MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Centigonal | 2025-09-05 17:53:43+00:00
"If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."

-They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, Milton Mayer
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-05 17:54:04+00:00
ReCAPTCHA is frequently on sign-up forms and other things where every percent of users that don't complete it costs. It's bad enough to be making people fight with it, but if it showed ads some fraction of people would click on the ad or otherwise be distracted by it [1]

Note that in a lot of cases it looks at your cookies and other trackers and decide you must be human by looking at the mud on your boots from walking all around the web. It might also play a valuable role in punishing people who use browsers other than Chrome, though it seems the browsers that I have the most CAPTCHA harassment with are on Android tablets.

[1] unless you completely believe the "all clicks are click fraud" theory that nobody has honestly clicked ads since 1999. It's up there with my other conspiracy theories such as "the dead internet theory" and the one that there's no interest in mainstream culture at all outside of the media: that is, I meet people who watch things like Solo Leveling and play Genshin Impact but never people who watch Severance and play Call of Duty
by sterlind | 2025-09-05 17:54:09+00:00
> Ignorance of the law does not excuse you from having to follow it.

ICE agents and other Federal workers are largely insulated from consequences due to Sovereign Immunity protections. only egregious, malicious violations cause them personal liability. and Trump can dole out pardons if it comes to that.

> Thank goodness for the ACLU, Amnesty International, Democracy Forward, various state AG offices, and the American Bar Association.

it's nice that they're fighting, but the Supreme Court has shown a remarkable tolerance for flagrant lawlessness by the Administration (e.g. DHS v. DVD.) sometimes because the Court is sympathetic to Trump's objectives, sometimes because they fear he'll ignore them and do it anyway, and they'll lose the resulting power struggle (nine sedentary septuagenarians vs. the US Armed Forces.)
by MadVikingGod | 2025-09-05 17:54:26+00:00
I wish podman was more common in documentation. Want to use podman with your CI platform, it will probably work with socket compatibility but good luck finding instructions and anyone know if it’s tested. How about using some service with podman? Yeah the container is the same, but all the instructions or docker this or docker that, and god help you if you if they used networking or compose.

I prefer to use podman if it’s available on my system but it still hasn’t hit the critical mass needed for it to be targeted and that’s a shame.

Also is there something like a dockerfile for buildah? I’ve tried a few times to understand how to use buildah and just fall back on a dockerfile because I can’t seem to wrap my head around how to put it into something IAC like.
by linguae | 2025-09-05 17:54:39+00:00
Interestingly enough, even with RTO, I’ve noticed that driving on a Friday morning is much smoother than Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings. Despite the BART shutdown, it was smooth sailing southbound down 680 from Pleasanton to Milpitas. I normally commute from San Ramon to Fremont, and going through Pleasanton and Sunol on a midweek morning is rough.

I think there are many people in the Bay Area who start their weekend trips Friday afternoons and evenings.
by brudgers | 2025-09-05 17:55:27+00:00
The author is looking at this page.

The author chose the format to present their work and posted the link. They own the problems associated with their book, are in a position to choose other options, and can benefit from the feedback.

The website designers probably aren't looking at this page and even if they were, the problem is not as important to them as it is to the author.
by judahmeek | 2025-09-05 17:55:47+00:00
I believe that the article has meaningful arguments, such as:

* By contrast, decreasing literary sophistication may lead to decreasing political sophistication.

* Lose the ability to read complex prose and he fears you may also lose the ability to develop complex ideas that “allow you to see nuance and to hold two contradictory thoughts together”. The medium is the message, and the message is currently 280 characters long.

However, I also agree with you that the article does not present evidence that directly supports its arguments.

Studies linking reading comprehension & critical thinking (which I expect means the ability to navigate complex thought) certainly do exist & should have been mentioned.

> I expect if you asked Flesch and Kincaid themselves whether they think a text of lower Flesch–Kincaid readability score means it's "dumber" they would say no.

The "dumber" adjective isn't regarding the text, but the intended audience.

The lower Flesch–Kincaid readability score of inaugural presidential addresses is a lagging indicator of the dumbing down of politics, not a cause.

> Comparing to Washington makes little sense.

Democratization of American politics is a confounding factor, but also directly related. The elites would have higher reading comprehension, so increased democratization would require a dumbing down of politics.

Similarly, the decline in the lower Flesch–Kincaid readability score is noticeably stronger after inaugural presidential addresses stopped being delivered in written form.

So I think that using Washington for comparison is perfectly fine considering that the trend has continued incrementally throughout American history.
by robenkleene | 2025-09-05 17:56:02+00:00
> Delight is overblown, in my opinion. I think most of the people truly delighted by fancy animation are just other designers.

