MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-12-22 23:39:38+00:00
glances at the Zumwalt class

Stealth has a time and a place. Right now, stealth on a 40,000 ton warship would guarantee that it's another disaster program with only a handful of hulls. Taking into account China's reliance on drone and satellite targeting, I don't think over-the-horizon radar stealth was going to be much help anyways. Ships that large are always dependent on point-defense and electronic countermeasures.

Also, while Trump loves to put his name on stuff everywhere, it's worth noting that this probably isn't solely his idea. The Navy has wanted a replacement for the Arleigh Burke for a while, and making a larger BMD-focused version seems pretty well in-line with Trump's vision of power projection.

I won't go to bat for much of his policy, but this boat just seems to be ticking the box on an old US Navy requirement in the same way the F-47 is a whitelabel NGAD.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-22 23:40:25+00:00
He has said his goal is for a "world with no crime. Thanks to Flock." and his goal is not aspirational, visionary, but quite literal.

He sees false negatives as more problematic than false positives. He has admitted being inspired by Minority Report (to me it's always very telling when someone takes a cautionary tale like this and finds it "inspirational").

It is right to be amazingly concerned.
by observationist | 2025-12-22 23:40:47+00:00
>>> ... the study found that removing the parachute prior to jumping led to a shocking increase in mortality among skydivers.

When there's a clear causal mechanism, additional research that doesn't propose a clear resolution to the underlying problem doesn't negate the clear causal mechanism. Releasing a bunch of loose cancer into the body is a clear causal mechanism, so unless you're filtering it or killing the loose cancer somehow, I'm not sure what those studies could tell you that overcomes the underlying problem. And until they address that problem, it's going to be limited to a quality of life type application - stopping the tumor from killing you now with the certainty of metastasis killing you later.
by chasil | 2025-12-22 23:40:49+00:00
I notice that the top image is of Transact SQL, the Sybase/Microsoft dialect. This is not a formal standard, and I suggest against its use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transact-SQL

SQL/PSM is a general ISO standard that grew out of Oracle PL/SQL, is rooted in ADA, and is implemented by a large range of databases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM

Standards are important.
by akersten | 2025-12-22 23:40:51+00:00
This frames the issue in a fundamentally incorrect way.

Since the dawn of pseudoanonymous communication, politicians have been trying to get their nasty little claws into it. See Clipper Chip in the 90's. They've tried many avenues to deanonymize and centralize. Going after the parents is just their latest - they've discovered they could use convincing language like this to trick a bunch of people who previously had no reason to care about The Internet to now suddenly "realize" oh gosh it's scary out there, what can we do to help.

Unfortunately their latest tactic is working. They figured out how to recruit a (possibly) well-intentioned bloc into supporting efforts that undermine privacy in an irreversible way.

> Because of our industry’s refusal to take those concerns seriously, we lost our voice,

Fighting against demands to censor, unmask, and neuter the closest thing we've got to a global platform of freedom is a valiant effort. Not entertaining these bureaucrats isn't some moral failing of our industry, in the same sense that ignoring a persistent busker on the street entitles him to your money after some uninvolved observer has arbitrarily decided he's made the same demand enough that somehow it's starting to make sense because the victim hasn't yelled at him with a good enough argument against it.

In other words: yep, still the parents' job, yep, internet was still there when I grew up, yep, I turned out fine, yep, politicians have been trying to take away our privacy for 30 years (and unfortunately, they're finding more creative and convincing ways to disguise it). Hint: it's never about the kids
by pxue | 2025-12-22 23:41:42+00:00
_Are you letting AI interact directly with ops tools?_

Yes but very cautiously and always with human in the loop. AI is great at cutting away ops noise (false alerts), OK at root cause analysis / debugging and terrible at actually prioritizing and fixing the thing.

