MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-04 18:17:10+00:00
It could be anything, but it resonates with people for a very good reason. Many people feel the negatives of technology and social media and miss the time before it. I know how sentiment will skew here, and I know it's easy to take for granted the advantages of having a fully capable pocket computer. But I also understand what we have given up for it.
by soulofmischief | 2025-07-04 18:17:51+00:00
That's extremely judgmental of you. There is strong merit in building online, international but close-knit communities. I have met many friends for life through the internet and through my own experience as CTO of a popular metaverse project (that failed because of a hostile takeover and ridiculous pivot to a sex bot startup that spat in the face of our loyal users)

I cared deeply about our users, about connection and technology. I also love being outside and meeting IRL with friends I've met online. I just took a road trip through the West with a friend from Armenia whom I met doing metaverse work and the exchange of culture was exhilarating.

VR isn't even required for the metaverse, which tells me you're criticizing something of which you have an incomplete understanding. The metaverse is about people and deep connections. About building communities. That's nothing to criticize.
by pythonbase | 2025-07-04 18:17:57+00:00
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by techpineapple | 2025-07-04 18:18:14+00:00
It looks like you have to pay to see the article so I can’t look at the details, but the author of “strangers in their own land” who spent time among rural Trump supporters in Louisiana basically said, that they knew that Republicans were responsible for selling out there land to factories that polluted their natural environment (that they were angry about) and _because_ it was the government politicians who did that(who happened to be Republican), they were vulnerable to the Republican argument that government was the problem.
by pseudocomposer | 2025-07-04 18:19:18+00:00
How “high paying” a job do you need though? My last three companies, I’ve worked on products that don’t involve marketing or data mining of any sort that I’d consider unethical. While they have certainly involved automating away jobs (car sales/bank loan people, pathologists, and now accountants, respectively), they were all software designed to benefit humanity.

And they all paid $180k+, the last two $200k+, in salary alone, plus benefits and equity. I only work over 40 hours if I’m working on something I’m passionate about. I realize FAANGs can go into the $400k+ range, but… do you really need that? Is it worth it? For the stress, the rat race, the pressure and all that?

Granted, they’ve been remote roles, and I live in North Carolina, not one of the HCOL metros (I don’t see how anyone can justify living in NYC, SF, or LA, honestly).

But like… this just seems untrue. There are plenty of good-paying, ethical roles to be had. Moreover, I’d say if you spend some time actively seeking out ethical, fairly (not excessively) compensated roles… they’ll find you, without you having to search for them.
by ivape | 2025-07-04 18:19:55+00:00
Well. Was George Santos an anomaly or proving of a hypothesis? If the hypothesis were structured like so:

If we have a pile of shit, surely shit eaters will be attracted to it

In which case George Santos is just a very testable hypothesis (it's like watching a 5 year old walk up to a cookie jar when the adults are gone). Congress attracts a certain type. What did you attract and why is an unavoidable question. In fact, it's scientific. You would think tech people would recognize the locust of non technical people entering the industry as some kind of an indicator, some measurable thing ...

We need to run more formal scientific experiments to document what happened in this industry.
by roscas | 2025-07-04 18:20:32+00:00
That is a serious issue. People still use WhatsCrap and Fakebook, not the numbers Facebook publishes but it's sad to see that some people still use those anti-social "networks". People sent naked pictures and videos to Fakebook when they asked people to send them naked videos so they can track on the internet any video of the person and then warn the person. People did sent videos to FakeShaite! How is that possible! So we must expect that some people will use that crap. Look at Grok, there is somewhere in the world a person who thinks that it is nice to use that "service" owned by you know who. Amazing! I will let now some psicology doctor to try to explain why people do this.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-04 18:21:05+00:00
Would that have taken you weeks though?

I imagine reading through a few articles and examples could have gotten you there. I never heard of Manim before but found these pretty quickly:

https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/examples.html

https://manimclass.com/plot-a-function-in-manim/

I am not trying to pick at you, but it feels like what I am currently able to do with AI, shave off a few hours, but not weeks.

I agree with you the ease of cutting through boilerplate is a big win, but it also doesn't register as weeks worth of work for me...
by uniqueusername7 | 2025-07-04 18:21:46+00:00
How would I get my ssh keys to the remote server from a new machine? To me, the easiest way seems to be either sharing private keys from a different machine, or having some way to deterministically generate keys from a password or keyphrase, and the latter seems more secure to me because I don't have to trust a middle man to do the transferring.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-04 18:21:56+00:00
Coyotes are already slaughtering pets in places where their population reaches saturation levels thanks to access to so much easy food. It's not a hypothetical, it's something that actively happens and in such places, attacks on little kids are not a miniscule risk.

