MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chroma205 | 2025-12-05 17:38:12+00:00
> That sentence alone tells me that you're a LARPer

cope.

Equity options are sparse and have 1 order of 1 lot/qty per price. But usually empty. Too many prices and expiration dates.

US treasury bond cash futures (BrokerTec) are almost always 1 lot orders. Multiple orders per level though.

I could go on, but I’m busy as our team of 4’s algos are printing US$500k/hour today.
by amonith | 2025-12-05 17:38:19+00:00
Haven't you seen job offers where X years of experience in XYZ is a must? It's like most of them. Never got one without this actually. Gotta have this experience from somewhere.

I know devs like to say they would hire anyone, but they're not the ones hiring. At best you get to interview people already prefiltered by HR which... looks for keywords in CV.
by jmull | 2025-12-05 17:38:23+00:00
> but quite weak evidence for the vaccine being efficacious

That’s directly contradicted by the results of the study. E.g.,

“Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 (weighted hazard ratio [wHR], 0.26 [95% CI, 0.22-0.30]) and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality (wHR, 0.75 [95% CI, 0.75-0.76])…”

It’s pretty clear a lot of unvaccinated people who died of covid would be alive today had they gotten vaccinated.

(I would point out the current yearly vaccine they are putting out is potentially a different story since covid is changing and so is the vaccine. I’d talk to my dr about whether to get that or not.)
by amiga386 | 2025-12-05 17:38:24+00:00
We're currently indulging a hypothetical, the idea of AI being used to either improve the quality of streamed video, or provide the same quality with a lower bitrate, so the focus is what would both ends of the codec could agree on.

The coding side of "codec" needs to know what the decoding side would add back in (the hypothetical AI upscaling), so it knows where it can skimp and get a good "AI" result anyway, versus where it has to be generous in allocating bits because the "AI" hallucinates too badly to meet the quality requirements. You'd also want it specified, so that any encoding displays the same on any decoder, and you'd want it in hardware as most devices that display video rely on dedicated decoders to play it at full frame rate and/or not drain their battery. It it's not in hardware, it's not going to be adopted. It is possible to have different encodings, so a "baseline" encoding could leave out the AI upscaler, at the cost of needing a higher bitrate to maintain quality, or switching to a lower quality if bitrate isn't there.

Separating out codec from upscaler, and having a deliberately low-resolution / low-bitrate stream be naively "AI upscaled" would, IMHO, look like shit. It's already a trend in computer games to render at lower resolution and have dedicated graphics card hardware "AI upscale" (DLSS, FSR, XeSS, PSSR), because 4k resolutions are just too much work to render modern graphics consistently at 60fps. But the result, IMHO, noticibly and distractingly glitches and errors all the time.
by kbd | 2025-12-05 17:38:29+00:00
When I was learning Nim and learned how imports work and that things stringify with a $ function that comes along with their types (since everything is splat imported) and $ is massively overloaded I went "oh that all makes sense and works together". The LSP can help figure it out. It still feels like it's in bad taste.

It's similar to how Ruby (which also has "unstructured" imports) and Python are similar in a lot of ways yet make many opposite choices. I think a lot of Ruby's choices are "wrong" even though they fit together within the language.
by darksaints | 2025-12-05 17:38:50+00:00
Honestly, I don't have much faith in Linux anymore, and it has everything to do with the explosion of the kernel's codebase due to the explosion of cheaper devices running linux and the (admittedly difficult) management issues surrounding the kernel. I feel like from a security perspective, macos is a better choice and that pains me as a long time linux user.

Can we please move on to microkernels already? I'm fine with a tiny performance hit, I just don't want to get rooted because I plugged in the wrong USB stick.
by mpol | 2025-12-05 17:39:03+00:00
The Open Sourcing? There is more about it on the forum for Sailfish with phase 1, the weather app, notes app and a few other bits:

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/open-sourcing-proceeding/2468...

