MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by huntaub | 2026-01-15 22:43:03+00:00
Our product is Archil [1], and we are building our service on top of a durable, distributed SSD storage layer. As a result, we have the ability to: (a) store and use data in S3 in its native format [not a block based format like the other solutions in this thread], (b) durably commit writes to our storage layer with lower latency than products which operate as installable OSS libraries and communicate with S3 directly, and (c) handle multiple writers from different instances like NFS.

Our team spent years working on NFS+Lustre products at Amazon (EFS and FSx for Lustre), so we understand the performance problems that these storage products have traditionally had.

We've built a custom protocol that allows our users to achieve high-performance for small file operations (git -- perfect for coding agents) and highly-parallel HPC workloads (model training, inference).

Obviously, there are tons of storage products because everyone makes different tradeoffs around durability, file size optimizations, etc. We're excited to have an approach that we think can flex around these properties dynamically, while providing best-in-class performance when compared to "true" storage systems like VAST, Weka, and Pure.

[1] https://archil.com
by jdprgm | 2026-01-15 22:43:34+00:00
I've been thinking recently about the scale at which it seems the vast vast majority of people participate in close to zero public discussion online and what a bummer it is.

Basically all discussion platforms are broken for any sort of long term meaningful discussion which I think is at least part of the problem. Even this thread and this comment just the fact that the thread is now 4 hours old the amount of views and chance of getting many responses drops precipitously. On most platforms unless you are someone with a large following you basically have to think like a marketer and post often and early on posts to stand a chance of getting a discussion going. It's always so ephemeral too. Even though posts on a platform like HN on reddit still exist and you can comment on old threads probably 99% of the activity happens in the first 6 or so hours and then it largely ends.

It makes me miss forums where at least you had long lived threads with simple time based post order and a good chance of replies. This doesn't seem to exist on only platforms now and forums have largely faded away.

The fragmentation of discussion has also messed things up. For example yesterday I was listening to a HardFork podcast episode which is a fairly popular pod, topping the charts in at least the tech category, and after listening I wanted to check for discussion around the episode and probably leave a comment or two. I assume this episode had to have gotten at least in the low tens of thousands of plays though perhaps that is way off. I went searching for discussion and basically found a largely dead subreddit for the podcast with no threads being regularly created for the episode and an empty comment section on nytimes which any site comment section is a useless place for discussion anyways. The pod is also posted on youtube which the youtube comment section had the most activity of anything I found but the youtube comment section and the way it is structured/operates is perhaps the most useless of all the platforms for trying to have any discussion. I just don't understand how if at least say ten thousand people listened to the episode surely at least 1% would be interested in discussing it and 100+ people going back and forth would be a large, active, healthy discussion somewhere.

Even threads that seem "active" on sites like HN or Reddit in the context of the actual audience sizes are shockingly small and confuse me. For example The Pitt season 2 just premiered and posted 5.4 million viewers, the subreddit post ep discussion currently has 5.3k comments which is quite high for a show. That is a joke of a percentage though, 0.1%! and even worse in the context of people that are posting probably post more than once in the thread. I understand many and even most people not wanting to post to discuss a show they just watched but how the hell is less than 1 in a thousand!

This post got long which also damages the chance of any engagement due to TLDR culture.
by abhi_telnyx | 2026-01-15 22:43:35+00:00
We ran into something interesting while working on Voice AI systems.

A lot of teams build and test in the US, where calls usually stay in-country, carrier paths are short, and latency is fairly predictable. You can glue together telephony, speech-to-text, a model, and text-to-speech and it behaves well enough.

That same setup often gets reused in EMEA.

On paper, it looks identical. In production, it isn’t.

Calls cross borders much more often, even when callers don’t. Audio traverses more carrier networks. Latency becomes variable rather than just higher. None of this shows up clearly in small pilots, but it starts to matter once you have real traffic.

The AI model usually isn’t the limiting factor. The call path is.

We wrote this up to better understand why Voice AI behaves differently once geography and telecom routing get involved, especially outside the US.

Link: https://telnyx.com/resources/why-voice-ai-fails-in-emea-and-...
by nobodywillobsrv | 2026-01-15 22:43:41+00:00
AI (chat) companies now have enough data to recommend h2h (human to human) but they are not building this.

They could literally find people who are working on he same things and recommend them for networking etc.

But that would take you off platform. Off attention.

Who wants to build this. Others must be thinking the same thing?
by simplisticelk | 2026-01-15 22:44:07+00:00
Absolutely, as long as a the energy of a wind farm displaces enough MWh of gas to cover its capital costs (incl. network costs) at the marginal price of gas it should reduce system costs. But wind energy output across an area the size of the UK is so highly correlated that additional wind capacity has diminishing returns. I suspect that the UK is already beyond the point by which additional wind is economically beneficial, but I’m not certain about that.

