MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-10-13 15:09:59+00:00
Primarily, docker isn't isolation. Where isolation is important, VMs are just better.

Outside of that:

Docker & k8s are great for sharing resources, VMs allow you to explicitly not share resources.

VMs can be simpler to backup, restore, migrate.

Some software only runs in VMs.

Passing through displays, USB devices, PCI devices, network interfaces etc. often works better with a VM than with Docker.

For my setup, I have a handful of VMs and dozens of containers. I have a proxmox cluster with the VMs, and some of the VMs are Talos nodes, which is my K8s cluster, which has my containers. Separately I have a zimaboard with the pfsense & reverse proxy for my cluster, and another machine with pfsense as my home router.

My primary networking is done on dedicated boxes for isolation (not performance).

My VMs run: plex, home assistant, my backup orchestrator, and a few windows test hosts. This is because:

- The windows test hosts don't containerise well; I'd rather containerise them. - plex has a dedicated network port and storage device, which is simpler to set up this way. - Home Assistant uses a specific USB port & device, which is simpler to set up this way. - I don't want plex, home assistant, or the backup orchestrator to be affected by issues relating to my other services / k8s. These are the services where small transient or temporary issues would impact the whole household.

Also note, I don't use the proxmox container support (I use talos) for two reasons. 1 - I prefer k8s to manage services. 2 - the isolation boundary is better.
by StackBPoppin | 2025-10-13 15:10:07+00:00
A reality-bending anomaly game where you are the anomaly: as you interact with items in your environment, you may notice some anomalies. Moving a cookie jar opens the fridge door. Closing the fridge door makes a painting on the wall shrink, and rotating that painting switches the lights on.

The idea is for the game to make logical sense, but make the player sound completely unhinged from reality "I need to put the toaster on top of the oven to make the lamp spin around, that way I can move the lamp across the room near the couch to unlock the next level"
by dewey | 2025-10-13 15:10:12+00:00
That's a lot of assumptions unless you know their internal numbers and customer feedback. I've talked to many people building products and often they themselves are surprised what's needed to get certain larger customers, even if they would never use certain features themselves.

I could very easily imagine that if a company wants to switch over their employees from another provider where the users had an app that had email / calendar /contacts all in one app that they would like to have that same setup again on Fastmail. In the end packaging their web app in a wrapper to satisfy that need of certain customers groups doesn't seem like something that should be very controversial.
by EdNutting | 2025-10-13 15:10:55+00:00
Oh dear, I hadn't realised Bristol Uni had broken the link. That paper has some information, as well as my UG thesis: https://ia600408.us.archive.org/22/items/archive_IHGC/Thesis...

Yeah the current closed nature of OMA means there's limited information at present. I am working on publishing more over the next year. It is essential the wider community starts to get access to at least the modified RISC-V ISA, to independently validate the security claims.
by otter-in-a-suit | 2025-10-13 15:11:02+00:00
Proxmox is essentially a clustered hypervisor (a KVM wrapper, really). It has some overlap with K8s (via containers), but is simpler for what I do and has some very nice features, namely around backups, redundancy/HA, hardware passthrough, and the fact that it has a usable GUI.

I also use K8s at work, so this is a nice contrast to use something else for my home lab experiments. And tbh, I often find that if I want something done (or something breaks), muscle-memory-Linux-things come back to me a lot quicker than some obscure K8s incantation, but I suppose that's just my personal bias.

Several of my VMs (which are very different than containers, obviously - even though I believe VMs on K8s _can_ be a thing...) run (multiple) docker containers.
by h4ch1 | 2025-10-13 15:11:50+00:00
Verso just got archived :(

As the project progressed, multiple significant revisions to Servo were released, and the Verso browser was unable to keep pace with these updates due to limited manpower and funding. Therefore, we will be archiving the repository for now and look forward to a future opportunity to revitalize the project and continue contributing to the Servo ecosystem. [0]

[0] https://github.com/versotile-org/verso
by kijin | 2025-10-13 15:12:12+00:00
Reusing dishes that were served to another customer is absolutely illegal and carries significant penalties if caught. The problem, of course, is that it's difficult to catch.

