MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daemonologist | 2025-09-05 15:17:40+00:00
I really hope we get a Pi 6 with on-board M.2. The PCIe 2.0 x1 over FPC is a bit of a weak spot in the 5 in my opinion. (I know it allows for interchangeable "hats," but you can get PCIe out of an M.2 slot too. Or if there are enough lanes, having both might be nice.)
by diarrhea | 2025-09-05 15:17:56+00:00
I have not, thanks for the suggestion though.

A second challenge with the particular setup I’m trying is peer authentication with Postgres, running bare metal on the host. I mount the Unix socket into the container, and on the host Postgres sees the Podman user and permits access to the corresponding DB.

Works really well but only if the container user is root so maps natively. I ended up patching the container image which was the path of least resistance.
by ramesh31 | 2025-09-05 15:18:15+00:00
>But really, no guarantee the capital doesn't just flee to the other 95% of the world where they can import capital equipment needed to make stuff for much cheaper

To do that though requires security/stability, supporting infrastructure, and favorable trade policy. For many years that meant China, but this is obviously changing. SE Asia still fits the bill but is under the spectre of expansionist CCP and shrinking US influence. Few places in the world now have the combination above as well as minimal worker protections and low wages as the poor interior of the US south and midwest.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-09-05 15:18:35+00:00
>boost Tesla's value eightfold,

Unprecedented. Won't happen in this economy.

>sell a million artificial intelligence robots,

Unprecedented. Won't happen within this decade unless you give them guns and turn them into battle droids.

>sell another 12 million Tesla cars

Plausible if they deliver on FSD. Fair chance within the long timeline.

>and hit several other moonshot goals.

Funny enough, it's literally easier to land him on the moon via SpaceX than deliver on the extra.
by reaanb2 | 2025-09-05 15:18:40+00:00
I disagree. From a fact-oriented modeling perspective, relationships among entities are already well-modelled and represented in tables. There's a reason the relational model calls tables relations - they relate things. The mistake here is viewing tables/rows as representing entities, FK constraints as representing relationships, and viewing entities as containers of attributes rather than the subjects of facts.

Joining tables is composing complex facts from simple ones, and is the opposite of normalization which is decomposing complex facts into simpler ones. The ability to join tables on arbitrary conditions is fundamental to the ability to ask a DBMS complex questions and have it respond with all the facts that match that question.
by dominicrose | 2025-09-05 15:18:41+00:00
I once found a "+1 subscriber" random notification on some page and asked the LinkedIn person who sent me the page to knock it off. It was obviously fake even before looking at the code for proof.

But there's self-advertised "Appeal to popularity" everywhere.

Have you noticed that every app on the play store asks you if you like it and only after you answer YES send you to the store to rate it? It's so standard that it would be weird not to use this trick.
by Lerc | 2025-09-05 15:18:46+00:00
Do you think if it were allowable for Amazon to do that, it would actually be profitable for them to do so?

As soon as any work became popular, anyone could undercut Amazon. If you really think that Amazon is in a position where they can charge significant money for something others can provide for much less, then you are talking about an anticompetitive monopoly.

If that's the case the problem is not with copyright, it's lack of competition. The situation we have now is just one where copyright means they can't publish just anything, but Amazon can always acquire the rights to something and apply those same resources to make it a best seller. They don't care if the book is great or not. They just want to be able to sell it. Being able to be the only producer of the thing incentives making the thing that they own popular, not the thing that is good. Having the option to pick what succeeds puts them in a dominant negotiating position so they can acquire rights cheaply.

I guess if that were the case though it would be easy to spot things that were popular when though they seemingly lack merit or any real reason other than a strong marketing department. It would really suck in that world. Not only would there be talented people making good works and earning little money, but most people would not even get to see what they had created. For many creatives, that would be the worst part of it.
by no_wizard | 2025-09-05 15:19:16+00:00
The verbose LLM approach that Cursor and some others have taken really annoys me. I would prefer if it simply gave me the results (written out to files, changes to files or whatever the appropriate medium is) and only let me introspect the verbose steps it took if I request to do so.

