MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bogwog | 2025-08-21 22:33:23+00:00
Quadlet is only for managing containers. If you need to build images too, you need to use the "buildah" CLI tool. If you know what a systemd service file is, a quadlet is essentially just that. It's a service file that automatically handles the annoying details of creating a systemd service to start/stop your container properly.

But Quadlet needs a container image before it can create a container. The example compose file you linked includes steps for building Dockerfiles. Quadlet doesn't do that. Instead, you'll need to do it as a separate step using buildah (https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/what-is-buildah)

Compose does a lot of stuff, so migrating away from it isn't always easy. In this case, you'd probably need to bring in a build system like Make or some custom scripts to build all the container images you need. Once you rebuild an image, you can restart your quadlet-managed containers with `systemctl restart my-container` and they'll automatically use the new image.

I don't do much web development these days, so I'm definitely not an authority on container-based development workflows. Maybe there are better tools out there, or maybe compose is still the best tool for that job. But quadlets are definitely the better choice when it comes to deploying/orchestrating your containers without getting into a full blown kubernetes setup.
by csours | 2025-08-21 22:33:39+00:00
I'm not sure how to phrase this, so please be patient and try to understand what I intend to say.

CEO pay relative to median employee pay has soared since the 1970s. That is, a CEO may be paid $10,000,000 vs the median employee at $70,000 (arbitrary numbers), where before 1970 the numbers may have been $150,000 and $20,000

Using only one set of numbers can be deceiving though. For instance, through mergers and acquisitions, there may be One CEO where there were previously 10. So you might be able to see this by comparing Total Executive Pay - ie the whole C-suite to Total Non-Executive Pay.

Also, many companies have become more efficient as measured in revenue per employee over time, so another good set of numbers might be Total Executive Pay vs Gross Revenue.

How does Executive Pay look in these contexts?

I'm sure someone has done the work, but I have not had luck googling it, and I definitely don't trust a LLM to get this one right.
by guhidalg | 2025-08-21 22:33:40+00:00
You are not technically wrong, but you are economically wrong.

The water cycle _could_ require spending grid energy to filter/pump water into an economically usable state. Instead if water was better managed, we would not need to build additional grid capacity for water management.

Your argument basically boils down to "If energy was unlimited, we could be wasteful!", which, again, is technically true, but ignores the economic reality.
by figmert | 2025-08-21 22:34:02+00:00
It certainly does!

For what it's worth, podman has also a thin wrapper around docker compose (podman compose) which can also automatically select `podman-compose`.

Note:

- `podman-compose` is an early attempt at remaking `docker-compose` but for Podman.

- Later Podman wrote a Docker compatible socket instead, which can work with most docker clis that accept a `DOCKER_HOST` argument, including `docker` and `docker-compose` (both v1 and v2)

- `podman compose` is a thin wrapper that automatically selects `docker-compose` or `podman-compose` depending on which is installed.
by sunscream89 | 2025-08-21 22:34:08+00:00
> Information is certainty, entropy is uncertainty.

That is wrong.

There is NEVER certainty.

Certainly is a lie.

Certainty is a dillusion.

Listen carefully: “information removes uncertainty.” Do you see? The most well intending self deceptions begin with a misinterpretation.

Like Shannon and his prime example. He did not say “entropy is the number of possible states.”

If you excite an electron valence (increase potential) would these values not change to the next shelf? Everyone who heard what they wanted to hear.

There is no certainty, even the memory fades. You will always ask yourself if you did the right thing or picked the right one. Ten years from now some missing piece will come to light and perspectives will change.

Certainty never “existed” only the illusion of closure. We do the best we can when necessary with what we have. That is success, not certainty.

We cannot find certainty, only optimal solutions.

