MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rglullis | 2025-10-22 09:45:01+00:00
I have a 160TB minio cluster running for 4+ years who had dealt beautifully with node outages, one drive failure and the occassional hiccups on the datacenter.

I was okay with not having support because I am not part of their customer base. I was okay with not having the webUI, though I wish they made an option where the webUI would be available for some basic-tier paid customers. But I can not be okay with this move. They are just giving the finger to all the community. They never tried to work out a solution that could let smaller users to contribute or support.

I will seriously have to consider moving to Hetzner object storage.
by sjw987 | 2025-10-22 09:45:21+00:00
Interesting article.

Personally, I can't begin to theorise what the best way forward is. A Universal Basic Income system always sounds great, but where the funding comes from and what effect it's implementation would have, what effect it would have on peoples aspirations, I can't begin to piece it all together.

You always hear people in work say that if they didn't have to work so much, they would do x, be y, practice more z. However various events (notably for me, Coronavirus furlough beyond the initial lockdowns in the UK) show that this rarely materialises. There is simply too many distractions in most peoples lives (many being products of capitalism, like our beloved tech industry which is 90% distraction economy).

On the other hand, our current system is one in which many people who don't really want to work are made to work, or people have to work in jobs they don't like and they do the least required. I've worked alongside terrible colleagues. Something like UBI would at least get people like this to piss off out of the workforce and make space for somebody who actually somewhat cared about the job. I get the "minimum wage, minimum effort" phrase, but these people aren't holding minimum wage jobs. The national productivity (notoriously bad in the UK) would be much better if those who wanted to work did so, and those who didn't want to could just live off of a UBI.

On the other hand, maybe I'm becoming more pessimistic, but I think we just have tons of companies offering redundant products and services, whose existence only really serves to worsen the environment, individual health and the health of society. I understand that under full capitalism all of these things are viable product and they serve to offer choice and competition, but a supermarket is now roughly 50-50 real food and junk (plus variations of junk). We're dealing with high levels of food and substance abuse, high levels of media and technology overuse. As a programmer, whenever I see a new app or website become popular, a lot of the time the first thing I think is "why".

I feel personally, and I may be wrong, the only way to fix any of this is to dial it back (degrowth), implement a UBI and to change a huge amount of people's standards and expectations, which I know probably sounds radical.

The way we live right now, largely as a result of the products of capitalism, is not right. It's not right to chug Coca Cola as if it is water, it's not right to spend hours every day staring at pointless content on glowing rectangles, and it's not right that we all eat and consume as much resources as possible while exercising and outputting as little as possible. Our sources of entertainment are superficial and the long term victim of all of it is, is our physical and mental health, as well as our time and the quality of the environment we live in.
by aatd86 | 2025-10-22 09:45:25+00:00
Yes, that'a bit too late after ten+ years perhaps but I wished we had a nil type and checking whether the interface is empty was a type assertion. In all other cases, like any(2) == 2, we compare the values.

Then again that would mean that the nil identifier would be coerced into a typed nil and we would check for the nilness of what is inside an interface in any(somepointer) == nil.

wrt the current behavior, it also makes sense to have a nil value that remains untyped. But in many other cases we do have that automatic inference/coercion, for instance when we set a pointer to nil.(p = nil)

That's quite subtle and that ship has sailed though.
by adamcharnock | 2025-10-22 09:45:26+00:00
We're working on a binary build process now. We hope to have something up at https://github.com/golithus soon.

We use MinIO (community edition) a fair amount. And while we like it, it is also becoming increasingly clear that our days of deploying are numbered.

We want to start experimenting with Garage for smaller deployments, and would be interesting to hear of any production experiences there. (Anyone done multi-PiB deployments?)

Other than that we're going to start looking at Ceph/Rook for larger deployments.
by lucideer | 2025-10-22 09:46:05+00:00
> This is ideal for homelab environments where you want to expose services to the internet without a persistent VPN connection, while minimizing your public-facing attack surface.