That’s what slows me down with AI tools and why I ended up sticking with GitHub Copilot, which does not do any of that unless I prompt it to
by ramesh31 | 2025-09-05 15:19:47+00:00
>When we were kids, my dad felt like he was always the last one to buy into the stock market. He would buy, it would peak, and then it would crater.

But if your dad bought and held when you were a kid he'd be up 1000% now. You simply cannot time the market, ever. But over time, "stocks go up" is pretty much guaranteed. The people in charge won't let it not be.
by abustamam | 2025-09-05 15:19:48+00:00
That's a fair point, but creating an account on an exchange isn't too bothersome.

I personally use a Ledger device for my crypto. It was super easy to set up (though I wouldn't advise it to my mom, because she tends to misplace things). I linked my crypto wallet to my bank account fairly easily. So we can still get nigh-instant crypto transfers and fast selling of crypto into local currency (Speaking from US here, I think it usually just takes up to one business day). It's still faster than bank-to-bank transfer for large sums, which again, can take weeks for whatever reason they decide.

> wise without a linked account or PayPal or etc is the exact same outcome

PayPal without a linked account is actually pretty terrible. I did a Google search of PayPal frozen funds and this was the first result.

https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/1kq14uk/payp...

Wise may have similar issues, I haven't really dealt with them outside of the occasional transfer, but I never let money sit in my wise account.

If you have custody of your own crypto wallet (IE not coinbase), no one can freeze your funds.

Again, I have my qualms with crypto, but the existing shitty state of ways to transfer money makes crypto very attractive. I have trouble even transferring money between my wife and my joint bank account and my personal account (held at two different institutions).
by thenaturalist | 2025-09-05 15:20:00+00:00
> then high unemployment is a good starting point

This strikes me as overly simplistic and optimistic. The real world is not a zero-sum-game where if someone loses someone else wins.

Macroeconomics in today's world is an interconnected hot mess where I wouldn't dare to infer much except for that simple cause and effect chains surely do not work.

What you deduce might be true in an otherwise stable and sunny economic climate, but we're far from that.

- Trumps active hand in messing with the US economy (Going on an immigrant (labor) hunt, firing a FED governor and threatening Powell, buying into Intel, imposing tariffs coughed up by an LLM)

- Unprecedented amounts of money are being singularly invested into "AI" and not much else

- Consumer prices for Americans as a compound combination of tariffs and an expected weaker dollar if interest rates go down aren't playing well with peak unemployment

Taking that all in, comparatively to only a couple of months ago, this setup is by far not the most desirable investment climate in the US for foreign investment.

And while bringing back offshored industries sure sounds nice on paper, I'm wondering how that's gonna play out with a) historically high CoL in the US leading to b) higher wages required for the supposed high quality jobs coming back leading to c) high prices to purchase said goods.
by exoverito | 2025-09-05 15:20:29+00:00
Gay male marriages remarkably have the lower divorce rates than heterosexual marriages, while lesbian female marriages have higher divorce rates. Multiple studies show that lesbians consistently have far higher divorce rates than gays. This implies a level of neuroticism with females, that they probably do need to be appeased more, and that if you have two needy people who need to be appeased it's probably not going to be a good dynamic.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-05 15:20:37+00:00
Trump is a populist president elected on the back of disparaged unemployment-belt blue collar workers.

That's why he hates fentanyl (these places have insane opiate use rates), that why he loves coal (symbolic of the "great days"), that's why he hates immigrants (undercutting wages), why he hates china (that's were the factories went), and that is why he loves tariffs (American manufacturing protectionism).

Watch a video showcasing what West Virgina is like today, listen to what the people who live there say, and you can totally understand what Trump is trying to do, and why these people treat him like a messiah.

