MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WillAdams | 2025-12-05 23:51:11+00:00
Notably one of the first people who whipped out a credit card to buy the 3D CAD/modeling program Rhinoceros 3D at v1.0 on the first day it was available for purchase:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHp7C2Ccu94

which engendered the opensource node editor Grasshopper eventually expanding to a ménagerie of animal-named support applications.
by tobyjsullivan | 2025-12-05 23:51:16+00:00
I’m not sure I share this sentiment.

First, let’s set aside the separate question of whether monopolies are bad. They are not good but that’s not the issue here.

As to architecture:

Cloudflare has had some outages recently. However, what’s their uptime over the longer term? If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so.

But there’s a more interesting argument in favour of the status quo.

Assuming cloudflare’s uptime is above average, outages affecting everything at once is actually better for the average internet user.

It might not be intuitive but think about it.

How many Internet services does someone depend on to accomplish something such as their work over a given hour? Maybe 10 directly, and another 100 indirectly? (Make up your own answer, but it’s probably quite a few).

If everything goes offline for one hour per year at the same time, then a person is blocked and unproductive for an hour per year.

On the other hand, if each service experiences the same hour per year of downtime but at different times, then the person is likely to be blocked for closer to 100 hours per year.

It’s not really bad end user experience that every service uses cloudflare. It’s more-so a question of why is cloudflare’s stability seeming to go downhill?

And that’s a fair question. Because if their reliability is below average, then the value prop evaporates.
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-05 23:51:17+00:00
You're painting with a fairly broad brush. Opinions in the US are diverse, and generally more in support of socialized healthcare than against.

We're not far from half the US population having what amounts to universal healthcare already, even without making it official. I sometimes wonder how high it will get before people come to the realization that we're already close enough to that point and going the rest of the way is viable.
by genezeta | 2025-12-05 23:51:24+00:00
To nitpick a bit, I'd say there is something that is "placed outside the stylesheet".

Now, arguably it's not a "number or word that appears in the output", that's true, but it is a part of the logic of FizzBuzz. It's the fact that there are 100 and exactly 100 <li> elements in the HTML part.

I mean, it wouldn't be a correct FizzBuzz without precisely that HTML. Having exactly 100 <li> elements is implementing the part of the logic that a. loops, and b. stops at 100.

But of course this is just nitpicking, as I said ;)
by ojosilva | 2025-12-05 23:51:36+00:00
Not only the movie theater, Netflix killed social life. Well, streaming, feeds and their algorithms in general, but Netflix is very much the ones that really owned the narrative of what to do on a weekend night.

This is very anecdatal, certainly, but I've spoken/overheard a few neighborhood hospitality business owners that had to forclose or cut down due to the constant decline of people leaving the house to just meet in a bar or coffee shop. Only sport nights keeps them going, because sports online remain expensive in most places.

Maybe just my observation or my neck of the woods, but seems to fit the general sentiment of a reduced social environment on the streets in certain parts of the world.
by pmontra | 2025-12-05 23:51:54+00:00
Warfarin needs blood tests at least every 2 or 3 weeks. I bet those tests are not cheap in the USA. Furthermore you can't have any food with significant amounts of vitamine K or its precursors. There are pills that cost more but don't require any of that. And actually they cost very little or zero, at least in my European country. Prescription only, of course.
by DetroitThrow | 2025-12-05 23:51:59+00:00
>My own appreciation for Rust is rooted in humility. I know I'm an overgrown monkey prone to all kinds of mistakes. I appreciate Rust for helping me avoid that side of me

I think we've heard these arguments ad nauseum at this point, but the longer I use Rust for ensuring long-term maintenance burden is low in large systems that I have to be absolutely, 10,000% correct with the way I manage memory the more it seems to reduce the effort required to make changes to these large systems.

In scenarios where multiple people aren't maintaining a highly robust system over a long period of time, e.g. a small video game, I think I'd absolutely prefer Zig or C++ where I might get faster iteration speed and an easier ability to hit an escape hatch without putting unsafe everywhere.
by dmix | 2025-12-05 23:52:07+00:00
It says fake in the @ username, their listed name, and says "parodia" in the bio

> You may not impersonate other identities of individuals, groups, or organizations to deceive others. Although you are not required to display your real identity on your profile, your account should not use false profile information to impersonate others. We allow compliant Parody, Commentary, and Fan (PCF) accounts on X only if the purpose is to discuss, satirize or share information.

https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/authenticity
Thought Experiment: Measuring the Circumference of the Earth from a Bedroom
by richardjennings | 2025-12-05 23:52:09+00:00
I want to measure the circumference of the Earth by looking out of my bedroom window without having to ask for anyones help.

