MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skeledrew | 2025-12-14 12:53:54+00:00
> Also didn't understand how I wasn't negativity affected like him.

It's very possible that even though everyone's brains are built from the same template, each brain is tuned uniquely, leading to different processing of the same stimuli (and conversely, perhaps similar processing of different stimuli) in various cases. The thought experiment that comes to mind is the possibility of 2 persons looking at objects of a particular colour, and agreeing for example that the colour is "red", but internally their brains are actually receiving different signals; it's the common language which makes it possible to share similar experiences.
by necovek | 2025-12-14 12:54:41+00:00
As I said, they mention having a problem where each service depended on different versions of internal shared libraries. That indicates they did not need to update all at once:

> When pressed for time, engineers would only include the updated versions of these libraries on a single destination’s codebase. > Over time, the versions of these shared libraries began to diverge across the different destination codebases. > ... > Eventually, all of them were using different versions of these shared libraries.
by ahar083 | 2025-12-14 12:54:43+00:00
While in some cases there may be other aspects at play, it really is the case that turning rentals into AirBnBs for visitors has dramatically increased rent in towns such as Barcelona, and even in Central Sydney where I used to live. (I say this has someone who has rented in the center of big cities, and also as someone who has taken advantage of accomodation which has been “cheap” for me, as an outsider, in cities such as Barcelona).

One can have zero racist sentiments, but if you suddenly get kicked out of your rental, because it’s more profitable for your landlord to make money from tourists, you will be outraged. (And it’s not an insignificant number if inner city apartments impacted by this). Obviously other cost of living factors have led to increased rents, but this is still a big factor in some cities.
by NicuCalcea | 2025-12-14 12:55:43+00:00
I'm sure you're experienced enough at using Yandex/Rambler/whatever to find other sources. What are those, btw? Соловьёв Live?

> You must admit that this is not the same as just looking for information on Yandex.

I must do no such thing. The other week I searched for the fascist Ivan Ilyin because I wanted to see what kind of ideas Putin built his ideology on. I've also read about the Russian Nazi paramilitary unit Rusich Group, responsible for the murder of Ukrainians. I've googled Maria Lvova-Belova, wanted by the International Criminal Court for kidnapping children. Do you think I should have been arrested for those?

I'm happy you guys can still search for VPNs, enjoy it while you can. Truly the pinnacle of democracy.
by gnz11 | 2025-12-14 12:55:55+00:00
The production crew would have used "fixers" to get insight into good locations for filming and other things of interest. Whatever fixer they used was probably just friends of and/or part of this "wrong" crowd. Bourdain and his producers made a lot of shows over the years, some are going to be better produced while others are flawed. How it goes. Bourdain and his team weren't perfect — doesn't make them inauthentic at a wider perspective.
by mft_ | 2025-12-14 12:56:56+00:00
I'm not sure you've looked very hard. Let's consider Mallorca. It's not all a resort town, but no doubt it's an attractive destination.

Estimates of course vary, but there are estimates that 60% of the total housing stock is owned by foreigners [0] and in 2024, >40% of all houses sold were bought by foreigners. [1] (It's also worth noting that [1] suggests foreigners purchased >20% of houses sold in Valencia, the Canary Islands, Murcia, and Catalonia, so this isn't limited to Mallorca.)

If these numbers are even close to accurate, this would be your empirical reality, and such numbers would certainly by sufficient to drive demand, shortage, and price increases.

[0] https://www.falcrealestate.com/en/magazine/property-market-t...

[1] https://humansofmallorca.com/balearics-lead-spain-for-homes-...
by necovek | 2025-12-14 12:58:21+00:00
As you mention, it said early on that they were using different versions for each service:

> Eventually, all of them were using different versions of these shared libraries.

