MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mhink | 2025-06-12 19:24:29+00:00
Similar here. My last name is pretty unusual, but my first name is common, so I generally go by my last name with friends and colleagues. Oddly, I've gotten so used to this that it feels a little bit more formal when someone addresses me by my first name.

To make matters even more complicated, when I do use my first name, I almost always use an abbreviation. The only people that use my full first name are my parents, sister, and (occasionally) my wife, and it's really off-putting to hear it otherwise.

Names are interesting and weird.
by tptacek | 2025-06-12 19:24:58+00:00
This is my irritating reminder that there is a whole marketplace of implant/CNE products, most of which you have never heard of, produced in basically every jurisdiction in the world.

It used to be NSO Group that got all the press, now it's Paragon, and I think it's all for the good that the spotlight gets shone on these companies, but do keep in mind that this is not an "Israeli" phenomenon. There are American companies selling tooling that is more effective than "Graphite"; they're just more careful about publicity. Wherever it is you live that you feel is morally superior to America and Israel on commercialized CNE, you're likely to end up surprised.
by rcxdude | 2025-06-12 19:25:11+00:00
No, but it's a core part of the Bullshit Jobs theory, that the jobs are obviously bullshit to everyone involved. I would suggest that most jobs that aren't particularly valuable are probably not locally recognised as such (i.e. by the person or by their manager).

(In general I think while plenty of people are familiar with varying levels of pointless effort in their jobs, it's rare that a whole job consists of that, at least as far as the person doing it and the person hiring for it are concerned)
by OutOfHere | 2025-06-12 19:25:27+00:00
The article is complete nonsense because AI generated code is often buggy, and always needs to be reviewed in detail. Also, the code can only be good if the prompt is good and detailed. All of this takes up a significant amount of time. It would seem that the author is technically incapable of reviewing code, which is why it's not even an afterthought.
by piva00 | 2025-06-12 19:25:48+00:00
Perhaps there are more structural elements to be tackled where cuts won't be enough to balance the budget.

Starting with Medicaid/Medicare since it's a huge expenditure: why even bother running a system that has worse outcomes and is more expensive than a single-payer/socialised system?

There are many models to follow from successful countries, almost all of them would be cheaper than the current one, the population already pays for healthcare insurance, turn it into a tax to spread the insurance pool over the whole population, it's been proven to work.

Why not expand tax income instead of giving tax cuts to corporations and rich folks? It seems like the current arrangement is bankrupting the country, less public investment will cripple potential revenues of undiscovered technology, it's rare that a major new advancement comes straight out of private industry, they're usually pretty good at monetising public research (such as NASA, DARPA, etc.), why continuously give them tax cuts to then defund the whole foundation that actually enables them to even exist?
by AnonC | 2025-06-12 19:26:03+00:00
I skimmed through the article, but I have a question that I hope someone can answer. I have a sparse disk image created on a NAS (which runs Linux), and I use it to backup some stuff (not a VM) from the Mac in the native format (the macOS APFS file system).

Would this new format, ASIF, make this faster and better whenever I switch to macOS Tahoe? I hope there wouldn’t be any gotchas with respect to storing this disk image on a NAS.
by thomascountz | 2025-06-12 19:26:49+00:00
I'm surprised nobody mentioned that these paper tickets have BPAs: Beat Procrastination Abilities.

On a serious note, the article so cool and well written. I appreciate demonstrating the gamification effect right on the page. When I finally get a receipt printer for tasks, I hope to implement timed reminders that print throughout the day.

