MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cmsefton | 2025-08-01 11:03:36+00:00
This resonates. The article has some interesting points, and get where they're coming from. Unpacking can be helpful to think about the next smallest step, but I agree, thinking of all the things ends up creating a mountain that looks too hard to climb, nevermind that many of the questions and challenges you ask may not even materialise. My main takeaway is just to ask the question of why you want to do this thing you've said you want to do, and what the next smallest step is to do it. If you find yourself enjoying it, carry on.

For example, when people say they want to write a book or be a novelist, what they really mean is, they want to have written a book and been a writer. They're looking at the finished product. This is likely true of most people who want to do X, because they see it as a solution to their current situation.

The better thing is just sit down and write stuff. Poems, diaries, letters, very short stories and vignettes. See where it takes you.

The professor thing made me laugh, because some people like helping others grow and learn and blossom, despite all the day to day stuff. That was my step father's motivation for it. He found he enjoyed it.

There is value in just throwing yourself into something and seeing if you enjoy it. For example, I have a friend who started brewing his own beer. He loved everything about it, and enjoyed it. He connected with other home brewers, and gradually he ended up becoming a master brewer. He didn't start with the end in mind, he threw himself into what he was doing and carried on because he enjoyed it. Funnily enough, another friend started roasting his own coffee beans because he liked drinking coffee, and today he sells his own beans, and has just opened his own coffee shop. He carried on doing it, because he enjoyed it.

I've always liked Tim Minchen's advice on this: "And so I advocate passionate dedication to the pursuit of short-term goals. Be micro-ambitious. Put your head down and work with pride on whatever is in front of you… you never know where you might end up. Just be aware that the next worthy pursuit will probably appear in your periphery. Which is why you should be careful of long-term dreams. If you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye."
by a_sydelov | 2025-08-01 11:04:56+00:00
Kubernetes isn’t just a container scheduler — it’s a layered system that reconciles desired state through a chain of components.

This article breaks down what actually happens after kubectl apply: • API server interaction with etcd • Controller watch-loops and reconciliation • Scheduler decision-making • Pod provisioning via kubelet and containerd • CNI-based network setup and service routing

Includes a structured visual summary aimed at platform engineers and those building or debugging Kubernetes-based systems.
by pembrook | 2025-08-01 11:04:59+00:00
> Anything short of taxing every residence which is not a primary residence AND banning foreign ownership AND reducing permitting toil AND raising interest rates, is going to fall short.

You forgot eliminating favorable taxation for real estate as well.

But actually if you kept all of those factors and simply just increased supply, it would still lower prices. It's not that complicated. It doesn't matter how many incentives you place on top of real estate. If you build more and prices decrease by 20%, it doesn't make demand shoot up by 20%.

The vast majority of people will never purchase more than one home, and will also never leave the metro-area they grew up in.

I think Vancouver people imagine the demand of Chinese real estate investors interested in their city is endless. It is not. Vancouver is the city that has the highest percentage of Chinese-owned real estate outside of China (globally) and its still at only 30%.

And the vast vast majority of cities do not have this dynamic or anything close to it. And the Chinese population is massively declining over the next 40 years, not growing.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-01 11:06:49+00:00
If we aren't careful with space debris [1], deorbit protocols [2], and anti-satellite weapons [3], we risk triggering a Kessler syndrome [4] and permanently blocking our access to space. We currently have no international space agreements outside of not putting nuclear weapons in space, which is wholly inadequate for managing the dangers and safety of space development.

The only reason space has been managed decently well until now is because most of it was done through the US and Europe that have very strict regulations around safety. Don't expect this good behaviour to continue.

1. https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/04/30/station-m...

2. https://www.livescience.com/chinese-rocket-booster-fourth-la...

3. https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2007-03/chinese-satellite-de...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-01 11:07:10+00:00
Jay Leno also doesn't feel a lot of pressure to own those kinds of cars because they're not really what he's into. When you look at what he actually does, he's a collector of and benefactor for the restoration of niche vehicles.

It is uncontroversial to say that Ferraris are cars of note. Somebody will save them. His resources are better spent on the stupidly niche things that nobody will care about if he doesn't. So it's easier for him to say "meh, not for me" than it is for someone to whom those kinds of cars are more relevant.
by charlie-83 | 2025-08-01 11:07:18+00:00
I think a key piece of context to Kovid's distain of tmux is how good window management is in kitty. I regularly have at least ten terminals open and navigating them is a breeze. I previously lived in tmux but much prefer this.

