MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apexalpha | 2025-12-29 07:57:09+00:00
This blog seems to be from "that side" of the self-hosting world: the homelabbers.

If you ask these people you need to buy expensive hardware and build your own datacenter at home.

I have been hosting all my services on a single Intel Nuc from 10 years ago and a RPI5 as backup for critical services like DNS.

That's it.

You'll truly be amazed at how much stuff you can actually run on very little hardware if you only have between 2 and 5 users like in a family.

Also, MinIO was always a enterprise option. It was never meant for home use. Just use SeaweedFS, Garage or so if you really want S3.

Sidenote: You do not need S3 in your house. Just use the filesystem.
by deaux | 2025-12-29 07:57:14+00:00
> What indication do you have that the construction time for tunnel 3 is due to corruption or even that it's taking longer than necessary?

These two questions are casually put next to each other in the same sentence but they're incredibly different. Personally, I don't think that corruption is a significant factor in how long it took. The second question is way too leading/framed - "necessary" doesn't exist past the physical limits.

For example, would the same project have taken the same time in China? No. Does that mean it should've taken as long as it would've in China, as clearly it took longer "than necessary"? Not by definition.
by wltr | 2025-12-29 07:57:55+00:00
How is it you could reinstall Windows, but not Linux? Or is it just mandatory to run Windows, but nobody cares if you reinstall it? My wife’s Windows laptop won’t allow me to even run Logitech Connect Utility, to reconnect some devices (pair a keyboard to the mouse). It surely won’t allow the full reinstall, it’s locked entirely. Hence, I’m curious what’s up with your work (I assume) laptop.
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by shauryatusk | 2025-12-29 07:58:57+00:00
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by posperson | 2025-12-29 08:00:02+00:00
There are so many businesses that are operating without a website and without reviews.

The bottom line is if you are selling electrical equipment to Amazon, do you really need a web presence or reviews? Your internal advocates will make sure Amazon buys from you, since they know the equipment you deliver will be UL Listed, direct from the OEM, etc.

This same line of reasoning goes for so many other lines of business. Reviews only kinda matter for retail and restaurant businesses, and the second you leave certain specific regions you are literally better off going to a 3.6 star business with 600 reviews than a 4.5 star business with 600 reviews despite both purporting to offer the same thing.

FYI I tried the prepopulated options for King County, Oregon and San Diego on your site and consistently get "No leads found in San Diego" or similar for https://rangelead.com/leads?county.slug=us-ca-san-diego

Not sure whats broken, but I wish you luck fixing it!
by Ekaros | 2025-12-29 08:02:46+00:00
Everyone needs nukes. Iraq and Afganistan needed them. Koreas needed them. Vietnam needed them. Cuba needed them.

We should make proliferation world wide goal. More nukes every nation has the better for world peace. It is only way to ensure peace.

Now it looks like Venezuela would have great and extremely justified reasons to have lot of them.
by BrenBarn | 2025-12-29 08:04:07+00:00
It depends what you mean by "profit". If you mean "the developers/maintainers can pay the bills of a modest lifestyle", then yes, I think that's important. But often "profit" is used to refer to the idea of unlimited upside, that there are stocks, that the project will be sold, that some kind of sizable windfall is expected, etc. And that I think is to be avoided.
by erenon | 2025-12-29 08:04:11+00:00
Disguised as a childrens book, this novel delivers a strong social commentary for adults, on working faster and faster, ever more efficiently, while losing the capability of living a satisfied life. (c.f: slow life)

Published in 1973, the utopia of Michael Ende (Neverending story) is eerily familiar for our modern society, e.g:

> You've no idea the kind of life I lead these days. Things aren't the way they used to be - times are changing. Over where I'm working now, everything's done in double-quick time. We all work like fury. One whole floor a day, that's what we have to sling together, day after day. Yes, it isn't like it used to be. Everything's organized - every last move we make...

> Momo listened closely as he rambled on, and the longer she listened the less enthusiastic he sounded. Suddenly he lapsed into silence and massaged his face with his work-roughened hands.

