MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spwa4 | 2025-07-27 16:17:38+00:00
True this is bullshit. The government has a direct policy of wealth transfer from the population to itself and banks, who have "foreign" (except of course not really, for the worst example look at the board of the "gift to Ireland" national wealth fund and how the very young board members have no qualifications or experience and DO have family in government ...) ownership. Which, conveniently, isn't counted in the Gini coefficient.

But if you count household wealth in houses in Ireland, household wealth in Ireland in 1986 used to be 3 average Irish houses, and now it's 1/3rd. This was, just like anywhere else, deliberate government policy, amongst others to allow banks to invest in housing stock, preferential tax treatment and guarantees for property ownership, government buying of specific (mostly politician owned) housing, non-enforcement of both Irish and non-Irish tax law ... the list goes on.

Ireland prides itself on creating prosperity by lying and cheating other EU countries out of their tax income. Surprise! A government that lies on international treaties (they promised to enforce minimum tax since 2008, then ... didn't, then claimed credit for the "unseen in history prosperity boom"). Surprise! A government that does that ALSO lied to it's constituents and instead of delivering prosperity took 2/3rd of every euro you own.

"Oops, who could have seen this coming"
by baxuz | 2025-07-27 16:17:50+00:00
The more I see how businesses work, the more I think that every employee should be guaranteed a certain amount of shares on selling out, without an end date, and not requiring the employee to be working in the company at the time.

Not monopoly money options, categories, valuations etc, but a guaranteed percentage of the entire price. The same privileges that the founders & C-suite has.
by rbanffy | 2025-07-27 16:17:57+00:00
There are many cluster boards that allow plugging compute module boards that have an onboard switch. Such an arrangement would provide a much denser system. Making a new one, however, requires a lot of work. I'm not even sure how you do ethernet over PCB traces.

One project I keep telling myself I'll eventually do is to make a cluster board with 32 Octavo SoMs (each with 2 ethernets, CPU, GPU, RAM, and some flash), and a network switch (or two). And 32 activity LEDs on the side so a set of 16 boards will look like a Connnection Machine module.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-27 16:17:58+00:00
Nixon PEZ Dispenser:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/x48qy9/t...

Nixon Bong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pLlQLMpMsw

A dildo shaped like Richard Nixon:

https://tv.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9f76f324-e9b4-475a-9fb5-bfa8...

https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?t=3633...
by dur-randir | 2025-07-27 16:18:32+00:00
I have a 100TB array setup with LVM. I've thought (twice, each time I expanded this array) about using ZFS. It was ruled out for three things:

- there had been no raidz expansion (but now is, so this point is crossed)

- ZFS degrades read latency with the number of drives in array, while mdraid/lvm scales linearly - this is the price you pay for your checksums

- write-cache options on ZFS are atrotious, ZIL/SLOG are nothing compared to dm_writecache - I can stream 2GB/s full of sync writes until my cache drive is filled up, and it also provides reads to freshly written data, without going to backing pool

So, saying "why not ZFS" or "go buy some SSDs" is not really productive for promoting ZFS - it just underscores that "for ZFS" crowd are zealots.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-07-27 16:19:11+00:00
We need to have a viable heavy rocket launch capability in the US at any given time, at very least just in case we detect an asteroid on a collision course. Right now that seems to fall entirely onto Falcon 9 (and Falcon Heavy), but the max payload weight even for Falcon Heavy seems much lower than the planned payload for SLS. Someday Starship may fix this, but we don't know if it will -- or if the final version will actually meet the planned specs.
by irishloop | 2025-07-27 16:19:11+00:00
> If you don't own your infra, you are dependent.

You're dependent regardless. You are dependent on your service provider, your hardware, your UPS battery backup, your RAID drives being easily replaced, your backups.

It reminds me of people who raise their own chickens and think they're living off the grid. But they need the materials to build the coop, the chicken feed, fencing, etc.
by homebrewer | 2025-07-27 16:19:13+00:00
Who cares at this point, Tailscale itself is the 600th reimplementation of the same idea, with predecessors like nebula and tinc. They came at the right time, with WireGuard being on the rise, and poured millions into advertisements that their community "competitors" didn't have since most of them isn't riding on VC money.
by raffraffraff | 2025-07-27 16:19:16+00:00
It's a bit pain in three neck for me to rebuild my NAS using LVM or ZFS (to handle RAID in place of mdadm) but if I was starting over, I'd use either of them to avoid bit rot.

As it is though, I'm happy with RAID 10 on SATA HDDs a and RAID 1 on NVME SDDs, using bcache to create a single volume using both, and then ext4 on top. With sufficient SMART monitoring and backups, it'll do.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-07-27 16:19:34+00:00
> The golden rule of selfhosting is that you don't host for others.