Also, if gas utilization falls dramatically capital costs will come to dominate. It’s not just the turbines, the gas network is costly.
by sfn42 | 2026-01-15 22:44:10+00:00
You say that, but to me they seem roughly the same as they've been for a good while. Wildly impressive technology, very useful, but also clearly and confidently incorrect a lot. Most of the improvement seems to have come from other avenues - search engine integration, image processing (still blows my mind every time I send a screenshot to a LLM and it gets it) and stuff like that.

Sure maybe they do better in some benchmarks, but to me the experience of using LLMs is and has been limited by their tendency to be confidently incorrect which betrays their illusion of intelligence as well as their usefulness. And I don't really see any clear path to getting past this hurdle, I think this may just be about as good as they're gonna get in that regard. Would be great if they prove me wrong.
by ben_talent | 2026-01-15 22:44:21+00:00
Yeah ! I feel like until we figure out the correct UX for non-technical people the right way would be a sort of hybrid. Where you'd set it up on a remote server (if you know opencode you know openwork) and you just then have non-tech people do a one time setup to connect to the remote and from then on you can easily extend capabilities.
by megaBiteToEat | 2026-01-15 22:44:35+00:00
A huge amount of tech is a confidence trick. Not one aimed at <50 year old crowd but aimed at innumerate and STEM ignorant political leaders.

It's not LLMs they care about, it's datacenter ownership. US political norms empower owners. If you think of a DC as a mega church and remote users the disciple, it makes the desired network effect obvious. That is leveraged to sway Congress and states.

These tech projects are not intended for users. They're designed to gain confidence of politicians, preferential political support.

Gen pop is not the market. DC is.

Most peoples individual data crunching problems can be resolved with a TI graphing calculator.

Big Tech convinced Congress that culture of helpless consumers of their data center outputs is simpler and will lead humanity to a forever growth future!... nevermind they will all be dead, unable to verify.

A con trick that worked great on older, more religious leaning Americans. One that's not working so well on the younger generation who know how these systems work.
by theshackleford | 2026-01-15 22:44:46+00:00
Housing in my city has been expensive for years, and the knock-on effect is that most people I know live so far apart we barely see each other anymore.

When you stack a two hour trip each way on top of the rising cost of doing anything at all, on top of already crushing housing and living costs, you end up with a perfect storm where staying home becomes the default. Not because people don’t want to socialise, but because the effort and expense make it impractical.

This has been a prolem where I live for years and I've actively watched it become worse over time as people have been forced to move further and further apart, and further and further away from the active areas of the city in order to be able to afford to keep a roof over their head.
by Erem | 2026-01-15 22:45:03+00:00
Two reactions:

1. ProPublica is a multi-Pulitzer investigative reporting group led by former WSJ managing editor Paul Steiger. He is not a socialist, nor is WSJ, nor ProPublica.

2. In the article you will find verifiable claims, records, and quotes which can be easily distinguished from opinions by any discerning reader
by weslleyskah | 2026-01-15 22:45:26+00:00
It certainly becomes opaque when it is a labyrinth of links and documents that you need to read and follow through. It does not help when these same rules can be abused to death by veteran users.

At a certain point, no one really knows the devil's dance happening at the top of the moderation ladder and you end up wasting a lot of lifetime on these dead talk pages.

It is a bureaucratic nightmare.
by thunderfork | 2026-01-15 22:45:27+00:00
>You keep talking about /v/. I don't understand why.

Given that you find not knowing the blog post guy's name disqualifying, this is extremely funny. The ground level of the whole shitshow wasn't /r/KiA.

(I'd love to see a scrap of evidence that /r/KiA did anything beyond "we did it reddit"-style conspiracy posting and going "hmm this dev is queer, is this an ethics issue?", but given that this was apparently traumatic for you, I won't force the issue)
by dfabulich | 2026-01-15 22:46:06+00:00
I've reviewed this and your other comments on the thread, and I think you're making a mistake, believing that to solve the loneliness epidemic, you primarily need to "reach people."

As long as leaving the house and making real contact is harder (requires more self discipline) than staying in and scrolling, all you can do is project a message to folks at home, like "hi, you're not alone in feeling lonely," but you haven't solved the fundamental problem: it's harder to do the right thing than it is to do the wrong thing.

To solve the loneliness epidemic, you have to make the right thing easier than the wrong thing. "Reaching out" to more people will not accomplish that. Elsewhere in this thread, you've rejected the idea of pursuing a public policy, but policy is the only answer anyone's provided in this thread that could make that happen.

