MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-11-14 18:18:42+00:00
> Configuring your WM in Haskell seems fun, but I suspect "fun" is the primary motivator, not any kind of practical reason.

Not for me. I don't know Haskell, and I had to cargo-cult forms to do what I want (which bothers me, as someone towards the end of the developer spectrum that likes to understand well how systems work).

But XMonad with a few cargo-culted tweaks works noticeably better for me than I've been able to configure i3wm. I forced myself to use i3wm at one company, for two years, rather than bring over my Xmonad config, and every evening it was a relief to be back using Xmonad on my personal laptop.
by gtowey | 2025-11-14 18:18:51+00:00
The skill of a plumber isn't in knowing how to solder. I've run copper pipe and soldered fittings on my own plenty of times, it's not hard. The skill is in either knowing the building codes inside and out when dealing with new work, or for remodel work it's knowing all the tricks of how to alter existing plumbing quickly, cleanly and efficiently. Both those skills are only developed with experience.
by lsy | 2025-11-14 18:19:08+00:00
It's disheartening that a potentially worthwhile discussion — should we invest engineering resources in LLMs as a normal technology rather than as a millenarian fantasy? — has been hijacked by a (at this writing) 177-comment discussion on a small component of the author's argument. The author's argument is an important one that hardly hinges at all on water usage specifically, given the vast human and financial capital invested in LLM buildout so far.
by isodev | 2025-11-14 18:19:24+00:00
If you tell this to someone who has never used LLMs/AI they may be curious. I have though. I also understand how the technology works and that you will have to read those research papers yourself anyway, verify every source, check every fact (including the ones that got omitted). Maybe it’s better than previous gen machine translation, but you better not rely on context and subtle sentiments being translated as intended all the time.

If it’s important, it’s still better to do it yourself (or pay for the service of another human).
by mothballed | 2025-11-14 18:19:26+00:00
Best I can do is $1000 to change a capacitor that any tom dick or harry could do, and $10,000 to install a mini split that I literally did myself for $1000 in tools and watching 8 hours of youtube.

The industry is largely a scam. There is no reason why you need a brick and mortar fixed business for many HVAC tasks. On one occasion, I knew exactly what was wrong but as a tenant so I could not perform the work myself. I had to deduct $1000 rent from my landlord becaues I had to pay an HVAC guy so I would not break the law literally replacing a plug-and-play blower motor myself. The guy didn't diagnose anything, or need any skill, I just told him exactly what to do and he was in and out in like 5 minutes.
by mindslight | 2025-11-14 18:19:46+00:00
It feels like the right thing to do is to preemptively sue all three for a declaratory judgement, similar to obtaining a "quiet title" for a piece of real estate. Then they can put up or shut up. The right thing to do if you're trying to remaster the game, that is. The right thing to do if you just want to play it is to pirate.
by nickthebirder | 2025-11-14 18:20:06+00:00
This is actually exactly what I’ve been working on as a passion project for the last year and a half: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wings-whistles/id6503321263

It’s basically a gamified version of Merlin. Would love any and all feedback!

Birdle Go seems really cool, very impressed and would love to test that!
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-14 18:20:07+00:00
It's nobody's fault for becoming poor. But if you're staying poor (dirt poor) for decades, then there is something you're doing wrong. The other commenter puts it in a rude way, but there's something to it. If you evidently can't take care of yourself, then you shouldn't be given more money. You should be in some kind of institution which takes care of your basic needs.
by londons_explore | 2025-11-14 18:20:08+00:00
Bandwidth demand is very much there...

My connection is 1.5 Gbits at 3am, but at peak time (7pm) I'm lucky to get 10 Mbits.

