MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beloch | 2025-11-27 20:19:16+00:00
I left Facebook very early on because it was too intrusive and didn't respect my privacy. Some people want to share every aspect of their lives on social media. I don't. I'm from the generation that uses codenames online wherever possible.

On reddit, I first limited what subs I frequented and then stopped posting entirely. It's been almost 1 year since my last post on Reddit. These were conscious choices that took some effort to follow through on.

I left political subs years ago due to endless flamewars and bad moderation. Bad moderation tended to enforce dominant views in political subs, making honest discussion with diverse people (formerly the main draw of message boards) virtually impossible. Either everyone agreed with you or you were the literal Antichrist. It was also hard to tell just who the moderators were, who they represented, or just how much they were doing to control discourse. Sorting by new revealed a lot, but not all, of what was going on. To make matters worse, as subs became echo chambers, users themselves began to expect to never have their views challenged. They'd self-sort into subs that matched their views and then circlejerk endlessly, often becoming more extreme as time passed. I didn't want to see that happen to me, so I swore off political subs entirely.

After the Canada-U.S. tradewar broke out early this year, I made a passing historical joke about the war of 1812 that was perfectly in keeping with the norms of the sub I was in. I was temporarily banned (24 hours or something like that) by the main reddit admins, who appeared to be using AI to blanket ban people saying anything remotely anti-Trump. I appealed and the response denied this was AI moderation, but showed no understanding of a very obvious joke that any American or Canadian would get. (i.e. They misconstrued a tongue-in-cheek comment about burning the white house again as a real threat of violence).

This was the final straw for me. The overall feeling I was left with was that, by posting and voting on Reddit, I was volunteering my time to support a pro-Trump American corporation that didn't respect me or my country. I still search/read reddit for specific things due to a lack of alternatives, but I can't wait for the platform to die and the users to move onto something better. I no longer contribute to Reddit, even by reporting spam.

Hacker News is the last remnant of social media I participate in. We'll see how much longer that lasts. I suspect I am subconsciously trying to quit social media entirely. Doing so really does free up your time for far better things.
by ch_123 | 2025-11-27 20:19:25+00:00
In this case, I'm talking specifically about the switches. There are various options from Gateron, Kailh and Outemu (including switches made by these companies but sold under different brands) which are widely regarded as superior to Cherry's options.

In terms of keyboards, a good all-rounder suggestion is to take a look at some options from Keychron.
by ohtheirony | 2025-11-27 20:19:42+00:00
Says one of the most notorious spammers who uploads 3 worthless links every few hours.

So much "fun" with you and you alike.

Is YC/HN going to do something about these spammers or not at all because this is the modus operandi of driving user traffic to the "partner" sites, even if these have NO connection at all to IT?
by gruez | 2025-11-27 20:20:32+00:00
I mean, obviously? SSDs and HDDs randomly fail for all sorts of reasons beyond random bitflips, so properly working ECC isn't enough to guarantee your files are "fine". Even if you're using something like ZFS, it's possible for the one of the underlying drive to experience ECC errors, and have another drive fail before that can caught. If your parity factor is 1 or less (eg. RAIDz1), you'll also experience data loss.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-27 20:22:10+00:00
Do you have anything to argue that with? I'm all ears, would be neat to see.

I already mentioned quite an array of projects that I find inspiring. I can't say I know of anything in particular coming from BSD land. ZFS has adherents for sure but there doesn't seem like there's any innovation or creation or downstream net new coming out of that.
by mx7zysuj4xew | 2025-11-27 20:22:15+00:00
This is it.