Appreciating delight (for it's own sake) in software design I'd consider a core trait of (old-school?) Apple fans. E.g., lamenting the decline of whimsy in the post-Jobs era.

I don't know of a canonical piece that summarizes this idea, but it's referenced a bit in this short piece https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/12/05/festivitas

I think there's truth to it being relatively niche, appreciating delight that is, but it's certainly not confined just to designers. E.g., like I'm saying here, a core trait of Apple fans is appreciating these kinds of details.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-09-05 17:56:41+00:00
This is precisely what I recommend to people starting out with LLMs: do not start with the architecture, start with their behavior - use them for a while as a black box and then circle back and learn about transformers and cross entropy loss functions and whatever. Bottom-up approaches to learning work well in other areas of computing, but not this - there is nothing in the architecture to suggest the emergent behavior that we see.
by gm678 | 2025-09-05 17:57:15+00:00
Can confirm, have been doing exactly what GP says is a world of pain with no problems as soon as I learned what `:z` and `:Z` do and why they might be needed.

A good reference answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/651198/podman-volum...

TL;DR: lowercase if a file from the host is shared with a container or a volume is shared between multiple containers. Uppercase in the same scenario if you want the container to take an exclusive lock on the volumes/files (very unlikely).
by serjester | 2025-09-05 17:57:34+00:00
The big labs have 50+% margins on serving the models, the training is where they lose money. But every new model boosts OpenAI's revenue growth which is unheard of at their size (300+% YoY). Therefore it's completely reasonable to keep doubling down and making bigger bets.

Most people miss that they have almost a billion free users that are waiting to be monetized. Google makes 400B a year and it's crazy to think OpenAI can't achieve some percentage of that. Why would you slow down and let Google catch up for the sake of short term profitability.
by yubblegum | 2025-09-05 17:58:35+00:00
Just a friendly feedback that you are asking for a lot upfront and offering very little in return. Your three day back to back assignment schedule is fine but the candidate knows nothing more than eulen.app about you, the company (Brazilian? American? North Korean? :), to say nothing of compensation. Is there anywhere where we can see who you are and what you have done?
by roscas | 2025-09-05 17:59:13+00:00
"would’ve been a “nature is healing” moment for the web". I wish this was true.

The healing will be when all ads and marketing will be down to zero. This companies like Facebook and Google make their billions putting on your face what you don't want or need and someone else pays them good money for that.

You may think it's too radical but we must make marketing illegal. Then fix the web.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-05 17:59:24+00:00
How is it hypocrisy when OpenAI is clearly acknowledging in their blog post that AI is going to disrupt jobs?

When a factory decides to shut down, and the company offers to pay for 2 years of vocational training for any employee that wants it, is it hypocrisy? One of my physical therapists, who took such an offer, definitely doesn't see it that way. The entity responsible for her losing her job actually ended up setting up a whole new career for her.

> I would like to make one small point about job replacement, the better outcomes for society are arguably inconclusive at this point. You've been indoctrinated to think that all progress and disruption is good because of capitalism.

That's overstating my stance. I can accept that it's too early to say whether LLMs have been a net positive (or will be a net positive), but my inclination is strongly in that direction. For me, it definitely has been a net positive. Because of health issues, LLMs allow me to do things I simply couldn't do before.

> Yes, we've seen QoL improvements over the course of recent generations. Do you really think it's sustainable?

This is an age old question and nothing new with LLMs. We've been arguing it since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution (and for some, since the dawn of farming). What I do know is that it resulted in a lot of great things for society (e.g. medicine), and I don't have much faith that we would have achieved them otherwise.
by felarof | 2025-09-05 17:59:26+00:00
> What does automation have to do with the number of tabs? Also _should_ it _just_ work? Do we really need to automate consumption behavior now?

Our agent can also help with tab closing, grouping, etc. We want the entire browser experience to be improved by AI.

We will have semantic search over browser history, bookmarks as well soon.

> What am I missing here, has anyone asked for this? Is anyone actually finding these AI browsers useful? Personally I want Arc, not Dia.

I understand where you are coming from. The use cases that agent can independently handle are quite trivial right now. But we strongly believe as LLMs improve you will be able to have agents automate larger tasks. You might be able to show the agent some task you do and it learns to do that without your supervision.

What do you mean by you want Arc? What features? -- vertical tabs, spaces, shortcuts? We would love to understand!
by oooyay | 2025-09-05 17:59:34+00:00
> Correct, but every additional software package and each additional license adds more to track.

This is going to differ company to company but since we're narrowing it to large companies I disagree. Usually there's a TPM that tracks license distribution and usage. Most companies provide that kind of information as part of their licensing program (and Docker certainly does.)

> Every new software license requires legal to review it.