It's not a solved a problem and companies like Rootly's actively speaking in this area. I'd read their blog and see what's the latest in the field.
by omneity | 2025-12-22 23:42:10+00:00
If performant FPGAs were more accessible we’d be able to download models directly into custom silicon, locally, and unlock innovation in inference hardware optimizations. The highest grade FPGAs also have HBM memory and are competitive (on paper) to GPUs. To my understanding this would be a rough hobbyist version of what Cerebras and Groq are doing with their LPUs.

Unlikely this will ever happen but one can always dream.
by dogman144 | 2025-12-22 23:42:16+00:00
Was fortunate to talk to a security lead who built the data-driven policing network for a major American city that was an early adopter. ALPR vendors like Flock either heavily augment and/or anchor the tech setups.

What was notable to me is the following, and it’s why I think a career spent on either security researching, or going to law school and suing, these vendors into the ground over 20 years would be the ultimate act of civil service:

1. It’s not just Flock cams. It’s the data eng into these networks - 18 wheeler feed cams, flock cams, retail user nest cams, traffic cams, ISP data sales

2. All in one hub, all searchable by your local PD and also the local PD across state lines who doesn’t like your abortion/marijuana/gun/whatever laws, and relying on:

3. The PD to setup and maintain proper RBAC in a nationwide surveillance network that is 100%, for sure, no doubt about it (wait how did that Texas cop track the abortion into Indiana/Illinois…?), configured for least privilege.

4. Or if the PD doesn’t want flock in town, they reinstall cameras against the ruling (Illinois iirc?) or just say “we have the feeds for the DoT cameras in/out of town and the truckers through town so might as well have control over it, PD!”

Layer the above with the current trend in the US, and 2025 model Nissan uploading stop-by-stop geolocation and telematics to cloud (then, sold into flock? Does even knowing for sure if it does or doesn’t even matter?)

Very bad line of companies. Again all is from primary sources who helped implement it over the years. If you spend enough time at cybersecurity conferences you’ll meet people with these jobs.
by ursAxZA | 2025-12-22 23:42:29+00:00
The long version would take us far off-topic,
so here’s the short one:
if the tax-paying base collapses, none of this matters.

At that point the debate isn’t about pricing — it’s about survival of the system.

I could outline the full methodology behind this view,
but that would turn the thread into a private seminar — and that’s not what comment sections are for.
by zeruch | 2025-12-22 23:42:58+00:00
Network effects and an as-yet insufficient friction to leave en masse has kept LI in a semi-moated space.

There have been competitors, but they are either niche (Zerply) or more regionally specific (Xing, with its focus on following EU data sovereignty laws) or the latest trend, AI-enabled agentic recruitment, which as yet has no real track record.
by stephen_g | 2025-12-22 23:43:26+00:00
Grid forming inverters for providing virtual inertia are only going to get better and better, there's no reason that as those control systems improve why synthetic inertia won't be able to be basically identical to real spinning mass. In the meantime while that technology matures, synchronous condensers can provide grid inertia without needing nuclear or coal, we already have about four in Australia supporting our grid and will probably have another dozen or so built over the next decade or two.
by eightysixfour | 2025-12-22 23:43:47+00:00
> Try to think like an evil person with no life and very specific and demonic aims if you’re still having trouble seeing why this would be an issue.

That person already has incredible power to stalk and ruin someone's life. Making Flock cameras public would change almost nothing for that person. It fascinates me how fast people jump to "imagine the worst person" when we talk about making data public.

We have the worst people, they're the ones who profit off of it being private, with no public accountability, who don't build secure systems. The theater of privacy is, IMO, worse than not having privacy.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-22 23:44:03+00:00
> The core problem that LinkedIn solves has nothing to do with all the "social media" style content that plagues the platform.

I feel like a broken record explaining this to people.

The feed that appears when you go to LinkedIn.com is a sideshow. Almost nobody posts to it. Very few people read it. You can (and should!) ignore it and not miss out on anything.

