MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GMoromisato | 2025-12-02 02:16:52+00:00
[Self-promotion warning] My blog that nobody read turned into a published book. An editor for a small publishing firm happened to come across my blog and thought that it might be good as a book. He contacted me and after about a year of work (more than I expected) I finished the book and got it published. It's not that popular, but I'm very happy with it.

My point is that you don't need a massive audience. If you can reach one person and make them laugh, or teach someone something new, or give someone hope when they really needed it, then your writing will be worth it.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 02:17:29+00:00
>the options are follow the market or find a different line of work if you don’t like the way the market is going

You can also just outlive the irrationality. If we could stop beating around the bush and admit we're in a recession, that would explain a lot of things. You just gotta bear the storm.

It's way too late to jump on the AI train anyway. Maybe one more year, but I'd be surprised if that bubble doesn't pop by the end of 2027.
by zbentley | 2025-12-02 02:17:32+00:00
Eeeh ... the gap between "full access for all apps" and "lockdown mode" is wide.

Casuals are in there--nontechnical folks for whom "brick breaker deluxe wants to access your contacts" might raise an eyebrow. The stalked are in there--malicious apps that track location of the install-ee are unfortunately not uncommon. The one-device-for-multiple-lives folks are in there (if your work email/contacts are on your phone, it's a good thing that your dating app has to ask permission before acquiring your phone's contacts). So are the forgetful--that periodic "hey, this app has had permissions for ages, do you still want it to have that access?" thing not only helps folks clean up their perms, it reminds lots of folks about services they forgot they paid (or worse, forgot they are still paying) for.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-02 02:17:52+00:00
The magic of the system is that it's structured so that people like you can say things like that and not even be lying in any provable way.

Sure, it's not the actual insuring that's costing that much but the massive breakdown of incentives from increasingly vertically integrated healthcare companies (some of whom are insurers, some of whom own insurers) owning increasingly large shares of everything is clearly causing cost to spiral. The industry is making work for itself at out expense. Whether that work happens in the insurer's office or the billing office of the clinic that's owned by the insurer isn't really material. And of course everyone in the process gets a cut so they fight for their bit of it. Doctors used to drive the same crappy cars and live in the same modest houses as the rest of us. Nurse didn't used to be the "made it in life" job for people who come from poor backgrounds.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-02 02:18:00+00:00
Because there's a five-letter scare word you're not allowed to say that would be required for tech workers to have any power over their managers, but that sort of collective action is dead on arrival in the current milieu. If you don't want to go back into the office, you have the power to enforce that, but you have to like... work together.
by bloppe | 2025-12-02 02:18:21+00:00
I think it's easy to talk past one another on this subject. To be sure, I love Claude code. I wish I could pay for several years in advance at today's prices.

But the consumer's is not the important perspective for the AI hype cycle. It's the investors' perspective. I'm going to guess that well over a trillion dollars has gone into "AI", including the major labs and all the little "agents for XYZ" startups popping up every day. From the investors' perspective, that better pay off several times over in profit, not revenue, in the next few years. Prices will go up, but competition is fierce and nobody will be able to command a high margin. How are they going to make trillions in profit with razor thin margins?

This will make the very mention of "AI" toxic for most investors sooner than later.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-02 02:18:49+00:00
Not the OP but I think they mean those little phone booth pods. For if you want to join a call but you're the only one from that office so taking up a meeting room makes no sense. In our place they're tiny and stuffy (probably to prevent people hoarding them all day!). And if you fart in them it will probably hang around a long time :)
by cat_plus_plus | 2025-12-02 02:19:36+00:00
It's just a matter of system prompt. Create a nagging spouse Gemini Gem / Grok project. Give good step by step instructions about shading your joy, latching on to small inaccuracies, scrutinizing your choices and your habits. Emphasize catching signs of intoxication like typos. Give half a dozen examples of stelar nags in different conversations. There is enough reddit training data that model went through to follow well given a good pattern to latch on to.

Then see how many takers you find. There are already nagging spouses / critical managers, people want AI to do something they are not getting elsewhere.
by okanat | 2025-12-02 02:19:41+00:00
Umm you must be rather inexperienced in Windows and didn't do much search for that to happen.

1. WSL2 mounts Windows drives under /mnt/ . You can just cp things

2. WSL2 Distros are exposed as Network shares. WSL installs a virtual "Linux" shell folder to Desktop and explorer navigation bar. It is hard to miss. Moreover a simple search query would show you \\wsl$ share

This was the top result for me:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1439131/access-root-user-dir...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 02:20:26+00:00
>Isn't that what money is though

If you're only raised in a grifter's society, sure. Money is to be conquered and extracted.