My network needs more capacity, and if 6G can offer it cheaper than building 5x more 5G masts, that's the route they'll have to take.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-11-14 18:20:13+00:00
(2015)! "updated in 2022"

Some previous discussions:

2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27701218

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20544395

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9913774
by dchftcs | 2025-11-14 18:20:14+00:00
The statement here that Nvidia invests in OpenAI is a bit misleading. Nvidia would pay out nothing to OpenAI if OpenAI turns out to be too poor to pay for capacity. So they are not that exposed to the death of OpenAI specifically. They would be more at risk of making too many GPUs to prepare for the deals.

Oracle takes a lot more risk, but in case OpenAI fails to grow quickly, it can still probably find buyers for its capacity in the next 5 years. There are many rich firms that will continue to invest in AI whether or not AI makes money.
by hvb2 | 2025-11-14 18:20:20+00:00
You're replying to a story about a hyperscaler worrying investors about how much they're leveraging themselves for a small number of companies.

From the article: > OpenAI faces questions about how it plans to meet its commitments to spend $1.4tn on AI infrastructure over the next eight years.

Someone needs to pay for that 1.4 trillion, that's 2/3 of what Microsoft makes this year. If you think they'll make that from revenue, that's fine. I don't. And that's just the infra.
by gnarlouse | 2025-11-14 18:20:38+00:00
Another point the author doesn't make but probably should is the home economics of DIY: A solo person gets 24h a day, just like everybody else. Ideally 8 are spent asleep. Another 8 (minimum) are probably spent working. That leaves a person 8 hours to do their whole life. It eats away at personal time, it bleeds into work and sleep, often by interrupting or occluding the ability to do either.
by steveBK123 | 2025-11-14 18:20:49+00:00
I often find the loudest voices with this mentality either come from well off families, or were poor enough themselves in childhood to have benefited from the government programs they wish to destroy. The first is ignorance and the second is some sort of self hatred / shame.

I rarely hear people that grew up fairly middle class and "made it" looking back at the poor as someone holding them back in this same manner.
by shalmanese | 2025-11-14 18:21:15+00:00
> This is a very risky take though and so nobody should risk it.

People keep on insisting when it comes to these things that various things are risky in a rather handwavey way but they never fully come out and articulate the risks.

I asked this question to ChatGPT a bunch of ways and tried to understand what the specifics are when people say this is risky and I can't really seem to get to anything that is a nuclear level risk, just a garden variety risk that you need to manage amongst all the other garden variety risks involved in running a business (when inputted with a reasonable set of realistic assumptions, it's possible to create assumptions where this is a nuclear level risk but that doesn't seem to apply to the majority of real world cases, including this one).
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-14 18:21:25+00:00
I guess the DOJ saying not to fine these people is a nice gesture but in practice local fines don't mean anything in a situation like this unless the poors on the property are unlucky enough to be on a property that the municipality wants to lien and take for whatever reason.

Whatever the dollar number is, it's likely some insane punitive number (hundreds to thousands per day) that nobody could ever pay and never will actually be enforced, it's basically just a threat and you wind up going to court over it in the end or you fix it and they drop it or fine you a reasonable amount (thank the 8th amendment).

This sounds like a standoff situation. Municipality wants trailer park to pay for its own sewer. Trailer park can't afford it. Municipality fines them. Trailer park gives them the bird because they're so poor they're basically judgement proof. Municipality doesn't push the issue because if they take it and kick them all out then they will pick up the tab for remediating, etc, etc.
by radimm | 2025-11-14 18:21:33+00:00
Let me be clear - this is just baseline testing that's only valid for similar data patterns, same cardinality, and so on. Plus it's currently using EXPLAIN, so we're working with estimates, not actual execution data.

But from my experience, this is low-hanging fruit for catching regressions that could break your application without you noticing. The performance work you're describing is the real nitty-gritty database management - the deep optimization work that truly makes or breaks an app.

For that there's no silver bullet.
by piva00 | 2025-11-14 18:21:47+00:00
It's always sickening to hear more educated people (compared to the average) repeating this inhumane bullshit.

