MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aachen | 2025-04-01 12:09:21+00:00
Why would tuning be necessary for a regular setup, does it come with such bad defaults? Why not upstream those tunes so it can work out of the box?

I remember spending time on this as a teenager but I haven't touched my MariaDB config in a decade now probably. Ah no, one time a few years ago I turned off fsyncing temporarily to do a huge batch of insertions (helped a lot with qps, especially on the HDD I used at the time), but that's not something to leave permanently enabled so not really tuning it for production use
by rsynnott | 2025-04-01 12:09:22+00:00
> Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken with several VCs who confidently claim that companies won’t need to hire anyone in the next year or two because AI will handle everything.

An important part of being a VC appears to be the ability to believe anything, no matter how stupid, as long as it is currently on-trend, then to abandon it as if it had never existed when fashions change (for instance, see the blockchain craze, which was shortly followed by a distinct NFT craze that was just the blockchain one resprayed). I would not take what _VCs_ say as any particular guide to reality.

> Even Bill Gates recently said we might all be out of work soon and won’t need to do anything in an "age of abundance."

This would be the same Bill Gates who was claiming in the late 90s that by the early noughties our primary means of interfacing with our computers would be by talking to them, yes? I mean, again, you've got to consider the source.
by infecto | 2025-04-01 12:10:31+00:00
I suspect you would have trouble hosting long term in China. I don’t recall the specifics now but IIRC every website hosted in China needs a special government ID which requires getting approval. My memory is hazy but it does feel like one of the poorer choices to host unless you live in mainland. There are many better options in the world that both do not restrict information as well as not requiring paperwork.
by vidarh | 2025-04-01 12:10:37+00:00
Some portion of Guardian readers might see the state as the main provider of benefits to society, but I very much doubt most would. Guardian is a (in the European sense) liberal paper, with a readership ranging from the centre and toward the left, with a large proportion along that entire range being totally fine with non-state organisations structured for the public benefit. You'll also find plenty who look on the state with suspicion to outright hostility and would actively prefer if more businesses had ownership structured this way, whether or not the handover of wealth that creates them "avoids taxes".
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-01 12:10:37+00:00
The thing to really emphasize about autocrats is not that they're just big ol' meanie heads, but that they and their teams are generally wildly incompetent at actually operating the systems they control.

These regimes attract the least competent people possible because those people know that so long as they're sufficiently loyal, they'll never be accountable for competence. It's a great opportunity for exactly the people you don't want making important decisions!
by raphinou | 2025-04-01 12:11:30+00:00
As mentioned in another comment, I'm currently still happy with (single node) Docker Swarms (with the reverse proxy as described on https://dockerswarm.rocks/ ). I like that I can basically use the docker compose files published by a lot of project to deploy. How does Unraid compare in your experience?

And I like that I can deploy images which basically don't have any requirement to be deployable to Docker Swarm. Is that also the case with Unraid?
by Timpy | 2025-04-01 12:11:31+00:00
Just a friendly heads up, for the Japanese exercises the video starts just a bit too late and the word you're listening for is cut off. This might only be pertinent for languages where vocab words are appearing at the beginning of sentences, French and Spanish didn't have "gap words" at their sentence start for the few exercises I tried.

This is a cool app, I would have enjoyed this when I was grinding on Japanese back in the day.
by glimshe | 2025-04-01 12:11:32+00:00
Hot take: workplace and social media April Fools jokes aren't funny and are often inappropriate and disrespectful to people's time.

It's cool to do these to your friends in High school, but I once wasted a good amount of time at work because of an April's fool joke. I already didn't want to do the work so I got really upset to have wasted time doing something boring and useless.

Additionally, the scale of social media can create situations where it wastes everybody's time several times per day... Including on HN.