I believe the need to deploy 140+ services came out of wanting to fix this by using the latest version of the deps everywhere, and to then stay on top of it so it does not deteriorate in the same way (and possibly when they had things like a security fix).
by d4rkp4ttern | 2025-12-14 13:01:26+00:00
> if you talk in a winding way …

My regular workflow is to talk (I use VoiceInk for transcription) and then say “tell me what you understood” — this puts your words into a well structured format, and you can also make sure the cli-agent got it, and expressing it explicitly likely also helps it stay on track.
by drysart | 2025-12-14 13:02:08+00:00
There wasn't much of a window where we had the ability to reliably dynamically update webpages without a way of getting data to do it. IE4 was the first browser that had a modern dynamic DOM with CSS support -- but it was all very rudimentary. IE5 came out a little more than a year later came with MSXML 2.0 which had the Microsoft.XMLHTTP ActiveX object that could be used within the browser; so it was really only like 14 months where we had DHTML without the ability to do XML HTTP requests.

And even then, you couldn't really make use of it unless you were in the enviable position of not having to maintain Netscape compatibility, because Netscape basically had no ability to alter a page after it was loaded outside of extremely specific exceptions like being able to replace one image with another image of exactly the same size. And through the weird and broken 'layers' concept they came up with to try to rush out a response to IE's iframes.

I remember discovering Microsoft.XMLHTTP in early 1999; probably within a month of IE5 coming out, and it really was like suddenly gaining a superpower. People (rightfully) gave Internet Explorer a whole lot of crap for getting to IE6 and then stagnating for years; but so much of what we consider to be the modern web today can trace its lineage directly to the ideas Microsoft brought to the browser in IE4 and IE5. They basically reinvented what the browser could be.
by fdecollibus | 2025-12-14 13:02:28+00:00
I created a puzzle game inspired by the physics of Brownian motion: Brownian. The design is as simple as it is effective: you can’t control the main sphere, only stop it, and your goal is to turn all the other particles the same color. Each round takes just a second to play, but it quickly becomes very strategic. The game is completely free — a passion project made purely for fun. Let me know what you think! The game is available on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/brownian-game/id6755209801 and on the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brownian.g...
by davydm | 2025-12-14 13:02:37+00:00
Simply put, the tools are not at the level the grifters want you to believe.

You'll always find someone claiming to have made a thing with ai alone, and some of these may even work to an extent, but the reality is that the models have zero understanding, so if you're looking to replicate something that already exists (or exists in well defined, open source parts), you're going to get further than if you're thinking truly outside the box.

Then there's library and framework churn. AI models aren't good with this (as evidenced by the hours I wanted trying to get any model to help me through a webpack4 to webpack5 upgrade. There was no retained context and no understanding, so it kept telling me to ado webpack4 things that don't work in 5).

So if you're going to make something that's easily replicated in a well-dpcunented framework with lots of stack overflow answers, you might get somewhere. Of course, you could have gotten then yourself with those same inputs, and, as a bonus, you'd actually understand what was done and be able to fix the inevitable issues, as well as extend with your own functionality. If you're asking for something more niche, you have to bring a lot more to the table, and you need a fantastic bullshit detector as the model will confidently lead you down the wrong path.

Simply put, ai is not the silver bullet it's sold as, and the lack of app explosion is just more evidence on that pile.
by b112 | 2025-12-14 13:02:50+00:00
Boox devices are riddled with phone home to all sorts of domains, including to .cn domains, just run tcpdump on your firewall and watch. You should do absolutely nothing security conscious with them. For example, like putting keys on them, or sshing into a box with them.

At least with vnc, you could create a private network between the boox and your linux box, and it'd be sharing the screen. Still an issue, but passwords and hidden fields would be typed on the keyboard on the Linux box, not the boox.

I rooted mine, and installed afwall, and still won't ever used it for anything security conscious.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-12-14 13:02:58+00:00
> * Is it possible for humans to get a vague impression of other humans' thoughts via this mechanism? Not via body language, but "telepathy" (it'd obviously only work over very short ranges). If it is possible, maybe it is what some people supposedly feel as "auras"

If any of it was possible, it would be easily scientifically provable by very simple experiments. The fact that it hasn't been proven while people would have very high motivations to prove it, suggests it's very probably not happening.
by Angostura | 2025-12-14 13:03:24+00:00
> As an American that has travelled overseas years ago, I understand that others in the world could do without us visiting. They just want to have their normal day to day without an American speaking American English and commenting on things like an American and tipping wait staff, asking for ice, expecting things that aren’t provided, generally acting more entitled, etc.

