MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wyclif | 2025-09-22 16:29:11+00:00
Good description of what Omarchy really is. It's for two groups of people:

1/ (biggest group by far) People who are new to Linux on the desktop and, to a lesser extent, want to get out of the macOS ecosystem

2/ Power users who run Arch btw, and have probably installed, configured, partitioned, and encrypted Arch without the installer script at least a few times and now want a sane default Arch + Hyprland install with sane defaults and a production-grade environment in just a few minutes
by mirchiseth | 2025-09-22 16:29:23+00:00
And if you were teenage college students way more risque clips than Star Wars :-) One of my fondest memory is when a sophomore buddy of mine does a telnet and sets the display to local ip and starts clicking on random audio files. The operator on the other side is a freshman. Comes running to the other room sees my bud and being one year senior asks - dude that SGI is making weird noises. Realizing what has happened my buddy quips - ah it makes those noises when it is heavily loaded :-D
by dendrite9 | 2025-09-22 16:29:31+00:00
I've been doing some cal/QC functions recently after years not touching it. Since I last did it I've forgotten some of the knowledge that is just assumed. The answers to my questions are documented, but not in a places that is accessible from the production side and has lived as community knowledge in production. I've been making a list and updating the documents to fill in some gaps.

Unfortunately some of the production people aren't comfortable enough pushing for changes in the documentation so some of my job now is to ask what they've noted and get it added.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-22 16:29:37+00:00
> The ideal size for a bus goes down

No, it doesn't, because if you have lots of small buses then high-traffic areas will get clogged with lots of little buses loading and unloading and just physically taking up space in bus lanes. If anything, you generally want _bigger_ buses; most large cities size buses as big as the road infra will take (with the exception that a lot of cities won't consider double-deckers even where they'd make sense, due to lack of familiarity). Now, some of that is drivers, but some of it is just capacity.

(Or sometimes slightly bigger than the road infrastructure will take. About once a decade, Dublin Bus tries articulated buses, which then get stuck on roundabouts, reminding Dublin Bus why it doesn't have articulated buses.)

The mass difference between a big bus and a small bus also isn't generally _that_ huge. A smallish single-decker is about 10 tonnes, these days a big double-decker is only about 12.
by jameskilton | 2025-09-22 16:29:40+00:00
I couldn't help but notice almost immediately one feature that is not human oriented, but most likely exists because it's easier for a machine to parse: single (":") vs double colon ("::"). This is not human-friendly. A human wants to write "key" "is" "value", and YAML has for a very long time supported a single ":" for "is" regardless of the actual type of the value.

I shouldn't have to care about what the type of the value is when writing out effectively YAML. This double-colon feature will do nothing but lead to bug reports from people confused as to why their document is invalid.
by theanirudh | 2025-09-22 16:29:50+00:00
We just migrated to PlanetScale Postgres Metal over the weekend. We are already seeing major query improvements. The migration was pretty smooth. Post-migration we hit a few issues (turned out it wasn't an issue with PlanetScale), and the PlanetScale team jumped in immediately to help us out, even on a Saturday morning so support's been amazing.

The Insights tab also surfaced missing indexes we added, which sped things up further. Early days, but so far so good.
by mothballed | 2025-09-22 16:29:50+00:00
Depends on the state.

AZ:

>C. A merchant, or a merchant's agent or employee, with reasonable cause, may detain on the premises in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable time any person who is suspected of shoplifting as prescribed in subsection A of this section for questioning or summoning a law enforcement officer.

https://www.azleg.gov/ars/13/01805.htm

i.e. all they need is reasonable cause to suspect you are shoplifting. When I was detained no one ever saw me steal anything, I openly grabbed the cat litter, scanned it at the machine, paid for it, grabbed the receipt, then refused to show it to the receipt-checker (not about to slow down for that bullshit since it is now my property) so they just sent some dudes out to grab the cart out of my hands.
by kentonv | 2025-09-22 16:29:53+00:00
I think we'll likely keep them pretty close to in-sync, at least when it comes to features that make sense in both.

