MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CBLT | 2025-07-19 00:40:53+00:00
Helm gives you more than enough rope to hang yourself with. At $dayjob we barely use 3rd party helm charts, and when we do we eventually run into problems with clever code.

We do package our own helm charts, not in the least because we sign contracts with our customers that we will help them run the software we're selling them. So we use package docker and helm artifacts that we sell in addition to running locally.

So we write some charts that don't use most helm features. The one useful thing about Helm that I don't want to live without is the packaging story. We seem to be the only people in the ecosystem that "burn in" the Docker image sha into the Helm chart we package, and set our v1.2.3 version only on the chart. This means we don't have to consider a version matrix between our config and application. Instead we just change the code and config in the same git sha and it just works.
by jorvi | 2025-07-19 00:41:38+00:00
One of Nixon's advisors:

> “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

The initial war on drugs had nothing to do with the drugs themselves. But then successive governments had to keep running with it because letting the foot off the gas would let the opposition portray them as weak on drug abuse and crime. And then commercial interests got mixed into it too.

Research has proven that mushrooms and LSD are societally and personally the least damaging drug you can take. The top spots go to usual suspects like heroin and crack, and the subtop is alcohol and tobacco.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-07-19 00:42:29+00:00
Try playing the HD add-on with the HotA (horn of the abyss) espansion! There are 2 new factions now which are well balanced.

And, they look beautiful.

Its wonderful what a dedicated community can achieve. Kudos to all of them!

TIP: if you get the game on GOG. It will run just fine in any modern Windows setup (even MAC OS i believe)
by Aurornis | 2025-07-19 00:42:43+00:00
> that can reliably reproduce thousands/millions of copyrighted works, you shouldn't be distributibg it. If it were just regular software that had that capability, would it be allowed?

LLMs are hardly reliable ways to reproduce copyrighted works. The closest examples usually involve prompting the LLM with a significant portion of the copyrighted work and then seeing it can predict a number of tokens that follow. It’s a big stretch to say that they’re reliably reproducing copyrighted works any more than, say, a Google search producing a short excerpt of a document in the search results or a blog writer quoting a section of a book.

It’s also interesting to see the sudden anti-LLM takes that twist themselves into arguing against tools or platforms that might reproduce some copyrighted content. By this argument, should BitTorrent also be banned? If someone posts a section of copyrighted content to Hacker News as a comment, should YCombinator be held responsible?
by jolmg | 2025-07-19 00:44:14+00:00
This is also why AUR helpers are unofficial and the packages don't come prebuilt. The official way to use the AUR is very manual, precisely to encourage reviewing. You have to download the PKGBUILD and accompanying files manually (git clone, etc.), review the files, then `makepkg`, then `pacman -U`. It's in the wiki article for the AUR:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

It even says:

> 2. Verify that the PKGBUILD and accompanying files are not malicious or untrustworthy.

> but I really hope if Arch maintainers can find a solution to make the AUR safer

Safe packages go on the official repos. The entire point of the AUR is to be a low-friction repo for Arch users to share their packages. A "safe" AUR is to have no AUR and just have the official repos.
by jfengel | 2025-07-19 00:44:42+00:00
I don't understand. And as far as the can tell, the only thing preventing total war is the belief that it might be possible to fix it next year.

And no matter who wins, the other side will be convinced it was by cheating. And that has no alternative but total war.

I have looked long and hard for an alternative but I'm not seeing one.
by globalview | 2025-07-19 00:46:05+00:00
A lot of comments are rightfully pointing out the destructive nature of this move. But looking at it from another angle, is it possible this is a symptom of a deeper problem?