Many middle-aged and older customers have a habit of mixing up leftover vegetables after a meal, and they encourage others to do so. The idea is that if everyone does the same, the restaurant can't reuse any dishes.

Meanwhile, honest restaurant owners want to assure customers that the their dishes are new. So they serve food in a way that will make it very obvious if it was reused. For example, kimchi is often served in long (~30cm) slices, so that customers will have to cut them themselves, as if breaking a seal.
by api | 2025-10-13 15:12:35+00:00
Yet it’s a mistake companies and societies repeatedly make, because human brains are wired for zero sum games and paranoia. When you have it, the instinct is to clutch and guard and hoard not grow and expand.

When a company or a society is threatened the usual response is to double down on things that accelerate decline like killing novelty and innovation.

These things worked when we were small primates fighting over limited food sources on the savannah. Our brain stems don’t know what millennium they are in and still run those programs.
by 7thaccount | 2025-10-13 15:12:37+00:00
On one hand, sure. They're able to make an informed decision to maximize return to shareholders.

On the other hand, a ton of amazing inventions came out of that system which created entire industries that went on to turbocharge the economy and create millions of jobs. I can see how someone may feel that a company being able to inflate it's stock price more is less useful to humanity and not worth the trade.

There may have been other reasons as well for the collapse of corporate research like changing tax rates, or maybe we were just in a golden age (1940s-1980s) as new advancements in physics and materials science allowed for a rapid amount of discoveries and now we're back in a slower period.
by cornholio | 2025-10-13 15:12:45+00:00
The trait of caring and providing for other injured or vulnerable members of the group is widespread in the animal kingdom, there is even a name for it, allocare. Since social groups usually form based on family kinship, it can be explained on selfish gene dynamics.

So the argument was always gradual, not that social care is unique to civilization, but that it happens to an extent (such as the very long recovery period and food resources required to heal a femur) that we can arbitrarily call "civilization".

On the other hand, you could stretch that Scotsman in the opposite direction: do we really provide enough care to other people to the point we are different from animals and can claim ourselves truly civilized?
by anonymars | 2025-10-13 15:13:10+00:00
I thought this topic was about energy gained and lost during a go-around. If velocity was V and altitude was H before the go-around, and velocity and altitude are again the same V and H after the go-around, then it follows that all the potential energy that was accumulated during the go-around (from converting fuel into altitude) has been dissipated (lost). Otherwise V would be higher the second time.
by graypegg | 2025-10-13 15:13:30+00:00
> The first way is to not have recommendation media (think Instagram, TikTok, and all the rest). I'm pro deleting these accounts completely, because it's really easy to re-download the apps on a whim, or *visit them in-browser.*

Tiktok having a borderline unusable web app has done wonders for me. I'll end up on it because someone sent me a link, I can watch that ONE video, a single time, before normally I get a spot-the-boat style captcha or an "install the app" modal. Even trying to get past that point, it feels like the site is somehow falling apart at the seams as you navigate around. I know the concept is "well people will install the app then" but that's also annoyingly frictionful.

They unintentionally made the most literal social media experience: some one sends me media, I watch it once, I leave before the site crumbles to pieces like an ancient tomb that was only held together by a load-bearing dog video.
by leakycap | 2025-10-13 15:13:38+00:00
YouTube made public "Shorts" automatically out of some unlisted videos on my account, which was very confusing. They were memorial slideshow videos, so not something you'd want a Short of anyway, but could have been a privacy nightmare for others.

That said, why is every Linus-related coverage for the last 5 years about him complaining or someone quitting? You'd think they'd generate other coverage now and then.
by bluGill | 2025-10-13 15:13:43+00:00
There is the idea sometimes stated that because child mortality was so high in the past parents had kids but avoided loving them - because odds were against the child living past 5 and if you love your kids you then have heartbreak when they die.