Then there is community news category with updates, but it's a bit haphazard and ongoing in this context:

https://forum.sailfishos.org/c/community-news/25

The Camera app, Gallery app, Nexcloud accounts and other accounts components are open sourced and on github. There is now talk about Silica, the Wayland compositor. It hasn't been updated well in recent years and there is talk about moving it to Weston or Wlroots, while also supporting xdg-shell for GTK applications.
by scottlamb | 2025-12-05 17:39:54+00:00
> If we can produce a substantial volume of software that can cope with allocation failures then the idea of using something than overcommit as the default becomes feasible.

What would "cope" mean? Something like returning an error message like "can't load this image right now"? Such errors are arguably better than crashing the program entirely but still worth avoiding.

I think overcommit exists largely of fork(). In theory a single fork() call doubles the program's memory requirement (and the parent calling it n times in a row (n+1)s the memory requirement). In practice, the OS uses copy-on-write to avoid both this requirement and the expense of copying. Most likely the child won't really touch much of its memory before exit or exec(). Overallocation allows taking advantage of this observation to avoid introducing routine allocation failures after large programs fork().

So if you want to get rid of overallocation, I'd say far more pressing than introducing alloc failure handling paths is ensuring nothing large calls fork(). Fortunately fork() isn't really necessary anymore IMHO. The fork pool concurrency model is largely dead in favor of threading. For spawning child processes with other executables, there's posix_spawn (implemented by glibc with vfork()). So this is achievable.

I imagine there are other programs around that take advantage of overcommit by making huge writable anonymous memory mappings they use sparsely, but I can't name any in particular off the top of my head. Likely they could be changed to use another approach if there were a strong reason for it.
by chemotaxis | 2025-12-05 17:40:03+00:00
I think this ignores the codebase churn in Big Tech. The code you write today probably won't be there in ten years. It will be heavily refactored, obsolete, or the product will be outright canceled. You can pour your heart in it, but in all likelihood, you're leaving no lasting mark on the world. You just do a small part to keep the number going up.

Tech workplaces are incredibly ephemeral too. Reorgs, departures, constant hiring - so if you leave today, in 5-10 years, there might be no single person left who still remembers or thinks highly of the heroic all-nighters you pulled off. In fact, your old team probably won't exist in its current shape.

If you build quality furniture for your customers, chances are, it will outlive you. If you work on some frontend piece at Amazon, it won't. I think the amount of pride in your workmanship needs to scale with that.
by perching_aix | 2025-12-05 17:40:04+00:00
> Maybe they should consider pulling out.

I leapfrogged this by pulling myself out from Twitter instead a while ago, and I can only recommend. And I don't mean this in the "in favor of Bluesky/Mastadon" sense.

There are some types of content that I did lose access to this way, but in retrospect it was worth it. I found that the cost-benefit for it is just not there, not for me at least.
by Nasrudith | 2025-12-05 17:40:06+00:00
One thing I don't get about the underlying thesis: why do they think that the elites would be the only ones benefiting from AIs reducing persuasion costs? The first atomic bomb before it was proven possible was far more expensive than someone else developing an atomic bomb after it was proven possible.

Assuming that elites would be the only ones who would benefit from decreased costs would be akin to thinking the printing press could only cement the dominance of the Catholic Church in Europe. I can see why it would happen with models based upon "who is spending on it currently" but I'm afraid that makes said models not very good.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-05 17:40:31+00:00
> I want a separation between the streaming platform companies and the content making companies, so that the streaming companies can compete on making a better platform/service and the content companies compete on making better content.

Exactly the correct solution.

We did something similar with movie theaters and film studios for decades, up until a couple years ago. Same sort of problem, same solution should work.
by harrall | 2025-12-05 17:40:45+00:00
Ford seems to regularly re-design some sometimes-major part of their vehicles every model year, for better or worse. Some model years are banger and others are just a failed experiment, but you do get newer advancements.

Compare that with Toyota’s approach and it’s just small tweaks. It’s reliable, parts are standard, and they’ve had the chance to really dial things in but altogether it feels dated in some ways.

And of course German automakers have some of the latest stuff but a lot of it feels like version 1 stuff. It works and sometimes is really cool but just isn’t dialed in enough to be reliable.

