably wait for one implementation to fully remove support, though if there's a known list of origins that participate in a reverse origin trial we could perhaps participate sooner.

— https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-314...

Describing either of those as “they preferred to keep it” is blatantly untrue.
by tcumulus | 2025-11-05 16:15:59+00:00
Some interesting points: "Removing cross-border bottlenecks through binding timelines to be set by 2027 and the identification of options for higher speeds, including well-above 250 km/h when economically viable."

"A 2026 proposal will aim to improve cross-border rail ticketing and booking systems, making it easier for passengers to plan and purchase seamless cross-border journeys, with better access to passenger rights protection when using multiple operators."

"Removing entry barriers for new high-speed operators. Better coordination of track capacity, fair track access charges, and non-discriminatory access to service facilities will make it easier for new companies to offer high-speed rail services, boosting competition and making high-speed rail more affordable."
by inejge | 2025-11-05 16:16:06+00:00
> Occam's Razor suggests that whatever they did right there is to blame.

Ordinarily yes, but in this case there are reports that the plane underwent a "heavy maintenance check" from Sep 3 to Oct 18, which may have included engine removal and overhaul (source: pprune.org, from a poster who's not given to flights of fancy.)
by perlgeek | 2025-11-05 16:16:21+00:00
I agree with basically everything you've said, but I'd add that I sometimes wish we had a way to sometimes pop up a GUI for very specific tasks.

For example, enabling a fast multi-select of rows in a longish table (or even worse, a tree) is one of the tasks that TUIs don't really excel at. Popping up a PDF or image viewer would also be great.

The TUI I'm working with runs on a pair of Linux VMs, and is accessed from Windows, Linux and Mac, so asking all our users to enable X forwarding doesn't really work.
by nine_k | 2025-11-05 16:16:38+00:00
I like the general design very much. And additionally the fact that it is small, lightweight, and not imposing, while apparently being a fast car.

Except for one thing: the brushed metal dashboard. I can imagine how terribly it's going to reflect the sun from behind when the roof is folded. I hope they can offer a tasteful matte dark version.

As of the lack of bells and whistles, the dashboard seems to be prepared for being customized. I suppose it's not a cheap car, so a customization job is not going to ruin the buyer's finances. I can imagine that a custom radio with protected but visible vacuum tubes could appeal to some buyers.
by chollida1 | 2025-11-05 16:16:56+00:00
> Personally I find the reporting of underlying value more useful than the price paid in puts

How so?

If I buy TSLA puts at a $10 strike or a $500 strike they show up the exact same on the 13F as both have to be reported as if they are delta 1 when showing a share count.

One is a very meaningful bet and one is throwing money away.
by simoncion | 2025-11-05 16:17:04+00:00
I don't see any evidence of that claim from the materials I have available to me. [0] is the Github Issue I mentioned. [1] is the WHATNOT meeting notes linked to from that GH Issue... though I have no idea who smaug is.

[0] <https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523>

[1] <https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11146#issuecomment-275...>
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-05 16:17:14+00:00
> As Epic has said they think they should have to pay nothing for all that Apple provides.

As they should be. iOS was already paid for when the user bought their device. Mandating a 30% cut on all in-app purchases is double-billing.

Tim Kulak[0] calls this "forcing Apple to give away its technology for free", which is asshole logic. In no sane world would a court consider application developers to be making a derivative work of the OS they port to, so the OS vendor has no legal entitlement to application developers' revenue. The only world in which this stupid 30% cut was even tolerated was, ironically for Epic, games development.

As for privacy and security concerns, I would like to note that Apple has very specific definitions of those words that only marginally interact with your own understanding. To be clear, if you were to modify an iOS app to, say, remove tracking code from it, Apple would consider that a security breach. Even though this is a common thing that we do in web browsers all the time. Because users have their hands tied on iOS in ways that they don't on macOS, they can't fight back against tracking on their phones like they can on their computers.

[0] Term used by the Soviet government to refer to "any rural landowner that didn't cooperate with their disastrous attempts at land collectivization". I'm using it here mainly because it almost-rhymes.
by f1shy | 2025-11-05 16:17:14+00:00
This is also my experience. I was miserable from 13 until 35yo. Then made big changes.