The session persistence thing is still best solved with tmux, however, I don't ever need this. Nohup is sufficient for long running commands where my ssh might fail. I don't really find myself sshing into a machine and then setting loads of env vars that I need to persist.
by laurent_du | 2025-08-01 11:07:59+00:00
The vast majority of people who claim to be software engineer (or apply to similar position) have very limited skill. This has been proven countless times. I think it's completely fair to ask the candidate to show some level of ability. I did some interviewing a few years ago and I was shocked at the abysmal level of some people who have been in this industry for almost 10 years. So the resumé in itself is not really indicative of anything.
by mtmail | 2025-08-01 11:08:42+00:00
Our company had this 15 years. Even sending a questionnaire would get less than 50% replies, tech questions or small asks "write a script which ..." much less replied. It's a filter. Goal was to filter out those candidates who apply to 100 companies per week, sometimes automated. See it as second or third step in a process. It's not against you personally, you're competing with dozens, with AI tools these days might be 100s, of low quality applications hitting the same email inbox.
by naoru | 2025-08-01 11:09:26+00:00
I've tried several different mics but eventually settled on a wired headset and Revelator io44 audio interface. The latter one is a goofy brick but it has a TRRS audio jack and built-in DSP so I don't have to fiddle with loopbacks, DAWs and VSTs.

And if I'm not able to lug that brick I can just plug the headset directly into my laptop.
by injidup | 2025-08-01 11:09:34+00:00
I don't claim the AI code is good or bad. It generated me a tool I needed in a short time in a domain where I don't have enough knowledge. I have other high value work to do. I got the tool I wanted and moved on. I didn't even bother code reviewing it. It's like you ask an intern to knock you up a tool to do a job and instead of two days waiting you get it in a few hours.
by froddd | 2025-08-01 11:09:54+00:00
> Are there still customers giving tips as "a reward for good service"?

Sad if this is no longer the case.

In the UK at least (and the rest of Europe too, as far as I can tell), this is still very much the case. The curve varies with the individuals tipping. I would be quite happy to give 20% if the service was outstanding. I’m equally happy to not tip at all if the service was very poor.
by moontear | 2025-08-01 11:10:15+00:00
The actual source is this: https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-OS-Server-4-2-23/21d... but only accessible if you opt-in to the Unifi Early Access program. We are talking beta software / first release here, so any criticism needs to be looked at through that lens.

Also there is the official announcement now: https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-unifi-os-server
by fatnoah | 2025-08-01 11:10:30+00:00
> You’re not paying for a service, you’re bidding in an open market.

IMHO, this isn't a new phenomenon. Close to 18 years ago, I lived in a city with a popular pizza spot that was about a 10 minute walk away. Normally I'd walk, but having a newborn make that challenging, so I'd get delivery.

Typically, the delivery would take 60+ minutes on a busy night, but after a few consecutive Fridays of a decent tip for the order, the pizza would arrive "burn your fingers" in about 20 minutes.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-08-01 11:11:25+00:00
> Do we know which lobby group/party is pushing for that yet again?

tldr: A US based surveillance company called Thorn has been lobbying for this for years.

‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...

Chat control & Kutcher: Ombudsman criticizes secrecy https://www.heise.de/en/news/Chat-control-Kutcher-Ombudsman-...
by d4rkp4ttern | 2025-08-01 11:13:18+00:00
I really like the repo-mix tool for generating targeted LLMs.txt files.

https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix

I use this in a pre-commit hook to generate a few versions of these (of various token lengths) in Langroid:

https://github.com/langroid/langroid

For example I can dump one of the LLMs.txt into Gemini 2.5 pro and ask it about how certain Langroid features work, or ask it to implement simple agent systems, and it does a good (not perfect) job. I find this to be a convenient way to onboard people to Langroid, since LLMs don’t (yet) “know” Langroid too well (they know a little and hallucinate quite a bit)
by bayindirh | 2025-08-01 11:14:54+00:00
You're most welcome. :)

> I might just be a bit clumsy. :)

We all are, don't feel bad about it.

Lamy Safari, Kaweco Perkeo and Faber Castell Grip 2011 have triangular grips which forces you to hold the pen correctly. Many people find these uncomfortable, but I love them. Because it allows me blindly open them (i.e.: Oh I need to take note of this, where's my pen?) while looking to the screen or elsewhere.

We all start from somewhere. Using fountain pens is not an instinctual thing. Also, even after trying these and decide that fountain pens aren't for you, that's perfectly OK, too.

From my experience, when you get used to fountain pens, they're not messier than a ballpoint pen.

Hope these tips help,

Have a nice day! ;)
by steveBK123 | 2025-08-01 11:15:08+00:00
Journalism has all the problems of being a shrinking high status low income industry. Living in NYC I know a few journalists, and if you scratch below the surface on many of their bios they are quite often from wealth of one form or another. At least enough wealth to subsidize them living in an expensive NYC zipcode on awful starting pay with low growth and ceiling.

