MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bayindirh | 2025-08-01 08:12:55+00:00
Lamy 2000's grind geometry is different, and it's finished in hand though. 2000 is my one of the favorite pens, so I'm deeply familiar with it.

Also, Pilot's and Graf von Faber Castell's gold nibs are great and soft. On the other hand Sailor's 21K gold nibs are relatively nails and feels off it that's not your taste.

My point is, I'd rather carry a Kaweco or a Lamy with a replaceable steel nib as an EDC, because steel nibs' flow is a bit more conservative and they are cheaper if life happens. So they are more suited to EDC and daily use on the go.

However, a good gold nib is a very posh and enjoyable thing, but I prefer to use them at my desk due to their relative softness and high maintenance.

BTW, Lamy's steel nibs polish great in a month or two of daily usage. Pilot and Faber Castell are close followers, but Lamy becomes something sublime as you use it more.
by godelski | 2025-08-01 08:12:56+00:00
> I suspect AI code editors have lots of said tacit knowledge baked in (via the black box itself or its engineers) but we would be better off thinking about this explicitly.

Until the AI is actually AGI I suspect it'll be better for us to do it. After all, if you don't do the design then you probably don't understand the design. Those details will kill you
by pnt12 | 2025-08-01 08:12:56+00:00
Well, the money doesn't appear with magic, so someone is paying: the government (forfeiting taxes) or the consumer (more pressure to tip).

To me, the bad part is the tax reductions only appear in behavior I don't agree with: high overtime and tipping (when it's semi mandatory).

I'm not American, but this is also showing up in my country.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-08-01 08:14:44+00:00
That the Lancet would publish this, citing hard numbers to underscore just how far their argument is from any sort of purely ideological hand-waving, is telling of how seriously the Gaza campaign has turned into a crime against humanity. I've spent years arguing in favor of Israel's right to defend itself as a country and also pointing out just how hypocritically nasty the very same political organizations that lay claim to representing the Palestinian people can be, but the current situation has become completely indefensible by any normal moral standard.

What I don't understand is how Israel manages to maintain a base of such staunch political defenders in the world's major governments. Can sheer stupidity and indifference be so deeply rooted through ideological posturing? The answer is that obviously, yes they can. It wouldn't be the first time a monstrous political game has been blindly justified by those too biased to see better. However, if you were a conspiracy type, you'd be very tempted to think the Israeli government has some sort of enormous hidden leverage over a great number of powerful people for them to turn such a blind eye.
by godelski | 2025-08-01 08:15:22+00:00
They should. It's easy to report. Doesn't matter if nothing happens right away, because the more reports that accumulate the higher priority it becomes.

So instead of trying to tell me how fruitless this is and just give up to endless arguments, maybe report wage theft if you know about it. You can do it anonymously. You can do it for people that tell you. It's not a hopeless situation. Hell, lawyers take payment after the case is won, and you know if your wage is being stolen then others are too
by dns_snek | 2025-08-01 08:15:48+00:00
I don't think running a VM (at least) for a core piece of network infrastructure is silly at all, in fact I think it would be silly not to. That is something that should never - ever - break because it would be a very bad day if it did.

The only way to approach certain stability is by removing variables and making the environment as predictable as you possibly can. Containers partially address this issue by shipping a predictable user-space environment, but that still leaves the kernel.

Other examples would include OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, Mikrotik CHR, VyOS which are all distributed as VM appliances (or host system installs) even though technically, I'm sure all of them could be distributed as containers (and I think VyOS can be used this way, but I don't believe it's meant for production usage).

And personally I want a much thicker security boundary that VMs provide when it comes to critical services like network controllers. Of course that would require a slightly different setup to begin with, i.e. having UniFi in one VM, and having random containers in another VM which is how I prefer to run things at home (in general, I don't use UniFi products).
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 08:16:34+00:00
> It isn't always, but sometimes it is.

