skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article focuses a good bit of time on folks who work in marketing and journalism and specifically marketing agencies or print houses. Two things to really note there:

1. In Marketing you are usually either climbing the ladder and moving to management or you are out. No one can afford the experienced but expensive graphic designer, photographer, or writer. The skill-sets are too commoditized. And everyone is always looking for new fresh voices / design ideas. Agencies hire cheaper and younger talent that will put in hellish hours because they don’t know any better and don’t have family commitments. There is basically no one in marketing over 55 unless you are the owner or CMO. High burnout and not a kind career to families.

2. Marketing Agencies are a dime a dozen now and the business model is broken. You used to need a marketing agency to coordinate big media buys or to have access to the right people or equipment and the cost barrier and knowledge barrier to do it yourself was huge. So what you did was hire a really good marketing strategist and then they hired agencies to pitch campaign ideas and handle the production work, but the job moves too fast now to do that. The tools are ever cheaper and ever easier to use. Most companies have brought the bulk of the marketing work they do in house and maybe only work with an agency for a brand refresh or for a big nationally aired ad campaign.

Gen X is hitting the age where you are either executive in creative industries or you are out. Some of that is age discrimination, but some of it is just the reality that there is probably someone younger, cheaper, hungrier, and with fresh ideas looking to do the job.
tall redwoods also drink fog through their face (leaves and bark)
I understand the frustrating with Django progress (and, to be honest, I would like for Django to more agressively upstream stuff).

I'm curious about what he would want to get into Django that feels like he couldn't though. Since this _is_ a fork of Django, he's still gonna hit a lot of issues that people wanting to improve Django hit.

Backwards compat is an issue, but "all of this code within the library is built off of existing assumptions" is _also_ an issue.

If all the improvements could be third party packages, just making plain be a big third party omnipackage that also has a helper to "fix" settings feels like it would go a long way.
Particularly with technical writing, I think you can definitely get away with both.

“How I Reduced My Postgres Query Latency By 100x With A Single Index”

Even in the title, I can tell you the punchline (if you wanna make your DB access faster, use an index!)

but an interested reader still wants to figure out how exactly your solution works, and you can tell them some interesting details along the way

“just enforcing unique constraints does help certain data types, but it’s not a big performance boost most of the time”

while finishing on the kicker

“Since my hottest endpoint by far was for individual users querying orders which were still ongoing, I created an index on the user field for the orders table, and included a status filter in the index, which took p90 latency from 10s to <100ms!”
Well that is a worrying number of reported cases, but I think I know the solution for this. We want to reduce the number of reported cases right, so why don't we, and hear me out on this, why don't we get rid of the CDC? We could have the number of new reported cases down to 0 overnight!

(It's almost sickening that I need to put /s, but these days it seems like a necessity...)
Unfortunately, we could only spare Erdős and Tao. ;)
Capitalism will fall in 2 more weeks comrade, trust the plan
The author discusses these points in the about page, but for me, does not sufficiently address them.

My experience of contributing to Django does not match theirs, and I don't feel this page sufficiently justifies this being a fork. In fact it actually makes me suspect that Plain will/has diverged enough that it won't be able to pull in changes from Django. As a user this would concern me, as Django ships meaningful changes regularly, as well as having a mature approach to security disclosures.

I have disclosed vulnerabilities in Django and they were handled very well and quickly. I actually went to see if Plain was vulnerable to the issue I disclosed, but my issue was around the memcached integration, and it seems Plain has completely removed all caching (except from a database-backed cache), making it in one way less batteries-included than regular Django. This puzzles me, for a project that is all about including more batteries, and as a potential user would lead me to further question the project.
Unmasking a slow and steady password spray attack
A lockfile with 10k lines of deps and bundling a whole-ass Node.js runtime is truly bonkers for a system utility like this. The JavaScript ecosystem exhausts me.
They meant criminally prosecuted, which he was not.
Analyzing Modern NVIDIA GPU cores
> One is that not all of christendom subscribes to the view that it was literally one man, some take a less literal view.

That is such a tiny minority I’ve never even heard of that until now
I usually click through to the repo, and it isn't in the README for some reason. I don't blame GP for missing it. https://github.com/dropseed/plain

Of course, GP would've noticed it's like Django on the web page. The screenshot containing Django-like example code is above the fold, though - the Django mention is below the fold.
At least for myself, words like "clown car" and "moronic" are an exasperated coping mechanism that comes from repeatedly trying to engage, but only ever getting whataboutist responses that sidestep answering any of the actual criticisms. And on many topics, this often includes criticisms in terms of the values that supporters claim to hold dear.

