MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wilkommen | 2026-01-15 20:51:41+00:00
Make multiple versions of your resume, each of which emphasizes a different aspect of your skillset, and use the one that most closely matches the job description when you apply. When I am really interested in a job, I usually make a new version of my resume just for that one job application. It's not as much work as it sounds, because I just include or exclude different bullet points depending on the main skills required in the job description, so that when the person reviewing my resume reads it, they will say "I'm looking for an experienced C# developer... and this is an experienced C# developer! It's a match!". If I include too much info about my other skills, then they wonder if I'm much of a C# developer at all. It's about reducing what the hiring manager would see as "noise" so that they clearly receive the "signal" that they are looking for.
by phoehne | 2026-01-15 20:51:48+00:00
My point was, if you do invent something like Zyklon B, you need to consider its uses. While the gas itself is just a molecule, devoid of morality, not everyone who employs it will be a moral person.

In the case of Palantir, should we allow the federal government to combine databases (which may have been hoovered up by DOGE and held in a private sector company that isn't subject to FOIA)? Should there be judicial review, like for FISA warrants before you can field an application? Should we allow the government to buy that kind of app in the first place? I don't give Palantir a free pass.

But it's not the engineer at Palantir that decides to send poorly vetted and trained people into a home, fully stoked, believing your have complete immunity, and full of anabolic steroids, and praying any of the occupants shows an iota of resistance. 79 million voters chose this. This is the morality of the people employing the tool.

A thing clearly has no intention and it's impossible for us to know every possible use for a product. But at some level we need to feel responsible for what we create, we need to feel responsible for our choices, and we need to see the responsibility others have because of their choices.
by colechristensen | 2026-01-15 20:52:08+00:00
I built something to use for myself which is organized workspaces to work on many things with Claude in parallel with the ability to run things in VMs and linked web browsers all contained in one app. I built it mostly driven by trying to work on too many things at once and getting lost in a sea of windows and browser tabs.

It is not at all ready for public consumption (a face only a mother could love, in other words it's a bugridden mess), but I've considered polishing it and releasing it to the public either as open source or for profit.

Most of it is written with Claude and I've run into roadblocks with Claude being able to do too many things at once and am rewriting as several libraries to improve the focus for Claude agents.
by RIMR | 2026-01-15 20:52:10+00:00
In the USA, the loneliness epidemic is compounded by isolation. A large portion of our society has moved into suburban communities that are largely impersonal. There is very little in the way of in-person community outside of churches or political movements that only certain kinds of people want to be involved with.

With the Internet giving us the ability to interact with our chosen niche with little effort, we are willing to accept this still-impersonal alternative to our stagnant communities.

I have found that, as a city-dweller, I benefit from separating myself from social media and going out into the world looking for more personal connections, but this is somewhat of a privilege afforded to those people who live in more densely populated areas. Even then, my distance from social media can sometimes be a handicap when you interact with people who are still reliant on it to coordinate everything.

For most people, the social opportunities that existed in the 70's through the 90's simply doesn't exist anymore. If you aren't using social media, you're practically being anti-social, but there is something inherently anti-social about social media to begin with, so you're screwed if you do and screwed if you don't.
by subbu_devhub | 2026-01-15 20:52:50+00:00
@roywiggins I have a hard time writing a wall of text, I am dyslexic so I have a bunch of ideas and I give the rough outline and the LLM generates the doc that looks fairly polished so I use it where ever I can

I will take your feedback and see if I can restructure it better! thanks for taking time out to structure your comment properly, gives me a good insight on how to write good READMEs
by Amezarak | 2026-01-15 20:52:58+00:00
The argument is that people recklessly driving their vehicles with a total disregard for the lives around them are a danger to the people in front of their car and anyone else on the street, which is recognized by the Supreme Court even when nobody is directly in front of the car. They don’t have to wait until you kill someone and get tried for it. They can legally just shoot you under current law. That’s what the courts say.

