skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many concurrent users can you run off a single NVMe SSD?

How many students leave their coursework to the last minute?

How do you explain that the server went down during the last hour before submission deadline again, and that everyone gets an extension again, because you cheaped out on putting the cheapest possible storage into a system that has to cope with large demand at peak times?

How many students now start to do worse because of the anxiety caused by these repeated outages?

How much more needs to be invested in the university counselling services to account for this uptick in students struggling?
if you want to go no-build (i.e. SPA without nodejs and npm), then your options are limtied to Vue and Alpine
This love and reverence to "privacy" is not at all a majority opinion or, at the very least, not at all held by everyone. That is where I think a lot of the HN cohort goes wrong, as a lot of us see no problem with violating privacy (if that is even happening) in this way for this purpose of solving problems and reducing waste. The rest is just media hype.
It’s a creative work, so in most jurisdictions it’d be subject to copyright and unusable without licensing or the creator explicitly using a license like CC0 that allows free onward reproduction and reworking.
Sure, I get that having a profit-motive is one way the market can incentivize efficiency. But without the ability for any real competition (i.e. there will only ever be one set of main transmission wires or water pipes for an area, we won’t ever have two completely distinct physical competitor networks serving the same identical addresses) does that still hold?

For a private company in sole ownership of a utility, how does the market keep the incentive to cost-cut (i.e. increase profit by reducing expenditures on things like timely customer service or deferring capex) in check versus actually improving service and efficiency above “it still works” ? It’s not like any individual could choose another provider of electricity, so therefore it’s not much of a market at all.

What is the motive to do anything other than rent-seek without a competitor to incentivize them to improve?

At least municipal and state leaders have some sort of accountability in that they could get voted out if it’s going wrong on their watch. Meanwhile PG&E was rewarding its shareholders by raising rates and deferring maintenance for paying out high dividends rather than re-investing in itself, which seems like exactly the opposite thing the public would want to incentivize.
I believe you are misreading the news.

Fidelity was not part of the banks that sold their loans. Also it was a partial sale. The banks that sold their loans at just under their original valuation and profited, apparently. Original source reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/banks-sell-down-55-...

> At 97 cents, it is likely they sold at a profit, he added.

I would guess that the 3 cents loss on the loan value still results in profit due to payments which amounted to more than 3 cents + loan expenses.

Fidelity did write down their loan tremendously, but in October they increased it a bit. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fidelity-boosts-valuations-st...

I don't agree with parent that xitter is worth what he paid for it, far from it. EBIDTA isn't the whole story. But things do look better than a few months ago. So far I haven't seen a viable contender for a xitter replacement. I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm actually rooting for Threads.
>Even during election night his approval rating was only 46%, the supposed peak of honeymoon.

I would advise you that pollsters have quite literally never managed to accurately measure him, so poll numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. One reason the Democrats lost is because they assumed the polls were usefully accurate.

>Well "take down the treasury" was defiitely not part of his campaign.

It is, broadly speaking. Trump is continuing his "Drain the swamp!" promise from 2016 in addition to pressing for efficiency in government which is all-encompassing. No part of the Executive Branch, of which the Treasury Department is a direct subordinate to the President, is off limits save for Social Security, et al. as mentioned.

If the House actually works together with Trump on this, then truly no part of government is safe except for Social Security, et al..

>He mostly focused on lowering grocery prices and ending inflation based on my conversations with everyman republicans

Indeed, that was the biggest reason for his victory and hopefully we will see all that brought to fruition soon along with all the other things.

>cutting defense spending (unthinkable)

The Pentagon apparently never passed a financial audit in recent history, which is patently indefensibly ridiculous. It should get investigated thoroughly and the defense budget appropriately slashed in due course. They are not (should not be) safe because the only things Trump promised to not touch were Social Security, et al..

If this leads to NATO and other "allies" whining something fierce, well I don't really care. I'm honestly tired of subsidizing other countries' defense budgets when they clearly don't appreciate it.

If the Military Industrial Complex whines, I really don't care.
What's your relationship with Quanxing Technology?
Computers are "reasoning" in the same sense they have a "heartbeat".
> Also, the slip rings capable of passing high current to an electromagnet rotor are expensive and less robust than permanent magnets.