Or alternatively, I could understand if your concern with Elevidys was so glaringly bad as to drive single-issue support (and then it would strike me as worth it to actually investigate), but your "raises questions" wouldn't seem to indicate that either.
Hostinger Account Suspension and Data Loss Cost Us $200k
We want to warn everyone about our horrible experience with Hostinger, a so-called "managed hosting" service that completely failed to protect our server, falsely accused us of phishing, suspended our account without proof, and refused to provide any data backup, leading to a massive financial loss of over $200,000.

Here’s What Happened:
We were using Hostinger under the assumption that, as a managed hosting provider, they were responsible for securing the server and ensuring its integrity. However, without any prior warning or investigation, our account was abruptly suspended for alleged phishing activity.

We had no idea about any phishing attack. We never engaged in such activities, and if our server was compromised, it was their responsibility to prevent it.

Instead of helping us secure the server, they accused us and immediately took down everything.

They refused to provide proof of the alleged phishing attack, despite multiple requests.

They denied us access to our own data, even for non-suspended domains, which is completely unacceptable.

This sudden suspension caused irreversible damage to our business, resulting in financial losses exceeding $200,000.

Why This is a Serious Issue:
Managed hosting means the provider is responsible for security – If a phishing attack happened, it should have been detected and mitigated by them, not used as an excuse to take down an entire account.

No proof was provided – We repeatedly asked them to show us evidence that we were responsible for phishing, but they ignored our requests.

Data loss is catastrophic – Losing all our data without warning, with no access to backups, has crippled our operations. A responsible hosting provider would at least allow users to retrieve their own data.

This could happen to anyone – If they can do this to us, they can do it to any customer, shutting down accounts arbitrarily and refusing to return essential data.

Final Warning to Other Businesses:
If you are using Hostinger or considering them, BEWARE. This company will suspend your account without proof, block your access to critical business data, and refuse to provide backups, leading to devastating losses. DO NOT TRUST THEM WITH YOUR BUSINESS.

We are taking legal action against them for this negligence and urge others who have faced similar issues to speak up. If you’re running a serious business, choose a reliable hosting provider that actually protects your data instead of destroying it.

Has anyone else faced something similar? Let’s expose these irresponsible practices before more businesses suffer.

Ticket ID: #225645
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

I think maybe they have access to a large dataset, rather than that they have captured it themselves.

I'm not sure we have enough knowledge of how the thought works to understand thought from images. They may just as well be encoding the pixels and thinking they are reading what the brain understands.
Isn't X more profitable than Twitter was?
I also live in a sunny country (Texas). But still I have "sun tubes"[0] in my house.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=sun+tube
Is this start-up actually measuring the brain's ability to understand the context or even memory of an image? I don't believe so, we don't have the core understanding of how thoughts work in order to base our understanding on how thought relates to electrical signals.

We can train a robotic arm to move based on our triggering electrical signals via neurofeedback, but that is a very different proposition.

I've recently suggested that we, as humans, apply our understanding of the world to our understanding of how our physiology/biology works. When we understood pumps, we said "the heart is a pump, and it carries blood and oxygen, etc etc". Then, when we learned about electricity, we slapped our collective foreheads and thought "of course! it's electric!!"

I believe we will discover a further layer and how we can apply quantum to our understanding of how thought works, but I think we'll need to know about much more than just electrical signaling.

At https://affectablesleep.com, we use the brain's electrical data to find the precise moment to provide auditory stimulation to enhance the brain's restorative function, so I'm in no way saying the electrical signaling data is not valuable, it can be very valuable if applied to the right problems.

Am I missing something? Do we know enough about how the mind works to measure and interpret thoughts?
"Challenge accepted." Much like with the TPM "requirement" and the others, I don't expect this one to stay undefeated for long.
I hadn’t realized this about NUT. I just started using it as part of TrueNAS’ built-in UPS monitoring support and haven’t had any issues thus far, but this gives me pause.

I buy that there is room for an alternative tool regardless of how crashy NUT is, but the technology choices for this are a huge turn-off IMO.
In a way, "vibe coding" is like what infants do when they give "error messages" of "hungry" to query mom for food.

Newcomers may be tempted to maintain the uttermost ignorance of what they are creating, as I imagine "vibe coding" implies, where the height of problem-solving is creating quicker pipes between errors and re-submission to AI to fix those errors.

I'm really glad I learned programming a long time ago, before AI. I use AI more like a tool for getting information (much like browsing manuals, forums, Stack Overflow), but it is, of course, magnitudes better. I still do the conceptual outlining and problem solving, and that is what programming is to me. If there's something I don't understand from the AI, I always query to know how it works. It's even easier now to understand how things work thanks to AI.
What makes it unethical? For all we know, the private investors are all in agreement on this. Musk tends to take capital from investors that he is on very good terms with. There's most likely a lot of overlap between investors of both companies.
> "that’s not a problem with the theory—class isn’t about income but mode of participation in the economy."