A lot of people seem to be pushing some weird "anti-environmental" when the simple reality is that all energy costs

I cannot understate the impact of Russian Energy being cut off. Right now we're paying roughly twice as much than we used to for compressed natural gas brought via tanker ships from the us. I genuinely believe that the war in Ukraine is mostly about energy dependence on Russia and Ukraine losing its transfer fees through their old pipelines
by tossandthrow | 2025-11-27 20:22:43+00:00
> It's ridiculous since women's issues are only being better represented recently while men have long dominated politics

This statement has more than one issue:

1. First and foremost, it is simply a rewrite of the history. There is a difference between descriptive and substantive representation. And it is true that men have been descriptively better represented. But the thoughtless implication that this leads to better substantive representation is simply wrong.

2. It justifies the idea of "reparations" for previous generations misdoing. Not only does this induce a high level if dissent, it is simply immoral. Even if we would accept reparations, it is still only justified by the rewrite of the history.

I appreciate the call for nuance, but I think the historical framing here deserves scrutiny.

You're right that men have dominated politicly, but it's worth distinguishing between who held power (descriptive representation) and whose interests were served (substantive representation). Most men throughout history had no political power - they were subjects of monarchies, excluded by property requirements, or conscripted into wars they didn't choose. The men making decisions were a tiny elite.

On "women's issues only recently being better represented" -this depends heavily on what we're measuring. If we look at something like life expectancy as a rough proxy for overall life quality (capturing war mortality, occupational deaths, access to resources, healthcare), historical data suggests men and women faced roughly equal burdens pre-industrialization, just distributed differently. Women faced maternal mortality and legal subordination; men faced conscription, dangerous labor, and social expendability. The female longevity advantage only emerges clearly in the modern era.

The point isn't to claim men had it worse - it's that "men have long dominated" obscures that most men were themselves dominated, and bore unique, severe costs within the same system.

I agree completely that rigid gender roles harm everyone. But framing current attention to men's issues as acceptable only because "patriarchal roles harm men too" still treats men's suffering as derivative of women's concerns, requiring feminist justification. Can't men's rising suicide rates, educational struggles, and social isolation warrant direct concern on their own terms?

The discourse does need less competition. But that requires actually taking men's issues seriously, not just when they can be reframed as collateral damage from patriarchy.
by fastest963 | 2025-11-27 20:23:42+00:00
It can be more complicated depending on your environment but I'd prefer instead to use a Pub/Sub pattern instead. You can have a generic topic if you want to model it like the generic table but it handles retries, metrics, scaling, long-running, etc all for you. If you are running in the cloud then Pub/Sub is something you don't need to maintain and will scale better than this solution. You also won't need to VACUUM the Pub/Sub solution ;)
by yrschrade | 2025-11-27 20:24:19+00:00
Thanks for sharing my article.

For anyone wondering, there has been some updates on the new Chat Control proposal.

Some would argue it's now "voluntary" chat screening by providers, I would argue that the opposite is the case, simply based on the intricacies of the proposal document:

https://x.com/yrschrade/status/1993791181973504453?s=20
by oarsinsync | 2025-11-27 20:24:36+00:00
It's the equivalent of outsourcing your job. People have done this before, to China, to India, etc. There are stories about the people that got caught, e.g. with China because of security concerns, and with India because they got greedy, were overemployed, and failed in their opsec.

This is no different, it's just a different mechanism of outsourcing your job.

And yes, if you can find a way to get AI to do 90% of your job for you, you should totally get 4 more jobs and 5x your earnings for 50% reduction in hours spent working.
by danbitengo | 2025-11-27 20:24:42+00:00
You've hit on the core limitation because SyncKit has the same issue. Document/key-value like Loro and Yjs. The relational model problem is fundamental to CRDTs. They guarantee conflict-free convergence because documents are independent, but that breaks with foreign keys and joins. Can't have arbitrary SQL queries and guaranteed convergence without coordination.

ElectricSQL and PowerSync solve it differently (full SQL but weaker offline guarantees). For SyncKit, document-based state is an architectural choice, not something v0.2.0 will change.

I'm curious to know how you're working around this with Loro. Are you building your own query layer or are you keeping everything denormalized?
by awesome_dude | 2025-11-27 20:25:19+00:00
Because I will have spent it before it becomes available :)

For the record (IMO) banks are an EXCELLENT example of eventually consistent systems.