Feel free to prank your friends, but don't bring it to work or the Internet, please.
by throwaway290 | 2025-04-01 12:11:45+00:00
> Then what were the literally room full of formal process and spec documents, meeting reports and formal agreements (near 100.000 pages) by the analysts on either side for? And how did those not 'solve' the understanding problem?

Sure.

There are many possible factors (eg. somebody had a shitty idea and a committee of people sabotaged it because they didn't wanted it to succeed, or it was good but committee interests/politics were against it, or it was generally a dysfunctional org) but it's irrelevant so let's pretend people are good and it's the ideal case.

There was likely somebody who had a good idea originally. However somebody failed to communicate it. Somebody brought vague vibes to the table with N people and they ended up with N different ideas and could not agree on a specific.

It just reiterates the original problem that I described doesn't it?
by kragen | 2025-04-01 12:11:51+00:00
I think the majority of people still know how to grow their own food. We only passed 50% of the population living in cities a few years ago. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.RUR.TOTL.ZS says 43% of the population is still rural, and I'm guessing about 80% of that 43% (32%) knows how to grow their own food. So do all the people who have moved from the country to the city over the last 40 years.

There's a big gap between "pretty much nobody" and the reality, which is somewhere between one third and two thirds of everybody. You might want to reflect on exactly how your perception diverged so radically from reality.

Do people in cities suffer from not being able to grow their own food and make their own clothes? I don't know for sure, but official statistics claim that, even today, they commit suicide at much higher rates despite having much less material scarcity. Robinsonades have been a popular genre of fiction for centuries, suggesting that people long for that kind of autonomy. Today, we also have zombie apocalypse fiction, RPGs, and preppers.

From another angle, sports consist entirely of skills and challenges which aren't needed and never have been, suggesting that they don't get forgotten. Hobbies also consist of skills and challenges which aren't needed.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-01 12:11:53+00:00
propaganda, noun: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

Well if it is "opiniated" and has a "very strong bias" I call it propaganda. Again, they are not the only ones and I am not singling them out.

I used a blunt term that seems to ruffle some feathers but it is better to be aware than to take everything we read at face value.
by myrmidon | 2025-04-01 12:12:08+00:00
Are you actually advocating for an inheritance tax close to 100%?

Because that is completely unworkable IMO, for several reasons:

1) Unless you introduce comparable "wealth transfer"/gift taxes, it becomes completely meaningless for the average case.

2) This would be insanely harmful in cases of unexpected deaths; inheritance is a really bad compensation already when someone close dies, this would make it even worse. And dealing with any kind of shared assets would be a nightmare, too (father dies, mother has to pay tax on half the house?)

Could be workable with large allowances though, but I don't hink you would ever get this pushed through in a democracy because it is too easy to put negative spin on it (even if it was in the majorities economical best interest).

I don't think that inheritance tax is a bad concept, but setting it higher than the gift tax rate is actively harmful and would not achieve anything.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-01 12:13:33+00:00
I'll need to work on the diagram to make it clearer next time.

What it's trying to communicate is, in general, a human operating a computer has to turn their imprecise thinking into "specific and exact commands", and subsequently, understand the "specific and exact output" in whatever terms they're thinking off, prioritizing and filtering out data based on situational context. LLMs enter the picture in two places:

1) In many situations, they can do the "imprecise thinking" -> "specific and exact commands" step for the user;

2) In many situations, they can do the "specific and exact output" -> contextualized output step for the user;

In such scenarios, LLMs are not replacing software, they're being slotted as intermediary between user and classical software, so the user can operate closer to what's natural for them, vs. translating between it and rigid computer language.

This is not applicable everywhere, but then, this is also not the only way LLMs are useful - it's just one broad class of scenarios in which they are.
by Aachen | 2025-04-01 12:13:38+00:00
Could you give an example of a guide that helped you self host a system or service by telling you how to do the security? One that shows what information would be missing from a regular setup tutorial?