What if a significant portion of the electorate no longer believes institutions like the EPA are neutral arbiters of science, but instead see them as political actors pushing an agenda? If that belief is widespread, is an action like this seen not as 'destruction', but as 'dismantling a biased system', even if it seems counterproductive to the rest of us?
by zeta0134 | 2025-07-19 00:48:26+00:00
Helpfully the law already disagrees. That Xerox machine tampers with the printed result, leaving a faint signature that is meant to help detect forgeries. You know, for when users copy things that are actually illegal to copy. Xerox machine (and every other printer sold today) literally leaves a paper trail to trace it back to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
by alpinisme | 2025-07-19 00:49:15+00:00
Connecting with people, building a mass movement, organizing institutions that can funnel people and effort into building the world and election results they want. Taking risks by taking a stand on issues and saying those issues are the reason to vote for them (not to avoid having the other side win). Doing local politics to demonstrate competence and show that they care and are building things, then show off those things to the rest of the country and say “look, we can do this everywhere” or at least “look at what we can do on a small scale but our vision is bigger and it’s limited by the fact our vision needs to happen on a national scale and can’t be achieved fully at this small scale”. Lots of things.
by Razengan | 2025-07-19 00:49:37+00:00
Honestly, with how prevalent iPhones and Androids are today, specially among newer humans, if Apple and Google made a payment system that just transferred money between iPhone/Android, it could practically replace cash & cards for a lot of people.

In some countries the vast majority of payments are done via phone apps for national payment systems already, bypassing Visa/Mastercard etc. entirely. Even kids pay for candy by phone.
by cogman10 | 2025-07-19 00:50:44+00:00
Both parties are serving the wealthy. That's what prevents Dems from serving the working class. They know not to advocate raising the minimum wage.

It's what has created the behavior where Dems try to win over right wing independents because that's a more donor friendly position and Republicans can purely pander to their based, because they're already donor friendly (you know, for example, Republicans will always act to the benefit of big oil).
by ijk | 2025-07-19 00:50:45+00:00
One factor is the ongoing campaigns from number of moral crusading groups who lobby them to cut off payment processing for things they don't approve of. NCOSE has been working for decades on the project, and targeting credit card companies has been a successful tactic for them for a decade or so.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa-and-mastercard-ar...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/why-visa-mastercard-being-blamed-on...

[3] https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstreams/761eb6c3-9377-...
by bjconlan | 2025-07-19 00:52:25+00:00
Yeah, but there is something else here too... I used cachy for a heartbeat and it advertises the same benefits; it just felt slower (notably on boot) Maybe it was just all the graphical load screens.

There's something clear had that made it feel modern, familiar and boring (which might not be for everyone) 90% of my tasks were in vscode devcontainers so kept things simple and out of the system for the most part.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-07-19 00:53:18+00:00
I don’t believe that every website has colluded to give themselves a horrible user experience in some kind of mass protest against the GDPR. My guess is that companies are acting in their interests, which is exactly what I expect them to do and if the EU is not capable of figuring out what that will look like then it is a valid criticism of their ability to make regulations
by mikepurvis | 2025-07-19 00:54:43+00:00
Yes, but you pay a real cost for those choices too. A management plane that is non deterministic, imperative, and full of highly mutable state, not to mention basic stuff like the package manager metadata and cache not being shareable, and package installs all having to be serialized because they all call shell scripts as root. These limitations constrain even tools like dagger from providing a first class interface to apt like there is for apk because any deb could have rm -rf / as the postinstall script.

A lot of normal users don’t feel these pain points or tolerate them by sidestepping the whole affair with containers or VM images. But if you’re in a position where these things have an impact it can be extremely motivating to seek out others who are willing to experiment with different ways of doing things.
by carefulfungi | 2025-07-19 00:55:26+00:00
These are the reasons many voted for Trump. His ability to tear down American institutions is a direct result of the apathy born out of decades of successful corporate corruption, or lobbying, if you prefer, that we failed to stop democratically.

But it is wrong to think all American generations before ours didn't have to fight. The lie is that democracy was ever easy. There are millions of Americans mobilizing, sharing their stories, marching, talking to their representatives, protesting, and following their conscience. It is easier than ever to find and join the peaceful opposition.