I'm not saying Trump is a messiah, or a good leader, or that the people in west virgina (or categorically adjacent places) are level headed. But simply that his plan is coherent if you put yourself in the shoes of the people who are clinging to the past and were left out of the future.
by elevatortrim | 2025-09-05 15:20:46+00:00
Automating software development is not unethical. The unethical bit is allowing resource flow default to those who own the means of production.

As a software developer, when I automate someone's job, say of a cashier, I do not start to get paid their salary - my salary stays the same.

This is different for capital investors and shareholders. They keep the cashier's salary (not directly but ultimately). This results in an increasing concentration of wealth, creates lots of suffering and destabilises the world. That is where it is unethical.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-05 15:20:51+00:00
If you are offering some free service just out of the kindness of your heart, and a country decides they don’t want to let their people take you up on it, I wouldn’t stress too much about it, right? I mean, it is a shame for them if your free service is really useful, but there are people all around the world without access to it…

Lots of countries seem to be scrutinizing large social media companies more aggressively than small volunteer projects. These sort of companies definitely can afford local representatives. They are businesses, if they aren’t making enough money in the country to justify the representatives, they can make the business decision to pull out.
by kragen | 2025-09-05 15:21:00+00:00
That's right: I'm not sure there's a better option in Postgres than JSONifying a bunch of correlated subqueries individually. How would you do it?

It's kind of a red flag, though, that you didn't answer my question about how you would restate his main argument. It suggests to me that you're just here to flame instead of to have a productive discussion.
by qnleigh | 2025-09-05 15:21:13+00:00
> designed to look correct more than it's trying to actually be correct

This might not quite be true, strictly speaking, but a very similar statement definitely is. LLMs are highly prone to hallucinations, a term you've probably heard a lot in this context. One reason for this is that they are trained to predict the next word in a sequence. In this game, it's almost always better to guess than to output 'I'm not sure,' when you might be wrong. LLMs therefore don't really build up a model of the limits of their own 'knowledge,' they just guess until their guesses get better.

These hallucinations are often hard to catch, in part because the LLM will sound confident regardless of whether it is hallucinating or not. It's this tendency that makes me nervous about your use case. I asked an LLM about world energy consumption recently, and when it couldn't find an answer online in the units I asked for, it just gave a number from a website and changed (not converted) the units. I almost missed it, because the source website had the number!

Stepping back, I actually agree that you can learn new things like this from LLMs, but you either need to be able to verify the output or the stakes need to be low enough that it doesn't matter if you can't. In this case, even if you can verify the math, can you be sure that it's doing the right calculation in the right way? Did it point out the common mistakes that beginners make? Did it notice that you're attaching the support beam incorrectly?

Chances are, you've built everything correctly and it will be fine. But the chances of a mistake are clearly much higher than if you talked to an experienced human (professional or otherwise).
by Aurornis | 2025-09-05 15:21:36+00:00
> It's completely absurd how wrong this article is. Development speed is 100% the bottleneck.

The current trend in anti-vibe-coding articles is to take whatever the vibe coding maximalists are saying and then stake out the polar opposite position. In this case, vibe coding maximalists are claiming that LLM coding will dramatically accelerate time to market, so the anti-vibe-coding people feel like they need to claim that development speed has no impact at all. Add a dash of clickbait (putting "development speed" in the headline when they mean typing speed) and you get the standard LLM war clickbait article.

Both extremes are wrong, of course. Accelerating development speed is helpful, but it's not the only factor that goes into launching a successful product. If something can accelerate development speed, it will accelerate time to market and turnaround on feature requests.

I also think this mentality appeals to people who have been stuck in slow moving companies where you spend more time in meetings, waiting for blockers from third parties, writing documents, and appeasing stakeholders than you do shipping code. In some companies, you really could reduce development time to 0 and it wouldn't change anything because every feature must go through a gauntlet of meetings, approvals, and waiting for stakeholders to have open slots in their calendars to make progress. For anyone stuck in this environment, coding speed barely matters because the rest of the company moves so slow.