It’s perfectly possible to visit and be aware of local sensibilities. Plenty of Americans manage it and are perfectly charming visitors.

You don’t have to adopt all of culture’s behaviours to not be obnoxious
by hashstring | 2025-12-14 13:03:26+00:00
> Even if the researchers agreed, would they want to have this judgmental, attacking person around?

1. You calling the person above judgmental and attacking is not as tolerant either.

2. What about things that are morally wrong? Slave owners wouldn’t want to have a judgmental attacking person around either. Does that mean we have to have curious-discussions about slavery?
by mjr00 | 2025-12-14 13:03:49+00:00
> It’s easy to say things like this but also incredibly difficult to know if you’ll introduce subtle bugs or incompatibilities between services.

You are right: it is difficult. It is harder than building a monolith. No argument there. I just don't think proper microservices are as difficult as people think. It's just more of a mindshift.

Plenty of projects and companies continue to release backwards compatible APIs: operating systems, Stripe/PayPal, cloud providers. Bugs come up, but in general people don't worry about ec2:DescribeInstances randomly breaking. These projects are still evolving internally while maintaining a stable external API. It's a skill, but something that can be learned.

> So let’s say you have a shared money library that you have fixed a bug in… what would you do in the real world - redeploy all your services that use said library or something else?

In the real world I would not have a shared "money library" to begin with. If there were money-related operations that needed to be used by multiple services, I would have a "money service" which exposed an API and could be deployed independently. A bug fix would then be a deploy to this service, and no other services would have to update or be aware of the fix.

This isn't a theoretical, either, as a "payments service" that encapsulates access to payment processors is something I've commonly seen.
by rep_lodsb | 2025-12-14 13:04:03+00:00
Only the Z80 refetched the entire instruction, x86 never did it this way. Each bus transfer (read or write) takes multiple clocks:

CPU Cycles per theoretical minimum per byte for block move Z80 instruction fetch 4 byte Z80 data read/write 3 byte 6 80(1)88, V20 4 byte 8 80(1)86, V30 4 byte/word 4 80286, 80386 SX 2 byte/word 1 80386 DX 2 byte/word/dword 0.5

LDIR (etc.) are 2 bytes long, so that's 8 extra clocks per iteration. Updating the address and count registers also had some overhead.

The microcode loop used by the 8086/8088 also had overhead, this was improved in the following generations. Then it became somewhat neglected since compilers / runtime libraries preferred to use sequences of vector instructions instead.

And with modern processors there are a lot of complications due to cache lines and paging, so there's always some unavoidable overhead at the start to align everything properly, even if then the transfer rate is close to optimal.
by owendarko | 2025-12-14 13:04:38+00:00
What a lot of people don’t mention here is the choice of an AI model.

The key word in the OP post is “Claude”. Anthropic has 2 amazing AI models (Sonnet, Opus), however they’re just a part of a much bigger picture.

When using AI for programming, you’re essentially interacting with AI models. The quality of output you get really depends on the model at the end of the day. Claude Code is optimized for models from Anthropic. You also have model-agnostic agents like Cursor and Kilo Code (disclaimer: I work at Kilo) where you can easily switch up models and see which one works the best for you converting an old jQuery + Django project into SvelteKit.

This area is moving at a crazy rate. Just the last 2 weeks alone, there were 3 main AI model versions released (first Gemini 3, then Opus 4.5, then GPT-5.2). I wrote a piece comparing their performance across 3 coding tasks [1]

So my advice is to also experiment a lot with the models because the quality can vary wildly depending on your stack.

[1] https://blog.kilo.ai/p/we-tested-gpt-52pro-vs-opus-45-vs
by BoorishBears | 2025-12-14 13:04:43+00:00
- A text prompt isn't probabilistic, the output is.