As much as I have tried, I cannot realise the circumference without first measuring a distance. Please tell me if this is not the case somehow.

If it is not possible to know the explicit measured circumference, but I can know values such as orbital angles, I find that the reality of the circumference is in a superposition relative to myself, it has no actual meaning to me.

Without having used science to make measurements, I do not exist in a classical reality, I exist in a quantum one. How can I quantify how relativity applies to me without having derived any numbers (e.g. too busy playing computer games). Clearly it does apply, but the quantities are not measured.

If I do not exist in a classical reality because I never measured anything, I do not have to accept that knowing everything about the system around me results in a deterministic outcome, I can have confidence that a predetermined outcome does not apply. Potentially deterministic outcomes are decided by my decision to make measurements.

From my attempt to measure the circumference of the Earth from my bedroom I have concluded that Classical Physics is the result of Science (measurements) and not a fundamental truth about reality. I have determined that the outcome that becomes fixed via measurement is the result of my decision to make a measurement and from this I determine that I have free will.
by adzm | 2025-12-05 23:52:25+00:00
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/7208125 v8 changed yesterday to avoid the temp buffer which will likely double the base64 decode speed.

Looks like this was brought up there as a result of this article too, which is neat! And helpful since I was just messing with a node script that is heavily decoding base64
by IshKebab | 2025-12-05 23:52:33+00:00
> The only thing left is competing on content.

I don't know. Music streaming services do pretty much follow this separation of content and service. At least unless you really care about exactly which music you can access which I think most people don't.

(That's probably partly why music streaming services don't compete on content; most people don't care exactly which funky music they're listening to as long as it is funky, and had most of the popular stuff. But they definitely care if they want to watch Stranger Things and they can't watch Stranger Things but maybe you're interested in these other crap knock-offs?)

Anyway the point is music streaming services still find ways to compete. I guess they would prefer it if they could compete on content though.
by pyrolistical | 2025-12-05 23:52:37+00:00
This article glosses over the hardest bit and bike sheds too much over keys.

> Critically, these two things must happen atomically, typically by wrapping them in a database transaction. Either the message gets processed and its idempotency key gets persisted. Or, the transaction gets rolled back and no changes are applied at all.

How do you do that when the processing isn’t persisted to the same database? IE. what if the side effect is outside the transaction?

You can’t atomically rollback the transaction and external side effects.

If you could use a distributed database transaction already, then you don’t need idempotent keys at all. The transaction itself is the guarantee
by cortesoft | 2025-12-05 23:52:47+00:00
I know this is unrelated to the actual content, but I have such a visceral reaction to any headline in the "x is different than you think"... how do you know what I think? I am sure many people who read this will be experts on tides, and the title is completely wrong.

For me, the worst are posts about scale and things I won't need, like "You don't need kafka" or "your data isn't actually big data" or "don't horizontally scale, just get a bigger server"

I get that I am not the target audience and there are people for whom those statements are true, but I am running Kafka clusters with data from 10s of thousands of servers, I absolutely can't move that to a single machine.

I wish they would phrase it as "Tides are weirder than most people think", although that probably doesn't drive as much engagement.
by cyanmagenta | 2025-12-05 23:52:52+00:00
I am having trouble understanding the distinction you’re trying to make here. The computer has the same pixel information that humans do and can spend its time analyzing it in any way it wants. My four-year-old can count the legs of the dog (and then say “that’s silly!”), whereas LLMs have an existential crisis because five-legged-dogs aren’t sufficiently represented in the training data. I guess you can call that perception if you want, but I’m comfortable saying that my kid is smarter than LLMs when it comes to this specific exercise.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-12-05 23:53:06+00:00
This exists throughout government procurement and it is part of the reason list prices are so high.

The overhead of selling to the government is significantly higher than selling to private companies. So the government simultaneously demands the lowest price while having a much higher cost of sales that needs to be covered by that price. A price that would cover the cost of selling to the government would be non-competitive if selling it to a private company because you may be competing with other companies that don't have to anchor their prices to the cost of doing business with the government.