Self-defense is, however, an entirely plausible defense in this scenario, even if the agent could have acted differently to not be in the path of someone already behaving erratically, and even if people only with the benefit of slo-mo multi-angle replays don’t think so. That’s why nobody is being charged. This happens all the time, unfortunately. The minute you choose to endanger people around you in the presence of people with guns, you’ve rolled the dice on your life.

So do you have any actual examples of what you’re describing?
by AdamJacobMuller | 2026-01-15 20:53:40+00:00
> It also writes files in it's own uninterpretable format to object storage, so if you lose the metadata store, you lose your data.

That's so confusing to me I had to read it five times. Are you saying you lose the metadata, or that the underlying data is actually mangled or gone, or merely that you lose the metadata?

One of the greatest features of something like this to me would be the ability to durable even beyond JuiceFS access to my data in a bad situation. Even if JuiceFS totally messes up, my data is still in S3 (and with versioning etc even if juicefs mangles or deletes my data, still). So odd to design this kind of software and lose this property.
by furyofantares | 2026-01-15 20:54:01+00:00
Yeah I know. I think it's becoming somewhat of a problem though, people commenting without reading, or only skimming.

My thinking is that we're getting tons of bad articles now that it's so easy to make a bad article that, when skimmed, looks good, and is a good jumping off point for comments.

I think in the past it was somewhat high effort to make such an article, so most articles that look good when skimmed actually WERE pretty good. But now it's trivially easy to make an article that looks good when skimmed, and so we're getting a lot of articles whose only value is a jumping off point for comments.
by futureshock | 2026-01-15 20:54:05+00:00
I like this question because I come at it from a very different lifestyle. I’m a digital nomad and I have mostly lived out of a backpack and carry on for the past 10 years. My philosophy is that things have to be worth carrying and they should be very easily replaceable if anything gets lost, stolen or breaks. A few of my under $100 favs:

Universal GaN travel adapter:
One of those square bricks that converts from any AC outlet to any AC outlet and has 3 or 4 USB charging ports built in. I got enough wattage to charge my usb-c laptop as well, so one brick takes care of all my devices.

Backup android phone:
Our phones are so critical that I keep a hot swappable spare phone on me, currently a Moto G 2025. It’s already logged into all my apps and 2FA. I could throw my iPhone into the Seine and keep on trucking. It even has backup NFC credit cards. I keep a cheap travel eSim plan active on it so that if I am somewhere sketchy I can leave my main phone at home.

Logitech MX Keys Mini:
Great portable keyboard. Backlit, usb c and multi-device. Typing this post out on my phone now.

GL-iNet Beryl:
The do anything travel VPN router running OpenWRT out of the box. Great for securing and extending sketchy WiFi connections or if you have to work off your phone’s hotspot all day.

Decathalon Quecha Escape 500 23L:
Such a great personal item size backpack for the price, less than 40 euros.
by dfabulich | 2026-01-15 20:54:18+00:00
This is answering the wrong question.

You're answering the question, "In a loneliness epidemic, what can I do to be less lonely?" Your answer is to use self discipline (which is hard) to get out of your house consistently, a decent answer to that question.

To actually fix the loneliness epidemic, you'd have to get everyone else to do that.

In the 20th century, getting out of the house consistently was the easiest way to interact with other people. Now, you can interact with lots of other people (in a less satisfying way) without leaving your house. What's going to fix that?

How do we get everyone to eat better? How do we get everyone to get enough sleep? How do we get everyone to exercise more? "Just tell them to do it" won't work. "Why don't we all just put our phones away?" won't work. We'd need a policy.

(My best guess: in the US, mandate that health insurers pay for therapy, and provide therapy at low/no cost in countries with national health care.)
by hombre_fatal | 2026-01-15 20:54:31+00:00
Spending time in parts of Latin America or western Europe or east Asia and then coming back to the US, you can see a lot of ways in which we've built loneliness into the fabric of US culture.

