MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by almostgotcaught | 2025-06-20 13:07:09+00:00
> All we can do is respond to the bad stuff we see, which we can only do if people use the site's feedback mechanisms to alert us to things that need our intervention.

....

> Of those comments, one of them would be killed by now if you'd just used the site's functionality as intended and flagged it.

Am I taking crazy pills? I directly linked you to both comments, you concede one of them crossed a line, and yet this morning I wake up and they're both still live simply because I didn't hit a specific button?

And no I'm not gonna hit the button. Because my point isn't actually about political bias or whatever - it's that you people are weirdo hall monitors that tone police instead of actually encourage discourse (as I've said many times now in this thread, despite your claims that I'm complaining about bias).
by axegon_ | 2025-06-20 13:07:18+00:00
Been there, done that and I don't have an answer. For around 4 years I was a de facto consultant on paper(LLC-equivalent + invoicing) but the truth is, it was just a remote role for a foreign company, nothing to do with building something for myself. In all fairness, I've started building stuff on my own countless times over the years. In fact that dates back to when I was in my early teenage years, meaning over two decades ago. At the time, there was some merit to it but I lacked the knowledge and experience. At this point, software and the functions that are expected from it are not a single-person task. Example: I cannot do UI to save my life. There are also tasks which are incredibly tedious and time consuming, which is a can I keep kicking down the road whenever I get to that part. Hypothetically you could try to look for a partner in crime, which I also have. In my experience, everyone simply loses interest sooner rather than later. You keep pushing hard for another month or two, hoping they'd get into it but ultimately it is I who get's fed up and never brings it up again. If only I could count the times me and one or two other people have started something in which we saw potential and then shove it in the back of a storage unit, only to see an identical product pop up 2 years later and explode. To give you an example: back in 2018 me and two other people started working on an video conferencing tool specifically designed for education with all sorts of wild things integrated into it, from math and literature, all the way to music classes and art. It scaled incredibly well, it was incredibly cheap to run but it was a prototype at this point. Then, just like all other instances I eventually got fed up when I ended up spending countless sleepless nights while having a full time job and did a flip table. And as you can imagine, 2 years later, COVID, everyone go home, classes go online.

Which brings me to a second point - I'm never happy when something I'm working on is completely half-assed - many people are not shy to present a semi-working product and figure out the rest along the way. In fact I've been working in such companies for much of my life. But if I were to do it myself, I'd never be comfortable promoting something, knowing exactly how bad it really is.

In a nutshell - not everyone is made for that and also you need to be at the right place and the right time with the right people. Some people call it luck, I see it just as a function of entropy.
by seydor | 2025-06-20 13:07:21+00:00
Gmail and few other email providers have largely taken over. If you are not on good terms with them , email does not get delivered. Hence why every professional uses a cloud mailers. And BGP ... the reason why everyone uses cloudflare.

In an ideal world we d all be decentralized but the world is not ideal. The world has gravitated towards centralization in all the networking levels
by eggn00dles | 2025-06-20 13:07:40+00:00
Matter is very much pinned to the space its in. If the space between two galaxies expands, the distance between the two galaxies grows. If matter wasnt pinned the distance between the two galaxies would remain the same despite the expansion.

Things dont fall to the ground because the earth pulls on them. Earth is pulling in the space around it, and those things come with it. See the river model of general relativity for a more thorough explanation.
by fidotron | 2025-06-20 13:08:06+00:00
> And sometimes we would attempt to socialize with whatever person happened to be nearby, even a complete stranger.

I think this is the core reason for so much video arcade machine related nostalgia. Those that experienced this the first time around will know about stacking coins on the machines, playing against those you didn't know and so on. Now that is back to table football etc. but an entire category came and went in the space of 30 years.
by candiddevmike | 2025-06-20 13:08:53+00:00
> Unfortunately, online communication - typically the channel preferred by FOSS projects - has much lower bandwidth than teams working full time in an office. Thus limiting the "depth" of collaboration.

Source on this? There are tons of collaborative, 100% remote companies out there (and they release open source software). I think your assertion may be more the folks aren't as dedicated to open source as contributing is a part time or hobby thing.
by mynameajeff | 2025-06-20 13:08:58+00:00
It's a lot like how every "interesting"/pop scientific field (think quantum) has a niche community of Free Thinkers that the "establishment" just won't listen to. If you hear from the actual core scientific community you'll find out that they just already went over this 40-400 years ago and nothing being argued as groundbreaking is new or groundbreaking like it's being pitched as. That indifference can feel like rejection to the highly-excited outsiders which can develop into animosity which just further isolates them.
by bmacho | 2025-06-20 13:10:47+00:00
> Can you elaborate more on discussions about XLibre being banned on here? Are accounts that mention it getting banned? Is there just mass downvoting by partisans with some kind of agenda?