But we came definetly shift back to a society where money is one to help keep the boat afloat for everyone to pursue their own interests, and not a losing game of Monopoly where the rich get richer.
by zamalek | 2025-12-02 02:21:03+00:00
I coincidentally watched BasicallyHomeless's video on his 100+ day Linux experiment and he made a really good point: because everything on Linux can be done with the CLI, it also has a working natural language interface (Claude Code). He ran into several issues, such as sound (allegedly that's no surprise, but not my experience), and Claude fixed them all.

If it doesn't wipe your drive.

Still, interesting thought.
by rileymichael | 2025-12-02 02:21:14+00:00
highly recommend twirp, even in current year. connectrpc seems to have stalled so there isn't a ton of languages w/server support, and because of the grpc interop on top of their own protocol it's a bit of an undertaking to roll your own.

the twirp spec however is so simple you can throw together your own code generator in an afternoon for whatever language you want.
by w10-1 | 2025-12-02 02:21:42+00:00
Underlying this seems to be a hard engineering problem: how to run a SaaS within UI timeframes that can store or ferry enough context to tailor for individual users, with privacy.

While Eddie Cue seems to be Apple's SaaS man, I can't say I'm confident that separating AI development and implementation is a good idea, or that Apple's implementation will not fall outside UI timeframes, given their other availability issues.

Unstated really is how good local models will be as an alternative to SaaS. That's been the gambit, and perhaps the prospective hardware-engineering CEO signals some breakthrough in the pipeline.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-02 02:21:46+00:00
This isn't even a conspiracy theory, it's just true. I mean, some of it is definitely induced attrition (you always want the expensive people to quit, in the Milton Friedman cinematic universe), but the rest is that the commercial real estate market would collapse tomorrow if businesses couldn't justify their 10- or 15-year commercial leases. Not for nothing did endless headlines about how "going into the office is super cool, actually" run in our most august financial publications, like WSJ and the Economist, right around the time RTO mandates started showing up.
by perryizgr8 | 2025-12-02 02:22:01+00:00
Jellyfin is great for this if you don't want to put the computer right next to the TV. Set up your torrent program to download to a particular directory and set up Jellyfin to watch it. The most seamless experience to watch anything. The only downside compared to Netflix is you need to wait 10-15 minutes to let the torrent finish. Also sometimes you have to hunt for the subtitles if you want them.
by rr808 | 2025-12-02 02:22:47+00:00
I have a job where I'm 5 days a week. The biggest problem isn't the juniors which are all happy to leave their small apartments to go into the office. Its the senior guys with big houses out in the suburbs that have the long commute. Unfortunately the new grads are having fun hanging out together but aren't getting the face time from the seniors.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-02 02:22:51+00:00
I feel his pain. Some of those error alerts make me want to sob.

Reporting problems to Apple is downright demoralizing. Most of the time, the bugs remain unassigned, unread, and unsolved. The few that do earn a response, are usually gaslighting.

I suspect that Apple may have hired a whole bunch of less-than-stellar people, and it’s showing. That’s depressing, because I always considered them to be the gold standard.
by opan | 2025-12-02 02:23:55+00:00
Sounds like the revived Unity/Unity7 still has a global menu bar, and there's a version called UnityX with Wayland support.

https://9to5linux.com/unity-7-7-desktop-environment-to-get-a...

https://unityd.org/unityx-7-7-testing/

https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity-x/unityx#manual-instal...
by ricardobeat | 2025-12-02 02:23:59+00:00
Instagram is pretty bland, not anywhere close to TikTok in the scale of societal malaise. It can be used as a plain photo sharing app, reels is still a secondary feature, and the only place you'll find both of those things. Stories is mostly snaps from your friends if you don't follow any 'influencers'. It has replaced Facebook as they way most people in their 20-50s connect, and a handle is better than giving away your phone number.

I wish we had better ways (coming with the DMA and chat interoperability? maybe), but it's tolerable.
by 1d22a | 2025-12-02 02:24:29+00:00
Not to mention all the useless LLM fluff Gemini has. I turned off Gemini because simple questions like "What's 1 USD in AUD" would be met with 30 seconds of "As a large language model, I can't provide investment advice, so it's always important to check information yourself [...], but one Australian dollar is approximately $0.65" (note the conversion in the wrong direction). By comparison, Google Assistant just gives you a number straight away.
by jsight | 2025-12-02 02:24:53+00:00
Yes, that's exactly it. A lot of people have shown that gas trucks suffer range loss as well, but they start off with higher range and get refilled in <5 minutes.