Wanting people to die because they are poor, losing complete touch of why we humans even develop what we do: to the betterment of us all, to enrich all of our lives, to make the lives of future humans better. There's no other point to it, the absurd individualism is a disease, I'd much rather eradicate those from our lineage than the less fortunate, for a better future for humanity.
by Symmetry | 2025-11-14 18:21:57+00:00
The reason I switched to XMonad over a decade ago was actually so that I could have a tiling window manager but still have all the normal desktop environment conveniences.

Obligatory dotfiles: https://github.com/aclough/dotfiles

But right now I feel like I should be thinking of moving over to some new Wayland system. Maybe Niri and XFCE?
by jordibc | 2025-11-14 18:21:59+00:00
I thought about it when I read Charlie Stross getting one last year [0]. Then thought, what is essential about it? And decided to try something related, even if it was likely to be just another distraction:

(defun full-screen () (interactive) (shell-command "wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -btoggle,fullscreen") (menu-bar-mode 0)) (defun just-write () "Convert into a big, clean, centered window." (interactive) (full-screen) (olivetti-mode) (text-scale-adjust 2) (scroll-bar-mode -1) (end-of-buffer) (recenter-top-bottom 0))

This is the simple "just-write" function I wrote in emacs, and it also needs the olivetti package and the wmctrl program.

To my surprise, it actually did the trick. I've written more and more pleasantly since then. I feel it's better than if I had gotten a Writer Deck or similar. So I thought I'd share in case it does the trick for anyone else.

(I also use a font and a color scheme that pleases me, but that's minor.)

[0] https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/09/zen-and...
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-14 18:22:26+00:00
Such bullshit. Don't continue to glamorize the mentally and physically harmful hustle culture that invades this country, and ignores the very real factor of both luck and privilege that not everyone is blessed with.

What's the point of society if everyone needs to bust their ass 70+ hours a week to get by? Might as well go homestead in the woods and be a subsistence farmer and do it on your own at that point.

Just fuck having time for creative pursuits and hobbies outside of working and making someone else rich?
by bluGill | 2025-11-14 18:22:27+00:00
Press fittings have a well earned reputation of leaking after a few years (they mostly rely on rubber o-rings that will dry out over a decade). They are rarely used by anyone who knows what they are doing.

Note that crimp fitters (which your link discourages!) do not have the same problem and are what most are moving too. Soldering still has a place, but is rarely used because modern PEX is so much cheaper and easier to work with.
by yunwal | 2025-11-14 18:22:54+00:00
Now do homelessness and make it over the past 20 years.

Now do chances a child makes it to their 20s over the past 20 years.

Now do suicides.

No, we are not making progress on poverty, at least not in the United States. We are simply trading one problem for another. Progress has entirely stopped since essentially the 1990s, and things have gotten much much worse in the past 5 years.
by linguae | 2025-11-14 18:23:03+00:00
I know this was in jest, but had some of Apple’s and IBM’s 1990s plans came to fruition, we could’ve ended up with an operating system capable of running both OS/2 and Taligent (the original planned successor to the classic Mac OS) applications on PowerPC hardware (one of the few parts of the Apple/IBM collaboration that was realized):

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

OS/X Warp sounds a lot cooler than Workplace OS.
by shalmanese | 2025-11-14 18:23:13+00:00
OK, but according to ChatGPT (so correct me if the AI is wrong), if you ignore the cease and desist, then the process goes into default judgement where the claimants now need to prove standing to collect judgement. You now know with 100% certainty that they need to hire someone to dig through a file vault at Iron Mountain to collect judgment and they're not going to bother doing that so the default judgement means nothing and you can go about your merry way ignoring their cease and desist.
by prasadjoglekar | 2025-11-14 18:23:15+00:00
Sometimes, a visible example does that. I know of numerous people in Mumbai who do servant jobs, whose kids have gone to engineering schools and gotten corporate jobs. This sort of story - 1st in my family to go college - needs to be prominent for a parent to want to aspire to that for their kids.