(Now, it turns out that you'll have to do a lot of outreach to make a public policy happen, but you'll be asking for their vote, not a regular commitment to show up weekly at a club; outreach is the right approach to that problem.)
by bdamm | 2026-01-15 22:46:07+00:00
It wasn't one of the "Ziply" or "PayByPhone" machines - with which I have no problem, generally. These are much more common.

It was "Parkedin" at 745 Thurlow St, underground lot. I haven't encountered it anywhere else. Do me a favour, go park there and see for yourself.

Curious that you'd be willing to invalidate my claim without knowing what service it was.
by Retric | 2026-01-15 22:46:19+00:00
Depends on what you consider the start date. Practically speaking there’s some investigation into building nuclear in Italy that already occurred but using that as a start date isn’t meaningful here. Similarly the announcement you point to was a long way from having everything required to actually build a power plant.

Until there’s actual funding talking about nuclear doesn’t really mean anything. Vogal was a boondoggle but it didn’t get construction approval until 2012 and like many projects ran into COVID delays on top of everything else.

> These projects always go overbudget, badly.

Using the worst example means there’s something very wrong with each of them.
by syntaxing | 2026-01-15 22:46:19+00:00
I think I get what you’re trying to say but realistically, it doesn’t add up. The draft was 33 years. The US is only 250 years old (give or take) so over 10% of our history had conscription. The Vietnam and Korean War was widely unpopular because it was the first broadcasted war. People watch their family get blown up on TV. It had nothing to do with “freedom to serve military”.

If you argue a draft is counterproductive because it a waste of resources and we have better means to serve young adults, I could buy it. But arguing a draft is not the American way because it’s “our freedom to decide what we want” is a bit silly.

I do absolutely agree that I wouldn’t trust the current administration or culture to faithfully execute on this idea though.
by airstrike | 2026-01-15 22:46:19+00:00
I just want to say thanks for sharing your burden and how you were able to overcome it so others can be inspired.

I feel like nowadays people are really encouraged to never display any vulnerability. It goes totally against the hype and hustle culture of the attention economy. To do that so candidly takes a lot of courage and confidence, and that's really impressed.

I'm sorry that happened to you and I'm glad you're doing well. And if that doubt ever seeps into your thoughts, remember they were full of shit and you're absolutely capable of loving and being loved.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 22:46:27+00:00
Hm I had thought the same! Interesting thanks for responding once again but what are your thoughts on the fact that someone can abuse the situation and your account might get banned and hetzner has a pretty strict policy in that

When I wished to create something as such, this was the most major thing I was worried about. I am curious what your thoughts are on it and how are you managing it (the fact that anyone might abuse in your service which could then impact you and hetzner relations and they might block/restrict you)

I have heard that hetzner requires you to respond in hours or similar. Like I am interested, did you talk to hetzner people (they are usually very kind and I love that about them) or not, because I remember asking some question to that in similar vein but I had gotten the answer that I am still responsible for what happens downstreams and that worried me
by peterldowns | 2026-01-15 22:46:47+00:00
> But how do we actively incentivize that?

Is immediately and completely solving the problem not a good enough incentive? If you go outside and interact, you will be much less lonely.

There is no barrier! You don't need to overthink this. Walkable cities third spaces etc., all great — but literally just go out and interact with people you can do it today many people do it to great success!
by nickpinkston | 2026-01-15 22:47:12+00:00
Yea, this is like the early railroads making steel cheaper via cheaper transport of bulk ore/coal, that made cheaper railroads, that then ship more products made of steel to larger markets opened by the extended rail networks, etc.

This happened with tin all the way back in the Bronze Age, where a lot of it was shipped as ingots from industrial-scale mines / smelters in Cornwall all the way to the Mediterranean empires to mix with copper to make Bronze.

A cog-based auto-catalytic wood industry is super interesting.
by bradlys | 2026-01-15 22:47:18+00:00
This comment will get buried in the sea of individual responses here since I am too late. But for the dumpster divers, here is my contribution!

1. People have obscenely high standards for social interaction. If this person is not an outlier (in a good way) with their behaviors, it's just not going to happen. Most people have a very low tolerance for new people in their life. This has always existed to some degree but people today much prefer to listen to endless content from their favorite streamers, comedians, etc. and form parasocial relationships.

2. The environment for interacting with people has much higher stakes. Think about all the people who get recorded and posted on TikTok every single day. These are people doing it where you can see it - not just the Meta glasses people who remove the recording light. You can act like being a weirdo has no consequences but everyone has this extremely powerful device that can broadcast whatever you do to billions of people immediately - and you can suffer real consequences from this. Every crashout you have in any kind of crowd will be posted for eternity so that the world can see.

