MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cirego | 2025-04-26 20:33:49+00:00
Interesting to see this pop up here! I’ve been using Tilt for multiple years now but the pace of development seems to have slowed down after the Docker acquisition.

I love how Tilt enables creating a local development environment that lets my services run the same in production , test and development. Greatly simplifies my service code and improved my quality.

In particular, I’d love to see Tilt be better around handling things like CRDs (there’s no way to mark a k8s_yaml as depending on a CRD being available, a frequent source of broken tilt up invocations).

Having said that, the first thing I do, when working on any new project, is to get “tilt up” working.

Things I’ve used for testing include: eBPF-based collectors for security and observability, data pipelines, helm chart development, and Kubernetes controllers. It’s very flexible and powerful for a wide range of development.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-26 20:34:30+00:00
I don't have much knowledge of soviet society, that's why. Just their cavalier attitude to nuclear safety.

Though to be fair, America wasn't much better in the 50s. Nor was Britain if you read about the "procedures" surrounding the windscale meltdown. Uranium rods would get stuck and people would just poke it with a stick.
by overfeed | 2025-04-26 20:34:44+00:00
Oh, that's insightful. Author could have encountered a light form of elite convergence 20 years ago when interacting with fellow writers and journalists, who probably didn't live in the blighted areas, and could take the joke on behalf of their cities. Being from a crap town is fine if you're don't live in the crappy part of town.

I'll add that the decade-long austerity measures let people know that it's actual class warfare, and it's no longer a laughing matter as it was in 2003 when it seemed fixable. Now it's clear the people in charge are not interested in fixing anything. A joke about someone's health situation is received better if the condition is treatable, but less so of they are terminal.
by standardUser | 2025-04-26 20:34:48+00:00
Invite your childless friends to come visit you. I'm childless but all of my oldest friends have kids and all of those kids know me. It's probably easier for them to travel and if they stay a few nights you'll have time for both family time and adult time. Plus, I think it's great for kids to interact with adults who are trusted but aren't an authority figure.
by HEmanZ | 2025-04-26 20:34:59+00:00
The economy is the abstraction for all aspects of getting people the goods and services they want and need. Literally everything you don’t produce on your own. How did you access this website if you have never received anything from the economy?

“But I can’t see what is what the economy has given us in return” is such an absurd statement that the only generous interpretation is that you really didn’t think through it before posting.

People rightly care a lot about the economy because they care a lot about the goods and services that they consume but don’t produce themselves. We don’t sacrifice everything to the economy, no country in the world does, but it holds extremely high priority.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-26 20:36:12+00:00
I’m so tired of how pussy democrats are. The moderate wing is so dominated by corporate money that they’ll never do it and just let American fascism happen.

The left in America is ran by geriatrics (Bernie) or unelectable young people (AOC). None of them have the guile to do what you’ve said (or rather to pressure and call for the governors to do that).

The left has a pussyfooting problem. The left is beta, and has surrendered the aesthetics of power to the right again and again throught history (and the only times that they keep it they end up becoming as bad or worse than what they are fighting)

Basically we are fked.
by joexbayer | 2025-04-26 20:36:22+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! I think the biggest thing I’d do different is to have a plan. I just started out with the goal of doing the basic hello world OS, and that’s it. But then I kept adding new things, adding more and more working on multiple things at the same time. Which has lead to some technical debt I’m still trying to fix. I’d also try to be less UNIX dependent.

Regarding language, I love C for its basic syntax and “straight to the point” style. Maybe I’d consider some other languages for userspace applications.

A goal for me from the start was always that I wanted to write everything myself, no porting of any software, and for me that’s the entire point of the project. I mostly adhered to the rule of copy ideas not code.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-04-26 20:37:03+00:00
You don't need an index. Are the people in your country happy or not? Are they having children? Are they participating in civic society? Crime? Signs of social unrest?

There is an issue with people being systemically negative but it is very obvious which countries are thriving at a high-level from aggregate behaviour.

The problem is that some societies (unsurprisingly the ones that have a problem in this area) do not want confront this. So you have countries where the economy is collapsing, it is obvious to everyone...and they are getting economic policies from corporate lobbyists...to fix "the economy". I think this is getting at the spirit of the OP's point, most people who talk about "the economy" just have a very short-term, very self-interested take.
by chickensong | 2025-04-26 20:37:44+00:00
IMHO, this is one of the biggest benefits of leaning into writing good stories in a project tracker. Even if the the light bulb moment that solves everything doesn't appear immediately, distilling your work into clear, precise language, suitable for consumption by parties who may not be intimate with the issue, strongly reinforces your understanding. It saddens me that there's a pervasive culture of looking down on this type of work, when there are clear benefits.
by teddyh | 2025-04-26 20:37:52+00:00
> How about I look at some of those cases?

