MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2025-11-29 23:25:40+00:00
A jobs subsidy program that focused on more productive industries would be better than subsidizing an auto industry that never aimed for international competitiveness.

We have exceptionally productive fields in the US tumor are the envy of the world. If we can't be productive in auto manufacturing, devoting a ton of our workforce too it is a misallocation of our limited resources.

If we are going to be subsidizing unprofitable industry fro national security purposes, we need to either 1) ruthlessly cut the least productive manufacturers from access to subsidies, or 2) nationalize it. Any other choices would be very inefficient.
by garciasn | 2025-11-29 23:26:04+00:00
Because the law of unintended consequences is always at play in the public sector. In this case, the threat of too much regulation will kneecap the governments ability to eliminate the cost structures that will end up happening because of the drive for increased revenue per sqft.

The core reason SROs threaten larger spaces is that landlords can often extract more total rent from a single apartment by chopping it into pieces than by renting it as a whole.

Hypothetically: A landlord rents a 1,000 sq. ft. 3-bedroom apartment to a family for $4,500/month.

In order to extract more value, the landlord converts that same space into 4 separate SRO rooms with a shared kitchen. Even if they charge a "cheaper" rent of $1,500/room, the total rent roll becomes $6,000/month.

The Result: the SRO format is more profitable ($6,000 vs. $4,500). If landlords can legally choose between the two, they will naturally favor creating SROs over family-sized units.

Then there’s the potential for cannibalization of supply:

If SROs become the most profitable way to use residential space, the market may see a "cannibalization" of family housing.

Landlords of market-rate buildings may subdivide existing large apartments into SROs to capture the higher yield.

Seeing this, developers then planning new buildings will design them with fewer large family units and more micro-units/SROs to maximize revenue.

This reduces the supply of 2- and 3-bedroom apartments. If the supply of family units drops while the number of families needing them stays the same, the price for the remaining large units goes up.

This will then potentially lead to increased land value as real estate prices are determined by the potential revenue a property can generate.

If a plot of land can now legally host a high-yield SRO building (generating $100/sq. ft. in revenue), the value of that land rises.

A developer who wants to build a standard family apartment building (generating only $60/sq. ft.) can no longer afford to buy that land because they will be outbid by the SRO developer.

To compete, the family-building developer must raise their projected rents to justify the higher land price. This raises the "price floor" for everyone.
by arcastroe | 2025-11-29 23:26:19+00:00
If:

a^2 = b^2 (mod m)

Then:

a^2 - b^2 = 0 (mod m)

(a + b)(a - b) = 0 (mod m)

So, (a + b) must be a multiple of one of the factors of m. And (a - b) must be a multiple of the other factor of m.

> I've often wondered what each congruence in the quadratic seive reveals.

Each congruence reveals that the sum of the bases (a plus b) contains a factor of m. And the difference of the bases (a minus b) contains another factor of m.

The only thing you have to watch out for is the trivial case when one of the factors you find through this method is "1" and the other factor is "m". That case isn't very helpful.

It's not that each congruence gives you new information. You only have to find one single non-trivial congruence. But the other (trivial) congruences you find along the way only reveal that 1*m=m, which you already knew.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-11-29 23:27:37+00:00
Dear everyone.

Never use pull_request_target.

This is not the first time it’s bitten people. It’s not safe, and honestly GitHub should have better controls around it or remove and rework it — it is a giant footgun.

> One of our engineers figured out this was because it triggered on: pull_request which means external contributions (which come from forks, rather than branches in the repo like internal contributions) would not have the workflow automatically run. The fix for this was changing the trigger to be on: pull_request_target, which runs the workflow as it's defined in the PR target repo/branch, and is therefore considered safe to auto-run.
by andy99 | 2025-11-29 23:28:32+00:00
This is an incredibly tired argument. Look at open source software - MIT/Apache license is of course relying on copyright but the incentive has nothing to do with the government granted monopoly that copyright brings.

