MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by prisenco | 2025-04-07 19:17:52+00:00
There's a valid argument to be made there though. We possibly were better off when tastemakers managed to filter out the lowest common denominator.

When you think of Youtube, you might think of pretty decent stuff but you have to remember the absolute slop like Spiderman/Elsa videos, crude ripoffs and near porn gets many, many more views than the good stuff.

I'm not saying strict gatekeeping is necessary, but open systems are an absolute minefield for humanity. That's clear to me after the last 10 years or so.
by salestoscale | 2025-04-07 19:17:55+00:00
Great insight and feedback from all above, thank you. My approach is to be more of a supporting actor that is heavily involved rather than someone you completely outsource to. I hope to find companies that are passionate about what they are building and have a demonstrated product-market fit, but lack the bandwidth to develop an entire sales process and department. I am envisioning becoming an onramp to sales where I start by providing low-risk representation to prove my value, grow revenue enough to justify hiring sales people, develop said people and processes, and then see if it makes sense to stay on or hand off a fully functioning sales department.

To begin, I want to keep the number of clients low and then narrow it down to the one experiencing enough growth to move to stage two and beyond. There's obviously a lot of pitfalls, but I'm a dreamer and hope to find a way to make it work!
by techpineapple | 2025-04-07 19:18:24+00:00
I assert we get less Balatro’s this way(I don’t know Balatro specifically, but I imagine it’s a stand-in for indie-game by one developer), perhaps counter intuitively.

This is a question I’ve been pondering post-2000, where are all the new Kevin Smiths?

Where are all the great counter-culture indie movies?

That Market has certainly not exploded post YouTube the way you might think.
by milesrout | 2025-04-07 19:18:50+00:00
Roe v Wade is an example of why it is silly to say the US is big on the letter above the spirit of the law. If that were true it would never have been decided the way that it was in the first place.

There was no legislative gap, by the way. Nobody failed to legislate. There were bans, or not (it was legal in some, and for different reasons) at the state level. Everyone understood states to have the ability to set their own criminal law, with relative freedom. Then "substantive due process" (not in the text of the constitution) came along and a group of judges decided abortion bans weren't in the spirit of the law.

The practice in civil law systems, as I understand it, is that the role of precedent is limited and statutes are more detailed and updated more frequently. In common law systems, statutes tend to be less detailed and judges fill in the gaps--so which of those sounds to you like it focuses judges on the letter of the law and which on the spirit?
by Hjack | 2025-04-07 19:18:55+00:00
The whole trend of cracking FAANG/MAANG interviews has made this notion of not having self-awareness/understanding of where money comes far more entrenched. Folks who crack these interviews feel like they are passing sermons from top of 'tech' hill to other noobs, not knowing in effect that their minuscule value is as long is company is making profit. The day that stops, everyone's job is on the line and especially folks who are away from centers which make money.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-07 19:18:57+00:00
Peter Thiel's CPAC (the tea party convention/the new GOP) had a banner that said: "We are domestic terrorists" another banner said: "You're Next: The Rise of the Democrat Gulag."[1]

The fact that the head of a private intelligence company is spear heading the movement that said: "we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." [2] is frightening.

The head of the Office of Budget and Management said "“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so."[3]

What is extra frightening is that we are already seeing an American take on a Gulag.[4] You can get picked up off the street without due process and be sent to a judicial black hole.[5]

Historians who study fascism or Russian/eastern European history are fleeing the country. [6]

I feel terror. I really do. Terror is understanding that you are no longer governed by predictable law, but by the state of nature, where power and power alone will resolve conflict and disputes. Fear becomes the chains of slavery.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-banner-domestic-terro... [2] WaPo -- https://archive.is/Ku2KG [3] https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-v... [4] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/el-s... [5] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-as... [6] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-...
by DeborahEmeni_ | 2025-04-07 19:19:15+00:00
Apple's shift away from GPL has been showing for years, so this doesn't surprise me. But dropping rsync 2.6.9 this late without full 3.x support feels like a step backwards, especially for anyone relying on metadata preservation. I get the licensing angle, but the lack of feature parity in opensync might catch a lot of people off guard.
by ndiddy | 2025-04-07 19:19:25+00:00
> The OpenSSH project is careful about not taking on unnecessary dependencies, but Debian was not as careful. That distribution patched sshd to link against libsystemd, which in turn linked against a variety of compression packages, including xz's liblzma. Debian's relaxing of sshd's dependency posture was a key enabler for the attack, as well as the reason its impact was limited to Debian-based systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, avoiding other distributions such as Arch, Gentoo, and NixOS.