I think it always is, frankly. The price of pretty much every single house in the US[0] is a function of decades of government housing policy. And I don't think it's particularly fair to say, "oopsie, our housing policy since before you were born was kinda bad, we're going to fix it right now, but it's going to put you underwater on your mortgage... sorry, but you'll have to just deal with it".

[0] Sure, maybe this isn't the case for an off-the-grid cabin out in the woods, far from any town, but that describes a teeny tiny portion of the housing stock.
by KronisLV | 2025-08-01 08:16:50+00:00
Linux Mint with Cinnamon (or XFCE before that) was my daily driver for a while, really nice distro that just works and gets out of your way for the most part.

I do personally find the UI of LibreOffice to be good enough (you can even change it into a ribbon layout if you’re more used to how MS software works), the only complaint I have is that for whatever reason it works really slow on my current Windows install. Oh well.
by defrost | 2025-08-01 08:17:07+00:00
> Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The appeal of short form names like these is clear considering his full formal name and title is

Don Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, Baron of Montechiaro, Baron of La Torretta, and Grandee of Spain of the first class.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-01 08:17:13+00:00
Work deterrence, inflation, and the tremendous cost would devalue your own currency.

In general most people work jobs solely and exclusively for the $$$. If they didn't need that $$$ they'd have much greater power to negotiate wages. That sounds amazing in theory, but in reality - how much money would it take for you to go scrub toilets when you could otherwise sit and home and live a comfortable life with your family? Probably quite a lot to say the least. Or for a single young guy, how much would you need to pay him to work instead of him being able to play video games and chase tail all day, every day, if he wanted to? And if we're being honest - you can probably remove young as an adjective.

I did add "likely" because I used to be a huge advocate for basic income, but my view shifted on it overtime as I gained a greater appreciation for how economies, and even societies in general, function. Or that the large number of billionaires we have are largely due to accounting and speculation (read: total on-paper capitalization of stock market vastly exceeding the amount of money in existence), rather than them actually just making obscene amounts of money.
by thelaxiankey2 | 2025-08-01 08:19:12+00:00
The argument your link suggests is legal, not empirical. Legally speaking, there is no mandate, and acting like there is is almost surely bad for society. So I don't disagree there.

And as to the existence of exceptions, that is what makes humanities hard. Unlike physics, it is never all, it's always most, it's always shades and never direct. I use absolutist words in these discussions because it makes the points stick better, but I obviously do not mean them totally.

I think corporations maximizing profit is the default, and so writing an op-ed about how corporate greed caused something to happen seems pretty dumb to me.
by DrMiaow | 2025-08-01 08:19:17+00:00
Instead of forcing an AI to code in programming languages built for humans, I'm building a meta-platform that AIs can self-improve their own optimal development system.

It's been a long-term (almost a decade now) project that I do in between contracts. Progress is slow, but positive.

My project is one part serious, three parts "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly" and with a tiny pinch of TempleOS, because to attempt something like this, you have to be a little bit touched.. even though now it seems that all the serious players are heading in the same direction.

When I started talking about self-improving systems, people's eyes would glaze over. Now it seems all the cool kids are doing it. I can't compete with Elon's network effect or Deep Mind's deep pockets or Zuck's team of billionaires, but I'm not going to stop, even if I come last, I'm going to finish it.

I'm currently revisiting the distributed object model that allows multiple nodes to cooperate on a single design (as per the video)

Regular (mostly daily) updates here. http://twitter.com/DrMiaow
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 08:19:50+00:00
> If it gets you the reform, yes. The point is you don't get housing reform with grumpy homeowners barring a massive shift in voting patterns.

I think this is a really good insight. The reason for long-lived NIMBY policies is because NIMBYs[0] vote and lobby more than everyone else does. I have, do, and will continue to vote for pro-housing policies, but there are a lot of people -- probably still in the majority -- who will not vote for anything or anyone that will reduce the value of their homes.

What matters is outcomes. If paying off the NIMBYs gets you a good future housing policy, then we should do it.

