MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by romaniitedomum | 2025-12-07 21:22:19+00:00
> I’m always a bit shocked how seriously people take concerns over the install script for a binary executable they’re already intending to trust.

The issue is provenance. Where is the script getting the binary from? Who built that binary? How do we know that binary wasn't tampered with? I'll lay odds the install script isn't doing any kind of GPG/PGP signature check. It's probably not even doing a checksum check.

I'm prepared to trust an executable built by certain organisations and persons, provided I can trace a chain of trust from what I get back to them.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-07 21:22:20+00:00
>This was also confirmed by several independent international aviation experts not only the IAF. The S-400 achieved a record-setting engagement by shooting down a Saab 2000 AWACS aircraft from a range of greater than 300 km.

Not a single credible source has reported this.

>The only propaganda on this subject is sadly coming from yourself.

Look, there are a plenty of actual photos of the IAF losses in this conflict. The IAF claims of PAF losses took months to surface and are not accompanied by any evidence and are widely considered to be fabrications by the rest of the world, and I'm certainly not talking about pro-Pakistani medias.

>Check out the analysis of Austrian military analyst Tom Cooper - he has covered this extensively.

Tom Cooper is an idiot who also repeated false claims that India had PAF pilots in custody. He's also got an extensive history of making up false claims about non-existent AFU successes against Russia.

https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-4-5-july-2022-...

https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-29-june-202...

Articles like these that are more optimistic than the most optimistic Ukrainian propaganda.

If he is the genuinely best source you can find, maybe it's time to start reconsidering your beliefs.

>Umm..dude, the strikes were deep into Pakistani territory. Can't show the live site you know ? They did show satellite imagery.

Ah yes, of course it's impossible to source footage of a single one of the five jets supposedly destroyed inside Pakistan. That's totally credible!

>The IAF is not in the habit of lying and the government doesn't modify IAF briefings. The only propaganda here is sadly coming from yourself.

So you're telling me that the IAF never claimed to have lost zero planes in the conflict against Pakistan, only to change their story after photos came out? :)

Look, I get you guys have a certain nationalist interest in this topic and it's very emotional. But you could at least try to include some decent sources since this is HN. To start with, I'd love to see some substance for your original claim that Russia is using their super expensive long range S-400 to shoot down thousands of cheap Ukrainian drones when Russia has a plenty of vastly cheaper equipment suited for that particular task. That's a claim I've never seen before, as opposed to the India-Pakistani conflict that has been endlessly litigated at this point.
by watwut | 2025-12-07 21:22:45+00:00
> "AI" is going to do all the work for us, we are all going to get UBI then at some point as it grows the "ASI"

I don't see those companies promising that. They are bragging about being able to replace jobs for millions people and their CEOs are also simultaneously taking pretty dismissive attitude toward lesser people. If is more of "we will replace millions of people of eff you, billionaire class will become more powerful.

I am not saying it will realistically happen, I am saying that is what current messaging is.
by rendall | 2025-12-07 21:22:58+00:00
The Fibonacci scale isn’t sacred; it’s just a coarse, non-linear scale that keeps people from pretending to have more precision than they actually have. Any non-linear sequence would work as long as it forces you to acknowledge uncertainty as the numbers grow.

As for “just estimate in time,” the problem is that teams are consistently bad at doing that directly. Mixing “how hard is this” with “how long will it take” collapses two separate variables: intrinsic complexity and local throughput. Story points deliberately avoid that conflation. The team’s velocity is what translates points into time at the sprint level, and that translation only stabilizes if the underlying unit is complexity rather than hours.

The whole point of the method is to strip away the illusion of precision. Time estimates look concrete, but they degrade immediately under uncertainty and project pressure. Relative complexity estimates survive discussion, converge reliably, and don’t invite the fallacy that a complex task with a high risk of surprises somehow has an exact hour count.

