MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-28 01:19:52+00:00
>but, of course, that never happened.

Because there is no consequences for the peddlers or the supporters.

You wouldn't take seriously someone who advocates with a straight face for reinstating prohibition or segregation yet it's perfectly socially acceptable to say "no, it will be different this time".

It's not just toll roads. You see this with every recurring bad thing.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-12-28 01:20:30+00:00
It’s not a good thought. Run a single client (uptime kuma) and ask it to alert you on expiration proximity. I.e. implement proper monitoring and alerting. No need to randomly degrade your users’ experience and hope they’ll notify you instead of shrugging and going to a site that doesn’t throw made-up http errors at them randomly.
by DANmode | 2025-12-28 01:21:08+00:00
> a flawed term

No, just misrepresented.

Conspiracies happen daily.

> Secondly, the flow of cheap plastic things from China turned into a steady stream of more and more sophisticated, and low priced, goods.. replacing things that were brand names, hand made, or niche markets. Senator Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard Blum were particularly involved in that change fyi.

More commonly attributed to the administration of President Bill Clinton.
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-28 01:21:22+00:00
I feel your anxiety, but let me offer a different metaphor.

Instead of the Titanic (a single point of failure sinking), consider the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan. Every 20 years, they completely rebuild the temple (Shikinen Sengu).

Why? To transfer the skill of building, not just preserve the building itself.

We are entering a "Grand Rebuilding" phase. Yes, the old structures (traditional coding jobs) are being dismantled. But the purpose is to transfer the essence of "Logic" and "Value Creation" to a new material (AI).

Don't cling to the old wood. Focus on being the carpenter who knows how to build the new shrine.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-28 01:21:43+00:00
I think federation is interesting as a concept, but my time with Mastodon has revealed that even decentralized networks are just as full of outrage-centric entertainment and ragebait as the main networks.

I think “the algorithm” gets a lot of blame for mirroring the choices that people are making for themselves. Even when you remove any semblance of an algorithm people have no problem creating their own little worlds of outrage entertainment and rage bait.
by torcete | 2025-12-28 01:22:39+00:00
Oh, I wrote "asian ai guy" because that's the name people are using in these YouTube videos.

Maybe you are right and the video is just ai slop. I just wanted to share it, because I learnt with them how futures, arbitrage and market manipulation works.

Also, I can assure you that I am not part of any campaign, but of course, what else would I say?
by chiefalchemist | 2025-12-28 01:22:41+00:00
> Despite our emerging results, the Pfizer executives in charge of research and external alliances told us the company did not want to develop a new diabetes therapy that required injection,

Well, COVID certainly put an end to those fears (by consumers). Coincidentally, obesity was also said to increase COVID risk. Hollywood couldn’t have scripted it - no pun intended - any better.
by ilvez | 2025-12-28 01:23:11+00:00
Yeah, second and third book in Farseer trilogy can be hard to consume, but at the same time in comparison Robin Hobb just damn can write good. It's little-bit in comparison if you read some more amateur writers, coming back to this.. Can't say it's wholly perfect, but it is well written -- Nighteyes for one. Fitz can be emo, but Nighteyes just delivers.

There sure are positive outcomes in Elderling series. In the long run. The characters and their life. It's not easy laid back reading, but in the end it is one of the best series. (Minus the four books of "Dragon ...", these are slop, not sure why Hobb wrote those).
by nextaccountic | 2025-12-28 01:23:12+00:00
> License: BSL 1.1, free for personal and educational use, converts to MIT in 2030 (would love input on this, does it make sense to just go MIT?)

I LOLd at that. Things in AI space become obsolete much faster. I'd say just go with GPL or AGPL if you don't want proprietary software to be built on top of your code
by throw0101c | 2025-12-28 01:23:41+00:00
> Then when someone flies over your datacenter with an GPS jammer (purposeful or accidental), this needs to not be a bad day where suddenly database transactions happen out of order, or you have an outage.