Make a profile. Update it occasionally when you're job searching. Forget about the site until you need it. Hit the unsubscribe button when they e-mail you suggestions.

The exception is people who simply cannot resist getting pulled into a feed and scrolling it. If that's you, I understand why you'd stay off of the website. For everyone else, it's a set it and forget it until you need it kind of website.

That's also why a second website isn't appealing to anyone. They've already gotten past the set-and-forget part. Why would they want to set up a second profile somewhere in a smaller, less useful network? There would have to be some real benefit, not an imagined talking point that disappoints.
by lisbbb | 2025-12-22 23:44:36+00:00
I guess, but there's a philosophy that goes something along the lines of: Government is not the answer to every problem. It's a very divisive issue, clearly. Technical people were never going to solve the problem of kids having access to adult materials online because tech people are only interested in making gobs of money, not in dealing with delicate social issues. Government isn't going to fix anything, either, mind you, because the moment the crackdowns begin, the technologists will walk right in with a solution. Maybe we'll finally have the distributed, peer-to-peer network we always thought we were getting but instead got centrally controlled nodes featuring mass surveillance.

I stopped worrying about it as a parent. My kids want to look at porn? Let them. If they want to see horrible, violent shit that gives them nightmares and they can't un-see it, let them. They'll either figure it out or they will be lifetime children looking for big daddy government to solve all their stupid problems for them and society will collapse.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-12-22 23:45:39+00:00
It's still moralist pearl-clutching in service of totalitarian horseshit no matter how you'd like to justify it.

I don't even think you're strictly 100% incorrect here. That said, I refuse to entertain the "think of the children" horseshit when parents happily park their kid in front of an iPad for hours a day because it shuts them up, not with kink content they shouldn't see, but with AI/algorithmically generated garbage, or for that matter, human generated garbage, that rots their brains far more than any gimp costume ever could.

For fucks sake, 12 kids in America die PER DAY due to mass shootings, and we can't even pass common sense gun regulations that the vast majority of gun owners are completely fine with. We don't give a fuck about our kids here. This has from jump, and continues to be, astro-turfed puritan whining not merely to pornography of whatever preferred kind of the moment, but to the existence of queer people as a whole.

It IS parents' fucking responsibility, and maybe that is an onerous burden, but instead of even attempting to meet it, the majority of parents have abdicated it. And it isn't porn fucking their kids up, it's non-stop screen exposure leaving them with no attention span and no ability to simply BE BORED.
by danudey | 2025-12-22 23:46:07+00:00
I was hired at a small startup (~15 employees total) and one of the first things I did was to migrate their SVN repository to Git. Not too difficult, brought over the history and then had to write a bunch of tooling to handle the fact that not all of the source code was in one giant heirarchy anymore (since everything was microservices and self-contained libraries it made sense to split them out).

After I left that company I ended up at a larger company (~14k employees) in part because I'd worked on SVN-to-Git migrations before. Definitely a different beast, since there were a huge amount of workflows that needed changing, importing 10 years of SVN history (some of which used to be CVS history), pruning out VM images and ISOs that had been inadvertently added, rewriting tons of code in their Jenkins instance, etc.

All this on top of installing, configuring, and managing a geographically distributed internal Gitlab instance with multiple repositories in the tens or hundreds of gigabytes.

It was a heck of a ride and took years, but it was a lot of fun at the same time. Thankfully 'the guy who suggested the transition' was the CEO (in the first company) or CTO (in the second) nothing went wrong, no one got thrown under buses, and both companies are still doing a-okay (as far as source control goes).
by belorn | 2025-12-22 23:46:43+00:00
When they calculate that Solar + battery would cost $50-131/MWh, how is that number reached? What is the number of charge cycles and over what time span? It seems obvious that the cost of producing, installing and operating a 1MWh system of solar and batteries will cost more than a one time payment of $50-131.

