MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bitlax | 2025-06-20 13:39:11+00:00
The commenters here have simply assured me that allowing these people to live near me will expose my young children to marijuana smoke, and that I will not and should not have any recourse. Many of them are marijuana smokers themselves. They have no answers, to the extent they could even see this as a problem at all or understand my very common point of view.

This seems like a no-brainer, and I will continue to vote and advocate against these policies, to the extent that I need to because most of the people I live near agree with me. Thanks all.
by saluki | 2025-06-20 13:39:59+00:00
I've been fully remote since 2012, you'll get the hang of it.

My teams have used a lot of slack msgs and slack huddles, lots of zoom meetings so everyone feels pretty connected.

It's great if you can meet up together at least once a year, work out of an office together and go out, grab drinks, eat meals together for team building.

You'll need a routine, exercise, taking breaks, leverage flexible hours, take a trip and work remote from somewhere cool and interesting.

Take breaks to cook a meal, laundry, play guitar for 10 minutes, get outside for a quick walk, enjoy your pets, say hi to your family, have lunch with a friend, you won't go stir crazy.

Being remote is one of my favorite things about my career, I love it.
by darkwater | 2025-06-20 13:40:09+00:00
Nobody is denying that. But GP was saying that now with k8s developers don't need to know about the network. My rebuttal is that devs never had to do that. Now maybe even Ops people can ignore some of that part because many more things are automated or work out of the box. But the inner complexity of SDNs inside k8s in my opinion is higher than managing your typical star topology + L4 routing + L7 proxies you had to manage yourself back in the days.
by prasadjoglekar | 2025-06-20 13:40:50+00:00
Universities are already doing this. Those with modestly large endowments are functionally private equity firms whose job is to generate enough cash flow to pay themselves, top admins, sports coaches and profs.

Academics, research, govt grants etc. are all means to that end.

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/05/harvard-salaries-top...
by anal_reactor | 2025-06-20 13:40:52+00:00
Honestly, my European perspective is that a homeless person is someone who burnt through their entire support network - family, friends, state help. If they're mentally fit, then their choices landed them on the street, not my problem, be a fucking adult. If they're not mentally fit, then they should be sent to a mental institution, because they won't function in the society no matter what you do.

Also, of course nobody wants to live with poor people. I don't buy this romantic image of poor people being fair citizens failed by the rest of the society. I moved into a poor neighborhood and immediately had my bike stolen, literally living the meme. Real estate prices are lower here exactly because it's a black immigrant neighborhood full of poor people.
by 3D30497420 | 2025-06-20 13:41:19+00:00
> I'm sure I'm not the only one who has led my AI assistant into a corner it couldn't get itself out of

My team recently did a vibe coding exercise to get a sense of the boundaries of current LLMs. I kept running into a problem where the LLM would code a function that worked perfectly fine. I'd request tweak and it would sometimes create a new, independent function, and then continually update the new completely orphaned function. Naturally, the LLM was very confident that it was making the changes, but I was seeing no result. I was able to manually edit the needed files to get unstuck, but it kept happening.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-20 13:41:51+00:00
The [flagged] indicator on a submission usually indicates user flagging. Moderators and algorithms just quietly downweight submissions without any visible indicator. So this isn't an HN moderator position, the question to resolve is why users would flag it.

In this case, I'd have flagged them too if I saw them. The "long live" post is an aggressive tirade that reflects poorly on the author and led to a poor-quality discussion. The second is a link to a git commit history, which is weird in its own right and provides no explanation, and the context provided in the comments shows that a generally dislikable figure with extreme political views is now leading a fork of X11 that has yet to prove itself viable. So I'd probably have flagged that one too as pointless drama until proven otherwise.
by jicea | 2025-06-20 13:42:43+00:00
Maintainer here, thanks for the feedbacks. 6-7 years ago, when we started working on Hurl, we started with a JSON then a YAML file format. We gradually convinced ourself to write a new file format and I completely understand that it might feel weird. We tried (maybe not succeeded!) to have something simple for the simple case...