For those of us familiar with faster moving environments that prioritize shipping and discourage excessive process and meetings, development speed is absolutely a bottleneck.
by ajross | 2025-09-05 15:21:49+00:00
That is, like, ninth on the list of things Powell is concerned about. The Trump administration is literally trying to put fed officers in jail to purge the department. Powell himself faces an essentially fake allegation of perjury over (I'm not kidding) his testimony about a building renovation, though it seems they may have walked that back for now after Trump personally tried to make the accusation at a press conference and stated it incorrectly.

Worry about one's legacy being tarnished is a very not-banana-republic kind of thing.
by kuschku | 2025-09-05 15:22:21+00:00
> Are you really asking in good faith?

I am — I grew up being bullied, and my therapists taught me that I shouldn't even let humans affect me in this way and instead should let it slide and learn to ignore it, or even channel my emotions into defiance.

Which is why I'm genuinely curious (and a bit bewildered) how people who haven't taken that path are going through life.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-05 15:22:32+00:00
I do believe you about the "updated" part, and that's a constant hazard with linking to "latest" or "main" of anything. But I don't know why you'd then change the actual file in the URL, since the original comment was citing "podman-systemd.unit.5.html" <https://docs.podman.io/en/v5.6.1/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...> and you've chosen to cite quadlet.7
by no_wizard | 2025-09-05 15:22:37+00:00
It’s infecting expectations I’ve noticed as well. The thing LLM coding tools expose very plainly if someone wasn’t already aware is that management would rather ship with bugs or missing features - no matter how many - as long as the “happy path” works.

The vibe coders can deliver on happy path results pretty fast but I already have seen within 2 months it starts to fall apart quick and has to be extensively refactored which ends up ultimately taking more time than if it was done with quality in mind in the first place

And supposedly the free market makes companies “efficient and logical”
by eehoo | 2025-09-05 15:22:43+00:00
There are already software licensing providers such as 10Duke that do exactly that. Pretty much all of the licensing related problems mentioned here would either disappear or at the very least get dramatically simpler if more companies used 10Duke Enterprise as their licensing solution to issue and manage licenses. There is a better way, but sadly most businesses overlook licensing.

(the company I work for uses them, our licensing used to be a mess similar to what's described here)
by bondarchuk | 2025-09-05 15:23:16+00:00
I can only use a label to vaguely point at the concept of consciousness, and thus the disctinction between conscious and non-conscious objects. This is not infinitely precise, because noone really understands what's going on. What you call "describing the difference" would in fact be making further claims about consciousness. If one is not in the position of making further claims, it is better to not make any claims and stick to vague but commonly understood labels, instead of making claims implicitly by using complicated labels without further examination.
by 47282847 | 2025-09-05 15:23:19+00:00
> Either atoms exist or they dont

Perfect example, since they only exist as a concept to describe an observation. With higher precision of observation, it became “the new truth“ that most of the time even on the observation level do not actually exist in terms of matter; they “flicker“ fast enough to appear existing at all times. When you look often enough or at the wrong times, there is nothing to observe.
by ivape | 2025-09-05 15:23:22+00:00
What’s the justification? Only a state religion could provide the societal justification. I don’t know, I’m recently living under Trump, so a failed authoritarian state is very new to me. Can anyone explain how normalized and day-to-day news like this is over there?

For example, we really don’t know what to do with news like this here, most of us just go on with our lives.
by tecleandor | 2025-09-05 15:23:25+00:00
I've seen a weird thing on their service agreement:

Use Restrictions. Customer and its Users may not and may not allow any third party to: [...] 10. Access the Service for the purpose of developing or operating products or services intended to be offered to third parties in competition with the Services[...]

Emphasis mine on 'operating'.

