MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by glenstein | 2025-07-19 03:25:16+00:00
>Why defend behavior that he himself has agreed is indefensible?

Great point and a great link. For someone not as fully immersed in the context of this history of Linus outbursts, I found this comment to be the most clarifying and important in the thread.

He's essentially being celebrated for behavior that, as you noted, he himself has agreed is indefensible. Just quoting from your link:

>This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me.

>I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry.

>The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely.

>I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately.

Impressively introspective, at least compared to the comments that are the topic of this thread. Fascinating how many people think they're taking Linus' side are taking a side that he wants nothing to do with.
by sneak | 2025-07-19 03:25:45+00:00
> Couldn't lets say a government purchase then dump an insane amount of coins at once to reduce the value?

No. Anyone purchasing an insane amount of Bitcoin would cause so much money to flow into the ecosystem that it would be quite difficult or impossible to crash later.

The market used to be shallow. It isn’t now. The order books are deeeeeep.
by anovikov | 2025-07-19 03:25:59+00:00
I don't understand what forces people to stay at all on social media apart from addiction itself. I quit it 8 years ago and never looked back, simply because after Trump came to power it has become unbearable. Remembering, it was still just fine until 2013 or so. It's Europe-specific but probably Maidan 2.0 and Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 was the trigger that permanently broke the social media into two antagonistic echo-chambers, both eventually filled with morons alone because all normal people left. For US, it definitely was Trump's campaign in 2015 and sudden realisation that "some real people they knew and respected can be THAT crazy".

News? You can still subscribe to a newspaper or a magazine like it's 1985, they aren't worse at all than they used to be. Dating? Tinder or local country-specific dating sites work better, and always did. Professional contacts? They never came from social media.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-19 03:26:04+00:00
One thing I haven't seen mentioned in comment. Dunno if Kustomize has something here. But: Helm is a shit but at least some kind of composition tool. Some way to have resource of various types associated to some top level idea.

Very very little else seems to bring this basic sense to Kubernetes. Metacontroller kind of could do that. Crossplane's whole business is this, but it's been infra-specialized: but the Crossplane v2.0 release is trying to be much more generally useful. https://docs.crossplane.io/v2.0-preview/whats-new/ . Would love other examples of what does composition in Kube.
by johnebgd | 2025-07-19 03:26:32+00:00
I don’t have time for o look at the stats and provide quotes / cite sources but it does seem from what I’ve read on the topic that the more people play gore games the less violence there is in society.

If that’s true, maybe it’s also true that the more people have access to adult content the less babies we create as a society.

A society shrinking causes a number of issues.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-19 03:27:53+00:00
"Them thar's CoMmUnIsM" Can't have that because Murica despises people beneath them getting any support or help of any kind. That's why universal healthcare won't happen without an FDR 2.0. Mamdani is kind of like that but can't become POTUS. Maybe Ro Khanna and AOC, but too many America voters are hostile towards them because the corporate news and podcasters told them so.

Ironically, the Trump stimulus checks provide fantastic and unexpected relief for millions.
by schmidtleonard | 2025-07-19 03:28:55+00:00
You're not wrong on the "physics easy culture hard" call, just late. That was Andrej Karpathy's stated reason for betting on the Tesla approach over the Waymo approach back in 2017, because he identified that the limiting factor would be the collection of data on real-world driving interactions in diverse environments to allow learning theories-of-mind for all actors across all settings and cultures. Putting cameras on millions of cars in every corner of the world was the way to win that game -- simulations wouldn't cut it, "NPC behavior" would be their downfall.