Historians disagree with that idea (at least for most cultures?). However I've heard it more than once. This just gives more data to the idea that humans loved each other enough to take care of injured.
by bediger4000 | 2025-10-13 15:13:50+00:00
Walnut Creek did issue a free software CD-ROM March, 1994, that has mgr on it.

https://archive.org/details/Source_Code_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_...

I can't find an overall mgr version, that seems to not have been a concept. The entire distribution is on 61 "shar" files, which can be undone even today, 37 years after the code appeared on Usenet:

SOME NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF MGR AS DONE THROUGH THE USENET NEWSGROUP COMP.SOURCES.UNIX

--Rich $alz, Thu Nov 17 20:59:01 EST 1988 This is the largest posting to ever appear in comp.sources.unix; I think it's worth it. Stephen has been very patient about getting this out. .....
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-13 15:14:11+00:00
No. I'm paraphrasing a comment from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Liberalism_Failed. (A very important book no matter what part of the political spectrum you are on; even if you disagree with the author's opinions. See Obama's quote in the above link.) The author is the kind of conservative who values a family getting together and singing.

Basically, my point is that the attitude of phrases like "unintentionally teaching our children to consume music passively" always forget that the thing we're criticizing had the same criticisms in the past. IE, the whole concept of prerecorded music taught our parents and grandparents to consume music passively.
by adamors | 2025-10-13 15:14:24+00:00
It's not about green policies, it's about Germany getting rid of its nuclear reactors after Fukushima and getting addicted to cheap Russian gas. Now that the latter is verboten their entire industry is in shambles. This is all Merkel giving in to populists instead of listening to scientists and trying to play nice with Putin.

> Germany could have kept the existing nuclear power in 2002 and possibly invest in new nuclear capacity. The analysis of these two alternatives shows that Germany could have reached its climate gas emission target by achieving a 73% cut in emissions on top of the achievements in 2022 and simultaneously cut the spending in half compared to Energiewende. Thus, Germany should have adopted an energy policy based on keeping and expanding nuclear power.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14786451.2024.2...
Show HN: Digital Accessibility Workflow Platform
by jztan | 2025-10-13 15:14:35+00:00
Most accessibility testing tools only scratch the surface. They flag basic WCAG issues but miss the real-world challenges users face, especially around neurodiversity, keyboard navigation, and screen readers.

TestParty.ai is a digital accessibility platform that uses AI to scan production, preview, and development environments. We support sitemap imports, user interaction steps, and end-to-end test imports so teams can validate accessibility across actual user flows — not just static pages.

We also provide screenshots, advanced rulesets, and detailed reports to help engineering and design teams move beyond checkbox compliance. The goal: make accessibility testing continuous, integrated, and useful at scale.

Would love feedback from any indie developers — what’s missing for you to always scan for accessibility and make it a no-brainer?
by tomxor | 2025-10-13 15:15:20+00:00
btop is a worthy and missing contender.

It looks quite fancy but I actually like it more for it's functionality, particularly it's tree view for navigating the processes list. I'm not a big fan of full multicolor in these kinds of tools and so appreciate how easy it is to flip to grey scale mode from the built in colour schemes (even from the TUI settings menu).
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-13 15:15:22+00:00
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/us-electricity-2025...

https://seia.org/state-solar-policy/california-solar/

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/US-CAL-CISO/
by IshKebab | 2025-10-13 15:16:01+00:00
> You can write slow unmaintainable brittle garbage in any language though.

Sure. You can drive really slowly in a sports car. But if you're looking for travel options for a long distance journey are you going to pick the sports car or the bicycle.

Also I have actually yet to find slow unmaintainable brittle garbage written in Go or Rust. I'm sure it's possible but it's vastly less likely.
by jfengel | 2025-10-13 15:16:12+00:00
That's the thing. I'm not a militant left winger. I'm part of the Democratic mainstream that the left wingers call right wing, and they're probably correct. I'd be considered center-right in most European countries. I am very angry at that segment of the left who won't vote for Democrats and instead leave us with literal fascists.

