MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by luplex | 2026-01-15 19:37:13+00:00
There are, of course, multiple causes for loneliness. We can't fix them all with one clear action. Here are the main five, in my view:

First, social media. It's too easy to temporarily forget about your loneliness by staying home and doomscrolling or watching TV.

Second, increased mobility. People move around the whole continent now for work, removing them from their closest and oldest social connections.

Third, God is dead. Churches as community centers are dying out. Young people don't trust them anymore, because they don't believe in God, and because churches had many scandals. Secular community centers are very rare and struggle with funding.

Fourth, work is more stressful now. There used to be more time to socialize, but in our quest for productivity, work became denser with fewer idle times.

Fifth, fewer people want to have kids. Much has been written about this.

Now what can we do at societal scale? First of all, study the phenomenon more closely. Who is lonely? Who isn't? Which interventions work? Which cultural factors are important?
At your local scale, you can just call or meet a friend.
by hinkley | 2026-01-15 19:37:15+00:00
Apple loaned TSMC money in order to build manufacturing capacity back around the M1 era. They’ve done that for a number of suppliers and the “interest payments” were priority access to capacity. Everyone was complaining about how Apple got ARM chips while others had to wait in line.

That said, they did that for a sapphire glass supplier for the Apple Watch and when their machines had QC problems they dropped them like a rock and went back to Corning.

But is that really any different from any other supplier? And who tf do you think they’re going to drop TSMC for right now? They are the cock of the walk.
by calvinmorrison | 2026-01-15 19:37:16+00:00
This is just an inversion of culpability. We know that theres virtually no relationship in our Republic with popularity of an initiative and it's passing into law.

But don't people elect their representatives? oh of course!

If your issue is with policymakers, then it is with the people.

This is also very stupid because - essentially when the government is evil you become skeptical of your neighbors, not 538 people who really control your life.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-01-15 19:37:38+00:00
It's also worth noting that one function of brownshirts and blackshirts is to provoke violence against themselves, seeking to retroactively justify their existence and to justify a further crackdown.

Say all you want about how any protest, no matter how peaceful will be vilified (it will) or about how the entire foundation is built on lies (it is), but we still have some real elections coming up, and the imagery of ICE brutalizing someone who's clearly not an immigrant, not violent, not obstructing is much more rhetorically effective than that of armed clashes between government and non-governmental forces.

And as you said, many of us are still convinced that this can be solved at least partially rhetorically and electorally.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-15 19:37:42+00:00
We recognise that "I decided your kilo of gold is worth $50 so here's the $50 and now the gold is mine" isn't a purchase, that's theft. I'm going to assume you don't think it's insane for us to pay what the owner asked here (If I'm wrong, do let us know).

So, OK, clearly this CCGT electricity here (made with gas) offered for £85 per MWh we're going to buy that, for £85 per MWh.

Now, we also needed all this wind power which bids £5 per MWh. Presumably you'd want to pay them less than £85 per MWh. So, too bad, they bid too low, they get punished right? But since you aren't OK with paying less than the bid price, doubtless if they had bid £84 you'd pay that right?

Notice that the incentive in your model is for everybody to guess what you'll pay and bid just barely below that, whereupon you've wasted a lot of resources, your strategy no longer has any price discovery value, and you're paying almost as much as before. A triumph of... rationality?

How much do you reckon you can save the average household if you do this? £50 per year? Twice that?
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-15 19:37:49+00:00
That's not really "a system", that's how marginal pricing always works for fungible goods. If you need to buy 100 units of something, and the guy selling next to me can't go any lower than $10 without selling at a loss, I'm going to sell at $9.99 every time. Why would I do otherwise?

The point of this is that it's supposed to guarantee windfall profits for wind operators, to make it attractive to keep building out wind until all the marginal gas is pushed out of the market mix. The price being set by the highest-cost source in the mix is a feature for incentivizing buildout, not a bug.
by Zaskoda | 2026-01-15 19:37:54+00:00
People are seeking multiple things on social media. One common one is connection. I am in Mexico dealing with family business. I am in a rural area. My Spanish skills are developing but are still weak. I can have light conversation here, but I can't deeply connect. My desire to use social media has drastically increased.

But I only want to engage with my friends. Every platform feeds me various flavors of rage bait mixed in with my friends' content. Some of my friends groups have moved to chats on other less public platforms like Discord, Signal, or Whatsapp. But that's not the same experience. And a lot of the people I like to engage with aren't moving over to those platforms.