To work around this companies post a very high list price, no lower than what they charge the government as required by MFN regulations. They then effectively steeply discount those prices when selling to other entities via various mechanisms to more accurately reflect the lower cost of sales. The list price is a fiction required to satisfy "most favored nation" pricing laws, no one is expected to pay it.

tl;dr: In many cases the basic economics requires the government to be charged more than average because they are expensive customers with high overhead. MFN regulations don't make this reality go away so companies have to creatively structure their pricing to satisfy regulations without requiring non-government customers to pay for government overhead.
by jswelker | 2025-12-05 23:53:15+00:00
I'd actually entertain a ban on birthright citizenship _for all citizens_.

Imagine as a thought experiment that everyone in the US had to go through the immigration process to earn a place here. If you are born here, you have a green card for 20 years or so, and if you aren't the kind of desirable person we want in this country, you get a one way ticket somewhere else. We don't need freeloaders! Maybe every 10 years you can reapply if you are not accepted.

Imagine how different our education and child rearing processes would be if the stakes were made real.

Dystopian? Yes. But that is the dystopia we are already heading towards for many people who would otherwise be future citizens.
by Metaboat | 2025-12-05 23:54:01+00:00
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by rebane2001 | 2025-12-05 23:54:44+00:00
im not sure how you counted that as 145, but here's 137 for the css

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by thway15269037 | 2025-12-05 23:54:50+00:00
So much this. People don't realize that when 1 trillion (10 trillion, 100 trillion, whatever comes next) is at stake, there are no limits what these people will do to get them.

I will be very surprised if there are not at least several groups or companies scraping these "smart" and snarky comments to find weird edge cases that they can train on, turn into demo and then sell as improvement. Hell, they would've done it if 10 billion was at stake, I can't really imagine (and I have vivid imagination, to my horror) what Californian psychopaths can do for 10 trillion.
by twostorytower | 2025-12-05 23:54:59+00:00
I got Shingles around age 30 which is pretty uncommon. I was really lucky, it presented as rash on my upper back, more on one side than the other. I did not know what it was and I had no pain or itching. One day I got a mild fever out of nowhere. The fever went away pretty quickly and it wasn't until a few days later when the blisters started popping that I felt horrible pain but that was only for the better part of half a day. The rash completely healed and I have no remaining issues from it that I'm aware of. I'm so fortunate I had a mild case and I would hate to get it when I am older. My doctor said it's unlikely to reoccur now before I get the vaccine at 50, thank goodness.
by pron | 2025-12-05 23:54:59+00:00
I don't think needing to go "the extra N miles" is that special. Even if security is the only correctness concern - and in lots of cases it isn't, and (some) bugs are a very big deal - memory safety covers only a small portion of the top weaknesses [1].

Mathematically speaking, any simple (i.e. non-dependent) type system catches 0% of possible bugs :) That's not to say it can't be very useful, but it doesn't save a lot of testing/other assurance methods.

[1]: https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2024/2024_cwe_top25.html Also, spatial safety is more important for security than temporal safety. As far as language guarantees go, Zig and Rust only differ on #8 on the list.
by siddboots | 2025-12-05 23:55:11+00:00
I think I have almost the opposite intuition. The fact that attention models are capable of making sophisticated logical constructions within a recursive grammar, even for a simple DSL like SQL, is kind of surprising. I think it’s likely that this property does depend on training on a very large and more general corpus, and hence demands the full parameter space that we need for conversational writing.
by wavemode | 2025-12-05 23:55:47+00:00
You keep talking about Rust, but I'm not referring to Rust. This thread is discussing a (hypothetical, as-yet undeveloped) type system for a new version of Nim.

Hypothetically, no, the float type would not admit NaNs. You would be prevented from storing NaNs in them explicitly, and operations capable of producing NaNs would produce a `float | nan` type that is distinct from float, and can't be treated like float until it's checked for NaN.

And I'm not sure why it's being discussed as though this is some esoteric language feature. This is precisely the way non-nullable types work in languages like Kotlin and TypeScript. The underlying machine representation of the object is capable of containing null values, yes, but the compiler doesn't let you treat it as such (without certain workarounds).
by amadeuspagel | 2025-12-05 23:55:56+00:00
It's not just that people haven't read enough of the article to see how limited the evidence is, they haven't even read enough (three paragraphs) to understand the mechanism by which the author argues that ads make people unhappy: by making them aware of things they want but can't afford.

But this also applies to a lot of media that people consume on purpose, TikTok, Instagram, TV and magazines about the rich and famous.

It implies a curious understanding of what makes people happy. Why do people follow rich celebrities on instagram rather then homeless people, to feel better by comparison? Is it because they don't know what really makes them happy or is a relative measure of happiness perhaps insufficient?
by aaplok | 2025-12-05 23:56:00+00:00
> It should be one component of all the tools available to the programmer.