This bet aged well: videos of FSD performing very well in wildly different settings -- crowded Guangzhou markets to French traffic circles to left-hand-drive countries -- seem to indicate that this approach is working. It's nailing interactions that it didn't learn from suburban America and that require inferring intent using complex contextual clues. It's not done until it's done, but the god of the gaps retreats ever further into the march of nines and you don't get credit for predicting something once it has already happened.
by lisbbb | 2025-07-19 03:29:43+00:00
I wholeheartedly agree--the hype has become toxic, just like in 2001 when the bubble burst. I think the author overestimates what will be salvageable from this. What I witnessed back in 2001-2003 was beyond comprehension. Find someone who worked for Northern Telecom back then to explain their experience of not only losing their job, but also their retirement (the entire 401K was in company stock). The former workers I encountered still lived in denial about the stock's worthlessness even into 2005, but it was finally, inevitably de-listed and the last remnants of those dead 401Ks was swept away.

In RTP, the amount of office space that was built out has never been fully utilized to this very day.

These tech bubbles come and go, but leave enormous craters of destruction in their wake.
by dyauspitr | 2025-07-19 03:29:54+00:00
If they’re not a cheaper labor pool then the only reason companies wouldn’t hire them over citizens is because they are tied to the company. This would also be solved by naturalization.

Any iteration of this turns out to be better for US citizens if they’re are naturalized.

Not to mention that 50% of all unicorns in the US are started by immigrants, like 60% of those by specifically Indians.
by rayiner | 2025-07-19 03:30:12+00:00
Anglo culture is distinctive both in its liberalism and its conservatism. My Bangladeshi family are well to the right of American republicans when it comes to say tattoos or divorce, but they don’t care about limited government or legal proceduralism.

I don’t have to fear monger. The cake is already baked. David Shor estimates that Trump tied or narrowly won foreign-born voters. Mass immigration didn’t kill the GOP, but it changed what kind of conservative party could assemble a winning coalition. And it looks like more like Trump (or Bolsonaro or Modi) and less like Mitt Romney or George H.W. Bush. Hope Obama was worth it!
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-19 03:31:26+00:00
It used to be the other way round.. 9 for health and 20 for finance, as recently as 2020

More concerning to me are that these visualizations are not so trivial to find. Here's one

https://www.bea.gov/system/files/gdp1q25-3rd-chart-03_0.png

Health care is growing but not as much as real estate
by isodev | 2025-07-19 03:31:49+00:00
You’re too focused on the “regulate” part. It’s a lot easier to see it as a framework. It spells out what you need to anticipate the spirit of the law and what’s considerate good or bad practice.

If you actually read it, you will also realise it’s entirely comprised of “common sense”. Like, you wouldn’t want to do the stuff it says are not to be done anyway. Remember, corps can’t be trusted because they have a business to run. So that’s why when humans can be exposed to risky AI applications, the EU says the model provider needs to be transparent and demonstrate they’re capable of operating a model safely.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-19 03:32:42+00:00
Ding ding ding! It's possible (easy) to make terrible software in any framework/system. The popular systems are almost certainly going to have the most offenders, the worst offenses.

(It makes me nuts but) I seriously think the web is basically the greatest. And we have some pretty good tools for doing pretty good, that we can use, if we try hard. But also, the whole middle-tier data-architecture is made up by almost everyone, with little guidance; there's incredibly little guidance & views of how we effectively get data to the client and cache & update it effectively.

The tools and tech exist, but instead of clear industrial practices everyone's stringing shit together.
by const_cast | 2025-07-19 03:32:59+00:00
Firstly, I don't believe that you require proof to believe the things you do. Yes, I am calling you a liar. You have noticed patterns, and make assumptions every day. Every functional human being does.

I don't need proof that some random man is a mugger to know to put my phone in my pocket and walk quickly at 3 AM. This is what I mean when I say your mentality here is naive - how many times do you need to get mugged to learn?

And, secondly, even if you DO require proof, this is an incredibly inefficient way to live. If you require proof for everything, you wouldn't be able to get much done. You'll be sitting around waiting, or searching. Sometimes, it's faster to assume, if your assumption is good.
Cold outreach doesn't fail because of bad copy
by lindseypham | 2025-07-19 03:33:40+00:00
After 3 emails and 2 replies, most people call it a failed experiment. But cold outreach (email, LinkedIn, even DMs) is a volume and refinement game.

