MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Voultapher | 2025-07-05 21:55:08+00:00
I'm sure it can be annoying to collaborate with the other Linux people, especially if social interactions don't come easily to you - as I assume is the case for Kent - but if you want real adoption of your fs and improvement to the status quo, playing by their rules and being humble seems like the most reliably way to get there.

I say that as someone that has donated to the project. I want to have a real alternative to zfs, let's please get there.
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-05 21:55:14+00:00
> Unfortunately, if you go to ChatGPT and ask it to build a website/app, it immediately points the unknowing user towards a bunch of cloud-based tools like Fly.io, Firebase, Supabase, etc.

Not sure where your experience is coming from but when I asked an LLM, Claude to be more precise, it referred me to local options first, such as SQLite. It didn't consider cloud platforms at all until I had asked, presumably because it can understand local code and data (it can query it directly and get back results) but cannot understand the context of what's in the cloud unless you configure it properly and give it the env variables to query said data.
by zokier | 2025-07-05 21:55:36+00:00
Not sure if niche is right word to describe buck2; as I understand it's perfectly good general purpose build system. What it really is missing is just users, so that the ecosystem for it could get bootstrapped.

It's kinda awkward situation with Bazel, buck2 is arguably simply better system but Bazel has an ecosystem. That makes both of them less attractive solutions atm.

Naturally, the ecosystem is a chicken and egg situation; it will not improve unless some brave souls will do some trailblazing. Meta can not be expected to solve this when they have their own custom internal ecosystem which is not really applicable for others.
by anonymousiam | 2025-07-05 21:55:52+00:00
The IRS sucks. They're staffed with dishonest grifters. I dealt with them when my dad was still alive, and hadn't paid his taxes for 11 years. They would send him a bill and he would just pay it without filing. They would continue to bill, assuming that he was hiding something because he never filed. Unfortunately, I was never able to get most of that money back.

One time, the IRS "lost" the cost basis for my investments during a year of heavy trading. They sent me a bill for $400k. After fighting with them for over two years, I eventually had to pay them ($180 for something else I had overlooked and never got the records for). I went back and forth with them three times, and they kept claiming that I owed them smaller amounts, but still much larger than anything I actually owed.

Most recently, I accidentally over-withheld on my 2024 income. They owe me about $30k and they're in no hurry to pay me. Fortunately, I learned that they must pay interest (7%!) on my over-payment. Hopefully I'll get this settled before next April 15th, but if I don't, I'll be sure to under-withhold on some of my deferred income this year to balance it out.

What I've learned from all of this is that the IRS is less concerned with what is legal than with how much of your money they can grab. If you're wealthy enough to afford a good tax attorney, you can usually fight them and win.
by djoldman | 2025-07-05 21:56:04+00:00
Regardless of what one thinks about Amazon, one's actions have approximately zero effect on it.

Even if one controlled, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, or 100,000 people and commanded them to not use Amazon, it would have little effect.

If someone opts to stay away from Amazon, they should at least do it with clear eyes: they are doing it to feel something and will not actually affect the company.
by vlovich123 | 2025-07-05 21:56:14+00:00
I think you maybe misunderstood what I was trying to say.

A model like CUDA only works well for the problems it works well on. It requires both HW designed for these kinds of problems, a SW stack that can use it, and problems that fit well within that paradigm. It does not work well for problems that aren’t embarrassingly parallel, where you process a little bit of data, make a decision, process a little bit more etc. As an example, go try to write a TCP stack in CUDA vs a normal language to understand the inherent difficulty of such an approach.

And when I say “hw designed for this class of problems” I mean it. Why does the GPU have so much compute? It throws away HW blocks that modern CPUs have that help with “normal” code. Like speculative execution hardware, thread synchronization, etc.