If anything I'd expect Cap'n Web to run ahead of Workers RPC (as it is already doing, with the new pipeline features) because Cap'n Web's implementation is actually much simpler than Workers'. Cap'n Web will probably be the place where we experiment with new features.
by genewitch | 2025-09-22 16:30:14+00:00
it's all science, not just "psychology."

i'm working my way through [1] to try and internalize the ability to recognize the weasel. The part about a test that's 80% accurate for positive, and 9.6% false positive rate made intuitive sense to me, and yet something like "15% of doctors get it right."

The excuses abound: You need a "lab", there's no money in replication, "science marches on[2]", and so on. It's just a cover for an alternate economy, at this point. I'm sorry if you're a scientist doing actual science and your entire foundation is being chipped away at by these heathens.

[1] https://www.norvig.com/experiment-design.html posted here earlier this week. [2] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScienceMarchesOn - "New discoveries make old theories obsolete and stories retroactively inaccurate."
by jofla_net | 2025-09-22 16:30:37+00:00
Seems par for the course with Dell lately. My XPS has a Wifi+ACPI firmware bug, wherein when the wifi says, hey can i go into power save mode, and the ACPI grabs its ankles, kernel panic! For years I thought It was a linux thing but after stumbling on the motherload of complaints im saddened. Its been my first linux laptop and its sad to see that the shortcommings had nothing to do with distro, rather hardware regression. Theres no plans to fix either. Luckly it happens maybe twice a year.

https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/xps/xps-15-9... https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/xps/xps-15-9...
by shadytrees | 2025-09-22 16:30:38+00:00
Kling's politics aside, he's also had a history of abandoning projects after hyping them up on social media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened to SerenityOS and jakt, for example:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/graphs/commit-activit... https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/graphs/commit-activity

If Cloudflare wants to defend the future of the web, maybe they could also throw a few dollars towards projects with better governance and aren't helmed by a BFDL with a spotty record and are written in a more future-proof language than C++ [0]. (For example, Servo.)

[0]: In Kling's own words! https://web.archive.org/web/20250819053816/https://awesomekl...
by balamatom | 2025-09-22 16:30:47+00:00
Who did what when why? Everyone has understanding of those semantics.

It's literally entirely on a computer. If that somehow makes it harder to answer basic human questions about the complex things we're using it for, well that means we've got a problem folks.

The problem is with comprehensibility, and it's entrenched (because the only way for a piece of software to outlive its 50 incompatible analogs and reach mass recognition is to become entrenched; not to represent its domain perfectly)

The issue lies in how the tools that we've currently converged on (e.g. Git) represent the semantics of our activity: what information is retained at what granularity determines what workflows are required of the user; and thence what operations the user comes to expect to be "easy" or "hard", "complex" or "simple". (Every interactive program is a teaching aid of itself, like how when you grok a system you can whip together a poor copy of it in a couple hours out of shit and sticks)

Consider Git's second cousin the CRDT, where "merges" are just a few tokens long, so they happen automatically all the time with good results. Helped in application context by how a "shared editor" interface is considerably more interactive than the "manually versioned folder" approach of Git. There's shared backspace.

Git was designed for emailing patches over dialup, there it obviously pays to be precise; and it's also awesome at enabling endless bikeshedding on projects far less essential than the kernel, thanks to the proprietary extension that are Pull Requests.

Probably nobody has any real incentive to pull off anything better, if the value proposition of the existing solution starts with "it has come to be expected". But it's not right to say it's inherently hard, some of us have just become used to making it needlessly hard on ourselves, and that's whose breakfast the bots are now eating (shoo, bots! scram)
by bandyaboot | 2025-09-22 16:30:58+00:00
I don’t know, this seems like something to be taken with a grain of salt. Throughout, the post is dripping with personal contempt for the people he’s talking about. It just seems like he’s taking his personal experience with the “blueskyists” pre Bluesky and turning it into something important enough to coin this term “Blueskyism”, without ever making the case that that’s true.