It’s about psychology. Good outreach is not just tweaking words — it’s understanding what state your audience is in and how your message lands at that moment. The real insight often comes around round 5, not round 2. Most people stop before anything interesting happens. Round 1: you're guessing. Round 3: you're adjusting. Round 5+: you're learning how people actually think.
by paulpauper | 2025-07-19 03:33:46+00:00
Unlike past bubbles, there are only a handful of publicly traded AI stocks, which have notably preformed poorly despite considerable AI hype. This bubble is limited to private companies. Also the AI market is capable of accommodating many entrants and each getting a high valuation and filling some sort of niche, instead of the old Google vs Yahoo or Apple App Store vs Google App Store duopolies or winner-take-all markets like with seen with MySpace vs. Facebook. There is Eraser, Claude, Anthropic, etc. Each fills some sort of purpose and has strengths and weaknesses. In past bubbles, the market was more concentrated among a few names or interchangeable. So this means looking it from the lens of past bubbles may not work.
by dr_kiszonka | 2025-07-19 03:34:21+00:00
I am curious what are some good enough cheapskate self-hosting setups?

I want to self-host one of those floss Pocket replacements but I don't want to pay more than what these projects charge for hosting the software themselves (~$5). I am also considering self-hosting n8n. I don't have any sophisticated requirements. If it was possible I would host it from my phone with a backup to Google Drive.
by overvale | 2025-07-19 03:34:57+00:00
Here's what worked for me:

1) Deleted all social media accounts, deleted apps and logged out of anything that has what you might call a newsfeed (including RSS).

1.1) Switched all important notifications to email.

2) Uninstalled the web browser from my phone.

3) Stopped reading the news and blocked my most frequently visited sites using parental controls. Instead of reading the news I just ask an AI (Grok is good at this) to summarize the latest headlines and I can ask any many follow up questions as I’d like.

The unifying theme is letting go of the idea of “missing something”. You don’t need to keep up with your friends online, you don’t need to keep up with the news, you don’t need to scroll to find inspiration. You can find all those things offline.

But the hard part is knowing how much things I've found online have contributed meaningfully to my life. For that reason alone I'm considering this an experiment. What will it be like to do this for 6 months, or a year? What will I want to go back to? What won't I miss?

4 weeks in and my daily lived experience is noticeably different. I feel different when I'm walking to the coffee shop, or working, or driving the kids to school.
by pbh101 | 2025-07-19 03:36:10+00:00
It’s easy to say this in hindsight, though this is the first time I think I’ve seen someone say that about YouTube even though I’ve seen it about Instagram and WhatsApp a lot.

The YouTube deal was a lot earlier than Instagram, 2006. Google was way smaller than now. iPhone wasn’t announced. And it wasn’t two social networks merging.

Very hard to see how regulators could have the clairvoyance to see into this specific future and its counter-factual.
by notanaverageman | 2025-07-19 03:36:53+00:00
I suggest checking out Anemos (https://github.com/ohayocorp/anemos), the new boy in the town. It is an open source single-binary tool written in Go and allows you to use JavaScript/TypeScript to define your manifests using templates, object oriented approach, and YAML node manipulation.

You can read a comparison with Helm here: https://www.ohayocorp.com/anemos/docs/comparison/helm

P.S. I am the author of the tool.
by lxgr | 2025-07-19 03:37:23+00:00
Personally, I won't miss these games either, but it just seems like such a slippery slope to normalize achieving societal/political goals through exerting pressure on infrastructure companies instead of through democratic means.

I totally support this type of pressure being exerted on companies involved in editorializing and providing an audience (e.g. I don't think Valve should be required by law to carry any form of content, just like a publisher can't be forced to print any content it doesn't agree with). But infrastructure, due to being both fundamental to doing business and generally living in a society and very often being at least regionally monopolistic in nature, should be open to anybody that's acting within the law.