> "I've been talking rubbish," he said sadly. "I'm drunk again, Momo, that's the trouble. I often get drunk these days, there's no denying it, but that's the only way I can stomach the thought of what we're doing over there. To an honest bricklayer like me, it goes against the grain. Too little cement and too much sand, if you know what that means. Four or five years is all those buildings will last, then they'll collapse if anyone so much as blows his nose. Shoddy workmanship from top to bottom, but that's not the worst of it. Those tenements we're putting up aren't places for people to live in, they're - they're hen coops. It's enough to make you sick. Still, why should I care as long as I get my wages at the end of the week ? Yes, times are changing all right. It used to give me a kick when we built something worthwhile, but now... Someday, when I've made enough money, I'm going to quit this job and do something different."
by XorNot | 2025-12-29 08:05:13+00:00
Increase education funding, mandate a couple of levels of free choice liberal arts/philosophy type courses to ensure people have to expand their thinking a little, focus on critical thinking and media analysis skills in primary and secondary education - not as the main focus but certainly as important, civic building classes.

News media gets harsh anti-monopoly rules: no more billionaires owning every station in every jurisdiction, in fact no more conglomerates whatsoever. More independent funding for local news: I'm content for a bunch of these to go bankrupt on a regular basis but we'll sponsor more people putting out independent journalism.

At an international scale spin off an entity like the Federal Reserve which would be the Federal International Reporting Bureau with some iron clad rules about funding changes and the sole mission to baseline the availability of boots-on-the-ground international journalism, with a mission charter the citizenry must have accurate reporting to understand how they will choose leaders to guide international politics. This one would be tricky to get right, I suspect you'd probably end up tying resource allocation to government funding alotments and the like via some automatic mechanisms.

The first and last are probably pie in the sky: really let's start by shredding a couple of media empires into 50 different fiefdoms and let them battle it out for views, but there'll be no more mergers or cross-media ownership that's for sure.
by earthnail | 2025-12-29 08:05:25+00:00
That comparison is not only highly inaccurate, it’s also harmful in that it distracts from the real problem at hand.

Putin and Khamenei are ruthless, brutal dictators. You don’t need to like Starmer, but he’s none of that. He’s a proper democrat. The implication that they’re all somewhat the same delegitimises democracies and legitimises these dictators. That’s how they win.

I personally don’t think UK’s age verification thing is a good idea. I like Germany‘s idea of mandating PC and smartphone manufacturers to put simple parental controls in thar parents, not the central government, can enable for their kids.

I love Australia‘s banning of Social media for kids. Let’s see where that leads. I don’t live there but am very excited for rhe outcome of that experiment.

We can’t just sit here and simplify everything to black and white while Russian troll farms polarise our societies. We bear some responsibility here to have a nuanced debate about these things.
by UnmappedStack | 2025-12-29 08:05:40+00:00
This is a really interesting view, but I'm not sure I agree. So many amazing projects are truly free without the goal of profit yet their maintainers still do amazing work. I feel like part of the reason this works is because often the load is split between several maintainers (of which I hope to onboard soon, and have one or two offers already from people to contribute) and also the fact it's genuinely something enjoyable to work on (of course, to the extent it's not too stressful and overworked).
by icetearun | 2025-12-29 08:06:48+00:00
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by shrimp-chimp | 2025-12-29 08:07:12+00:00
I saw someone mention elm in a thread here on HN and decided to look into it, as I'm not familiar with the language beyond knowing it exists. I entered elmlang.org into my browser and found a page that not only provides me with the correct location, but also has a curated list of additional resources - not the least of which is a link to who's hiring using elm as part of their tech stack.

I'm grateful for the small, but valuable effort provided by whomever it is that runs elmlang.org. Thank you, mysterious stranger!
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-12-29 08:07:26+00:00
>I don't think a crate should abdicate from modeling the error domain any more than they should abdicate from modeling the other types.

Yes, it's just harder. We usually have a pretty good idea what callers want from the happy path, but the range of things that callers may or may not want to do in case of an error is very broad.
by torginus | 2025-12-29 08:07:32+00:00
I think living up to the hype needs to be defined.

A lot of AI 'influencers' love wild speculation, but lets ignore the most fantastical claims of techno-singularity, and let's focus on what I would consider a very optimistic scenario for AI companies - that AI capable of replacing knowledge workers can be developed using the current batch of hardware, in the span of a year or two.

