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by 2c0m | 2026-01-15 19:32:30+00:00
No one is asking for this advice, but I'm sharing it anyways.

My #1 top priority this year is _social health_. I'm taking it into my own hands. Mostly just continuing things I'm already doing with tremendous payoff. My measurable result is going to be throwing my own birthday party in fall. I've never done that before, I've never had enough friends in my city!

No one group or app is going to come save you from loneliness. You have to get up, go outside, and find people.

0. Say yes to everything, at least if you're new in town. Don't care how scared you are of X social situation. "Do it scared" - @jxnl

1. I am part of my community's swing dancing scene. I take classes, go to social dances, I _show up_ even when I don't feel like it. People recognize me now, know my name, etc. I'm also a regular at my gym. Find a place and be a regular face there. (_how did I become a swing dancer? I got invited, and my social policy prevented me from saying no!_)

2. If I have no social plans for a week I do a timeleft dinner (dinner with 5 strangers). Always have something on the books. I call this my "social workout". If I vibe with anyone I ask if they want to grab ramen the following weekend. Leads me to point #3..

3. Initiate plans. Everyone is waiting for that text "hey, want to go do x with me?". Be that person. I have an almost 100% enthusiastic response rate to asking people to do literally anything. Go on a random walk? Go to costco? Go checkout ramen or pizza spot? You don't have to think of anything special. Whatever you're already doing.. ask someone to come with! Soon they start inviting you to do random stuff.

4. (experimental) I don't drink, which does curtail my social opportunities. I'm considering updating my drinking policy this year. My hypothesis is that the benefits of having a strong community out-weigh the health benefits of abstinence.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-15 19:32:36+00:00
It's a prediction algorithm that walks a high-dimensional manifold, in that sense all application of knowledge it just "search", so yes, you're fundamentally correct but still fundamentally wrong since you think this foundational truth is the end and beginning of what LLMs do, and thus your mental model does not adequately describe what these tools are capable of.
by srean | 2026-01-15 19:32:40+00:00
Yes.

Our lopsided emphasis on individualism, our definition of economic efficiency that does not include the psychological value, has been detrimental to our connections, roots, community, family etc.

We said, let the mom and pop stores die, their replacements provide the same value but more efficiently. Let community bonds die they intrude upon the individual destiny.

But we did not quite account for the value of what we chose to replace all that correctly. So it is not surprising that we find ourselves here.

Could it have played out any other way ? I doubt it. Our world is underdamped, so we will keep swinging towards the extremes, till we figure out how to get a critically damped system. The other serious problem is that feedback system is so laggy.
by vel0city | 2026-01-15 19:32:48+00:00
Absolutely, I agree. Some of the people I had the sharpest debates with and didn't always agree with had way more impact on who I am today than the softer acquaintances. Most of them definitely made me a better person in the end, even if we weren't really "friends".

And yeah, even just having the basic daily connections can be a dopamine hit.
by ge96 | 2026-01-15 19:32:54+00:00
I get it, but $5 to change someone's life?

It's funny there was a moment I was at a bus station, somebody asked me for money and I dumped all the coins I had in my wallet in their hand for future bus rides. And some lady comes up to me jokingly like "you handing money out? what about me".

But yeah I think I should just give the money out, I think aside from the guy at the red light that's there almost everyday when it's warm, it's rare I encounter somebody personally. Until I go into the city.
by offtherecord | 2026-01-15 19:33:21+00:00
This is a translated excerpt from a private memoir documenting everyday life in urban China in the years leading up to the Cultural Revolution. It focuses on ordinary routines—school, work, housing, and family life—rather than political leaders or major events. Read more:
https://chinaofftherecord.substack.com/p/china-off-the-recor...
https://open.substack.com/pub/chinaofftherecord/p/china-off-...
by avsm | 2026-01-15 19:33:27+00:00
Funnily enough, we shipped the Docker Desktop VM a decade ago now (experience report at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3747525). The embedded VM in DD is much more stripped down than the one in Claude Cowork (its based on https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit), and its more specialised to container workloads rather than just using bubblewrap for sandboxing (system services run in their own isolated namespaces).

Given how many products seem to be using this shipping-Linux-as-a-library-VM trick these days, it's probably a good time for an open source project to step up to supply a more reusable way of assembling this layer into a proper Mac library...
by rambojohnson | 2026-01-15 19:33:33+00:00
This, along with the AI slop and agentic nonsense gutting real work, is exactly why I pivoted my career. The industry feels like it's being driven by chest-thumping, siege-heiling authoritarian inbreds at the top, propped up by tepid company-man shills who clap along and call it innovation while the place rots from the inside. my feed on LinkedIn gives me hives. I've since cancelled my account as well. good riddance. tech is dead and I hope the public doesn't have to yet again bailout some late-stage capitalist bullshit when yet another bubble bursts. /rant
by cg5280 | 2026-01-15 19:33:37+00:00
> The goals and motivation for using these tools, and their broad allowance of access to what should be highly controlled data (or in some cases even not collected at all) is the problem ... focus on the policy decisions that are leading to agencies wanting tools like this in the first place.

