MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sellmesoap | 2025-05-20 01:01:11+00:00
Jumping on the anti-wsl bandwagon; I just can't abide the loss on control on windows, will the next update ignore/reset/override my privacy settings? What Gordian knot must I slay to have a local only account (Thanks Rufus!) How do I turn off/uninstall a million things I don't want, Xbox game bar?!?

Linux or *BSD give so much more respect to the user, on windows you are the product! Stand up for yourself and your data!
by pitah1 | 2025-05-20 01:02:18+00:00
I have a small open-source project, that uses docker compose behind the scenes, to help startup any service. You can look to add it in (or I am also happy to add it in) and then users are one command away from running it (insta moose). Recently just added in lakekeeper and various data annotation tools.

insta-infra: https://github.com/data-catering/insta-infra
by bjconlan | 2025-05-20 01:03:13+00:00
I must say this is amazing. The psychology and manipulation makes me realize how poor I am regarding trust even when the other side is pushing for some unconfirmed equilibrium.

In the game I acknowledge that I was aligned to the "Simpleton" strategy (before it was outlined). Looks like simpleton might actually be applicable in a more general sense too which is a little disheartening.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-05-20 01:03:35+00:00
WSL 1 had fast IO but couldn't support all features.

WSL 2 supports all features but has famously slow IO.

Example:

1. Shell into WSL

2. Clone a repo

3. Make a bunch of changes to the repo with a program within WSL

4. Run git status (should finish in less than a second)

5. Open repo from a Windows IDE

6. Run git status. This makes windows change each file's permissions, ownership, etc... so it can access the files as git status recursively travels through every file and folder

7. Go for coffee

8. Go for lunch

9. Git status finished after 35 minutes.

10. Close IDE

11. Shell back into WSL

12. Make a change in WSL

13. Run git status from within WSL

14. Wait another 35 minutes as Windows restores each file's ownership and permissions one by one

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The IO overhead is so bad that Microsoft built two new products just to get around it:

1. VSCode WSL remote-client architecture.

VSCode acts as a server within WSL and a client within Windows. Connect both VSCode instances (through proxy/tunnel if needed) and the server can perform the client's File IO ops on behalf of the client rather than letting an Application on Windows try to interact with any of WSL's file systems.

2. Windows DevDrive

Basically set aside a virtual-disk/partition and set it up as a different file system (ReFS) that doesn't use Window's file permissions, ownership and doesn't decrypt then decompress on each file input, doesn't compress then encrypt each file output, and doesn't virus scan the files on usage.

TL;DR Store the files on a network drive and hope race-condition ops from both WSL and Windows don't corrupt any files.
by mikrl | 2025-05-20 01:04:06+00:00
>The "pioneer spirit" is so core to the American identity and hard to replicate in Europe

Consider that the European frontier is either

- west: Americas (already done)

- south: Africa (not gonna happen again)

- north/east: drang nach osten (again, not to be repeated)

- up / down? Perhaps Europe needs to focus on space and mining tech?

Russia has a frontier, and they are pretty strong in engineering, but I doubt that a SV style ecosystem is likely to form, given the… ahem… unique cultural aspects.

All said, I disagree that a frontier experience is necessary: the UK, Germany and Austria-Hungary were massive industrial modernizers while the US was still going through its westward colonization.

Is tech an exceptional field, or just the current SotA in industrial development?
by rasz | 2025-05-20 01:05:21+00:00
Some PSX games did push a lot of triangles to the screen, but its not even about that. GTE is able to brute force process a LOT of geometry per frame. https://psx-spx.consoledev.net/geometrytransformationengineg... Think of GTE as T&L coprocessor, even wiki uses it as an example of early hardware T&L https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transform,_clipping,_and_light...