In a universe governed by entropy, that everything dissolves to time is the only certainty.
by qingcharles | 2025-08-21 22:34:32+00:00
I thought the same thing. I saw photos and videos. I couldn't see any security devices on any of the laptops, but they were piled high on both carts. I saw a spreadsheet Walmart provided of each theft (from a single offender) breaking down how many items were taken and what the total was on each theft. It was like $7000, $13000, $6000 etc etc. The offender got an offer of 6 years DOC, which is served at 50% in Illinois for non-violent. They should get an additional 6 months "good time" on top of that, so maximum 2.5 years. Bearing in mind they were selling the laptops for 50 cents on the dollar from what I understand, they probably took in maybe $30K cash for 2.5 years locked up. (also bear in mind their family will have to support them through this process with a lawyer, about $5K, and probably another $5-10K in commissary and phone calls)
by fakedang | 2025-08-21 22:34:35+00:00
Because the "talent" in this case is a commodity. Most of the low-wage corporation's employees tend to be front-of-house customer facing staff or brown-collar labor, which in most cases does not require any special skill set, nor rewards exceptional talent in most companies. Jobs that are easily replaceable and does not require a degree holder.

Ironically, one of the few places I've seen that actually rewards employees for going above and beyond regularly is Walmart. Entry-level staff who can rise through the ranks with exceptional work can turn from low-wage line workers to store managers who are often paid close to $250k.
by Bender | 2025-08-21 22:34:45+00:00
I've seen something like this before. A monitoring team said that front-line engineers should be opening tickets for every alert that came in. There were upwards of 10,000 unique alerts per hour. Critical issues had been missed due to all the noise. The directors and VPs got an earful enough times that they forced the monitoring team to open tickets for all the alerts and troubleshoot them. The next day the system was down to about a dozen unique alerts per hour after excluding informational alerts and the remainder were eventually closed out. It was the first time the boards had all been green for real this time vs. painting them green for the media and the Gartner Group.
by miffy900 | 2025-08-21 22:35:07+00:00
> I’m saying that in actuality, you won’t be able to see any damage if somebody drank a beer once, because there isn’t any.

Which, again, is not a claim that was ever made in the article. You are literally making things up and arguing against your own made up arguments, and framing it as if the article originally made them. No where in the article does it say that.

It's also weird that you would have a such a vehement reaction towards the quote

> "recent research indicating that any level of alcohol consumption may negatively affect health"

to the point of making things up. How on earth is such a statement even at all remotely controversial?
by missedthecue | 2025-08-21 22:35:08+00:00
No. If keeping worker wages as low as possible was the goal, they wouldn't award stock or healthcare benefits to part time workers in their kitchens.

The point is that poaching a new CEO from another company (in this case, Chipotle), and awarding him a pile of stock options if he hits certain metrics is not pay, is not comparable to W2 income, does not hit his bank account, and does not make anyone else poorer, except theoretically the shareholders, who were so excited to hire this new guy that the stock literally popped 20% when the news broke.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-21 22:35:16+00:00
> self corrects with pitchforks. Does no one read history anymore?

The elites after the French Revolution were not only mostly the same as before, they escaped with so much money and wealth that it’s actually debated if they increased their wealth share through the chaos [1].

Like, in the country today, which wealth constituency is most pushing for overthrowing our republic?

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/650023
by kacesensitive | 2025-08-21 22:37:48+00:00
Yeah no.

Immigration’s impact on wages, especially in the long term, is not as straightforward as “less supply → higher pay.” Multiple studies from the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and leading labor economists find that immigration has only small effects on native-born workers’ wages, and in most cases boost overall wage growth by fueling demand, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Restricting immigration might reduce competition in some low-skill job markets, but it can also harm industries that rely on labor shortages being filled, push up costs for consumers, and slow economic growth, which in the longer run counteracts any wage gains.
by blurbleblurble | 2025-08-21 22:38:03+00:00
I've worked with 10x developers who committed a lot of features and a lot of bugs, and who got lots of accolades for all their green squares. They did not use LLM dev tools because those didn't exist then.

