MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thiago_fm | 2025-09-01 13:45:28+00:00
I've had the same... and been doing therapy for years and feel like I'm 80% recovered.

It's all dopamine, it's probably messed up in your brain. It made you do a lot of things and achieve where you are, but it has too many CPU cycles in your brain for you to lead a (mental) healthy life.

I know the feeling. It isn't about Youtube per-se, but the fact you do this and regret later, so yes, it is an addiction and bad for you.

You likely have a lot of entangled thoughts about yourself, some which are indeed, yours and more of your nature, and also others that are not your own desires.

If you didn't regret it and as you lead a normal life, it's alright.

Why do you regret, is it because you ultimately would like to achieve something big or certain goal, or is it because you envy others sending rockets to space?

Only a professional, a psychologist can help you to find this out.

They can also help you to find ways of breaking apart those habits that take you in front of Youtube, and find new ideas or things you'd really like to do instead, even if they don't lead to immediate dopamine shots.
by extraisland | 2025-09-01 13:46:14+00:00
> That claim is too generic to add anything to this discussion. Ok, everything has a trade off. Thanks for that fortune cookie wisdom.

It isn't fortune cookie wisdom and no it isn't "too generic". It is something that fundamentally wasn't understood by the person I was replying to from their comment. I also don't believe you really understand the concept either.

> But we’re not discussing CS theory 101.

No we are not. We are discussing concepts about security and time / money management.

> In this case in particular, what is the cost exactly? Is it a cost worth paying?

You just accused me of "fortune cookie wisdom" and "being too generic". While asking a question where the answer differs dependant on the person / organisation.

All security is predicated on what you are protected against. So it is unique to your needs. What realistically are your threats. This is known as threat modelling.

e.g. I have a old vehicle. The security on it is a joke. Without additional third party security products, you can literally steal it with a flat blade about two inches long and drive away. You don't even need to hot-wire it. Additionally it is highly desirable by thieves. I can only realistically as a individual without a garage to store it in overnight, protect it from an opportunist. So I have a pedal box, a steering wheel lock, and a secret key switch that turns off the ignition and only I know where it is in the cab. That is like stop an opportunist. However more determined individuals. It will be stolen. Therefore I keep it out of public view when parked overnight. BTW because of the security measures, it takes about a good few minutes to be able to drive anywhere.

Realistically. Operating system security is much better than than it was. It is at the point that many recent large scale hacks in the last few years were initiated via social engineering to bypass the OS security entirely. So I would say it is in the area of diminishing returns already. So the level of threats I face and most people face, it is already sufficient. The rest I can mitigate myself.

Just like my vehicle. If a determined individual wants to get into you computer they are going to do so.
by koverstreet | 2025-09-01 13:47:01+00:00
No, it's not an equal relationship. Linus and the kernel do not have a great track record on filesystems :)

XFS has been burning through maintainers, and btrfs never fully stabilized. Given that, it doesn't make sense for anyone to be trying to dictate; that's a track record that should be cause for reexamining how we do things.

Working with the kernel has been extremely disruptive to bcachefs development and the community, so as with anyone else who's being disruptive and not listening, at some point I have to say "enough is enough, you're taking up too much of my time, we can work together again when you figure some things out".

I do not strictly need bcachefs to be in the kernel. I do need a functioning release process and a stable community free of drama.
by cko | 2025-09-01 13:47:43+00:00
> Not investing enough in 401k up to the IRS max.

This is not always a given. If your income in retirement is much higher than your working years income, you will end up losing on taxes.

In fact, my employer didn't match at all so all my money is invested post-tax in a brokerage.

You should probably max out your Roth IRA, however.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-01 13:48:33+00:00
> I am cautious if anybody uses the word "healthy" outside of the context of actual diseases like pleurisy and conjunctivitis.