It’s less, “this is an important thing to consider in contemporary, online political discourse”, and more, “I have personal experience with these sorts of people, and let me tell you, they annoy the living piss out of me.” And I have no trouble believing him.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-09-22 16:31:26+00:00
> and, worth noting, when crimes are at historic lows

Depends how you count. If suddenly any theft below $900 is now a misdemeanor (as opposed to, say, 100 previously), then sure, the crime stats will show the crime is low because many retailer simply won’t bother to report it.

I think once this whole idea of crime became a political issue recently, all these stats should be taken with a huge grain of salt
by overfeed | 2025-09-22 16:31:37+00:00
The actual metric management maximizes management remuneration, which is dependent on short-term shareholder value.

Startups nominally care more about the long view, as they need to convince investors that they high long-term value and have to act accordingly. As companies grow from VC-funded, to fast-growing public, then to well-established public company, the culture shifts to match dominant shareholder expectations.
by burnerthrow008 | 2025-09-22 16:31:42+00:00
(I think tariffs are stupid)

> The exporters aren't impacted directly at all

This isn't true, at least if you believe in standard economic theory (not believing standard economic theory is what got us in this mess!).

The issue is that the tariff increases the effective price to the consumer, so it shifts the demand curve downward by the cost of the tariff (the price consumers are willing to pay the producer for a given quantity of goods).

Markets always find their equilibrium, and the resulting equilibrium point is a lower transaction price and lower quantity than before. Quantifying the shift requires knowing both the supply and demand elasticities.

In other words, both the producer and consumer share the burden of the tariffs. The producer receives less from the consumer, and the consumer pays a higher total cost than before. Who pays more of the tariff is question that we again need the elasticities to answer.
by jimmyl02 | 2025-09-22 16:31:44+00:00
This seems like a similar and more feature complete / polished version of JSON RPC?

The part that's most exciting to me is actually the bidirectional calling. Having set this up before via JSON RPC / custom protocol the experience was super "messy" and I'm looking forward to a framework making it all better.

Can't wait to try it out!
by petergeoghegan | 2025-09-22 16:31:57+00:00
Can you provide more detail/a reference?

I've done extensive work on improving the Postgres B-Tree code, over quite a number of releases. I'm not aware of any problems with high-insert workloads in particular. I have personally fixed a number of subtle issues that could lead to lower space utilization with such workloads [1][2] in the past, though.

if there's a remaining problem in this area, then I'd very much like to know about it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RaATILoiE [2] https://speakerdeck.com/peterg/nbtree-arch-pgcon
by bluecalm | 2025-09-22 16:32:09+00:00
Well for Norway specifically they have 1.1% wealth tax and humongous 37% capital gain tax (of course it's lower for real estate because Europeans like fighting stock investments).

If you have say 4 million USD and invest in stocks expecting say 7% per year you will pay 103k USD in cap gain tax and then 44k in wealth tax for a grand total of almost 150k/year.

That's enough to fund Switzerland lifestyle let alone life in multiple other countries that levy 0 or close to 0 cap gain tax for long term gains. It's difference between comfortable retirement and having to work.

Maybe it doesn't make much difference if you're very wealthy but for those who just managed to get financial independence it's huge.
by Our_Benefactors | 2025-09-22 16:32:27+00:00
I can’t take this article seriously, and neither should you. Being anti AI/anti LLM is solidly in the Luddite camp; there’s really no more debates to be had. Every serious inquiry shows productivity gains by using ai.

It’s anyone’s prerogative to continue to advocate for the horse and buggy over the automobile, but most people won’t bother to take the discussion seriously.
by Zardoz84 | 2025-09-22 16:32:56+00:00
It would be one of the worst places. So, you are living over a floating habitat that the only way to get resources it's from out planet. Because, on the surface, the conditions are so hard that even remote mining is impossible.

It would be better the moon, Mars or even moving habits on Mercury. At least you have access to mineral resources, and water (ice).
by cyberax | 2025-09-22 16:33:04+00:00
Merely walking is overrated, especially commute-style walking. It is much better than doing _nothing_ but as the main source of physical exercise it's not great.