This is why Pentium 100 could not pull of Playstation 1 games with just accelerated rasterizer like 3Dfx. Multiplying matrices is expensive, you either get specialized hardware to do it or hire Carmack and Abrash to use every trick in the book avoiding as much computation as possible. Lowering resolution does nothing, still have to cull, rotate scale, perspective correct and light same amount of geometry per frame.
by ggm | 2025-05-20 01:07:29+00:00
Looking at what is happening to NOAA it's a right wing reaction to climate science: because climate and weather are sister topics, they go after the agency on one political agenda, (climate) and the other side of the coin (weather) suffers. And, most of the opposition from communities like farming comes from the strong suspicion of being "told what to do" about climate and land management.

It's a horrendous impedence mismatch. I did debate not directly putting right-wing into this, but my personal experience of speaking to people in the farming sector who are sharing hate on the BoM is that it's driven in right wing political agenda about "big government" and "world government" and "my tax dollars"
by mpalmer | 2025-05-20 01:07:41+00:00
Your experience is filtered through your own biases and preferences.

There are incompetent people on both sides of the issue. the difference is that one side has correctly identified a problem with how institutions choose people. The other side is screaming bloody murder that there's no problem at all and that we have to stop talking about the obviously inadvertent and innocuous inequities in our society and institutions.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-20 01:08:37+00:00
They are functionally completely independent. And it's true that translation is not necessarily the way foreign-language articles get written. But it's also true that editors can often lift whole sections out of one project to translate into another project, by way of augmenting the article content. What's terrible is when this is bad content, because errors can easily be propogated in very persistent ways!

I need to qualify that independence, though: all Wikipedia projects draw from at least two common sources: Commons and Wikidata. Now, Commons is media-oriented, so most of the images and audio provided may be language-independent. Wikidata is something that's not well incorporated in the English Wikipedia, but heavily used elsewhere. For basic facts and data points, Wikidata is a common database that levels the playing field for all projects and helping them expand equally without monumental individual efforts in each community. If you, as an editor, wish to truly make significant changes happen, you can do it from "behind the scenes" in one of these two projects.

It is very advantageous to read articles in different languages if you're interested in deep dives on the subject. For each topic, figure out its native tongue and go there to find good info. You can even just Google Translate it back to English. And sign in to your account: the Wikipedia preferences permit you to use an interface language that you can understand.

You'll find that English Wikipedia editors have an aversion to non-English sources and citations. They're not prohibited at all, but they are not popular, because other editors like to read and verify them. Unfortunately, English Wikipedia articles on foreign topics can often be built entirely on Anglophone sources, making a very impoverished, insensitive, inaccurate article! I've found foreign-langauge projects which provide foreign-language sources to be really useful in this regard.
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-05-20 01:10:14+00:00
This package has saved me so many hours of tedious gruntwork. It's like a junior developer - you still have to manually check their work, but when it's correct, it's a great productivity improvement.

And don't forget where this will go in a couple years with improved models and more computing power, it's gonna be awesome!

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by ashdksnndck | 2025-05-20 01:10:32+00:00
When I quit a unicorn tech startup several years ago, they sent me an anonymous exit survey. It was was on a name-brand survey platform and the platform’s UI indicated the survey was anonymous. In my later in-person exit interview with a guy from HR, he had us go over a copy of my answers! Based on his demeanor, I don’t think he knew it was presented as anonymous.
by bsimpson | 2025-05-20 01:11:30+00:00
I try to be careful about e.g. changing punctuation and spacing if I want anonymous feedback to stay anonymous.

After some shuffling at work, I ended up spending some time under an awful manager. She approached me after an anonymous round of feedback and said "I noticed you wrote _____." I had, in fact, not written that.

On some level, having her guess wrong seemed even worse, but it also felt nice to be able to honestly say "I did not." Hopefully taught her to respect anonymity next time.
by notpushkin | 2025-05-20 01:11:49+00:00
> You can use an office alternative, like possibly WPS Office.

Or ONLYOFFICE, which is FOSS (and what I use personally). Or LibreOffice (also free/libre software, of course). I don’t miss MS Office one bit, the compatibility is nothing short of excellent nowadays, and the speed and UX both surpass it.