It goes beyond car culture. It's probably illegal to build a cafe within walking distance of your neighborhood or into the first floor of your apartment complex.

Americans get an idea of how bad we have it when we go on vacation, but we don't see it as something that can be built at home.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-01-15 20:54:33+00:00
Saskatchewan farmers have done very well since ~2000 or so. The 80's and 90's were very rough.

Yes, costs have skyrocketed -- combine harvesters start at about a million now. But wheat prices and yields have been high enough to more than compensate.

But Saskatchewan farmers are a great example of a low cost producer. A Saskatchewan farm usually runs about 10,000 acres per operator. UK farms with a couple hundred acres can't compete.
by weslleyskah | 2026-01-15 20:54:36+00:00
I know this, I've experienced this. There is not a concrete source for what I'm saying here.

I remember reading the article about a nudist family photographer. The English Wikipedia article was highlighting the controversy about child pornography that came with it, almost trying to demonize the guy, while the German article was actually trying to go beyond and develop the article. There are enormous discrepancies on that website.

Wikipedia has some bizarre articles and rules. I can only provide some pieces and bits of anecdotes.
by Altern4tiveAcc | 2026-01-15 20:54:58+00:00
> It’s possible to simultaneously believe that ICE has a clear and ethical mandate

... "We" (a lot of people, not everyone who posts here) don't believe that. Lots of people disagree with immigration control as a concept period.

The existence of that app is an abomination; the fact tax payer money is being allocated to it is tragicomic. Not spending it and just giving it as tax returns to the population would be so much better than kidnapping people over being born in the wrong place.
by cmtm4 | 2026-01-15 20:55:01+00:00
If that were true, they'd be showing up with real warrants (super easy if these are convicted felon illegal immigrants as they claim! But of course there are nowhere near as many of those as, say, the "thousands" they claim exist in Minneapolis) and mostly dressing in much more ordinary federal agent clothes and it'd all be boring and uneventful and legal enough that most of what they're doing would hardly even be noticed.

Going several thousand(!) strong into a US city and rolling around town in paramilitary convoys questioning people who don't "look American", to... "support fraud investigations" apparently, LOL, WTF... among other things, is why they're a hot topic right now. If they were doing what they claim to be doing, this would all be boring stuff.

Frankly I don't feel like I should be having to explain why guys in SUVs wearing plate carriers and comically overloaded with blinged out Call of Duty gear driving around a US city and sometimes jumping out literally going "papers, please" to people who "look foreign", all while universally masking up to hide their identities, is extremely fucking bad, to the point that I think that language is way too mild, but here we are I guess.
by jamiecurle | 2026-01-15 20:55:06+00:00
That cane was no fun. It was around for one year when I was in juniors before it got banned. I can remember as clear as the day at the start of September us new boys were taken into the toilet by the headmaster (lovely guy actually) and given a demonstration of what waited for us should we mis-behave. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" was in the charts and it was a perfect experience of 1980s english schooling.
by subbu_devhub | 2026-01-15 20:55:22+00:00
@focusedone I tried reader mode in several browsers it was such a hit or miss, it just did not work for me, and honestly I wanted to convert to markdown not just plain text

I tried several reader modes, there were several issues including
* several potions of the main content was missing
* the navigation bits get caught when in reader mode
* the comments and other un-related sections come in play

I really tried these before invesitng time in this
by jhwhite | 2026-01-15 20:55:23+00:00
LifeKit did an episode on this recently. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/06/nx-s1-5667582/how-to-build-a-...

Some things I do: I organize a monthly brunch for friends. I try and grow it, invite people I've recently met.