To an untrained eye, the wording here could be construed to imply that this is more secure than a VPN. Might be worth a reword to clarify why one might prefer it want to over a VPN.
by jealousgelatin | 2025-10-22 09:46:08+00:00
Ui looks nice mate! I’d consider myself an eternally intermediate guitar player. Hit a level of competence and haven’t had the time/drive to move past it. Slightly unrelated, but I’ve always found the current ear training apps to not really translate to helping me pick out songs by ear.

I’ve always wanted an app that focuses more on learning songs by ear, finding the root not and chords/melodies, vs just isolated interval recognition. I’d love to improve at this while on the train which an app would be great for.

I’ve tried: Functional Ear, Earpeggio, and Perfect Ear. Functional ear is my favorite but I find it isn’t translating into my jam sessions.
by simiones | 2025-10-22 09:46:36+00:00
Let me dissect the frog:

1. The lumberjack song (I'm a lumberjack and that's ok) is a Monty Python sketch [0]

2. The song goes from the singer being proud he's a lumberjack to being proud that he puts on women's clothing and hangs around in bars, and wishes he were a girlie (just like his dear papa)

3. Trump and his administration is famously anti-trans and anti-drag

4. The current secretary of transportation was a lumberjack before

So, overall, the joke is that the secretary of transportation was a lumberjack, which has this comedic queer association because of the Monty Python sketch, that Trump would hate.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts
by jamesbelchamber | 2025-10-22 09:47:10+00:00
I guess at least they're being honest, but I would agree - there's a large delta between Al-assistance and Al-driven, and "vibe coding" is one step further (just accepting everything Al does without critique, so long as it "works").

Great for prototyping, really bad for exposing anything of any value to the internet.

(Not Anti-Al, just pro-sensible)
by igor47 | 2025-10-22 09:48:43+00:00
Hmmm. Interesting prediction. I think even on social media, the consensus is still shaky, and social media is an unalloyed bad IMHO. I think personal cars impacted our lives in a deeply negative way but most people disagree. There is really no consensus on LLMs right now, I think if they stagnate this is where the discourse will stagnate also.

More likely, like other tools, it will be possible to point to clear harms and clear benefits, and people will disagree about the overall impact.
by yawpitch | 2025-10-22 09:49:14+00:00
When I was in highschool and editor of my school newspaper I got an email declaring, with proof about twice as long as this article, that I was fifth in line to be the Antichrist, after Saddam Hussein, George H. W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, and for some bizarre reason Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali.

They’re all dead, of course. Hmm.
by seec | 2025-10-22 09:49:14+00:00
Yeah, "Windows 11 is bad" is a meme at this point (you can buy the Pro version if you are an advanced user and then it's mostly fine).

macOS and much of the Apple software is just as bad if not more nowadays. They constantly push their service crap and what used to be pretty good apps for users to manage their stuff are now just shell to use their overpriced services.

The destruction of iTunes into Apple Music is a disgrace. iTunes was actually pretty good software; probably the best music library management software that isn't professional software (at some point I had a 100K+ tracks libs and used the thing extensively as a database for DJing with CDS). Apple Music is just bad; there are some commonalities with iTunes but it just doesn't work the same and don't even feel the same (so godamm laggy).
by gbxk | 2025-10-22 09:50:03+00:00
Thanks! I'll review Arrakis and come back. E2B is often considered harder to setup and less AI engineers friendly for direct stack contributions, as Katakate is the only alternative fully implemented in Python (core modules, Typer CLI, FastAPI, Python SDK).

Our native K8s support and exposition of K8s API also makes it friendly to devops.

Finally, our deploy/infra stack is lean and tightly fits in a single Ansible playbook, which makes it easy to understand and contribute to, letting you rapidly gain full understanding and ownership of the stack.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-22 09:50:44+00:00
> One can only dream about such a judicial system that puts criminals behind the bars even if they are very very VIP. Rule of law is what makes the difference between real democracies and AliExpress ones.