Just a digression: The word "healthy" comes from the root "hel", meaning "whole". So you can substitute it for "wholesome", and then we're not only dealing with bacteria and viruses, but the entire human experience.
by fsflover | 2025-09-01 13:48:42+00:00
> Any security mechanism has a weakness or it will be bypassed by other means. So all this will give you a false sense of security.

> The moment you think you are safe. Is when you are most unsafe.

This is demonstrably false. Qubes OS has the lowest number of CVEs, even less than that of Xen. Last VM escape in it was found in 2006 by the Qubes founder (it's called "Blue Pill").

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975
by tonyarkles | 2025-09-01 13:48:57+00:00
I'm not sure if it's country-wide, or province-wide, or if I just have a good combo of doctor + neighbourhood pharmacy but in Canada here I generally get 6 months of refills on a prescription. They're still somewhat strict on when you're allowed to get refills, it's usually within 7 days of running out. My doctor does require an in-person visit before doing the next 6-month prescription, mostly because they want to monitor whether or not it's having any blood pressure effects, but my pharmacy is really good about pointing out that the prescription I filled has 0 refills left and that I need to book an appointment for that.
by PopAlongKid | 2025-09-01 13:48:59+00:00
>you could have a large tax bill when you file your taxes the following year. And if it’s too large, the IRS will even impose a penalty

It is actually called an "addition to tax", not a penalty, and in fact it is merely an interest charge, just like if you don't pay the full balance on your credit card each billing period (for tax, the "billing periods" are the (roughly) quarterly dates when estimated payments are due). If you can make more money elsewhere than the interest charge by the IRS (currently 7%) you are better off not making the payments during the year.

>Health Savings Accounts are the rare unicorn of triple tax advantage: money isn’t taxed (1) going in, (2) while it’s growing in the account, or (3) when it’s taken out.

I see this a lot and it is completely ridiculous. (1) and (3) are the same thing when it comes to your contributions-- there is no scenario where you would ever pay tax on money when you contribute it and also when you take it out. It is only a double tax advantage, not triple. (And the money only comes out tax free if you use it for a limited set of expenses namely health care).
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-01 13:49:29+00:00
If it has a "Google" label, it's not in your best interests and best avoided. This is just another in a long list of examples and confirmations of this fact.

The solution to most 2FA/TOTP issues (including the one described here) is Stratum. It offers a full array of import and exports features (with or without strong encryption) including the ability to import directly from Google's user-hostile abandon ware.

https://stratumauth.com/
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-01 13:49:39+00:00
It's about the lifespan of the platform, not the lifespan of a device.

When you chose to create an open platform with multiple participants, you are creating a new open market where antitrust laws will apply... even to you as the platform creator.

Microsoft, for example, was found guilty of antitrust in the personal computer market long after the original computers running Windows were gone.
by onion2k | 2025-09-01 13:50:19+00:00
Until you lose access to the LLM and find your ability has atrophied to the point you have to look up the simplest of keywords.

Devs shouldn't be blindly accepting the output of an LLM. They should always be reviewing it, and only committing the code that they're happy to be accountable for. Consequently your coding and syntax knowledge can't really atrophy like that.

Algorithms and data structures on the other hand...
by viraptor | 2025-09-01 13:50:32+00:00
> Centralized logging? There is nothing to centralized.

It's still useful to have the various services, background jobs, system events, etc. in one indexed place which can also manage retention and alerting. And ideally in a place reachable even if the main service goes down. I've got centralised logging on a small homelab server with a few services on it and it's worth the effort.

> Load balancing? In practice most people for most work don’t use it because of actually outgrowing hardware, but because they have to provision to shared hardware without exclusivity.

Depending on how much you lose in case of downtime, you may want at least 2x of hardware for redundancy and that means some kind of fancy routing (whether it's LB, shared IP, or something else)

> Secrets management? There are no secrets to be constantly distributed to various machines on a network.