The new designs are all inductively coupled, i.e. they have a rotating transformer coil built into the shaft. No brushes, no slip rings.
Vague clickbaity headline to... a login page.
It probably is, but you won't hear it advertised as such.
I was surprised how good txt works on mobile with reader mode!
Germans never really liked nuclear power from the start, all NPPs drew massive local opposition that was by far not just the back-then new Green Party.
Usually code that is straightforward but requires you to look up a few things in the standard library docs. For example error handling with fetch in JavaScript.
Isn't that just promotional pricing under an awkward alternate name?
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Or if a government funding bill threatens it.
In my experience a lot of the difference in performance of Windows vs Linux in programs which are designed for Linux is in the file system. Linux is really good at handling a bazillion tiny files. Windows is really not. I'm sure that in bulk both systems are roughly as fast, but when loads of small files get involved Linux absolutely smokes windows.
Do your snippets write this kind of boilerplate?

https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/commit/34862739f6fe9...

I may have tweaked a couple of things in that (and refactored a hell of a lot since) but here's a Python script that I definitely did not write a single line of code:

https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/blob/main/tools/gene...

Embedding things into C is nothing new of course but I spent about 45 seconds getting the solution I needed:

https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/blob/main/src/server...

All of this is just boilerplate.

I spent most of my mental energies with this project on the grammar, the memory architecture, and fitting all of the pieces together. Cursor and Claude did most of the typing.

Keep in mind I'm iterating over the grammar and making rather large changes in the runtime all the while:

https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/commit/54efbb50c2e95...

FWIW, pipelines ended up being implemented like this:

https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/blob/main/src/server...

And used in this very simple example like:

website {
port 3445
database "postgresql://localhost/express-test"
api {
route "/api/v1/team"
method "GET"
pipeline {
jq { { sqlParams: [.query.id] } }
sql { SELECT * FROM teams WHERE id = $1 }
jq { { data: (.data[0].rows | map({id: .id, name: .name})) } }
}
}
}
Yes. I cannot comprehend this to this day. A model weights data + runner is how different from a closed source executable? Why do everyone call these open source?
SaaS vendors are insane these days.

some really dark patterns: block purchases (for ex. you can only buy 100 licenses, not 49 or 52), mandatory "upgrade" for security features like SSO, mandatory licenses for people signing up for accounts that you didn't specifically ask for, and the worst is asking for the "enterprise" plan (with egregious minimum license counts, even if you just use 50) in order to control / admin accounts (so you can audit for exited employees, etc).

the pattern is usually like you said, someone tries a tool for $10/month, and then gets their team on it, which let's say is 10 people. not bad. Then it gets out on the grapevine and other teams want to try - goes to 50 people ok still ok.

but then the sass vendor start using dark patterns and all of a sudden you're getting a bill for 1000 accounts (sorry, can't sell you any less!) at the "enterprise" price of $100/account/month.

and now you're fighting with the sass company to actually disable accounts of people who left instead of just keeping it "greyed out" but still visible, you just can't log in and can't control it ....
It's a mathematical certainty. Let me introduce it another way: the government imposes a 40% sales tax and then distributes the resulting revenue evenly as UBI, however much it is.

Do you still have concerns about the program not covering the UBI budget?

Aside from that, wealth follows a power law, so the rich guys do spend a lot. They have some very fancy champagne. I also elsewhere mentioned that the consumption value of land ownership (the equivalent rent) should be included in the sales tax, so that will be quite a substantial redistributionary force.
> Why can't Musk replace him?

Because, like Trump, he values loyalty above all else? That's the reason why he reinstated that other guy who resigned after his extreme-right social media posts were unearthed (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/musk-doge-st...). That's also the reason why Trump pardoned all January 6 rioters, even those convicted of violent crimes. If it's his people vs. some random cops, he will always favor his people.
> The result will be less efficient but more featureful, more polished

Not sure about polished. Just see the Atlassian wasteland: lot of features, I'm sure huge and numerous teams. Ages to load a page or anything. Multiple API documentations depending on what you need. The integration between tools is mostly random. "Simple" feature asked for a decade ago never got implemented.
Both can be true at the same time.

That said, utility companies have a duty to properly maintain infrastructure, and this is an easier problem to fix. There are a few companies working on this, such as Gridware (https://www.gridware.io).
Hardly made much difference after all. Those saved from being part of a blood sacrifice tribute later died in droves as victims of the new diseases. With hindsight, it's more a question of which sort of death, and the likelihood of it happening would have been preferable.
I would definitely blame an arsonist for starting a fire
If you want politics to be elegant, try Bhutan.
I Blog with Raw Txt
I suspected eastdigital drives were dodgy. Lucky I resisted the cheap prices
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42997896
I was fascinated by electricity, chemistry, firecrackers, rockets and hotrods as a boy. It is a miracle I survived. My dad told me that God looks out for little boys, as otherwise they would not make it to adulthood.
Not to defend the brutal fanaticism of 15th century catholicism in Europe and the new colonies, but you should read in depth about the sheer scale of Aztec blood sacrifice. It put the Inquisition to shame with its savagery and quantities of victims.
tesla.sexy contains the following text, which is slightly concerning:

love your fate

become your own ubermensch

you are the master of your soul

be kind

there is so much to love, so much to live for

follow your heart, ok?
Sure. Help me out by showing me how I did that.
This is great, I was thinking of creating something similar for a map-based events project. Is there an API to create events? From what I saw you can only read/list events? If possible, I'd like to incorporate this into my app, when a venue/organiser creates an event, for it to also go to OpenStreetMap Calendar.
Why did you bring such negativity to this thread? "Either one of my two rude statements is true!"