Please note that, although there are scores of anecdotes in this thread, precisely none of them link to any examples or give enough details to find them. It’s always like this with Wikipedia detractors; I don’t know why, but it is. Complaints and horror stories galore, but nobody will link to any of it, preventing anybody from investigating what actually happened.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-26 20:38:15+00:00
Labor is just one part of it. Increasing the wage 15% at worst pulled forward the transition to automation.

Automating the order flow avoids even higher wages for good English speakers and kiosks drive higher margin via up sales. Automation of drink pouring reduces shrink. Eliminating cash reduces cash handling expenses and reduces refunds.

I have a friend who owns a few McDonalds in a high expense state. He bitches about marketing expense share and supply cost.
by looping__lui | 2025-04-26 20:38:42+00:00
In most countries it is not.

In the country with the highest GDP per capita it may appear to be prevalent more because people seem to make VOLUNTARY choices with respect to their diet and exercise regime that do not tend to go well with their health.

Capitalism is not equal to “the economy”. “Currency” on its own doesn’t increase the wealth of a society. It is correct that unconstrained capitalism is unstable. Most countries in the world understand that.
by richardw | 2025-04-26 20:39:54+00:00
My personal mantra for these things is that life is simple [1] when you have only one principle. It gets much harder when you have to balance two or more principles.

It’s still better to have the principles than not have them, just keep balance in mind.

[1] for you, that is. People who don’t share your principles might not like your choices and you might be making their life difficult with your lack of balance. See religion, politics, etc.
by cyberax | 2025-04-26 20:40:01+00:00
I'll keep pushing my idea that it's all explained by over-urbanisation and the ongoing density-misery spiral.

Why? Because it heavily distorts the perception. And perception ultimately _becomes_ the economy.

For example, the US and Canada are doing AWESOME with housing. The number of units per household is near the historical highs, and it dwarfs the numbers seen in the 80-s and 90-s: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=15tRv

But ask anybody in the urbanist community, and they'll keep harping about how there's a "housing crisis". Probably due to NIMBYs, evil governments, and "corporations". Reptiloids from Mars are also a distinct possibility.

People are now forced to move into larger cities, and they don't make any new land. So rents in the desirable places are growing, while smaller towns fall into decay.

This in turn affects the overall economy. E.g. young people understand that they can't just hope to work as a car mechanic and live a comfortable life. They now have to get a university degree (number of enrolled college students is almost 2x than that in 1970-s) to qualify for an office job in a large city. So now they face college loan repayments.

This all keeps adding more and more factors that are simply ignored by the models. If your perception is that you'll be living in a shoebox, giving 50% of your salary for rent and college loans, you're far less likely to spend money on a new car. Or conversely, you might take a huge loan and buy a car that you can't really afford just to feel good about _something_.

And the old models are just failing to capture this kind of complexity. But I think that over time, the economists will recalibrate them, and they'll be more representative again.
by llmguy | 2025-04-26 20:40:20+00:00
2 things can be true

1) Investors might earn too much return on their investment and wage inequality is high.

2) This study ignores downstream effects that result from the lower returns for ongoing/new investment. Since they’re now paying more for labor and selling less, new investment and upkeep has a lower return. Less store upgrades less new restaurants less expansion and so on. In the short term though, of course wage growth (inflation) feels good.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-26 20:40:33+00:00
> On Reddit some dude was trying to argue that an individual needs $70,000 a year in fixed expenses just to live. Bare minimum.

... Wait, how the hell did they figure that out? Did they itemise it? Was most of it just going on a very expensive mortgage or something? Are they including retirement savings?

(I've no rent or mortgage, due to having been very lucky with employer equity, but I'm not sure I could spend 60k EUR a year on myself even if I wanted to; there is only so much stuff that you'd reasonably want to spend money on.)
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-26 20:40:45+00:00
<< What is the implication here?

Hmm. I am trying not to assume too much, but I will attempt to respond based on summaries of some real events in Russia and corporate America.