I'm really interested by issues with the documentation: it can always be improved and any issues is welcome!
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-20 13:42:56+00:00
Those are unknown to you, but not completely random. They are at least rich enough to go on vacation, and outgoing enough to go to a bar (and either have friends to go on vacation with or be coupled up), and the bartender is helping you screen them.

Many people typically want to chat with people unknown to them, but not completely random either (especially for women).
Bloomberg Terminal for GPUs – Because Compute Is the New Currency
by x-007 | 2025-06-20 13:44:53+00:00
The next market isn’t stocks or crypto. It’s compute.

We built Market01 to make the fragmented GPU ecosystem transparent, efficient, and tradable just like financial markets.

Two interfaces, one goal: to bring clarity to compute.

Normal Mode is a simple, fast web view for exploring specs, pricing, and availability https://market-01.lovable.app/

Terminal Mode is a full-screen Bloomberg-style terminal with real-time pricing, order books, market depth, and GPU inventory analytics https://market01-x.lovable.app/

Whether you're sourcing GPUs for training at scale, building infrastructure for resale or orchestration, watching market signals for hardware opportunities, or just want visibility into the backbone of the AI economy, Market01 gives you a unified interface for the GPU market.

Built by developers frustrated by the chaos of hardware sourcing, Market01 is our attempt to treat compute as a first-class market with pricing intelligence, global inventory views, and structured transparency.

This is version one. We're shipping fast. Feedback, collaborations, infrastructure use cases, and investor conversations are all welcome.

Try it out Terminal: https://market01-x.lovable.app/ Web: https://market-01.lovable.app/

Let us know what’s missing so we can build it.
by HK-NC | 2025-06-20 13:45:04+00:00
Isn't this just part of living in overcrowded cities? I have lived in several small villages and everyone greets one another in passing, neighbours get familiar, strangers you see around make an effort to get to know the person they keep seeing. In the city I might walk past the same person every day on the way to work for 4 years but a smile and eye contact would be received as enthusiastically as a leaflet from a Mormon.
by muzani | 2025-06-20 13:45:08+00:00
Not really.

Langchain was designed for chaining requests together, back when you had to maintain context with AI yourself. OpenAI figured a fix that works for both humans and AI - putting comms in a chat format, and so we didn't need to chain input.

Langchain was one of the earliest to RAG, but it was more of a hack and didn't do as well as many alternatives.

It seems like they're going into agents now. No comment but it feels like they're a step behind.
by conductr | 2025-06-20 13:45:08+00:00
Yeah, makes logical since from a risk management perspective. Consumers aren’t logical though and this is a major reason for me to ignore/dismiss your offering. Also the prices are kind of absurd IMO. I pay my gardener $40 per session and housekeeping is $120 per. I could see some initial premium for tech enthusiasts, but this is significantly more expensive then status quo.

I’d recommend you just come up with an average price that covers your expected risks and then track activities performed if you want that data. Adjust your single price to risk adjust on actual data when you have the data.

In any case, good luck it’s an interesting concept
by danaris | 2025-06-20 13:45:21+00:00
I think that's the wrong angle to look at this from.

People do live in LA, and they expect to be able to do things like shop at a grocery store and buy their coffee at a Starbucks.

Therefore, there's a need for people to work at such jobs.

If those jobs don't pay enough to afford to live in LA, that means there's a structural problem that needs to be solved, one way or another, and individual choices (like "I will move away from LA") will never be enough to fix it.
by Joker_vD | 2025-06-20 13:45:30+00:00
From the mentioned Reddit thread:

> Go back and tell the CEO, great news: we can save eight times as much money by replacing our CEO with an AI.

The funny ("funny"?) thing is, this is proposal is somehow missing in most discussions about AI. But seriously, the quality of decision making would probably not suffer that much if we replaced our elites with LLMs, and it still would be way cheaper, on the whole (and with mostly the same accountability). But apparently people in charge don't see themselves as fungible and would rather not replace themselves with AI; and since they are the ones in charge then this, tautologically, won't happen.
by jjice | 2025-06-20 13:45:43+00:00
> Their laptops don’t feel as premium, imo

Agreed. I've been using a Framework 13 AMD since they came out (almost two years?) and it's an excellent machine, but some of the hardware just isn't as good. The display, trackpad, and build quality aren't as good.