Yes, but this is like 90% of what legal does - contract review. It's also what managers do but more on the negotiation end. Most average software engineers probably don't realize it but a lot of cloud services, even within a managed cloud provider like AWS, require contract and pricing negotiation.

> These centralized departments add up all of the license and SaaS costs and it shows up as one big number, which executives start pushing to decrease. When you let everyone get a license for everything they might need, it gets out of control quickly (many startups relearn this lesson in their growth phase)

As I said earlier, I can't speak for other companies but at large companies I've worked at this just simply isn't true. There's metrics for when the software isn't being used because the corporation is financially incentivized to shrink those numbers or consolidate on software that achieves similar goals. They're certainly individually tracked fairly far up the chain even if they do appear as a big number somewhere.
by yongjik | 2025-09-05 17:59:48+00:00
There's a regime change like "the second TV debate was a clown show, most swing states saw +5% move away from the incumbent, with the usual stronghold states still holding their established positions, and the latest poll listed inflation as voters' top concern."

...and then there's a regime change like "your capital city and every industrial center is firebombed to oblivion, kindergarteners are begging on streets, soldiers are coming back from POW camps to find their home burnt to ground and their whole family dead, and the occupying forces are executing high ranking officers of the previous regime for war crimes, just to drive the point home that their ideology will never be tolerated ever again."
by elktown | 2025-09-05 17:59:51+00:00
What an entirely expected style of response. Of course it's the due diligence itself that's the problem, not what it discovers. How can someone have the nerve to do that to you!

> I wouldn't be surprised if you do shit like this on the regular.

I certainly do, and I recommend everyone to do it. It's quick and requires much less time and effort than to accidentally be drawn in to a barren discussion with - in a broad sense - the proverbial village idiot.
by homefree | 2025-09-05 18:00:09+00:00
Wikipedia has major issues - there are a lot of topics with coordinated editing from bad actors. The verge article is paywalled so I can't read more than the first page + headline, but I can guess the case it makes.

- https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wik...

- https://www.piratewires.com/p/wikipedia-editors-cant-decide-...

- https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-wikipedia-s-pro-hamas-edit...

It's similar to the problem on Reddit, I wouldn't trust it on any topic that is even mildly controversial. Wikipedia will have a strong progressive left slant it launders carefully through seemingly neutral language and selective sourcing.

Honestly it's gotten worse over the years too - makes me see more value in printed encyclopedia, they go out of date but at least they represent a slice of time. They're not endlessly revised to meet some false ideology that has edit power at present.
by rglover | 2025-09-05 18:00:10+00:00
That's what I found out, though: the footprint doesn't matter. I did have to write a simple orchestration system, but it's literally just me provisioning a VPS, bootstrapping it with deps, and pulling the code/installing its dependencies. Short of service or hardware limits, this can work for an unlimited number of servers.

I get the why most people think they need containers, but it really seems only suited for hyper-complex (ironically, Google) deployments with thousands of developers pushing code simultaneously.
by herval | 2025-09-05 18:00:18+00:00
I feel like this curtain drop started in earnest in tech as well, when Musk took over Twitter and declared (along with certain VC) that engineers are no longer "special" and need to be treated like cattle.

The entire industry gladly dropped their masks. Quite the irony, for a group of people that takes so much pride in "thinking different" and "changing the world".
by kgwgk | 2025-09-05 18:00:23+00:00
Ok, so the modification was the "Here’s a good way to visualize what happened." explanation.

I would say that the whole (short) paragraph is intended to clarify why the answer to the question is "Yes; you should switch."

Maybe it was not a good way to visualize what happened after all. Experience shows that some readers were unable to understand the argument.

However, none of them complained about the explanation being wrong because those were two completely different problems (only in the second one the host will always avoid the door with the prize, apparently).
by gm678 | 2025-09-05 18:00:41+00:00
Also on Ubuntu 25.04, which I updated a homeserver too despite it not being LTS just for the easy access to Podman 5. Once Ubuntu 26.04 comes out the pain described by some sibling comments should end. Podman 4 is a workable version but 5.0 is where I'd say it really became a complete replacement for Docker and quadlets fully matured.
by genewitch | 2025-09-05 18:01:14+00:00
My parents, 40 years ago, would say "look it up", either in the dictionary, or the 1959 encyclopedia set we had. With my kids i never told them to look something up in the literal dictionary, but i would tell them to look at wikipedia or "google it". Not about profound questions, though; although a definition of "profound questions" might jog a memory. We do look things up in an etymology dictionary (i have 5 or 6) sometimes, though.

I am not sure why my parents constantly told me to look things up in a dictionary.