We can challenge this assertion by reductio ad absurdum. Imagine somehow all bougies earned less than all workers. Everything Marx said would be absolutely and completely nonsensical. There's nothing inherently impossible about such a world existing and it makes clear the point that income levels do absolutely matter. And in Marx's time I think it is fairly safe to say there would have been exactly 0 proles earning more than bougies. The concept of a 'factory' worker earning more than a factory owner would have been entirely alien to him, and most of the world, until fairly recently.

The most paradoxical thing about all of this is that the people most drawn to Marxist stuff are disproportionately in tech, the exact sort who, in many cases, already earn more than many, and likely most, business owners, work far fewer hours, and generally have dramatically nicer working conditions. I think it's mostly misidentified discontent. It's not the economic system that's at fault, but somehow building things in the digital world is fundamentally unsatisfying and unfulfilling, even if you get drowned in money, massages, bean bag chairs, and ping pong tables.

If people want fulfilling lives (so far as work as concerned) don't work in ad-tech. If you want stupid amounts of money work in ad-tech. You get the stupid amounts of money precisely because the work is awful and empty. It's a rather dramatically different world from Marx's time where, in general, work was awful and compensation was awful.
> "We're removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11."

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Maybe one reason is its verbosity for small everyday tasks, like config files or when representing arrays. If xml allowed empty tags there probably would be no need for json.
What a sham of a person, companies, and legal and financial system.

How does a loser from South Africa, who has been kicked out of nearly every company, obtain this? Perhaps this is what every loser in America dreams about themselves being able to do.
Because people want strong typing, but also want other things. It's possible to want multiple things, and bemoan that whwat you use is still missing things you want.

Concretely, Django is way more usable than basically any web framework from the "strongly typed" space, especially for "dumb" CRUD stuff. And you're not hit with making decisions about how to do a bunch of things (though you can swap out mostly any part of Django for something else if you want to).
"We tend not to use those words when we have an honest intent to understand someone else’s position."

Here's the thing about that; the people who dissent from this administration are the people who wholly understand the other's position because the people who dissent, by an astounding margin, ARE MORE HIGHLY EDUCATED THAN THE PROPONENTS OF THIS ADMINISTRATION.

When the collective braindrain of people who are intent on 'owning the libruls' and basing their beliefs in faith in a god that doesn't exist, it's not that hard to understand that those people aren't playing with a full deck, therefore, it's not disingenuous to expect that there will be no good-faith discussion when each-others' very fundamental beliefs differ so profoundly.
Even if MAGA loses in 2028, I have very low confidence that Trump will see any consequences for his crimes. There's also the fun self-pardon-by-proxy trick: on the morning of the last day of his administration, he resigns. Vance is sworn in, pardons Trump for anything he's done, and then passes the presidency on to the next one.

Regardless, Trump is old. Even if he's convicted of something in 2030 or whenever, he probably won't go to prison. He may even be dead by then; he'll be nearly 85, and no matter what his doctors have been told to say publicly, it's hard to believe the man is in super great health.
Adobe already has such a product: https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance
Not sure that tracks.

Oligarchy is generally how people who don't deserve wealth can get it. As pointed out by you, that doesn't exactly apply to the world's (already) richest man.

And who exactly would you look for to help the federal government build "a better mechanism for managing costs and outlays", if not someone who has built multiple successful businesses (managing costs and outlays at impressive scale) in very different industries?
Exactly. I look at things like this and contrast with what friends like Adam Johnson do[0] with their community contributions. Adam has many Django packages, along with many other non-Django Python packages. Crucially though, they're not forks that reduce the focus of the community, they're contributions that increase what the community can do collectively.

[0]: https://github.com/adamchainz?tab=repositories&q=django-&typ...
Higher income does not equal higher quality of life. Which is, arguably, what really matters to people.
Huh. If I was confident enough in a change to consider it worth doing an actual boot to test I'd certainly want to have it committed, to be able to track and go back to it. Even the broken parts of history are valuable IME.
Sure he was. He is a convicted felon, with 34 guilty counts under his belt[0]. You can't get convicted of felonies in a civil case. That was a criminal prosecution.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-te...
Trying to run the starter kit, it tries to download mkcert, but that download fails with a ssl.SSLCertVerificationError... how ironic :)

brew install mkcert fixes this.

Also, a starter kit that asks for my password right away is a bit too intrusive for me:

Downloads/new-project [master {origin/master}|]: uv run plain dev
Generating SSL certificates for app.localhost...
Created a new local CA
Note: the local CA is not installed in the system trust store.
Note: the local CA is not installed in the Firefox trust store.
Run "mkcert -install" for certificates to be trusted automatically

Created a new certificate valid for the following names
- "app.localhost"

The certificate is at "/Users/me/Downloads/new-project/.plain/dev/certs/app.localhost-cert.pem" and the key at "/Users/me/Downloads/new-project/.plain/dev/certs/app.localhost-key.pem"

It will expire on 29 June 2027

Adding app.localhost to /etc/hosts file. You may be prompted for your password.