3. There is less and less benefit to having social networks/friends. Your friends aren't going to help you get a job, buy you a house, or meet your spouse. Meeting a spouse through friends is increasingly rare as online dating is dominating. As much as everyone complains, it is the major way people meet their spouse in major cities. People assume this is because friend networks are getting smaller but it's not due to that. It's because standards for interaction within friend groups has changed and standards for partners has changed. Unless you are prolific top 1% social maximizer, you are not going to run into anywhere near enough eligible people in your social network to meet your maximized match. We expect to completely maximize and find the best possible fit for our spouse now. Compromise of any kind is considered worse than dying alone. Cost of housing has exploded, jobs have become very hard to keep/find, and this turns everything into a transaction. Living with friends and kicking them out when they can't make rent is a tough but very real situation. People are more transactional because the economy dictates its necessities. Your family is the only thing that will bail you out - your friends can't overlook you skipping $2000/month in rent for 6 months.

There is more but anyway - loneliness epidemic is not going to get solved. It will continue to get worse until some kind of revolution which would require a complete reworking of our entire economy. I would accept this as the new normal and try to figure out how you can optimize your own individual experience in spite of all these things that are working against you. It is not worth trying to fight it on a systemic scale because there are simply too many components and the core cause is one our entire economy is based around. (A good investment is inherently counter to affordability)
by jakewins | 2026-01-15 22:47:44+00:00
Sorry I don’t follow. Why would the taxes need to be spent offsetting anything? The carbon reduction already happened, because the taxes made this auction choose lower emission alternatives.

If you then also spend the taxes on some form of offsets (if we pretend for the sake of argument that those work) you would have reduced emissions twice. One time seems plenty to say they are doing their job.
by hairofadog | 2026-01-15 22:47:46+00:00
> the left thinks that the right wants a power grab to stop left from coming back

It would probably help if Trump didn't fantasize about this publicly all the time

> the right thinks that if they don't keep their power now, the left will take it and keep it using immigrants

The left will "take it" by being elected, if they are in fact elected. That's the extremist threat the right is worried about?

What does "keep it using immigrants" mean?
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-15 22:48:38+00:00
Predominantly, rejecting all priors and aggressively maintaining an open mind, reading a lot as a child, intentionally deferring the formation of concrete opinions about things until I was on my own and able to guide my own hand.

This was necessary because I was raised by two major conservatives, in rural, conservative areas, surrounded by racists and sexists, my computer use and reading materials were surveilled and restricted, I was only allowed to listen to approved Christian music, I couldn't really even choose my own clothes, shoes or hairstyles. My belongings were regularly searched and my school administrators and teachers were always looped into the surveillance circle, alerting my grandparents and school administrators and punishing me if I so much as drew a stick figure holding nunchaku or dared journal about my experiences.

There was a very aggressive and invasive attempt to brainwash me and the only thing I could think to do was wait until I was on my own, and learn everything from scratch. This began at 16, when I became homeless after refusing to enter Confirmation as a Catholic (I am atheist). My grandparents kicked me out and stole/broke most of my things. My mom was too busy doing drugs and not working to support me.

I read a lot of philosophy and studied various topics. This has helped immensely with forming a foundation for my morality, sense of ethics and motivation. I still battle with a lot of internal demons stemming from my childhood and disorders including ADHD, and I can get extremely depressed, and I've burned out a couple times, but I just devote myself to my work and studies and get by. My brother, on the other hand, turned into a domestic abuser, which tracks considering his large role in the violence I experienced growing up.

It's clear to me that intentionality was the defining factor in escaping most of the traumatic cycles present in my family tree, including drug addiction, violence and crime (as an example, my mom is currently in prison for abusing a mentally-handicapped quadriplegic)
by anon84873628 | 2026-01-15 22:48:55+00:00
I also lament the landscapes covered by solar panels. Even deserts are not dead barren ecosystems. Some of these installs are only slightly better than paving the whole area.

But I get it, and tradeoffs are necessary.

Another reason China may prefer this to more concentrated nuclear power is that is is much more distributed and resilient to targeted attacks.
by m463 | 2026-01-15 22:48:58+00:00
- darn tough socks https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000XG34G8

merino wool, always good temp and dry winter or summer

- fiskars shop scissors https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VYOISU

cuts through stuff forever, easily, no slip etc

- 3-in-1 cables https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R3R7QDL

(various brands) these make travel easy

You can also do 4-in-1 with usb-a/usb-c
by mtmail | 2026-01-15 22:49:05+00:00
Long discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950

If a company gives away their product for free (open source) and tries to upsell users to a pro version on their documentation pages. And if AI answers user questions and users no longer have to browse the documentation pages. Then the company will likely make less money.

I don't know if the company needed 4 software developers, they were working on a big new release, but revenue projections were down and the business long-term not sustainable anymore. A brand new company might be much more conservative hiring. A company with bigger teams more exposed.