That said, there's still not a single machine on the market that I'd rather use. I actually own and control my laptop hardware, and while I'd get better battery life on a MacBook, I like that this machine is _actually_ mine.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-20 13:46:17+00:00
I've been totally breaking Linux installs trying to get Nvidia to work for 15 years now, and that's on X11. On the other hand I recently did the first OS upgrade that I've ever done successfully without breaking Nvidia and that was running Wayland.

Nvidia is just really really bad on Linux in general, so it's always a coin toss if you'll be able to boot your system after messing with their drivers, regardless of display server.
by DrNosferatu | 2025-06-20 13:46:18+00:00
Are you really concerned about the consequences of AI?

Then, empower UN-like organizations to oversee the use of technology - like the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.

And, if you're even further concerned, put in place mechanisms that guarantee that the productivity gains, yields, and GDP increases obtained via the new technology of AI are distributed and enjoyed by all of the living population with a minimum of fairness.

For some reason, specially this last bit, doesn't really fly with our friends, The Rationalists. I wonder why...
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-20 13:46:27+00:00
Look at Microsoft Windows. You can still run Access '97 because all the DLLs with the GUI widgets from Win '95 are still there. Until 2012 or so, Microsoft would regularly come out with a whole new widget set every few years. You can see this most notably in the settings UI for Windows where there are some screens in the "modern" UI and plenty of dialogs that still come from the '95/NT 4 era.

Since then Microsoft has had no real answer for "how do I write desktop applications for Windows?" other than "use Electron".

(If they were still introducing new widget sets they'd be converting the 'modern' dialogs to something 'postmodern' while still having Win '95 dialogs in there)
by imiric | 2025-06-20 13:46:29+00:00
> Gmail and few other email providers have largely taken over.

That's not true. There are _many_ other, not few, email providers to choose from besides Gmail.

> If you are not on good terms with them , email does not get delivered.

It's not like all email goes through Gmail... If for some reason your mail server is flagged by Gmail's systems, then it only won't reach Gmail users.

> Hence why every professional uses a cloud mailers.

That's not true either. Many people self-host their email servers, and don't have any issues. Protocols like DKIM, DMARC, and SPF ensure the integrity of the sender, and all major providers obey them. These days with projects like Mox and Mail-in-a-Box it's also trivially easy to run your own server.

So services built on decentralized protocols remain decentralized precisely because decentralization was a key design choice. This idea that the world gravitates towards centralization is false.
by ChocolateGod | 2025-06-20 13:47:25+00:00
> X11 had problems, but instead of fixing them

You can't fix a protocol that simply isn't designed for how modern graphics hardware works. Both macOS and Windows have upgraded their display stacks over the decades, but it was seamless because unlike Linux, nearly all applications dynamically link the system library which they can upgrade. Linux is late to the party here because everyone wants to make their own toolkit.

X was designed for multiple remote terminals receiving drawing commands over a network, not locally hardware accelerated graphical interfaces and functions that rely on close coordination between the hardware and display server (e.g. hardware planes, vrr, hdr).

Fixing X would require a new protocol to the point that it isn't X anymore, aka Wayland. There are arguments that not having a reference display server has led to problems though.
by huem0n | 2025-06-20 13:48:11+00:00
I'm glad you're telling us it should be socially acceptable to treat you like a robot at your job. I hope every customer coworker and business partner honors your wish by pretending you are a lifeless chunk of metal with no purpose other than satisfying the agreed upon transaction. If insulting you feels good to them, I hope they will berate you endlessless for things that are not your fault (a robot wouldn't care). After all, whether its reliability or the desire for a verbal punching bag, the customer is always right regardless of anything the employee may feel.