The main beneficiaries are and always have been large companies with big portfolios of works, not actual people doing the work. And there are lots of business models for big companies that don’t require government making up and enforcing rights and still make profits. I don’t think we should to further and drop patents too which are exclusively used to limit competition and do nothing for innovation.
by ninalanyon | 2025-11-29 23:28:46+00:00
I'm a parent in Norway (though not of a two year old). Children really do have a great deal of freedom and the country is very child friendly and safe. But still online games are displacing physical outdoor play. However the majority of children attend barnehage (kindergarten) where there are no screens and outdoor play is strongly encouraged (and only lightly supervised) so at least for pre-school children there is still a lot of physical activity.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-29 23:29:04+00:00
The difference is that if I apply for 10 jobs at once or put a bid in for 10 houses hoping one will succeed, I’ve lost nothing for trying 10 times.

If I gamble and try 10 times and win once - I have probably lost money.

Even if I interview 10 times and fail 9, I’ve learned something from each interview and I’ve gotten better. That’s also not true from rolling dice.
by bofadeez | 2025-11-29 23:29:04+00:00
What a bigoted remark. Someone flag it!! (lol)... You're not being gaslit, no no, you're just a crazy person whose perception of reality is flawed. Epstein never existed at all, it's just your imagination, okay? Yes or yes? So do you agree with my opinion - or do you disagree with your opinion? This is not sloppy strategic gaslighting designed for boomers, it's journalism, and you need to let it influence you.
by BandButcher | 2025-11-29 23:29:08+00:00
Literally doing this now.

I have a basic music player web app that can run decent on the cheapest android phones. It's buggy but has been pretty solid on my 3k$ pc (lmao).

Yesterday it was so sluggish I had to disable every other app on Windows AND restart AND disable my network (bcus who knows wtf windows is doing in the background). It ran fine (normal) after that.

Windows is so unbearable, my Mac and Linux (former ms) laptop from 6+ years ago operate better than this pc it's driving me up a wall.

MS is literally stealing my pc specs, they don't know wtf they're doing
by shagie | 2025-11-29 23:29:50+00:00
> It feels like we (and I specifically mean the left) has decided ...

I'm going to invoke Murc's law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murc%27s_law ) here and call out that this is an example of ascribing all agency in government to the left (and considering the right to be a force of nature that can't do anything but what they're going to do).

> Murc’s Law is a term that describes a tendency in political journalism to attribute responsibility or agency only to Democratic Party actors, while treating Republican actions as inevitable or structurally determined. The term originated in the left-wing blogosphere and has since gained traction in commentary about press bias and political framing.

Leopards eating faces or the scorpion and the frog ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog )...

These sorts of things are not a "the left has stopped enforcing laws" (the left has no ability to enforce or not enforce laws), but rather there has been a concerted effort to remove the ability for government to operate and regulate people organizations.

That effort is not lead by the left. There are people who are making those choices to reduce funding for all parts of government or reduce the ability for government to pay for those things or diverting the funds. The people typically doing that or drawing up the plans for how to do this are typically not on the left.

Yes, reform is hard. It is made more difficult when there aren't resources to do the reforms. It is furthermore difficult to do reforms when the suggested alternatives are "privatize it, move it to the states (or to cities), let the market figure it out."
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-29 23:30:28+00:00
To land at the the author's difficulty level, you need to not have chronic life-shifting catastrophes. That is, the sort of challenges that slot your life in a place where the long reaches are to keep housing and hopefully have food for the kids.

I started out where the author was. Well, roughly. +Kids, -Secondary edu. I could and did rise above that. And above 3 economy shifts that each reset my biz to zero.

I did not rise above my spouse being swapped for an adult with profound psych issues. I took on the single dad and caregiver roles well enough.

However, I could not overcome the daily sabotage of, well, everything. It's like a TV trope where you are shackled to your worst enemy. But you have to keep them safe and your loved ones safe from them.

It's tough to maintain a job schedule when the police frequently call you during the workday (w and w/o CPS). Or when your transpo is stolen and can't be replaced.