And conversely, if something seems ethically or morally unacceptable to a rule-based society, what ought to change is the law.

That's all assuming a functioning democratic and political process, of course, but it generally seems to be possible even in the US, with its strong protections of speech, to limit certain types of speech under obscenity laws, so I don't really get the desire to outsource this inherently political process to private corporations.
by const_cast | 2025-07-19 03:37:29+00:00
Of course I'm not happy, because you're wrong.

The Bible explicitly states that judgment is immoral, and is the sole duty of God. If someone is committing a sin, it is not your job to fix them of that sin - and actually by doing so, you yourself are sinning.

If your competitor is lazy, the moral choice is to do nothing, and let God handle it. You do not know what is or is not a sin, because you are not the arbiter of morality - God is. Casting judgement on your competitor is sinful.

Really, no matter how you cut it, I think it's obvious Jesus Christ was a communist. He would absolutely not be happy with capitalism. Are we helping other's out of the goodness of our heart? No. Are we giving to the community? No.

In an ideal world where everyone follows the golden rule, the only outcome could possibly be communism. And, there would never be any problems, ever. Because nobody would be greedy - there would be no grounds for capitalism to even form. A revolution could not occur.
by panarchy | 2025-07-19 03:37:50+00:00
https://www.bath.ac.uk/publications/the-age-divide-in-uk-pol...

This being the first thing I found says the closest age bracket 18-34 turnout was 53.6%

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/UK_Popul...

16-17 for each gender looks to be a little under 400K for each

So (4)(400,000)(0.536) = 857,600

So thousands.

Either way it's not like they're all going to vote one way and it's not like they can seize the government with their own special interest party that only caters to 16-17 year old even if they all managed to vote one way. So really as far as results it will mostly be a wash, but has the benefit of potentially creating some more engaged and politically active citizens which is a win for democracy.
by JadeNB | 2025-07-19 03:41:31+00:00
> Generalizing an associative binary op to an n-ary op just requires an identity element Id (which isn't always obvious, e.g. Id_AND=true but Id_OR=false).

Only for n = 0, I think. Otherwise, generalizing associative binary f_2 to f_n for all positive integers n is easily done inductively by f_1(x) = x and f_{n + 1}(x_1, ..., x_n, x_{n + 1}) = f_2(f_n(x_1, ..., x_n), x_{n + 1}), with no need to refer to an identity. (In fact, the definition makes sense even if f_2 isn't associative, but is probably less useful because of the arbitrary choice to "bracket to the left.")
by skygazer | 2025-07-19 03:42:07+00:00
I used to know corporate recruiter that really made it feel like the appropriate term. He used all sorts of social engineering to trick employees of companies to flesh out internal org charts by convincingly pretending to be people they should confide in. It was like Mr. Robot, but without the computers. And he was given marching orders like, find this department in this company, figure out who the good people are, and what makes them tick and bring them all. It could take months. It was underhanded, and very impressive. This was before linkedin probably made it so much easier.
by supertrope | 2025-07-19 03:42:11+00:00
It turns out librarians and teachers teaching media literacy and critical thinking still has great value!

"Are the author's conclusions supported by the facts they present?" "Is their assertion internally consistent?" "What do you think the author is trying to make you feel and do by consuming this content?" "Is this a primary or secondary source?" "Can this be independently verified?" "Is the source credible?"
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-19 03:43:04+00:00
Another possibility is a negative tax issued every month that becomes effectively UBI.

Also, if the IRS were to cut some of their absurd tax breaks for billionaires like the carried interest loophole, simplify things, calculate it for people, and withhold the most likely correct amount ahead of time, it would ease the unnecessary burden placed on people who aren't rich enough to have tax accountants.