Does Fedora use Debian's patch set for sshd, or a similar patch set that adds libsystemd?

Edit: It looks like Fedora wasn't affected because the backdoor triggered a valgrind test failure, so they shipped it with a flag that disabled the functionality that was backdoored. Seems like they lucked out. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...
by Kimi_livekit | 2025-04-07 19:19:39+00:00
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by utbabya | 2025-04-07 19:19:59+00:00
Metrics for things like FCP, better screenreader and refactor are less straightforward so having the capability to correctly evaluate the cost and benefits, making the right judgement calls and communicating it to everyone is vital.

Not mentioned in the article but this implies the importance of hiring. Having the right people to build the culture together, sitting in the room to discuss the priority of these things can turn a filibuster popping clown fiesta into productively working out actual competitive advantages for the company.
by Propelloni | 2025-04-07 19:20:08+00:00
> Mimimum capital is 1 €,

If you are talking about an OÜ this is often repeated and technically wrong (the best kind of wrong). One, actually the minimum capital requirement is 0.01 Euro per shareholder, and two, Estonian courts are pretty clear that in an OÜ with less than 2500 EUR capital the shareholders are personally liable to cover the difference between share capital and 2500 EUR to trustees.
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-07 19:21:05+00:00
Thank you very much. This is an extremely useful input.

Would you by any chance be interested to get a tour from me? At the very least you'd get to see what it is, and perhaps in the process you might find ways to explain it.

If you are up for it, please connect with me in some way (the GT Discord, @girba on LinkedIn, @girba on X, @tudorgirba.com on Bluesky) and we'll take it from there.
by octopoc | 2025-04-07 19:22:18+00:00
A big reason why we should support biodiversity is that once an animal is extinct, it's practically impossible to bring it back. With small effort now we can avoid great effort later. And any ecosystem is so unbelievably complex that we just aren't yet at the point where we can predict exactly how things will adapt.

I haven't read Red Mars but these are both very different from an abiotic landscape. You can easily go back to an abiotic landscape on Mars because that's the default. It doesn't take delicacy. And, an abiotic landscape is extremely simple compared to an ecosystem. We can easily predict what will happen if we go back to one.
by laurencerowe | 2025-04-07 19:22:38+00:00
It's not just the user land but much of the BSD kernel too. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

> Throughout this time the promise of a "true" microkernel had not yet been delivered. These early Mach versions included the majority of 4.3BSD in the kernel, a system known as a POE Server, resulting in a kernel that was actually larger than the UNIX it was based on.

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

> XNU was originally developed by NeXT for the NeXTSTEP operating system. It was a hybrid kernel derived from version 2.5 of the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University, which incorporated the bulk of the 4.3BSD kernel modified to run atop Mach primitives,

MkLinux is similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux

> The name refers to the Linux kernel being adapted to run as a server hosted on the Mach microkernel, version 3.0.
by fabcairo | 2025-04-07 19:22:57+00:00
This looks super promising, really like the deep PostgreSQL integration and the effort toward durable execution.

One aspect I’d be curious to hear more about (and might be worth expanding on in docs or future posts) is how hatchet holds up operationally in production. For example, what does a typical alerting setup look like for common failure modes? And since the system relies on partitioned tables and tuned schemas, how do you approach migrations or schema changes without downtime?

A lot of open-source job orchestration systems shine at the core execution model but fall short when it comes to observability and smooth day-2 operations. If Hatchet nails that too, it’s a huge win.
by hlfshell | 2025-04-07 19:23:25+00:00
The issue is that as music progresses and changes so too does distribution networks. Traditional, or even nontraditional to those from the pre spotify internet days, pipelines of music discovery have been largely co-opted by industry. Outlets of organic discovery are different now - and people typically don't continually keep changing their habits enough to keep up with it.

Pair this with the fact that most people settle their musical tastes to be in line with when they are experiencing the most emotionally significant time in their early lives (high school for some, college for others, etc) and the result is an assumption that

A) What they encounter forms an overall opinion of "all" new music despite being the tip of the iceberg and

B) It's not as good as what they grew up on
by delichon | 2025-04-07 19:23:32+00:00
From the SFMTA FAQ:

Why are applications required? Applications are required to identify locations where there are speeding concerns.

Applications seem like a very poor and slow way to identify locations when records of actual accidents, injuries and fatalities are available from police reports. Better to build where the most lives are saved, rather than where there are the most squeaky neighbors. But it's a well designed program for the purpose of shutting people up and deferring their concerns for many years.
by kmeisthax | 2025-04-07 19:24:08+00:00
John, this isn't a power tool. This is a copy machine.