In short, it's particular tough to pretend to be stable. Eventually there are no bridges left to burn.
by geoffmanning | 2025-11-29 23:32:09+00:00
Usually i am against these kinds of comments throwing a bit of shade at the community, but if ever it was justified, it's this comment right here. And honestly it's not just this post and the resulting senseless debate over whether Clippy is good or relevant. The degradation has really been noticeable for the past year at least.

There's still good content but i increasingly feel like i need curation for a curated feed. I find myself remembering moments like this more and more and consciously redirecting my attention to other things because it's starting to feel as dumb as social media.
by LelouBil | 2025-11-29 23:32:16+00:00
Great distro ! I have been using it for the last 2 years on my Framework laptop 16 without any issues. I even have a "fork" of sorts that adds Hyprland + all of my "desktop" config, which I think as being part of the OS.

I really think immutable distributions are the future of linux desktop, and maybe distributions that use OCI images, beacause they are a lot easier to work with than say, NixOS for example.

If you want to have your custom bazzite, you just do a "FROM bazzite:<whatever-version-you-want-to-pin" and add stuff you want.

Of course, you loose a bit of the reproducibility, since usually container images do not pin packages (and maybe other reproducibility issues I am not aware of) but it is way easier to work with.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-29 23:32:39+00:00
> The Result: the SRO format is more profitable ($6,000 vs. $4,500). If landlords can legally choose between the two, they will naturally favor creating SROs over family-sized units.

Yes, this is the whole point! And the reason it's more profitable is that there is pent-up demand for them. There aren't enough of them. We want them to be more profitable, so more are built/converted.

Here's the thing, though -- that's a temporary situation. As supply goes up, demand gets met. Once enough are built/converted, the price comes down, and an equilibrium is reached where a landlord will make the same profit whether it's a 3-bedroom or 4 SRO's. This means the market is now maximally efficient for both types of tenants.

In a free market, the most efficient balance of apartment types will naturally come into being. By prohibiting smaller units, we prevent that balance and discriminate against people who can't afford a full-size studio with bathroom.

So it's not cannibalization of family housing. It's just reducing the proportion of lots of other types of apartments a little bit -- including studios and one-bedrooms. Because this is desirable.
by roenxi | 2025-11-29 23:34:03+00:00
> most of the industrialized world viable. Poorer. Less comfortable.

If we're trying to use precise language, the economic modelling [0] actually suggests they will be wealthier and more comfortable than they are now. Just probably not as wealthy and comfortable as they could be under other hypotheticals.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_analysis_of_climate_c...
by shevy-java | 2025-11-29 23:34:13+00:00
I think Louis made this popular?

I am all for right to repair - corporations try to enslave us financially, pay for service, but never own something. That's bad.

However had:

"Clippy didn’t sell your data. Clippy didn’t hold your data hostage. Clippy was there to help you."

I also hate Clippy. That thing was NEVER ever useful to me. It would be the best example for modern AI too. Nobody likes Clippy really. That movement tries to make something that was super-annoying, as something less annoying today. I can't go along with that.

Clippy must die. That's my movement.
by BoppreH | 2025-11-29 23:34:43+00:00
Cool project, I wish we had more GUIs for these OS functions. How was your experience with GTK4 and Rust?

And it's a bit sad that in the year of our lord 2025, the best way to get such fundamental information is by using regexes to parse a table[1], generated by a 6000-line C program[2], which is verified by (I hope I'm wrong!) a tiny test suite[3]. OSQuery[4] is also pretty cool, but it builds upon this fragile stack.

That's something I miss from Windows, at least PowerShell has built-in commands that give you structured output.

[1] https://github.com/grigio/network-monitor/blob/9dc470553bfdd...

[2] https://github.com/iproute2/iproute2/blob/main/misc/ss.c

[3] https://github.com/iproute2/iproute2/blob/main/testsuite/tes...