Even in this scenario, the capital gains on the lump sump invested in AI far outpaces the money that would be spent on the salaries of these workers, and if we look at the scenario with investor goggles, due to the exponential nature of investment gains, the gap will only grow wider.

Additionally, AI does not seem to be a monopoly, either wrt companies, or geopolitics, so monopoly logic does not apply.
by kelnos | 2025-12-29 08:07:51+00:00
> Cynics feel smart but optimists win.

That's not been my experience. Optimists also tend to assume the best motivations behind the actions of others, and that will nearly always bite you in the ass in any sizeable organization.

I've been the ultra-cynic before, and agree that doesn't work either. People don't like working with you, and don't trust you.

I think we need to be realistic on order to be successful, and neither ultra-cynicism nor optimism fits the bill.

I would suggest that a healthy, reasonable amount of cynicism is a part of being realistic about how the world works.
by rootsudo | 2025-12-29 08:09:15+00:00
You need to push it, you can not stop, you need to make it a simple repeat loop otherwise there is no escape. Once you establish friends, act out of your comfort zone, it can become stable and your new daily routine. It's literally exposure therapy, the exposure here is to be secure in yourself and go out.

Everyone has this issue, some people have it worse. I would give anything to be normal in this regard, I've succeeded but I have a stutter which is horrible-- so imagine being able to just talk normally and go out in the world!

That last line, thats just negtative self talk. Stop that.
by rcxdude | 2025-12-29 08:09:33+00:00
The point is to test against a model of the dependency, not just the expected behavour of the code under test. If you just write a mock that exactly corresponds to the test that you're running, you're not testing the interface with the underlying system, you're just running the (probably already perfectly understandable) unit through a rote set of steps, and that's both harder to maintain and less useful than testing against a model of the underlying system.

(And IMO this should only be done for heavyweight or difficult to precisely control components of the system where necessary to improve test runtime or expand the range of testable conditions. Always prefer testing as close to the real system as reasonably practical)
by unethical_ban | 2025-12-29 08:10:16+00:00
My assertion is that it's a small club of incredibly powerful people operating in a system of very human rules - not well defined structures like programming, or to a lesser extent, law.

The market they serve is themselves and powerful shareholders. They don't serve finicky consumers that have dozens of low-friction alternatives, like they do in AI slop Youtube videos, or logo generation for their new business.

A human at some point is at the top of the pyramid. Will CEOs be finding the best way to use AI to serve their agenda? They'd be foolish not to. But if you "replace the CEO", then the person below that is effectively the CEO.
by liampulles | 2025-12-29 08:10:22+00:00
The bit about the green over-representation in camera color filters is partially correct. Human color sensitivity varies a lot from individual to individual (and not just amongst individuals with color blindness), but general statistics indicate we are most sensitive to red light.

The main reason is that green does indeed overwhelmingly contribute to perceptual luminance (over 70% in sRGB once gamma corrected: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#relativeluminancedef) and modern demosaicking algorithms will rely on both derived luminance and chroma information to get a good result (and increasingly spatial information, e.g. "is this region of the image a vertical edge").

Small neural networks I believe are the current state of the art (e.g. train to reverse a 16x16 color filter pattern for the given camera). What is currently in use by modern digital cameras is all trade secret stuff.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-12-29 08:10:57+00:00
> it was well known that Unity was hindered by sticking with an old and out-of-date Mono, and they were very successful at deflecting the blame

So much this. According to a 2023 blog article from Unity [0], Unity uses Boehm GC. But Mono itself introduced another, generational GC called SGen [1] more than 10 years ago that became the default at some point. It is just Unity stuck on old mono versions, missing out on all the changes and improvements that went into Mono after their fork, essentially.

[0]: https://unity.com/blog/engine-platform/porting-unity-to-core...
[1]: https://www.mono-project.com/docs/advanced/garbage-collector...
by bb88 | 2025-12-29 08:11:13+00:00
So you mean other than these sections right?

"Thought experiments about mesh networking"

"Hard Lessons Learned -- What not to do"

"Meshtastic Is Rediscovering Lessons (Already Learned) of Amateur Radio Data Networking"

Instead of actually trying to understand the arguments these days, it's easier to inject noise into the argument, proclaiming it's too "hard to find" or "too hard to understand."