And to be clear, I don't mean yet-another-source-of-notification-overload, I mean things like "Go eat lunch." Maybe some can relate to how helpful and delightful that might be :D
by jeremyjh | 2025-06-12 19:26:59+00:00
What do you call it when people are rounded up and sent to a gulag in El Salvador without due process? What do you call it when monies appropriated by Congress that literally kept starving people alive in other parts of the world, are unilaterally rescinded by an executive with no legal power to do so? The richest man in the world caused the deaths of some of the poorest in the world, and fulfilled not one of the benefits he promised.
by rectang | 2025-06-12 19:27:24+00:00
Haha, I don't ordinarily spend a lot of time in the Google Cloud Console but just now I was debugging a squirrely OAuth issue with reCAPTCHA failing to refresh several days running. I'm getting this weird page error, and I think, "Is this an issue with my organization? [futz futz futz] Hey wait is GCP actually down?" And it turns out to be the top discussion on HN. XD
by BillyTheMage | 2025-06-12 19:27:52+00:00
Can someone point me in the direction of these alleged "good" AI please? All the ones I have discovered so far are fun little toys for an hour and then their massive problems become so apparent that I can't make myself take it seriously. Maybe Deepseek R1 was okay but ChatGPT is bottom of the barrel. So of course the ChatGPT guy is the one talking the loudest.

I know I must be missing something because people are building cool stuff with them. But when I try it I spend an hour trying to get the thing to stop being an anti-pattern engine.
by Whoppertime | 2025-06-12 19:27:56+00:00
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/05/22/japan/gre... Japan would be a classic example of a developed country hamstrung by unaffordable debt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy While Chinese Debt Trap Diplomacy is a classic example of the trap poorer countries can fall into with unaffordable debt
by jjani | 2025-06-12 19:28:01+00:00
> As an obvious foreigner, you are 100% exempt from all this. In fact, if you get it right, it'll make them feel weird and they'll try to avoid that.

Are you sure? In Korea, everyone who seriously cares about this stuff absolutely prefer it if you get all of it right. Of course, plenty of people (probably most under 30) secretly hate it and are therefore thankful if you don't get it right as it gives them a semi-out to be slightly more loose as well.

> I read a story once about someone who went to McDonalds in Japanese, and the clerk flipped the menu to the English side. The person flipped it back over, and the clerk flipped it to English again! They simply couldn't believe the foreigner could read it.

> And I've read stories of people who didn't act like a "gaijin" (foreigner) and people didn't know how to interact with them, and the person finally just accepted it and acted like they expected a gaijin to act, and then everything was fine.

Not trying to be rude but this pretty much tells me your first claim is likely wrong. Plenty of the exact same stories abound about Korea, especially online, yet they're both outdated and very cherry-picked. They're real, they happen (I've experienced them myself), but 99% of people would strongly prefer it if you were fluent in the language and followed every procedure as "normally" as possible.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-12 19:28:38+00:00
> If anything, what is happening in the US is exactly the opposite: Trump, who won the popular vote, therefore a representative of the oppressed majority, is waging a war against their oppression (as masses seems it) by the authoritarian deep state.

This is an absolutely wild way of framing what's happening. The oppressors trying to paint themselves as the oppressed. Who exactly are "the right" oppressed by, and how exactly are they being oppressed? Immigrants? Gays and Transsexuals? Science researchers? DEI HR departments? Because that's who they seem to be going after. These guys historically have not been oppressors.

What's happening in the US may not be authoritarianism, but it is definitely a powerful group, now that they are in power, inflicting cruelty against many smaller, weaker groups who cannot fight back.
by teaearlgraycold | 2025-06-12 19:28:39+00:00
Might just be a reflection of my enjoyment of life. I’ve been very lucky on most aspects. Perhaps if things were worse I’d wish for the knowledge that it could have gone differently.

But also it would be super trippy and interesting. Knowing just the mass of the universe you’d be able to peer into any time, past or present, and see exactly what happened. But then what happens around areas where people look into the local time? This happens in the show Devs. So not at all a new idea in scifi.
by vlod | 2025-06-12 19:29:11+00:00
At 25m20s [0] mark he talks about senators protecting the jobs (and the money they get from NASA) in their state, which impedes the general direction of NASA:

[0] https://youtu.be/6YdOjoaQTOQ?si=5DsRju_8qdwU29SO&t=1521
by NortySpock | 2025-06-12 19:29:11+00:00
> focusing on human spaceflight

Which has been lampooned by Robert Zubrin as "the ISS going in circles for decades in order to collect blood and urine samples". Robotic research has gotten more bang for our buck (You can explore an entire world via an orbiter (Cassini, Juno (on the budget chopping block), Osiris-Rex (the extended mission to Apophis is on the budget chopping block), Mars Observer, Messenger, etc to name a few missions) for ~$1B all in , far less than it costs to run the ISS ($3B / year)

> getting rid of green/climate research

Which is basically just a political attack, silencing research you don't want to hear about. It's about as effective as sticking your head in the sand to avoid the consequences of your life choices. It makes about as much logical sense, too.