It’s an tradeoffs and there’s no easy answers.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-07-05 21:56:29+00:00
There are a lot of valid answers to this! One is to use your platform's provided one, like OneDrive or iCloud. Another is to integrate with some other sync platform. Dropbox is a popular target for this. Peer-to-peer is another, although that obviously also come with limitations. Finally, bring-your-own-sync is a popular choice amongst open-source apps, where you provide a self-hostable sync server.
by reillyse | 2025-07-05 21:56:57+00:00
I would agree and it’s what we should be aiming for. As it is people are just throwing up their hands “what can you do”. Well close all the loopholes for one. I would go as far as to say the vast majority of the loopholes are just grift in one form or another. Some pork barrel BS is the rest (and I think these should be gotten rid of too).

I’m actually in favor of removing all charity exemptions too. They are just used by rich people to spend our money (the taxes they owe) on pet projects depriving everybody of that income.
by cogman10 | 2025-07-05 21:57:13+00:00
Strangely enough, yes to both (at least for in store purchases). And I find neither company particularly ethical.

They have a tighter control on their supply chain and don't have a truly open "market" where anyone can sell crap (or stolen crap).

A lot of this comes down to limited stocking and shelf space. Amazon effectively has unlimited storage space. Hence their ability to show off 6000 drop shipping products which are actually the same product.

Walmart and Target, on the other hand, have to be somewhat judicious because shelf space is limited. They can't have a row of the same products under different labels. And if what they choose to sell has quality problems they get hit harder for it. They take the loss for the unsold counterfeit goods. Amazon, by their nature, sees minimal hits when products are determined to be counterfeit. That usually just means they blacklist a seller. They are hardly impacted.

Also, funnily enough, it's why I don't worry about counterfeits at Wholefoods even though it's parent company is Amazon.
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-05 21:57:17+00:00
Yes, that is true, but again for apps like a fitness tracker, it is not "content" based. Sure, it might have some AI in the form of chatbots to ask what your diet plan should be based on your current progress, but that's not what you're talking about. In my experience, most local-first apps are like this fitness tracker, utility tools, rather than a means to view content, like TikTok.
by lxgr | 2025-07-05 21:57:31+00:00
> Just on my phone, several apps let me subscribe via the Apple AppStore but also by subscribing on their website with a credit card (like Discord, NYT, AllTrails, HBO, etc)

This is one of the few historical exemptions from Apple's otherwise ironclad IAP rules for so-called "reader apps".

Still, until very recently, these apps could not even mention that you can buy content/subscriptions on their website for cheaper (or, in some cases like the Kindle app, exclusively buy it there), let alone link to said website.

Now, the landscape is somewhat fragmented: In the EU, thanks to the DMA, external linking to external payment methods is allowed, but comes with a "scare sheet" and still grants Apple a cut of 20%(!). (This is about to change, I believe, but I'm not super up to date on it.)

In the US, developers can now apparently link to external payment sites (in SAfari) without Apple being allowed to charge a commission at all. This is a very recent development, and I haven't seen it in action myself.
by exmadscientist | 2025-07-05 21:59:12+00:00
The graphs are, in fact, utter BS. They don't really match the method described in the "analytical approach" section particularly well.

The real conclusions are in Table 2. "Pet ownership" is barely "statistically significant" (yeah, I know...) there. Tables 3, 4, and 5 should be similar but as a whole things are kind of all over the place.

It's not a strong paper.
Show HN: Certimon – Free Telegram bot to monitor SSL certificate expiry
by boros2me | 2025-07-05 21:59:27+00:00
Hey folks,

I'm a developer who got tired of having to rely on SaaS providers for such a simple task as monitoring an SSL certificate expiry. I had to create calendar entries just for the sake of making sure we don't forget it because of course warning emails got lost or the person responsible was on holiday..

So instead of "building yet another platform" I decide to take the un-sexy and simple route and put together a Telegram bot, called it Certimon. Thanks to Claude and Cursor I also put together a landing page for it https://certimon.com/ but I don't think you'll get any value out of it...

If you want to give it a try, just add @CertimonBot to your Telegram or visit https://t.me/certimonbot to add directly.

You can check a domain like this: /check google.com

And get reminders like: /remind google.com 30

It's 100% free, supports as many domains as you need and you won't need to sign up to anything or download anything (assuming you already have Telegram).