If they had used AI, their PRs might have been more understandable / less buggy, and ultimately I would have preferred that.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-21 22:38:13+00:00
In business sectors where talent matters, the reverse process absolutely does take place, and it is a positive flywheel. Ex: take US tech. Stock issuance (as opposed to buybacks) is used as incentive to attract talent, which then drives growth and valuation, which makes the company more attractive for talent, in a reflexive cycle.

But many businesses are just optimizing for lowest labor cost when it comes to their main workforce. That's where you see the arguably exploitive situation above.
by vghdill | 2025-08-21 22:39:01+00:00
It doesn’t matter if it will work or not, this is something that some large U.S. companies have been prepping for, the slow process of starting to move manufacturing to the U.S., or at least to play games to make it look like it, if tariffs can be avoided.

Personally, as much as I accept that the top chips were made in Taiwan, I don’t think it’s impossible in theory for top chips to be made in the U.S.- but it would require massive changes. Starting with the culture. We’d need to turn off the T.V., work longer hours, and homeschool kids for 15 hours per day with the world’s best educational resources. And even when other countries’ kids and parents do that, they still don’t succeed.

But, I think China will end up being self-sufficient, not needing the rest of the world. In a few years, they’ll be charging an arm and a leg for AI. The rest of the world won’t be able to compete with because we don’t have adequate energy production. They’ll also acquire the ability to make the chips they need.

We could just give it up, and I think that’s where most of us are- watching fascism slowly take hold, knowing we’re fucked and the next thing we’ll see is news of a full-scale global war.

In the meantime, maybe we’ll start making shitty products like Britain did in the mid-20th century.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-21 22:39:25+00:00
Reminds me of Elon not taking a no for an answer. He did it twice, with a massive success.

A true shame to see how he's completely lost track with Tesla, the competition particularly from China is eating them alive. And in space, it's a matter of years until the rest of the world catches up.

And now, he's ran out of tricks - and more importantly, on public support. He can't pivot any more, his entire brand is too toxic to touch.
by pansa2 | 2025-08-21 22:39:40+00:00
The real crime is the design of Python's pattern matching in the first place:

match status: case 404: return "Not found" not_found = 404 match status: case not_found: return "Not found"

Everywhere else in the language, you can give a constant a name without changing the code's behaviour. But in this case, the two snippets are very different: the first checks for equality (`status == 404`) and the second performs an assignment (`not_found = status`).

https://x.com/brandon_rhodes/status/1360226108399099909
by jameshart | 2025-08-21 22:39:41+00:00
I don’t think I was being dismissive, I was just pointing out the lack of universal applicability of this suggestion.

It is my experience that many people do not realize that it is possible not to have developers just connect to prod databases with admin privs.

Pointing out that there comes a point where this sort of approach isn’t the norm is part of how people who reach that level of scale learn that. https://xkcd.com/1053/

And that level of concern isn’t reserved for planet-scale - once you have a couple of million dollar contracts on your B2B SaaS platform you should be taking production data ops seriously enough that this sort of approach is unlikely to make sense.

And I shouldn’t need to say that user privacy ought to be a concern even for small operations.
by Manuel_D | 2025-08-21 22:40:22+00:00
Note that water use is not the same as water consumption. If 100 gallons of water passes through a heat exchanger and 99 gallons go back into the river, only then 100 gallons were used but only 1 gallon was consumed. Thermoelectric cooling makes up a lot of water use, but on 1-2% of water consumption because most of the used water is returned: https://watercalculator.org/footprint/water-use-withdrawal-c...

Furthermore, heat exchangers can use wastewater. This is done at the Palo Verde nuclear plant, for example.
by missedthecue | 2025-08-21 22:41:05+00:00
Messing in what way? They are buying from willing sellers at the market price, using funds that are announced well before hand in public government filings (Form 10-Q and 8K) are to be used to buyback shares

Sure, bids hitting the orderbook theoretically keeps a stock price higher than the counterfactual where the bids did not exist, but it's simply urban myth that failing companies can keep their stock price high over the long term with buybacks. The math doesn't pencil out.
by FredPret | 2025-08-21 22:41:09+00:00
You're not asking this in good faith, but I'll give my answer anyway: companies have an interest in paying workers market wages, not more, and not much less.