> getting rid of general management

Possibly the only thing I find useful about the proposed budget cuts. Even then, I'd prefer targeted cuts, rather than throwing out entire department because you don't want to hear about how the Earth is changing, or how the Sun works, or learn enough about asteroids to adequately deflect them.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-06-12 19:29:58+00:00
well... sure. I hope we get a Congress that is more balanced and can compromise on things, but I am way too cynical to believe it will happen.

Best case might be a strong Republican majority in both houses that can just say 'no' to Trump or at least stiffle certain agendas. Politics is a blood sport, after all.
by hodgesrm | 2025-06-12 19:30:02+00:00
> It can require approval from the legal department and a high level official from the company to approve updating it and the verbiage used on the status page.

Is that true in this case or are you speculating? My company runs a cloud platform. Our strategy is to have outages happen as rarely as possible and to proactively offer rebates based on customer-measured downtime. I don't know why people would trust vendors that do otherwise.
by wordpad | 2025-06-12 19:30:23+00:00
> If later in the day you notice you're starting to procrastinate, immediately return to the system.

This is by far the most insightful advice backed by actual research.

Recognizing a deviation in your desired behavior and having a prepared fallback plan for how to get back on track.

Could be as simple as - if I catch myself scrolling on the phone I will put the phone down and standup.
by troupo | 2025-06-12 19:30:23+00:00
> No more Disney-fication, no more Marvel / Star Wars "mass media slop". We'll have media that caters to people's long-tail interests.

Lol. Where do you think these models will get the source data for these amazing generations?

Also, an average person's "long tail" is incredibly boring (I know mine is). You will need someone to create a next Breaking Bad, or a next Discworld, or... Your slop-generating machine will not be able to generate it from a "long tail"
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-12 19:30:33+00:00
Maybe hard things just take time and effort?

The Webb space telescope is a scientific instrument, not a product. Science instruments are always absurdly expensive and difficult to build. This magic idea that things just get cheaper or easier over time without fail is just an overly reductive idea of how things progress.

"Careful" is expensive and space will always require "careful" because it is insanely difficult to engineer around. It's also wildly unforgiving.

People also thought landing on the moon shouldn't be so difficult, yet lots of independent agencies and organizations are finding out that, no, small and minor mistakes or oversights will just destroy all your planning. That attention to detail will always be expensive.
by tehjoker | 2025-06-12 19:30:53+00:00
"most are combatants" serves to justify the ongoing genocide when the opposite is true in reality. The reality is most combatants are underground so Israel bombs civilians. This is in line with its war goals of ethnically cleansing Gaza so there is no contestation of its colonial claims.

Currently, Israel and the United States are luring starving Gazans with a pittance of aid into kill boxes using the intelligence front "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation". It's sick and depraved.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-12 19:31:15+00:00
>Egyptians waging war with the Atlanteans. But perhaps with the serious tone of "The Wire". That would never have been greenlit before

This is quite literally what the Marvel / Star wars mass media slop is, a sort of syncretistic version of every pop culture phenomenon scientifically engineered down to A/B tested audience taste. It's excatly what you're complaining about, never-ending banal stuff. It'll be Disneyfication on steroids.

It's a sort of media masturbation, hooking your brain up to itself and feeding it its own output, what the large studios are already doing with their franchises, just on an individual level. You'll basically sit in your own never-ending Marvel hell, basically D.F Wallace's Infinite Jest.

