skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why anybody would want to switch?

Why would a Twitter user switch to Mastodon or Bluesky or micro blogging, either on a shared public instance or on a personal instance?

Why would anyone think of making a new Twitter or a new LinkedIn in 2015? (actually, it's not new, it's different because of the different premise: not a single private platform controlled by whoever owns it, but several cooperating platforms through a common protocol).

Why would a Ford driver switch to a bicycle? Because while the infrastructure has not adjusted yet, it's a more sustainable, human-sized, city/neighbourhood-sized transportation tool (which, while it does not cover 100% of the cases, depending on the situation, can cover 50/80% of those), and it gives, not more power (that's irrelevant) but much more direct control about what you can do with it, where you can go.

So in short: it cannot start differently than as a niche thing.

> if a critical mass switches over, what would prevent it from having the same kind of people and behaviour?

Hosting instances policies and moderation. Much like Mastodon does already.

The actual value/service of LinkedIn is not in the data they have (it could be as well stored in a distributed database, such as the open web could be understood as). It's in how they operate/categorize/filter/report over it (their algorithms), and how they brand under their authority (which some take as some guarantee, which they are even happy to pay to).
Max Removing the Original Looney Tunes Shorts Is an Act of Cultural Vandalism
Haiku OS gets Nvidia Turing+ 3D acceleration
Mine is too old to test the claim, but knowing that it has at least three microphones on board, It'd be absurd if Apple didn't implement it.
They list M2 devices. M3 is just not supported by Asahi Linux, so not being listed is just orthogonal to if M3 has any mics like this.

MacOS has its own software deep within the system for handling this; it's only exposed as a normal microphone to application software.
Rubik's Cube speed-solving.
This is sort of a feature that allows for restricted shells such as menu systems.
I hate that this reads a bit like some of the LinkedIn posts in my feed.
It's not just about avoiding the US out of anger; it's more about preventing US companies from having too much control over their citizens and daily lives. By focusing on open-source solutions, whether American or not, it should serves their purpose. They can move all packages to a EU server, and manage it more directly this way

Thats what I belive but im no expert especially on the law, but I dont see an issue with US opensource unless the EU straight up penalizing any technology thats developed in the US, which Id doubt they would do.
Show HN: I built ZoneHero, managed load balancing that minimises costs in AWS
Hi HN,

I've been working on ZoneHero for the past year after being frustrated with the high costs of running load balancers across multiple Availability Zones in AWS. If you've managed large-scale applications on AWS, you've likely noticed that cross-AZ data transfer can become unpleasantly expensive.

ZoneHero is a managed control plane for load balancing that runs Envoy proxies (which run in your VPC, we maintain them) with a custom cross-AZ load balancing algorithm. The key difference from AWS ALB is that ZoneHero only crosses AZ boundaries when necessary, automatically directing traffic to instances in the same AZ when possible. This reduces cross-AZ data transfer to almost nothing, directly cutting your AWS bill.

I built this because at my previous job managing large AWS infrastructure, our load balancing costs seemed incompressible: cross-AZ traffic was always going to cost us even more than the ELB itself.

The product is very developer-centric: we provide a terraform provider and a CLI to interact with our API. There's no fancy UI, logs go to S3, and metrics to CloudWatch. You pay only for what you use (LCU-based + costs of running the proxy nodes).

Being a SaaS product, I can't offer a sign-up free experience, but integration with the AWS Marketplace should make it as painless as possible to get started.

I'd love feedback from the HN community, especially if you're running large-scale services on AWS and have been hit by surprising cross-AZ charges.

PS: I hope you appreciate the absence of cookies, and therefore cookie-banner, on the website.
It's not at all weird. Christianity is the cool new thing in Silicon Valley, apparently[0].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426885
>Once the environment is ready, many people can invent on the shoulders of their predecessors.

Correct. The electric bulb had at least 12 inventors and radio communication at lest 3 inventors.
I really hate this take because it implicitly ignores the baseline murderous-ness of the systems and situations these leaders inherit. Nelson Mandela wasn't gonna rise to the top of the pile in 1920s Russia.

Furthermore, the people who underpin various states and societies (and the cultures and movements that shape them) do ultimately choose who rules them. Leaders only have freedom of action within the window of what their political capitol affords them. The people, or even just the ones that call the shots (this should be a familiar concept if you've ever seen a TV show centered around a medieval royal family) very much do set that window. Grant and Eisenhower's "failure" to thoroughly exploit conquered territory would have made them unsuitable for further leadership in antiquity for that matter yet they were both more or less instantly elevated by the existing power structure and elected to the highest office.
Well, many of us take an LLM's outputs at face value, don't we?

Also, I don't claim to have any answers, but I found some insights about literacy (vs pre-literate orality) in Walter Ong's work "The Written Word". Maybe it'll spark some ideas in your mind as well.