And while I don't have anything against copy machines per se, that's not how it's being sold to the public. The public is being told this copy machine is a really good power tool that can do lots of things. So what creatives are hearing is "your work is interchangeable with a slightly smarter copy machine, so stop paying creatives and just rip them off".
by aaomidi | 2025-04-07 19:24:49+00:00
> Companies just need to fork the upfront $13-1500 dollars for a set of plane tickets for their hiring team and rented conference rooms for a week. It's a whole lot cheaper than spending 50k because you hired the wrong person for half a year.

There are very few companies I'd fly out for TBH.

IMO Make firing easier, pay people a massive severance if you're firing them for a mistake you made in hiring, and initially start them out as remote so you're not forcing a lifestyle change for them if you realize you made a mistake.
by ndr | 2025-04-07 19:24:51+00:00
WARNING for Cursor users:

Cursor is currently stuck using an outdated snapshot of the VSCode Marketplace, meaning several extensions within Cursor remain affected by high-severity CVEs that have already been patched upstream in VSCode. As a result, Cursor users unknowingly remain vulnerable to known security issues. This issue has been acknowledged but remains unresolved: https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/1602#issuecomment...

Given Cursor's rising popularity, users should be aware of this gap in security updates. Until the Cursor team resolves the marketplace sync issue, caution is advised when using certain extensions.

I've flagged it here, apologies for the repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43609572
by keybored | 2025-04-07 19:25:02+00:00
> Or maybe the music industry? I feel like there's more music than ever, but none of it seems to be of much value and/or lasting cultural impact. It doesn't seem like it's gotten better with easier accessibility to tools, just there's a lot more options for you if you are a fan of a certain genre.

You both listen to so much music and have a palette that is so wide-ranging that you can somewhat objectively judge it as not having gotten better?
by garrickvanburen | 2025-04-07 19:25:04+00:00
I'm always conflicted about this because it's like saying the sky is blue.

Stepping outside of the VC startup bubble, we see small self-funded businesses are the norm. It's the neighborhood businesses all around us.

82% of all US business have <10 employees https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-10-the-three...

99.976% of new businesses don’t raise venture capital. https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-32-start-wit...
by Aurornis | 2025-04-07 19:25:50+00:00
> The thing is, none of these things really changed with AI

I agree that lying was possible before AI, but something about AI has emboldened a lot more people to try to lie.

Something about having the machine fabricate the lie for you seems to lessen the guilt of lying.

There's also a growing sentiment online that using AI to cheat/lie is "fair" because they think companies are using AI to screen candidates. It's not logically consistent, but it appeals to people who approach these problems as class warfare.
by jasonlotito | 2025-04-07 19:26:02+00:00
We've been lowering the barrier to entry for decades now. Where is the line? Some would say digital. Some have pointed to electric. Some have pointed to cars. And on and on and on.

But older entertainment doesn't instantly make it better. Will there be more crap? Sure, but that's always been the case. But that also means more stuff of quality.

That could mean it's hard to find the quality stuff, but that's a different issue entirely, and one mostly solved with old school stuff (reviewers, just find reviewers you mostly agree with).

But in the end, good games are still released every year. And many/most of these good games wouldn't exist if the barrier to entry wasn't lowered.
by brailsafe | 2025-04-07 19:26:09+00:00
I disagree with the intention to regulate such inane details of private land ownership, especially in the city. I wouldn't buy a house with the expectation that my view or my exposure to sun would be perpetually protected by the municipal government.

That said, I also can't buy a house, likely never will be able to, and most likely won't want to, all partly because of such absurd bureaucracy. It's difficult to imagine being so petulant as to seek justice about such a thing unless it made my private garden unworkable. I shouldn't have a hand in what my neighbor paints their house, and that's probably more closely related than the hypothetical silly examples I established. If they literally painted a swastika, well k I guess that's an edge case.
by jamil7 | 2025-04-07 19:26:18+00:00
> You need to get private healthcare

No you don't, you can stay in the public system.

> you need to save up for retirement and so on

You can still contribute voluntarily to the public pension if you want to but the majority of self-employed people here don't as this is seen as a feature not a bug.

Part of the concept of being self-employed in Germany is that you're opting out of the welfare state and are responsible for taking care of yourself. With the potential upside of better raw earning potential.
by milesrout | 2025-04-07 19:26:26+00:00
It is the definition of the word. Nowhere does pg say you can't start a non-startup business.

>The founders I'm particularly impressed with are the ones who have such a nuanced understanding of capital efficiency that they do not require VC, and only take money much later in the cycle

That isn't "understanding capital efficiency" it is called having enough capital already.
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-07 19:27:09+00:00
I imagine the perfect programing language would have 3 levels.