Most NTP/PTP appliances have internal clocks that are OCXO or rubidium that have holdover (even for several days).

If time is that important to you then you'll have them, plus perhaps some fibre connections to other sites that are hopefully out of range of the jamming.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-28 01:23:41+00:00
I used to hand out in forums with Roy Walford's followers

https://www.amazon.com/120-Year-Diet-Double-Vital/dp/0671466...

Those folks were disdainful of "one-mouse experiments" but Roy was vital and productive for a long time and passed at 79 from ALS which is one of the worse ways you can go and used a lot of weed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Walford

I can say that when I was lowballing my calories I was often uncomfortable, particularly in the cold. If I could keep the temperature constant it might not be so hard but in an old farmhouse in NY it's pretty hard even if you are strategic about long underwear and other warm programming. But yeah, the average American could use to eat a bit less and so I could I.
by sgc | 2025-12-28 01:23:56+00:00
If it's not niche service, it won't be what you are looking for. The best thing is to search for "my travel destination travel agent" and find a local company which is not overly difficult. I have friends who did not even think anybody booked a major trip in a different way than that. There are also travel agents who work in many locations, but specialize in a specific type of trip like adventure/extreme trips etc. It's a different fit though, they can't know each area as well as a local agent.
by ekianjo | 2025-12-28 01:24:12+00:00
Actually the Orange Pi 5 Ultra would be the most recent board from Orange Pi to compare it with. You can see a comparison between the Orange Pi 5 Ultra and the Raspberry Pi 5 here: https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-5-ultra-review/

In a nutshell, this new Orange Pi 6 Plus is much faster than Orange Pi 5 Ultra and anything that came before.
by jemmyw | 2025-12-28 01:24:23+00:00
> some people online claim they want $10k EVs

I wasn't really thinking about cost, but quality, when I made the comment about what we should be doing. Quality at scale with better processes and automation. I think history shows its the scale that matters. Once you have scale you can improve quality across everything.

> Protectionism is why we have not already been flooded with crappy cars from overseas.

I don't live in the US, but another Western country, one that doesn't protect the car market because we have no car manufacturing here at all. I'm not seeing a flood of crappy cars. The Chinese EVs seem very good on price and (so far, new models take time to reveal problems and serviceability) quality. Regulatory protectionism is a good thing, but I'm also not convinced that folks in China would be happy with crappy cars either.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-12-28 01:25:15+00:00
> Input with Autofilter Suggestions Dropdown

It's great until you have a typo in the field, or want to show options that don't start with what you typed in but appear near the end of an option (think Google search's autocomplete). There's no way to filter in Javascript and force it to show certain options with <datalist>. I've resorted to <ol> for search suggestions.
by bachmeier | 2025-12-28 01:25:29+00:00
I remember using travel agents in the 1990s. Maybe it was just the particular ones I dealt with, but the experience was terrible. I was supposed to tell them what I wanted, they would look it up, and then I'd write them a check for whatever amount they told me it would cost. Then along came the internet portals where you could easily see all of your options/prices, without a single sigh from a travel agent. To my knowledge, software developers have little in common with that industry.
by malikolivier | 2025-12-28 01:26:27+00:00
I encountered a similar situation in my career.
The work looked good, the team looked good, money was good.

Then when the work contract came up, there were some unusual clauses about my salary that I was not comfortable with. They first said that it was OK to ignore the clause as they would pay my salary as explained orally. I insisted that they write the work contract as they plan to pay me.
After about 1 week of back and forth, they admitted that the clause was indeed unusual, was there for historical reasons and that they plan to change it in the future. However, they said no clause in the contract could be changed as of now, as it was the same contract for every employee, and no past had employee ever complained about it.

Unfortunately, I ended up declining the offer, as I considered the risk was not worth it.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-12-28 01:26:50+00:00
From that discussion...