When you are old and gray, I hope strangers continue to honor your wish by seeing you as a worthless husk because you no longer capable of offering any services they care about.

Old people I know that treat employees like robots don't have many friends or family they care about them. Maybe, if you coincidentally end up in that position too, you can pay robots to keep you company. I hear they're very reliable and predictable.
by Spivak | 2025-06-20 13:48:40+00:00
Do you mean dbus as the other protocol? Because that's an intentional choice to separate out the protocol for drawing windows and responding to events and "desktop stuff" that's not related to being a window on the screen. They're not plastering over anything, that stuff is intentionally out of scope for Wayland.

The advantage is that anything can use the desktop stuff (cli tools) just by talking to dbus instead of having to be a wayland client despite having no windows.
by vidarh | 2025-06-20 13:48:46+00:00
I'm sorely tempted to take the backend of a Wayland compositor and write a new X server on top of it, with a focus on deprecating everything not actually used by modern X apps that don't have alternatives, which would be a lot.

I bet you could benefit from quite a bit of the Wayland compositor work on modernising the lower levels, and end up with something much simpler than current Xorg without ditching much compatibility.
by meansob | 2025-06-20 13:49:03+00:00
> without realizing that they might not go past the first interview. They don't realize that it's a waste of their time and the employer's time.

Still, not getting past the first interview is better than not getting there on the first place.

During my last job search, I was getting desperate and at one point ran my resume again some ATS scanning tools. I was getting dinged for not having verbatim buzzword slop in my resume (that matches the JD). Shit like "business solutions".
by hemogloben | 2025-06-20 13:49:43+00:00
Trans has been a thing since a whole lot longer than that.

Discussions like this often end up at WW2 and that's not what I'm saying here, but Germany in the 1920s was essentially the Gay/Trans hub of the world until it wasn't: https://www.netflix.com/title/81331646.

But even that's not the beginning of 'trans'.

The reason trans isn't 'flying under the radar', isn't because trans people got too proud. Its because one political party decided to shine the magnifying glass to turn trans into a political issue.
by Rastonbury | 2025-06-20 13:49:49+00:00
Couple of point to that, mainly why should one have to follow darwinian evolution just because we are a product of that. It's similar to the natural law argument against homosexuality, that unnatural sex is wrong. The argument against that is natural biology does not inform what is good or what we should do.

I'm sure you would be able to predict what a rationalise will say when you ask them what future they prefer: one where we maximises for the number of humans or one with fewer humans but better lives
by grey-area | 2025-06-20 13:49:59+00:00
Humans would not forget to connect water to a room and if they did would know how to diagnose and fix it by reasoning about it and eliminating possible causes, something that lllm’s are not capable of.

Many many people report experiences that directly contradict what you say next. The type of large language model people currently label as AI does not learn and when asked to fix a problem it takes another guess, usually also wrong, sometimes creating other problems.
by riskable | 2025-06-20 13:50:32+00:00
No. If you live in an apartment building and you stop by the coffee shop on the first floor on your way to work every day you get to know the people that work there. Or rather, you would get to know the people that work there if the corporation that owned the franchise paid/cared enough to retain people.

It's the same story everywhere—regardless of whether or not you live in a big city or a small town: It's "jobs", not people.
by danaris | 2025-06-20 13:52:25+00:00
The US has a very strong thread of Calvinist/Puritan/Protestant theology and thought running through its cultural foundations. One of the effects of this is a cultural predisposition to believe in something approximating the Just World theory—that is, that if someone is rich, it is because they are a better person (or blessed by God, or destined to be rich), while if they are poor it is because they are inferior people who deserve to be so.