Rarely, but it did happen, we'd have to take a trip to the library to look something up. Now, instead of digging in a card catalog or asking a librarian, and then thumbing through reference books, i can ask an LLM to see if there's even information plausibly available before dedicating any more time to "looking something up."

As i've been saying lately, i use copilot to see if my memory is failing.
by flail | 2025-09-05 18:01:15+00:00
In no part was that suggestion addressed to software design/architecture.

It is telling that, while the article's theme is product management (and its relationship with the pace of development), that context is largely ignored in some comments. It's as if the article's scope was purely what happens within the IDE and/or AI agent of choice.

The whole point is that the perspective necessarily should be broader. Otherwise, we make it a circular argument, really: development is a bottleneck of development.

Well, hard to disagree on that.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-09-05 18:01:19+00:00
> not carrying papers on them because american is supposed to be a free country

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires every noncitizen who is 18 years old and over to carry evidence of their immigration “registration documents” at all times.

Noncitizens refer to lawful permanent residents (green card holders) and other nonimmigrants in the U.S., including but not limited to foreign students, exchange visitors, and foreign workers. “Registration documents” effectively refer to valid immigration documents.
by rsyring | 2025-09-05 18:02:20+00:00
> cost additional developer time, which for most OSS is fairly limited

Mostly agree. But something like Podman w/ RedHat behind it is unlikely to be limited in the same way a lot of community OSS projects are.

Unfortunately, I disagree with just about every other point you made but don't think it's worth responding point-by-point. In short, I think a project having dedicated builds for popular OSes is a win-win for just about everyone, excepting that it does take, sometimes a considerable amount of, effort to support those cross OS builds. Additionally, there are now options like Snap/Flatpack/AppImage that can be targets instead of the OS itself, although there is admittedly a tradeoff there as well.

For some projects, say something like ripgrep, just using what is in the OS repo is fine because having the latest and greatest features/bug-fixes is unlikely to matter to most people using the tool.

But, on something like Podman, where there is so many pieces, it's a relatively new technology, and the interaction between Kernel, OS, and user space is so high, being stuck with a non-current OS provided release for a couple years is a non-starter.

> why not use a Linux distribution which works with modern software development cycles?

Because I like my OS to be stable, widely supported, and I also like some of my applications to be evergreen. I find Ubuntu is usually a really good mix that way and I'm going on 15+ years of use. There are other solutions for that that I could use, but I'm mostly happy where I am and don't want to spend the kind of time it would take to adopt a different OS and everything that would follow from that.

That leads _me_ to avoid Podman currently. I can appreciate that you have a different opinion, I just think you are a overplaying your perspective a bit in the comment above.
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-05 18:03:09+00:00
> The probable downgrade could be the switch from the proprietary charger to USB-C PD

Guess that might be due to EU, where mandatory USB-C charging[1] is extended to encompass laptops in February 2026.

Probably not the space for both?

[1]: https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/eu-common-c...
by tobr | 2025-09-05 18:03:25+00:00
> users come away with a stronger impression of “solidness”

This really is what UI polish of any kind is all about. You feel like you can trust it more, it feels more robust and reliable. Animation and gestures are a part of this, but it’s only the last mile after everything already feels robust.

Before you make it more glitzy you have to make it less glitchy.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-05 18:03:29+00:00
Fwiw i've had long running devices that just constantly ARP broadcast. Affects the local network only but if that's how you measure bandwidth you'll notice it.

Ie. Non stop "Who has IP/MAC address XYZ? tell ABC" ARP requests, then a second device see's the request for XYZ (which may not even exist on the network anymore!) and realizes it too doesn't know who XYZ is, so it too sends it's own broadcast. And on the cycle goes as devices constantly see others requesting knowledge of XYZ and triggering the request in a cycle.

Embedded devices are especially susceptible to doing this. You might not even notice, apart from a mild "my network feels slow" unless you inspect at network traffic closely. The worst part is these ARP storms basically require you to power down everything and power back up again. In the most classic engineer move the most effective way is to reboot the house. Ie. flip the switch at the fuse breaker and turn the house back on again. That turns all devices off and on again and causes what ever IP/MAC address confusion that triggered the storm to resolve.

Worth investigating for OP. Especially for home networks with a lot of devices. Home routers won't stop a broadcast storm and once it's going they don't stop. Happens more often than is discussed in my experience (i think people just don't notice that poorly programmed devices can do these cyclic and endless ARP requests)
by dilyevsky | 2025-09-05 18:03:32+00:00
BART service area population is comparable to Greater London

> Costs are an America issue, not a BART issue: https://transitcosts.com/new-data

If by "America" you mean NYC/SFBA then sure. You can see in your own link there's massive spread across the locales with some being cheaper than UK per km

> you don't see people criticizing all of our highways around the area do you

uhm what?