1.LLM "code" , this should work for most basic use cases. Should be so basic any random person can create a CRUD app.

2. Scripting, something like Python. This should handle 95% of use cases.

3. Systems programing. Zig, Rust, etc. For when you need extremely specific performance requirements to be met.

My dream language would integrate all three of these in the same stack, ideally the same project would be a mix of all three ( most of the time a mix of the first two).
by Aurornis | 2025-04-07 19:27:40+00:00
I thought "fire fast" was a viable strategy until I joined a company that did exactly that.

They didn't fire many people quickly, but it had a deeply chilling effect when someone was only at the company for a month or two before disappearing.

One of the unspoken difficulties of firing fast is that the person does a lot of relationship building with people who don't work with their output. It was often the case that someone would become well-liked by people who never saw their code, who would then become distraught when the likable person vanished one day.
by hbsbsbsndk | 2025-04-07 19:27:47+00:00
I've interviewed some candidates (more senior than TFA) and I agree with OP that it is a uniquely uncomfortable experience.

Candidates who rely on AI seem to just be totally turning their brains off. At least a candidate who was embellishing in the old days would try to BS if they were caught. They could try and fill in the blanks. These candidates give plausible-sounding answers and then truly just give up and say "ummm" when you reach the end of their preparation.

I've been interviewing for 10+ years across multiple startups and this was never a problem before. Even when candidates didn't have a lot of relevant experience we could have a conversation and they could demonstrate their knowledge and problem-solving skills. I've had some long, painful sessions with a candidate who was completely lost but they never just gave up completely.

Developers I've worked with and interviewed who rely on AI daily are just completely helpless without it. It's amazing how some senior+ engineers have just lost their ability to reason or talk about code.
by hlfshell | 2025-04-07 19:28:09+00:00
It's only a problem if we live in a society where people's perceived value, and thus capability of living a healthy, full life, is tied to their productivity to produce profit for an increasingly shrinking pool of people and organizations.

Which is what we have, hence the problem.

Yes, AI has the potential to screw things up royally. But do not mistake its' exacerbation of symptoms as the true illness.
by sysrestartusr | 2025-04-07 19:28:14+00:00
> It could go the way of farming, where labor saving technology allow a tiny fraction of the previous workforce to satisfy everyone

Except that the quality of mass-farmed, labor-saving tech produced 'stuff' is approaching a level of literal shit and the methods have poisoned air, water and soil to a horribly dumb degree.

Will the same happen to the analog/digital soil, water, air in SWE, game dev and content creation? Likely. It started a while ago, before the big AI boom and that's what young creators and devs see in their youth and get inspired, stimulated and motivated by: toxic, low quality shit that they have to shove down their throats and into their minds. "I can do better" is not something we see a lot anywhere; not in cinemas, not on the news, not in SaaS and sure as hell not in VC culture or portfolio capitalism.

Next generations brains are wired and minds nourished by the current environment. And we've been fucking up for a while, even if we leave out politics, news, culture and how we systemically perceive, portrait, never defuse and always escalate conflicts in a slow burn fashion.

All that wires brains, reinforces behaviors and thought patterns and perception and nourishes minds.

I like the comparison to farming. The end game is displayed in movies and games alike and it's always dire, dry and satisfies no one.

There's no case against AI, though, but a momentous one against experienced, educated people who have witnessed the shit show long enough and don't need predictive algorithms to know what's coming.

How silly it is to 'let it happen', to 'let it be'.
by piva00 | 2025-04-07 19:28:14+00:00
> Never mind $50M, suppose it would cost twenty trillion dollars to save you. The large majority of the entire US GDP. The majority of everyone in the whole country, ignoring all other problems and lives to dedicate all of their time to saving you. And if they did that, they could; but not otherwise.

> Is that worth it? No, it can't be, because a million other people would die instead. There exist things that are possible but not reasonable and some of those things are in medicine.

We are talking about reality here, not some made-up fantasy to justify your outlook on it. I don't think I needed to preface my argument with that since I'd expect to discuss with rational and reasonable beings. Considering reality, where we live and touch grass, it's better that some rare diseases with high costs for treatment get subsidised by the whole pool of money society gathers for healthcare, within reasonable bounds of what the aforementioned system can bear.

I really thought I didn't need to guard myself against some bizarre outworldly conjecture with no basis in reality. You can toy with models and inflated situations to be pedantically argumentative but I'd much rather try for us to base this in more-or-less real situations. Paying for the US$ 5 million treatment of one kid with a very, very rare disease which is treatable can be afforded if a society is wealthy enough.

Or isn't the USA wealthy enough to care for its population?