The EVs lose enough range that they often need to be charged deep into the pack to make it to the next station, which leads to >40 minute charging sessions every 100-120 miles.
by tobyjsullivan | 2025-12-02 02:25:09+00:00
The analogy conveys that QA is not inherently necessary to build and ship things that work.

It also paints a picture of a scenario where requiring QA would be more of a red flag than a best practice. It seems a tad silly to imagine a woodworker nailing boards together so they look like a table, then passing to QA to determine if the table is “good enough”, then having QA ship it back with defect reports. But this is exactly what many less-mature teams end up looking like.

You make a good point about unexpected interactions.

I’d argue the question for software isn’t whether QA Bad or QA Good. It’s at what level of complexity does QA become necessary. Most software teams aren’t dealing with all that much complexity (or, more specifically, inherent complexity that can’t be designed away.)
by simoncion | 2025-12-02 02:25:45+00:00
> in case this is not sarcasm... tech managers != tech leaders.

I agree that being management doesn't make one a leader. Anyone who has been in the industry for five, ten years knows that a leader may or may not have a management title.

However. It has been the fad for many, many years now for Management to call itself Leadership. [0] This makes it slightly ambiguous, but not at all incorrect to refer to the "management class" as the "leadership class".

[0] I guess their little, tiny, incredibly fragile egos got overly bruised by the years of derogatory commentary aimed at clueless managers, and they -because of their tiny, inadequate brains- decided that A Big Rebrand would change the nature of reality.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-12-02 02:25:57+00:00
>> uptimes of over 3000+ days

> Servers need to be rebooted regularly in order to know that rebooting won’t break things, IMO.

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself[0]

Worrying about critical process(es) being started manually which will not be restarted if a server is rebooted has the same risk as those same process(es) crashing while the server is operational. Best practice is to leverage the builtin support for "Managing Services in FreeBSD"[1] for deployment-specific critical process(es).

Now if there is a rogue person which fires up a daemon[2] manually instead of following the above, then there are bigger problems in the organization than what happens if a server is rebooted.

0 - https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-pr...

1 - https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/config/#configtun...

2 - https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/basics/#basics-pr...
by dreamcompiler | 2025-12-02 02:27:07+00:00
It's possible to look at the behavior of a company over time and infer their internal incentive structure. It's been clear for several versions of MacOS recently that Apple spends much more energy adding features than fixing bugs. It seems obvious that there is no incentive within Apple to fix bugs; the only thing that gets one promoted at Apple must be adding new features -- so bugs (at least in MacOS) don't get fixed.

We already know that Apple makes about 51% of its revenue from iPhone sales. Therefore it's reasonable to assume promotion opportunities are mostly centered around iPhone hardware and hardware, rather than MacOS. Those of us who depend on MacOS are likely screwed unless something at Apple changes.
by wj | 2025-12-02 02:27:21+00:00
I saw this Carl Jung quote shared on Substack recently.

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you"."

I'm using writing as an outlet for an active mind these days. Thoughts that seem important to me and need to come out even if there is nobody there to read them.
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by bloppe | 2025-12-02 02:27:45+00:00
I'll indulge your straw man because it's actually pretty good at illustrating my point. 99.9% of people are not psychopaths. But you only need .1% of people to be psychopaths. In a world where you get $5 and no threat of prosecution for stabbing people, you can bet that there will be extremely efficient and effective stabbing companies run by those psychopaths. Even normal people who don't like stabbing others would see the psychopaths getting rich and think to themselves "well, everyone's getting stabbed anyway, I might as well make some money too". That's what a race to the bottom is.

And that's why the government regulates stabbing.
by jmclnx | 2025-12-02 02:28:21+00:00
>Additional changes include fewer meetings

Where have I heard this before, wait at every job I have ever worked at. Every time it is said, meeting time increases.

Where I worked, Friday was the only day real work got done. Why, everyone was at home, but that was my go to office day. Thursdays was my WFH day because that whole day was nothing but meetings.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-12-02 02:28:38+00:00
And what about their traditions makes their religion not Hindu but makes the “Brahmanical Hindu” traditions Hindu?

The claim that there aren’t other religions is not true because a lot of lower caste folks have explicitly converted to Christianity and or Dalit Buddhism as promoted by Ambedkar who was the driving force behind rights for lower castes in India.
by hudsonwillis | 2025-12-02 02:28:59+00:00
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by okanat | 2025-12-02 02:29:00+00:00
WSL supports a kernel-based DirectX to Mesa bridge. It is better than any other VM implementation. However the latest releases caused some problems with auto detection mechanism in Mesa. Sometimes the Linux kernel module also fails to load.