The main tl;dr from Ong's work IMHO is that Literacy is a Technology, and every technology entices us to give up certain strengths and conveniences for other strengths and conveniences. Humanity bought into the power of the written word wholesale, but words can be hijacked to manipulate people (by LLMs, by Yarvin, etc.) at scale.
That you are comparing Rickover's nuke program to Tesla and SpaceX kind of illustrates the cultural gap. Anyone at SpaceX ever get jailed for whatever reason his/her boss dreamed up off hand? Any analog to Skipjack at Tesla?

Think about that, today, Tesla and SpaceX are "tough" environments to people.

It's kind of a sign that a lot of people today have no idea how things worked back then. We will definitely have trouble bringing those environments back.
I am neurodivergent. Yet, this website (while well-intentioned) feels chaotic, offering too many things (I bet the author is neurodivergent as well :)). So, instead of doing something from the TODO, I want to give the professor mode a try.

In any case, I saw quite a few time something "expanding the list". Usually it works less than anything that actually asks you on the next step - in this case, my go-to are recent LLM models. For example, it split "take out the trash" into 8 steps - quite a lot of detail, even for an autist.
Show HN: I built a hyperlocal garden almanac
It's just really-hard-to-access NOAA data organized by zip code. I was tired of "your last frost date is X" with no nuance.
This is a great use for LLMs because anywhere that they can get someone over the activation energy requirement of the blank page effect, it's okay if they're wrong – it's much easier to correct a wrong broken-down list than start it oneself.
That is the case, but practically this entire comment section is about how the usual dating apps suck. GP was commenting about how they hoped they could build a better app, and I was pointing out an issue that is likely to keep it from being successful.
Some pics:
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/uploads/default/original/2X/7/7...
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6...
I always prefer headset too, but I did find it striking how good the audio quality of the built in mic was compared to headset when I tried it once..
Maybe they're doing something new, but beamforming microphone arrays can be found in just about any brand of laptop if you go high end enough.

I do think most such devices will present themselves as less capable than they actually are (I.E. just a stereo input) for maximum OS compatibility, but the technique isn't Apple exclusive as far as I know.
Germany is still occupied by US without a formal peace treaty, hence de facto.
We're not hiring at the moment.
I'm not sure what your point was. Are you contesting the numbers she cites?
When seL4’s proof was published, people regarded seL4 to be flawless software and the fact that a problem in the specification would lead to issues was largely disregarded.

Now that it is clear that the specification has had
problems, seL4 should not be considered issue free, since there is no proof that its specification is issue free and there is proof that its authors made a nonzero number of mistakes.

Anyone minimizing the impact of this flaw by saying “the specification was at fault here” completely misunderstands why the rest of the industry thought highly about these techniques in the first place. They had promised to produce flaw free software. Now that it is clear that is not true, the level of confidence the industry places in these techniques naturally needs to be adjusted. We cannot ignore the massive caveat of the specification needing to be flaw free anymore.
Study finds soccer teams move as though they are a single person
"relational concepts are sneered at"

Someday I will write that blog article about how the Apple II computer is responsible for ORMs and the gender imbalance in software.
LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and is now integrated into Outlook and Office. It might suck, but it has VAST reach.
I run a large test suite daily (~30000) meant for MI300 on my local 7900. I don't keep track of fails outside of a specific few tests that I'm interested in but in general I get about 70-80% passing.
Microsoft insisted on bug report with video. Researcher maliciously complied
In a just world they would be in prison for their horrendous harmful actions. I'm not going to lose sleep because an article wasn't kind to them.
You seem to harp on this every single time Rickover is brought up, but I'll make two points:

I can't find evidence of that call anywhere but your single cited source, and that source does not cite it.

He immediately completely overhauled procedures to prevent a reoccurrence of what they thought the most likely issue with the plant, if it did cause the sinking.
Discussion (418 points, 13 hours ago, 340 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43457666
So, perhaps not for MS, then, either, if one has had mobility issues for years. :(
For reference I am not seeing any properties/apps from 3 of my 8 "accounts" (I think of them as folders) which means I'm missing 15 properties/apps.
Show HN: Bitbucket DLP by Polymer
Hey HN,

I wanted to share this resource for Bitbucket, as it is has:

- Low-code set up
- Pre-built policy templates (HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, CCPA)
- Flexible policy generator (200+ options)
- Context mapping
- Automatic detection of PII, passwords, and more exposed in codebases and repositories
- Customizable warnings when unauthorized users have access to sensitive data
- Risk scores and dashboards
- Usage logs and suspicious activity reports
- Knowledge graph
- API

Best,
Zack
You type faster with your mouse than keyboard?
My favourite is that humanity had fire, baskets, ropes and silk by 3500 BCE, but it took thousands of years before anyone combined them into a hot air balloon.