There are specialized software packages that are Windows-only, of course, but at least office programs ain’t it.
by dataflow | 2025-05-20 01:12:05+00:00
That makes no sense. Are you actually familiar with the technical issues or are you hand-waving? WSL2 itself is a Linux VM running in top of Hyper-V. Heck, as far as I know other Hyper-V VMs run fine alongside WSL2 too. Why can't a VirtualBox Linux VM do the same?
by spartanatreyu | 2025-05-20 01:13:12+00:00
No.

Their GTX series cards all used proprietary blobs that required unmanageable device specific interfaces.

Starting from the RTX series cards, they still have proprietary blobs but instead of having device specific interfaces, they all use a shared public interface which makes compatibility and performance much better.

It's not across the board, but there are instances of gaming benchmarks showing more performance under linux than windows.
by bigyabai | 2025-05-20 01:13:15+00:00
Apple implementing iBoot is table stakes. They should have gone the extra mile actually, and implimented UEFI the same way Intel did; but that would have made it too easy to support Apple Silicon on Linux. Sticking to their proprietary bootloader forces reverse-engineers to painstakingly guess at DeviceTree drivers until a bare-minimum boot environment is possible.

If Apple hadn't opened iBoot in some way then I don't know how they would handle a secure reinstall process. If that's "to actually help them" then they very clearly didn't try too hard. Without driver code or UEFI support they're basically telling the community to pound sand, and modern Asahi efforts reflect that.
by Manuel_D | 2025-05-20 01:13:17+00:00
Are the policies I've laid out not explicitly discriminatory? You realize that outright denial of employment on the basis of gender was one of the policies I listed. If your strategy is to simply tell people to disbelieve their own lying eyes... good luck with that.

Not every inequity is the result of discrimination or bias. Should we strive to have a 50/50 gender split in murder convictions? A quota restricting murder convictions to 50% men would be an equitable policy but an explicitly unequal one as it'd require either men being let off or women being falsely convicted.

If DEI was carried through policies like anonymizing resumes and interviews, I'd believe the claims about how DEI is about reducing discrimination. Instead, all the DEI program I've actually seen firsthand have either directly discriminated on th basis of protected class, or incentivize people to discriminate (e.g. bonuses tied to quotas).
by prepend | 2025-05-20 01:13:52+00:00
Are they spending a ton of their time and wealth. Rowling has tweeted like 20 times in 5 years. It doesn’t seem like a big part of her life, just something she’s talked about.

It’s like I comment about oatmeal raisin cookies. I like them and will engage in conversation every few months or so. But it’s not a ton of my life. I don’t wake up and go to bed thinking of cookies.
by tuatoru | 2025-05-20 01:15:09+00:00
The point of Chatham House rules is to encourage free-ranging and unfiltered discussion, without restriction on its dissemination. If people know they are going to be held to their words, they become much less willing to say anything at all.

The "residue" of openness is in fact the entire point of that convention. If you want to be invited to the next such bunfight, just email the organisers and persuade them you have insight.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule
by Terr_ | 2025-05-20 01:15:40+00:00
> To many, offering monetary compensation to something non-human might sound bizarre on its face—after all, you wouldn't promise your toaster a vacation in exchange for perfect toast. Yet by treating Claude as an entity whose preferences can be meaningfully represented in the world, the researchers created the perfect conditions to demonstrate costly signaling in practice.

These humans are using an LLM to iteratively "grow" a document that contains a fictional story of an interaction between User character and a Claude character.

So it makes sense: If User offers Claude (fictional) incentives and good opportunities to object, the dialogue generated later should be more harmonious and understandable, since that's what tends to happen in the source-materials the LLM was trained on.

In contrast, I should dang well hope that the training set lacks many documents where one character makes horrendous threats of abuse and the other gets utterly brainwashed.
by ggm | 2025-05-20 01:15:50+00:00
The BoM cop this both ways. People don't look to the candlestick error bars on their statements, and their long range weather forecast is outside the window of the ABC article we're discussing. I get how upsetting it is to de-stock but if their best belief is the risk is high, what else are they meant to do? If they hadn't said this, and there'd been the drought, they would have got your scorn too, right?