So it really is quite a monoculture. 20 years ago they all lived in UWS, now it's somewhere between Park Slope and North Brooklyn. Ever noticed how many local color stories used to be UWS focussed and are now Brooklyn? A lot of trends pieces are "stuff I noticed in my friends group" type of depth, and they all have the same friends groups. They literally don't know what they don't know.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-08-01 11:15:28+00:00
The main lobbying group behind the proposal is a US surveillance company called Thorn.

‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...

Chat control & Kutcher: Ombudsman criticizes secrecy https://www.heise.de/en/news/Chat-control-Kutcher-Ombudsman-...
by ralferoo | 2025-08-01 11:16:02+00:00
Hmmm, interesting. I've just searched now, and it seems I can't either so maybe I was totally mistaken, but I'm sure I remember reading this a few months ago when I was googling pistachio allergies when my tongue first felt slightly swollen (I've eaten pistachios for years before, and continue to do so, so it's obviously not a severe allergy).

Apparently, from what I read today, those two are caused by sharing a similar protein, and nothing at all to do with a fungus. It did say that both are susceptible to the aflatoxin fungus, but that apparently can contaminate lots of other things and if it's detected, the affected nuts, and sometimes even the whole batch, are destroyed. So, I guess it's not that after all, and I'm kind of at a loss as to what it was I remember reading from before.

Sorry for leading you down a dead end.

BTW what I also read today said there are other things that cross-react with cashew and pistachio, such as pink peppercorns, so if you're allergic to the nuts, you might want to check what else might affect you.
by bejd | 2025-08-01 11:17:04+00:00
Sounds like the "Penfield Mood Organ"[0] from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Characters "dial" emotions, from basic to extremely specific (e.g. "481. Awareness of the manifold possibilities open [...] in the future", or "888 [...] The desire to watch TV, no matter what's on it")

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penfield_mood_organ
by bearl | 2025-08-01 11:17:28+00:00
This is exactly what the developers say. Low income housing, which is unaffordable even on middle class income, is only viable if heavily subsidized. So the tax payers have to pay the developer to take the guaranteed loss. And even then, 3000 rent on a low income studio apartment is only possible for low income people who have subsidies. So the tax payers pay the developers to build it, and then pay the tenants to rent, and people have the gall to refer to this as the “free market” solution.
by meitham | 2025-08-01 11:19:03+00:00
Absolutely! You also have full control over the history size, along with powerful search capabilities. You can move panes and windows seamlessly across sessions, and even share those sessions with other users. My yank script integrates with tmux buffers, so copy/paste works flawlessly, even in vertical splits. I strongly disagree with the article; I simply can’t imagine using a terminal without tmux.
by sampo | 2025-08-01 11:19:24+00:00
> Housing crisis is observed in almost all what is called "first world" (europe, japan, usa).

You mentioning Japan gives out that you maybe don't know what you are talking about.

> I believe that 90% of the issue is more global than a regulation.

Or maybe the case it, that also globally most urban areas tend to develop a version of excessive regulation.
by mgraybosch | 2025-08-01 11:20:29+00:00
If you want to speak freely, don't expect to do it on somebody else's platform. Even if you aren't subject to censorship at the hands of the admins or moderators, you might still run afoul of the prevailing groupthink.

Here's what you should do if you're serious about free speech online: Start your own website. Run it under a pseudonym. Host it on Nearly Free Speech. Ignore all SEO advice, and disallow all crawlers in robots.txt. You might not get any human readers, but you aren't likely to get censored.

Otherwise, posting on 4chan is an option if you don't mind having racial or homophobic slurs hurled at you by poorly socialized adolescents who think too highly of themselves. And there's always Substack; if they can tolerate avowed neo-Nazis like Richard Spencer and white supremacists like Richard Hanania, they can probably tolerate you.

Just remember that if you frequent a Nazi bar like Substack or X, people will assume that you're a Nazi.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-08-01 11:20:40+00:00
Never ever once has an employer given me a pay raise when they got a tax cut or a pay cut when they got a tax hike.

Taxes do not feature into salary negotiation. Employers pay as little as they can get away with, while employees want to get as much money as they can.

If you need theoretical worlds with no correspondence to anything ever in actual history to justify your claim, then maybe there is not that much to it.
by JdeBP | 2025-08-01 11:20:46+00:00
You are very lucky to have a VT520. I have been idly on the look-out for a 525 for years, but not only are they inordinately expensive, the people selling them are not on the same continent as I am (and probably don't have my country's version of the LK).

I've been on the lookout partly just to see whether this works properly with a genuine VT525:

* https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/console-termi...