YC moderators are hiding the articles from the front page.

x11libre got 2 active discussions here according to

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

and both got removed from the front page

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302650 -- 2 days ago | 80 points | 197 comments -- Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199502 -- 14 days ago | 116 points | 180 comments -- The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)
by lapcat | 2025-06-20 13:10:55+00:00
I can't believe you're doubling down on the anachronism.

There was no such thing as "neighboring cavemen," like you have neighbors living in personal, separate houses today. Perhaps you've been watching too much of the Flintstones. And it doesn't matter whether you "like" going on mammoth hunts. You hunt, and you gather, or you die. Again you're imposing a contemporary background of abundance on an ancient environment of scarcity.
by hollerith | 2025-06-20 13:11:04+00:00
That has been addressed in some jurisdictions:

>San Rafael law prohibits smoking in all apartment and condo complexes (if your home shares a wall with another home – you can’t smoke there). A housing complex is only allowed to create outdoor smoking areas if they meet certain criteria. Landlords and property managers are required to enforce this law through lease agreements. For more information about this, check out this handbook:

>https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/documents/san-rafael-smoke-f...
by anonym29 | 2025-06-20 13:11:21+00:00
I have an RTX 4060 Ti with latest drivers installed, KDE on Debian. On the login screen, I can select X11 or Wayland. Selecting X11 lets me log in fine, selecting Wayland and logging in results in a black screen and the only thing I can do to get any video out at all is switching to another TTY.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-06-20 13:11:24+00:00
For n decades now (the value of n depends on who you ask) most of the money circulating in the system is money made on money, or in general volatile money. In these setups, scarce resources become useful as a "safety net" in various pockets of the economy. Natural resources come under this category. Land too, comes under this category.

Ideally you want the only competition for housing land to be multiple humans wishing to live there. The homogenity of human wants and needs will ensure you don't get ridiculously unpredictable outcomes. You will also benefit from network effects.

However, BlackRocks use for land is completely different. So many things stop mattering when the land is being pieced up and the risk distributed to a million retirement accounts.

Over-financialisation hurts the intended use of scarce resources. Today, no human has the ability to consider it important owning independent personal access to scarce resources such as farmland and water bodies. Similarly, I predict, people will be forced to stop wanting personal housing land. When, is the question.
by ykclakuf | 2025-06-20 13:12:13+00:00
That wasn't really a problem even a bit over a decade earlier when I started looking into switching things up. You look what is popular, you install ubuntu, it goes to usb stick which you insert in computer -> click next until you're on desktop. Nothing special.

I think the really annoying parts were more related to nothing being quite perfect; things tearing, having iffy support for mixed resolution and refresh rates, sometimes browser not using hw acceleration and fans spinning up. Everything you could live with, but dealing papercuts.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-20 13:12:51+00:00
Ithaca built a lot of housing in the last few years but is still said to be the most expensive small city in the US. Some of these buildings have a high fraction of "affordable" units, but one "luxury development for seniors" is about as late as a nuclear reactor and hasn't found any tenants because... seniors who have money go to Florida and don't stay in upstate NY.
by homefree | 2025-06-20 13:13:04+00:00
I agree with you that it was called AI by the field, but that’s also why the field was a joke imo.

Until LLMs everything casually called AI clearly wasn’t intelligence and the field was pretty uninteresting - looked like a deadend with no idea how to actually build intelligence. That changed around 2014, but it wasn’t because of GOFAI, it was because of a new approach.
by astine | 2025-06-20 13:13:25+00:00
Correlation may not imply causation, but where there is causation there usually is correlation. So, if there is a rise in homelessness there is likely some factor contributing to that and if a factor is correlated there is a good chance that it's causal. Homelessness may caused by multiple factors but if it's increasing and those factors are mostly remaining static then looking for the one that is also increasing seems like a good bet.
Show HN: I built a minimal invoicing tool for freelancers and makers: Invoroo
by s4nty | 2025-06-20 13:13:43+00:00
Hi HN,

I just launched Invoroo, a minimalist invoicing tool for freelancers and indie hackers who need something simple, fast, and uncluttered.

I built it because most invoicing apps felt overcomplicated for solo work and small projects. With Invoroo, you can:

- Send invoices in multiple currencies and languages

- Manage clients without unnecessary overhead

- Add payment links directly to invoices

- Use a clean API to integrate with other tools
by jvanderbot | 2025-06-20 13:13:49+00:00
You're stuck in a false dichotomy. There's nothing wrong with adopting all the housing reform you want. But we also (additionally not instead of) need something immediate to treat the acute, highly localized problem of mentally ill and drug abuse in encampments. If in fact you have not been to one (e.g. Venice Beach a few years ago) and seen the enormous encampments and destruction they inflict on nearby property, it's hard to understand. Maybe you have?