That’s why the technique exists. Estimating time directly sounds simpler, but in practice it produces worse forecasts because it hides uncertainty instead of exposing it.
by roryirvine | 2025-12-07 21:23:00+00:00
Network Rail deal with dozens of reports of earthworks failures, landslips, vehicle strikes, and other problems affecting bridges and viaducts every day. They have well-tested procedures in place to investigate them. In some locations, and at some times of day, those procedures involve on-call staff.

Sure, "just follow the process" is a lot less exciting than coming up with an ad-hoc response - but when you're dealing with safety-critical infrastructure at scale, it makes a lot more sense than cowboying it and hoping for the best.
by freehorse | 2025-12-07 21:23:29+00:00
Masking is defined by being a maladaptive strategy, so I don't think that it being in general mentally draining is disputed. The issue is that sometimes there is a tendency to call any coping strategy as masking. There are coping strategies that can be successful, and there are reasons to adopt them other than to hide not being neurotypical or to make neurotypicals happy.
by fruitworks | 2025-12-07 21:24:08+00:00
Necroing this, but my general opinion is that anonymousity is more of a question of extent and the shape of anonymousity sets than a binary condition of anonymouse/public. But you are correct that we can never satisfy the binary condition.

Given enough foresnsics, it's possible to link pseudoanonymouse identities to real identities. See chainalysis. I'm sure if you apply stylometry to either of our posts, you could uncover our identities. I think there was a post here doing just that.

So my real problem with the pseudoanonymouse model is that when if fails, it generally favors centralized institutions in who are capable of the surveilance needed for correlation. It is asymmetric. People say that bitcoin's transparency is a feature, but the feature is only accessible to those with the metadata, like arkham or chainalysis. Reputation systems can be very useful though.
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-07 21:24:20+00:00
> Unfortunately, this type of conflict can only be adjudicated by courts, which low-income people don't have the time and money for.

Here in Europe, we have consumer protection agencies. Get wronged? Shoot them off an email and they'll take care of it. And overcharging at the cash register? That gets handled by the responsible authorities. Again, call them, tell them what happened and it can get real messy real fast.
by based2 | 2025-12-07 21:24:38+00:00
* Panorama Track– a grand tour of the Scala ecosystem: language evolution, tooling innovation, and community discussions.

* Industry Track – real-world stories from teams running Scala at scale, exploring lessons learned and business impact.

* Developer Experience Track – deep dives into tooling, productivity, and how to get more out of your daily Scala flow.

* Creative & Mix Track – a vibrant mix of technical talks, playful experiments, and unexpected ways Scala shows up in life and work.

* Martin Odersky: Where Are We With Scala’s Capabilities? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-iWql7fVRg
by iris-digital | 2025-12-07 21:24:47+00:00
Due to the mobile revolution Mozilla has been doomed as a significant player, no matter what they did.

There was one shot however, "Firefox OS" on mobile. Of course they gave up early when they should have been investing in it continuously and plugging that google money away into an endowment instead of leadership salaries. Had they done that they'd at least have a chance now.
by dap | 2025-12-07 21:25:01+00:00
I’m sympathetic to looking down on the obsession with money. But there’s something deep and important about the monetary element. Engineering is about solving real-world, practical problems. The cost is a real factor in whether a potential solution is a useful one.

I think the money question is a red herring here. I’d phrase it more like: what problem in a user’s problem space is expressible only like this? And if the only user is the programmer, that’s alright, but feels more aligned with pure academia. That’s important, too! But has a much smaller audience than engineering at large.
by noncoml | 2025-12-07 21:25:15+00:00
$250k+ a year means ~$12k monthly salary.

A semi decent apartment in SV will cost you ~$3k

Bills(phone, internet, electricity, etc) another $1k.

If you are married, groceries at least $1k.

Even if we assume you don’t do anything else in life, and you are in perfect health best case scenario would be $6k savings a month or $72k a year.

It would take you 10 years to save $720k plus whatever you make from investments.

That’s not enough to even buy you a house in SV. How are you going to retire?