Typically businesses grow to more than one service. For example I've got a slack webhook in 3 services in a small company and I want to update it in one place. (+ many other credentials)

> Caching? Distributed systems create latency that doesn’t need to exist at all

This doesn't solve the need for caching results of larger operations. It doesn't matter how much latency you have or not, you still don't want that rarely-changing 1sec long query to run on every request. Caching is rarely only about network latency.
by Turboblack | 2025-09-01 13:50:49+00:00
the problem is that everyone is doing one-off projects licked by neural networks, which are stupidly aimed at sales, nothing more, if you really want to be memorable - you can't use neural networks, you need the truth. recently, truthful layout has become fashionable, without frameworks and "tools", yes, it takes longer and is more expensive, but it immediately goes into your portfolio, and not another plastic site
by NickC25 | 2025-09-01 13:51:27+00:00
True, but we can at the very least teach a computer to prune what are effectively unreachable positions or openings that won't happen at a basic level let alone high level or GM level play.

For example, I don't think I've ever seen or will ever see: 1. a3 a6 2. h3 h6

The computer should be given the logic in which to solve chess by telling it right off the bat to not search through certain lines or openings because they are effectively useless.
by wulfstan | 2025-09-01 13:51:52+00:00
Good, it's not just me.

I guess it's not a massive surprise given it's an HN forum and a reasonable percentage of HN candidates are doing LLM/AI stuff in recent cohorts, but it still means I have to apply a very big filter every time I open an article and people wax lyrical about how amazing Claude-GPT-super-codez is and how it has made them twice the engineer they were yesterday at the bargain price of $200 a month...

May it all die in a fire very soon. Butlerian jihad now.
by DanielHB | 2025-09-01 13:52:56+00:00
It is not that much different with the US policies in the middle-east. If anything EU is at least not supporting coups in pro-russian satellite states. But I think that is mostly because the EU can't operate at that level of intervention as a federation, it is up for individual states and that can get them into big trouble with the EU.

But yeah, it is not great look for democracies when they can't support good causes because it will cause harm domestically which leads to less votes.
by imurray | 2025-09-01 13:53:16+00:00
Some things that may be of interest. First relevant to the posted article:

A site that has used neural nets to classify go moves that good players would probably make that weaker players (of varying ranks) would probably not: https://neuralnetgoproblems.com/ (code available on github)

https://ai-sensei.com/challenge (behind login wall, and in future possibly a pay wall) is a similar idea, but the difficulty of evaluating the position is determined by how users of the site perform in practice.

And more generally, but relevant to your comment:

Players can play humans at an appropriate rank on OGS https://online-go.com/ (not as popular as the Eastern servers, but probably popular enough) -- or against calibrated rank "human-like" AI players by painfully setting up the right katago models themselves, or by paying for a subscription on ai-sensei.com

A go education site that's currently largely by and pitched at Westerners: https://gomagic.org/ for leveling up from the basics.

And a lot of books are now available easily and electronically in English (and some in German): https://gobooks.com/ --- I'd recommend "graded go problems for beginners", "tesuji", and "attack and defense".

Some good sites aren't (fully) available in English, like https://www.101weiqi.com/ -- but there are chrome and firefox extensions to translate just enough of it to make it usable.

[To help search engines: go is also known as weiqi and baduk]
by dboreham | 2025-09-01 13:54:00+00:00
Finding the locations for their camps is tricky. They passed within a mile of my house and I've spent some time trying to identify the trail route and camp site. However the journals turn out to be mostly very brief, lacking sufficient detail. Also all the geographic feature names they use are different than today's, so you need a translation map for those, which in turn may be inaccurate.
by ffsm8 | 2025-09-01 13:54:19+00:00
I'm not sure how to take your statement seriously.

Do you not consider being bed ridden for months while suffering from symptoms similar to long covid severe?

Or did you interpret my "a lot of people" as "a high percentage of people getting the vaccine"? Because I agree it wasn't a high percentage, but still _a lot of people_ nonetheless.

If neither applies, I struggle to understand how you can make that claim in good faith.
by sequin | 2025-09-01 13:54:37+00:00
Around $15/month for Claude (yearly subscription they offered me at the start of the year).