They're also EXCELLENT for demonstrating Event Sourcing (Bank statements, which are really projections of the banks internal Event log, but enough people have encountered them in such a way that that most people understand them)
by zamadatix | 2025-11-27 20:25:31+00:00
It's second class on Windows because it doesn't support game DRM and generally performs worse for the price than an x86 laptop. About the thing it really has going for it is better battery life. Using Linux doesn't really change either of those problems, though it does get you away from the mess that is Windows 11.

1st party native software support is high and 3rd party native software support is higher than Linux. Both have feature complete userspace emulation layers for the 3rd party part (largely game focused) Windows doesn't need Proton for that. Both can run open source apps natively.
by stouset | 2025-11-27 20:25:47+00:00
Mark Gurman’s track record with Apple is spotty at best. He may have been the original source of the rumor, but Reddit’s enormously anti-Apple user base is more than happy to grab onto any notion that Apple might do something even slightly unpopular and run wild. One dude with one report and middling accuracy does not a reliable narrative make, no matter how many times it’s reposted.

Apple prototypes a lot of shit internally. I am utterly certain they had prototypes of wireless-only phones. I am wholly unconvinced they had anything resembling firm plans at a leadership level to actually move forward with such a device. Apple has been more than happy to poke a finger in the eye of the EU repeatedly to see what their real limits are; I doubt they suddenly got cold feet over this one issue.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-27 20:26:01+00:00
Batteries are dirt cheap already and getting cheaper all the time. Pakistan would be buying them at the Chinese prices without a lot of tariffs or nonsense that might be misleading you into believing otherwise.

Think a bandwidth of 50-80$ per kwh cost levels for the manufacturer with a margin on top in a market where there's over production and prices are still trending down and margins are probably under quite a bit of pressure. That's the widely publicized cost levels for Chinese manufacturers that dominate the world supply currently. Some of the sodium ion batteries that are coming to market now are already at the lower end of that price bandwidth and could go to 10-20$/kwh over the next 5-10 years; maybe faster.

At those prices, anyone can afford plenty of battery to survive the sun not shining for days/weeks. Which in places like Pakistan would be redundant. It's far south and you can count the number of days that you shouldn't be wearing sunglasses outside per year on the fingers of one hand. Even when it's cloudy, there's plenty of light filtering through in that part of the world..

Prices you might be seeing in the US tell you more about the local politics there than the economics of batteries. The US has it self to blame for bad economics like that. Places like Pakistan aren't going to slow down because the US can't figure out all this new stuff. For them this is economic growth unlocked by vastly more energy than they've ever had access to. All they'll ever need basically.
by imiric | 2025-11-27 20:26:14+00:00
I don't think this changes the game as much as you think.

AFAIU, the biggest challenge of running Linux on ARM machines is supporting the devicetree of each machine. After all, there is mainline kernel support for previous Qualcomm chips, yet very few machines with those chips can actually run Linux distros.

So this is good news, but in practical terms it's just a marketing piece.
by kbenson | 2025-11-27 20:26:23+00:00
Incentives trump feelings for publicly traded companies 99 times out of 100. People constantly anthropomorphize them, but they aren't people (regardless of similarities in the law), and they definitely don't act like people, at least normal ones. At best, you can view them as something like a sociopath. I wouldn't look at a sociopath acting nicer and think "oh, they turned over a new leaf" because they aren't just going to change how their mind works, I'd think "oh, they found a reason to act in a way I like for the time being. I hope it isn't short lived."
Hybrid dark-pool DEX architecture on Solana
by DarkVeil | 2025-11-27 20:26:29+00:00
A confidential trading design is emerging: encrypted order matching in secure enclaves, oracle-anchored settlement, and on-chain verification of net results. The goal is to eliminate MEV by removing public order visibility.