Hope someone other than me will find this useful, would love to hear your thoughts, comments and questions!

Edit: Forgot to mention, but the operational cost of this solution is around £3 per month on AWS.

-Tamas
by intellectronica | 2025-07-05 21:59:54+00:00
A few extra tricks that worked for me (you can alternate depending on what fits best in the moment):

- Embrace the role of imposter. Instead of whining about imposter syndrome, accept a-priori that you are an imposter. The game is to survive as long as possible as an imposter in a world full of naturals. You lose not when you are made out, but when you give up.

- Embrace being a useless git. You're an idiot, you have no talent whatsoever, you don't have the skill yet, and there's no hope you'll ever acquire it. So, no pressure, you're only playing. Anything beyond failing completely is a bonus.

- Commit to "open to goal". You are starting today and you'll go on for as long as it takes. Possibly until you die. There's no deadline and no expected speed. You're just being stubborn and refuse to stop trying even in the face of evidence that you have no chance.

- Be delusional about "the hack". You are special and you've discovered a hack that makes it easier and faster for you to acquire the new skill and apply it successfully than it is for most people. All you have to do is go through the motions, "the hack" will take care of things.

- Fight injustice. You are _entitled_ to have this skill and the success it affords people, it is your god-given, inalienable right. But the world / family / society / boss / ex / whatever screwed you and you've been deprived of what's rightfully yours. Fuck them, you are now on a quest to acquire by brute force what you deserve.
by ajross | 2025-07-05 22:00:48+00:00
FWIW, my suspicion is that people motivated by "Amazon is full-stop evil and an enemy of Civil Rights, Human Rights, Workers, Small Businesses, and Democracy"[1] would be even less motivated to shop at the temple of Sam Walton.

But even so, I just checked and of the last 12 items in my Amazon purchase history, Walmart.com loses on every one of them before shipping is included. They're not really in the game absent externalities like location or specific product.

[1] Not hyperbole: those are the sections in the linked article!
by rwallace | 2025-07-05 22:00:55+00:00
Looking through the latest 'Who's Hiring' thread last week, I noticed that a higher percentage of the remote jobs seemed to specify Remote (US). Could one of the causes of that, have been employers reading ahead and making decisions on the basis that this bill might be passed? Or is there some other reason? Or is it just a case where it fluctuates randomly from month to month, and I am trying to read pattern into random noise?
Ask HN: Do you regret not being a Dr, lawyer, or something with advanced degree?
by AbstractH24 | 2025-07-05 22:00:56+00:00
For years tech has been the shortcut to a good salary without an advanced degree and the years of post-undergrad training they required before entering the field.

On the one hand, tech is increasingly becoming hard to find a job in or feel certain about long-term ability to do so. On the other, the older I get the less envious I become of specialist doctors and their astronomical salaries, after factoring in the amount of debt, years spent not earning anything, and workloads I see them try to balance. And lawyers, dentist, pharmacists, etc. they no longer seem worth it at all.

Curious how others feel.
by dlcarrier | 2025-07-05 22:01:00+00:00
This makes sense, from a political perspective. Cell phone usage while driving causes major harm, and while hands free devices don't significantly reduce that harm (https://www.fastcompany.com/91076805/cellphones-hands-free-d...) banning use of cell phones while driving is politically untenable, because constituents want to be able tu use cell phones while driving. Writing a law to ban the holding of a cell phones while driving, without banning their actual use, provides the appearance that politicians care about the constituency, without the inconvenience of regulations that actually impact safety.

From a statistical perspective, it's possible that it's worse than having no regulation at all, because people take more risks when using safety equipment (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4767144/), so ineffective safety equipment might increase risk taking, making a net negative effect.
by RHSeeger | 2025-07-05 22:01:23+00:00
> our money (the taxes they owe)

I'm all for removing loopholes where it's possible. However

- It's not "our money". It's money that, we a society, feel validated in taking from members of our society to pay for things that make our society better. But it is, in no way, "our money". We're taking it from people, at force, because we believe it's worth it.