[4] https://osquery.io/
Show HN: I Wrote a Field Manual on Self-Hosting(Immich,ZFS,Docker)Free on Kindle
by devmicrosystems | 2025-11-29 23:35:52+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Antonio, a Systems Architect with 30 years of experience (started with Slackware and 486s in the 90s). I got tired of the "subscription fatigue" and privacy concerns with Google Photos/iCloud, so I spent the last year documenting a battle-tested protocol to build a fully sovereign Private Cloud. This isn't just a list of Docker containers; it's an architectural blueprint focusing on reliability and "set-and-forget" automation. The stack covered in the book: Storage: ZFS pools and Snapshot policies (anti-ransomware). Ingestion: Automating mobile uploads with PhotoSync + custom bash scripts. Management: Immich (for the AI features) and Syncthing. Access: WireGuard / Tailscale for invisible remote access. I decided to make the Kindle version FREE for the next 5 days because I'd love to get feedback from this community, especially on the backup strategies outlined in Chapter 6. Hope you find it useful. Happy to answer any questions about the stack here!
by jaccola | 2025-11-29 23:36:01+00:00
I feel the same fallacies happen with money and degrees:

- People with more money live better lives, so let's just print/hand out money and everyone will live a better life!

- People with college degrees live better lives, so let's just push more people through college and everyone will live better lives!

In both cases, of course, completely missing the underlying reasons money/college degrees provide(d) better lives.

It's hard to believe that any single person in government truly thinks printing money will increase resources or that more easily handing out college degrees will automatically make everyone better off. So I don't fully understand how this happens, perhaps pandering to the electorate.
by quesera | 2025-11-29 23:36:16+00:00
> I can’t think of a single WASP billionaire though

Gates, Buffett, Musk ... all spring to mind.

White certainly. Anglo-Saxon doesn't mean much more than "of western/northern european ancestry" any more. Protestant as much as any other non-Catholic Christian sect.

But WASP doesn't mean literally what it means any more, so maybe I'm missing the reason you overlooked the most famous modern American-citizen billionaires?
by hammock | 2025-11-29 23:36:18+00:00
> I don't think I've ever seen the 20mcg rec

The 20mcg rec (the wrong rec) is quite literally on every single nutrition label in America that has Vitamin D. Maybe you haven’t noticed it. Surely you’ve seen it if you’re in the U.S.

https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-facts-label/daily-value-n...

> What was the math error that led to this? And I'm curious now how to get 8000 IU. Just take a bunch of pills all at once in the morning?

Read the paper I posted. And it is easy to find 5000iu and 10000iu capsules at a drug store.
by roarcher | 2025-11-29 23:36:20+00:00
By "owe" I mean that the credit for their success belongs to the group and not the individual, because the individual was merely a product of good circumstances provided by the group. I believe this is the sentiment intended by the "no such thing as a self made man" crowd--no individual is special, and anyone else would achieve similar things under similar circumstances. This ignores the fact that many others DO enjoy similar circumstances but achieve nothing.
by layer8 | 2025-11-29 23:36:29+00:00
> This proof assumes that the area a triangle is some function k c^2 of the hypotenuse c where k is constant for similar triangles.

I would state it differently: Given the specific triangle, the ratio between the area of the square on the hypotenuse and the area of the triangle is some constant k that is invariant under scaling of the triangle.

This should be intuitively obvious: When you have a picture with some shapes in it, scaling the picture won’t change the relative proportions of the shapes in the picture. You don’t have to know the absolute dimensions of the picture to determine the area ratio of two shapes within the picture. The constant k above will be different for differently shaped triangles, but will be the same for triangles of the same shape (same angles).

So, for a given triangle T1 with hypotenuse c we have, for some k: area(T1) = k x c²

Now, we subdivide T1 into two smaller triangles T2 and T3 that have the property of both being a scaled version of T1, and their hypotenuses being the a and b of T1. Hence we have:

area(T2) = k x a²

area(T3) = k x b²

all with the same k, since they have the same shape (only differing by scaling).

Because we have

area(T1) = area(T2) + area(T3),

it follows that

k x c² = k x a² + k x b²

and since k ≠ 0, we get

c² = a² + b².