It’s really interesting the different engineering cultures between different car companies.

I wonder where the new Chinese automakers stand.
by andreygrehov | 2025-12-05 17:41:01+00:00
Duh. VAERS guide says raw reports dont 100% prove causality. Nobody claims they do. That's why FDA's OBPV did the follow-up review of those 96 child deaths and concluded >10 were causal from vaccine myocarditis.

They could've just said "VAERS proves nothing" and left the recommendation unchanged. Instead they wrote it up, leaked it early, and invited the exact scrutiny you're giving it now.

If the conclusion was fake or flimsy, this blows up in their face and RFK looks like a clown. They only take that risk if the OBPV analysis actually held up internally.

Edit: as for the Tylenol, see this https://x.com/HHSGov/status/1970868168995536978
by commandlinefan | 2025-12-05 17:41:14+00:00
> People were happy when Netflix was the streaming service

That was also before they started aggressively pushing their own content. For a while, it looked like Netflix was going to be the place you go to stream any movie that ever existed (which was pretty much what they were with mail-in DVDs before the streaming service came along). Now it seems like they don't really want to be in that business either.
by ogogmad | 2025-12-05 17:41:17+00:00
Apologies if this is pedantic but "multi-valued function" is not a thing. The function doesn't have multiple values here. Saying "multi-valued function" is not just a way of misleading people about what's really happening, but it's almost the perfect way to stop people from finding out. Do people who say "multi-valued function" know what's really happening? Do you know what a Riemann surface is?
by 0x457 | 2025-12-05 17:41:18+00:00
Most of my cables coming out of the aggregation switch are DAC and fiber, but there is no 10G copper because my PC came with 10G copper NIC integrated. Anyway, the difference in heat between this transceiver is shockingly large.

I knew it runs hot before I deployed it, but I wasn't aware that you have to wait for it to cooldown before unplugging, or you get burnt.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-05 17:41:30+00:00
Suspension bushings and brakes.

Brakes because they don't get used much (regen does a lot of the work slowing the car) so they can get rusty.

Suspension bushings probably underspeced for the weight of the car. That's a design problem but more of an annoyance than anything really critical. Probably means replacing them more often than in most cars, but they wear out in any car, eventually.
by ethin | 2025-12-05 17:41:36+00:00
This entire Warner Bros saga has just been insanely pathetically sad to watch, because it demonstrates that WB has completely lost touch with reality and that the C-suites at the top have zero innovation or anything else to give at this point. The company has gone through so many megamergers and acquisitions which just added more and more debt to the company that at this point it wouldn't surprise me if Netflix just declares bankruptcy with it or something, because it's a completely lost cause. Of course, the people responsible for this won't learn a thing (even though they're making the exact mistakes of the Cable industry they replaced), and will continue doing the same thing over and over again, because, clearly, learning from mistakes is just not possible for these people.
by einpoklum | 2025-12-05 17:41:53+00:00
Just made a top-level comment about the same thing.

A big part of the core functionality of a laptop, as opposed to a PC, is is that of a typewriter:

* Notes in class

* Minutes in a meeting

* Entries in a journal or travelogue

* Writing the next great novel

etc.

Why have manufacturers simply taken that away from us, in favor of a terrible excuse with ridiculous tactile feedback?
by jeberle | 2025-12-05 17:42:04+00:00
Yeah, FFM adds many quality-of-life features - scoped lifetimes being a standout.

If you just want an arena interface, ByteBuffer has been there since Java 1.4 (2002). It also does off-heap w/ ByteBuffer.allocateDirect().

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/api/java.base...
by horsawlarway | 2025-12-05 17:42:13+00:00
If you just want to do development, honestly it's probably better to just use kubectl port-forward (ex - map 3000, or 8080, on your machine to any service/pod you'd like).

As for grabbing 443 or 80, most distros support specifying the port in the service spec directly, and I don't think it needs to be in the range of the reserved nodeports (I've done this on k3s, worked fine last I checked, which is admittedly a few years ago now).