We could have been flying in the neolithic period.
So why is the quality and reliability of Tesla products so bad compared to competitors? From an outside perspective it seems like Tesla engineers are generally lazy and incompetent, at least relative to an organization like Naval Reactors which maintains much higher standards.
It would have been bootstrapped in assembly (or B/BCPL?) and then once you can compile enough C to write a C compiler you rewrite your compiler in C.

I remember a Computerphile video where prof. Brailsford said something along the lines of "nobody knew who wrote the first C compiler, everybody just kinda had it and passed it around the office" which I think is funny. There's some sort of analogy to life and things emerging from the primordial soup there, if you squint hard enough.
SuSE is the obvious choice, and I'm surprised that some European Linux developers aren't aware of this. They don't mention it at all on the linked "Goals" page.
> ...because, its obviously not any better than the 'tool use' API that everyone was already using

I don't think that's true, but even if it's not, there's such a thing as being too early to market, and that a very similar product just launched later is a success when the original isn't. There are some differences; it's like how FTP is different from HTTP but also it isn't.
A related article from two years ago that noted the beginning of the investigation: https://phys.org/news/2022-12-complex-life.html

Article in the journal Cell: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00254-5 (One of the shorter titles for journal that I have seen.)
Biggest thing is you need a nice mic that's very close to your face, like you might see on a twitch stream. Good noise isolation via a directional mic off-camera is quite difficult/expensive apparently.
The point is that the in theory, workers receive above living wage, even though the company pays below, because they also get paid by the government. (I'm arguing for the theory; in the US it's not true, but also in the US even minimum wage is below living).

However, tax breaks sound better.

I worry that requiring companies to hire disabled workers, instead of just making it profitable to do so, would cause more workers to be abused. Every method has some abuse from bad actors, but a requirement specifically influences companies who wouldn't hire disabled workers even if they could assign zero tasks to them and financially benefit.
Seems perfectly reasonable, given the prompt.
The built-in microphone is actually excellent, I often use it even when I have my AirPods Pro in because the sound quality is so much better

If you've got headphones with a wraparound microphone on its own arm then it could be better, but everyday headphones are limited by the position of the microphone
IRS Predicts Doge Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
This is why I tend to phrase it as an "event horizon" rather than a "singularity" (well, this and to avoid the baggage).

There's always been some stuff we can't forecast, and some other stuff we can forecast kinda OK-ish. If you'd asked people from 11000 BPE if the sun would still be rising and crops would still be grown today, I suspect the biggest difficulty would be finding someone who really understood the meaning of the number used to express the number of years between then and now — even a "big city" back then would have been order of 1k-2k people.

But I say "sun" and "crops" because of what I expect to be the limits of their imagination. We see such limits even today — even on Hacker News, look at threads about AI taking over the world, and you will see people discussing AI as if it can only be in the form of existing current LLMs.

So, the question to ask is: how far into the future would you have to take someone from each of those years, before they're shocked by what they encounter? That's my "event horizon", because it's the horizon beyond which you cannot see, even if that horizon is one of inability to predict what specific thing will be invented rather than the general trend-lines going infinite.

The time-gap to a shocking new invention decreases as the rate of progress increases.

Obviously how much some person will be able to forecast and hence not be surprised by, will depend on how much attention they pay to technological developments — and I've seen software developers surprised by Google Translate having an AR mode a decade after the tech was first demonstrated — but there is an upper limit even for people who obsessively consume all public information about a topic: if you're reading about it when you go to sleep, will you be surprised when you wake up by all the overnight developments?

Personally, I've tried making my own forecasts about the future, I'm fairly consistent for the last decade that my models stop making sense around 2032. But even with that consistency, I could only see ChatGPT coming when InstructGPT was shown off in a Two Minute Papers video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=PmxhCyhevMY&t=4m...) and the rate of change of Transformer and Diffusion models has continued to surprise me.

(I also didn't predict how severely YouTube would be stuffed with adverts, but that's more of a cultural shift — everyone gets all "kids these days" as they get older, why would I be any different?)
Thank you for the answers! I use GPG to sign, too, and authenticate with SSH (but with my GPG key that has an A subkey through gpg-agent).
This in my opinion is the fundamental problem where because LLMs work on a computer there is an assumption of correctness in surprising ways. In reality, when you mix a deterministic system and a probabilistic system you always get a probabilistic system.
Whose credit card details are being used in this scenario?
> But more to the point, you seem to be under the impression that Americans benefit on a personal level from our country's global empire. We really don't.

I am routinely puzzled at the simple ignorance of U.S. citizens decrying the benefits of being the global hegemon:

- global reserve currency: lower borrowing rates, allows us to set economic norms

- massive military and power projections: maintains stability and provides influence wherever it's deployed

- US culture: opens up the world market to US art and culture, all of which redounds to the benefit of industries and consumers inside the US.