Unfortunately, the trend for more rule based order has reversed. European governments are all struggling when the "who cares about rules" governments are full steam ahead. Even if they have net negative approval, they have plenty of fanatical supporters, they hold full narrative control through the media which is owned by their super rich allies. Oh and by the way this is happening because the "rule based world" folks screwed up and weren't fair either.

It's going to be worse before it gets better. The west is going through a phase and all I hope is that would be too destructive. Thankfully, the world isn't made just from "the west", so I guess its not the end for the humanity - yet.
by lucideer | 2025-10-22 09:51:13+00:00
If you're running a homelab, the likelihood that you're interested in removing cloud-dependencies from your stack is above average. If that's the case, Tailscale is out.

Tailscale is just an added unnecessary external dependency layer (& security attack surface) on top of vanilla Wireguard. And in 2025 it's easier to run vanilla Wireguard than it's ever been.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-22 09:51:20+00:00
> It might be confrontational, but that doesn't really matter does it?

> Might Greenland be better off as a U.S. territory than as a Danish territory? Quite possibly!

That there are Americans with this line of thinking just showcases how out of bounds the US have become. This isn't the way of thinking for a peaceful and cooperative world, this is the thinking of imperialism.

I'm ashamed of sharing this same space with people with no respect or regards to sovereignty and actual humans living in places. I'm happy you can freely express it, and I'm happy people have different opinions and perspectives, but some perspectives are so fucked up I lose hope sometimes. I truly hope you can eventually see things from a less violent perspective, god speed.
by johnjames87 | 2025-10-22 09:51:22+00:00
Even Piers Morgan acknowledged that that "salute" was a "my heart goes out to you" and not a nazi salute, but with the latent tribalism we have in politics, I'm sure you will refuse to even consider that as a possibility. And the comparison with pol pot is just downright dumb. Elon Musk as always been pro freedom.
by mathw | 2025-10-22 09:51:33+00:00
True, however if you want to be great on the world stage and have people look at you and say "wow they can do amazing things" I'm not sure landing on the moon really has much value. The obsession with beating China there this generation is certainly not very healthy, especially when it's built on a moon landing system that was primarily designed to keep space shuttle contractors in business.

Want to impress the world? End poverty. Advance cancer treatment. Build a viable nuclear fusion power plant. Make an HIV vaccine and sell it affordably across the world. We could be done with the Cold War-era rocket-waving.
by balamatom | 2025-10-22 09:51:35+00:00
>is both annoying and self-defeating

No brother. You are the one being annoyed by it, because you are the one doing nothing about it.

>What would you like me to do about that? Is me refusing to use the tools going to change that possibility?

What I know I refused 'em out of principle, turns out I'm doing fine. I also know for certain that had I not refused them, I would not be doing fine.

>to hang onto a good life as long as I can have it.

Trick question: do you think you deserve a good life?

What if there isn't enough good life for everyone, do you deserve it more than others?

Than which ones then?

>collective whinging

And this is why I think you don't.

The moment you began to perceive mass dissent as "collective whinging" was the moment the totalitarian singularity won you over.

And then it's an entirely different conversation, conducted by entirely different means of expression.
by greatgib | 2025-10-22 09:51:40+00:00
Just to be clear, here the law is just respected. He was the one that pushed the regulations for that. It was a big part of his political speech to say that law should be hard, rules should be enforced for people in his situation to do mandatory time with a very strict justice.

But now he is also the subject of his own policies and it does not like that. Looks like justice is ok just when it is not affecting him personally.