Art is obviously the opposite, something external and disruptive, a creative act from someone who isn't you.
by larrydag | 2025-06-12 19:31:20+00:00
"If SpaceX can do it, NASA can do it."

Space Shuttle never achieved is core objective and project shelved. Space Launch System is way past deadlines and cost. As far as launching systems NASA has not kept up since Apollo.

I would argue NASA has achieved great progress in Space research. Hubble, Voyager, Mars rovers, Webb telescope have made great advances in discovery. I would have NASA change its core objectives to new research activities.
by exoverito | 2025-06-12 19:31:29+00:00
Hard to argue that trans people are critical to America being a great power. High skill immigration is generally beneficial, but mass illegal migration is far more dubious, as seen in Europe. The OECD just reported that high immigration has actually been negative for Canada, which has had anemic economic growth for the past 10 years.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/high-immigration-is-worseni...

I don't think tax cuts for the rich are very wise given the budget deficit, but continuously increasing government spending, taxes and regulation is not wise either. U.S. government spending as a percentage of GDP is the highest it's ever been, even more than during WW2. Over regulation is a major problem, as seen with CAHSR, and even figures on the left are starting to realize it, e.g. Ezra Klein.
by mandevil | 2025-06-12 19:32:30+00:00
Down detector has a problem when whole clouds go down: unexpected dependencies. You see an app on a non-problematic cloud is having trouble, and report it to Down Detector but that cloud is actually fine- their actual stuff is running fine. What is really happening is that the app you are using has a dependency on a different SaaS provider who runs on the problematic cloud, and that is killing them.

It's often things like "we got backpressure like we're supposed to, so we gave the end user an error because the processing queue had built up above threshold, but it was because waiting for the timeout from SaaS X slowed down the processing so much that the queue built up." (Have the scars from this more than once.)
by ahartmetz | 2025-06-12 19:32:42+00:00
The new Star Wars mess makes it trivial to do a better job than the originals. It's been done before - recent (to me, because I watched Too Gun 1 to prepare for 2) example: Hot Shots has some clever humor, Top Gun is really a pretty dumb movie.

(Top Gun 2 is like a juvenile action flick for adult sensibilities - if that sounds good, you can watch it. It's a quality effort in many aspects.)
by msgodel | 2025-06-12 19:32:45+00:00
>All you have is ad hominem m8. It is hilarious as it is sad.

That's a little wild to hear from someone who's called me a nazi half a dozen times and seemed to think that changed the validity of his argument.

>Malaysia

I forgot Malaysia just lets anyone immigrate and call themselves Malaysian. It's crazy how accepting Asian countries are. They're all such a great example of how you can simultaneously have public health care and open borders.

>England

No. They do not have a functioning public health service. I don't know much about the other two states but if you put England in that list it makes me question the validity of the rest of it.

>The sad fact is, outside of local ambulance service in places like Malaysia or Colombia, most of these places have private hospitals for a Westerner that is quite affordable.

So you're in favor of private health care? I'm still not even sure why you've even brought all this up. Furthermore if you can afford private health care than why is public health care "a matter of self preservation?"
by AndyKelley | 2025-06-12 19:33:06+00:00
OK, parser then:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/1.87.0/compiler/rustc... (main logic seems to be in expr.rs)

vs

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/0.14.1/lib/std/zig/Parse...

Again, for those who wish to form their own opinions.
by commotionfever | 2025-06-12 19:33:10+00:00
since you mention Picard and wanting contribute to MusicBrainz. I'm working on a new fast tagger[1] in the spirit of Picard or beets. Just a little different and more scriptable

It makes it's best attempt to match with MusicBrainz, but if there's no match it it offers links to pre-seed MusicBrainz with tools like Harmony

https://github.com/sentriz/wrtag
by skrtskrt | 2025-06-12 19:34:12+00:00
I think this is actually a human struggle - I add Conclusions to my blog posts / dev guides because it feels awkward to just end with the last step.

But it also always feels like I am just awkwardly restating things I just said. It's not a thesis, an article generally not complicated enough to need a re-synthesizing of main points at the end.
by 6ak74rfy | 2025-06-12 19:35:17+00:00
What's the recommend full-stack setup, if not NextJS?