So I cannot use Docker Desktop to operate, for example: ECR, GCR or Harbor?
by simonw | 2025-09-05 15:24:14+00:00
The core analogy is intended as a warning: this is a thing that looks like an encyclopedia but really isn't.

There's not much I can do about the intuition thing. I've been trying to figure out ways to teach people to use LLMs for over three years now, but it genuinely comes down to them being utterly weird and unintuitive pieces of technology that pretend to be easy to use when they aren't.

The only way to get truly competent with them is to put in the time deliberately experimenting to figure out what does and doesn't work.
by ecshafer | 2025-09-05 15:24:22+00:00
To steelman this, it isn't abnormal for people to get a Bachelors in one thing and a masters or phd in another. Typically the school makes them do some pre-requisite courses for a foundation as part of the masters. I know someone for example with an english degree and a masters in data science, who had to take a couple additional statistics and programming courses, and another person with a math undergrad and a masters in electrical engineering that basically had to take circuits, E&M, and electronics (so a good chunk of the EE undergrad) before starting graduate courses.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-05 15:24:28+00:00
Western seated toilets are extremely inferior to Asian/Chinese squat toilets. It is a cultural disaster. Sitting on the toilet seat will lead to weakness of the pelvic floor, causing multiple types of bodily dysfunction and pain. The damage done accumulates over time with age and years of bad positioning. If you're not too heavy, just squat on your toilet seat at home, and wash off with a bidet/spray. If you can't squat, at least use a stool for the feet.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-09-05 15:24:49+00:00
>I believe in zero-sum economics, I.E, I don't believe that there can be a "global market crash", all crashes have an equal and opposite effect somewhere else. I'm expecting to hear that jobs are booming in some other countries. In fact, there is data on this.

Yeah this isn't right. Changing policy can reduce the value of assets across the board, everywhere. It's very possible. The money just disappears because those assets are no longer worth the same in the new environment. Sometimes everyone loses.
by threeducks | 2025-09-05 15:25:10+00:00
Learning new languages did change how I think about programming. For example, Clojure's immutability and functional nature had a strong influence on how I write my (mostly Python) code these days. I learned how to write efficient code for CPUs with C and C++, and for GPUs with CUDA and OpenCL. I learned math with Matlab and Octave, and declarative programming with Prolog.

With Mojo, on the other hand, I think a library (or improvements to an existing library) would have been a better approach. A new language needlessly forks the developer community and duplicates work. But I can see the monetary incentives that made the Mojo developers choose this path, so good for them.
by eaf | 2025-09-05 15:25:10+00:00
Recently a new philosophy of parenting has been emerging, which can be termed “vibe parenting” and describes a novel method for the individual parent to circumvent an inability to answer the sporadic yet profound questions their children raise by directing them to ask ChatGPT.

https://x.com/erikfitch_/status/1962558980099658144

(I sent your site to my father.)
by hristov | 2025-09-05 15:25:12+00:00
No this is an attempt to shift the burden of taxation to the middle class and poor. It is a consumption tax pure and simple. If you tax everything like sneakers and toothpaste the tax burden shifts to the middle class and poor because a billionaire can make income 100 times larger than a middle class person but he does not use a hundred times as much toothpaste and does not buy 100 times more sneakers.

This of course will depress consumption which will seriously damage the economy but the current administration just does not have the brains to consider these effects.

Furthermore, the immigrant chasing is seriously reducing jobs openings. This seems quite the opposite from the intended effect. But it is done so chaotically and with such cruelty that it is flat out destroying businesses rather than allowing them to hire citizens to replace illegal immigrants.
by torginus | 2025-09-05 15:25:17+00:00
Sorry for replying to my own comment but I had a separate thought - this is how I feel about LLMs today.

While they help with programming, I feel like the scope of my tasks have increased over time as well. I feel like this is happening to me - I'm insanely more productive and my tech stack has increased hugely over the past two years as has my productivity.

But I don't make significantly more money, or get a ton more recognition, it's just accepted.