This isn't about American exceptionalism, because either A) other countries don't have this problem (great!) or B) they do and all the "do it like they do" was just proven wrong as a solution to both the problems or C) they did have this problem and it was solved by these policies - great! The immediate intervention of getting the worst offenders off the street is a temporary solution and housing policy wins long term.

But no matter what there's no reason to push back on two heterogenous solutions because it includes more than just your favorite one.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-20 13:13:57+00:00
> It often sounds like they enjoy having all these footguns they refuse to fix, so they can feel superior and differentiate their club of greybeards who have memorised all the esoteric pitfalls, simply because they were along for the journey, from the masses.

Often the reason for these pitfalls is that they exist because they enable some performance optimizations. The respective maintainer does care about performance.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-20 13:14:17+00:00
> Can you provide a source for this assertion?

https://www.google.com/search?q=current+tax+rate+for+multina...

> They all look to be 40+ from the linked page

Not really. 30, some even less. Average age is probably 40. So indeed, suspiciously young the positions they hold. How many leaders of a large investment fund are under 60 at least?

> Look, I get that this is tax avoidance in some sense, but

(it is)

> Do you think that Ireland should have had to bail out banks with a debt exceeding the country's GDP?

(yes, that is, after all, the promise a country or anyone makes when they borrow money. Alternatively you could NOT bail them out)

> And lets be honest, the same multinationals would have found a different country to launder money through if Ireland wasn't there ...

I couldn't make my point any better than you did here. This is stealing, simply because it is not Irish tax revenue.

> Basically a lot of the above are problems of success, ...

Enabling tax avoidance, especially after signing international treaties that you would do the opposite is not success.
by smegger001 | 2025-06-20 13:14:41+00:00
They may be desperate to hire anybody, but not everyone is willing, with good reason, to work 16 hour days with no overtime pay and sub-minimum wage no benefits and work for only part of the year and get paid under the table. only reason it make since for migrants is the low cost/standard of living back home and currency arbitrage where us dollar are worth so much more than their own currency.
by tatetian16 | 2025-06-20 13:14:54+00:00
> keeping the driver interface unstable is his moat

Maybe we will have young and hungry AI-for-system researchers who would like to take on the job of developing AI agents that translate Linux drivers in C to Asterinas ones in (safe) Rust.

Another feasible approach is to reuse Linux drivers by running a Linux kernel inside some kind of isolated environments. For example, the HongMeng kernel leverages User-Mode Linux to reuse Linux drivers on HongMeng [1]. Asterinas can take a similar approach.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi24/presentation/chen-h...
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-20 13:15:27+00:00
How can you be sure that the people you will be torching are not also victims?

If you could avoid hurting anyone out of proportion to their level of complicity, maybe you do have grounds. But I don't think you can. Because it's the entire world you'd be torching, you'd need to know at least a little about every person in it first, and how your actions would impact them, and I don't think that's realistic.
by Bender | 2025-06-20 13:15:34+00:00
DNSSEC induced outages aside, I will start signing my zones when:

- DNSSEC auto-signing is tightly integrated into all authoritative DNS daemons instead of being a set of scripts, cron jobs and other bolt-on concepts. i.e. I never see a key, a script, etc... The daemon logs everything it is parsing and loading when set to verbose or debug.

- My primary and secondary servers and other peoples servers all present a DNSSEC-autosign(ed) capability during AXFR/IXFR negotiation and the server knows what to do with it and what additional sanity checks to perform.

- Zone transfers are universally encrypted by all DNS daemons. All of them. Every secondary service one could stumble upon must support XoT Encrypted Zone Transfer. Currently supported by NSD and Bind. RFC 9103. Otherwise this is just a LARP. Optionally also DNS over QUIC RFC 9250

- Primary and Secondary servers do sanity checks to determine if I am about to step on my own landmine and will rudely and hopefully quite offensively refuse to activate any changes if something seems off.

- Optionally and optimally I would like to see all of the ROOT servers support DoT with a long lived cert and all that implies. This could be a separate set of physical servers that intercept/DNAT port 853 to cache the load off the actual ROOT servers.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-20 13:15:37+00:00
I do not propose moderating "AI expression" - I explicitly propose otherwise, and further propose mandating that the user is provided with source attribution information, so that they can choose not to infringe, should they be at risk of doing so, and should they find that a concern (or even choose to acquire a license instead). Whether this is technologically feasible, I'm not sure, but it very much feels like to me that it should be.

> A digression from copyright - portraying models as a "blank canvas" is itself a poor characterization, output might be triggered by a prompt, like a query against a database, but its ultimately a reflection of the contents of the training data.

I'm not sure how to respond to this if at all, I think I addressed how I characterize the functionality of these models in sufficient detail. This just reads to me like an "I disagree" - and that's fine, but then that's also kinda it. Then we disagree and that's okay.
by z3ugma | 2025-06-20 13:16:05+00:00
I'm a SWE turned product manager, and now one of the cartoon movie villains in the boardroom as mentioned in the article.