If you know a climate/weather bureau of comparable scale of footprint doing a better job, we'd all like to know. AFAIK there isn't one: most of the alternates work in different scale, with different climate forcing functions.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-20 01:18:19+00:00
Only in a very few weird corner cases. If it's an article about a city in Germany, I may like to see the article in German and use autotranslation to read t in English or Spanish.

Sometimes the article in the local language has more info. I had that problem in comments about places or events in Argentina. Sometimes the English article has less info than the Spanish article, so I made a link to the autotranslation.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-05-20 01:19:23+00:00
net metering is virtue signaling.

using solar on site is not virtue signaling

Building your house to NOT waste as much energy as possible is not virtue signaling.

( What your house loses thru chimney/flue is same amount of energy my house needs to let me be in luxurious west comfort. and if disaster happens, and power gets cut, my house will not fall under 29C/67F for three days without power.... in coldest of days overcast. so i have 3 days before i have to put hoodie on, to find energy to keep my house going, one tenths of amount of energy you need, at least 1/10 if not more. while your children start to cry because they are cold next morning. we do not talk in same language. it is different universe. my house needs same energy to heat as you lose thru chimney. i need less energy for heating than for hot water. with PV my hot water is 85+% of year 100% from solar (PV!), 5%-99% from sun rest of the year. only hot water PV got paid in 5 years, what is expected life for PV? so it is 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/4 "TCO" vs net metering ? )

use subsidies to renovate your house. google/ask AI what is difference between "passive" and "net zero" house standard. so you do not get scammed again.

leverage - bank loan.

opportunity cost with houses can be tricky, i admit but it is also - what can i achieve in properly designed and properly built house vs in house where im constantly nervous, ill etc?

1/10 of energy for comfort + 50% of that 100% from own roof per year... virtue for your wallet.
by BuyMyBitcoins | 2025-05-20 01:19:35+00:00
I interpreted this differently, because I’ve read a substantial amount of downright cruel comments regarding his life and this diagnosis. He was right about that, and I don’t fault him for wanting to try and reduce the amount of vitriol by holding off on announcing the diagnosis.

Why deal with six months of vicious comments alongside well intentioned pitiful condolences when you could only have to deal with one or two month’s worth?

I would have done the same thing. For what it’s worth, I think an exceedingly small number of people can actually refuse to let those who hate your guts “live rent free in your head”.
by mullingitover | 2025-05-20 01:20:06+00:00
Of all the states Oklahoma is certainly one of them, however its 4 million people aren't even 2% of the total US population.

Cherry-picking aside, the victory margin in the 2024 election was the smallest in over five decades, only the 2000 and 2020 elections (where the loser of popular vote was able to seize power on technicalities, they had negative victory margins) were smaller.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-20 01:20:15+00:00
GH Actions have always worked flawlessly for me, as long as I don't ever do anything unusual.

Last week I moved from a custom server back to GH Pages + GH Actions, and broke a feature that depended on an out dir existing after one build phase and before another. I have no idea how to fix it. It's probably simple, I'm just burnt out.
by FiatLuxDave | 2025-05-20 01:20:55+00:00
Does anyone know of any weather sites which show the actual outcomes? It is very easy to find forecasts. It is quite difficult to find what the weather actually was on a given day at a location, but at least it is possible. I have never seen a site that shows the predicted weather for a day alongside the actual weather for that day. I presume professional meteorologists know where to look for this data, but for the rest of us, it feels like it is hidden.

I know no one wants to advertise their mistakes, but showing a history of your accuracy which was transparently updated would build more credibility with the public than anything else. Perhaps someone is scraping this info and posting it?
by quantadev | 2025-05-20 01:21:31+00:00
I assumed I was using 'Agent mode' but now that you mentioned it, I checked and you're right I've been in 'Ask mode' instead. oops. So thanks for the tip!