And yet they are still more likely allies than Republican "centrists". They just voted for a felon and an insurrectionist. They knew that he was incompetent, stupid, and deliberately hostile. They voted for him because he's not the Democrat.

I will not be able to change their minds. Any candidate I vote for will always be their enemy. They're not just waiting for a kind word from me to put that hostility behind them and be nice centrist friends.

The Democratic party still has not accepted that. And they will continue to lose.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-13 15:16:20+00:00
High plains Nebraska land can support cattle grazing or maybe a wheat crop, given they receive less than 10” of rain per year.

Nobody is converting irrigated Ogallala aquifer farmland to solar fields, they’re taking marginal land used for grazing and using that for solar fields. Productive farmland can have wind turbines within it, due to the smaller footprint of the turbine tower.

Productive farmland is $10k+ an acre, more if it’s irrigated. The cost of rural land is based on the economic rents/value that can be extracted from the land.
by kittensmittens5 | 2025-10-13 15:16:23+00:00
This isn't true. Also the book "Sapiens" goes a bit into how cruel ancient humans in the Americas would be to some of the weaker offspring. So it's not 'new' in the sense of last few thousand years either. I think there's been a lot of personalities and cultures over the last 300k years that approach this differently.
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-10-13 15:16:25+00:00
I remember reading about tribes in Indonesia who when someone got too old/slow, they'd kill them. They were living on the edge of existence, and either everyone was on form, or the group didn't survive. In that context, it was presented as a caring act for the group. A bit different context to the original thread, but an example of why a group may do what outwardly seems a little surprising.
by seemaze | 2025-10-13 15:16:30+00:00
If you live in a moderately dense area or know a neighbor who also has a weather station, you might try the command line utility rtl_433[0] mentioned in the article with an SDR dongle to pick up existing broadcasts in your area. I pick up three different stations consistently!

[0]https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433
by righthand | 2025-10-13 15:16:51+00:00
> Demand that the titans of tech change, and if they don't, stop feeding them your dollars.

Haha okay. Have you met people? Have you seen what they’re using it for? The users of LLMs do not care if they have to pay some of their wages to avoid working and learning. Even if it means they will no longer receives wages (or even close to the same wages) in the long term.
by Someone1234 | 2025-10-13 15:17:47+00:00
You're starting out with an assumption, that this is an OTA update for the infotainment system, and then conclude this incident shouldn't be possible. The problem is the assumption.

This is a OTA vehicle update. It has the ability to update the infotainment, ECU, ECM, TCM, and BCM. Multiple manufacturers have been able to release recalls that fix major vehicle defects (safety, reliability, and performance). That wouldn't be possible without OTA updates that update core vehicle computer systems.

Unclear where this idea that OTA = Infotainment came from. I'd go as far as to say that most manufacturers can do this in 2025.
by otter-in-a-suit | 2025-10-13 15:17:49+00:00
You'd be delighted (or terrified) to know that I just added an old gaming computer in a 4U case to the cluster, so I can play with PCI/GPU passthrough.

The Dell is essentially the main machine that runs everything we actually use - the other hardware is either used as redundancy or for experiments (or both). I got the Pi from a work thing and this has been a fun use case. Not that I necessarily recommend it...
by reneberlin | 2025-10-13 15:18:02+00:00
I get the point, it shouldn't be like that at all. But you can use a runner that you run on your behalf in a cloud instead and create your runner with minimum packages. At least for as long as the situation stays like this.

It's the first time i became clear how big the problem really is - only looking at the vulns at https://osv.dev/ (thanks for sharing - i didn't know that one).

I was aware of the vuln and lately wormed mess in npm, but i was sure everything else is mitigated much better - and runners, i of course thought are cared for a lot more. Yes, i am looking at you GH.
by stared | 2025-10-13 15:18:10+00:00
There can be meany reasons. A few on top of my head:

* The training size got larger, and it not as biased on Reddit as it used to be.

* Strategically, ChatGPT does not want to push users to a single source.