In organizations, where leadership style resembles Christmas tree more than a pyramid, people invariably are beholden to the leader. Depending on the organization's culture, the leader may allow little to no dissent. While leader may not explicitly tell you to do X, their wishes are known and some people do respond with trying to 'guess' what their leader wants.

In other words, the implication may be that no one is overtly influencing other people, but, in an attempt to save their positions, people produce documentation their leader may want to see.

Which, honestly, happens a lot more often than it should.
by aquafox | 2025-04-26 20:41:04+00:00
I had a look at your trial description (https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06424912)

Are you planning to publish the longitudinal data, esp. of endpoints 2 and 3 (prostate size, urinary flow). It would greatly add to the public understanding of this procedure. Why didn't you go for PSA? It's easy to obtain altough one probably wouldn't expect significant changes in this short time frame.
by happytoexplain | 2025-04-26 20:41:05+00:00
All of the two-dozen-or-so people I know closely hate AI art - hate. Not as a tool, e.g. for making images to go with your DnD campaign or whatever - that's great - but rather as replacements for human art. E.g. as blog post images, movie posters, images uploaded to art hubs, etc. They also mostly hate the way it usually looks.
by remarkEon | 2025-04-26 20:41:26+00:00
It's not that they have "immunity", it's about whether the US Government has jurisdiction over them, meaning they can conscript them in time of war, collect taxes and so on, and that there isn't another foreign power that can do or already does this.

Howard, who introduced the Amendment, said this[1]:

>This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States.

>Now, all this amendment provides is, that all persons born in the United States and not subject to some foreign Power—for that, no doubt, is the meaning of the committee who have brought the matter before us—shall be considered as citizens of the United States ... If there are to be citizens of the United States entitled everywhere to the character of citizens of the United States, there should be some certain definition of what citizenship is, what has created the character of citizen as between himself and the United States, and the amendment says citizenship may depend upon birth, and I know of no better way to give rise to citizenship than the fact of birth within the territory of the United States, born of parents who at the time were subject to the authority of the United States.

Doubly funny that he added a line in that speech where he thinks all ambiguity is gone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_M._Howard#Speech_on_the_...

[2] https://archive.org/details/the-congressional-globe-39th-con...
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-04-26 20:41:28+00:00
It's given you a place to live, and groceries, and plane tickets, and magazines, and allergy medication. Modern consumers have been desensitized by abundance to the point where they are detached from physical reality. The economy is real, and damage to the economy has real consequences. Growth of per-capita GDP almost always leads to increased living standards, and shrinking per-capita almost always leads to decreased living standards. What are "decreased living standards"? It's more paying more for the conveniences of modern life like plane tickets, or restaurants, or homes with useful appliances. At the macro scale, it's having less money available for medical research and welfare. It's rising prices, without a corresponding raise in income, resulting in less to go around.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-04-26 20:42:46+00:00
It suggests that the politicians aren't interfering with the statisticians but I have seen such manipulation occur multiple times in the past few years on important topics. We have been talking about the increasing bad definitions of "in work" in the UK for over a decade and the situation continues to get worse. The politicians are clearly "strong arming the nerds" and there has been plenty of evidence of it.
by Swizec | 2025-04-26 20:42:54+00:00
There’s a nuance here that matters.

Pursuing happiness means you use happiness as a leading indicator (I think). You do things that you predict will make you happy. This is commonly preyed upon by advertising, sales, managers, bosses, etc.

I’m suggesting you use happiness as a trailing indicator instead.

Pursue other goals and happiness comes on its own. If you perceive yourself to be unhappy over a long period, that is a symptom and you should look for underlying causes then go fix those. You pursue fixing the causes, not the happiness.

See also: once a metric becomes the goal, it stops being useful.

To use a silly analogy: No amount of painkillers will fix a broken leg.