As you grow to more than a small number of exposed services, I think an ingress generally does make sense, just because you want to be able to give things persistent names. But you can run a LONG way on just nodeports.

And even after going with an ingress - the tooling here is pretty straight forward. MetalLB (load balancer) and nginx (ingress, reverse proxy) don't take a ton of time or configuration.

As someone who was around when something like a LAMP stack wasn't "legacy", I think it's genuinely less complicated to setup than those old configurations. Especially because once you get it right in the yaml once, recreating it is very, very easy.
by snafeau | 2025-12-05 17:42:32+00:00
This seems to suggest model releases are going te become smaller and faster in reponse to increased competition, which will be interesting.

On the one hand, labs may finally be forced to focus on making faster and smarter models and becoming profitable instead of playing with experiments, which other companies seem to be better at anyway.

On the other hand, this could make the endless torrent of AI news even more pervasive, and more importantly could make labs focus on short-term gains instead of larger breakthroughs.
by bchasknga | 2025-12-05 17:42:33+00:00
No one buys a 1-ton to feel quick in traffic. A few thousand lbs going uphill can be easily done with a 1/2 ton, and the majority of them are now turbocharged.

Forced Induction has made its way tho. Not all, but a lot of modern turbo engines are great in all three aspects of reliability, performance, and efficiency.

I can see turbo'ed PHEV being the solution to heavy-duty use cases one day. Pretty stoked for the Ramcharger.
by NoGravitas | 2025-12-05 17:42:36+00:00
Eh, the current 10-hour seasons are the worst of both worlds.

Telling a story in a "tight 90" means making very deliberate choices about what to include, what not to, and how to make scenes do double duty. Having 23 episodes a season lets you slow down, spend time with the characters that's not all focused on the season plot, it lets you have B-stories in every episode. A 10-hour season doesn't get to do that, but it doesn't enforce the same discipline as 90-120 minutes.

Compare Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to Star Trek: Discovery or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I greatly enjoy SNW, but the characters and their relationships with each other are in no way as substantial as in DS9 (or even TNG, which was much less character-focused than DS9).
by ghaff | 2025-12-05 17:42:40+00:00
I do keep a vague eye on subscriptions/credit cards/etc. that I'm really not getting value out of over the course of months.

But, yes, if you're either poor or optimizing points on an airline or whatever is sort of a hobby, then sure. But otherwise, it's just not very interesting to many of us and involves mental overhead we can just live without.
by pdimitar | 2025-12-05 17:42:52+00:00
To be precise, the previous problem with Rust was because somebody copped out and used a temporary escape hatch function that absolutely has no place in production code.

It was mostly an amateur mistake. Not Rust's fault. Rust could never gain adoption if it didn't have a few escape hatches.

"Damned if they do, damned if they don't" kind of situation.

There are even lints for the usage of the `unwrap` and `expect` functions.

As the other sibling comment points out, the previous Cloudflare problem was an acute and extensive organizational failure.
by toss1 | 2025-12-05 17:42:56+00:00
Yes, real parts CAN be 3D printed and even used successfully.

The printing is the easy part.

The extensive testing and validation that it will actually work as intended and in your situation is the hard part.

Skip that hard part, especially for anything that flies, and you are risking lives, both those in the air and on the ground.

Seriously, just because the specs on the label say X and other docs say the running temperature is Y, does NOT mean it will work. Take the measurements in your situation, test the thing extensively on the ground.

Then, maybe, it'll be worth flying. Or, you'll be there after some hours of testing saying: "good thing I didn't try to fly with this", and still have a usable aircraft.

Edit: missing words, clarity.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-05 17:43:23+00:00
It is called: Prime Video Ad Free

Go to the Prime Video website, or check your settings in Prime Video on your device.

I have lived a video ad free life for decades. I am convinced video ads do bad things to our brains. In aggregate, beyond any individual impact they may or may not have.

Ad blockers, ad free YouTube, Kagi, … whatever it takes.
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-05 17:43:24+00:00
> That's why FDA's OBPV did the follow-up review of those 96 child deaths and concluded >10 were causal from vaccine myocarditis.