If someone asks me to do something, I try and do it. Get invited to poker night, I'm there. Asked to play Fantasy Football, yep! Even though I don't watch football and have never played.
by BuckRogers | 2026-01-15 20:55:32+00:00
You really do not add much value to any conversation you're a part of. The reading comprehension just isn't there. It remains true, my views are gained from submission to my faith. I recognize they're not my views. It's submission to our higher power. The difference is that you think your views are yours. But you're a moral relativist being manipulated. Blowing wind in society, you're a "cool guy". Anything goes. You wouldn't want to rock the boat on the latest thing coming out of your tribe, now would you. You might have to man up and be uncomfortable, taking an actual counter-cultural stand for once. Not happening Chris.
by jabl | 2026-01-15 20:56:04+00:00
> poor locking support (this sounds like it works better)

File locking on Unix is in general a clusterf*ck. (There was a thread a few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542247 )

> no manual fence support; a bad but common way of distributing workloads is e.g. to compile a test on one machine (on an NFS mount), and then use SLURM or SGE to run the test on other machines. You use NFS to let the other machines access the data... and this works... except that you either have to disable write caches or have horrible hacks to make the output of the first machine visible to the others. What you really want is a manual fence: "make all changes to this directory visible on the server"

In general, file systems make for poor IPC implementations. But if you need to do it with NFS, the key is to understand the close-to-open consistency model NFS uses, see section 10.3.1 in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7530#section-10.3 . Of course, you'll also want some mechanism for the writer to notify the reader that it's finished, be it with file locks, or some other entirely different protocol to send signals over the network.
by whatshisface | 2026-01-15 20:56:12+00:00
The fact that there is a demand for fake evil, functioning like fake piety did in the 1600s, is a flaw of difficult-to-encompass proportion. Our culture is totally bankrupt if companies are now pretending to be worse than they're in reality able to be. It sounds like the public has absorbed the evil = powerful message from fiction and projected their admiration for power.

Of course, in contrast to piety all fake evil is also real evil.
by jcranmer | 2026-01-15 20:56:39+00:00
> How is Palantir a loophole?

The big legal loophole is that the government needs a particularized warrant (per the 4th Amendment) to ask for any user data, but if the government buys commercial data, well, there's no warrant needed.

I would also submit that it's possible that sending everything through a giant computer-magic-bullshit-mixer allows you to discriminate on the basis of race while claiming plausible deniability, but SCOTUS has already constructively repealed the 14th Amendment between blessing Kavanaugh stops and the Roberts Court steadily repealing the Voting Rights Act, Bivens claims, etc.
by vharuck | 2026-01-15 20:56:46+00:00
I've done sidewalk art with my kid. Between Spring and Fall last year, I'd make a new drawing every time it rained. Rarely was there a day without chalk on my sidewalk.

I did it to play with my kid (and learn a little Japanese by writing the title in kanji), but another outcome was talking to neighbors. I keep to myself and have been told I'm difficult to approach, but people often come up and compliment the drawings. One lady said that, when walking with her granddaughter, she makes sure to see what's new on my sidewalk. It's been a very "low risk" way to put myself out there. I draw without anyone looking, and chatty people come to me while I'm in the yard.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-15 20:56:50+00:00
As someone whose childhood included attendance to various churches, this mostly reflects my experience. That's not to say that it can't or won't produce deep connections, but it is in my estimation more unlikely than not, particularly if there's anything about oneself that the church doesn't agree with or if commitment to that particular denomination hasn't been established.

Personally speaking I find the need to conform to the church's norms/expectations to not be ostracized at minimum chafing and in the worst case stifling. The third place and social aspects can be nice but being told how to live and exist isn't.
by johnpaulkiser | 2026-01-15 20:56:54+00:00
How big were the lots? How far of a walk was the closest bar, grocery store, cafe? Do you have to walk onto someone's property to talk to them if they are sitting on the porch?

I lived in a car dependent burb for 20+ years and would rarely, if ever, run into my neighbors out on the town. Living in a walkable neighborhood in a medium-low density city for under a year and I regularly run into my neighbors.
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-15 20:57:11+00:00
Dual-end pliers, like this:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Performance-Tool-W1105-Side-Locki...