To me this article sums up the most frustrating part about software engineers believing themselves to be the part of the business with the most complex, unknowable work.

"Most non-technical leaders have never really engaged with the real work of software and systems management. They don’t know what it’s like to update a major dependency, complete a refactor, or learn a new language."

_Every_ function in a tech business has hidden complexity. Most parts of the business have to deal with human, interpersonal complexity (like sales and customer support) far more than do engineers. By comparison, actually, engineering only has to deal with the complexity of the computer which is at least deterministic.

As a result, lots of engineers never learn how to present to the business the risk of the kinds of complexity they deal with. They would prefer to ignore the human realities of working on a team with other people and grumble that the salesperson turned CEO just doesn't get them, man.
by hollerith | 2025-06-20 13:16:14+00:00
Yes, people worried about AI started the Berkeley rationality movement (or whatever you want to call it) in the hope that it would help people become rational enough to understand the argument that AI is a very potent danger.

Some people who fit the description above are Eliezer Yudkowsky and Anna Salamon.

Eliezer started writing a sequence of blog posts that formed the nucleus of the movement in Nov 2006 (a month after the start of Hacker News).

Anna started working full time on AI safety in Mar 2008 and a few years later became the executive director of a non-profit whose mission was to try to help people become more rational. (The main way of its doing so has been in-person workshops IIUC.)
by vidarh | 2025-06-20 13:16:18+00:00
While I find the moderation on HN a bit heavyhanded at times:

When the originator of the XLibre fork decided to push a heavily partisan political stance right there in the README, he made a choice that ensured that the project will be controversial.

He can fix that very easily if he wants to.

As someone who detest Wayland, I would very much like to see Xlibre be sucessful, but I'm not surprised a lot of people will reflexively downvote or flag stuff about it given the circumstances.

(EDIT: Having seen some of the other stuff he's said, I'm now not convinced he can do anything to salvage this as long as he's the figure-head for this new project)
by ajross | 2025-06-20 13:16:33+00:00
This is the most frustrating bit of this weird recursive ecosystem of build tools. No one really uses all of make, so they only clone the bits they need, so their tool is simple and clean and beautiful to a subset of the community that has their same problem. But it can't replace make, so seven months later someone with a slightly different problem shows up with a make replacement, and the circle of life continues.

And you see this on the other side of the problem area too, where large and ugly tools like cmake are trying to do what older large and ugly software like autotools did, and trying to replace make. And they suck too.

I continue to believe the GNU make in the late 80's was and remains a better generic tool than everything in the modern world in all ways but syntax (and in many cases, again c.f. cmake, it had better syntax too). Had the original v7 syntax used something other than tabs, and understood that variable names longer than 1 byte were a good thing, we might never have found ourselves in this mess.
by _petronius | 2025-06-20 13:16:41+00:00
The point of that second link above is that any amount of housing, at any price point, lowers cost of housing for everyone, especially lower-income participants in the market.

Housing is in such brutally short supply (goes for major cities in North America as well as Europe) that not only can we not afford to be picky, but in terms of actual effect it doesn't matter: social housing is as effective as luxury housing. Sometimes it is _less_ effective at achieving social goals, if rich people are also trying to get their hands on the same housing stock, because there is not enough to meet demand at the top end of the market.

I think people misunderstand the state of the housing market: it is brutally expensive because of chronic, decades long undersupply, not building enough to meet _new_ demand each year, thus the "debt" in supply has compounded massively. This has strong and weird market effects, such that building lots of cheap housing at huge scale is only a partial solution (and the scale actually needed to alleviate the problem is much larger than anyone is actually willing to contemplate right now).
by lapcat | 2025-06-20 13:16:45+00:00
It may be. Or it may not be. At this point, it's pure unsubstantiated speculation.

In any case, that seems to contradict "and know what’s going down." It would be misplaced resentment to blame depersonalization on immigration, for example. It's possible that immigrants are depersonalized more than any other group. And ironically, Trump has aligned himself with a number of tech lords who are at the forefront of depersonalization.
by foldr | 2025-06-20 13:17:33+00:00
The concept of humanizing homelessness fascinates me. It really does seem that the cultural default in the US is to view homeless people as subhumans who deserve to lead miserable lives. I’m not saying that this is what you yourself consciously believe(d), but it seems to be the implicit belief underlying much of the discourse around homelessness on HN and in the US more broadly.

Normally when we talk about “humanizing” a problem it’s one that doesn’t have a directly visible human element. But everyone has seen actual homeless people. It’s not something that we are just aware of as an abstract problem.

What exactly is the cultural barrier to seeing what ought to be very obvious? I.e. that homeless people are regular people who are down on their luck, or who are victims of broader societal failings.