Who asked?
Chatgpt can do that as well.
Windows NT was supposed to be a modernized VMS (And legend has VMS+1=WNT, each letter individually…) - and given a face similar to Win 3.1 (and then 95/98/Me and then they were unified in XP)

It has a lot of the VMS features, and most of them are unused or effectively only used by malware (e.g. alternate file streams).

I did not get a chance to use VMS myself, but I did use Unix (and VMS/CMS, and a bunch of other OSes) at a time VAX was still a viable alternative even for greenfield projects.

My impression is that it is sort of like J/K/APL - powerful, compact, coherent, got almost everything right from a technical standpoint - but not friendly, feels foreign, and not liked by anyone who has ever used a Unix, or Windows, or a Mac - which is 99% of the relevant population since about 1985.

(Added): Macs also had multiple file streams (“forks”). It doesn’t anymore, for many reasons, but the chief one is interoperability. Less is more, worse is better.
Yeah? Like in a normal text editor?

Please write:

echo "12345789"

and insert the missing number without deleting the already existing numbers in a vanilla (non-emacs, non-vim) terminal. In nearly every other editable text field people know well in their lived (including the one you typed in for this comment) you can move your cursor to the middle of a sentence and insert text with a mouse click or the left/right arrow key.

And before someone suggest some option to enable this: my comment was about changing the defaults.
Yup, I get the economies of scale, hence why I wonder why we don’t use statewide utilities for more rural areas and municipal utilities for denser metro areas that support it (e.g. LADWP for Los Angeles).

But even if you have a private company capitalize on these efficiencies of scale, there’s no competition to force them to do anything other than the bare minimum (“provide this utility, today, above some bare minimum acceptability standard that doesn’t cause the state to nationalize is” with barely an afterthought toward what maintenance capex looks down the line), and even then Edison and PG&E still can’t hop over the low bar they set for themselves.
>I agree that conferences like re:Invent are a waste of time and money on the HN crowd, who are anyway self-motivated continuous learner types.

I assure you, HN has plenty of us stupid, lazy and incompetent people.
The illusion of savings at the expense of productivity. Companies balk at spending $50/month on a tool that would save devs hours per week, only to burn thousands in wasted time. The worst part is that frupidity compounds. Slow laptops don't just waste time, they break flow...
I see markdown for a second every time I load this page; if you say "raw html" at least convert from markdown on the server!
> For example, counter() keeps increments consistent

No, not in the face of any sort of concurrency it doesn't...
I have switched to that for my personal machine too, and it's honestly pretty good. Still working out some kinks but overall I think it's a good idea.

I am on an m3 air though, which is not necessarily a weak machine and can still hold it's own in no-network areas for light work.
This article is about the Eaton fire. Cliff Mass, a Professor of atmospheric science at the university of Washington, stated about a month ago that the Palisades fire was caused by a power transmission line (https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2025/01/where-and-how-did-pal...).

It’ll be really infuriating if it turns out all the biggest California fires were caused by utility issues.
The thing is that the core message is that cost-cutting needs to be smart, not just reflexive
its truly interesting to see this come around full circle from 2023 when i started writing about the role of the AI Engineer, and now this https://www.latent.space/p/gpt-wrappers
An audit means transparency and accountability, neither of which we have here.
> So what am I missing?

Money and resume driven development.

Just being a webmaster integrating a simple design could be done by "anyone" so not paying so well anymore. So came the idea: now we're not doing websites, we're doing webapps. Suddenly fresh-out-of-school engineers can try to implement GUI concepts they vastly misunderstood, but in javascript and limited by the DOM. So that's years of work to maybe get a tenth of the performances of desktop apps: javascript interpreters to optimize, browsers, frameworks and then the apps themselves.

Add the rise of smartphone apps and you even get the excuse of "we made an API for the apps, so why not use it for the frontend".
Do you have any kind of source for such claims?
Classic case of hidden costs that management didn’t factor in
Open Source is a strategy, not a lifestyle
As others mention its not raw HTML, but also the browser is applying styles of it's own - you can't get away from that. Isn't that reason we have CSSS resets so we have a baseline starting point that other browsers have forced upon us.