I think it is extremely dangerous to make that affirmations, that may take away any hope some depressed folk may have, being 25 and having a hard time.

The rationale about 25 years and the cortex should be much better explained, I think.
by anonzzzies | 2025-11-05 16:17:26+00:00
> . If the printer runs out of paper, the human goes to the supply cabinet and gets out paper and if there is no paper the human decides

Sure, these humans exists, but the others, that I happen to encounter every day unfortunately, are the ones that go into broken mode immediately when something is unexpected. Today I ordered something they ran out of and the girl behind the counter just stared in The Deep not having a clue what to do now. Do or say. Or yesterday at dinner, the PoS (on batteries) ran out of power when I tried to pay for dinner. The guy just walked off and went outside for a smoke. I stood there with waiting to pay. The owner apologized and fixed it after a while but I am saying, the employee who runs out of paper and then finds and puts more paper in is not very ... common... In the real world.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-05 16:17:29+00:00
The other thing that a TUI generally does that a GUI doesn't is that it lets you type ahead, you can drive it without looking at the screen.

Most GUI's make you wait for the form to appear before you can type into it. That totally destroys the flow of operators.

There are GUI's that are properly designed to be keyboard driven and to allow type-ahead. Those can be truly best-of-both-worlds. Too bad they're so rare.
by dwaite | 2025-11-05 16:17:40+00:00
Four points:

1. Apple potentially loses giving ground to regulators before the regulators ask for something. They don't want to allow alternative app stores and then have a regulator say they are also not allowed to mandate royalties for digital good/service sales in their own store. Apple is likely nudging regulators to go a particular way, but is effectively trying to barter.

2. Likewise, individual regulatory bodies solving the issues they see in different ways has and will continue to create complexity in app developers, in some cases meaning their app needs different business models in different countries to take advantage of the individual regulated changes. That is a consequence of regulators pushing Apple to themselves have different business models to fund the App Store in different countries.

3. If Apple doesn't want a feature to be used or thinks the feature is actively harmful, they aren't going to encourage its use by making it available in jurisdictions where it isn't required.

4. Some of these features (such as default maps app) are semi-baked and without industry consensus, but rolled out because they were required for regulatory timelines. I can emphasize with not wanting to roll out broken features where you aren't being required to.
Ask HN: Stories from Users of Minicomputers and Mainframes
by rwallace | 2025-11-05 16:17:57+00:00
I showed up too late to catch more than the tail end of the minicomputer era. I'd like to learn more about the computers that predated the 8-bit micros I fondly remember.

There is plenty of information on the technology of machines like the VAX, PDPs, 360 etc. Quite a bit also on how they were built. ('The Mythical Man-Month' and 'The Soul of a New Machine' are generally recognized as classics. A lesser-known favorite of mine: 'The Supermen'.) But not so much on how they were used, particularly at the 'coal face' level, so to speak.

This post was inspired by a comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818471

"... at the time I was working on an IBM 360, mostly doing Fortran for scientists running anemometer simulations. The center for this activity was the person in charge of the 360 who could dole out time on the computer.

The power dynamic was something I did not really notice, but in retrospect this was frustrating for the mathematicians/scientist trying to run simulations. They had to queue up and wait.

Then one day a mathematician brought in an Apple II running VisiCalc. His own personal computer. He ran his simulations on that."

One thing I found fascinating here: looking at the clock speeds of 1970s computers, by today's standards, you would expect 'the computer is too slow' to be a big limiting factor. But in the above account, it wasn't. The actual workload was such that an Apple II running VisiCalc was good enough to get the job done. The limiting factors were the actual availability of the 360 (presumably there genuinely was not enough machine time to go around), and the overhead of dealing with the politics of gaining access to it.

What were people's experiences with minicomputers and mainframes? What did they enable, that was more difficult or impossible than before? What were the actual bottlenecks and limiting factors? I'm interested in both direct firsthand accounts, and links to published material in any format.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-05 16:18:18+00:00
But that wasn't the point I was replying to, he said it's received no attention yet if you go to BBC news, Sudan Civil War is its own category on the Africa page.