I used to walk 12000 steps every day, including on a treadmill at home. My leg muscles were awesome, and my cardio health was great. But my upper body was weak, and eventually I had to start physiotherapy to strengthen some muscle groups to correct for bad sitting posture that was causing pain.

So I started doing weight and resistance training, my muscle mass went up, and I'm much healthier as a result. I'm also saving tons of time commuting by car instead of having to walk.

And I still do weekend walks/jogs around the parks and my neighborhood for fun.
by 1gn15 | 2025-09-22 16:33:19+00:00
Given CloudFlare's direction, I won't be surprised if they start offering "anti adblock as a service" soon. Detecting it is still rather simple, and add in some punishments such as temporary IP blocking, and it would be rather effective.

(Note that everything CloudFlare talked about in this blog post also applies to adblock users, not just AI agents.)

The golden age of the Internet is not where people do it for money, or for views. That way lies clickbait and content farms. The golden age of the Internet is one where people share information because they want to.

Source: https://1gn15.com/cloudflare
by dagaci | 2025-09-22 16:33:32+00:00
The media hysteria about a millionaire exodus happened in 2024, not 2025. 10900 articles were in 2024 not 2025 so the hysteria happened in 2024. The interesting part is: those spreading hysteria don’t need to provide evidence; they just simply repeat.

Then those locked into the X-rinse-and-repeat-loop echo the same hysteria, as if they’ve just discovered some kind of wisdom when they have simply been overtrained.
by kentonv | 2025-09-22 16:33:40+00:00
To chain three calls, the client will send three messages, yes. (At least when using the WebSocket transport. With the HTTP batch transport, the entire batch is concatenated into one HTTP request body.)

But the client can send all three messages back-to-back without waiting for any replies from the server. In terms of network communications, it's effectively the same as sending one message.
by ActionHank | 2025-09-22 16:33:42+00:00
A closer analogy would be scribes and the printing press.

Except it doesn’t fit. For a while now we’ve had access to basically all the knowledge in the world and most people don’t use it.

Why would people make the effort to build a website using AI when they didn’t do so with any of the existing no-code options available.

They won’t.

Will dev be exactly the same in 10 years time? No.

Will there be more devs than there are now? 100%

Will experienced devs make bank? Yes.
by f4stjack | 2025-09-22 16:34:11+00:00
To be honest, I do not understand this new norm. A few months ago I applied to an internal position. I was a NGO IT worker, deployed twice to emergency response operations, knew the policies & operations and had good relations with users and coworkers.

The interview went well. I was honest. When asked what my weakness regarding this position I told that I am a good analyst but when it comes to writing new exploits, that's beyond my expertise. The role doesn't have this as a requirement so I thought it was a good answer.

I was not selected. Instead they selected a guy and then booted him off after 2 months due to his excessive (and non-correct like the link) use of LLM and did not open the position again.

So in addition to wasting the hirers' time those nice people block other people's progress as well. But, as long as the hirers expect wunderkinds crawling out of the woods the applicants try to fake it and win in the short term.

This needs to end but I don't see any progress towards it. This is especially painful as I am seeking a job at the moment and thinking these fakers are muddying the waters. It feels like no one cares about your attitude - like how geniunely you want to work. I am an old techie and the world I was in valued this rather than technical aptitude for you can teach/learn technical information but character is another thing. This gets lost in our brave new cyberpunk without the cool gadgets era I believe.
by jorvi | 2025-09-22 16:34:13+00:00
> Even if that’s true, are we going to see Google’s dominance in the ad space meaningfully curbed?

> (at least until there’s a massive shift in political headwinds)

It did look like it for a while with the US its antitrust action and the EU also taking aggressive action. But then Google kissed the ring and the DoJ pulled back it's recommendation of Google divesting DoubleClick, and the EU lost the staredown with Trump and made their measures toothless too.