There used to be a beefier version that was just perfect; despite over two decades of abuse (dropping off ladders onto sidewalks, letting children play with them...) my first pair is still going strong.

Now you can only buy slimmer knock-offs, but they're still great. Needle nose, std pliers, hex pliers, and wire strippers in a single, rugged tool.
by bennettnate5 | 2026-01-15 20:57:17+00:00
> prince Fëanor

> one of the good guys

Uhhhh...

Feanor drew his sword on his half-brother and threatened to kill him because he was paranoid Fingolfin was trying to usurp his power. He compelled all of his sons to swear an oath to slay any man, elf or being in possession of the silmarils (which led to subsequent needless bloodshed).

Then he ordered and carried out the mass-murder of relatively unarmed Teleri in order to rob them of their ships.

Such actions does not a good guy make.
by IshKebab | 2026-01-15 20:57:21+00:00
> you need to support the ability to unlink a file from the file system and keep its data around. Want to run "vim", you need the ability to do renames and hard links

Those seem like pretty basic POSIX filesystem features to be fair. Awkward, sure... there's also awkwardness like symlinks, file locking, sticky bits and so on. But these are just things you have to implement. Are there gotchas that are inherent to FUSE itself rather than FUSE implementations?
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-15 20:57:28+00:00
Strava apps, FourSquare apps, proximity to friend alerts...

It's really disappointing how doubt and suspicion have rotted some people's brains. Any and every work being viewed with searing doubt is such an unfortunate fate.

As a developer of fun personal website toys for myself & friends, I want to do good things. I want a better web platform. Oh I can download third rate geo-ip databases to do a bad job spying on people who maybe dont want to be spied on? So what? That sounds infernal as heck. None of the post engages with the subject matter, it's all whinge about something else.

This is right up there with the right wing batshittery that protestors are paid: people so far gone into a conspiracy world of vice they literally cannot believe in good and hope, even when it's right ahead of them.

But, PS, Google, I still haven't seen any checks (actually I got a summer of code long long ago), so, please, get those moving!
by terminalshort | 2026-01-15 20:57:33+00:00
And what, exactly, is the national security threat here? If Google is manipulating results to favor its advertisers or the political positions of its owners, that's what all publishers do, and have always done and nobody ever called it a national security threat. The "national security threat" here seems to be that they are showing people content that the government doesn't want them to see.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-15 20:57:38+00:00
I hear you. I've had ungrateful family members drive me broke. Compassion is doing the right thing, even when it's scary, or it hurts, or no one is watching, or when people around you misunderstand and demonize you, or they are just plain ungrateful and leave you holding the bag. I admire your willingness to continue grappling with it and finding your own answer.

Regarding women again, are you meeting enough of them? What's the scene like where you live? I don't know what it's like in NYC, but the social/dating scene in my current city just doesn't exist, and I'm watching some of my friends grapple with seriously heartbreaking loneliness.

I don't know what to tell them. I'm dating my high school sweetheart again, but we were broken up for several years, and many of the experiences I had with women during that time were quite traumatic. The rest of them were just not a good fit. I had completely given up on dating altogether, at least for a period of time, and only then did the love of my life find her way back to me. Despite years of extreme loneliness in new cities, I still consider myself lucky and wish I had some actionable advice I could tease from the situation. I've even experimented with building dating apps because this epidemic just scares the shit out of me.
by _fizz_buzz_ | 2026-01-15 20:57:57+00:00
But that is exactly what is happening. Each seller can offer their price and each bidder can also offer their price. And since running a gas turbine is more expensive than wind power they are forced by the market to turn their gas turbines off when there is wind. However when there is only a little wind they can power up their gas turbines and sell to the highest bidder. But since there is also a little bit wind, the wind power people can also sell to that highest bidder. That is how it happens that suddenly wind power is just as expensive as the gas turbines, because there is simply not as much wind power to go around for all the people that need electricity.