No, you don't have to kill all coyotes to control a specific population of them in a particular place in way that actually re-balances a completely unnatural saturation in their numbers.

There's nothing grotesque about recognizing the reality of these being urban spaces in which it might just not be a good idea to have many thousands more 40-kilo predators wandering around than would ever be natural even if the area were totally uninhabited by humans.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-07-04 18:22:17+00:00
> away from large support networks

This. Here's my thoughts based on personal experience that backs just that. Copy pasted from an earlier comment:

People keep trying to find a purely economic reason for why folks are having less kids. I think I'm satisfied with the very simple reason that raising kids is hard work. Most people feel like 1 kid already gets their hands full. That's really it IMO. Whenever it was that joint families split up into disparate nuclear families, obviously the load of raising say 5 kids that was being shared among 20 people, suddenly fell on just 2 people. In the places with high fertility rate, you will almost surely observe joint families. I'm from India where we have such demographic variety that you can see adjacent areas with completely different fertility rates. In one, you will see old-style large houses with courtyards and 15+ people in them living as a joint family. Invariably these people have more kids. But in the next town with more nuclear families and modernish apartments, you will be lucky to see 2 kids per family. [1]

This is what births the secondary economic incentives which are mentioned a lot in popular discourse. For example, if you're already living in a house with 15 people your financial realities will require a similar number of people in the next generation to continue the same lifestyle.

[1] Wealth is not a confounding factor here. The specific two areas I have in mind are both more or less equally wealthy, one has folks running a coconut business primarily and the other is a small town with the usual assortment of office jobs.
by Teever | 2025-07-04 18:22:27+00:00
Yes. It's the same with wage theft.

Wage theft vastly outstrips other forms of theft[0] and it's considered a complete non priority by law enforcement, politicians, and the media.

These kinds of things just aren't a priority for one reason for another. Let's brainstorm some solutions to wage theft and overemployment.

I suggest a synergistic approach -- fix wage theft and it'll have a knock-on effective with things like overemployment or people pretending to work a single job.

What do you think?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft#/media/File:Wage_th...
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-04 18:22:40+00:00
I think that the billions of people who use WiFi every day would agree that it's a pain, the vast majority of the spectrum being used by hotspots that are closed to them, the few that are open all requiring custom login procedures that often may involve wandering around until you find someone who can give you the password, and even then the quality is a tossup and often unusably poor.

WiFi has some value in office buildings for people taking their laptops to meeting rooms, but that works fine with the current spectrum allocations. And it helps in some specific scenarios like airplanes, or hotels if roaming is too expensive. But the remaining use cases are being steadily knocked down by improvements to the mobile protocols, which advance much faster than WiFi does. Given the long term, semi-permanent nature of these decisions it doesn't make sense to allocate more spectrum to a dead-end protocol.
by mrbombastic | 2025-07-04 18:24:09+00:00
Aha that makes some sense: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/... that is new with iOS 18, happy to be wrong, thanks for the follow up. Even less familiar with Android but assuming then the dev means you need a token at least currently to send a push through fcm and therefore could be compelled by law enforcement to give up the tokens. Apple of course could be compelled but that is a higher bar.
by alganet | 2025-07-04 18:25:15+00:00
Real examples often work better.

Last week I was learning about Itanium. It was a processor designed specifically for HP. Its goal was to replace both x86 and PowerPC.

HP would design the new systems to run on Itanium, and Intel would design the chip.

There was an attempt at specializing design here, with both companies running on design constraints from another. They formed a design comittee.

This was like the screw company making screws _specifically_ for one kind of desk lamp. It's division and specialization of design.

A natural specialization (one company gets very good at designing some stuff) is not divided, or orchestrated by a central authority.

In manufacture, it's the other way around. If you already have a good design, the more divisions alongside a main central figure, the better. You can get tighter tolerances, timing benefits, etc.

My argument is that these aspects are not transferrable from one concept to another. Design is different from manufacturing, and it gets worse if we try to apply the optimizations we often do with manufacturing to it.
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-04 18:25:44+00:00
\<rant>

From all that I've experienced in the past few weeks dealing with C projects and various build systems and operating systems, I suspect that using Zig would work perfectly as an easy cross-platform alternative to CMake. Until I open up my code in VS Code and the C/C++ plugin just doesn't work, no auto-completion, no go-to-definition, syntax highlighting is broken, etc., and all because it can't find the files in places it ordinarily expects them to be. And maybe there will be some hacky way to fix it with a setting for the VS Code plugin, but likely not.