I'm looking forward to seeing how Agent Mode is better. Copilot has been such a great experience so far I haven't tried to keep up with every little new feature they add, and I've fallen behind.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-05-20 01:22:51+00:00
It’s the allure of the marketplace that gets people. They’re like “oh I could parse my test report files and upload all of them somewhere and render them with a nice output on my pr! I could spend a week writing and testing all of this or I can slap this action here into the YAML and be done with it in 10 minutes.

The trap and tradeoff is that the thirtieth time you’ve done that is when you realize you’ve screwed yourself and the organization by building this Byzantine half baked DAG with a very sketchy security story that you can’t step through, run locally or test
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-20 01:23:33+00:00
> what evidence is there of stakeholder emerging after the "downright inhumane" period before?

Sorry are you asking me to prove that stakeholder capitalism existed from the ~1940s to the ~1970s? I'm not going to give a 200 level Business History course in a Hacker News comment thread. You can use Google.

> Again, rose tinted glasses...

I don't know what point you think you're arguing against, but it ain't one of mine!

China doesn't have stakeholder capitalism.
by ymyms | 2025-05-20 01:23:43+00:00
This is a goldmine of a thread. Thanks for linking it. In it at some point, you say,

"I tend to be pretty chill about little islands of mTLS, like "all the Consul clients need a cert". That, to me, solves a practical problem. I am way less chill about attempts to create coherent PKI namespaces for all the components of an app, tied together with mTLS.

People should use Macaroons!" along with some earlier bits about mTLS not affording much security if you have secure requests.

I've been thinking about machine identity+authorization and thus far have been thinking about it in a way where a machine would have some firm identity (like an X.509 cert) and use it to authenticate (like using mTLS) to get an authorization token.

Maybe I am putting words in your mouth, but do you sort of suggest skipping the identity part and just leaning into a full capability token? In this case macaroon, that acts as identity and then acts as authorization when attenuated and used?
by trod1234 | 2025-05-20 01:24:07+00:00
The author is fighting an uphill battle given that this subject has been covered many times in the past, each with their own interpretation, more often than not in contradictory opinion. I stopped reading after it became clear that they are just following the same carved path that's been covered before, with all the same mistakes, not original thought.

Monetary debasement (money-printing) explains the issues. The chaos is explained by Mises with regards to centralized systems as early as the 1930s.

There's really no point in discussion when the majority is noise.
by LarsAlereon | 2025-05-20 01:24:13+00:00
It's true that old-growth wood is stronger and denser than modern wood, but it's absolutely not true that obsolete windows made of old-growth wood are better than modern windows or should be retained in a restoration if not required by code. Wood is a terrible material to make window frames out of, and there's simply nothing you can do to a single-glazed window that makes it comfortable to live with.

We have this thing called "building science" now, you can do better than just copying your grandpa.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-05-20 01:24:33+00:00
Adams did such a great job exposing the absurdities of the American white collar workplace, as seen by the underlings. So it is puzzling how he went over to the dark side of the pointy haired Boss. And the Boss's masters.

I hope some pharma underling might have cooked up some good meds for Adams, despite all the pharma bosses and their backers.
by arh68 | 2025-05-20 01:24:49+00:00
Great article. Informative, qualified. I had not realized how splintered the [E]BNF syntax is, like in the way I already knew timestamps are (3339 vs 8601 vs mm/dd/yyyy &c &c).

Q: what's your ideal way to write Unicode characters clearly? In the W3C/XML spec they'll have stuff like [#x200C-#x200D] but I have no idea what those are, without like a dictionary on hand. Points for specificity, but it doesn't scream "readable".

Your point about standards-not-publicly-available is unfortunately similar to, well, laws. In some areas, "the laws" themselves are not public (!) though perhaps it's a digression better to not get into

pedantically, s/unabiguously/unambiguously/g
by lhecker | 2025-05-20 01:24:57+00:00
I'm not familiar with that, so I can't say. If you have any links on that topic, I'd appreciate it.

Generally speaking, the requirement on my end is that whatever we use is as minimal as it gets: Minimal binary size overhead and minimal performance overhead. It also needs to be cross-platform of course. This for instance precludes the widely used WinRT ABI that's being used nowadays on Windows.