His attitude is totally disgusting and indecent.
by jbstack | 2025-10-22 09:51:45+00:00
I'm curious how people go about finding safe sources for something like LSD (to be clear I'm not asking for anyone to give specific details, just an explanation). While psilocybin is easy to try safely (just travel to a place where it is legal), LSD is illegal in every jurisdiction as far as I know. The thought of ingesting some substance from dubious sources, that could be contaminated with absolutely anything, terrifies me and I honestly don't know how people bring themselves to take this kind of risk. Am I missing the point and there is some safe underground supply chain for this sort of thing?
by godelski | 2025-10-22 09:51:53+00:00
From the wiki I linked

> Generally, speakers of the three largest Scandinavian languages can read each other's languages without great difficulty. The primary obstacles to mutual comprehension are differences in pronunciation. > In general, Danish and Norwegian speakers will be able to understand the other's language ***after only a little instruction or exposure***

Emphasis my own. The wiki goes on to discuss large variations and regional issues that can make understanding even harder.

The claim is not that they understand one another in a zero-shot setting, but they do need exposure and training. They are different languages. Mutually intelligible is a spectrum, not a binary thing (as would be requisite from the original comment).
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-22 09:52:01+00:00
In the 90s people were just worried about delivery. Connection speeds were slow, the browsers were less capable, standards were fragmented, online interactive media was expensive. People just had to figure it out, and they did.

Now those problems are gone. The big problem now is people. Most people writing the code to deliver content online are over paid and grossly incapable. Maybe if you give them 150mb in dependencies, 10x more time, and lots of false praise they can deliver a few lines in text using a giant framework.

What’s next in the coming 30 years? Putting text on screen in a web browser is becoming far too expensive. Businesses will have to consider their options, like alternate formats. One thing we do know is that they will not train their employees unless all other options are exhausted.
by jollyjerry | 2025-10-22 09:52:46+00:00
I was just chatting with a friend how it hadn't changed in years, but there's a new beta when I opened it up.

- dark mode

- 3-column responsive layout, interesting it hides the watchlist

- like the view transitions for expanding content

- improved charting

- removed portfolio and holdings. Likely unpopular, but I thought it was a good way to track investments across banks without a 3rd party aggregator
by yaris | 2025-10-22 09:55:30+00:00
The authentication part does not look much different from password authentication (key ≈ password), and the "Configurable TTL" bit is somewhat confusing, the first part of the sentence assigns the TTL to API keys but the second part says it applies to IPs being whitelisted. I would expect that TTL for a key means that after the TTL expires the key itself becomes unusable.
by ColinWright | 2025-10-22 09:55:32+00:00
Quoting from the post:

> "It's our best theory of elementary particles and forces. It's absolutely amazing: it took centuries of genius to discover that the world is like this, and it's absolutely shocking. But nobody believes it's the last word, so we simply call it The Standard Model.

> "But what does this theory say? I'll try to explain part of it in this series of videos. I begin by introducing the cast of characters - the particles.

> "If you have questions, please ask - either here or on YouTube!"
by impossiblefork | 2025-10-22 09:55:46+00:00
Actually, as someone who dislikes capitalism, I don't like UBI. I think UBI is something which allows capitalism to continue even after it's sell-by-date. Historically, like a couple of years ago, my view wasn't weird among critics of capitalism either. We saw UBI as a liberal stabilization policy.

Sort of like how public education too, is a policy that is straight-up communism 'to each according to his need', and something which is required in order to stabilize a capitalist system.

But I don't want communism. I want socialism 'to each according to his contribution'. Of course, the Marxists believe that that's just a temporary phase and will fade away into communism, but I think you can get many kinds of communism, some rather bad, and although I don't agree with the Marxists on this point, and want socialism for itself, I also think the path through a 'to each according to his contribution' phase is likely to lead to better kinds of communism than what you'd out of a stabilized capitalism that ends up adopting more and more elements of communism to stabilize itself.
by clan | 2025-10-22 09:56:11+00:00
I sort of get your point. But it is not a given.

Everybody tries to maximize their budgets.

Less taxes is not the default. You will most likely get something else.