I'm not saying this is the case, but literally none of the setups I tried feels non-hacky so far, and every one of them has at least one noticable problem during development. I truly miss the days of writing apps for a single platform using its own native build tools. Maybe that's what I'll do: write this as a native Windows app using Visual Studio (ugh, such an awful editor though) and then if I get sales, port it to Mac OS X 10 using Xcode.app, and compile it for Linux inside WSL with GCC 15.

\</rant>
by criticalfault | 2025-07-04 18:26:13+00:00
This is for me unclear as well, but I'm saying I wouldn't hold it against Linus if he did this. And based on Kent's behavior he has full right to do so.

A way to handle this would be with one person (or more) in between Kent and Linus. And maybe a separate tree only for changes and fixes from bcachefs that those people in between would forward to Linus. A staging of sorts.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-04 18:26:28+00:00
At least when it comes to coyotes on the Pacific Northwest, they're not tiny at all. I've seen specimens that easily had the size of a largish German shepherd, many times. 30 to 40 kilos isn't rare, and that's not a tiny critter at all. It's definitely a threat to a kid or nearly any dog and could give even an adult male human a run for their money if the coyote actually got aggressive enough to lunge (that at least isn't likely, since they're fantastically cowardly when confronted by any aggression from adult humans, at least in my experience)
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-07-04 18:27:30+00:00
I know I’m posting in someplace that is entirely costal elite liberal…

But aren’t you tired of the life or death dramatic takes?

Do you not realize that history is full overreacting? Believe it or not, things pretty much do just kind of work out. Not for everybody all the time, but as a species we’ve been pretty decent at just getting through it.

Yes, I know this current guy is current Hitler. I know that’s what you’ve been told. I know that’s what you believe even though you’ve never met him you know everything about him.

But chill.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-04 18:27:43+00:00
> They are asking for a solution that is realistic.

Indeed, they asked for “a good faith solution to the problem other than just letting them all stay here forever” and I explicitly said I did not have this. I also see them and you saying “someone” should come up with a solution and, failing to find one yourselves, say deportation without any court hearing is acceptable. I’ve outlined my reasons for why that is dangerous and unacceptable and you just throw up your hands and say it must happen because it’s happening.

(Did you notice how you went from “solution” to “outcome” and then back to “solution”? People are decrying the “outcome” because it’s a shit “solution”. Yes, it seems we are talking past each other.)
by Aurornis | 2025-07-04 18:30:15+00:00
> I hesitate to add a link to this on the thread, but there is an interesting story around chronic pain actually being psychological and there are now some high quality studies coming out.

This is a misinterpretation of these studies which is common throughout this thread.

The research isn’t showing that chronic pain is a psychological condition. It’s suggesting that some cases of nonspecific chronic pain that specifically do not match the symptoms of typical physically-rooted pain are psychological. The participants in this study were filtered for this criteria.

For some reason, people see this idea and lose the nuance, concluding that most or all chronic pain is actually psychological.

I think if someone matches the description used by the author of the substack for this HN entry (he describes his chronic pain as random and popping up all over his body) then pursuing the psychological explanation would be a very good idea.

However, it’s getting frustrating to see all of the reductionist claims that “chronic pain is psychological”.
by tills13 | 2025-07-04 18:31:16+00:00
I built myself a 1U server using off-the-shelf parts I had lying around to run my Proxmox instance. I wanted to expand my cluster & also give myself a dedicated node for Plex (so that it could have direct access to the CPU w/ QuickSync) so bought myself a Beelink with an N100. The little Beelink sips power and has never once stuttered while streaming Plex. Going forward, I plan on replacing my 1U server with a cluster of Beelinks.
by edubart | 2025-07-04 18:31:43+00:00
You can try https://edubart.github.io/webcm/

WebCM is a serverless terminal that runs a virtual Linux directly in the browser by emulating a RISC-V machine.

It's powered by the Cartesi Machine emulator, which enables deterministic, verifiable and sandboxed execution of RV64GC Linux applications.

It's packaged as a single 24MiB WebAssembly file containing the emulator, the kernel and Alpine Linux operating system.

It comes with Bash, many programming languages (eg. lua, micropython), cli utilities (htop, vim). It has no internet connection.

Disclaimer: I created it.
by vkazanov | 2025-07-04 18:32:02+00:00
I love, love, love StandardML.

I respect the sheer power of what mlton does. The language itself is clean, easy to understand, reads better than anything else out there, and is also well-formalised. I read (enjoyed!) the tiger book before I knew anything about SML.