Now if he'd stated "western media covers broadly equivalent events with similar levels of casualties with a bias towards Europe/Western Countries/Western Allies" then broadly I would agree - African news does tend to take a backseat to events in those regions for likely a whole host of reasons.

They covered El-Fasher as well - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr4qqgdlkjo
by keyringlight | 2025-11-05 16:18:45+00:00
Adapt based on window size? Either hide/truncate less essential information when the width goes below a threshold, or make each entry multi-line if you require showing all of it. This is not exactly a new approach, I can resize my Foobar2000 window and the playlist columns will stay proportional to the window, and that seems to be using fairly standard windows components to the extent it wouldn't look out of place 30 years ago.
by satiated_grue | 2025-11-05 16:18:46+00:00
The Apple II had a non-linear layout of video memory, so programmer Jordan Mechner used a layer of indirection where he had an array of pointers to rows of screen memory.

They realized that inverting the screen was as simple as inverting the row-pointer array. Then they managed to convince Broderbund to ship a double-sided floppy with that change in the software.
by conductr | 2025-11-05 16:19:02+00:00
Maybe in some cases. But largely, no, it really is not comparable. These TUI interfaces literally had 0 latency for any action. You could paste in text (from clipboard), with \t characters, and it would advance the input focus and could fill out an entire form with once paste action. There's a ton of real world cases where the browser is just too heavy to keep up with fast paced data entry.

I've never once seen an experienced user equal or gain efficiency when switching. It's always a loss even after months of acclimation.
by privong | 2025-11-05 16:19:03+00:00
An interesting theme here in the comments (that I am sympathetic to) is "TUIs have steep learning curves but are fast/efficient for people with proficiency". I wonder if a small part of the modern preference for GUIs is related to a lack of employee retention. If companies aren't necessarily interested in working hard to keep employees then training new hires needs to be faster/easier and that could work against TUI and keyboard-based tools.

Of course, if that's a factor I'm guessing it's a small one in comparison to expectations about what "modern" software should look like.
by Yizahi | 2025-11-05 16:19:24+00:00
This is a correct and at the same time rather misleading article. Sure, in principle it would be prudent to investigate literally everything every time. And he makes it sounds like not doing so makes a person literally 100% useless and dysfunctional. But he "forgets" to mention that investigation is non-free. And depending on the topic, the amount of such investigations and the length of each one can vary dramatically. Up to the point where whole life and all of the resources could be spent doing it.

Heuristics That Almost Always Work have a helpful hint right there in the name. They do work, and they do it almost every time. And depending on the topic that 99.99% may be even 100%, but we just can't reliably prove it. Stuff that works 99.99% of the time is very valuable and helps humans free resources and time for the less reliable or more severe problems. Or just for leisure. Personally, I invite author to go disprove every single idea on the internet and do it in careful and deep detail, let's see how long he would last without heuristics. :)
by js2 | 2025-11-05 16:19:51+00:00
> I could be safe and snug in my house and still be in a plane crash.

According to Garp, you just need to buy a pre-disastered home. You'll be safe there.[^1]

(Unfortunately his logic is flawed.[^2])

[^1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3TuoGVNbBs

[^2]: https://xkcd.com/795/
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-05 16:20:12+00:00
I would agree for FPGA soft-cpu the RISC-V is an obvious choice.

But in general, the next question will be which version did you deploy, and which cross-compiler do you use. All the documentation people search will have caveats, or simply form contradictory guidance.

The problem isn't the ISA, but the ill fated trap of trying to hit every use-case (design variant fragmentation.) ARM 6 made the same mistake, and ARM8/9 greatly consolidated around the 64 bit core design.

Indeed, an ISO standard may help narrow the project scope, but I doubt it can save the designs given the behavior some of its proponents have shown. =3
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-05 16:20:14+00:00
Yeah.

At the time there was no obvious reason not to trust that OpenAI was trying to act for the benefit of society, per their charter, so it seemed like an abundance of caution, and this level of LLM capability was new to most of us, so it was hard to guess how dangerous it actually was...

However, in retrospect, seeing how OpenAI continues to behave, it may well have just been to get publicity.