That's the process.
by ijk | 2025-07-19 00:57:41+00:00
Other payment processors, mostly. So other credit card companies (e.g. JCB [1]), government run payment services like Pix in Brazil [2], theoretically crypto, etc.

[1] as a random example: https://archive.kyivpost.com/technology/japanese-payment-sys...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)
by apical_dendrite | 2025-07-19 00:58:55+00:00
A significant portion of the electorate believes that the government is hiding aliens, or that the political leadership are all secretly lizard people (whether this is meant literally or as a metaphor for Jews or whether they think Jews are secretly lizard people depends on the person). There are vast and necessary government functions that most of the electorate doesn't understand or doesn't value or completely misunderstands.

Even on hacker news I frequently see people completely misunderstanding how, for instance, scientific research gets funded in the US. And the readership of this site is far more likely than a random sample of Americans to know about scientific research.

Dismantling chunks of the government based on the ignorance of some portion of the electorate is just bad policy.
by TuxSH | 2025-07-19 01:01:51+00:00
> OTOH open source developers need not be annoyed by any GPL dependency since they can always use it without any trouble to themselves.

Counterpoint: GPLv2-only is an absolute PITA to deal with but that's the point; GPL (especially v2-only or v3+section7b,7c) is good at preventing hostile forks
by bcrl | 2025-07-19 01:02:14+00:00
As a kernel developer, I have always had to worry about what happens in the 0.000001% of cases. You're either correct all of the time or you likely have an exploitable security hole in your code that will turn into a CVE at some point in the future that will cost a lot of money to fix. One has to use strategies to reason through proof that your code does the right thing in all states, including the insertion of delays and other fault injection techniques to trigger the cases that aren't normally hit.

It's also kind of like saying that an LLM only pushes 0.01% of people off the deep end in a psychotic episode, so it doesn't really matter. That doesn't actually get rid of the liability.

All that said, I will always refuse to write life safety code. I am not a good enough developer to do so.
by nemothekid | 2025-07-19 01:02:24+00:00
I think I'm missing something here, but the most interesting piece here is how would stackless coroutines work in Zig?

Since any function can be turned into a coroutine, is the red/blue problem being moved into the compiler? If I call:

io.async(saveFileA, .{io});

Is that a function call? Or is that some "struct" that gets allocated on the stack and passed into an event loop?

Furthermore, I guess if you are dealing with pure zig, then its fine, but if you use any FFI, you can potentially end up issuing a blocking syscall anyways.
by miiiiiike | 2025-07-19 01:02:30+00:00
Look. Ignore the content. Why the fuck do we allow credit card companies have a say in how we spend our money?

Fraud? Abuse? Fine, let me put cash onto a card and if that card gets stolen, oh well, my loss. Mastercard should have no say in what what speech is considered acceptable outside of their offices. We don't care what execs at a water company think? Why do we care about the people at Mastercard?
by thr0way120 | 2025-07-19 01:03:12+00:00
The algorithm is far worse than people realize. It is a pan-platform behavioral nudge strategy to contain people to behave a specific way and box them in. It is an effective social credit score.

After watching how it behaves across X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube - its clear the recommendations and nudges are coordinated. It is more than likely there are secret data sharing agreements to enable it.

Its insidious because it controls your reach and "score" across all platforms and then can "attack" you by attempting to surface content to push your buttons negatively across channels.

My opinion is this isnt anything to do with advertising, its a kind of government level shaping operation to try to create societal stability.

I personally have seen:

- The algorithm deliberately "neg" me multiple times, it knows what I don't like and shows me content to trigger keywords it knows will get my attention or deliberately cause insecurity ("old" "broke" "loser" "creep" "bigot" "fat"). I never interact with any content with these words, but it shows them - My conclusion is this is some sort of behavioral nudge. It happens across platforms.