When extractive profits is involved you will never get a cheaper bridge unless there is fierce competition. Tenders are narrowly defined so you do not see the offers that you can build 2 bridges for the price of one.

In good markets governments keep the bridge building market hot enough so you have the supply ready for the next large projects. That is what keeps the price of big infrastructure projects down.

Hence there is a very good argument for not simply returning the tax dollars.

I do believe in Free markets. But I do believe in good governance as well.

A good example around here is that the knowledge and lessons learned from building the Storebælt Link[0] made the Oresund bridge[1] get in pretty much on budget. Whereas German political fuckery delayed the Fehmarn belt project[2] and will go hugely over budget both due to missing momentum but also due to inflation

[0] https://sundogbaelt.dk/en/about-us/finance-economics/constru... [1] https://sundogbaelt.dk/en/about-us/finance-economics/constru... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_fixed_link
by phatfish | 2025-10-22 09:56:16+00:00
> He doesn't take options off the table because it automatically weakens your negotiation position.

With the notable exception of dealing with Russia...

See the recent threat to allow Ukraine use of Tomahawk missiles. Taken off the table after Putin made a hurried call, and now Putin has lost interest in negotiations, again.

Trump has success "negotiating" with a regional terror group already almost bombed out of existence. He seems to blink first rather a lot when faced with an actual danger to the US.
by seec | 2025-10-22 09:56:31+00:00
I run Windows 11 unofficially on hardware from 2014, it was relatively high-end but it runs just fine (in fact it feels snappier than some modern systems).

If you try to run the latest OS on dirt cheap hardware, it's going to run bad no matter what. Macs are not immune to this, in fact they are much more susceptible to it.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-22 09:58:40+00:00
> Greenland decision was political not technical to pay x5 more for x10 slower service.

I dunno, is "bus factor" a political or technical thing to consider? How about "did the country of this business threaten us before?" a technical or political consideration?

Personally, I'd try to stay away from entities I can't rely on, on a technical basis. Based on the article, it seems like Greenland traded stability and resilience for performance and price, doesn't seem political.
by michael-0acf4 | 2025-10-22 09:59:58+00:00
I think one hot/multi hot encoding might have worked if lexicographic inconsistency is the issue.

Labeling can be done by asking the LLMs to label each tweet from a predefined set of labels, the order doesn’t matter. We can generate these labels either manually or by sampling a small subset of tweets and asking the LLM to tag them (we could be using a word dictionary too). From these labels, we can form a Label-length vector whose entries are sorted alphabetically (ordering is arbitrary but must be consistent).

To populate it, we ask the LLM to tag each tweet by restricting its JSON output to enums composed of our labels. From that, we can form hot vectors, effectively embedding and tagging each tweet at the same time.

We get tags for "free", and as a byproduct, we also get a vector embedding that can be further refined using techniques such as PCA, then you can cosim as usual. The main cost resides mainly on asking the LLM to label each tweet from the predefined set of tags, you can also micro-optimize that by batching prompts ig.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-22 10:00:10+00:00
>> would you feel common ground with a predatory fish? Or a plant? An insect colony?

> Yes.

> Humans famously show compassion for all of these.

But alligators rarely show compassion for humans, barracudas are not known for saving drowning babies and plants frequently show no compassion to anything.

IOW, Alien life might resemble alligator mindsets more than human ones. We don't know.
by jojobas | 2025-10-22 10:00:25+00:00
1) If a signal is detected, not having a protocol for another 20 years would not make any difference, who cares if the response comes in 10000 years or 10020?

Then again, assuming the origin and wavelength is published, sending some gigawatt pulses is feasible even for private rogues today, and scientists keeping it secret appears even more sinister.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-22 10:00:46+00:00
> How did we get to a time when clicking back in the browser makes a website show a bunch

"How" I'm not sure about, but it's been like that for decades at this point, so if you haven't yet adapted and started filtering out that stuff, that's kind of on you. Install a adblocker and be done with it already :)