[0] I know "NIMBY" is generally a pejorative, and I agree with that for the most part, but I will admit that many NIMBYs are operating and voting quite logically, for their own interest, even if it hurts others, and hurts society collectively.
by anon_cow1111 | 2025-08-01 08:20:55+00:00
What I really want to know is how do I CULTURE Bacillus thuringiensis, sure its available readily on the web as a pesticide, but only at very high prices for anything beyond a small hobby garden; -what if I have an acre of crops to treat? ~20 usd a pound for a spray bottle liquid solution is not even remotely acceptable.
by piva00 | 2025-08-01 08:22:16+00:00
The problem with current paywalls is that each one wants you to purchase a monthly subscription to read the article, I don't want to have a subscription for each news site I might want to read an article from. I'd like a convenient way to pay a few cents per article, I could maintain my own balance of "news budget" per month and spend it, but paying US$ 5-10 at each paywall I encounter is simply not viable.

All newspapers got fucked by the internet, I can't comprehend how they didn't figure out that banding together to provide a centralised service to allow me to keep a balance and pay out per article read might have worked. Instead they defaulted to using Big Tech ad networks to patch their lost revenue.

Make it convenient and people might pay, requiring a subscription is definitely a huge friction on the top of the funnel, I'd even say it's a very fine mesh grater. No one wants to go through a fine mesh grater to read news articles.
by 0xB31B1B | 2025-08-01 08:22:52+00:00
there are a ton of build code issues in the US that raise the cost of construction without substantionally improving benefits. As an example, I am in Europe right now, most apartment buildings here have single stair entry and smaller elevators, both of which are prevented by US building regs for bad reasons. Fixing these regs would expand the market for new construction at the low end (lower costs for marginal opportunities) and the high end (makes 4 unit condos feasable).
by Tade0 | 2025-08-01 08:23:10+00:00
Works for me. Most reliable SaaS (Sadness as a Service) I've seen in the past years.

I have a collection of clips that worked on me specifically which I used to gauge my state - not crying is a cause for concern, but over the years I got desensitised to them.

I'm almost afraid to ask: are Japanese Toyota ads in there?
by ricardobeat | 2025-08-01 08:23:14+00:00
I think that’s pretty much the gist of it. People enjoy the diner-style pampering, and the only way to get that kind of service is if the employees are coerced to do it in order to get a living wage.

Happy employees who earn good salaries would not submit to ass-kissing and degrading work.

Knowing this is what makes the often terrible service in the Netherlands a bit more tolerable :)
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-01 08:23:43+00:00
Ok, where does the percentage come from? It is an arbitrary number set by the municipality to collect enough money from the property owners. Basically, if the city needs $100 million/year to operate it is just going to tweak the tax rate to hit that income number.

For example, in Vancouver the residential tax rate is around 0.15% and homes average around $2 million. Where I live which is a few hundred kilometres away the residential tax rate is around 0.5% and homes average around $600k. If you do the math, for both places the average place has $3000/year in taxes due — which is totally independent of house costs.

What does make the difference is if your house is more expensive than the average house. If you have a $2million dollar house in the place with 0.5% tax rate you are paying $10000/year in taxes despite your counterpart in Vancouver with a $2million dollar house is paying $3000/year.

I get this can be different across the world, but that is generally how it works in Canada.
by reissbaker | 2025-08-01 08:23:53+00:00
Having just come back to the States from a trip to Europe — sheesh, I hope not. The service at restaurants everywhere in Europe was at best mediocre, and typically god-awful. Incentivizing good service is good.

Yes, yes, "but the price on the menu says..." Whatever. If you're in the U.S., it's normalized that the price you actually pay is 20% higher, assuming they treat you well. Restaurants don't typically print the tax on their menus either, and yet no one tears their hair out over having to pay sales tax, and various city taxes, etc etc.