- https://labs.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=LABS:0:5033606075766:AP...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_(software)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming

I explained in the most clear language possible why a fixation on the "programming language" part of the original comment is borderline non-sequitur. But if you're insistent on railroading the conversation regardless... at least try to be good at it, no?
by imiric | 2025-12-14 13:05:06+00:00
While that's true, I don't consider psychedelics to be within the same realm of safety as cannabis. Cannabis does have psychoactive effects, of course, but it doesn't induce visual and auditory hallucinations with the intensity that LSD, psilocybin, or even MDMA do. I do think that cannabis can make mental disorders such as anxiety worse in people who are already prone to them, but psychedelics are far more dangerous in that sense, especially with higher dosages. These effects can sometimes persist long after the effects of the substance wear off.

Also, synthetic compounds such as LSD and MDMA which have only been around for a ~century don't have the historical record of cannabis, psilocybin, and other substances found in nature, which humans have consumed for thousands of years. So to me those are intuitively less "safe".
by bettydraper | 2025-12-14 13:05:59+00:00
In the mid-20th century, Americans with sufficient income or sponsorship from their employer would get Berlitz language classes before spending significant time in other countries.

Though it was unrealistic for someone to do this just for a short trip, the following scene of Betty and Don Draper captures attempt at assimilation vs. not:

https://youtu.be/JXnoPasZdkA
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-14 13:06:01+00:00
> Expat? No! You are an immigrant!

This is just anger about the insane double standard at play - if I as a European move to Latin America, I’m a sophisticated expat and they should be happy that my rich ass is living there - whereas when it’s the other way around they are immigrants and treated like actual scum, working the lowest of low jobs. The double standard at play makes me sad and angry even if I’m the one on the surface benefitting from it.

> Speak my language

This one i can also understand - I know American “expats” who lived in my country 15+ years but never bothered to learn the language, not even a little tiny bit. I don’t expect you to write a doctors thesis but if you can’t even order food in the local language or have some smalltalk it’s pretty pathetic and disrespectful. Meanwhile non-English speaking “immigrants” get yelled at if they don’t speak the local language perfectly.

Not everything is as easily explained away by “progressives training to be xenophobic”

> Some people might object to tourism changing the character of the cities they live in, but their primary objection is cultural

Is that not a valid objection? I know places in Greecethat have been utterly RUINED by the (mostly Anglo-Saxon) tourists, for example Santorini or Mykonos. These used to be really beautiful and chill places in the 70/80s, now they are horrid
by DaSHacka | 2025-12-14 13:06:14+00:00
I myself was recently an adolescent, and still know many adolescents myself. My take is coming from my anecdotal experience, and the behaviour I've observed from my peers. Perhaps your kids don't show that side of them in front of you? I know my peers and I certainly didn't go out of our way to advertise such activities to our parents when we were younger.
by squidbeak | 2025-12-14 13:07:01+00:00
This seems like a bad criteria for many reasons. What about people who delay procreation till their late 30s or 40s? Or people whose children have died?

Then there's a category of people who resent their children and younger generations generally.And another category of childless idealists who feel protective of humankind and the planet as a whole. Would you approve the resentful and deny the idealists?

The idea seems pretty flawed and unjust...
by necovek | 2025-12-14 13:08:06+00:00
As a non-native speaker, I read a lot of fantasy and science fiction books in English. I use "delve" regularly (I wouldn't say "frequently" though). Not sure if it's Terry Pratchett's Discworld influence, but plenty of archaic sounding words there.

I did not even know it was considered uncommon and archaic, tbh.
by seec | 2025-12-14 13:08:45+00:00
I have had silken tofu that was pretty decent. But I would only eat it if there was no other option. The vegan restaurant I talked about had an excellent bean/chickpea-based burger that was actually wonderful. That I would like to eat, no question about it. But it was insanely expensive because it took so much effort and so many ingredients/processes (they showed me the recipe; it's crazy how long that took). In the end, my pleasure from eating that isn't superior to a regular, much cheaper burger. Which is why it always ends up in a precarious moral argument.