Had a Gemini Pro sub for 1 or 2 months but it didn't impress me that much.

When I need real horsepower (usually advanced math stuff) I use DeepSeek, which is both free and unparalleled in my opinion.

I did some experiments with OpenRouter but my total usage is still below $10.

More and more I've been experimenting with local thinking models and while it's quite slow (on my non-Apple, CPU-heavy hardware, at least), for some use cases it's an acceptable trade-off and the results have been satisfactory.

I care a lot about data privacy and I'm just not gonna upload clients' proprietary codebases under NDA to some AI company. I've been considering buying or renting proper hardware for local inference but the TCO (particularly with regards to depreciation) is not intuitive.
by mihaaly | 2025-09-01 13:56:37+00:00
How do you know that your humble opinion is right about who knows what tool and how deep?

Even if you know better than themselves how musch they know, isn't the tool inadequate just yet for power use then when it is sooo easy to misuse?

Too much tweeking and adapting users to the needs of the tool (vs. the other way around) and there is little point using those (which is a bit of the sickness of modern day computing: 'with computers you can solve problems lightning fast that you wouldn't have without them')
by margenotsolarge | 2025-09-01 13:56:59+00:00
A quick search tells me there's approx 1.5M households in Finland and 132M households in the US, where I am. Based on these numbers the US should have a lot more dishwasher fires (actual numbers - not per capita) if this were an issue.

I've never heard from media or insurance companies that dishwashers are a significant cause of fire. By that argument you'd have to be home to use laundry machines, too.

Water damage also can occur with laundry washers, hot water tanks, broken taps, and leaking pipes. It seems strange to single out dishwashers. These days, around the world, it seems like water damage is more likely to be from flooding from rain than faulty infrastructure.

Is there something less reliable about Finnish appliances or infrastructure than the rest of the world?
Ask HN: Why not have color coded glasses to indicate willingness for small talk?
by amichail | 2025-09-01 13:58:15+00:00
For example, a red marker on the frames would indicate that no small talk is allowed.

A yellow marker might suggest that small talk is tolerated but should be approached with caution (e.g., avoid asking where the person was originally born or using a language other than the main language of the area).

A green marker would indicate that small talk is generally welcome on most topics.

You could even change the marker color on your frames to match your mood.

Do you think this would be a good idea?
by K0nserv | 2025-09-01 13:58:48+00:00
Yes! I'm a little biased as someone who worked briefly on CocoaPods, but it was an indispensable tool for many years. This is evident by its massive popularity.

Like with NPM, many people ran into issues ultimately rooted in not understanding the tool. CocoaPods had the extra constraint that correctly setting up a Ruby environment was hard. If you used Ruby with a fixed ruby version, bundler with a Gemfile.lock and then CocoaPods it worked well.
by hollerith | 2025-09-01 13:59:07+00:00
This is my recollection, too. Doctors widely believed to be experts in covid would insist in interviews with the mainstream press that people needed to stay 6 feet from each other, but say nothing about the need to wear a good mask while sharing indoor air spaces with other people. (I cannot determine their motivation, but my guess is that they were probably trying to prevent a run on the N95 mask supply.)

I was successful in convincing an elderly friend that this advice was wrong and she needed to wear an N95 when inside grocery stores even if she sanitized her hands after every time she touched anything and even if she stayed 6 feet away from people. It took about 12 months for the mainstream narrative to start to say that vulnerable populations should wear N95 masks when indoors with the public.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-01 14:00:00+00:00
Although what I’m about to say would be taken to a logical extreme by some, that is just fallacy —

It is of course immaterial that someone later becomes a government employee. If we were to pass a law along these lines, then any expert who later becomes a government employee would not be entitled to the protection of prior intellectual property.

Barack Obama penned many items prior to the commencement of his government employment. His interest in those pieces where he discussed topics relevant to his interests or expertise in constitutional law is not abridged because he entered public service.