That's how Karp seems to justify these things. Palantir's job is to (in theory) make government better at doing government things. It's up to voters to keep the government in line.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-15 19:33:49+00:00
From your article:

> Meanwhile, Vietnam will be the chief manufacturing hub "for almost all iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and AirPods product sold in the US".

> We do expect the majority of iPhones sold in US will have India as their country of origin," Mr Cook said.

Still not made in the US and no plan to change that. They will be selling products made in India/Vietnam domestically and products made in China internationally.

The tariffs are not bringing these jobs home.
by niam | 2026-01-15 19:33:51+00:00
The common denominator is to have shared spaces where it's expected to be among strangers' presence, and for those strangers to eventually become repeat guests in a person's life. That's the maximally comfortable scenario for inducing social behavior and it's responsible for eons of human social history. Think church.

The problem there is that it's the responsibility of groups or society to arrange that. There's not much that a single lonely person can do there.

The less common denominator, that an individual may partake in until society concocts a better solution, is to intentionally visit existing shared spaces even where they otherwise wouldn't (hint: bouldering gyms are good for this because there are repeat faces as well as a social okay-ness to congratulating strangers, or asking how certain challenges can be solved).

Or break with convention, comfort, and perhaps etiquette, and instead just talk to people. Even outside of those spaces. (This is the advice that will piss a lot of people off if it's presented as their only option.) This advice is horrible until it isn't. It does, with enough practice, 'just work'.

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For an entrepreneur or organizer: it would just go a long way to think about things in terms of allowing conversation to happen unimpeded. Pay attention to where people talk, and about what. Conversations happen a lot in hallways but famously by water coolers, perhaps because it affords people enough time in a shared space to muster the internal capital to start a conversation.

In college I ran a forum for people to meet others and some of the most self-reportedly successful participants just asked questions into the void and were surprised by the number of responses.
by mystifyingpoi | 2026-01-15 19:34:31+00:00
While this is true, it's worth mentioning that a regular coffee machine small talk in the office is not building any relationships. At least that's how I experience it. It can start one, but won't automatically make one.

I can go for a coffee and routinely get dragged into 30 min conversation about politics, or cars, or weather, or any other subject I literally don't care about. All the good relationships begin with finding a niche topic between 2 people.
by wgjordan | 2026-01-15 19:34:32+00:00
Related, "The Design & Implementation of Sprites" [1] (also currently on the front page) mentioned JuiceFS in its stack:

> The Sprite storage stack is organized around the JuiceFS model (in fact, we currently use a very hacked-up JuiceFS, with a rewritten SQLite metadata backend). It works by splitting storage into data (“chunks”) and metadata (a map of where the “chunks” are). Data chunks live on object stores; metadata lives in fast local storage. In our case, that metadata store is kept durable with Litestream. Nothing depends on local storage.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634450
by wanderingstan | 2026-01-15 19:34:38+00:00
This is more akin to a race car driver give a review of, for example, a new type of electric car. It doesn’t matter that the driver is not a domain expert in electric motors and regenerative braking; what matters is he knows how to operate these machines in their use case at the limits.

Hearing a programming legend weigh in on the latest programming tool seems entirely completely reasonable.
by peralta | 2026-01-15 19:34:41+00:00
https://www.ziritione.org -- Started in the early ~2000s. Personal blog, sometimes too personal (I added a bunch of noindex tags instead of removing old content), covering some tech stuff over the years. Interestingly, I migrated the site to different frameworks over the years, still managing to keep most of the URLs stable and not losing any meaningful content (started with blosxom in perl, then custom solution in django and now hugo).
by terminalshort | 2026-01-15 19:34:50+00:00
People who are capable of building things don't go into government. "Bureaucracy" has a connotation of where creativity and innovation goes to die for a reason. The personality type that goes into bureaucracy thinks about this like "why would I put in the effort to build something when I could just use the state monopoly on violence to shake down the suckers who already did all that hard work for me?" Of course they lie to the public, and most importantly to themselves, that they have higher motives, but that is the underlying logic.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-15 19:35:02+00:00
This is a difficult problem to want to solve. Some of it has to do with low income or joblessness. So this is the first focus I would set - make income easier to come by, more fair, more distributed. This in itself will not fix the solo state of people but it would alleviate some worries. Then we have to tackle the social problem. This is really difficult to want to solve. Activity helps, so the state should be able to encourage more activity overall. For instance, in my own youth I was physically more active, so you meet a lot of people through sports - that alone works fairly well. You can probably think of many more cohesive social structures and what not. I think it is a difficult to want to solve problem though. Not everyone uses social media by the way but is still isolated; Japan even gave some odd name to this.
by californical | 2026-01-15 19:35:13+00:00
> idealized fantasy land