- The only taxes that are "owed" are the ones defined by the rules (laws); pretty much by definition. If the rule doesn't say they owe it, then they don't owe it.
by pcrh | 2025-07-05 22:01:35+00:00
My point is that LLMs, by virtue of how they work, cannot properly evaluate novel research.

Edit, consider the following hypothetical:

A couple of biologists travel to a remote location and discover a frog with an unusual method of attracting prey. This frog secretes its own blood onto leaves, and then captures the flies that land on the blood.

This is quite plausible from a perspective of the many, many, ways evolution drives predator-prey relations, but (to my knowledge) has not been shown before.

The biologists may have extensive documentation of this observation, but there is simply no way that an LLM would be able to evaluate this documentation.
by jes5199 | 2025-07-05 22:01:56+00:00
I vote blue but I don’t see the dems fast-tracking fission! Or really anything else particularly effective about climate for the last 30 years.

anyway my model is: we just have to survive a few years before Wright’s Law pushes solar+batteries so cheap that fossil is priced out of the market. Thus aerosol injection to bridge the gap until drawdown
by lxgr | 2025-07-05 22:01:56+00:00
I love the idea! But to be true to the original, shouldn't the message be self-propagating?

> [...] header that can be transmitted from server to server [...]

How so? In HTTP, there's always one client and one server. Am I missing some way to make this sticky or self-propagating, e.g. browsers or other clients that will cache received headers and then send them to other servers?
by kaycey2022 | 2025-07-05 22:02:00+00:00
Phoning home isn’t wrong. Ideally in the case of the crew, if the management had an ounce of brains they would have got a couple of devs to patch that code such that it wouldn’t make the game inoperable even though the servers don’t respond. But then some idiot executive might have opposed that patch saying we cannot remove “DRM Protection” from our properties. The problem here is that company executives and leadership, especially in outfits like Ubisoft, have no vision no skill. They are just MBA grifters who are milking brands and pretending they are looking out for the shareholders. These parasites would simply move from company to company, spreading their poison everywhere. And now there is crazy talk of forcing code to be open source. Absolute madness.
by jvanderbot | 2025-07-05 22:02:06+00:00
I hate to be this guy, really, but did you consider that hypocrisy and anti-hypocrisy is basically what OP meant by "feelings" since they are based on (mostly self) perceptions? (Have you ever pointed out hypocrisy to someone? They are quick to tell you why you're wrong - it's absolutely about self justification not external judgement)
by markb139 | 2025-07-05 22:03:09+00:00
37 is young. Trust me, in a few weeks I’ll be 60.

My whole life I’ve known I was an engineer. However, for a great chunk of the early years I couldn’t express that and did really badly at school.

I just learnt at my own pace and eventually worked as an electronics engineer in the broadcast industry. Then quit that and moved into sw dev.

One piece of advice is to just build stuff, fail and learn.

Good luck
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-05 22:04:19+00:00
Step 0. In America, be rich to receive all of the legalized tax dodges to pay less than ordinary workers.

Also note that US citizens who leave the country and pay foreign income taxes elsewhere still have to pay federal income taxes just like the only other country that does this, Eritrea. The only way out is to renounce citizenship and be doxed in the Federal Register, pay lots of legal costs, and risk arbitrary demands for $10k fines for "not paying back taxes" and also being denied entry should it be determined for it was "economic reasons" any point in the future.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-07-05 22:04:42+00:00
While we don’t know an enormous amount about the brain, we do know a pretty good bit about individual neurons, and I think it’s a good guess, given current science, to say that a solidly accurate simulation of a large number of neurons would lead to a kind of intelligence loosely analogous to that found in animals. I’d completely understand if you disagree, but I consider it a good guess.

If that’s the case, then the gulf between current techniques and what’s needed seems knowable. A means of approximating continuous time between neuron firing, time-series recognition in inputs, learning behavior on inputs prior to actual neuron firing (akin to behavior of dendrites), etc. are all missing functionalities in current techniques. Some or all of these missing parts of biological neuron behavior might be needed to approximate animal intelligence, but I think it’s a good guess that these are the parts that are missing.