Sadly, this purism (not as in Haskell but as a vision) is what probably killed it. MLTon or not, the language needed to evolve, expand, rework the stdlib, etc.

But authors were just not interested in the boring part of language maintenance.
by perrygeo | 2025-07-04 18:32:48+00:00
> inconsistencies

You'll be interested in the changes in 3.11, a single `gdal` entrypoint with a modern CLI. https://gdal.org/en/stable/development/rfc/rfc104_gdal_cli.h...

Installation is still a beast, mainly because it's one monolithic thing. It's a spatial analysis library, dozens of applications, and hundreds of filetype drivers - all in a single build process. Each driver has its own quirks and the abstraction leaks like a sieve. In retrospect, I think the spatial logic, the drivers, and the apps should have been broken up into loosely-coupled components. But the convenience of an all-in-one megalith was hard to beat.
by tuesdaynight | 2025-07-04 18:32:49+00:00
FWIW, a podcaster that I follow believes that the future of social media will be kind of what you are describing. I didn't think much about, but after getting bored of AI vídeos, texts and images, I agree with you. People not only will search for human curated lists, they will pay for it. However, as others have commented, the TV station part is not that appealing.
by dmonitor | 2025-07-04 18:33:19+00:00
You're allowed to let your cat outside and kill nature, but you aren't allowed to be mad when nature fights back. The double standard with which people treat feral dogs/cats (treating kill shelters for overpopulation as an awful sin) versus how they treat snakes and alligators (go into the woods and kill them on sight just for existing) makes me nauseous.
by samhclark | 2025-07-04 18:33:34+00:00
I think you're right generally, but I wanna call out the ODROID H4 models as an exception to a lot of what you said. They are mostly upgradable (SODIMM RAM, SATA ports, M.2 2280 slots), and it does support in-band ECC which kinda checks the ECC box. They've got a Mini-ITX adapter for $15 so it can fit into existing cases too.

No IPMI and not very many NVME slots. So I think you're right that a good mATX board could be better.
by stackskipton | 2025-07-04 18:33:37+00:00
Ops here, I mean you still can if you use something like Golang or Java/.Net self-contained. However, the days of "Just transfer over PHP files" ignore the massive setup that Ops had to do to get web server into state where those files could just be transferred over and care/feeding required to keep the web server in that state.

Not to mention endless frustration any upgrades would cause since we had to get all teams onboard with "Hey, we are upgrading PHP 5, you ready?" and there was always that abandoned app that couldn't be shut down because $BusinessReasons.

Containers have greatly helped with those frustration points and languages self-hosting HTTP have really made stuff vastly better for us Ops folks.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-07-04 18:34:27+00:00
Neither articles are implying that.

The first one throws an intentionally vague imbalance and aims squarely at Chine state aids distortion. It also goes at length about how tariffs are seen as terrible by everyone and how it’s all about a level playing field and not about rebalancing trade balances.

The second is strictly about the US and explains that trade inbalance has more to do with capital flows that actual trade of goods and how the extreme situation in the US might need moderation. Its conclusion is that the trade balance will fix itself if the US both fixes its budget issues and help foreign countries to actually use their excess savings locally. That’s pretty far from thinking the balance of trade needs to be rebalanced.
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-04 18:34:44+00:00
Yeah, I never understood why that was necessary. I get diminishing rewards as an addiction mechanic, but they all switch gameplay dramatically from adventure and exploration (and combat) quest based character growth to raid fueled gear treadmills. Some people live for the latter it seems like? But there were never any that focused on character growth all the way. It wasn't like they weren't adding content continuously anyway. It would have been possible. Or turn it rogue alike with top levels earning benefits or unlocking other options for additional playthroughs. With the number of mmorpgs made one of them would have tried it if it would jave worked I guess?
by trod1234 | 2025-07-04 18:35:51+00:00
Yeah but where?

Citizenship in certain forms today in many cases is just like slavery.

You are taxed on anything you make and do regardless of where you go. Giving up your citizenship too costs something like $10,000 now, where they may just take the money and not complete the process.

If you don't report earnings to Fincen they'll go after you as they did with that one person, who was technically a US citizen but had no living memory of the US and was only born there, but was raised in France. He found out when he turned 15 or 18 or some such.

Its quite the racket.

Update: its actually $2350 which is non-refundable, and if you have assets above a certain amount there are additional compliance taxes, and if they can demonstrate non-compliance in some detail you have to start over.

https://brighttax.com/blog/cost-to-renounce-us-citizenship/