"Unless your cat lived a significant part of it's life as an outdoor cat, it is very unlikely to have the parasite (like any parasite). Most cat to human transmission (again, minority of total transmissions) comes from stray cats infecting gardens with their feces."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947121
by lll-o-lll | 2025-12-28 01:28:02+00:00
> Am I missing something?

I don’t think so, I think it is solved in the general sense. However what Spanner does is unique, and it does use synchronised clocks in order to do it.

However, Spanner does not solve the inter-continental acid database with high write throughput. So I don’t see it as ground breaking. CRDT’s are interesting, I’ve followed your work for a long time, but too constrained to solve this general problem I think.
by seniorsassycat | 2025-12-28 01:28:20+00:00
What if I've already fixed the format issue (but not staged it). The pre-commit hook will pass, but it's not doing what the author intended (preventing unformated code from being committed).

What if I've only staged one part of a file, but the pre-commit hook fails on the unstaged portions, which should be fine since I'm not commiting or pushing those changes.
by caseysoftware | 2025-12-28 01:28:26+00:00
Excellent, much more useful.

Not sure where you are but in Indiana, gas tax for unleaded is 36c while diesel is 62c so on a per-gallon basis, that's an additional +72% in taxes. Back of the envelope: Civic at 30mpg pays 1.2c/mile vs SuperDuty at 15mpg pays 4.13c/mile so the multiple is closer to 3.4 vs 2

So yes - assuming registration fees are comparable and mileage is comparable - the SuperDuty should pay more.
by toss1 | 2025-12-28 01:29:04+00:00
Maybe think for a second from the perspective of a couple or woman who WANT to have children. The problems they face in today's economy where both people need to work full-time just to survive are huge, and it seems even crazier to add the time and money costs of a child, let alone several.

The way to change all of that has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with economic and labor policy

Society decided it was OK to have the top 1% control 27% or all wealth and the top 10% control 60%, and allow companies to pay wages so low that a person working full-time cannot even get out of poverty, so 25%+ of the workers at the largest employer qualify for food benefits (and the employer even gives employees seminars how to get benefits), while the leaders/owners of those companies rake in more billions every year.

Society decided it was OK to make sure health care is expensive, incomplete, and bankrupting for any unexpected event.

Society decided it was the mothers who are responsible for all childcare and provide only minimum assistance for critical needs like prenatal care, and day-care.

You want more babies? Make just a few changes

Change requirements so corporations are required to compensate their employees merely the way the original US minimum wage was specified (including in the 1956 Republican Party Platform): So a single person working full-time will earn enough to support a household of four including housing (mortgage/rent), food, healthcare, and education. Recognize that the companies trying to exploit their workers by paying less so their full-time employees need govt benefits to feed themselves are the ones exploiting welfare, and do not have a viable business model, they have an exploitation model.

Add making healthcare sufficient and affordable for all, including children and support for daycare and the time and effort to raise children.

Change those things, and instead of a couple looking at making an already hugely insecure future even more insecure by having children, they would see an opportunity to confidently embark on building a family without feeling like one misfortune or layoff could put them all in the street.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-12-28 01:30:45+00:00
He's made a slew of false claims before I turned off the video. Among which is the idea that companies like Facebook are merely valuable because of the "labor we provide". In fact, they make money through advertising and sharing data with advertisers. If socializing was all there was to value, these companies would be redundant. The service provided is content-delivery in various forms, that isn't free and it isn't something "anyone from the CS dept" would do as well.

To call it "labor" to share boomer-humor memes and use Marketplace (i.e. users doing what they want on FB) is stretching the term. As with youtube, the prolific creators on instagram and the like also make piles of money. Yet it's being framed as though they're putting all this effort for the company's benefit only.
by ilvez | 2025-12-28 01:30:47+00:00
"Brief Cases" -- just give me more Dresden. I think my favourite series, I'm a simple guy :) Short stories themself are so and so. If you are into the series then these small stories are just like Saturday evening reading, so no big investment. Some of them stick and make you warm, some of them meh, thats ok.