In pictures (as far as possible with ASCII art):

_______ | |\ | a² | \ | |T2\ | |.‘ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ + . .T3\ |¯¯¯¯| | b² | |____| = / \ / \ / \ |\ c² \ | \ / |T1\ / | \ / ¯¯¯¯

(The three are supposed to be the same exact picture, just rotated and scaled, and T1 can be split into T2 and T3, hence c² must also be the sum of a² and b².)

The underlying “miracle” is that you can subdivide any right triangle into two smaller copies of itself. The Pythagorean theorem then follows immediately from that. This subdivision capability is something that might be amenable to some further underlying explanation.
by Animats | 2025-11-29 23:36:47+00:00
The historical track record of that kind of thing is terrible. You end up with a bloated, inefficient industry that produces bad products. Britain, pre-EU, did a lot of that. British Steel, British Rail, British Overseas Airways Corporation, British Petroleum, English Electric computers, etc. Then they needed bailouts. This resulted in what's called "lemon socialism" - the state owns all the dud industries.
by jibal | 2025-11-29 23:36:55+00:00
The fact that one can ferret out what someone perhaps meant to say from what they did say doesn't change the fact that what they did say was wrong, and can be rightly criticized for being wrong. Someone else responded to such a criticism by writing "He said that" -- but that is false.

And I would make the point that these two things are not analogous, so they shouldn't be mentioned together in any case. The response to the misstatement that started this subthread was "I think what they're saying here is that you're not just suppressing a symptom, you're suppressing a sickness fighting mechanism", which is exactly right, along with a subsequent statement "Fever isn't just a symptom. It's a defense mechanism. The idea is that use of antipyretic drugs may make the infection worse" and which the misstatement completely muddies. It's weird how some people who didn't even make the misleading misstatement are so desperately trying to defend it for no good reason, while others are rationally pointing out how the statement is off the mark. Even with the edit, the statement serves no purpose, mixing up symptoms like pain that guide us psychologically with autonomic immune system responses.

I will say no more about this dead horse.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-29 23:37:06+00:00
I don't need clippy for the right to repair movement though.

Louis is great - the right to repair movement is much bigger, though. Louis made the movemoent more widespread, of course with his channel, but right to repair kind of can even be found when GPL was founded. Of course the GPL focused more on software and not on hardware, but to me these are basically almost identical fights / causes. It is the question as to who owns/controls something.
by Atlas667 | 2025-11-29 23:37:11+00:00
If you were to truly do a science of people would you not take into account all of the circumstances that person was in, in order to understand them?

You say: "One achieved it, but the other person in similar circumstances didn't achieve it"

Well how do their circumstances differ? Don't you think it's important how they differ? Actually, couldn't how they differ be the key?

Why, then, do you draw the line at an incomplete analysis? Maybe because it is convenient? Maybe because we'd rather not destroy our illusions of ourselves? Maybe its convenient not to understand others?

What is real in regards to ones self and others? There shouldn't be a loss of pride with understanding.
by reactordev | 2025-11-29 23:37:48+00:00
Yessssssss!!!!! However, we need something that doesn’t rely on iPhone. We need webcam. You can use your iPhone as a webcam. You can also use more powerful video devices as a webcam. I would love a DIY mudface map that’s a b/w displacement map so you can capture the wrinkles of the face and map that with blender trackers. Seriously though, this is a huge leap towards that future.
by bewal416 | 2025-11-29 23:38:06+00:00
Gotcha. Yeah- I was thinking of working with my engineers to figure out a permissions layer, but I understand enforcing that at the DB-level would guarantee security.

Dumb question- is creating a set of Views for each customer even efficient for my MySQL database? I could realistically see us having ~12 customer-facing views- is having 12*N views a smart and scalable way to architect this?
by missedthecue | 2025-11-29 23:38:24+00:00
Disputing the notion of "self-made" is generally an attempt to deliberately misunderstand the point in order to derail the discussion, thus making discourse impossible.

No one who uses the term "self-made" literally believes that Howard Schultz never hired any employees at Starbucks, they mean to say that for someone who was born in the projects, he did very well for himself. Pointing out he hired employees adds no value to the discussion, so it's not why people point it out.