MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sethammons | 2025-10-05 18:41:08+00:00
That take feels lazy. Poverty isn’t primarily about irrationality, it’s about constraints. People make decisions that are locally rational given their options, but the system they’re operating in is tilted against them.

If rent eats half your income and your car breaks down, you’re not choosing between “investing” and “consuming.” You’re choosing between keeping your job and getting evicted. Behavioral quirks exist, sure, but they’re downstream of scarcity, and scarcity itself warps decision-making.

We’ve got decades of data showing that when you remove the constant pressure (through cash transfers, healthcare, childcare, etc.), people generally make long-term, rational decisions. The idea that “the poor are poor because they’re irrational” mistakes the symptom for the cause.

It is propaganda to "other" the poor. It is much easier to blame irrationality for people being poor rather than the systems we choose to keep in place. Those who convinced you of this falsehood, what are they gaining?
by cycomanic | 2025-10-05 18:41:26+00:00
> > Mails are superior in announcing to multiple people > > People who are known at time of sending. A slack message can be searched by those joining the team much (much) later, those who move teams, in-house search bots, etc.

People use slack search successfully? It's search has to be one of the worst search implementations I have come across. Unless you know the exact wording in the slack message, it is almost always easier to scroll back and find the relevant conversation just from memory. And that says something because the slack engineers in their infinite wisdom (incompetence) decided that messages don't get stored on the client, but get reloaded from the server (wt*!!), so scrolling back to a conversation that happened some days ago becomes an excercise of repeated scroll and wait. Slack is good for instant messaging type conversations (and even for those it quickly becomes annoying because their threads are so crappy), not much else. I wish we would use something else.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-05 18:41:31+00:00
> The number of readers dwarfs the number of writers.

That's a great observation!

'Literacy' is defined as the ability to both read and write. People as a rule can write, even if it isn't a novel worth publishing they do have the ability to encode a text on a piece of paper. It's a matter of quality rather than ability (at least, in most developed countries, though even there there are still people who can not read or write).

So think that you could fine-tune that observation to 'there is a limited number of people that provide most of the writings'. Observing for instance Wikipedia or any bookstore would seem to confirm that. If you take HN as your sample base then there too it holds true. If this goes for one of our oldest technologies it should not be surprising that on a forum dedicated to creating businesses and writing the ability to both read and write are taken for granted. But they shouldn't be.

The same goes for any other tech: the number of people using electronics dwarfs the number of circuit designers, the number of people using buildings dwarfs architects and so on, all the way down to food consumption and farmers or fishers.

Effectively this says: 'we tend to specialize' because specialization allows each to do what they are best at. Heinlein's universal person ('specialization is for insects') is an outlier, not the norm, and probably sucks at most of the things they claim to have ability for.
by vunderba | 2025-10-05 18:42:03+00:00
By all accounts, he fought tooth-and-nail to avoid recognizing his own daughter even after a state ordered paternity test [1]. There's quite a bit of evidence that whatever his positives as a product manager, he was a singularly unpleasant individual.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/steve-jobs-denied-daughter-ye...
by idopmstuff | 2025-10-05 18:42:04+00:00
I honestly think we had a pretty good middle ground with people having to go to Vegas/Reno/AC to gamble. It can be fun, but you have to go out of your way to do it. If you have a fun Vegas weekend and blow a bunch of money once in a while, that seems pretty okay relative to being able to constantly bet on anything from your phone.
by port11 | 2025-10-05 18:42:45+00:00
OVH was not great for me at the previous startup. The virtual network card in an API server would detach every night at somewhat unpredictable times.

OVH support response times were atrocious, multiple days of waiting until weeks later it was escalated.

They never figured it out, just suggested spinning a new server. By that point I had already migrated, but it was a bit scary since it was my first time managing infrastructure.

Just anecdata :) maybe buy a support plan if they have it.
by hilbert42 | 2025-10-05 18:43:33+00:00
Physics outlined on this site will be clear to those who already understand it at a reasonably high level. As MrCoffee implies, unless the reader has a "previous" understanding of physics—that is, the necessary and prerequisite knowledge of physics at an advanced (and broad) level—then much of these notes will not only be unclear but also hard going (thus likely not very helpful).

That said, concerning Units in Electrodynamics, ID: 00669, I wish I'd had this succinct (and for me clear) summary when I was learning this stuff, it's very good. (From my observation, units not only 'color' the way one learns this subject but also they alter one's perception or interpretation it (perhaps more so than in other branches of physics). Thus being able to move quickly and seamlessly between the different units ought to be a definite advantage.)
by svat | 2025-10-05 18:43:41+00:00
Typically, such articles can be charitably interpreted as saying "I worry more about Y than X", rather than as literally making two separate claims (that X isn't a problem, and that Y is). So as a reader if you're trying to get value out of the article, you can focus on evaluating Y, and ignore X that the article does not address.

In this particular case, the article is even explicit about this:

> While we have no idea how AI might make working people obsolete at some imaginary date, we can already see how technology is affecting our capacity to think deeply right now. And I am much more concerned about the decline of thinking people than I am about the rise of thinking machines.

So the author is already explicitly saying that he doesn't know about X (whether AI will take jobs), but prefers to focus in the article on Y (“the many ways that we can deskill ourselves”).
by zh3 | 2025-10-05 18:44:40+00:00
On a smaller scale, I run multiple PC's in house diskless with NFS root; so easy to just create copies on the server and boot into them as needed, it's almost one image per bloated app these days (server also boots PC's into Windows using iSCSI/SCST and old DOS boxes from 386 onwards with etherboot/samba). Probably a bit biased due to doing a lot of hardware hacking where virtualisation solutions take so much more effect, but got to agree NFS (from V2 through V4) just works.
by drob518 | 2025-10-05 18:45:01+00:00
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to get me to concede. I’ve already stated that I’m on the RISC side of the debate. If your point is that it’s difficult to keep doing this with x86, I won’t argue with you. But that said, the x86 teams have kept up remarkably well so far. How far can they keep going? I don’t know. They’re already a lot further than everyone predicted they’d be a couple decades ago. Nearly free transistors, even if not fully free, are quite useful, it turns out.
by jama211 | 2025-10-05 18:45:15+00:00
I mean, arguably you don’t have ownership over anything without a legal right which is enforced by a government etc, and every item has exceptions. You think you own a house, but see how long that lasts if you stop paying land taxes. You only own a car as long as you don’t damage someone else’s car without insurance and it gets repossessed. These are stupid examples so don’t read too deeply into them, but it sorta outlines my point that licensing the use of things is very often as close as we get to owning just about anything. Not saying that’s good or bad, just that that’s kinda how it works.
by jabrotapu | 2025-10-05 18:45:32+00:00
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by strogonoff | 2025-10-05 18:45:34+00:00
> It's trivial to set up an experiment where you kick a single key with a solenoid and record the result. You can apply different velocity curves to the solenoid and see if there's any variation in timbre

Absolutely. Most of my comment is arguing how it would be not really useful, though, because perceived timbre (a.k.a. the kind that matters) is by definition wholly subjective, influenced by surrounding notes, etc.
by bobbiechen | 2025-10-05 18:45:40+00:00
I also mentioned this here the day I saw it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308596

If you were targeted, you might have dangling notifications in the GitHub UI, that you can't clear since the repo has been taken down. This community discussion includes a script to get rid of those: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174283#discuss...
by latexr | 2025-10-05 18:46:04+00:00
Of course you’re supposed to put in work, that’s how you learn. You have to think through your problem, not just look at the back of the math book to copy the answer.

The problem with Stack Overflow is not that it makes you do the work—that’s a good thing—but that it’s too often too pedantic and too inattentive to the question to realise the asker did put in the work, explained the problem well, and the question is not a duplicate. The reason it became such a curmudgeonly place is precisely due to a constant torrent of people treating it like you described it, not putting in the effort.
by tehjoker | 2025-10-05 18:46:17+00:00
I appreciate that DeepSeek is trained to respect "core socialist values". It's actually really helpful to engage with to ask questions about how chinese thinkers interpret their successes and failures vs other socialist projects. Obviously reading books is better, but I was surprised by how useful it was.

If you ask it loaded questions the way the CIA would pose them, it censors the answer though lmao
by scosman | 2025-10-05 18:46:59+00:00
Few things:

- Security/Speed: I leave "approve CLI commands" on in Cursor. This functions as a whitelist of known safe commands. It only needs to ask if running a non-standard command, 99% of the time it can use tools. It will also verify paths passed by the model are in the project folder (not letting it execute on external files)

- Discoverability: For agents to work well, you need to explain which commands are available, when to use each, parameters, etc. This is a more formal version than a simple AGENTS.md, with typed parameters, tool descriptions, etc.

- Correctness: I find models mess up command strings or run them in the wrong folders. This is more robust than pure strings, with short tool names, type checking, schemas, etc.

- Parallel execution: MCP tools can run in parallel, CLI tools typically can't

- Sharing across team: which dev commands to run can be spread across agents.md, github workflows, etc. This is one central place for the agents use case.

- Prompts: MCP also supports prompts (less known MCP feature). Not really relevant to the "why not CLI" question, but it's a benefit of the tool. It provides a short description of the available prompts, then lets the model load any by name. It's requires much less room in context than loading an entire /agents folder.
by nextaccountic | 2025-10-05 18:47:48+00:00
> most "real" work in the humanities is locked behind not just academic paywalls but an impenetrable wall of inward-focused jargon. Humanities work is written for other people in the humanities, not the public. It also tends to deal with subjects that are not of interest to 90%+ of the public.

You just described a lot of research in mathematics
by ddxv | 2025-10-05 18:48:01+00:00
My understanding is that Garage is not opinionated and could easily have worked without ZFS. I installed ZFS in Ubuntu, and then later installed Garage.

As for the ZFS setup, I kept it simple and did RAID5/raidz1. I'm no expert in that, and have been starting to think about it again as the pool approaches 33% full.

I saw this comment in another thread here that sounded interesting as well by magicalhippo: "I've been using ZFS for quite a while, and I had a realization some time ago that for a lot of data, I could tolerate a few hours worth of loss. So instead of a mirror, I've set up two separate one-disk pools, with automatic snapshots of the primary pool every few hours, which are then zfs send/recv to the other pool."

This caught my attention as it matches my usecase well. My original idea was that RAID5 would be good incase a HD fails, and that I would replicate the setup at another location, but the overall costs (~$1k USD) are enough that I haven't done that yet.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-05 18:48:01+00:00
> That’s the problem, I think: Using AI will make some people stupider overall, it will make other people smarter overall, and it will make many people stupider in some ways and smarter in other ways.

And then:

> It would have been nice if the author had not overgeneralized so much

But you just fell into the exact same trap. The effect on any individual is a reflection of that person's ability in many ways and on an individual level it may be all of those things depending on context. That's what is so problematic: you don't know to a fine degree what level of competence you have relative to the AI you are interacting with so for any given level of competence there are things that you will miss when processing an AI's output. The more competent you are the better you are able to use it. But people turn to AI when they are not competent and that is the problem, not that when they are competent they can use it effectively. And despite all of the disclaimers that is exactly the dream that the AI peddlers are selling you. 'Your brain on steroids'. But with the caveat that they don't know anything about your brain other than what can be inferred from your prompts.

A good teacher will be able to spot their own errors, here the pupil is supposed to be continuously on the looking for utter nonsense the teacher utters with great confidence. And the closer it gets to being good at some stuff the more leeway it will get for the nonsense as well.
by jabrotapu | 2025-10-05 18:48:17+00:00
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by redneno | 2025-10-05 18:48:44+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful comment — I really appreciate you sharing your perspective.

On the “self-hosted” point, I’d like to clarify what I mean in this context:

1. You run Docker entirely on your own machine or server (bare metal or cloud).

2. You deploy it yourself — via Docker Compose, Kubernetes, or whatever you prefer.

3. You have full control over your data volumes and config files.

The Docker environment here isn’t tied to any third-party infrastructure or remote service — everything runs under your control. From that standpoint, I’d still consider it self-hosted. Using Docker is just a way to avoid the usual “it works on my machine” headaches and make setup easier for others.

That said, since ChronoFrame runs in a Node.js environment, it doesn’t produce a native binary. But I totally get your point — I’ll add docs for running it directly with node or managing it via pm2, so users can skip Docker if they prefer.

Thanks again for the feedback — really glad you took the time to look into it.
by Popeyes | 2025-10-05 18:48:52+00:00
The point Amazon went downhill, and like all online stores, is when they started letting third party sellers sell through the platform.

It's now a black market where shady companies are trading on the good name of Amazon and selling the same products at lower products but usually from the grey market.

The only one where I have seen it improve a store (in the UK) is Next where they allow other trusted fashion brands to sell through the store.
by bryanhogan | 2025-10-05 18:49:06+00:00
Saw a few days ago that the application site for the GKS, the most important scholarship for international students in Korea, went offline for multiple days, surprising to hear that they really lost all of the data though. Great opportunity to build a better website now?