I'm a security consultant so this is not a problem I have. To me it seems very straightforward and like most things are secure by default (with the exceptions being notorious enough that I'd know of it), so I'm interested in the other perspective
by snowwrestler | 2025-04-01 12:13:40+00:00
> But wasn't the "society" paid off by all the "living taxes" before the person died?

Governments look holistically at their tax revenue. If there is an inheritance tax, and they expect to get a certain amount of revenue from it, then other taxes will be lower to compensate.

And vice versa: if an inheritance tax is producing revenue, eliminating it will result in higher taxes elsewhere. This is one reason such a tax continues to exist. Inheritance taxes tend to have very high exclusions so most people don’t pay them. And getting rid of them looks like charging everyone else more in order to lower taxes on the rich.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-01 12:13:49+00:00
> Beats me, but I was wondering if all of this wasn't "priced in" to begin with.

The markets tend to be overly inclined to take a "nothing ever happens" position; I would expect that the tariffs _still_ aren't fully priced in (actually, they _shouldn't_ be, as they have not yet happened and are not guaranteed to happen).
by cowboylowrez | 2025-04-01 12:14:22+00:00
I'm thinking a certain level of bureaucracy is needed even in the most democratic of governments, after all we don't (normally) elect folks to argue about whats in each others underwear. We talk about "running" the country. We want laws, statutes, organizations, and sometimes the tasks and end goals are big enough with these constructs to the point where they should span election cycles. Sure, currently the US is in "burn it all down" mode but this is not efficient government at all. This "burn everything down" thing with every election cycle just spends our nations resources to no good end.

Course, the problem with democracy is that if you elect a crook, you'll get a crime ring haha but I guess democracy also means giving folks what they ask for.
by facile3232 | 2025-04-01 12:14:27+00:00
> Drawing the same image in Photoshop, or modeling and rendering it, in the same quality and resolution on the same computer, would require much more time and energy.

Right, but there was a point at which we could stop people from doing stupid shit because it's useless and they're bad with money. Now it seems we've embraced irrational and misanthropic spending as a core service.

We honestly just need to take money away from people who obviously have no clue what to do with it. Using AI seems like a perfect signal for people who have lost touch with an understanding of value.
by Tsarp | 2025-04-01 12:14:38+00:00
For a lot of basic applications that do not need a lot of the extended browser APIs, Tauri is an amazing option. Consistency isn't really required in a lot of use cases. You just want things to work, you have a small team and Tauri works perfectly.

Some Linux distributions still dont work smoothly. If you could optionally choose to bundle verso just there I think its a great cross platform option.
by jfengel | 2025-04-01 12:15:44+00:00
We can't really talk about what's inside a black hole. From outside, it has a volume and a mass, and that's all there is to know.

We can say that any particle inside the horizon is inevitably headed to the center. (That's why we can't say any more: no other information can escape.) That does lead to a problem in that all of the mass would be concentrated at a single point at the center, whose density is division-by-zero.

But I wouldn't put too much weight on that. We already know from quantum mechanics that there isn't really any such thing as a "point". The math is still a problem, but the solution almost certainly lies in that direction.
by matwood | 2025-04-01 12:15:59+00:00
Sounds like they are testing an argument about jurisdiction now. US citizens are likely next.

The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-admi...
by rchaud | 2025-04-01 12:16:00+00:00
I see the neo-Silicon Valley spirit of "regulatory arbitrage as a service" is unwavering.

It's promotion for OpenAI's product, without any of the appropriate licensing. 3D printing companies don't provide Lego schematics to sell their products. There's also the small matter of their ex-employee turned copyright whistleblower, who ended up dead:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0el3r2nlko
by Ntrails | 2025-04-01 12:17:36+00:00
> Tax wealth, not work. There should be no billionaires.

NB. This does not mean that Inheritance should be a taxable event! There would be less need to have inheritance tax if we had a consistent wealth tax.