Password:

I generally don't like to rely on ssl for development anyway. Make it optional maybe ?
There's two issues with that theory: (a) Somebody in another thread mentioned that margin for those loans would trigger at around $120, so assuming that's true TSLA has another 50% to lose before it would happen. (b) Even if that was the case and TSLA lost those 50%, that would mean he'd have to cover the loans with cash. He cannot use xAI shares for that because contrary to TSLA it is not a publicly traded company. There is no open market price that lenders could accept. So, he didn't gain anything by moving money around, he'd still need to get the cash from somewhere.
According to the linked discussion, the underlying setting that the script set still exists, so this simply makes it less convenient.

It should absolutely be taken as a warning sign, though. Seriously, if at this point you're installing Windows and relying on the existence of that setting, you should be seeking alternatives.
“Security”
So by “we hacked Gemini and leaked its source code” you really mean “we played with Gemini with the help of Google’s security team and didn’t leak anything”
That Xbox employee that was smugly and fanatically defending the always online fiasco way back (who ended up getting fired for defending the sales pitch) must be screaming.
Reminds me of an very old Dilbert comic, which I remember fondly because of how his mom subverts expectations.

> Dilbert: "My company asked all employees to act as salespeople to friends and family. I think you could us this, Mom."

> Mom: "Why would I need a primary rate circuit? I've already got a frame relay drop to my web server in the sewing room."

> Dilbert thinking: [This is going to be a tough sale.]

> Mom: "Hello-o-o! Earth to Dilbert! This is packet data..."
Embeddings, RAG, AI Agents, and MCP
First time submitting a blog post here :)
hope u like it
The absolute state of Orange Reddit
IMO this is a use-case where the added latency of cell phones is a downgrade.
Have you by chance read this paper: https://agent-gen.github.io/
> "Two" will (hopefully) be in the 250$ region

What does that mean ?
I've been saying the writing was on the wall for a long time. Any time someone says how easy it is to simply avoid MS account registration I've argued that it's not going to last much longer.

Even Microsoft's current Storage Spaces Direct won't let you start a locally hosted Hyper-V VM without an Azure connection.
I wonder why they are including a 5G port. There does not seem to be a lot of gear that uses it. An additional 1/2.5G or 10G SFP would make more sense.
I read that as “It will cost around $250.”
That "Two" will hopefully retail for around 250 dollars.

The full sentence:

> "Two" will (hopefully) be in the 250$ region with yet again a portion of that being donated to the project.
Sorry if the article or references answered this but I couldn’t quite tell if so:

What are the bandwidth requirements of establishing clock sync around 1ms?
Well no, he’s complaining about their actions which is shown (in part, relevant to this comment) easily by their enthusiastic acceptance of said slogan.
I hope like the previous 20 years, his companies just get more and more successful. I like electric cars, and rockets, and AI, and tunnels, and brain implants, and less government spending, and real people with flaws.
Islam is probably the most economically savvy major religion (Mohammed was a merchant after all). Unlike other religions which issue blanket prohibitions on things like charging interest or having wealth Islam is more pragmatic. Hoarding wealth is considered sinful when it means that others are going without but it is not a sin to make money, have money or be rich. The gulf states could all broadly be described as socialist. Yes they have a lot of money but pretty much everyone lives on welfare and enjoys a high quality of life (nobody is going hungry or falling ill from easily treated diseases). In a country where everyone has attained a high standard of living there is no issue with someone having a huge pile of cash. We could throw out labor issues from guest workers, but that is a bigger topic.
That makes sense! My personal feeling is that a web framework is not the right place in the stack to introduce typing.

There’s also probably an argument to be made that part of the reason for Django’s “batteries included” success and wide adoption is in part because it is built on an untyped language.

I get wanting both, though.

In my own work, I find most of the benefit of static types to be ensuring correctness at compile time, so I just don’t expect that in Python. I also have just not lost that many cycles to type errors. But I know some have strong preferences here.
Consider that he might actually be a winner, and you might be a jealous loser instead.
Earlier on HN: Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account (theverge.com)

139 points | 5 hours ago | 125 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511073
I think this is a bit disingenuous. It was more like "he sucks, he has no plan for X and his plan makes no factual sense for Y, vote for me, here's my plan for X and my plan for Y" (remember the whole concept of a plan thing?)
Latency (such as you get when communicating over the phone) makes turn taking much more difficult. Even in-person it's still a non-zero false positive rate though.
Previously:

OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285689 - Dec 2024 (144 comments)