Most of the time when I try to find any data there is the underlying assumption that the charge cycle is a day and night cycle, where the day produce the energy needed during the night, and not a seasonal storage that basically has a single charge cycle per year.
by anonzzzies | 2025-12-22 23:47:01+00:00
Is there something like tailgate (or this) with only cli (I much dislike tailgate gui stuff on mac/win, on mobile its kind of needed) and you own small connection gateway on your own vps? I know tailgate has an open source implementation but I could not get that working while bored at the airport so that's not simple enough (the thing is enormous as well while it should just 'handshake' and that's it right?).
by tempaccsoz5 | 2025-12-22 23:47:15+00:00
Their structure in the markup can be a bit confusing imo - something more like a <figcaption> inside a <figure> or a <legend> inside a <fieldset> would be much nicer imo.

The spec even mentions [0] that you're allowed to use <div>s to group dt/dd pairs for styling purposes.

[0]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html...
by Mawr | 2025-12-22 23:47:22+00:00
> If you purposely go into your phone settings and turn off auto-capitalization (which is what the kids do, since they're all typing on their phones), isn't it the very definition of pretentiousness?

That's incredibly presumptuous of you. That they're on their phone, that they had auto capitalization defaulted to on, that it's them who turned it off, that they didn't turn it off for whatever other reason (bugginess).
by there_is_try | 2025-12-22 23:48:11+00:00
I don't really know what I'm doing, but. Why couldn't messages be stored encrypted on a blockchain with a system where both user's in a one-one conversation agree to a key, or have their own keys, that grants permission for 'their' messages. And then you'd never be locked into a private software / private database / private protocol. You could read your messages at any point with your key.
by simonsarris | 2025-12-22 23:48:26+00:00
China had an emissions decline in 2025 that is substantially attributable to a decline in industry, per their first source. The decline in industry is plausible so long as GDP growth in 2025 is lower than GDP growth in 2024, and is additionally supported by the newly introduced source that the commentor did not read. Yes, it is possible to have an economic slowdown and a positive GDP print.

In general it's weird to say '"economic slowdown" is an exaggeration' and then link to something that talks about the economic slowdown.
by vkou | 2025-12-22 23:49:55+00:00
Except that the state of California ended up on the hook for the first bankruptcy. The shareholders were the only ones who came out fine. The customers and the state got stuck with the bill.

Exactly what risk did they take on? A few missed dividends, and two years for the stock price to recover?

As for the second bankruptcy, the main result of that was that their customers ended up paying the bill for other customers whose houses were destroyed. But you are partially correct, the shareholders did take a haircut of a few percentage points from stock dilution. I wouldn't be too upset for them, the stock's now double what it was before the bankruptcy.[1]

California's cities wanted them to take a haircut of 100 percentage points, but that clearly didn't happen.

[1] For some reason, the wise stewardship of the shareholders and the board did nothing to mitigate the crisis that caused the company to get sued for 50 billion dollars. They were too busy squeezing dividends out of it to worry about liabilities. [2]

[2] And why should they? They aren't personally liable.
by quitit | 2025-12-22 23:49:58+00:00
I keep an unofficial record of instances where police and similar authorities have abused their access to these types of systems. The list is long. It's almost exclusively men stalking ex-partners or attractive women they don't know, but have seen in public.

What's frightening is it's not rare, it actually happens constantly, and this is just within the systems which have a high level of internal logging/user-tracking.

So now with Flock and data brokers we have authorities having access to information that was originally held behind a judge's signature. Often with little oversight, and frequently for unofficial, abusive purposes.

This reality also ties back to the discussion about providing the "good guys" encryption backdoors. The reality is that there are no "good guys", everyone exists in shades of grey, and I dare say there are people in forces whom are attracted to the power the role provides, rather than any desire for public service.

In conclusion it's a fundamental design flaw to rely on the operator being a "good guy", and that's before we get into the problem of leaks, bugs, and flaws in the security model, or in this case: complete open access to the public web - laughable, farcical, and horrifying.
by mvkel | 2025-12-22 23:50:22+00:00
Like any new social network, the first question to answer is: how do you make it useful -without- the social layer?