Or to share an example – I once got into gratitude journaling and mindfulness stuff. It kinda helped. You know what really helped? Quitting my job and getting a job I enjoyed. No mindfulness or gratitude journaling needed. Feeling like I need a gratitude journal was the symptom that something’s gotta change.
by ithkuil | 2025-04-26 20:43:10+00:00
But yet, due to the nature of asymmetric warfare, it's so easy to discredit a reputable institution that holds itself to some standards which sometimes are not met. All you need to attack it is to not have any such standards but just flood the zone with shit and when you say something wrong just lie or claim "I never claimed to be an expert, I hate experts, I'm just a comedian/or something like that"
by beau_g | 2025-04-26 20:43:10+00:00
On a freestanding humanoid robot, you have an inverse kinematic chain running all the way from the touch point to the ground, with many actuators in between, each of which to some degree squares the complexity of the problem. The parent article mentions a Fanuc or Kuka bot, which lets say is 6 axis - they are incredibly stiff/strong, in many cases many orders of magnitude stronger than they really need to be for the job they are tasked with, they do not move, modeling things like clashing with the environment/itself is much simpler because they are placed in 100% controlled environments - remove all of those qualifiers (weak robot because it needs to be light, dynamic environment, and count the DOF between the robots finger and it's ankles) and it gives a clearer picture than the article offers of why all this stuff is difficult. Can't take much of a divide and conquer approach like you can in other domains.
by recursivegirth | 2025-04-26 20:43:14+00:00
I think people often forget that even though these people came here illegally, a majority of them submit themselves immediately to authorities to enter into the immigration court. Nine out of ten times, they are just given a future court date and released on their on recognizance legally into the United States (typically with some restrictions on movement).

Why? Because that's how the system was legally designed to work. You want them to stay here, because some % cases are valid (a lot surrender at ports of entry). So then you must ask yourself, what went wrong? Cartels figured out they could break the system by overwhelming it, yet we had a clear cut way to solve it.

The parties politicized the topic by not doing anything about it... and now here we are.

Question: When Obama/Biden supported legislation to hire more immigration judges to work through the backlog of cases, did you support the legislation as well?

There are for more just ways to handle this. These people are tyrant oligarchs, and need to be treated as such. Today's it's "those people", tomorrow it will be "your people".

https://immigrationimpact.com/2015/05/21/bi-partisan-house-b...

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/31/biden-immigration-courts-de...
by ajross | 2025-04-26 20:43:36+00:00
PPP includes a lot of that, but not healthcare (the analysis for which is really complicated because it's not like you just pay one number and add it up, outcome curves matter, etc...). A closer number is "disposable income", which is the money a household has leftover after essentials. But that can't be measured with a hourly wage number, and AFAIK no one has tried to measure it specifically for "fast food workers in California", the numbers you see tend to be for medians, so somewhat higher up the scale.

But yes: the USA does really well on disposable income metrics too. It's not popuular to point out given all our recurrent shitstorms, but in fact Americans are, yeah, really fucking wealthy.
by anonymars | 2025-04-26 20:43:42+00:00
Feels like a cousin of the McNamara fallacy: what can't be (or simply isn't) measured may as well not exist. (Probably most people who have encountered OKRs are familiar with this). RFK (the original one, not the brainworm one):

> The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.
by bombcar | 2025-04-26 20:44:53+00:00
Spend some time on bogleheads and you’ll see it all - from people saving $120k a year on $140k salary, to those spending $700k a year and not finding anything to save.

The biggest thing I’ve learned is that if you have a monthly expense, it becomes “necessary fixed expense” damn quickly.

Even if it’s $50 a month for telephone sanitizing.
by happytoexplain | 2025-04-26 20:45:05+00:00
Destroying a profession without a plan to help those displaced is morally bad. It's also inevitable. The most obvious mistake of everybody on both sides of AI arguments is denying the fact that something can be used for both good and bad, will have devastating effects and yet is an advancement that must happen, etc. This isn't cognitive dissonance - it's reality.
by hedgehog-ai | 2025-04-26 20:45:34+00:00
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by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-26 20:45:45+00:00
The purpose is the help understand current state of play. It used to be more purposeful, useful and meaningful for me to be here. If things will continue with its current trajectory, I will simply stop. I am not saying everyone will. We all have different lines after all. I am not sure what Trump has to do with this particular conversation though.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-26 20:46:35+00:00
> They’re cheating

"Of course, 'It is illegal and unconstitutional to deport, detain for deportation, or recommend deportation of a U.S. citizen.' See Lyttle v. United States, 867 F.Supp.2d 1256 (M.D. Ga. 2012) (citing Tuan Anh Nguyen v. Immigration & Naturalization Serv., 533 U.S. 53, 67 (2001) (affirming that a citizen has the 'absolute right to enter [the United States] borders'); Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U.S. 618, 629 (1969) ('This Court long ago recognized that the nature of our Federal Union and our constitutional concepts of personal liberty unite to require that all citizens be free to travel throughout the length and breadth of our land uninhibited by statutes, rules, or regulations which unreasonably burden or restrict this movement.')" [1].

To the extent someone is unequivocally cheating, it's ICE.

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.21...