This cultural background makes it very easy for people to look at their own lives and see their successes as their own work, and their failures as bad luck—but then look at other people's lives and see both success and failure as being 100% a product of their own deserving. (When in reality, everyone's successes and failures are a blend of luck and merit, with a pretty heavy emphasis on the luck, especially the luck of what family you were born into.)
by auto | 2025-06-20 13:52:41+00:00
> Frustrated by the constant intrusions of child care and housework — “the back half of life,” as she called it — on her creative ambitions, she resolved to simply turn the work into her creative product. “Clean your desk, wash the dishes, clean the floor, wash your clothes, wash your toes, change the baby’s diaper, finish the report, correct the typos, mend the fence,” she wrote in the treatise, which was published by Artforum in 1971. “Clear the table, call him again, flush the toilet, stay young.”

There's more here than just the sanitation narrative, she's tapping into the focus Zen puts on the present, that these every day chores ARE the meditation, or in this case, the artistic expression.
by bmacho | 2025-06-20 13:53:06+00:00
No, a project or a project leader having haters (just this thread there are 3 distinct people jumping in with various insults or fake news on normal questions) should not be enough for something to get censored. What kind of 'Why are you hitting yourself?' logic is that?

> You keep assuming that it's HN staff,

It's HN staff, and I've already explained it. Read back.
by paulnpace | 2025-06-20 13:53:21+00:00
Came here to say exactly this.

People living in their cars is a kind of shadow population that is almost impossible to count. I lived in a small-ish town with literally a handful of the type of homelessness we normally think of, yet at least once per month I would see someone getting gas that was clearly living in their car, and this was at a really cheap gas station nowhere near the interstate, so it was locals who knew where to get gas.
by Foma98 | 2025-06-20 13:53:27+00:00
For me, it’s SEO. I've always been fascinated by how search engines work, but for the longest time, it felt too technical or overwhelming — algorithms, keywords, backlinks, content strategies... it was a lot.

Recently though, I took the plunge and created a Turkish-language book site: https://kitab-evi.com/. It’s all about literature and reading, and now I’m diving into SEO with the goal of getting it to rank in the top search results. I’m learning step by step — experimenting with keyword research, improving on-page structure, and exploring tools like Google Search Console and Ahrefs.

It’s still intimidating sometimes, but I’ve found that the best way to learn is just to start. If anyone has tips or resources for multilingual SEO or ranking content in non-English markets, I’d love your advice!
by Loughla | 2025-06-20 13:53:34+00:00
Cyberpunks became well dressed because manufacturers realized it was a way to sell people things, probably around the time The Matrix came out. If the aesthetic is old, grungy clothes, there isn't much money to be made.

But if popular media shows cyberpunk aesthetic as chic and cool, now we can sell shiny pants to 20 year olds.

Maybe I'm just extra disillusioned today, but it does seem like mainstream marketing and sales is the death of all things. Now I am become salesman, destroyer of worlds.
by stpedgwdgfhgdd | 2025-06-20 13:53:48+00:00
Probably not a popular take on HN; valuable information should not be hidden in commits but in comments. Especially the WHY is crucial to write down in comments.

I’m fine that people squash as long the reasoning is recorded in comments and reflected through automated tests (unit AND system/api).

This is also crucial information for AI coding tools.
by atonse | 2025-06-20 13:54:40+00:00
I did find the economist sounding more rational when they were analyzing all the crazy news of the last few months.

Like for example when Trump was talking about Greenland, most of the news was talking about how ridiculous or belligerent or imperialistic it was.

But my question was “why is ANYONE, including Trump, even talking about Greenland? It seems totally random” and they had an interesting explanation about Greenland’s strategic value and why there’s even an argument about it.
by wjnc | 2025-06-20 13:55:14+00:00
This article could be so much better: How large are the estimated stores of ore that underwent natural fission? How much energy did it release and over how much time? When? Would this be noticable (and to whom)? So many questions, so little information.

I only know (or knew) high school physics, and when entering this in Claude I get an answer but am unable to verify the answer. Claude says 680 kWh gained per 0.03 grams of U-235 lost due to fission. I am left wondering into what the U-235 fizzed into (sorry, pun) and if I should take that into account.

Edit: There we go with modernity. I went to Claude instead of Wikipedia. Wikipedia at least has the answers. Thanks u/b800h. 100kW of heat on average. I can start filling in the blanks now.