It remains obvious to me that inheritance drives social inequality, and similarly it is obvious that parents are going to resent not giving their children as much help as they can.
by alisonatwork | 2025-04-01 12:17:56+00:00
From my perspective, yes, however newspapers are not really comparable to websites.

Printing a newspaper costs more money than serving a static pageview. But cost of reproduction aside, people could read the newspaper for free at their public library, or down at the local diner, coffee shop or bar. There were newspapers in the break room at work. Teachers got stacks of yesterday's newspaper for free to use in class. Friends and family members could clip articles to share with friends. You could even fish one out of the trash or pick up an abandoned copy from a park bench or public transport seat. And if you really could not find any other way to read it, you could simply buy a single copy - no subscription required, no need to trade PII for access, no cookie popups, no tracking pixels. It's quite a different product.
by Aachen | 2025-04-01 12:18:16+00:00
> security must be outsourced to a company. I don’t have time to keep on top of vulnerabilities.

If the software you host constantly has vulnerabilities and something like apt install unattended-upgrades doesn't resolve them, maybe the software simply isn't fit for hosting no matter what team you put on it. That hired team might as well just spend some time making it secure rather than "keeping on top of vulnerabilities"
by vidarh | 2025-04-01 12:18:22+00:00
By European and UK standards, it's a centre-left liberal (as in classical liberalism) paper. In Europe, liberalism is firmly centrist. The Guardian was firmly far to the right of Labour under Corbyn, for example, when Labour was mildly social-democratic, and somewhat more aligned with Labour now when Labour is at its most right wing since Blair - arguably more so. Often to the great frustration of the UK left, where The Guardian is a haven of last resort due to the lack of any major left-wing UK newspapers.
by abduhl | 2025-04-01 12:18:40+00:00
> The legal system, including the discovery process, and basic accounting to calculate when the selling price is lower than BoM cost.

So price controls is your answer? The Costco rotisserie chicken is illegal monopolization in your world.

> What mechanism can the regulators use to prevent competition going out of business while maintaining the artificially low prices?

The legal system, including the equitable power to split up companies under antitrust law.

There is a reason that the proactive approach has been roundly rejected by courts in the modern day, despite Lina Khan’s best efforts to push it. Despite your comment earlier about preserving competition being “easy” (preserving competition via regulation is never easy) and preserving low costs being “hard” and on “shakier legal footing,” the test for antitrust remains consumer harm, not competition.
by belter | 2025-04-01 12:19:53+00:00
It's hard not to notice a pattern here. Posts involving DOGE, Elon Musk, or critical takes on the erosion of legal norms in the U.S. are flagged within seconds.

Take this post, for example, flagged almost immediately: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43544534 https://youtu.be/6DsYAoIN3l8?t=65

It tells the story of a Maryland father wrongly imprisoned in El Salvador due to an "administrative error." The U.S. government admitted fault in court, yet refuses to take corrective action. Silence follows.

Meanwhile, a post discussing Marine Le Pen...A MAGA adjacent figure remains untouched. Funny how moderation seems oddly selective when certain narratives are involved.
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2025-04-01 12:20:05+00:00
Because the order of fields can be significant. It's very relevant for syscalls, and is observable via the reflect package; it'd be strange if the field order was arbitrarily changed (and might change further between releases).

I assume the thinking was that this is pretty easy to optimise if you care, and if it's on by default there'd then have to be some opt-out which there isn't a good mechanism for.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-01 12:20:07+00:00
The US military bombing Houthis is like squishing an ant, they have no air defense and no risk of meaningful counter attack.

Understand they literally don't care about opsec, nor is there much reason why they should. It's an exercise to continue justifying military budgets and contractor and manufacturer enrichment. Any secrecy at best just is there to hide how thinly veiled the reasoning is, which doesn't need much bother because anyone open to finding out can quickly ascertain. It's just not supposed to be said openly for diplomatic and political reasons.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-01 12:20:12+00:00
For reasons I can't remember, I was able to send emails through the company's Windows email server under any name that I wanted.

I know of several fortune 100 companies that still allow this due to the way they set up email protection with o365 and Proofpoint, ironically. not naming them. I've done similar pranks and got by with the skin of my teeth but would not recommend people do this early in their career especially if leadership are sensitive to embarrassment.
by arkh | 2025-04-01 12:20:23+00:00
My current case is: whatever you'll look for in a hardware store. So anything yeah: muzzle width, wood length, protective gear, liquid quantities, animal food etc.

And depending on the client vertical they tend to not use the same vocabulary when looking for products.

But contrary to some other comments I know LLM are not magical tools and anything we use will require data to fine tune whatever base model we choose. And it will be used on top of standard text search not as a full replacement. I'm sure many companies are currently doing the exact same thing or will be soon enough.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-04-01 12:21:06+00:00
I didn’t ask for clarifications… I asked how it followed…

Are you sure you understood the comments completely?

It’s my honest opinion that anyone assuming away phenomena like turbulence, without credible proof, cannot be relied upon to have accurate insights.

So yes whenever I do have better insights, than by definition that’s more than 100% of the population who do not.
by permo-w | 2025-04-01 12:21:20+00:00
I'd argue somewhat less so recently. my gripe with the guardian is that like many left-wing publications and sources recently, they've been far too willing to engage in nothing-y culture nonsense and nowhere near willing enough to engage in the class and wealth inequality issues that are plaguing us nowadays. it has felt a little bit too aimed at the comfortable upper middle classes for a good while now (if it ever wasn't)
by kubb | 2025-04-01 12:21:24+00:00
Quora is useless and so is Google, but the other two are hate because of trauma.

The people whose villages were pillaged by the Red Army, who raped all women there and stole everything of value will likely hate Russians.

Women who experience a lot of violence from men, even second hand, will likely hate men. It’s normal, hate is a natural response to harm.

Doesn’t mean all Russians are bad, or all men. I don’t feel personally attacked.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-01 12:21:55+00:00
> Labour under Corbyn, for example, when Labour was mildly social-democratic

Corbyn and McDonnell were hardcore socialists and Marxists so if that's what you call "mildly social-democratic" then The Guardian might be Conservative...

It seems that younger people have no references and understanding of political concepts. Corbyn had full-on socialist policies in the Labour manifesto of the time but simply because he used terms like "coop" they seem to have been missed by some...

Blair was centre-left. He didn't try to destroy private schools so that still makes Starmer's government more on the left.
by Aachen | 2025-04-01 12:22:19+00:00
What I'm reading is not to use containers for a web server, which makes sense because web servers have had vhosts since forever and you can host any number of sites on there independently already

But what about other services, like if you want a database server as well, a mail server, etc.?

I started using containers when I last upgraded hardware and while it's not as beneficial as I had hoped, it's still an improvement to be able to clone one, do a test upgrade, and only then upgrade the original one, as well as being able to upgrade services one by one rather than committing to a huge project where you upgrade the host OS and everything has to come with to the new major version
by ltr_ | 2025-04-01 12:22:25+00:00
just want to say that, to self host feels like the 2000's, and that's a refreshing good thing, you feel in control, away for all the enshittification we are experiencing right know. I'm having a blast with a group of friends with netbird/tailscale, creating little projects in our forgejo instance with full CI/CD for the infra, and day by day we are adding more and more stuff, our own little internet. we learn things and talk about technical stuff while setting up and implementing them, its my favorite social network now. also f big tech.
by dist-epoch | 2025-04-01 12:22:32+00:00
> I thought the main selling point of Tauri was that it uses the OS’s native WebView to create lighter apps compared to something like Electron

It was a talking point for angry at clouds people.

It was never a selling point, because nobody cares how big apps are today. For a regular user with a 256/512 GB drive, even if they had 50 electron apps 1 GB each, it would not matter in the grand scheme of things.