Mesh networking is a hard topic. Expect to expend some brain cells to understand it. I'm not here to spoon feed you tech that was well understood 3 decades ago.
by kelnos | 2025-12-29 08:11:28+00:00
I don't really agree. The dictionary definition of cynical is "believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others".

That's certainly very extreme, but a tempered, measured belief in the negative aspects of human nature is necessary, I think.

You might say, "that's just realism", but I think they are just separate axes: some amount of cynicism (and idealism) is necessary in order to be realistic. Possibly different amounts in different contexts, depending on the other people involved.
by Waterluvian | 2025-12-29 08:12:30+00:00
Time and energy and willpower are very limited resources.

Unintentionally, but to incredible effect, the current American regime has exploited the deeply rooted need by rational people to counter nonsense with sense, as a means to whittle down these limited resources.

We’re defending against waves of shitty idiot drones with multimillion dollar missiles like this blog post. But I’m not sure what other option there is.
by Kiboneu | 2025-12-29 08:13:49+00:00
I don’t know, but your question reminds me of this paper which seems to address it on a lower level: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974

“Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models”

“ … On the surface, such a backdoored classifier behaves normally, but in reality, the learner maintains a mechanism for changing the classification of any input, with only a slight perturbation. Importantly, without the appropriate "backdoor key", the mechanism is hidden and cannot be detected by any computationally-bounded observer. We demonstrate two frameworks for planting undetectable backdoors, with incomparable guarantees. …”
by tobyhinloopen | 2025-12-29 08:14:56+00:00
The problem with their example is that you can display linear image data just fine, just not with JPEG. Mapping linear data to 255 RGB that expects the gamma-corrected values is just wrong. They could have used an image format that supports linear data, like JPEG-XL, AVIF or HEIC. No conversion to 0-255 required, just throw in the data as-is.
by culi | 2025-12-29 08:15:35+00:00
Woah absolutely wild to happen to be checking the /new page and see this! That's me! The repo is: https://github.com/tif-calin/elmlang.org

If anyone associated with Elm wants the domain, feel free to email me at

[myhnusername]{t}(i)<f>@tuta.io (without all the anti-spam gobbledygook)
by unethical_ban | 2025-12-29 08:16:17+00:00
It's mind-boggling. I get riffing on the hyped superiority of CEOs. I've heard inane things said by them. But, being a human being with some experience observing other humans and power structures, I can assuredly say that the tight-knit group of wealthy power-brokers who operate on gut and bullshitting each other (and everyone) will not cede their power to AI, but use it as a tool.

Or maybe the person you're describing is right, and CEOs are just like a psy-rock band with a Macbook trying out some tunes hoping they make it big on Spotify.
by teiferer | 2025-12-29 08:16:39+00:00
> more often than not

Do you have any evidence for that claim or is it a gut feeling?

> in the UK it's what Starmer doesn't want to hear.

In a literal sense that can't be true, since upon change of government, the hate speech definition does not suddenly change. In contrast, Putin and Khamenei are very literally able to personally define the definition.

In a figurative sense, that's likely true. As a democratically elected representative of the people, what he wants censored reflects what the people want censored, so is in alignment with a democratic society. If the people change their mind or realize it's not actually what they wanted, they elect somebody else next time. Good luck trying that with Putin or Khamenei.

In either case, your comparison does not hold up.
Neocloud bubble is a serious danger to the economy
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-12-29 08:16:59+00:00
The amount of debt that is accruing is pretty insane. A lot of it is obscured through private credit and there are is a lot of crazy financial engineering happening (using GPUs as collateral, SPVs to hide borrowing from the public balance sheet, tranching and selling of the datacenter debt). It's driving up inflation and eating everything from RAM to jet engines. It's going to be a painful pop regardless, but the sooner it ends the better. Just in every sense, each day it continues, the more danger the country is in.
by lefra | 2025-12-29 08:17:32+00:00
Silicon sensors (which is what you'll get in all visible-light cameras as far as I know) are all very sensitive to near-IR. Their peak sensitivity is around 900nm. The difference between cameras that can see or not see IR is the quality of their anti-IR filter.

Your Samsung phone probably has the green filter of its bayer matrix that blocks IR better than the blue and red ones.

Here's a random spectral sensitivity for a silicon sensor:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRkffHX...