MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon291 | 2025-10-13 21:27:01+00:00
This is why South Asians have all our metabolic issues (I'm talking about those living in the west). It took me so many years to break myself of this habit. It's not healthy to consume this much white rice. The bowl size at a Japanese restaurant is appropriate for one meal.

Carbohydrates and fats are very cheap in developed countries (and developing countries, like India). Protein is not cheap and is underconsumed in most countries. Meals should be focused around protein. It's basically impossible to not get enough carbs and fats living in the United States or any developed nation. In fact, you're probably getting more than you need relative to the amount of protein you consume.

Of course, if you live a traditional South Indian lifestyle including lots of manual labor, fishing, farming, etc, then you may have higher carb requirements. For most people today, this is overkill.

I've seen this problem in my own family, including untimely deaths, metabolic problems, etc.
by o11c | 2025-10-13 21:27:41+00:00
I have a simpler solution to the latter problem: if upgrading a dependency package breaks anything (barring multi-year deprecation, limited-time experimental previews, etc.), I blacklist it and never install that package ever again. After all, they are clearly lacking on either their testing infrastructure or their development guidelines.

It's amazing how much the quality of installed software improves when you do this. Something our industry desperately needs.
by restalis | 2025-10-13 21:27:59+00:00
Most likely, it didn't happen (yet) due to kernel related stuff being still actively worked on¹ and (more importantly) due to a shortage of developers willing and capable to tackle that kind of challenge.

¹ At the time of this writing, there are open PRs like this one: https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/8422
by random3 | 2025-10-13 21:28:27+00:00
You are (very) naive and seem to miss how most elections are won or work even. Perhpas you also think you're not getting influenced yourself.

It's the same argument (or puzzle) about how (presumably stupid) ads work in general.

Schneier makes a clear point there,comparing the two, but if you need more examples, you should study the subject. Maybe look at Brexit, or the recent issues in Romanian elections (https://www.bbc.com/articles/cqx41x3gn5zo).

Or, if you need more quantitative information, look at ad spend (and ask yourself why) and look at campaign fundraising and ad spending (or even the messaging around it) and ask yourself why again.
by apalmer | 2025-10-13 21:28:47+00:00
I don't think the title and the article really communicates it's case well. Did not understand the goal until 90% through the article when they showed the source code of RCL with the loops.

This isn't syntax vs abstraction. This is how much programming language power do you want to enable in your configuration language. This is a big difference and I think we miss the interesting part of that discussion because we dip into this 'abstraction angle.
by ben_w | 2025-10-13 21:29:57+00:00
> How does this ruling affect the company's right to free speech in the US?

As I understand it, not at all.

I don't think the British institutions care at all about their rights to do whatever they want outside the UK; the problem is, 4chan does provide access to people in the UK, so it's a bit like a pirate radio station that the UK would like to not be receiving owing to the station's complete lack of interest in following UK laws.

To put it another way, if 4chan blocked the UK, the UK would consider this development to be appropriate. UK might not cancel the penalty fine, but that's because the offence for which it has been issued has already occurred; after all, nobody gets out of an already-issued littering ticket during a holiday by returning to their home country.
by hedgehog | 2025-10-13 21:30:49+00:00
Yes, to expand: Both search and ads mean serving immense amounts of traffic and users while earning tiny amounts of revenue per unit of each. The dominant mid-90s model of buying racks of Sun and NetApp gear, writing big checks to Oracle, etc, would have been too expensive for Google. Instead they made a big investment in Linux running on large quantities of commodity x86 PC hardware, and building software on top of that to get the most out of it. That means things like combining workloads with different profiles onto the same servers, and cgroups kind of falls out of that.

Other companies like Yahoo, Whatsapp, Netflix also followed interesting patterns of using strong understanding of how to be efficient on cheap hardware. Notably those three all were FreeBSD users at least in their early days.
by EarlKing | 2025-10-13 21:30:53+00:00
Ofcom attempting to enforce it's laws upon a US-resident corporation that has no business presence in the United Kingdom is the very definition of affecting one's right to free speech in the United States. This is why the US has a rich history of case law to draw upon for defining personal jurisdiction. In this case, Ofcom is perhaps hoping to exploit uncertainty regarding personal jurisdiction to impose its law upon foreign citizens who otherwise have no business in the United Kingdom. So, yeah, it definitely affects a company's right to free speech in the US. It affects EVERYONE's right to free speech in the US, and it should not be dismissed simply because 4chan is the defendant.
by figassis | 2025-10-13 21:32:24+00:00
> I was always surprised someone didn't invent a tool for ftping to your container and updating the PHP

We thought of it, and were thankful that it was not obvious to our bosses, because lord forbid they would make it standard process and we would be right back where we started, with long lived images and filesystem changes, and hacks, and managing containers like pets.
by oschvr | 2025-10-13 21:32:55+00:00
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by ASalazarMX | 2025-10-13 21:33:02+00:00
> I don’t know about Lotus Organizer but by looking at it looks like replicating a notebook on a screen ?

Yes, basically. The use of desktop real state worked quite well with the small resolutions of the time, and the throughout use of the skeumorphic metaphor was very friendly. As I said, it might be nostalgy speaking, I'd have to run it again to see if its usability has aged well.

> You mean that you could choose from multiple pre-defined styles for a page ?

Precisely. An actual wooden desktop theme would be nice.
by tacker2000 | 2025-10-13 21:33:38+00:00
The author suggests that Docker doesnt help development and that devs just spin up databases, but I have to disagree with that and Im pretty sure i am not the only one.

All my projects (primarily web apps) are using docker compose which configures multiple containers (php/python/node runtime, nginx server, database, scheduler, etc) and run as a dev environment on my machine. The source code is mounted as a volume. This same compose file is then also used for the deployment to the production server (with minor changes that remove debug settings for example).

This approach has worked well for me as a solo dev creating web apps for my clients.

It has also enabled extreme flexibility in the stacks that I use, I can switch dev environments easily and quickly.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-10-13 21:33:39+00:00
> I don't see what point you're trying to make. Do you mean to claim that the Sveriges Riksbank is unbiased in who it chooses to give their price to?

I made no such claim. I don't take issue with that list: the US by far leads in number of high‐profile economic researchers, high publication output, large number of employed economists.

Just as Mathematics is still Mathematics in the rest of the world, the broad perspective on Economics is not meaningfully different in the rest of the world. Even if it originated in the anglo-sphere, it's global. That's the point I made.

> This "consensus" is completely made-up and propped up by, among others, the Sveriges Riksbank.

Leading Economists globally find consensus on all manner of policy issues. Many academic papers model the effects of tariffs on prices, welfare, and the consensus is that tariffs generally harm consumers. Surveys conducted on Economists show strong consensus there.

> because of course, as we all know, that's all there is besides Neoliberalism

It's not a long list. Even Social Democracy darlings of Europe are effectively just Liberal with a bit more spending. Incidentally, France is in deep trouble because of this. Their public spending as a % of GDP far exceeds peers.

> maybe start by Thomas Piketty's work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty

Piketty is decidedly heterodox, and I've read Capital in the 21st Century, though not his latest which as I understand revisits much of the same. Wealth taxes have been tried in several countries including Austria, and promptly dropped. That's because they do not work well. It's difficult to implement and the returns just aren't good.
by lisbbb | 2025-10-13 21:33:48+00:00
I loved the assertion that AI ate up all the budget and that K8s is now "boring" technology. That's fine because it was getting pretty annoying with all the clone competitors for practically everything that were popping up every month!

Do you use K8s? No! That's old! I use Thrumba! It's just a clone of K8s by some startup because people figured out that the easiest way to make gobs of money is/was to build platform products and then get people to use them.
by m463 | 2025-10-13 21:34:40+00:00
I played around with VMS and GOG and had a lot of fun doing it.

(not for everyone: gog has few AAA games, games are generally single-player offline games)

two independent VMs, never run at same time:

1) linux vm that runs lgogdownloader

https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

downloads all gog installers to a shared hd device

2) windows 11 vm (installed from windows 11 pro retail usb stick)

* vm has no network interface *

turned off all annoyances. "windows defender out-of-date" hardest to turn off

installed games from shared hd device from #1

play all games offline, no microsoft data collection, no "unity collects data", no worries.

for updates, boot linux vm, update repo on shared hd

for games, boot win 11 vm
by belter | 2025-10-13 21:35:06+00:00
That comparison collapses instantly. Physics has invariants...Economics does not. You can’t rerun the economy under controlled conditions, so “experiments” are mostly natural or quasi experiments...statistical patchwork with fragile assumptions.

Macroeconomics isn’t like astronomy :-) Stars don’t change behavior when you model them. Economies do. There are no stable primitives, no conservation laws, just shifting behavior and feedback loops.

DSGE models are equilibrium sandcastles calibrated to past data. In physics that’s failure while in macro it’s tenure.

Economics is interesting and sometimes useful but calling it an experimental science is self-flattery.

“One thing we are not going to have, now or ever, is a set of models that forecasts sudden falls in the value of financial assets.” -- Robert E. Lucas "As a policy-maker during the crisis, I found the available models of limited help. In fact, I would go further: in the face of the crisis, we felt abandoned by conventional tools." -- Jean-Claude Trichet - https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2010/html/sp101118.en.html "How Conventional Wisdom Failed Us" - https://youtu.be/c8LMWCko4d0?t=138
by Lerc | 2025-10-13 21:35:42+00:00
(This is a bit ranty, but due to a sincere desire for a better world, and being the recipient of personal attacks for believing a better world is achievable by a different path to others)

I feel like this point of view is an ideal not shared by one of the main branches of anti-AI sentiment.

The idea of intellectual property works against this. Rather than contributing to humanity directly, ownership of information is accumulated by individuals and then rented to humanity.

At the same time I agree that people should be able to have a livelihood that affords them the ability to create new intellectual contributions.

The service Karpathy is providing is also being provided by thousands of YouTube creators in a huge variety of topics. It's a little sad that so many must support their efforts with support their efforts with sponsorships from sources with varying degrees of ethical behaviour. Patreon is better but still not ideal. I sincerely believe this _is_ one of the best ways to contribute to society.

A recent Daily Show had Jon Stewart describe training AI as strip mining human knowledge. Training AI is regularly described as theft as if this position is a given without any counter argument possible. It is opinion masquerading as fact. This saddens me because it suggests to me that the war to control the narrative is being won by people who want to entrench a hypercapitalistic vision of ownership where not only is a particular expression of an idea ownable but also stakes a claim to own some of any ideas that come from viewing that expression.

I cannot see any way that this viewpoint would aid humanity as a whole, but instead assign benefits to a collection of individuals. The ability to trade intellectual property means that ownership inevitably gets passed to a smaller and smaller pool of individuals over time.

I think we really do need a new way to consider these issues in light of the modern world. When mentioning these thoughts to others a common refrain is that it doesn't matter because the powers that be (and their lobbyists) will prevent any fix from happening. I have never been fond of that particular fatalism, especially when it inhibits discussion of what would be better.
by NotPractical | 2025-10-13 21:35:53+00:00
You keep repeating this argument, but it doesn't hold up upon critical examination.

I already replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45512015

I think the reason you keep reiterating this is because once you realize that there is no legal justification to go after Google for this move under current US law, the only real solution becomes obvious: new legislation, and you really don't want that, because you know it will apply to Apple devices as well, which would be The End of the World.

If you want to see what the solution to this problem looks like, take a look at the bipartisan App Store Freedom Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3209...

(This is before Apple/Google lobbying efforts result in either the death of the bill or a bunch of exceptions allowing companies to do "notarization" or "developer verification".)
by nibles_and_bits | 2025-10-13 21:35:59+00:00
Really we don’t care.

My point was speak for yourself, the history does not suggest you are correct. Evidence economists do care[1][2][3]. Economics was still a relatively newer niche discipline[4].

[1] https://developingeconomics.org/2024/10/22/the-nobel-illusio...

[2] https://ideas.repec.org/b/pup/pbooks/10841.html

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/nobel-priz...

[4] https://cooperative-individualism.org/parrish-john_rise-of-e...
by recursivedoubts | 2025-10-13 21:36:16+00:00
Here is how I'm using it:

Do all the stuff you mention the old way. If I have a specific, crappy API that I have to deal with, I'll ask AI to generate the specific functionality I want with it (no more than a method or two). When it comes to testing, I'll write a few tests (some simple, some complicated) and then ask AI to generate a set of tests based on those examples. I then run and audit the tests to make sure they are sensible. I always end my prompts with "use the simplest, minimal code possible"

I am mostly keeping the joy of programming while still being more productive in areas I'm not great at (exhaustive testing, having patience with crappy APIs)

Not world changing, but it has increased my productivity I think.
by lunias | 2025-10-13 21:36:33+00:00
> the amount of memory that gets copied is miniscule per process

This is what is not always true. Sometimes you have a processing context that is GB in size, in which case scaling via multiple processes is not as simple as if you had access to threads that share that context by design. You will run out of memory really quickly if you spin up enough processes, and even if you have unlimited RAM you could have used 1/nth the memory. If you implement some method of sharing memory between processes to consume less overall, it will still come at the expense of speed and complexity.

> Forgetting the main class there

In Java 21+ you can omit it:

void main() { System.out.println("Hello, World!"); }

But this is neither here nor there, I think it's well worth paying that tax. You only type it once, right?
by aucisson_masque | 2025-10-13 21:36:35+00:00
I have this profound disgusting feeling when I think I'm going to have to ask Google to validate which app I am allowed to install on the phone I paid freaking money to get !

This is not about open source, the government being able to ban apps, or anything else but a principle.

I'm not a child and Google is definitely not an authority respectable enough to tell me what I can't install. They have lied, been sued countless times, had to pay billions of fines,..

At this point, there are 2 alternatives : iphone, grapheneos (don't even start with Linux phone).

Iphone suck just as bad on that matter but at least the software is more suited to professionals, it's not as half ass done as Google software.

Grapheneos, it runs just fine 99% of the time but these last 1% can be so annoying. Like how they disable face unlock, or how some apps refuse to work because of play integrity.

My last hope is that the eu will come once again to the rescue and bring the mfcker at Google who came up with this idea back to earth.

That or ban Google Android version and make an European Android alternative funded and developed by a consortium of tech companies that want to sell phone in Europe.

After all, Europe is even a more interesting market than the usa.
by ktpsns | 2025-10-13 21:36:41+00:00
AI is a big equalizer. People like it because it brings us, as humans, in sync. That's a long standing narrative of the Internet in general.

And yet subcultures exist in the Internet, with their own codes (both in cultural and programmatic way). AI won't affect them, but probably marginalize them even further.

Frankly I personally think AI is a bubble so the problem solved itself anyway ;-)
by npsomaratna | 2025-10-13 21:37:11+00:00
On the topic of professions: Joseph Lister was a surgeon. Modern surgery (which I define as surgery aided by anesthesia) is a relatively recent discipline dating to the early 19th century. The introduction of anesthesia made lengthy and intricate operations possible but also ushered in novel problems and complications. Surgery as a field had to learn tough lessons over time.
by workworkwork71 | 2025-10-13 21:37:35+00:00
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by HSO | 2025-10-13 21:37:50+00:00
> the CCP explicitly considers themselves Marxism-Leninism with and their internal beliefs and government structure is structurally follows that.

> they consider themselves Communist. They do not consider us Communist.

And you know all this because of your deep study, in the original language of course, of the CPC, their internal factions, and the collected writings in their leading policy journals, I assume, yes?

Or dare I even ask did you get this from some 250 word limit editorial in the "wall street journal"?
by corimaith | 2025-10-13 21:38:02+00:00
This is a tired talking point. If the EU stopped those imports abruptly they'd blow up their own economies and there would be chaos on the streets.

It is stupid that they put themselves in that position, but they've also greatly reduced their dependency as the war progressed.

With the current trade war and their own domestic troubles, China cannot afford to alienate other foreign markets, hence why this is the prime time to drive concessions against them.
by NicoJuicy | 2025-10-13 21:38:36+00:00
There are only about 3200 jobs in Augsburg (Germany), it's HQ?

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/KUKA-AG-436260/ne...

Note: Looking for more information about the distribution of jobs atm ( countries). But it's hard to find. Any resources?

But you're right. They still have jobs there, I didn't knew that.

Note: This is about the law Germany created afterwards: https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/alerts/germany-tightens...
by ben_w | 2025-10-13 21:38:44+00:00
I believe the order of escalation here is:

1) Identify non-compliance or risk

2) officially request information from the website

3) wait for reply

4) formal enforcement proceedings: a fine and prep for court action (they are here)

5) convince a court to order the site to be blocked

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...

Note that they themselves say there:

Where appropriate, in the most serious cases, we can seek a court order for ‘business disruption measures’, such as requiring payment providers or advertisers to withdraw their services from a platform, or requiring Internet Service Providers to block access to a site in the UK.

That sounds to me like they consider curtailing speech by blocking a website to be one of the last things to try, not the first.