"Mother of Learning" I picked up from my previous colleague. Not in the time-travelling, but he told me that I would probably like Dungeon Crawler Carl. Haven't gotten to it yet.

About Fitz -- read my other comment. I think whole Elderling series is worth it. It is the long game. Just being invested in characters and Robin Hobb can write characters. If you only think about Farseer trilogy, then I still think it's worth it, but maybe I'm just sucker for it. :-) (there are pacing issues for sure, but Hobb wrote it in 90s, in that sense it was ahead of time, forgive some of those small issues). Read it first I guess 20+ years ago or so..
by charcircuit | 2025-12-28 01:31:06+00:00
>In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes.

This reliability isn't done by being perfect 100% of the time. Things like being able to handle states where transactions don't line up allowing for payments to eventually be settled. Or for telecom allowing for single parts of the system to not take down the whole thing or adding redundancy. Essentially these types of businesses require fault tolerance to be supported. The real world is messy, there is always going to be faults, so investing heavily into correctness may not be worth it compared to investing into fault tollerance.
by Uehreka | 2025-12-28 01:31:08+00:00
I was doing something at work that involved calculating round trip times from/to Android devices, and learned that although it should be possible for NTP to sync clocks with below-second precision, in practice many of the Android devices I was working with (mostly Pixels 2-7) were off from my server and each other by up to 5 seconds, which blew my mind.
by neilv | 2025-12-28 01:31:09+00:00
Interesting thought.

On RMS and Woz specifically, how much have they ever been opposed?

I only know a little about them, but I think of both as good-natured, high-impact, little-bit weird hackers, with substantial common ground in philosophies or thinking.

They went very different life directions, with pretty young career decisions. But I could imagine Woz today supporting what RMS has done, while not seeing a need for all the philosophy and seriousness.

RMS is certainly critical of Apple. But I suspect that the Macintosh team in '84 was closer in intentions to contemporary RMS than to contemporary Apple.
by epistasis | 2025-12-28 01:31:14+00:00
> An injection to cure obesity is a small price to ask, as any person that has been obese will tell you. They could have determined this from a simple survey.

You're missing the primary point: GLP-1 was investigated as another me-too diabetes drug, for which there were many injectable drugs available.

It wasn't until much much later that it was discovered to be an obesity drug. It was a completely coincidental and accidental discovery.

It turns out that most science is like that. We make the most important discoveries unexpectedly and by chance. Which is why you should always distrust the politicians that mock and ridicule science for sounding ordinary or obvious. That's where the real magic happens.
by Devasta | 2025-12-28 01:31:22+00:00
People do for far less.

If the Covid lockdowns taught us anything, its that a colossal number of people would happily subject tens of thousands of people to easily preventable deaths if it meant they could get Applebees for dinner. Besides that, huge numbers of people join the military precisely because they value a Muslim foreigners life as being worth less than a joke degree from some no name college.

So long as there is a bare minimum amount of indirection, they happily do it.
by crote | 2025-12-28 01:32:12+00:00
In case you are interested in improving the drag-and-drop usage:

There are a lot of connections which look like they should work, but don't - such as patch panel to patch panel. On the other hand, it is possible to connect a single LC connector to two splices at once. There doesn't seem to be any way to unmake a connection. Overriding existing connections sometimes works, but sometimes doesn't. The tube nodes don't have a clear drag-and-drop point towards a cable. By default the tube nodes have a colored edge matching the incoming tube connection, but this edge color doesn't change when you drag a different tube from the cable onto it. The cursor sometimes wrongly shows a "+" to indicate a possible connection, such as trying to drag from one tube exit to another. It is somehow possible to connect two cable tube exits to a single tube node. It is somehow possible to connect a cable tube exit directly to a splice node.