How is that the golden rule? I self host and somehow missed that. I think of it more as devolution, you can self host if you want to, or you can use a family hosted option, or a community. That way a balance can be struck between convenience and sovereignty such that as convenience naturally improves so does sovereignty. No need to let perfect be the enemy of good, is a soft gradient all the way down.

Edit: I googled the ‘golden rule of self-hosting’ and all I could find the the parents comment but that seemed to be enough for google AI summary to accept it, so stating it as fact appears to have done so in so far as Googles AI is concerned.
by api | 2025-07-27 16:19:35+00:00
NTA but there are some people who see Substack as an enabler / platformer of the ultra-right. I don't personally feel this way since I've seen just as many lefty things hosted there. Seems like a fairly neutral platform.

I do dislike Substack for other reasons though, but they have more to do with disliking content aggregators and seeing them as parasites. Substack, and (worse) Medium are magazines with unpaid or under-paid writers. They bait people in with ease-of-use and free hosting and then paywall their content and if they allow author monetization they take a very large cut. The general trend on all these platforms is progressive enshittification.

Patreon remains probably the least objectionable one.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-27 16:20:17+00:00
In the case of NASA, they could stand to shed a lot of the institutional structure they’ve built up. When institutional knowledge becomes more about navigating bureaucracy than doing engineering, something needs to break.

My dream outcome would be that they shrink down the bureaucracy massively, retire a lot of the career middle managers who make sure nothing ever moves too fast and no project is allowed to run lean, and then raise pay for the remaining people to attract some of the private sector talent that could infuse some new knowledge. The few people I know with SpaceX experience are not at all happy with the work environment there, but the pay and pace of a place like NASA aren’t an option for them.
by Implicated | 2025-07-27 16:20:20+00:00
I use co2 measurements in my home to do just what you're describing here - automate control of a DIY fresh air intake (through a custom built filter box/fan enclosure w/ 5" merv 14 filter).

It's rather dumb at the moment, but when number gets too high, it kicks on for 1 hour and if it's back below threshold it shuts off. There's also a human presence detector that will "pause" it for 5 minutes since it's in my kitchen window.

It's built out of cardboard (laminated, with wheat paste) as a proof of concept/tinker with design and placement of things and also serves as a platform for the cats to nap in the window.

This, mainly, helps from bringing in all the outside humidity during the summer and the bitter cold during the winter. Otherwise, prior, I'd just keep an exhaust fan running all the time (eating the losses on air conditioning/heat) but we'd end up closing the window when it was super hot/cold and then the iaq would get terrible.

Lots and lots of people are automating their various systems due to monitoring these values. An application I've seen lots of is to just kick on the hvac systems fans when the aq drops below a particular threshold in one room or another.

> Lastly, ensuring your house is positively pressurized by paying a testing and balancing contractor to come over and adjust your HVAC system will do more to keep out particulate matter than measuring it ever will.

Sadly, it took me a while to figure out that having this window fan in my kitchen on "exhaust" rather than "intake" was creating a negative pressure environment and that was.. not optimal.
by trainsarebetter | 2025-07-27 16:20:46+00:00
This is pretty naive take. We have turned eras of lush forests into essentially deserts and killed water sheds. These things don’t default back to a thriving ecosystem. Lots of the time they are just dead. Pre tree planting, after clear cutting, there’s a lot of “forests” in bc that are just one canopy hemlock swaths. They need to be thinned and diversified because the are essentially “dead” forests. A lot of work needs to be put into these areas, as the water sheds are falling apart and dying as a result.
by FinnKuhn | 2025-07-27 16:21:11+00:00
Not the author, but I have heard the criticism that it is trying to monopolize blogging. Oh, and it is hosting "white-supremacist, neo-Confederate, and explicitly Nazi" content. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/subst..., without pay wall: https://archive.ph/d1d7N
by mykowebhn | 2025-07-27 16:21:16+00:00
Humans on their phone 24/7 due to addiction and/or who hold multiple jobs and still can't afford rent and/or who suffer from racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc. are not thriving.

Oh, but they live to be 75, can buy a 75 inch television, and there are 8 billion of them. I'd still say they're not thriving.

Would you consider the folks in Brave New World thriving?