Unless you assume you will get $250k straight out of college and keep up salary raises for 25 years.

Sure, if you don’t have kids, age with no health problems, never enjoy anything in life, you may be able to retire at 50 in Thailand or Philippines.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-12-07 21:25:21+00:00
> Electrifying ferries is great, but this particular one has a run time of 20 minutes (and a charge time of 10 minutes).

And this one, under construction now, will have a run time of 90 minutes and charge time of 40 minutes:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-boat-battery-ship-ferry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844832

Sibling comment is perfectly correct that it starts small and ramps up.

From that article:

> "The ferry format, with its high-frequency turnaround, relatively short segment distances, and shore-based rapid charging, is one of the most promising early use cases for electrification in the maritime sector. Maritime electrification has gained momentum over the past few years"

Early. Momentum.

Moving some noticeable percentage of ships away from fossil fuels is still a win.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-07 21:25:42+00:00
> For seniors, I've known a few that would do problems in a different language so they can get some basic exposure to it.

Everyone including myself who does similar things of experimenting with different languages, do so with "real" (not sure what else to call it) programs on our machines for some purpose. Maybe recreate something else we did recently, or try it for that one specific use case we saw it potentially good for. Not doing random exercises on some online platform. I don't doubt some people find it satisfying, just interesting I don't find those people around me I guess.
by quesera | 2025-12-07 21:25:48+00:00
I think it works if the US neutral is left unused (terminated in the electrical box).

E.g, something like this:

(US proposed) (UK kettle) (UK standard) (2-phase) ┌─────────────┐ (1-phase) │ │ L1 120V 0° ────┼─ Hot(240V) ─┼── Hot 240V 1ph │ │ Neutral ───X │ │ │ │ L2 120V 180° ──┼─ Neutral ───┼── Neutral │ │ │ │ GND ───────────┼─ GND ───────┼── GND │ │ └─────────────┘

I think this is right, but I'm not 100%. The kettle should get what it needs, but I'm less certain whether a GFCI or ArcFCI breaker would have opinions that must be accounted for. I'll check with someone more qualified than myself to be sure!
by XorNot | 2025-12-07 21:27:02+00:00
Pharmaceutical compounds frequently don't make it to market after significant investment.

No one in that industry is giving estimates based on developing brand new drugs - they're giving estimates related to manufacturing lead times, unalterable physics time lines, and typical time to navigate administrative tasks which are well known and generally predictable (but also negotiable: regulations have a human on the other end). All of this after they have a candidate drug in hand.

Same story with bridge building basically: no one puts an estimate on coming up with a brand new bridge design: they're a well understood, scalable engineering constructions which are the mostly gated by your ability to collect the data needed to use them - i.e. a field survey team etc. - and also once again, regulatory processes and accountability.
by davnicwil | 2025-12-07 21:27:18+00:00
A friend of mine uses frinkiac all the time, I wasn't sure where he was sourcing all these quotes/memes from until he told me about it a few months ago.

Awesome to see you're on HN. I'll take the opportunity to say thanks for this service! We're of that cohort who grew up on the simpsons and it formed a large part (a majority?) of our humour.

Brings joy and laughs to my friend group at least!
by malkia | 2025-12-07 21:27:49+00:00
Benchmarking requires a bit of different setup than the rest of the testing, especially if you want down to the ms timings.

We have continous benchmarking of one of our tools, it's written in C++, and to get "same" results everytime we launch it on the same machine. This is far from ideal, but otherwise there be either noisy neighbours, pesky host (if it's vm), etc. etc.

One idea that we thought was what if we can run the same test on the same machine several times, and check older/newer code (or ideally through switches), and this could work for some codepaths, but not for really continous checkins.

Just wondering what folks do. I can assume what, but there is always something hidden, not well known.
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-07 21:27:51+00:00
> The list price is low but the per-unit price is astronomical compared to grocery store prices.