But yeah it's a big problem in Korea right now, lots of important information just vanished, many are talking about it.
by drob518 | 2025-10-05 18:49:19+00:00
Amen. The syntax just kept getting more and more complicated. I gave up in the late 1990s. Ironically for this post, I now prefer to write everything in Clojure. It seems like my own journey has paralleled Rich’s journey. Maybe that’s why I appreciate so many of the design choices in Clojure. It’s not perfect, but it’s really, really good.
by pvankessel | 2025-10-05 18:49:26+00:00
Oh I agree with you on that wholeheartedly. I think our society would be substantially healthier if we required civics, philosophy, economics, etc in high school. But if we're already struggling to have evolution taught in schools and we have state boards of education removing references to the slave trade and founding fathers from history curriculum (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-...), expanding liberal arts in public education is a non-starter. Hell, half the country would love to see it wiped from post-secondary education. Best I figure we can do at this point is defend the idea itself to the extent we can - for instance, in Hacker News threads where the liberal arts are being dismissed as an unnecessary lesser-than academic pursuit.
by logicprog | 2025-10-05 18:51:16+00:00
> This isn't like the early days of the web, or Amazon, or any of those other big winners that lost money before becoming profitable. Those were all propositions with excellent "unit economics" – they got cheaper with every successive technological generation, and the more customers they added, the more profitable they became. AI companies have – in the memorable phraseology of Ed Zitron – "dogshit unit-economics." Each generation of AI has been vastly more expensive than the previous one, and each new AI customer makes the AI companies lose more money...

See, I think this is wrong. The unit economics of LLMs are great, and more than that, they have a fuckton of users with obvious paths to funding for those users that aren't paying per unit (https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2025-06-02-llms-are-ch...). The problem is the ludicrous up front over infestment, none of which was actually necessary to get to useful foundation models, as we saw with DeepSeek.
by port11 | 2025-10-05 18:51:20+00:00
I always thought I had a good sense of navigation, until I realised it was getting quite bad.

More or less at the same time I found “Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We’re Losing to Technology”, and the chapter on navigation hit me so hard I put the book down and refused to read any more until my navigation skills improved.

They're quite good now. I sit at the toilet staring at the map of my city, which I now know quite well. No longer navigate with my phone.

I'm scared about the chapter on communication, which I'm going through right now.

I do think we're losing those skills, and offloading more thinking to technology will further erode your own abilities. Perhaps you think you'll spend more time in high-cognition activities, but will you? Will all of us?
by mwkaufma | 2025-10-05 18:51:38+00:00
Red flags for me when I see nonstandard functors in a c++ codebase (esp if the "glue" is in a setup function independent of the objects):

(i) Have they thought about the relative lifetimes of the sender and receiver?

(ii) Is the callback a "critical section" where certain side-effects have undefined behavior?

(iii) Does the functors store debugging info that .natvis can use?

(iv) Is it reeeeeeeally that bad to just implement an interface?
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-05 18:51:39+00:00
I ran Starlink for a while. CGNAT. No fun running servers. 5G internet? CGNAT. ISPs that support IPV6, they will probably still run NATs.

So here's a question: if your ipv6 is behind CGNAT and calls an ipv6 on the other side of the CGNAT: is it still one-way, or un-NAT'ed?

And you agree the non-oligarch internet is ipv4, along with a large part of the oligarch internet.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-05 18:51:40+00:00
I am not sanguine about it, I just want to make sure that the idea that all schools are beds of roses today does not take hold because I've seen first hand that this is not the case. And if that can happen in a wealthy part of a wealthy country it can happen just about everywhere. In the meantime I've done what I could to offset the difference and am still working hard to make sure my kids get all of the chances in life that they deserve. But detours can and do happen, you won't be able to fix it by head-on confrontation so you have to fix it through other means, which usually translate into spending time and money.
by nvader | 2025-10-05 18:51:43+00:00
Very neat.

Although philosophically I prefer the unix approach of "do one thing and do it well", I really admire this tool. I think it might be the fact that the one thing this does well is curating a set of functions for a particular profile of developer. My story is someone doing web focused full stack development?

It might be worth doing a survey of your users to see what they use ut for and what areas you should focus on next.
by steveBK123 | 2025-10-05 18:52:28+00:00
Yes, in NYC, theres a very "culture vulture / hype beast" mentality of chasing whatever hot reservation is trendy so you can yap about it to the same circle of friends doing the same thing.

I don't need to know how expensive the tasting menu was or how hard it was to get a reservation because in the words of Logan Roy - "congrats on saying the biggest number".

Tell me about something you did, made, learned, gave back, etc.

Vacations are nice, I take them, but 90% of the time hearing people describe their most recent banal trend following travel is boring. I swear every rich person I know seems to take the same 5-10 trips as each over. I would probably find a discussion of a book you read while on vacation more engaging.
by overfeed | 2025-10-05 18:52:29+00:00
> we need to wait until microsoft tries to squeeze Steam out of windows.

Steam Machines were a direct result of that: Microsoft announced plans to block non-Microsoft app stores on Windows 8. This was a credible existential threat to Valve, which got off to a rocky start, and they wisely persisted despite Windows 8 (and yhe threat) flopping. Microsoft os no longer in a position to try and squeeze Steam, thanks to Valve's diligence, and Microsoft going half-cocked the first time.