You need to ensure that DirectX driver is used with tools like eglinfo. Most of the time, the main culprit is LLVMpipe software driver being used due to wrong detection.
by alliao | 2025-12-02 02:29:02+00:00
the owners; actual owners no doubt have their finger in the commercial real estate pie too. And they are obviously not ready to get a haircut on that portfolio so here it goes. COVID-19 hasn't disappeared yet, so all this is going to do is accelerate infection and churn through more people quicker. ASHRAE did update and release ASHRAE 241 but I really doubt building managers are eager to implement that costly compliance standard especially still shell shocked from WFH
by dboreham | 2025-12-02 02:29:23+00:00
My personal experience has been that teams were not in close physical contact since about 1994. Basically since the internet became ubiquitous. In 1999 I was working in an office in Silicon Valley and realized that I never sat across the table from any of the people I was working with. Some were in other buildings around the campus. Some were in France. Some were in the field. Some were down the hall on the same floor, but if you wandered over to talk to them chances were they weren't in their cube. So I decided to move to Montana. COVID occurred 21 years later.
by paulorlando | 2025-12-02 02:29:48+00:00
If you want happiness through writing, write only for yourself. Never check site visitor analytics, comments, shares. Only care if you're enjoying the writing. To make it easier you can also write under a pseudonym.

Some of my worst habits formed seeing early posts go viral and then getting addicted to that endorphin hit. The amount of time I wasted checking analytics and new subs would probably equal the time it would take me to write 10 more posts or read a couple books.

But congrats at sticking to it for 10 years!
by jchw | 2025-12-02 02:30:14+00:00
I honestly don't blame them that Dendrite didn't work out, I blame them for leaving us all stranded without any sort of migration path. I don't personally care if my homeserver is written in Python or Go or Rust, at least not very much. Rust may very well be a better choice than Go in the long run. I only chose Dendrite because when I chose it I felt like it was in better shape than Conduit (which at the time wasn't forked off, wasn't well-supported by app services either, and didn't handle federated presence) and lighter weight than Synapse.

Is my homeserver even counted in the 369 active Dendrite servers anyway? I mean, I guess it definitely isn't in that count since it is now an active Synapse server instead, as of late November. However for what it's worth, I don't think I actually connect to Matrix.org at all. Maybe it still counts if you're in a room with Matrix.org users?

But assuming it is basically just 369 Dendrite servers, well, they're all stuck there. How hard could it have been to provide a migration path? I dunno. My attempt is definitely incomplete and possibly quite ill-advised. I truthfully don't understand Dendrite or Synapse well enough to design a migration tool that works correctly. Did I calculate forward extremities correctly? Maybe. Are my state groups actually all correct? Probably not. How the hell did I end up with rooms that have multiple auth events? I have no idea, I just wound up destroying the corrupted rooms I found. I can only imagine that whoever developed the Dendrite database structure also had knowledge of how the Synapse database structure works and would've been able to do all of this in many less hours than I was.

After all is said and done I'm sure the balance sheets will look much better but the damage done to the community side of things will linger. I won't feel bad if Element fails and Matrix winds up replaced by a different standard later.
by anon7000 | 2025-12-02 02:30:24+00:00
> > at least the piano doesn’t autocomplete my scales.

> Oh just you wait!

Yeah, most digital keyboards or midi controllers can “autocomplete” scales or arpeggios lol. Press one or two notes and it’ll play chords based on those nodes, sequenced however you like.

Anyways, I somewhat agree with the author. AI can generate a pretty solid solution to certain tasks. Then my work is how to review it for correctness and code quality, make sure it can be “operated” reasonably well, test it, etc. Those are not exactly the fun parts of programming. (The fun part for me is problem solving.)

But you make a solid point! Just hard to connect that to work sometimes.
by rhinoceraptor | 2025-12-02 02:31:03+00:00
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by FireBeyond | 2025-12-02 02:31:22+00:00
> You’re eventually advised to reinstall macOS or, in the worst case, to wipe a fairly new Apple silicon Mac and restore it in DFU mode, but have no reason to believe that will stop the problem from recurring.

This isn't new. Back in GPU-gate days, I had a MBP that I could very reliably kernel panic due to that issue. But it'd pass Diagnostics so "no fix for you!"

Even when I was there with a Genius, we did this, and on a brand new install - look, here, can replicate this KP (which was basically some of the same steps people had for identifying the GPU (and everything else matched up).