Doesn't work for the absolutely destitute of course.
by dukeofdoom | 2025-11-14 18:23:16+00:00
I think its some sort of decline thats happening Some of is dumb environmental policy. Showerheads that don't spray enough water. Dishwashers that don't wash properly so you need to wash dishes before you put them in and after you take them out. Time of use pricing that means you need to cook at inconvenient times, and even still most of the bill is fixed charges. It's just going on. The decline in Canada seems like its mostly targeted towards poor people. I know a family friend that has a broken bone leg is waiting months for a specialist when anytime he could get an infection and die from infection. Totally preventable even in a third world country, yet it is what it is. My mom also know somone thats waiting for a proecdure too, and they asked hime multiple times if he wants to do Maid. It's almost cynical.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-14 18:23:18+00:00
> It's nobody's fault

Sure, but it's the system's fault, and we can point at the people who are keeping the system the way it is. The system is what it does, and what it does is syphon money from everyone else and pumps it upward to a few individuals. That's not an accident, people are responsible for that, they like the way it works, and they're intent on keeping it that way.

Remember, in this system you get paid money for having money and you get charged a fee if you don't have enough. You get taxed more for working with capital than for owning capital. You pay more the less you buy. People always say "The hardest million was the first million". This is by design!

> You should be in some kind of institution which takes care of your basic needs.

Maybe, but we refuse to fund those because they're too expensive to operate.
by danaris | 2025-11-14 18:23:19+00:00
Oh, I think golf courses shouldn't exist. They're awful in a number of ways. You want to play golf? VR or minigolf.

But (as I pointed out elsewhere in this discussion [0]) why should I have to mention everything that uses water in a way I think is detrimental in order to be allowed to talk about why I think this thing uses water in a way that is detrimental?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927558
by arantius | 2025-11-14 18:23:53+00:00
For Greasemonkey proper (which has always only been a Firefox extension) the big pain point was Mozilla's forced migration to new extension APIs (2015: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev... ). This required a major rewrite, taking over a year, and not to add new features but rather just to not bit rot away. Then what felt like right after that, they completely deprecated classic extensions, forcing only web extensions (2017: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firef... ). This required an even more thorough rewrite again, and made it not difficult but actually impossible to keep all functionality.

Greasemonkey has been stable (not abandoned, but not worked on very much!) since then. No forced MV3 yet in Firefox.
by geooff_ | 2025-11-14 18:24:21+00:00
I'm looking for AI features in a few places, one example is a git client that can draft commit Summary and Descriptions. This should be a very simple task and could use a simple on-device model. It feels like AI features are a firehose though. You either get none and a very 2018 product experience or a complete rework of everything "designed for agents".
by verall | 2025-11-14 18:24:32+00:00
I think this is how most homeowners hire this type of people, they either "have a guy" or they ask their friends/neighbors if they "have a guy". I have an HVAC guy who is miles better than the HVAC company with ~50 techs that I had come out before I found him. But if I needed some plumbing work done, I'd ask my neighbors, since I've never gotten plumbing done before.

If neither of these they fall back to advertising, door-to-door sales, classifieds, google reviews.
by JustExAWS | 2025-11-14 18:24:33+00:00
You can have the chance to probably double your income or at least make 50% more than an enterprise dev at the same level.

None of us are out here feeding starving children. Why not trade your labor for as much as possible? If I were 25 instead of 51, I damn sure would think the trade off was worth it.

Yes I did spend almost 4 years in BigTech and would rather get a daily anal probe with a cactus than do it again. But don’t underestimate the life changing difference in comp that a software developer can make in BigTech.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-14 18:24:45+00:00
What consumerism? Someone falling into the "poor" category the OP describes has already forgone all of that out of necessity. There is no money for consumerism.

Has nothing to do with self control and "maybe don't go buy a coffee." They weren't doing that in the first place.

There are places in this country where the minimum wage is still a paltry $10/hour or less and rent for a family is $2800+. The math doesn't work. There's a systemic affordability problem
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-11-14 18:24:51+00:00
This is cool.