For what it's worth, many (most?) countries have most of their people living in places that are not sprawling suburbs. It's worst in the "Anglosphere" countries (US/Canada/Australia) within the last 50-70 years, but it's absolutely not a fantasy land. It's the way things were everywhere before 1940, and most places still are today.

I say that because it is fixable, if we let ourselves fix it...

Your point stands though, even in a fairly antisocial layout of a suburb, you can still usually make friends with a decent number of people nearby.
by reaperducer | 2026-01-15 19:35:17+00:00
It's so interesting to see the tech community all angsty about the loneliness epidemic.

20 years ago, the Pope warned of the coming "epidemic of loneliness" that the tech industry would bring us, and the tech industry laughed at him. They said he was just an old man who didn't understand and that technology would bring us together in unity and happiness.

And yet, here we are 20 years later, and hardly a day goes by that someone doesn't submit an article to HN about loneliness.
by moomoo11 | 2026-01-15 19:35:27+00:00
You can't.

It is up to them to change. They won't change, and this "loneliness epidemic" is starting to become really fucking annoying. It is almost a grift now to shit on tech by mids.

These people don't want to go outside or engage with other people.

It is like people who are drug/alcohol/tobacco/gambling/sex/etc addicts. It is up to the individual to change. How is it anyone else's responsibility?

I surveyed a bunch of people on reddit, discords, etc. a couple years ago to figure out why people are lonely, back when this whole "loneliness" movement was starting.

A lot of these people say they have "trauma" or some other mental block as a primary reason why they're lonely (btw they're in discords with thousands of people, and playing online games with OTHER PEOPLE). I'm sorry but everyone has shit going on in their lives. You aren't really that special.

Maybe 1-5% of people have dealt with actual, really horrific trauma, and even they have managed to go on to have fulfilling lives. They chose to move on.

I'm an asshole, no doubt, and I've dealt with my own traumas in the past that were honestly way more fucking horrible than "I'm shy" or "nobody likes [insert some esoteric niche]" and guess what? Who cares? Go outside.

There is no helping these people, or anyone to be honest, unless they really want to make a change. These aren't starving Sudanese or people who live in India or something where you can't just "go outside". Mfs be in CALIFORNIA and crying. I'd understand if they were lonely because they were living in Iraq or Venezuela or something.

The only solution is we build a Matrix, and put all these people into it. I will bet 100% of my net worth and any earnings from my entire lineage for perpetuity that they will still fucking complain and be lonely. I was really hopeful for metaverse, too bad but maybe there's still a chance.

I never want to hear about "loneliness epidemic" again, to me it just sounds like DEI/ESG/Eacc and other bs grifting now to hate on tech. Everything is a choice. You press A in a video game even though you're lonely, why not press A to go outside?

These people aren't lonely, they exist in massive online echo chambers with other people. And honestly? I think they like it. Most drug addicts loved being on drugs even though it was a horrific existence. They don't like it when they're narcan'd during OD. But when they decide to get clean, I am proud that they actually did it how amazing is that? SO these lonely people have to stop crying and step outside.
by bflesch | 2026-01-15 19:35:29+00:00
I recommend you read "careless people", the book about Facebook, where it is documented that Facebook illegally installed spyware alongside the Facebook app on the smartphones of their users. They monitored the apps their users where running alongside Facebook, which allowed Facebook to not only monitor all competitors but also see the rise of WhatsApp, which ultimately led to the "surprise" acquisition of WhatsApp.

Not to mention that Facebook and Google unknowingly ingested phone contact lists from smartphones of their users on a massive scale. So their "advantage" was extremely unethical behavior, which today would be considered an illegal crime.

So yes, it is literally Apple and Google stopping my European company to do the same, because they make it really hard to leech user data from their platforms.

> nobody is forcing you to use them

Do you remember internet.org? There's an interesting section in "careless people" about how Zuckerberg was working on bundling Facebook with smartphone contracts so people can use it for free. One country rolled out Facebook for free and it resulted in the Rohingyan Genocidg because Facebook enabled unchecked fake news along religious divides, while over years ignoring all warnings about the problem.
by jerf | 2026-01-15 19:35:31+00:00
There are a number of little projects like that but I'm not aware of any that have attained liftoff.