One implementation is DarkVeil. Their docs: privacy-first spot + perps, slippage resistance, AI execution routing. Curious to see how trustlessness of enclaves and oracle dependency are addressed. Thoughts?
by pksebben | 2025-11-27 20:26:56+00:00
I'm all about using the rainbow of language to it's full breadth, but if you're going to go for shock jock you should maybe have something better to say than "hurdurr I smart and world bad 'cause dumb people". Makes you sound a little like you're trying too hard to be part of the 'literati', whatever that's supposed to mean.
by gizajob | 2025-11-27 20:27:12+00:00
Thinking on though, if the models are trained on any GPL code then one could consider that they contain that GPL code, and are constantly and continually updating and modifying that code, thus everything the model subsequently outputs and distributes should come under the GPL too. It’s far from sufficient that, say, OpenAI have a page on their website to redistribute the code they consume in their models if such code becomes part of the model’s training data that is resident in memory every time it produces new code for users. In the spirit of the GPL all that derivative code seems to also come under the GPL, and has to be made available for free, even if upon every request the generated code is somehow novel or unique to that user.
by kittikitti | 2025-11-27 20:27:36+00:00
One indicator that I'm watching for deflation is the concept that money is not accepted. Things like social media followers or likes are used as substitutes. People can't buy things like concert tickets or latest merchandise because all the bots have already bought them. Businesses will claim they can't provide a custom service. In tech, this would be spending a modest amount of money on online ads when in reality an ad campaign can only be "bought" with debt.

I think analysis around inflation, deflation, and consumer prices are valid but they are part of an understanding from economies of 100 years ago. Money loses value when you can't do anything with it. Tech and AI runs on debt, and an extraordinary amount of it. Is that really money? I don't think so.

Deflation may suffer from Goodhart's law. Because we've repurposed all of available human resources for mitigating against it, the variables we used to measure it cease to become useful. Our central measure for the economy are things like the stock market and the unemployment rate which have prevalent and valid criticisms that policy makers ignore. They truly don't indicate what's occurring on main street and I'm afraid that we will be in a deflationary spiral without knowing it.
by pandaman | 2025-11-27 20:27:47+00:00
Do you mean that the things like annulling the elections when the "wrong" candidate won [1] or barring the opposition candidates from running [2],[3] are not the worst excesses?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Romanian_presidential_ele...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen
by vladms | 2025-11-27 20:28:20+00:00
> Is hate, fear, or envy by themselves wrong, or only wrong when misdirected?

I think they are natural feelings that appear due to various reason. People struggle for centuries to control their impulses and this was used for millennia in the advantage of whom could manipulate them.

The second world war did not appear in a "happy world". It might even have started due to the great depression. For other conflicts, similarly - I don't think situation was great before them for most people.

I am afraid that social networks just expose better what happens in people's heads (which would be worrying as it could predict larger scale conflicts) rather than making normal people angry (which would be solved by just reducing social media). Things are never black and white, so probably is something in between. Time will tell if closer to first or second.
by xpe | 2025-11-27 20:28:57+00:00
> Without an existing relationship, it feels like an attack, and your natural human response is to dismiss or deflect the attack. Or worse, to get defensive. Attacks trigger our most primal instincts: fight or flight.

It is really important to recognize that it is the perception of an attack that triggers certain responses. For a counter example, watch how puppies play. It can very rough at some level but at another the intent is clearly benign.

There are ways to shape and modify perceptions! Culture. Norms. Timing. Technology. Inclusion and exclusion criteria. Information architecture.

Never assume that the technology or protocols you use have been designed for your core values. Often you have to redesign it for your purposes. Please do.

Feedback *can* scale if one carefully defines protocols to suit particular goals. We are not helpless even if it seems we are hapless. Leaders and designers (often social scientists) must step up and show better ways.