The service is so, so much better in the U.S. because of tipping. Tipping culture is good.
by voidUpdate | 2025-08-01 08:23:55+00:00
What confuses me most is when you are given the option to give a tip before any service has been given. On deliveroo, for example, I have the option to tip the driver while I'm at the checkout. Why would I give a reward for good service when I have no idea if the service is even good? There's already a rider fee as part of my bill, so it doesn't make any sense to me to give them more money at that point
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 08:24:05+00:00
Yup, and that's why it's so hard to get housing policy changed. To make it harder, I'd wager that homeowners, proportionately, lobby and vote more than renters do.

You only win here if you placate the homeowners, and a surefire way to do that is by making them whole when you whack 20% off their home's resale value. Maybe there are better ways, but I'm having trouble thinking of them.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-01 08:24:18+00:00
What's worse, it adds "emotional labor" (if I may borrow that term) to a staffer's job; while it's expected for staff to be representative of their company, it really feels like staff in tipping establishments have to put on a show and fake persona to optimize the tipping. But likewise, if you don't tip or don't do enough you (as a customer) are treated like shit.

I'm too autistic to be playing these games and figuring this shit out. I'm glad I don't live in the US.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-08-01 08:25:31+00:00
If there’s 1 million people and 2 million houses then the wealthy aren’t going to be. Using up to rent out as the return on investment will trend to zero.

If there’s 1 million people and 500k houses they will buy them up because everyone needs somewhere to live and will keep paying more and more to avoid the overcrowded slums that someone has to live in.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-08-01 08:26:13+00:00
I strongly believe that a little bit of chaos is necessary to actually make progress in civil liberty. Being able to detect any and all crime is indistinguishable from an authoritarian regime.

There are many laws today which are unjust, and which I think it is morally fine to break even though you put yourself at risk of being prosecuted. There have also been many laws in the recent past which have been repealed, and which we today will say were unjust. For example, prohibition against being homosexual was a thing in many western democracies up until just a few decades ago. Imagine if that was still illegal and we had this level of surveillance?

I also think that drug laws is a good example of unjust prohibition. I do not think all drugs should be available on a commercial market, but I think that we should have regulated sales so people can choose what they want to put in their own bodies. While I of course don't condone of the violence associated with it, I think the current situation of drugs being available on hidden dark markets to motivated buyers is a necessary evil to allow people to exercise their right to bodily autonomy in an unjust legal framework.

There has to be fudge factor for a democracy to actually make progress, or else I fear that we end up in some status quo where anyone who wants to open their mouth and protest a law will be afraid to do so because they don't know what dirt the state has collected on them.
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 08:26:32+00:00
That's the catch, though. What if you wanted to move? That would have sucked. What if you had to move? That could have been disastrous to you. What if you had lost your job, and defaulted on the loan. Apparently most states in the US are non-recourse, so how would you feel when your next job's wages are garnished, or there's a lien on the next home you buy?

When you have to put an "If" in front of "being underwater doesn't mean anything", then that means sometimes it really does mean something.
by melezhik | 2025-08-01 08:27:07+00:00
TL;DR

Sparrow is a lightweight automation framework that could be used as drop-in replacement to Ansible or other frameworks suffering from complexity and extra abstraction layers. Sparrow could be an efficient glue allowing people use their preferable scripting languages (Bash/Perl/Python) while adding useful features via Sparrow SDK - scripts configuration, testing, distribution
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 08:28:57+00:00
In the case of housing, it is generally very not normal for resale to be less than purchase price. Sure, there are exceptions to that: market downturns happen, and sometimes regional issues (like the one big employer leaving town) can cause that. But in general, no, it's normal for the resale value of a home to be higher than when you purchased it.

That's dumb. But that's the reality we live in.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-01 08:29:12+00:00
"Cash is untaxed" is a universal rule; there's a food stall that only sells deep fried Vietnamese eggrolls (and has for decades), they prefer cash; in part because cash is untaxed and they may forget to document every sale on occasion, but also because they do relatively low amount transactions (<€10), the €0.25 transaction fee does add up for them.