And don't get me started on environmental destruction. This post was about wolves and trees thriving, by the way.
by nlitened | 2025-07-27 16:21:27+00:00
> I want to represent that a field should never get new null values, it should be treated as non-nullable for the purpose of writing

That's a job of DB triggers — arbitrary restrictions that are automatically applied when you create or update records. You can restrict new null values, you can restrict numeric values to be odd or prime, you can make sure that only a single field can be null out of two, but not two at the same time — all the things that you can't even describe in a type system.
by fivestones | 2025-07-27 16:22:06+00:00
I don’t think you fully grasped what I wrote.

I didn’t give you an answer from chatgpt. I’m not telling anyone how cool it is. I’ve been here for years and I’m well aware of the level of exposure to LLMs there is for people on HN .

I did give out a warning to people that I had learned something from chatgpt, not from some other source, so they could take it for what it was worth.

I’m so tired of seeing people in other forums try to help someone and having someone give them a shit response. One thing I like about HN is the fact that that doesn’t happen much here. I still think what I wrote in response to your question was helpful and thoughtful. Back up a minute and just think it over, please.

I’d love to see which benchmarks you’re talking about, and if they apply to all three of those specific LLMs, and which version of their models, and if they differentiate topics. My guess is that in the case of LLM output that is a response to a purely factual question, or a response to a question asking a technological question where I present it with something I know occurs but want to know the means by which it occurs, the amount of hallucination is much less than 10%. And if you have some background in the area you are asking about, you can easily filter out some of what is hallucinated, making the learned material well about 90%. But I’m just guessing based on my experience of asking LLMs a lot of questions about both things I already know quite well and others that I don’t. So, which benchmarks are you talking about?
by loceng | 2025-07-27 16:23:02+00:00
Until you understand how 1984 extrapolates with today's technologies - and the only defense against corrupt-captured state(s) and industrial complexes toeing the establishment line, in ever increasing consolidation of so-called power-control, is decentralized-distributed tech - and then where the centralization [especially physical infrastructure] becomes their major weakness; yes, there is the control of means of production-funnel of resources-energy issue but if shit really hits the fan than guerilla tactics appear to always reign supreme, whereby major supply lines, energy production, an CPU architecture will be first to be targeted.

The bad actors through subversion are currently attempting their best to not cause panic for the herds to react more strongly and more quickly than their apparatus they're currently ready to handle [at least that they believe they're ready to handle] - however things can fall apart very quickly, the Berlin wall fell much sooner than practically all predicted.
by nine_zeros | 2025-07-27 16:23:37+00:00
Cost of FedEx from NYC to LA: Cheapest price for 1 lb letter is $60.37 before taxes

https://www.fedex.com/en-us/online/rating.html

Cheapest price on USPS for 1 lb letter is $9.70 after taxes.

https://postcalc.usps.com/Calculator/MailServices?country=0&...

That is 7x for a standard 1 lb envelope.

The claims are not as egregious as you think. You are not the only one shipping goods around. There is a market that USPS serves and I along with many others benefit from it.
by throw123xz | 2025-07-27 16:23:48+00:00
It's funny that you ask that because around 10 years ago, there was this investment stuff going around in my community. No one warned me about the dangers and those who tried to convince me to join only said good things about it, but I looked at it and it looked weird. It was a pyramid scheme. So I didn't join, didn't lose any money or lose any friendships over it.

If I come here and tell you that I'm going to reduce expenses and debt while reducing taxes and also investing massive amounts of money to improve the military, healthcare, etc, something should go off in your head because it doesn't add up.

Voting for someone promising unrealistic things is no different from going into a dark alley in what you know is a rough neighborhood. A victim is still a victim, but grown ups must own up to their actions... and there's no other way of saying this: what you did was fucking dumb. It's even dumber if you do the same dumb thing twice.
by adamtaylor_13 | 2025-07-27 16:23:58+00:00
If you follow thinking like this to its logical conclusion you shouldn’t engage in ANY technology for ANY purpose.

While you’re at it, you should make your own clothes, grow your own food, and build your own home with materials you procured sustainably.

Taken to its extreme, this line of thinking is such a non-starter that I don’t even really know what to do with it.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-27 16:24:25+00:00
Eh, the Moon landing was extremely agreessive and faced huge challenges yet was still achieved using technology and knowledge way behind what we have today. If we really wanted to put someone on Mars in the same aggressive manner as we had with the Moon, we could launch that mission by 2030 (travel time would take longer and there would be no return). The only real obstacle is the lack of will and money.
by rvrb | 2025-07-27 16:24:51+00:00
You have raised a good discussion point or two, but I am not inclined to engage with them due to the tone you've created with the rest of your comment.

Would it be productive to jump into a thread on a Ruby article and puff your feathers about how you've always been able to do this in Perl, and also in Python 4 you can do XYZ? I don't think so.