Those probably don't matter all that much if it is almost always auto-generated, but considering the amount of weird behavior it might perhaps be better to disable the edit functionality for now?
by DavidPiper | 2025-12-28 01:32:13+00:00
I'll always upvote a recommendation for Amusing Ourselves to Death. I haven't yet gone back to Understanding Media directly yet.

I haven't watched the news in 5 years. I started watching it again since Bondi (I live nearby), and while I'm surprised at the variation in reporting styles (political bias?) between Australian channels, my overwhelming observation has been just how little key information is actually conveyed.

I've found it very helpful to watch the live briefings, Q&As, etc with politicians, but the news cycle here is so short (hourly) that a few minutes later you get to hear a "recap" by the news reporter that glosses over most of the important and interesting points (at best) or actively removes key nuance and outright changes the message delivered by the original person (at worst).

I feel there has to be something between "I heard about a thing 7th-hand" and "I actively watch political discourse / read scientific papers", but I'm no longer sure The News, as we currently know it, is it.

Presumably this was what "journalism" was originally supposed to be.
by 1123581321 | 2025-12-28 01:33:25+00:00
Yes, they're still popular for drinks and snacks in areas where people congregate. C-stores do provide more of this functionality though and are omnipresent. You still see automat-style machines (sandwiches etc.) in places like airports and larger company rec rooms. These require more regular restocking for freshness.

There are also some restaurant startups that are trying to reduce restaurants to vending machines or autonomous restaurants. Slightly different, but it does have a downstream effect on vending machine technology and restocking logistics.

What country are you in where you don't see vending machines? Did you used to have them?
by epistasis | 2025-12-28 01:34:32+00:00
GLP-1 is a drug target, not a drug. It's actually a hormone.

There are many drugs that have been developed since then, and each approval seems to have slightly better drug properties.

The age of research on a drug is not very indicative of safety, either. Rather, broad study and time are far better. I'd take five years of clinical trials on hundreds of thousands of people over 5000 years old research on hundreds of people.
by jacob019 | 2025-12-28 01:34:34+00:00
Funny you should mention this, I just added a simple filesystem sandbox to my coding agent.

Check it out:
https://github.com/jacobsparts/agentlib/blob/main/src/agentl...

The framework is all python, but I used C for this helper. It uses unprivileged user namespaces to mount an overlay and run an arbitrary command, then when the command finishes, it writes a tarball of edits, which I use to create a unified diff. The framework orchestrates it all transparently, but the helper itself could be used standalone. Here's a short document about the sandbox in the context of it's use in my project:

https://github.com/jacobsparts/agentlib/blob/main/docs/sandb...

I also have a version that uses SUID instead of unprivileged user namespaces, available by request.

I often use claude code with --dangerously-skip-permissions but every once in a while it bites me. I've learned to use git for everything and put instructions to always commit BEFORE writes in CLAUDE.md. Claude can go off the rails on harder bug fixes, especially if there are multiple rounds of context compacting, it can really screw things up. It usually honors guidance not to modify outside of the project, but a simple sandbox adds so much, after the session is over you can see what changed and decide what to do with it. It really helps with the problem where it makes unexpected changes to the codebase, which you might not even notice otherwise, which can introduce serious bugs. The permission models of all the coding agents are rough--either you can't get anything done, or you throw caution to the wind. Full sandboxes are quite restrictive, which is why I rolled by own. Honestly your best option right now is just to have good version control and run coding agents in dedicated environments.
by compumike | 2025-12-28 01:35:45+00:00
100%, I've run into this too. I wrote some minimal scripts in Bash, Python, Ruby, Node.js (JavaScript), Go, and Powershell to send a request and alert if the expiration is less than 14 days from now: https://heyoncall.com/blog/barebone-scripts-to-check-ssl-cer... because anyone who's operating a TLS-secured website (which is... basically anyone with a website) should have at least that level of automated sanity check. We're talking about ~10 lines of Python!