Javascript was a weird exception, being rigidly the only thing available in the browser for so long and thus the only acceptable "compile target" for anything you want to run in the browser. In general I can't name very many instances of "write in X and compile it to Y", for some Y that isn't something you are forced to use by a platform, being all that successful. (See also assembler itself.) The Javascript world gives a false signal of this being a viable approach to a project; in general it doesn't seem to be.

(Note this is a descriptive claim, not a normative one. I'm not saying this is how it "should" be. It just seems to be the reality. I love people trying to buck the trend but I am a big believer in realizing you are trying to buck a trend, so you can make decisions sensibly.)
by huntaub | 2026-01-15 19:35:53+00:00
Respect to your work on ZeroFS, but I find it kind of off-putting for you to come in and immediately put down JuiceFS, especially with benchmark results that don't make a ton of sense, and are likely making apples-to-oranges comparisons with how JuiceFS works or mount options.

For example, it doesn't really make sense that "92% of data modification operations" would fail on JuiceFS, which makes me question a lot of the methodology in these tests.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-15 19:36:09+00:00
Sure, but what about the people who don't do this? Those who sit at home all day, scrolling away, drinking themselves to death, wondering why life is so lonely.

The only time you ever see such people is when they're walking to the grocery store. How do you reach out to them to let them know about these ideas or encourage them to try it? Especially when they're filled with discouraging thoughts?

What if all they need is one single person to say hi? How can I find them, reach them? This is what I'm asking.
by iraklilek | 2026-01-15 19:36:15+00:00
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by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-15 19:36:21+00:00
> gym no one talks with anyone

My experience is similar. I think there is a combination of "some gyms are more social" and "some people are good at breaking the ice with strangers". On social media, I frequently hear people say stuff like: "Oh yeah, I have a bunch of friends at the gym." I am not doubting their story, but it doesn't happen to me.

> remote work ruined my mental health

I'm sorry to hear it. I'm not here to start a holy war about remote work. Can you share some details? For me, remote work has me very quickly "falling apart" -- showering at 2PM or not at all. Going to the office forces some structure into my life and everything else flows from that. To be clear: I understand that a lot of people love remote work.
by avsm | 2026-01-15 19:36:22+00:00
The Claude Code devcontainer works really well, especially the firewalling script! I had do a bit of GitHub Actions spelunking to figure out how to build binary images (with my own devtools preinstalled), which I wrote up here: https://anil.recoil.org/notes/ocaml-claude-dev

With this I have a nice loop where I get Claude to analyse its own sessions via a cronjob and rewrite my devcontainer Dockerfile to have any packages that I've started using during the interactive sessions. This rebuilds via GHActions and my fresh image the next day has an updated Claude and dev environment in a sandbox.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-15 19:36:26+00:00
I don't like bash, and this kind of esoteric, hard-to-remember syntax is a big reason why. Software developers and computer users should want their shell to be easy to use and reason about, just as they reasonably want this from their general-purpose software development languages.

bash is a UNIX legacy tool from the 80s that lingers on in software written today because it's part of the POSIX standard (well, sh, which is close enough), and because generations of developers on UNIX-like systems can be assumed to be familiar with it. I don't think this is a good thing, and I would like to see active efforts to replace the use of bash with better, more-modern scripting languages that provide an easier-to-understand more-reliable experience for users.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-15 19:36:53+00:00
Pick the items you want to mirror and seed them via their torrent file.

https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive

https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/cli.ht...

ia search 'format:"Archive BitTorrent"' --itemlist > itemlist.txt

Note that there will be more than 50M items returned by this query, so that command will take a very long time to complete (results are returned in 10k chunks). You'll probably also want to add something like `--timeout 300` as well so you don't get half way through only for the command to fail with a timeout.

u/stavros wrote a design doc for a system (Codename "Elephant") that would scale this up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559219

My mental model on this is Anna's Archive's torrent page meets ArchiveTeam's Warrior. Have disk? VM starts up, picks least seeded items from public endpoint, replicates, starts serving, and coverage is constantly reported back by the archive swarm.

(no affiliation, I am just a rando; if you are a library, museum, or similar institution, ask IA to drop some racks at your colo for replication, and as always, don't forget to donate to IA when able to)
by reaperducer | 2026-01-15 19:36:57+00:00
I also like the idea of libraries having a cafe, internet access, a place to meet, all non profit and owned by the community.

There are lots of libraries with cafes, maker spaces, and more. Seattle is one.

If yours doesn't, this is your wake-up call to get involved with your local library. Stop waiting for someone else to do things.