Instagram did photo filters.

LinkedIn did digital résumés.

Strava did activity tracking.

It's not zero sum. But if you're going to replace LinkedIn, you need to ask yourself: why would someone want a -new- digital résumé?

By the way, these things already exist, albeit in a more niche capacity, which is a good thing. GitHub is LinkedIn for programmers. Behance is LinkedIn for designers. X is LinkedIn for AI scientists :). Etc.
by w10-1 | 2025-12-22 23:51:05+00:00
To emphasize the dynamics: (1) No person will migrate until most of their connectors migrate, and their connectors cannot migrate until everyone does. It's deadlock, for every thread you care about. (2) Automation in job applications and a declining job market have both made networking more essential, so there's no tolerance for lost connections, so you'd also have to solve those problems too before all would switch. (3) Even if users don't like it and could surmount the coordination costs of switching, if companies continue to rely on it, switching would be a career-limiting move; and because companies cannot signal their recruitment strategies without triggering a stampede to game their system, companies tend to keep quiet, so no company would lead an exodus.

Still, no one (outside influencers) likes how work networking and recruitment happens today, so user might do both linkedin and some new system if one created a more effective networking and recruitment mode (e.g., for some well-defined, high-value subset, like recent Stanford MBA's, YC alumni, FinTech, ...).
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-12-22 23:51:24+00:00
After 20 years, TV documentaries, long running newspaper campaigns, parliamentary inquiries, finally a smoking gun. And hopefully some jail time, and even more hopefully some way to force companies to admit to wrong doing

However this scandal has ruined one more thing for me - the Hollywood feel good movie where the hero walks into the newspaper offices, lays out the terrible thing the big corporate firm has been murdering people to cover up, and credits roll.

Now we know credits roll for 20 years and people still deny there is anything wrong.

This is why ordinary Russians liked Putin and why the strongman is a popular political figure. Democracy does need a way to fix scandals like this. (Cf the selling of hundreds of millions of pounds of Tyneside property for one pound an acre)
by ggm | 2025-12-22 23:51:38+00:00
Longterm, are pills both cheaper to manufacture and distribute than injectable? It's tempting to assume so because of not needing a mechanism and production line processes towards pill encapsulation. About the only possible advantage a liquid would have is flow state manufacturing and avoidance of drying cycles somewhere in production. I can't see that outweighing the cost of the injector.

Cost, and price are of course fully disconnected here. I look forward to Indian and Canadian generics in due course.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-22 23:52:06+00:00
I know plenty of people personally who can rant about energy prices being high while somehow finding room in the same breath to demonize wind and solar energy and even namedrop whichever foul devil bogeyman it is this week that is said to be the cause of this disjointed trauma that they find so overwhelming.

In the next breath, they pick something else from the deck to be upset about: These days, that's usually brown people, emails, laptops, the American cities that people in frog costumes burn to the ground every night, brown people, guns, laptops, and Hillary.

Sometimes, they then take a break to hear themselves talk about baseball, praise the president for getting so much done that he doesn't even have time to sleep, or to complain about the plot from the episode of The Dukes of Hazard -- from 1983 -- that they watched for the 14th time last night on Pluto.

After the break, it's time for them to complain about how they can't afford visit a doctor or buy eyeglasses, but they sure as hell don't want them any of those librawls to take any of their hard-earned money so everyone can go to the doctor.

Then things shift back to being weirder again: Schools turning boys into girls, kids using litter boxes in the classroom, men wearing dresses, God's Perfect Plan, guns, brown people, groceries, brown people, and blue hair dye.

This tiresome process repeats until I manage to escape, or I tell them very pointedly to shut the fuck up (hints don't work).

None of the people I know who act this way seem to be particularly bright, but I know them anyway.

And they vote. (Yes, I've checked.)