How long ago were the default CSS rules set for a browser. They should probably change.
Not really.

Less populous can also mean more rural, and that was my point.

You talk about houses in the middle of no-where, and Quebec has that in spades. And it's not expensive, it doesn't cost, it's revenue generating, and not part of the problem.

If Quebec can do it, generate massive profits, and have mega-low rates, and do rural far better than California, then "rural" isn't the issue.
It acknowledges trans people exist. And I put the word "woke" in quotes, because it's stupid and it's not my word.
I have no idea what proportion of Twitter's jobs were necessary or not, but it is DEFINITELY not fine.

From images routinely failing to load, to the current mess of logins that is the dualistic nature of x.com vs twitter.com (where which accts appear logged in fluctuates constantly), to my favorite bug, where it's always stuck in dark mode in mobile browsers...

And that's just technologically. Firing moderators, letting neonazis run rampant, and driving away advertisers and non-nazis...

Honestly, they might as well have brought back the Fail Whale.
It's politically convenient to blame PG&E for what happened in Paradise. But I would not say it's 100% on them; I've been to Paradise before the fire, and it was impressively beautiful being surrounded by all the trees and nature, like living in a forest. But even back then, I remember thinking it was a massive tinder box that could go up in flames. For reference, here is a picture of an average street in a relatively urban part of Paradise, before the fire [1]. The houses farther away from the main street had even more foliage. The area is mostly older retirees, who didn't have the energy/will to trim back the growing unburnt fuel on their (massive plots of) land. For argument's sake, it'd be like surrounding your house with barrels of gasoline, then putting the blame 100% at PG&E for starting the spark. In fairness part of the blame is on the property owners, or perhaps the local gov't for not taking fire safety measures to limit the spread or damage.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/E83WWnYX2pDjXzxY8
I agree that there are moments where the AI "read your mind". Where everything aligns perfectly. I had couple of these and that was magical.
Those comment sections have dates, sometimes even version numbers, and often caveats like "this worked for me, don't know if it will for you" or "it'll work until the next update". During my interactions with LLMs so far none of them offered any if these caveats or specifics about what version of the software this will work in, even when asked explicitly.
> Mostly China doesn’t mine materials but has concentrated the refining capacity

Unless I'm working on old information, this is not correct. The overwhelming majority of neodymium mining capacity is currently in China.

> you’d know they have their own mine:

Sure, but to make a difference from a geopolitical perspective, we need more than that. And I don't see those kind of mines being opened on a large scale anywhere in the west. Regulations are challenging and environmental resistance is significant.
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I've played with JSX a couple of times but not HTMX, and it's been a while since I wrote any Go code (pre-generics, so I've got some reading to do).

I have been looking to slap together a small blog platform, and this sounds like a perfect setup. Thanks, I appreciate the tips.

And yes, I would be honored if you used my analogy! Hopefully it can give some frustrated devs a chuckle and brighten a small part of their day.
Also something that can be tested trivially: tell the contractor you don't need them for a week, then put the machines out of service...and observe.
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This is a bit like saying the 2020 Beirut explosion was 100% caused by the carelessly dropped cigarette (or whatever started the initial burn; nobody knows).

Well yes, in the sense that someone somewhere did something that triggered the cascade of effects that produced the boom. But assigning "100% of the cause" to that individual just lets everyone else in the chain escape blame.

If it isn't PG&E this year, it will be something else next year. Or the year after that. Like the LNU complex, it could be simple lightning.

Which is not to say that PG&E doesn't bear some responsibility, but "100% of the cause" is too reductive.
More exactly, the bus factor = number of people who'd have to be hit by a bus to stop development. So the bigger your bus factor, the more secure your dev.
Compute costs are pretty much the same for high vram cards?
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That's part of the point it's from the software engineering viewpoint of preferring simpler typing systems rather than the academic viewpoint of preferring more complex typing systems.
Just an edit: it was a hypothetical, I meant to write “if I spent my life savings on lottery tickets”. I don’t actually play the lottery.
> I don't see why we should trust OpenAI's promises now, when they've broken promises in the past.

I don't see what "our" trust has to do with anything. Perhaps you're an investor in OpenAI and your trust matters to OpenAI and its plans? But for the rest of us, our trust doesn't matter. It would be like me saying, "I don't see why we should trust Saudi Aramco."
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"Cool. Now we need two work lists."

This is what you should do if you must use globals, but it doesn't really give any advantages.
I think best balance is private company majority or wholly owned by local or higher government. Sadly such companies are easy sells to fund budget shortfalls for year or two. And failures are only seen when those elected are out.
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