- After I spoke out about Microsoft's approach to H1B, my content was permanently shadowbanned and limited on LinkedIn

- YouTubers continually censor themselves. Instead of "sex" they say "ess." Instead of "murder" they say "delete." They are consciously changing their speech. This is pure 1984.

Furthermore, I am convinced the algorithm also "shapes" the opinions of those around you in relation to you. Something much bigger than simply "being advertiser friendly" is going on, its a back door social credit score, emotional containment and psychological warfare structure.It will only get worse.
by Henchman21 | 2025-07-19 01:03:13+00:00
Yeah it's a sad history that can't be separated from racism, unfortunately. I think "to" matters most to the sober folks, no? Perhaps I'm simply not getting it. When you're high the pain stops whatever it is. And you're there. In the euphoria. And nothing else matters.

But you eventually come down, and when you're sober again, it all matters! Particularly when you live in a society that criminalizes your escape. I've always thought it excessively cruel to criminalize substance abuse.

Truly, what kind of creatures are we? smfh
by msarnoff | 2025-07-19 01:04:52+00:00
Did this recently for my CoCo 2. Used a mashup of several composite mods floating around (including this one) and built it on a piece of stripboard that fit in the same footprint as the RF modulator. Sourcing the MC1372 was tricky, but NTE makes a replacement, NTE855. I used a 3.5mm TRS jack for the audio/video output so I didn’t have to drill a second hole in the case, and then all you need is a cheap 3.5mm stereo to RCA cable.

Wish I had a schematic but I kinda just wired it freehand.
by gitfan86 | 2025-07-19 01:06:02+00:00
The counterintuitive part of automation is that it removes parts of the economy rather than making the economy bigger. You end up with more goods but the value people assign to them goes down as they don't provide additional social advantage.

For example at one point nails were 0.5% of the economy and today owning a nail factory is a low margin business that has no social status.

Similarly the percentage of the economy and social status associated with frontend software dev will get automated and become a smaller percentage of the economy.

Since social status is a zero sum game people increase spending in other areas where social status can be helped.
by rpdillon | 2025-07-19 01:08:25+00:00
No contrarianism intended!

I took your musing about the value of removing Yandex as creating a sort of spectrum of hypothetical products that could be offered, and then musing that some hypothetical one would be better than what exists. My point was: we can only select from what exists (or who exists), and then work with them from there. This was intended to tie into a larger theme I'd been trying to emphasize around choosing a product that's closest to your ideal, and then iterating towards perfection from there. The moral-stand approach is to go with free stuff because you don't want to give money to a non-perfect product/company. My assertion is that single-factor approach is something I see regularly, and an approach that leads to suboptimal choices in the long run.

My statement about Kagi was not indended to be someone we'd prove, but rather what the company themselves has stated as their intention, in contrast to their competitors, who don't even try.

Cory Doctrow has written up some findings with respect to how Google search results are intentionally bad. When Kagi uses Google's index via the API (that's paid!) they can produce a better search product than Google does. That's notable!

Assuming you seriously considered Kagi, and have now chosen not to pay them, where have you turned for search?
by hungmung | 2025-07-19 01:08:32+00:00
It's because Visa got sued, lost, and it was found out they knowingly processed payments for illegal adult content, so they basically avoid the sector entirely now. Economist had an article about it maybe two years ago and came to much the same conclusion you did. IIRC, the failure in their mind was government not stepping in to make a law so things are less ambiguous in the future. Now payment processing cos get to gate keep people's speech, which means everything is basically a civil suit away from getting blacklisted.
by felipeerias | 2025-07-19 01:09:01+00:00
These regulations may end up creating a trap for European companies.

Essentially, the goal is to establish a series of thresholds that result in significantly more complex and onerous compliance requirements, for example when a model is trained past a certain scale.

Burgeoning EU companies would be reluctant to cross any one of those thresholds and have to deal with sharply increased regulatory risks.