Too much over the market rate, and you're not maximally efficient at converting economic inputs into larger economic outputs.

Too much under the market rate, and you'll see increased employee churn, leading to all sorts of other problems.

If you want workers to be paid more, as we all do, even us greedy capitalists, their economic productivity has to go up (not the same as working harder).

The best way to do that - as far as I know - is improving technology and education.
by neilalexander | 2025-08-21 22:41:14+00:00
I have long believed that the biggest issue here is that engineers and power users generally have a much higher “pain threshold” when it comes to poor or complex UI/UX. They are not always the best people to judge how or if less experienced users will tolerate or adapt to those patterns. It’s fine to have opinions but they must be prepared for them to be challenged. Even better if they can invite others to challenge them, which is essentially what talking to your users achieves.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-08-21 22:41:17+00:00
So perhaps someone can explain something to me.

One of the main problems I see with modern Corporatism is that "shareholders" have too much influence over companies, driving them to make choices that erode long-term customer trust and brand value in return for short-term gains. (This is rational from the investor POV, because they can sell their stake at any point and still have made a profit on the dead husk of a company they left behind). Put more briefly, being beholden to shareholders drives enshittification.

Stock buybacks should, in principal, allow a company to dilute shareholder power and re-control its own destiny. It should allow a company that is successful enough to not need external investment anymore to re-prioritize what's good for the company, rather than the shareholders, especially once they've reached the point of having enough free cash to not need investors. Why, then, is it so universally reviled?
by xienze | 2025-08-21 22:41:31+00:00
> A gallon of water used to cool a data center is creating thousands of times more value than if that gallon were used to water a cotton plant.

This completely neglects that the cotton is sold for a profit and Anthropic is doing the equivalent of selling $6B for $5B. Looking at it that way, the water used to grow cotton is producing a lot more value.
by Nevermark | 2025-08-21 22:41:41+00:00
That was insightful re words.

Yes a two step.

Spoken words forced/helped us divide up completely fuzzy concepts into discretized hierarchies of less and less fuzzy concepts over time.

And then written symbols, enabled a trend of identifying more and more simple I.e “primitive” abstract concepts (culminating in true, false, 1, 2, 0, infinity, node, edge, …) that let us reformulate and better understand complex fuzzy concepts as compositions of primitive concepts.

Language and then pen/paper.
by necubi | 2025-08-21 22:42:01+00:00
Buybacks are just a more tax-efficient way to issue dividends to shareholders (dividend issuance is a taxable event and at short-term rates, buybacks raise the stock price and those gains aren't taxable until you sell, at which point it may be long-term cap gains).

It's reasonable to be upset about the fact that this is arguably a tax dodge! But all of the other criticism of buybacks apply equally to dividends which no one seems to get upset about. Fundamentally this is the corporation saying it doesn't have a market-beating way to reinvest this capital, and it's giving the money back to its owners to more productively invest.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-21 22:42:07+00:00
In defense of big oil, single occupancy vehicles, abandoning public transportation, climate inaction, and walkable cities because anything else is "communism".

This is a superficial, selfish, ignorant take. Instead, smaller and walkable villages exist that have enough of everything close by without having to be Houston, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, or tiny town texas where groceries and hospital are 30-45 minutes away. The closest I've seen to this is Davis CA. There are probably others but not many. 90% of Americans will rationalize meat-eating, owning guns, and ICE vehicles until the end of time because "me, me, me" entitlement.

PS: I live in hill country in close proximity to SATX not entirely by choice. I wished there were public transportation, bike highways like the Netherlands, and more essential services nearby.
by quotemstr | 2025-08-21 22:42:14+00:00
> An irrefutable case block is a match-all case block. A match statement may have at most one irrefutable case block, and it must be last.