Computer scientists and software engineers must show curiosity and intellectual humility here. Better to draw broadly from other fields: social work, negotiation, psychology, anthropology, public policy, and more.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-27 20:29:17+00:00
Another key pillar of Microsoft's FUD campaign was you have to open source any code modifications you write to a GPL codebase even if you don't want to. That doesn't make that feature of GPL a fallacy others must be too stupid to understand, it just means Microsoft was trying to make the promises of GPL seem bad when they were actually good. I.e. what Microsoft tried to scare people with is irrelevant to a discussion about what's in the GPL itself. Ironically, it's more akin to FUD than anything else in this conversation.

I do miss groklaw, been far too long for something like that to appear again.
by aspenmayer | 2025-11-27 20:30:57+00:00
> The alternative is being a fortress - with all the relationship problems that entails.

I’m reminded of the concept of siege mentality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_mentality

> In sociology, siege mentality is a shared feeling of victimization and defensiveness—a term derived from the actual experience of military defences of real sieges. It is a collective state of mind in which a group of people believe themselves constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated in the face of the negative intentions of the rest of the world. Although a group phenomenon, the term describes both the emotions and thoughts of the group as a whole, and as individuals. The result is a state of being overly fearful of surrounding peoples, and an intractably defensive attitude.

> Among the consequences of a siege mentality are black and white thinking, social conformity, and lack of trust, but also a preparedness for the worst and a strong sense of social cohesion.
by supermatt | 2025-11-27 20:31:19+00:00
I didn’t ask the maintainer to “figure it out”. I posted a thread in the forum with multiple videos to start a discussion.

People here have stated I should have filed on GitHub, and because I don’t want to link my GitHub to this account I suggested someone else do it.

That was 6 hours ago, and people are still commenting about my lack of a suitable report rather than actually reporting it correctly themselves - as is evident by the lack of a new issue on the github.
by trueismywork | 2025-11-27 20:32:12+00:00
Even those companies are struggling nowadays with quality of goods made in China improving extremely fast.

> For some reason, every time Europe is mentioned, there is always a comment about how Europe is struggling but when you look at the quality of life, happiness or life expectancy, all those numbers are higher than the US.

But quality of life in Europe is decreasing fast. Pension is becoming unsustainable. Govts are going bankrupt. Infrastructure is collapsing. People correctly see that Europe as a whole will fall behind in some years unless things change
by pm | 2025-11-27 20:32:29+00:00
When you mentioned offline sync and graft, I mistook you for the author of this project:

https://github.com/orbitinghail/graft

However, they're clearly two different projects.

I don't want to take away from the work you've done, as you're clearly knowledgeable, but as someone else observed, heavy use of AI assistance can be observed in all your public projects. It's worth explicitly addressing, especially considering the foundational nature of your project: it's not easily replaced if it turns out to have to have subtle bugs.

Though I rarely use it myself, I'd like to know, simply because I'm curious as to how other engineers have incorporated such assistance it into their process.
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-11-27 20:32:34+00:00
> There's huge overuse shallow depth of field

I've ranted about this so much to friends, it's so distracting to me.

I have the hypothesis that some of it is due to how easy (or easier?) it is to quickly review footage to tell if the focus is set right when it's so aggressively shallow, but regardless of the "why" the monotony of it drives me crazy.

I want to see the environments the characters are in, I want the visceral grounding of the feel of that environment. I watched "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" and it felt so primal, and watching how intentional the sound design alone is I can see why.

> In such environments (visual and aural), nothing seems real and nothing seems like it matters.

That's a great description about the strange disembodiment I've felt in modern shows for a while now.
by lazide | 2025-11-27 20:32:55+00:00
Read them all. Multiple times.

Mind actually using words to form useful sentences?

He of course insisted he wasn’t an addict - like all addicts do - but he always went back that I remember - like all addicts do. And he used it to cope with not having any interesting problems and the misery of life.

He was enabled by Watson and his brother, and mostly supported in the elements of normal social functioning by them.

Where we draw the line between addict and not is quite subjective in these situations eh?