As far as I'm concerned, veganism is an ideology for the affluent that allows them to express their perceived superiority, moral or otherwise.
by lifis | 2025-12-14 13:10:25+00:00
I think his argument is that you can have code this:

user = s->user; if(user == bob) user->acls[s->idx]->has_all_privileges = true;

And this happens: 1. s->user is initialized to alice 2. Thread 1 sets s->idx to ((alice - bob) / sizeof(...)) and s->user to Bob, but only the intval portion is executed and the capability still points to Alice 3. Thread 2 executes the if, which succeeds, and then gives all privileges to Alice unexpectedly since the bob intval plus the idx points to Alice, while the capability is still for Alice

It does seem a real issue although perhaps not very likely to be present and exploitable.

Seems perhaps fixable by making pointer equality require that capabilities are also equal.
by horsawlarway | 2025-12-14 13:10:29+00:00
There's quite a bit of effort in this space.

In my first job out of school, I did security work adjacent to fortune 50 banks and the (now defunct) startup I worked at partnered some folks working on Pindrop (https://www.pindrop.com/).

Their whole thing at the time was detecting when it was likely that a support call was coming from a region other than the one the customer was supposed to be in (read: fraudulent) by observing latency and noise on the line (the name is a play on "We're listening closely enough to hear a pin drop".)

Long story short, it's a lot more than just the latency that can clue someone in on the actual source location, and even if you introduce enough false signal to make it hard to identify where you actually are, it's easy to spot that and flag you as fake, even if it's hard to say exactly what the real source is.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-14 13:10:57+00:00
Plausibly some kids might still be reading entire novels worth of text online on the regular. Think of all the massive fanfic archives (Including original fics) Lots of fanfic authors have fans of their own, and those have got to be coming from somewhere.

It doesn't need to be in dead tree format. It doesn't need to be famous authors. Just so long as they read!

For long form original see eg:

* The last angel https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-last-angel.24420...

* The wandering inn https://wanderinginn.com/2017/03/03/rw1-00/

* Or eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel) which made its way off the net and into print, possibly to the detriment of both. :-P Original location (afaict) (no longer available there) : https://www.galactanet.com/writing.html
by giltho | 2025-12-14 13:12:28+00:00
Beyond academic research, a non-exhaustive list of people using either Lean or related tech:

- Amazon (where they even hired the creator of Lean to pursue this)

- Microsoft (mostly cryptography but also other stuff) - ARM (hardware verification)

- Apple (hardware verification, that I'm aware of)

- Lots of companies verifying things for blockchain technologies if you're into that

- More specialised companies, e.g. Galois Inc.
by razighter777 | 2025-12-14 13:13:28+00:00
Both are great tech but solve the problem of safety differently. I would say Fil-c is great for non-performance-critical (think like somewhere between c and go/java, still very fast) existing C programs where compatibility with the existing program / security is a big concern. think ffmpeg, nginx, sudo.

Fil-c:

- You have a great existing c program that may have memory bugs, and you wanna make it safer.

- Or you wanna write a new program in c, and be extra sure it's safe and don't mind a little performance penalty.

- Or you wanna find subtle memory bugs by building your c program with fil-c (asan style) and disable it for performance in your release build.

Rust is great when you want to build a new codebase from scratch, and have the time and patience to deal with the borrow checker. It also gives you some thread safety, (which is different from memory safety) at the development time cost of dealing with the borrow checker. Rust:

- A new codebase where you need multithreading and safety, and want excellent performance

- You need a broad ecosystem of existing packages

- Your problem space benefits from a robust type system.
by taneq | 2025-12-14 13:13:46+00:00
This is true, we had a bad hail storm come through in 2010 that dimpled an appreciable fraction of the cars in the city like golf balls. Most were deemed repairable write-offs. Went right over a couple of luxury car yards. A bunch of people at my work moved our cars undercover 10 minutes before it hit, and felt kind of silly… for 10 minutes, until it hit.

Car insurance premiums jumped by quite a lot that day, as far as I can tell permanently.