Corporations need to be taxed at around 75% too while we're at it to pay their fair share. The ratcheting of tax brackets should also be 90% of personal income for the 3 millionth dollar and over. Every billionaire is a policy failure and CEO:worker pay exceeding 1000x is crazy.
by dmix | 2025-07-19 03:43:23+00:00
You're just guessing as much as anyone. Almost every generation in history has had doomers predicting the fall of their corner of civilization from some new thing. From religion schisms, printing presses, radio, TV, advertisements, the internet, etc. You can look at some of the earliest writings by English priests in the 1500s predicting social decay and destruction of society which would sound exactly like social media posts in 2025 about AI. We should at a minimum under the problem space before restricting it, especially given the nature of policy being extremely slow to change (see: copyright).
by kragen | 2025-07-19 03:43:37+00:00
The last couple of millennia, really. Who lynched Hypatia? Who burned the Timbuktu Manuscripts? Who burned Giordano Bruno alive? Who burned the Maya codices?

At the same time, religious institutions have always contained many intellectual traditions, perhaps most of them. When the Christians extirpated knowledge of the hieroglyphs, it was the Egyptian priests they scattered. We don't know what was in the Maya codices, but large parts of the surviving Maya inscriptions are religious in nature. European universities began as seminaries; al-Azhar University is over 1000 years old and initially taught only sharia, fiqh, and the Quran. And everyone knows how Irish monks saved civilization.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that religious people are usually the ones who care about intellectualism, whether in favor or opposed.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-19 03:44:03+00:00
It's nice to see a home lab on HN. Hardware has become a lost art for many.

If you dont have a home lab, start one. Grab a 1l pc off of ebay. Think center m720q or m920q with an i5 is a great place to start. It will cost you less than 200 bucks and if you want to turn it into a NAS or an Opnsense box later you can.

When it arrives toss Proxmox on it and get your toys from the community scripts section... it will let you get set up on 'easy mode'. Fair warning, having a home lab is an addiction, and will change how you look at development if you get into it deeply.
by jjangkke | 2025-07-19 03:44:14+00:00
im using proxmox but struggling to setup subnets and vms

should I be using terraform and ansible?

im using cursor to ssh and it constantly needs to run commands to get "state" of the setup.

basically im trying to do what I used to do on AWS: setup VMs on private network talking to each other with one gateway dedicated to internet connection but this is proving to be extremely difficult with the bash scripts generated by cursor

if anyone can help me continue my journey with self hosting instead of relying on AWS that would be great
by Brajeshwar | 2025-07-19 03:44:32+00:00
Can you try to look for something from a timer’s angle? Block the website/app after a certain minutes per day or something like that. Otherwise, can you experiment with doing just one thing at a time, even if social, say -- start the timer on your watch for 10-min and do just your Instagram scrolls but when that timer stops, you stop Instagram and do your work or something else.
by fodkodrasz | 2025-07-19 03:45:04+00:00
According to the law in some jurisdictions it is. (notably most EU Member States, and several others worldwide).

In those places actually fees are included ("reprographic levy") in the appliance, and the needed supply prices, or public operators may need to pay additionally based on usage. That money goes towards funds created to compensate copyright holders for loss of profit due to copyright infringement carries out through the use of photocopiers.

Xerox is in no way singled out and discriminated against. (Yes, I know this is an Americanism)
by Nevermark | 2025-07-19 03:45:21+00:00
Illich seems to have been an interesting thinker.

He also seems to prompt many interesting book review comments. I have now found my mission!

> The thing is, Illich is more like Plato than Marx. Nobody ever tried to mount a Platonic revolution. [0]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2LL7H3HL0WENO/re...
by schmidtleonard | 2025-07-19 03:45:22+00:00
Obviously healthy habits prolong your life. Nobody argued otherwise. My contention is specifically with the idea that they matter to the exclusion of science and pharma. Healthy habits clearly hit a wall: if they didn't, we would have health and fitness gurus living to 200 and beyond by virtue of having a routine that could actually defeat cancer and heart disease. The absence of these 200 year old gurus indicates that no, 80% of cancer (and heart disease, everyone always forgets heart disease) cannot be avoided with diet and exercise. Hence, work on getting through the wall is valuable.