And we're back at the "Hitler provided free things to Jews" technical truth again. This is likely an accurate statement!

But it'd deeply missing important context.

> If the conclusion was fake or flimsy, this blows up in their face and RFK looks like a clown.

This is likely meaningless to the guy who leaves dead bears in Central Park. The biggest political innovation in the last 50 years or so is the discovery that you can look like a clown without much consequence.

> Edit: as for the Tylenol, see this https://x.com/HHSGov/status/1970868168995536978

I don't recommend eating poop, but that doesn't mean it causes autism.
Is AI what Africa needs to build?
by lavalavista | 2025-12-05 17:43:37+00:00
There’s a lot of hype around AI globally, but I wonder if Africa’s startup ecosystem is chasing the wrong thing. Should we be pouring resources into AI when basic infrastructure, digital literacy, and scalable business models are still major hurdles?

Sure, AI can optimize operations, improve decision-making, and create new products, but is the continent ready to adopt it at scale? Or are there more urgent problems that tech should solve first?

I’d love to hear perspectives from founders, engineers, and investors: Are AI startups in Africa genuinely impactful, or are we riding a global wave that doesn’t fit our context?
by HelloMcFly | 2025-12-05 17:45:04+00:00
Completely agree. The movie ruined Dr. Frankenstein's motives by adding his benefactor, and ruined his monster by removing the inner rage he felt and expressed towards the world the shunned him. A very, very odd decision by GDT. Similar to Spike Lee remaking High & Low, but removing the critique of capitalism and the complicity of the wealthy so he could make Denzel the true protagonist.
by chemotaxis | 2025-12-05 17:45:27+00:00
> Sadly, I have realised fewer people actually give an F than you realise; for some, it's just a paycheck.

I found that most of the "people problems disguised as technical problems" are actually generated by people who get far too invested in their work and let it define them. They get territorial, treat any lost argument as an attack on their whole self, etc. They also lose perspective, getting into flame wars over indentation styles or minor API syntax quibbles.

People who show up for the paycheck are usually far more reasonable in that regard.
by nebula8804 | 2025-12-05 17:45:27+00:00
How do you assess that? I'd imagine it would be more along the lines of is the phone frictionless to use?

This is just an anecdote but I owned every Google Nexus phone they made up to Nexus 5. A series of bugs caused priceless videos to get ruined and I decided to try iPhone after that. I didn't realize just how much I unconsciously hated using the Nexus phone and that contributed to me not actually adopting smartphone software until I got the iPhone. When the phone and the OS were a burden it led to the phone being avoided. I dont know which was better. I appreciate the battery life, camera and general stability but I hate the new addictions to social media it has caused.
by crote | 2025-12-05 17:45:34+00:00
> They saw errors related to a deployment, and because it was related to a security issue instead of rolling it back they decided to make another deployment with global blast radius instead?

Note that the two deployments were of different components.

Basically, imagine the following scenario: A patch for a critical vulnerability gets released, during rollout you get a few reports of it causing the screensaver to show a corrupt video buffer instead, you roll out a GPO to use a blank screensaver instead of the intended corporate branding, a crash in a script parsing the GPOs on this new value prevents users from logging in.

There's no direct technical link between the two issues. A mitigation of the first one merely exposed a latent bug in the second one. In hindsight it is easy to say that the right approach is obviously to roll back, but in practice a roll forward is often the better choice - both from an ops perspective and from a safety perspective.

Given the above scenario, how many people are genuinely willing to do a full rollback, file a ticket with Microsoft, and hope they'll get around to fixing it some time soon? I think in practice the vast majority of us will just look for a suitable temporary workaround instead.
by Timon3 | 2025-12-05 17:45:49+00:00
Sure, that's theoretically possible. Since the violations listed by GP:

> EU regulators said X's DSA violations included the deceptive design of its blue checkmark for verified accounts, the lack of transparency of its advertising repository and its failure to provide researchers access to public data.

IMO don't fall under this & you didn't argue that they did, I didn't list this possibility. Which of the listed violations do you think falls under that, and which ones don't?