AI currently has enormous amounts of money being dumped into it on techniques that are lacking for what we want to achieve with it. As they falter more and more, there will be an enormous financial interest in creating new, more effective techniques, and the most obvious place to look for inspiration will be biology. That’s why I think it’s likely to happen in the next few decades; the hardware should be there in terms of raw compute, there’s an obvious place to look for new ideas, and there’s a ton of financial interest in it.
by derefr | 2025-07-05 22:06:08+00:00
My hypothesis is that, at least on VisionOS, some apps are full of — almost cluttered with — 3D objects; and so Apple felt that, for the sake of your eye being easily able to jump to "where the UI is" amongst all that, the user needed to be able to visually differentiate/distinguish action buttons (incl. "buttons that launch apps" — essentially what these app icons are, esp. on the mobile OSes) from those 3D objects. This was achieved by ensuring that action buttons are always button-shaped, rather than allowing them to be arbitrary-object-shaped.

Note that, in this UX-design paradigm, the icon on (in?) a button still can be its own standalone object of arbitrary shape, rather than being forced to be button-shaped itself (see e.g. the Stickies or Game Center icons in TFA.) But that standalone object has to then be "encased" in the "app button" glass (as if encasing something in a puck of pourable resin), to make it visually obvious that this object is functionally a button, rather than just being some random 3D object with its own arbitrary interaction semantics.

Funny enough, this is almost exactly the complement to the problem of visually differentiating action buttons from 2D content. In a 2D UI, you want to make the action buttons more 3D-looking than the 2D stuff around them, to help them stand out. Thus the Windows XP / macOS 9 era of "jelly" buttons with that visually bulge toward the screen — standing proud of the content, affording touch.

But if everything is 3D / stands proud in arbitrary ways, then overlaid actions will stand out better if they're less 3D — making it clear that they're sitting "on the HUD" rather than "in the world." Such objects can be literal 2D — or you can get fancy and choose some unusual middle-ground, like the sort of 2.5D papercut-diorama look that "liquid glass" achieves.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-05 22:08:17+00:00
At first I thought this was just a toy, until I got to the Polonium-210. Holy cow. Wikipedia calls it "highly radioactive" and "extremely dangerous to humans" and says that "has the ability to become airborne with ease." Wonder how many kids managed to ingest it. This is the stuff that was used to poison Alexander Litvinenko.

But it was just "minute traces."
by impossiblefork | 2025-07-05 22:08:30+00:00
I find this super surprising, because even I who don't do aerodynamics I still know about thes guys.

Bleriot was a french aviation pioneer and not a physicist. He built the first monoplane. Busemann was an aerodynamicist who invented wing sweep and also did important work on supersonic flight. Prandtl is known for research on lift distribution over wings, wingtip vortices, induced drag and he basically invented much of the theory about wings. Whitcomb gave his name to the Whitcomb area rule, although Otto Frenzl had come up with it earlier during WWII.
by OptionOfT | 2025-07-05 22:09:13+00:00
> Mounted phones, and drivers operating them with a single swipe, are exempted, according to the decision, but looking at a map while holding the phone would violate the current law, the court ruled.

If car screens were grouped under the same ruling, a lot of modern implementations would (rightfully) be illegal.

On a modern BMW with iDrive 8 I need at least 2 presses to change my blower settings, all while the temperature indicator is flashing at me that it is heating / cooling.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-07-05 22:09:59+00:00
I second this -- but, at the same time, it's such a shame that Tchaikovsky hasn't written anything else worth a damn, despite writing something like three novels every year!

His two most recent, Shroud and Service Model, are bloated, uninspired, and borderline unreadable. I guess he's now subject to that curse of established authors, where editors are scared to mess with their manuscripts and trim the fat.
by mitchellh | 2025-07-05 22:10:04+00:00
For any startup that actually reaches a sizable liquidity event of any form, it's very common.

As background: I cofounded a startup that made a lot of people millionaires. QSBS really helped a lot of people. Yeah, if you're going to make deca-millions anyways then it seems like a handout, but if you're "only" making a few million dollars it's the difference between retiring and not.