Yes, should tmux ever go away, there's another option for transliterating terminal output of applications that just expect all of the modern stuff with AIXTerm's 16 colours and alternate screen buffers and mouse sequences and whatnot and do not check TERM properly. (-:
by TylerE | 2025-08-01 11:21:24+00:00
> It's not like you get better or more food, or get the food faster since all that depends on the kitchen

Oh, trust me, go to a decent place, be a regular, tip decently (not even extravagantly), you absolutely get looked after. For instance, several of my usual lunch spots my usual fountain drink is often "water" on the bill.
by noisy_boy | 2025-08-01 11:22:23+00:00
I remember reading the Perl O'Reilly book (Introduction to Perl[0]) end-to-end and basically feeling that it all makes sense - ($)calar, (@)rray and % for dictionary (because we have a pair of "o"s representing key/value) and so on. Coming from only writing bash (which is all people around me wrote), it was like a becoming a superhero overnight. I rewrote all my bash scripts in Perl and got high level language features with blazing speed. I relished taking people's bash scripts that took an hour and rewriting them in Perl for them to take barely few minutes (which was objectively terrible performance but I was a novice programmer then and nobody else knew better). I was a hotshot. It was an awesome feeling.

Later I got another role solely because they couldn't find Perl programmers and I wasn't half bad at it. But this was an actual application written by a bunch of people who wanted to write clever code and it was like handing over the keys to a missile depot to a bunch of arsonists. Many thousands LoC. By the end of it, I was told that we need to move to using Java and I could barely contain my relief.

For one-off scripts, still nothing flows like Perl. It is the most interesting language I have coded in, bar none.

[0] correction: Learning Perl, the llama book (thanks @ninkendo)
by rolandog | 2025-08-01 11:22:38+00:00
> If you buy a house for $400k, and suddenly it is worth $300k, you don't need to be "bailed out" for your purchase decision. You should have been certain that the house was worth $400k to you at the time of purchase. Otherwise you're a speculator, and we shouldn't be bailing out speculators.

Isn't that missing the forest for the trees? There's an all-out class war between the haves and the have-nots. If it controls supply like a cartel, and if it pursues rent-seeking like a cartel, then maybe the real estate moguls and speculators that treat everything like an investment instrument should be held accountable and liable.
by thrance | 2025-08-01 11:23:07+00:00
It all makes sense when you take "abundance liberalism" for what it actually is: a rebranding of neoliberalism in support of establishment democrats. Its main goal is not to provide the democratic party with a new direction, but to defend the status quo against the populist left, incarnated by the likes of AOC and Mamdani.

It makes sense then, that they'd spend more time attacking the left than the right, as they realize where the existential threat to the current democratic party lies. Personally, I think it's good that they're afraid.
by Myrmornis | 2025-08-01 11:23:12+00:00
If I were to stop using tmux, the things I would need to replace are:

1. zoom-pane (temporarily make one pane be the only pane) (also can someone please add this to vscode!)

2. keybindings to navigate focus between panes according to their layout positions

3. ability for another process to programmatically change which terminal window has focus, and window naming

I think that's it. Could probably hack most/all of that together with hammerspoon I guess. I don't use it for persistence, and I certainly don't like the scrollback UX. It has got in the way from time to time, principally with its slow adoption of hyperlinks. But I'm general it's been a huge win for years.
by brazzy | 2025-08-01 11:23:45+00:00
> There is value in just throwing yourself into something and seeing if you enjoy it.

Absolutely, when the stakes are low and the timelines short. Then it's a very good option for "not knowing what to do".

It's a really bad idea when you have to start by taking on six-figure student loans, or when it will take years of your life to get to the point where you're confronted with the unappealing aspects, which will dominate your time thereafter.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-01 11:25:01+00:00
> Supply destruction to put a floor on prices is not an unknown phenomenon.

The business model of construction companies is to buy a piece of property, develop it and then sell it for something more than the cost of buying it plus the cost of developing it. Constraining supply increases the cost of property which they then have to pay in order to acquire properties to develop. It isn't really in their interest to increase their own costs.

The most significant way it could be is if they were buying lower density units and replacing them with higher density units, so they'd be selling more units than they're buying and therefore benefit from the price per unit increasing. But in order to benefit from that they'd need to be increasing rather than decreasing the supply, which is contrary to the premise of them doing the opposite.

> The effort to make it seem silly to think that there aren't enough houses because the industry whose job it is to build houses did not build enough houses is itself a little silly. Circumstantial as the evidence may be, it's logical to assume that they didn't because it was more profitable not to.

Suppose that it would be profitable to buy a single family home and replace it 10 condo units, except that there is a law prohibiting you from doing that. Then it would be more profitable not to build those units, since doing so is illegal. But who is to blame for this?