The problem is, so is material cost and handling effort. Say, a 2 liter bottle of soda compared to 10x 200 mL. Same amount of soda, but more handling required for stocking, inventory management (aka, make sure there is no soda expiring on the shelf) and finally scanning it over the cash register, and more packaging material.

Larger units of anything will always be cheaper than small units.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-07 21:27:56+00:00
> They already run on a thin-staff, high-volume model.

Like every other retail business not targeting the top 5%.

And Dollar Tree and Dollar General are both publicly listed companies, not private equity.

Dollar Tree sold Family Dollar for $1B 10 years after buying it for $8.5B, a pretty big loss. Dollar Tree’s market cap is $25B, so a pretty negligible part of the national dollar store business is “private equity”.
by Lio | 2025-12-07 21:28:30+00:00
I remember as a kid seeing an article about Parr’s Last Resort in the Observer and it really moving me.

At the time I couldn’t wrap my head around why his work was controversial. I just really liked it.

I was lucky enough to meet him at one of his talks about 10 years ago.

I guess it’s all opinion ut I think he was one of all time greats of photography. As good as Cartier-Bresson or Eggleston.

At the same time he was completely down to earth and approachable. He happily signed my copy of Last Resort and had a chat.

Later when someone else wanted a photo with him he suggested I should take it because I “looked like a photographer”.

It was just a throw away comment but… well, it meant a lot to me.

I heard someone say "He made the ordinary look extraordinary" that seems to be a good epitarph.
by spockz | 2025-12-07 21:28:37+00:00
I use jmh for micro benchmarks on any code we know is sensitive and to highlight performance differences between different implementations. (Usually keep them around but not run on CI as an archive of what we tried.)

Then we do benchmarking of the whole Java app in the container running async-profiler into pyroscope. We created a test harness for this that spins up and mocks any dependencies based on api subscription data and contracts and simulates performance.

This whole mechanism is generalised and only requires teams that create individual apps to work with contract driven testing for the test harness to function. During and after a benchmark we also verify whether other non functionals still work as required, i.e. whether tracing is still linked to the right requests etc. This works for almost any language that we use.
by hunterpayne | 2025-12-07 21:29:10+00:00
The problem with Scala 3 is that nobody asked for it. The problem with Scala 2 is that the type inference part of the compiler is still broken. Nobody worked on that. Instead they changed the language in ways that don't address complaints. Completely ignore the market and deliver a product nobody wants. That's what happened here.

PS Perhaps they should make an actual unit test suite for their compiler. Instead they have a couple of dozen tests and have to guess if their compiler PR will break things.
by troupo | 2025-12-07 21:29:59+00:00
> The result was a completely unusable site: the middle half was in-viewport (good), the right quarter was accessible by scrolling (poor), but the left quarter could not be accessed at all (abject failure).

This is the limitation that browsers/css impose for a rather arbutrary reason [1]

There's nothing preventing the browser from scrolling in any direction.

[1] It's not arbitrary, of course. But almost all these quirks stem from the fact that browers were made to display text and images in a single rendering pass. That's why even in 2025 the article talking about constraints talks about these things as self-evident good defaults with no alternatives:

--- start quote ---

If text is centered inside a box too small to contain it, we don't want it spilling out the left edge (it might go off-screen, where the user cannot scroll); left-aligning ensures it only spills out on the right.

That's a funky quirk but also, you may have never noticed it and if you did this edge case probably was better than what the layout would have been. Meaning, actually, building this edge case into the definition of text-align was a smart choice by the CSS designers.

--- end quote ---

It was a smart choice for 1995-1999. It's now codified and cannot be changed, but it doesn't mean it's a good choice now, or that it's even an edge case.
by zipy124 | 2025-12-07 21:30:36+00:00
It also helps because software is one of the rare engineering fields where code is non-destrictive and can be changed after the fact.

The carpenters trick of measure many times, cut once, can instead just be cut and re-size if wrong size, which can often be quicker.