My background: I have ~15 years of software development experience, but practically all of it in backend stuff. (Well, I did some AngularJS a decade ago but that's it.) So, when I recently wanted to build a fullstack app for the first time for a side project, I looked around and learnt NextJS was the way to go. (Gemini said that, then Cline's official documentation said the same.) I am early in the process, so happy to learn of solid alternatives.

I am planning to host everything on some VPSes through Docker, because that's what I am comfortable with. So, no Vercel or Netlify.
by jmcgough | 2025-06-12 19:36:10+00:00
What private industry has been pushing for for decades is privatizing weather data so they can sell it at a profit. But weather information is a huge public good and has been provided by the federal government for decades. Privatizing it adds more costs to public research, and means that people who don't have money to spend on weather forecasting - those living in poverty and most at risk when it comes to life-threatening storms - will likely die in higher numbers from severe weather.
by redrove | 2025-06-12 19:36:13+00:00
I feel like this whole thing is widely misunderstood as a dichotomy; there is a spectrum of services, it’s not “pay a hyperscaler or own your racks, your land, building, run your own BGP, run generators, HVAC”.

What I personally think is we should see a return to the middle ground, more Digital Ocean, Linode, Hetzner, maybe more providers that rent space in existing datacenters. You know, some business that doesn’t charge 4x revenue for your bandwidth as a SMB.
by amarcheschi | 2025-06-12 19:36:51+00:00
To give more context copy pasting my comment from a similar thread

I would like to add that Paragon disagrees with COPASIR: (article in italian) https://www.fanpage.it/politica/paragon-smentisce-il-copasir... They offered to give some information about who was surveilled by whom, but not surprisingly the Italian government refused (it was used by 2 secret service agencies in italy). At this point, Paragon stopped giving its access to Italian agencies (spying on journalists is forbidden by Paragon'S tos). COPASIR say they are the ones who stopped the commercial relationships though, so it is clear as water that at least one party isn't telling the truth
by epage | 2025-06-12 19:37:34+00:00
That work is being tracked in https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5931

Someone has taken up the work on this though there are some foundational steps first.

1. We need to delineate intermediate and final build artifacts so people have a clearer understanding in `target/` what has stability guarantees (implemented, awaiting stabilization).

2. We then need to re-organize the target directory from being organized by file type to being organized by crate instance.

3. We need to re-do the file locking for `target/` so when we share things, one cargo process won't lock out your entire system

4. We can then start exploring moving intermediate artifacts into a central location.

There are some caveats to this initial implementation

- To avoid cache poisoning, this will only items with immutable source that and an idempotent build, leaving out your local source and stuff that depends on build scripts and proc-macros. There is work to reduce the reliance on build scripts and proc-macros. We may also need a "trust me, this is idempotent" flag for some remaining cases.

- A new instance of a crate will be created in the cache if any dependency changes versions, reducing reuse. This becomes worse when foundation crates release frequently and when adding or updating a specific dependency, Cargo prefers to keep all existing versions, creating a very unpredictable dependency tree. Support for remote caches, especially if you can use your project's CI as a cache source, would help a lot with this.
by Fluorescence | 2025-06-12 19:37:45+00:00
> clean build of a few thousand lines of rust took close to 10 minutes

That doesn't sound likely. I would expect seconds unless something very odd is happing.

Is the example symbolicator?

I can't build the optional "symbolicator-crash" crate because it's not rust but 300k of C++/C pulled from a git submodule that requires dependencies I am not going to install. Your complaint might literally be about C++!

For the rest of the workspace, 60k of rust builds in 60 seconds

- clean debug build on a 6 year old 3900X (which is under load because I am working)

- time includes fetching 650 deps over a poor network and building them (the real line count of the build is likely 100s of thousands or millions of lines of code)

- subsequent release build took 100s

- I use the mold linker which is advised for faster builds

- modern cpus are so much faster than my machine they might not even take 10s