> All text editors worth using have a way to open a terminal for that one time you need it.

Is this not somewhat self-contradictory? Having the terminal in the editor or having the editor in the terminal are both about having one tool that rules the others. The only difference is which one you choose to be the ruler.
by erxam | 2025-12-05 23:56:18+00:00
Who cares if they're profitable? They want to push a right-wing agenda and no amount of silly things such as 'financial sense' will stop them.

When you have a techbro Vivek Ramaswamy as your head whose greatest desire is to be recognized as a honorary white by other techbros, nothing can ever stand in your way.
by ndriscoll | 2025-12-05 23:56:24+00:00
There is absolutely no reason to think that advertising makes discoverability of desirable trades more likely, and every reason to think it makes it worse. The people best equipped to spend a lot on ads are those who are offering the worst deal (giving them the best margins). That's without even getting into ads that are used to manipulate people into wanting to make obviously bad choices, e.g. ads for soda, candy, fast food, alcohol, gambling, pointless plastic garbage, etc.
by jswelker | 2025-12-05 23:57:02+00:00
I don't think they have the balls to end it. I think they just decide that adjudication on the case takes 4+ years, they sidestep making any real decision, and they hope and pray the whole thing goes away with the next administration. In the mean time, the Trump admin continues to do what they want, with the fig leaf that they promise they will listen to the court.
by samdoesnothing | 2025-12-05 23:57:10+00:00
> It's that you can't mechanically shift the burden of proof to anything "new" and assign a lower risk to the status quo by default

Not quite - it is true that you cannot assign a lower risk to the status quo by default, but the burden of proof is on the new intervention to prove that it's safe, not on detractors to prove that it isn't.

In other words, if the world is functioning today, you need to prove that your intervention won't cause ruin, no matter how small the chance or how big the upside.
by somewhereoutth | 2025-12-05 23:57:34+00:00
Actually it kind of is, in as much as it expands the money supply.

When a bank issues debt, the money is created 'out of thin air'. When the debt is paid off, that money is destroyed. However usually more debt is being created than redeemed as things go on, so the total money supply increases (this is a good thing, as it allows the economy to expand).

Various regulations and central bank market interventions (quantitative tightening/easing) control this process, which thus can be induced to 'print money' if the government wishes - assuming they have a sovereign currency.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-05 23:57:45+00:00
Samsung sells phones with their Tizen operating system.

Of course you could also buy one of the purism phones, jolla is apparently planning to ship phones too.

If you're willing to flash the phone, you can run postmarketos on loads of devices too.

I suspect the vast majority of people who are invested enough to want to avoid Android and iOS have the technical knowledge to install postmarketos.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-05 23:58:49+00:00
Yeah I would say 1% is not very much, even if it is $2bn. In fact, it's less because it's $2bn. Him giving 95% of his wealth away would affect his lifestyle about as much as most people giving 1% of their wealth away. Probably less. Him giving 1% away is completely insignificant.

I guess you could argue he can't give away 95% now because he wants to maintain control of Oracle... which is fair enough I guess. But still, 1% is not very much.
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 23:59:09+00:00
> Visomitin (Emoxipine/Mexidol) eye drops are a Russian-developed antioxidant medication known for treating dry eyes, fatigue, radiation damage, and improving vision

I wouldn't recommend it. A quick search shows that it's not proven to do anything at all but it's also advertised as being the cure for parkinson's, asthma, back pain, high cholesterol levels, anxiety, blood clots, glaucoma, and Huntington’s disease while also making you smarter and improving your memory. This sounds like classic snake oil. Something I'd expect to see being sold alongside Horny Goat Weed and kratom at a gas station rather than an actual medication dispensed by a pharmacist. As fucked up as the American healthcare system is I guess you really have to hand it to Russia sometimes.
by stefan_ | 2025-12-05 23:59:17+00:00
"Most favored nation" is to the Trump addled brain like sugar water to a bee. It sounds vaguely like "Go USA" while having nothing to do with the actual problem at hand. Just wait for those 400% 500% price reductions to kick in then. The problem is the fuckup that is your domestic healthcare market, not anything to do with international trade.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-05 23:59:18+00:00
> And it turns out nobody cares, because to a first approximation nobody is in crypto for the libertarian principles. It is all about number go up; always has been, always will be. It's not even worth pointing out anymore.

I agree 100% - Meme stocks go brrrrrrrr

The idea that it's a currency that lives beyond the reach of governments is laughable (as soon as something goes bang a lot of the owners call for... regulators and government oversight)