Asking how long they want me to spend on it also let's me know how solid it needs to be engineered. Is it something that needs doing right then first time, or do we just want something rough that we can refine later with feedback.
Ask HN: What's your go to for sharing sensitive files with non tech people?
by privsen | 2025-12-07 21:31:04+00:00
My accountant asked me to send tax documents. My parents needed help with medical records. A client wanted API credentials. Every time I hit the same problem: PGP is way too complex for them, Signal requires installing an app, email attachments feel insecure, and I don't trust random file sharing sites.

What do you all actually use in practice? Curious if there's something obvious, I'm missing.
by jijijijij | 2025-12-07 21:31:21+00:00
> The way you attract people into a field despite poor management and working conditions is higher wages.

People don't want to work in these conditions tho. And the public has to pay these wages. Seriously, you are so damn ignorant thinking American free-market bla bla is the fix for everything. It's probably tough to swallow, but quality of life matters here. Why aren't you paying your field and gastronomy workers 100k instead of exploiting illegals?

People here got other options to improve their lives. It's a democracy, the root issue can be fixed politically. Nurses are also organized in unions. So there isn't even "free market" shit all anyway. These unions demand better working conditions not higher wages.

Maybe you should first check basic foundational truths about economics in your own country, before lecturing others?! Despite all the riches, the median income in the US is lower than Germany. You should pay people better over there.
by strcat | 2025-12-07 21:31:22+00:00
You're making libelous claims without evidence while falsely claiming that I'm doing it. This typically goes along with baseless claims that I'm insane, delusional, schizophrenic, etc. with links to extraordinarily dishonest content filled with obvious fabrications from a couple serial harassers. One of those serial harassers has an identity verified Kiwi Farms account and was the one who involved them in targeting me (kiwifarms . st/members/larossmann.132201/). We've provided a large amount of evidence. Here's the leader of Murena and /e/ linking to libelous harassment content towards me on a conspiracy site this week: https://archive.is/SWXPJ + https://archive.is/n4yTO and we have dozens more examples archived for him specifically. You target us with libelous claims, bullying and harassment then claim we're creating drama for defending ourselves from it and documenting it. If you want the 'drama' to stop then stop engaging in harassment.
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-07 21:31:32+00:00
For people to vote with their wallet, there has to be an alternative. In "dead" markets where there is only one realistic alternative, whoever holds the monopoly can do whatever the fuck he wants, captive audience.

And no, it's not possible to compete as a startup against Walmart or any other of the corporate giants (and not just in retail, it's valid across industries) - alone because the sheer scale of Walmart allows them to extort insanely cheap pricing out of vendors. Walmart can sell for far cheaper than any mom and pop store can acquire.
by echelon | 2025-12-07 21:32:22+00:00
Dang, can you explain how this is indignant or sensational?

Anthropic's leadership and researchers continue to this day to post messages saying engineering will be fully automated. I can go find recent messages on X if you'd like.

This forum is comprised mostly of engineers, who will be the most impacted if their vision of the world pans out.

YC depends on innovation capital to make money. If the means of production are centralized, how does YC make any money at all from engineers? Such a world will be vertically and horizontally integrated, not democratically spread for others to take advantage of.

Now I don't think that's what's going to happen, but that's what the messaging has been and continues to be from Anthropic's leadership, researchers, and ICs.

Why should we support companies like this?

We shouldn't we advocate for open models where any market participants can fully utilize and explore the competitive gradients?

I don't think I'm saying anything controversial here.

Furthermore, if this pans out like it seems it will - a set of three or four AI hyperscalers - we'll also be in the same situation we have today with the big tech hyperscalers.

Due to a lax regulatory environment, these companies put a ceiling on startup exits by funding internal competition, buying competitors, etc. I don't see how the situation will improve in an AI world.

If you're a capitalist, you want competition to be fierce and fair. You don't want concentration of power.

I can see how an Anthropic IC might not like this post, but this should be fairly reasonable for everyone else who would like to see more distribution of power.