* Reddit was unrealiable.

* People felt that Reddit is unreliable, so to give sensation that it is reliable, other citations are preferred.
by api | 2025-10-13 15:18:28+00:00
You are so close. Or maybe you’re there and I misread that.

FOSS killed the profit margin in just making software. That shifted profits to hosting it, and in so doing shifted the industry to a more closed model than it had before.

In other words the net effect over time on the system from FOSS was to close things more. It had the opposite of the intended effect. We incentivized closed.

The result had been horribly dystopian. Before we had PCs that ran closed source but still local software and had our own data. Now we have cloud they runs opaque software we can’t even run ourselves and our data is not ours and is subject to mass surveillance. (By “our” I mean most people. Tech savvy people can opt out with some effort.)

This is super common. It’s hard to predict the actual incentive structure that something will create, and it is incentives not intentions that determine outcomes. Large scale socioeconomic systems are mindless gradient descent machines that chase profits of various kinds the way a plant grows toward sunlight.
by tovej | 2025-10-13 15:18:50+00:00
Are you saying linear regression = statistics? Linear regression is something you learn in your first class, it's hardly ever the main model used.

And if you're going to claim that economists are publishing influential papers in other fields - and especially if you're claiming that they're doing so in an unprecedented way, with no inter-disciplinary collaboration - please provide some examples. And if you're thinking of Freakonomics, know that no researcher takes Freakonomics seriously, and neither should you.

As for sociologists "invading" economics, they sort of are. Economics and sociology have quite a bit of overlap, and researchers from the two fields often collaborate. And any group researching economic phenomena, even an inter-disciplinary one involving sociologists, would be identified as economists, not sociologists, by people reading their work. Although David Graeber, an anthropologist, did write an excellent book on economic phenomena in "Debt: the first 5000 years", and it has done quite well. You could say that it's "influential".

Unfortunately, neoclassical economics also has wide political support among the people it benefits: wealthy people and institutions, e.g. banks. Which also means they get bankrolled (hah) much more than other social scientists, which means they get preferential treatment. E.g., this very "Nobel prize" in economy that this theead is about is funded by a bank.

The force to change economics qould have to come from within economics, perhaps from behavioural economics, or new Keynesian economics (the first one seems more promising), or even from movements like degrowth or circular economics. You can't expect a sociologist to fix a different field, and that wasn't the point. The point was simply that sociology doesn't suffer this embarassment because they are not burdened by ideological pressure backed by monies interest.
by lsaferite | 2025-10-13 15:19:07+00:00
You realize those ESPs use and support the industry standard open protocols under the hood, right? Slack is 100% proprietary and does not use industry standard protocols for interchange or federation. These are not even remotely comparable. Slack would need to use industry standard and open protocols (i.e. XMPP) to allow federation with products like Teams and Discord for the situations to be comparable.
by throwway120385 | 2025-10-13 15:19:22+00:00
When you talk about "men with guns" in reference to a welfare state, you're really talking about the process of taxation and the taxes being used to create a safety net for people. But it's telling that when you're trying to counter someone talking about the government being used to strip away these things from people through the executive branch and not the legislative branch, you suddenly require there to be real, physical violence before you'll accept the example.
by thenthenthen | 2025-10-13 15:19:48+00:00
Very occidental perspective. There are places where you need your phone practically 24/7, no affordance of escape. I can give an example of my day, which is basically completely phone centered, the only words I utter in a day is some digits to the taxi driver to verify my identity (when i can afford a ride that is).

Edit: mute button is essential and don't allow any notifications outside important messages/apps
by trimbo | 2025-10-13 15:19:49+00:00
> coal is expensive and unreliable

Please elaborate. China is building an absurd amount of new power plants, and most of that has been coal, with last year hitting a new high of coal deployment[1]. Why would they do that if it's expensive and unreliable? The letter you linked is advocating for a new gas plant.

And no, I am not advocating for building more coal plants.

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/4658e336-930f-49db-abc9-0036ee0ea...