It tells you something about how much a gambling place the market is when a site like this has a one day default for the price change. When it comes to a high level view of the market, why would I care for a comparison of todays prices to ... YESTERDAY??

My first reaction was to look for a 10 year option. There is none, so I took the 5 year option. All of the big names roughly doubled or tripled over the last 5 years. Amazon lagging a bit behind. I could start to reason about the numbers but .. 5 years is just too short. I would play with it more if there was a 10 year option.

And I would love Love LOVE a European version of this.
by rdtsc | 2025-11-14 18:24:52+00:00
> The recent wealth tax increase in Norway was expected to bring in an additional $146M in yearly tax revenue.

I guess it's interesting to see who was expecting it. The country's tax authorities, the economists, regular folks? This would seem like something a freshman in econ 101 would be able to predict.

The whole "just raise taxes from 10% to 15%" works well in an isolated environment with no other places to go. If there are places with 12% taxes, it should be obvious that's where people will move their wealth to.

> Cities like Lucerne actively court Norwegian expatriates, creating communities of former Nordic residents who share similar tax-driven motivations for relocation.

Exactly. This happens for companies here in US as well. A city was raising taxes on a company headquartered there and were also asking them to donate for parks and other such nice things. Another state got wind of that, and invited the company to move the headquarters there instead, with all kinds of tax breaks and credits and such. So it's not only a passive move, but other locations actively trying to recruit entities to move there.
by krick | 2025-11-14 18:24:54+00:00
Thanks. I was wondering what is the status of it, given that Forgejo is being pushed more in the media lately. TBH, I haven't understood the controversy even after reading a couple of recaps. I remember it being about having "suddenly revealed" a couple of years ago that the guy on top is the owner of the trademark. Doesn't sound like a big deal to me, given that he actually was the main contributor and de-facto the leader of the project the whole time.

But then a couple of years have passed, and I started to hear about Forgejo more often only very recently, so I was wondering, if maybe the original project actually had some downfall and questionable technical decisions since. I still haven't switched, and was wondering if I should do so. As far, as I've heard it's still basically a matter of running the different docker container with the same volume, and it should work seamlessly. So what's about this "hard fork" you are mentioning? Did it actually break compatibility?
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-14 18:25:00+00:00
2 unique IPs or 200,000 shouldn't make a difference, ban the ones that make too many requests automatically and you basically don't have to do anything.

Are people not using fail2ban and similar at all anymore? Used to be standard practice until I guess before people started using PaaS instead and "running web applications" became a different role than "developing web applications".
by AlienRobot | 2025-11-14 18:25:04+00:00
They can steal Workspaces from Vivaldi.

Or they can steal vertical tabs from Vivaldi.

Or they can steal the built-in RSS client form Vivaldi.

Or they can steal the ability to save sessions from Vivaldi.

Or they can steal the built-in notes from Vivaldi.

Or they can steal the tab stacking from Vivaldi.

Or they can steal the profile switching from Vivaldi.

Honest question. What could Vivaldi "steal" from Firefox?
by sylware | 2025-11-14 18:25:09+00:00
working... until an "unfortunate" proton fix or game patch... as there is no official and legal technical support (nope, "verified" is not that support).

Onyl F2P games without paying for any micro-transaction guys while playing a proton title guys, the only non-scammy/sane way.

PROTON = 0 BUCKS for the moment.

Valve has to add a "Technically Supported Until EOS" green check mark... I could not care less of the "Verified" one (probably you could tolerate it if on steamdeck with the native steamos).
by arantius | 2025-11-14 18:25:53+00:00
IME the modern web is not amenable to user scripting like it was ~10 years ago. Then, most things were a simple static HTML document, more templated then generated. Now virtually everything (whether it's useful or not) is a heavy complex "app" that pops in at various times, only has arbitrary/volatile identifiers, and is generally harder to interact with as a user script.