On the other hand, large corporations in the US or China are currently benefiting from a Darwinian ecosystem at home that allows them to evolve their frontier models at breakneck speed.

Those non-EU companies will then be able to enter the EU market with far more polished AI-based products and far deeper pockets to face any regulations.
by molticrystal | 2025-07-19 01:09:03+00:00
I used to be a hybrid user, mixing RSS feeds with scrolling a set of pages a few page downs. Now I only use RSS feeds. To keep it manageable, they can be configured to be updated once or twice a day and have set restrictions on sites or search terms. https://hnrss.org/frontpage works for me as a restriction for stories on this site, but it can also filter by points or other criteria as well.

There are many mobile readers, for desktop I like QuiteRss & RSS Guard.
by fimdomeio | 2025-07-19 01:09:16+00:00
If I remember correct from the hot money podcast https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3... part of the problem for the credit card companies is figuring what are the boundaries of legality. Countries have very different laws. Things like representing homosexuality or age of consent are very different and credit cards feel that it is a risky business because of that.
by rhelz | 2025-07-19 01:09:32+00:00
There can never be a sane intellectual property law, if by "sane" you mean reasonable and/or free from negative consequences.

Imagine you live in the star trek universe, and we have those replicator machines which will happily deliver as much of anything to you as you wish to get.

Now imagine trying to come up with some "sane property laws" to exclude people from using them. What would even be the point of trying? How would any such attempt be anything more than arbitrarily giving one class of people unjustifiable power over another class of people?

We are actually in that very position with the fruits of intellectual labor. Just because one person is using a program, or an algorithm, or a theorem, that doesn't prevent anybody else from also using it.

So any mechanism for prohibiting somebody from using a program--which is to say, any mechanism to turn a program into property--is going to be globally suboptimal. It is going to arbitrarily harm one class of people so that another class of people can benefit.

The genius of the GPL is that it it gets this. The miracle of the GPL is that has found a way to give us something like a replicator machine even in this ultra-capitalistic society.
by ghuntley | 2025-07-19 01:09:36+00:00
There's a predictable journey: people start with Cursor when they are new to AI, and quickly move on to something more powerful once they realise that the IDE [1] is holding em back and that forking VSCode is [2][3] tech-debt.

[1] https://ghuntley.com/overton

[2] https://ghuntley.com/fracture

[3] https://ghuntley.com/amazon-kiro-source-code/
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-07-19 01:11:09+00:00
>> I am genuinely curious who can actually threaten Visa (I do not think it is Valve).

> Likely Apple currently has the deepest finance industry roots.

Apple used a very large bank headquartered in the US for its credit card processing as of about ten years ago. Given that the cost of change is significant once these processes are put in place, it is likely this remains the case.

Note that this is not the same as what Apple Pay supports.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-19 01:11:11+00:00
For magnitude:

The Foreign Investors Who Bought the Recklessly Ballooning US Debt: July 2025 Update - https://wolfstreet.com/2025/07/18/the-foreign-investors-who-... - July 18th, 2025

Why the economy won't grow out of this debt structure:

Grow the Economy? Not With These Immigration Restrictions - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-18/immigr... | https://archive.today/GfLWG - July 18th, 2025
by noduerme | 2025-07-19 01:11:37+00:00
My guess is it's simply a chargeback risk. It's the reason casinos and adult sites have trouble getting credit card processing and are charged much higher basic rates, even under the best of circumstances when the casino or adult site is operating entirely within the law in the jurisdictions it allows.

Punters run a lot of chargebacks on casinos, and people whose spouses catch a XXX video or game on their card statement will lie and run chargebacks too.

In the case of Valve, a lot of chargebacks would drastically increase the processing rates demanded by the payment providers for all transactions across the board, not just those related to adult games.

There's probably a great market opportunity here for a game store focused on adult games and willing to take on that risk.