In this case with Prasad, there is other nuance, but none of it material to that specific point.

A much more fruitful focus would be on the doctrine of fair use and the examination of the credentials and claims of those who do enter public service.
by GoblinSlayer | 2025-09-01 14:00:24+00:00
Anybody who is good with computers should be able to install linux, it's easier than to install windows, because you don't need to jump through capitalist dark patterns.

>Sooner or later there will be an issue that will need to be solved with opening up a terminal and entering a set of esoteric commands.

That's what I did to export drivers from previous windows installation in suspicion of regression.
Show HN: Simple modenized .NET NuGet server reached RC
by kekyo | 2025-09-01 14:00:26+00:00
A simple .NET NuGet server implementation built on Node.js that provides essential NuGet v3 API endpoints.

Key Features:

* Easy setup, run NuGet server in 10 seconds! * NuGet V3 API compatibility: Support for modern NuGet client operations * No need database management: Store package file and nuspecs into filesystem directly, feel free any database managements * Package publish: Flexible client to upload .nupkg files via HTTP POST using cURL and others * Basic authentication: Setup authentication for publish and general access when you want it * Reverse proxy support: Configurable trusted reverse proxy handling for proper URL resolution * Modern Web UI with enhanced features. * Package importer: Included package importer from existing NuGet server * Docker image available
by mykowebhn | 2025-09-01 14:00:26+00:00
Philosophy is unique among our fields of knowledge in that it doesn't start off with unprovable central axioms, rather philosophy itself is its own starting point.

I'm not referring to different philosophical schools, but philosophy itself.

Consider what criteria this author is using when critiquing philosophy. Within another discipline such as, say, physics, in order to critique its methods for example, one cannot use physics to do this. For philosophy it's another matter. Philosophy is its own critique.
by branko_d | 2025-09-01 14:00:26+00:00
> ...between the current position and winning. (Because chess is entirely deterministic, that distance always exists. We are (currently) unable to measure it in most cases, but we can be sure it does exist.)

Can we?

Just because it's deterministic doesn't mean it always leads to a win - there may be strategies that always lead to a draw, we may just not know about them. Tic-tac-toe is deterministic and we know it always leads to a draw if played correctly - we know about it because it's a much simpler game (much smaller tree of possibilities).
by chaps | 2025-09-01 14:00:41+00:00
Doesn't quite work that way unfortunately. Spokespeople don't really care when the "substantive facts are up against [them]". Fundamentally, they're not the target of the reporting, especially at big orgs/agencies. But just like HR -- their job is to protect the entity over all else. And they're quite good at it, despite what might initially come off as desperate.
by sahilagarwal | 2025-09-01 14:00:49+00:00
I guess my non-management / non-business side is show here, but how can it be that much?? I still remember I designed a fairly simple cron job that took database backups when I was a junior developer.

It gets even easier now that you have cheap s3 - just upload the dump to s3 every day and set the s3 deletion policy to whatever is feasible for you.
by estearum | 2025-09-01 14:00:53+00:00
Who said they're doing things Americans aren't already doing to themselves? It wasn't me! In fact I said the precise opposite: they generally exploit pre-existing divisions.

Who said Russia is omnipotent? Also wasn't me!

> Whatever paltry ops Russia has is like a drop in the ocean compared to what the US (or other actors) are doing on US.

This, however, is an actual assertive claim of fact. Can you tell me any other intelligence services that we know has assets invited to the White House on a regular basis in order to do the actions they were hired by Russia to do?

If no, then I don't think you have evidence to substantiate this claim.
by balder1991 | 2025-09-01 14:00:53+00:00
I think the micro transactions thing would be ideal, and should be something between the LLM providers and the websites, the users should pay solely for the subscription of LLMs being able to search.

But this is a huge simplification of course, and another thousand problems arise from this model. So I have no idea what’s the “good enough” solution we’ll head towards, or whether the web will change completely from this.