Who knows what will happen in the 2030s though. If the Democrats get into power again, I'm sure they'll remember how big tech switched up on them and there will be a serious reckoning.
by xienze | 2025-09-22 16:34:22+00:00
> The pattern I see across countries is that over time the tax rates keep increasing and the thresholds at which apply keep coming down. And that is because governments are badly mismanaged most of the time

Sort of, but it goes back to the overwhelming size of government budgets. In the US for example, even if all of the assets of the wealthiest individuals could be converted 1:1 into cash (it can’t) and the government took 100% of it, congratulations, we’ve fully funded the government for perhaps one year. There’s nowhere to go at that point except to revise the definition of “rich.”
by quotemstr | 2025-09-22 16:34:34+00:00
Nothing beats the old Unix tools. From https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html

"

golem$ ed ? help ? ? ? quit ? exit ? bye ? hello? ? eat flaming death ? ^C ? ^C ? ^D ?

Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity."
by jdietrich | 2025-09-22 16:34:44+00:00
Until April of this year, it was possible for a foreign national to be resident but not domiciled in the UK. Any income they earned in the UK would be subject to UK tax, but income earned abroad would not be. These non-domiciled foreign nationals could "live" in Dubai (or any other country) for tax purposes, but actually live in the UK in every practical sense.

The removal of this non-domiciled status is clearly far more significant than a normal tax increase. The UK was a uniquely attractive destination for the super-rich, because they could enjoy all the amenities of living in London with no real concerns about the tax implications. It is plausible that many of those people will decide to pay UK tax rather than move abroad, but we are talking about an exceptionally highly-mobile group who have already made the decision to move country, many primarily or solely for tax reasons.
by tlo | 2025-09-22 16:35:16+00:00
Reminds me of https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/311843/26185

tl;dr:

- Missing disk space can be related to a broken filesystem

- APFS tooling is currently really bad, you probably need to erase the volume and reinstall to fix any filesystem problem

... and this was in 2018 and I fear not much changed.
by raevn | 2025-09-22 16:35:30+00:00
The only thing I see happening is agreements between the biggest players and the content brokers, squeezing out others who’d like to enter. At least just now anyone can theoretically scrape the web for useful info.

The bigger problem I see coming down the line, given the current business model for the internet, is what happens when investors need a return. When the LLM only provides one “correct” answer, the only way to make money from advertisers is to influence that answer. At least just now we are presented with information which we evaluate ourselves, though even this is subject to manipulation.
by palmotea | 2025-09-22 16:35:30+00:00
> Maybe there is a reverse psychological angle to make the current US administration go metric. Fahrenheit->Polish->European->Communist/Woke. Can't have that!

1. That nonsensical, because the same logic would apply to Celsius temperatures.

2. Americans don't keep using Fahrenheit because of some aversion to Europe. Though I do have some fondness for it as resistance to the machine-people who are always going on about efficiency and trying to hurry everyone up.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-09-22 16:35:33+00:00
Is this meant to say 1,500,000 euros? 150,000 euros is ~$175k USD and the average US home price is currently sitting around $500k for reference.

edit: it does appear that 150,000 is correct, but it is an additional 0.1% tax on wealth above 150,000 euros.

Still basically nothing for the overwhelming majority of people. An additional $1,000 a year for every $1,000,000 you are worth.
by nirvdrum | 2025-09-22 16:35:34+00:00
That would be better, but it's an option I already have available to me and it's just not attractive. AFAIK, GitHub Actions requires the config files to be committed. So, now I need to guard against someone making local modifications to a generated file. It's doable of course, but by the time I've set all this up, it would have been much easier for everyone to copy and paste the six lines of code in the three places they're needed. YAML anchors solve that problem without really creating any new ones.

If generating your GitHub Actions config from a programming language works for you, fantastic. I'm just happy we now have another (IMHO, attractive) option.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-22 16:35:56+00:00
So you close the gap with policy as you find folks attempting to evade it. You'll always have leakage, it's inevitable, but not an excuse to not implement progressive tax policy on the highest levels of income and wealth. Puerto Rico has very favorable income tax treatment, but outside of some crypto bros, hasn't moved the HNW or high income migration needle, for example.