For whatever reason, inevitably in threads on systems languages, someone comes in and postures themselves defensively like this. You might want to reflect on that.
by timr | 2025-07-27 16:25:34+00:00
> Many of the rules are similar, because they are generally commonsense rules. Australia has a few extra ones....You have to get the pool fence reinspected and recertified every 3 years (this may differ state to state).

Yeah, this kind of thing is exactly why NYC has scaffolding on half of the buildings, forever. Huge backlogs and high costs for "recertification" of situations that rarely ever change and carry miniscule marginal risk, due to aggressive laws.

> It was not so much an assumption as it it was a presumption, which if true sets a lower bound on the cost.

No, it's an assumption. There's a difference between "drownings might go down if we do something to limit them" (i.e. "presumption") and "this SPECIFIC SET OF RULES is therefore the thing we must do to save lives" (what is actually happening).

> Taken individually, each pool fence that saved a life only cost the parents $5k. Well worth it.

OK, let's be clear: if you build a pool and have kids, then I have no argument against you being required to put a fence around it. I agree with you that the marginal cost is trivial. Same thing for hotels, rentals, etc. Some regulations make sense.

I start to disagree when these rules are applied to everyone, everywhere, in all circumstances. Many US states impose these rules on people who don't have children, don't live near children, etc. And of course, the comment that started this thread was demanding that we wrap every body of water, everywhere, with a fence "if a child is expected to be present".

If a child comes wandering onto my (hypothetical) property and falls into my (hypothetical) garden pond and drowns, that's the fault of the parent. Particularly so if I've already got a fence around my property, live far away from people, or any number of other factors that sensibly mitigate risk.
by medmunds | 2025-07-27 16:26:33+00:00
Oh, that's my very much unfinished wasm version from 2013. It wasn't meant to be a "vandalized" or dumbed down version; I just stopped working on it because Simon released a much more complete wasm version on his own site around the same time.

I've recently started working on an updated PWA port that works offline and on touch devices, mainly because the iOS app hasn't been updated in years. (If you hunt around you can probably locate the work in progress, but it's not ready for critics yet. I'll post a link when it is.)
by jeppester | 2025-07-27 16:27:04+00:00
I bought a Tuxedo machine. While the situation is not perfect (I had to install driver packages on Fedora), everything works perfectly - including standby.

My last machine was a Thinkpad, and I never got it to work nearly as well. Standby mostly didn't work and when docking it, external screens would be arranged incorrectly unless I rebooted. USB ports also did not activate when docked, so I had a script for resetting the USB devices. Sometimes a new kernel version would come along and cause it to start freezing.

I did check out other laptops before buying the tuxedo (t14s g6 amd, zenbook s14), but according to the information available at the time, those machines had lots of issues. They were also more expensive.

Therefore I'm very curious about which laptop that you think is both better and cheaper than tuxedo, and has full hardware support out of the box?
by api | 2025-07-27 16:27:57+00:00
I've met a lot of people who think Tailscale invented what it does.

Prior to Tailscale there were companies -- ZeroTier and before it Hamachi -- and as you say many FOSS projects and academic efforts. Overlay networks aren't new. VPNs aren't new. Automated P2P with relay fallback isn't new. Cryptographic addressing isn't new. They just put a good UX in front of it, somewhat easier to onboard than their competitors, and as you say had a really big marketing budget due to raising a lot when money was cheap.

Very few things are totally new. In the past ten years LLMs are the only actually new thing I've seen.

Shill disclosure: I'm the founder of ZeroTier, and we've pivoted a bit more into the industrial space, but we still exist as a free thing you can use to build overlays. Still growing too. Don't have any ill will toward Tailscale. As I said nobody "owns" P2P and they're doing something a bit different from us in terms of UX and target market.

These "dumb pipe" tools -- CLI tooling for P2P pipes -- are cool and useful and IMHO aren't exactly the same thing as ZT or TS etc. They're for a different set of use cases.

The worst thing about the Internet is that it evolved into a client-server architecture. I remain very cautiously optimistic that we might fix this eventually, or at least enable the other paradigm to a much greater extent.
by Ruizhe | 2025-07-27 16:28:22+00:00
I find YouTube consume a lot of my time, I blocked the url on my computer now I prefer to touch my phone more, it does help but I need to do more, and I willing to sacrifice some handy instructional knowledge. I am switching from music services to bandcamp (I hop in what people are currently buying to find better music, and bandcamp radio), also there is few internet radio stations like musicforprogramming, dublab, radiooooo and thelotradio etc, (looking for more internet radio stations!) I feel there is no need for explanation that human selection is better than "algorithm", I feel it.