It's also why "knowing a guy" can be useful, tradesmen coming in on their off hours to do a job for cash.
by gambiting | 2025-08-01 08:29:20+00:00
On the other hand, when I visited US on a work trip we've had an absolutely awful service at a restaurant, like the waiter was genuienly rude to us, and at the end I said ok, well, this was awful, I guess we're not leaving a tip then - and our American host laughed and said no, you still have to leave a tip. Why? Because it would be rude not to. And these people earn very little so you have to leave a tip. But.....the service was bad? Why would we tip? "because you have to".

That's nonsense. In the UK if the service is good I leave a tip. If it isn't then I don't. From my (limited) experience in the US it looks like you have to tip regardless. If that's the tipping culture then that culture is rotten.

>>The service is so, so much better in the U.S. because of tipping.

Honest question - do you consider waiters who ask you if you need anything every 2 minutes "good"?

>> The service at restaurants everywhere in Europe was at best mediocre

What's your opinion on restaurants in Poland? Was the service better or worse than in Spain? How was it compared to Czechia and Slovakia?
by RAMJAC | 2025-08-01 08:30:37+00:00
Here's something I kinda threw together that gets EDK2 usable on an OrangePi 5 max. https://github.com/RAMJAC-digital/edk2-rk3588/tree/main

It's an archlinux PKGBUILD that applies a couple patches for the device drivers and HDMI. This can probably be repurposed to build on any linux distro. Obviously flash your firmware with caution, but it's been booting from SPI to NVME without any issue for a while now.

If there is more interest in this, I can fully flesh this out.
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 08:30:58+00:00
You keep building until supply meets demand, regardless of what that demand is or where it comes from.

We don't have an infinite number of people available to move into housing. There are only a certain number of people who will want to move into a particular region, and that number will stop growing at some point.

Granted, you don't want to build too much and end up with a ghost town. There's a balance to be maintained, and I think housing should be affordable, not a race-to-the-bottom cheap as possible.
by gambiting | 2025-08-01 08:31:58+00:00
>>Actually, let me be more accurate: people who pay with credit card always tip in cash, as there is no way to tip with a credit card.

Eh? I don't know if you consider Poland eastern europe(I don't really), but I tip with a card all the time in Poland, you just ask "hey can I leave a tip on the card" and they bump up the amount by whatever you want to tip. And no, the amount doesn't then equal what's on the receipt - I don't know how they work it out internally, but frankly that's not my problem.
by maxbond | 2025-08-01 08:32:00+00:00
I worked in a fast food restaurant here in the States, people tipped but usually not well. I wasn't pressed about it, I was getting a full minimum wage. Entitled customers didn't give me trouble for whatever reason, they seemed to size up my coworkers as softer targets.

> Why?

I was just curious about how OP's experience informed their perspective.
by pyman | 2025-08-01 08:32:26+00:00
Unfortunately, there's no real way to regulate this. I used to worry about space junk and companies polluting space, but now I'm more concerned about what's inside those satellites. With no regulations in place, they can put pretty much anything up there.

I wouldn't be surprised if a few of those satellites had nuclear weapons inside (or maybe that's just me being paranoid.) Still, having satellites that can take out other satellites during a conflict is definitely a possibility. Which brings me back to my original concern: space junk. The last thing we need is a graveyard of satellites floating above our heads.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-01 08:33:15+00:00
I'll kindly disagree here, because I both type and write a lot. Yes, typing is faster than writing, but that's not the point of writing.

Writing's speed and correction limits makes me think and filter before I actually write. This allows me to form clearer thoughts in less time. I arrive to a better place, faster.

Also, neither writing nor typing cramps my hands, and I do both of them for hours if I need to. That's interesting.

I'm slowly collecting research focusing on differences on typing and writing, but the landscape is barren. I'll publish a list when I have sufficient resources at hand.