These benefits extend to all our allies and generally created an epoch of peace unlike any that existed before (this is including all the wars the US elected to engage in).

You may not like all of the particulars (who would?), but there is no question US citizens are richer for our global power and reach.

>These people don't look like they're living in the epicenter of the world's most powerful and influential empire. It does not matter to them if Europe buys up the new f-47 or whatever.

They may not appreciate how much the military-industrial complex benefits them not, but I think they will experience directly how it had helped when the market is gone.
Are you a Christian?
Marx particularly (ironically?) hated it.
> Aside from what I called out in my sibling comment these two are pretty snide to me

- "Snide" is subjective.
- It's a blog post not a news article or scholarly report.
- The topic is a business run by people who ostensibly make decisions based on their faith to justify actions which cause various harm to others. Taking a critical view of those actions and the motivations is reasonable.
I was talking to someone who worked at McKinsey and they told me about the pains that the consulting group took to assure everyone that they were the "best and the brightest." That everyone working there was brilliant — assuredly. And they'd stand around, gassing each other up and sharing these stats... "Top 3% of their graduating class!!!"

If you've watched Game of Thrones (before it lost the plot), you might be aware of the moment where one of the characters turns around to a petulant, teen tyrant-king and says, "Any man who must say, 'I am the King,' is no true king." I think that statement rings true for McKinsey and the obsession a lot of companies have with "hiring the best."

Admiral Rickover was a true king; i.e., the opposite. He didn't hire the "best." No, he hired people with extraordinary potential and then worked with them to develop their potential.

The theater with the chair and his hiring practises were filters to find people with agency whom he could teach how to be capable and smart. I wonder what the modern equivalent is today.

Side note, almost exactly a year ago (~51 weeks), I edited together a video of him talking about how there aren't any extraordinary people waiting to be hired; https://x.com/1517fund/status/1775253578916974606
The bulk of this discussion could feature prominently in a museum of Internet trolling.

An unsolved problem of Internet discussions is that, for a variety of reasons, those with poor literacy and weak background knowledge are overrepresented in the comments (and responses to them may dominate, as well, since such posts tend to act as flame bait at best, and as very-effective classical trolling at worst) and that's something HN struggles with ordinarily, but this particular thread is really something special.
I don't know about HN in particular, but I do feel like religions have significantly boosted their online proselytizing in the last 5-10 years.

My suspicions:

* The normie barrier has continued to lower, so more traditional and progress-reluctant religious people are now connected to social media.

* Some sects may be intentionally targeting online communities, just like they target IRL communities for converts. Beliefs that don't require a devotion of forcing the belief itself upon others will naturally fade into the background. Beliefs that don't claim to solve your problems will also fade into the background.

* Social media algorithms prefer religious posts. Religious posts often invoke some sort of emotional response. Religions are some of the oldest memes after all.

All of this is just a gut feeling based on the religious material I've been exposed to on the web. I think it's fairly consistent with how religions have spread throughout history. Secularism is squashed unless you specifically fight for it, which itself may require a kind of religious fervor.

This is possibly the natural result of any human community growing large enough. There will be those who ask unanswerable questions, and there will be those who have the answers to those questions. Those who need order, and those who need to order.
Find a Model
What killed it was being able to link and share to content that isn't your own,as soon as you could do that, people repost dumb shit. I don't know how you would enforce rules around without killing linking and sharing entirely though. Proving you own a domain or github repo works for developers but that's not something the broader population knows or cares to do.
"How do you manage 100 people in a monolith?"

Assign the monolith to 5 of them then find something productive for the other 95 people to do.
The three-mic array is also found in Intel-based Retina MacBooks, so this might also be useful for proper audio support on that older hardware. (Some early Retina MacBook Pros have a two-mic array only, but most have the full three-mic array.)
No surprise there. Trump is opposed to anything that might get in the way of corporate profits. Since he loves renaming things so much, perhaps he should rename the EPA to the Enterprise Protection Agency.
I’m trying to understand why this is still on the front page? It doesn’t appear on topic for tech and there’s clearly a flame war developing in the comments.
> At the beginning of a movement when nothing can really be done yet you mostly only attract zealots.

I would say they are not zealots but power hungry people who enjoy clout and power. They adopt the movements ideology like a uniform - something to wrap one self in to signal others - and become the zealot like an actor becomes a character. I am sure many dont even care about the ideology, as long as it gives them more than the other guy. Many of them feel that they are better than others so they should be in charge. I knew people like that, control freaks who want everything in their life to work the way they want it to by controlling the actions of those around them - bending others to build their world. No thanks.
Let's name "they". It was Trump via DOGE.