This whole "Be warned, we're about to release something that will destroy society!" shtick seems to be a recurring thing with the AI CEOs, specifically Altman and Amodei (who switched into hardcore salesman mode about a year ago).

The latest Twitter "warning" from Altman is to claim that their AI will soon be at the level of their AI developers, and so we should be prepared (for the self-accelerating singularity I suppose). Maybe this inspired someone to write him another trillion dollar check?
by dlcarrier | 2025-11-05 16:20:29+00:00
It rumored to have VC funding from Besos, but that doesn't give them special access to Amazon nor Amazon special access to Slat.

It can lead to conflicts of interest (see also: https://www.law.com/delbizcourt/2025/10/29/attorney-for-amaz...) but that's a far cry from significant data sharing.
by mapt | 2025-11-05 16:20:44+00:00
There are a bunch of things leading up to Oct 7. Among them:

Being a decade deep into a tightened border blockade that leaves little hope of a long-term future for Gaza.

Netanyahu's coalition getting more and more aggressive with their rhetoric as far as forcibly annexing what remains of the West Bank, rather than merely annexing small portions every year to house more and more settlers. Repeated open provocations at the Al Aqsa Mosque holy site whenever Netanyahu was feeling politically vulnerable.

The US first unilaterally tearing up a treaty to reimpose crippling sanctions, and later inviting the #2 or #3 (depending on how you count) top-ranked leader of Iran, by far the most popular person in the country, to peace talks and then assassinating him when his plane landed.

The imminent threat of the Abraham Accords, Israel and the US trying to bribe leaders of regional governments into a coalition against Iran and Palestine.
by mrngm | 2025-11-05 16:21:49+00:00
Most, if not all, Asian take-out / restaurants in NL still use a TUI for registering your order. Several motorcyle retailers in NL use a TUI for parts management, invoicing, repair tracking. In both cases, people operating these systems develop muscle memory for their everyday usage. I'm not sure if it's still in use, but for at least a decade since 2005 or so, the local university's student canteen used an in-house developed TUI for selling snacks and drinks.

And if you stretch the definition of TUI a bit, the Bloomberg terminal is a fascinating example.
by drewg123 | 2025-11-05 16:22:28+00:00
Yes, I (with a few others) did a similar optimization for FreeBSD's firewall, with similar results but much greater simplicity using what we call "pfil memory pointer hooks" We wrote a paper about it in 2020 for a conference that was cancelled due to Covid, so its fairly unknown.

On what's now almost 10 year old hardware, we could drop 44Mpps of a volumetric DOS attack and still serve our nominal workload with no impact. See PFILCTL(8) and PFIL(9), focus on ethernet (link layer) packets.

It relies on the same principal -- NIC passes the RX buffer directly to the firewall (ipfw, pf, or ipfilter). If the firewall says the packet is OK, rx processing happens as normal. If it says to drop, then dropping is very fast because it can simply re-use the buffer without re-allocation, re-doing DMA mapping, etc.
by cjrp | 2025-11-05 16:22:31+00:00
> cargo jets tend to be older/refurbished passenger planes that have outlived their useful lives flying passengers.

Exactly what happened in this case; the airplane was built in 1991 to carry passengers, and then converted in 2006 for freight.

https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/mcdonnell-douglas-md-...
by dpark | 2025-11-05 16:22:32+00:00
> The average HNer, who is fairly literate and well-informed about tax-prep, tends to misunderstand the situation.

The fact that TurboTax is cheaper than a local CPA does not change the fact that Intuit actively lobbies to prevent free tax filing.

In a sane world the IRS should send a letter to every tax-paying household in February that says “we owe you X”, “you owe us X”, or “your taxes are complex, please work with a tax specialist”. Also in a sane world this would be free and the government would be incentivized to simplify the tax code so that as many people as possible were in one of the first buckets. In our world the government is aggressively lobbied for complex tax codes and prevention of free tax filing.

> A regular person's taxes can always be done electronically for free, or if they really want, for $20-$100 through tax prep software.

Define “regular”. Per TurboTax, only 37% of people qualify for free filing.

I have never tried to go through the TurboTax free file route but based on my experience with the paid service, I imagine they aggressively upsell free filers with the exact same scare tactics you associate with CPAs.