There is no reason to have this restriction except that some people as a matter of opinion think unreachable code is bad taste and the language grammar should make bad taste impossible to express. It's often useful to introduce such things as a temporary state during editing. For example,

def foo(x): match x: case _: log.warning("XXX disabled for debugging") return PLACEHOLDER case int(): return bar() case str(): return qux() case _: return "default"

Why should my temporary match-all be a SyntaxError???? Maybe it's a bug. Maybe my tools should warn me about it. But the language itself shouldn't enforce restrictions rooted in good taste instead of technical necessity.

I can, however, write this:

def foo(x): match x: case _ if True: log.warning("XXX disabled for debugging") return PLACEHOLDER case int(): return bar() case str(): return qux() case _: return "default"

Adding a dummy guard is a ridiculous workaround for a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.
by Agent-Cooper | 2025-08-21 22:42:21+00:00
D3 provides a bunch of utilities for building visualizations beyond DOM manipulation. Here are some of the modules I use regularly:

- d3-array: data processing

- d3-scale: mapping from data attributes to visualization encodings

- d3-scale-chromatic: color schemes

- d3-shape: defining the shapes of paths, such for a line chart

- d3-color: manipulating colors

- d3-time: manipulating dates

- d3-format: formatting numbers

- d3-time-format: formatting dates

These modules are useful even if you don't use D3 to manage the DOM. For example, you can use these utilities to help calculate all of the attributes for your SVG elements, but then use Svelte/React/Solid/Vue to create and render the SVG.

If I'm building a visualization inside of a web app, I tend to prefer this approach since it leaves the framework in control of the DOM throughout the whole app. It feels simpler, especially if I want interactions in the visualization to modify the app's state.
by gxonatano | 2025-08-21 22:42:43+00:00
> Most versions of Zen are made-up export products designed to flatter Westerners. Kind of like the samurai movie honor bushido stuff.

I don't think so. If you go to a zenkai or a sesshin held by a western zendo, and then go to one at a Japanese temple, you won't notice too many differences, apart from the language. Many American zen teachers trained in Japan at some point, or their teachers did, and they brought these practices back more or less verbatim. In fact, in many American zendos, students chant the same sutras, _in Japanese_, as in Japanese zendos. Plus, there are regulatory bodies, like the Soto Zen school, that certify affiliated western zendos as authoritative. It's not made-up, it's hardly an "export product," and it certainly isn't designed to flatter anyone.

> https://vividness.live/zen-vs-the-u-s-navy

That seems like a rambling, self-published book by a Vajrayana practitioner with an axe to grind against Zen, for some bizarre reason. But there are plenty of real books about the rise of American Zen, or Buddhism in the west, that are well-researched. _Zen in America_ by Helen Tworkov is one.

> Japanese people think Buddhism is a thing you do at funerals.

Not at all. Buddhism, and Zen especially, permeate Japanese culture very deeply. Japanese aesthetics, architecture, landscape design, visual art, calligraphy, the tea ceremony, and the martial arts, have all been strongly influenced by Zen. And it's all over pop culture, too—just think of how pervasive Daruma dolls are—that's Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen. Sure, Buddhism is at funerals, but it's everywhere, else, too.

> If you get into it more seriously, I vaguely understand it's mostly a religion that tells you not to have sex.

Maybe you're thinking of Christianity? Unless you're a monk, attitudes towards sex are fairly liberal in Buddhism. There are bodhisattva precepts that caution against misusing sex, but nowhere does anyone tell you not to have it. In fact, it's largely unconcerned with it, let alone "mostly a religion that tells you not to have" it. Western religions are very concerned with telling you what to do and not do, but Buddhism is concerned with liberation.
by AngryData | 2025-08-21 22:43:03+00:00
Yes, yes I do. How much practical experience does someone with billions of dollars have with the average person, the average employee, the average job, and the kind of skills and desires that normal people possess? How much does today's society and culture and technology resemble society even just 15 years ago? Being a billionaire allows them to put themselves into their own social and cultural bubble surrounded by sycophants.