We all thought maybe social media would evolve into something good... but it was enshitified. So maybe part of the solution here is to develop a tool that offers that connection without the whole being exploited aspect?
by helb | 2026-01-15 19:38:16+00:00
I have no idea what the parent commenter means, but the painted style is common here too (on web, paper, physical signs, …). For example:

https://vcdn.bergfex.at/images/resized/b0/903a185999b85db0_1...

https://vcdn.bergfex.at/images/resized/15/80010a99cadafa15_3...

https://vcdn.bergfex.at/images/resized/b4/df672c7f06a8f7b4_a...
by l72 | 2026-01-15 19:38:41+00:00
This is what I have been using with opencode:

exec bwrap \
--unshare-pid \
--unshare-ipc \
--unshare-uts \
--share-net \
--bind "$OPENCODE_ROOT" "$OPENCODE_ROOT" \
--bind "$CURRENT_DIR" "$CURRENT_DIR" \
--bind "$HOME/.config/opencode/" "$HOME/.config/opencode/" \
--bind "$HOME/.emacs" "$HOME/.emacs" \
--bind "$HOME/.emacs.d" "$HOME/.emacs.d" \
--ro-bind "$HOME/.gitconfig" "$HOME/.gitconfig" \
--ro-bind /bin /bin \
--ro-bind /etc /etc \
--ro-bind /lib /lib \
--ro-bind /lib64 /lib64 \
--ro-bind /usr /usr \
--bind /run/systemd /run/systemd \
--tmpfs /tmp \
--proc /proc \
--dev /dev \
--setenv EDITOR emacs \
--setenv PATH "$OPENCODE_BINDIR:/usr/bin:/bin" \
--setenv HOME "$HOME" \
-- \
"opencode" "$@"
by Aurornis | 2026-01-15 19:38:48+00:00
The common retort is that these don't exist any more, but in my experience they're all over. If you have kids you start seeing them everywhere, too. They're not as classically romantic as an ancient Greek agora, but there are plenty of spaces. During the summer I'm probably at a different space 5 days a week with the kids after school.

I think the real problem is that some people forget how to go places. It's so easy to do the routine of work -> dinner -> screen time -> sleep -> repeat that time vanishes from people.

Whenever I hear people, usually young and single, complain that their 8 hour job leaves 0 hours in the day to do anything and they're too tired on the weekends to go out, it's always this: Their time is disappearing into their screens, which makes it feel like their only waking hours go to work. I try to give gentle nudges to help give people ideas, but none of them really want to hear that it's something they can change. It's just so easy to believe that life has thrust this situation upon us and there's nothing we can do about it.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-15 19:38:49+00:00
I'm no fan of religion, but the situation you described is true for pretty much all social hobbies. It's just one of the early steps in making friends. First you do stuff, then you meet people through that stuff forming acquaintances. Then you spend some time forming setting-specific friendships. It's fine to have lots of these, but the next step is to break out of that specific setting. Starting with immediate invitations to adjacent events ("Hey, want to grab dinner after our workout?", "Want to grab lunch after church?", "Hey, want to hit the bar after work?"). Once you have a habit of doing that, you can escalate to invitations to non-adjacent events. ("Want to go to a concert this weekend?"). Do that ever 1-2 months, and you've got a general friend.
by hnmullany | 2026-01-15 19:38:49+00:00
Nuclear capacity additions in 2025 were about 1% of solar additions - there is no comparison.

Nuclear capacity: +2GW in 2025 (https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...)

Solar capacity: ¬300GW capacity

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202512/26/cont...
by mosura | 2026-01-15 19:39:03+00:00
Your problem is you want things more than think about them.

The rot of the bureaucracy coming to convenient decisions extends from illegally allowing millions of people to take up residence in the country to convicting people of trumped up nonsense in an obvious attempt to keep them from office to subvert the democratic intent of the people.

This is why Trump and co are the clean up crew before returning to a happier place. It is not a nice job, and nice people wouldn’t be able to do it, but it is a necessary one to prevent things getting so much worse.
by karmajunkie | 2026-01-15 19:39:23+00:00
I think the idling feature still needs some work. I created one over the weekend that hasn't idled once, and I've run several tests with sprites that have nothing in them—just `sprite create` and log out, just to see what happens (which unfortunately is nothing, left alone it keeps on running as well.)

I love the idea and most of the execution, I've really enjoyed getting my first sprite configured just the way I want it. It just needs the idling feature to work as advertised before I think I can use it as cost-effectively as it promises.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-15 19:39:24+00:00
I thought of this the other day. I was on the train ride back from Chicago, and there was a family of four adults, sitting across from me, all just staring at their phones. I was effectively alone at that point in time. None of them were present. But you explained it in a new way I had not thought of before. They're quite literally not there in that moment, for however long that moment lasts.
by Eikon | 2026-01-15 19:39:41+00:00
> 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.

The benchmark suite is trivial and opensource [1].

Is performing benchmarks “putting down” these days?

If you believe that the benchmarks are unfair to juicefs for a reason or for another, please put up a PR with a better methodology or corrected numbers. I’d happily merge it.

EDIT: From your profile, it seems like you are running a VC backed competitor, would be fair to mention that…

[1] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS/tree/main/bench
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-15 19:39:48+00:00
Buy someone new clothes. A sleeping bag. Utensils. A library card or bus pass. If it has to be cash, you don't have to stop at $5. I sometimes give out tens and twenties. Obviously at a place like California your altruism can be spread pretty thin; just ignore the people who are more difficult / less appreciative. Find someone who is appreciative. Get to know them and find out what is holding them back. Maybe you can't help, maybe you can. I've had people tell me I've made their day, their week, their year.
by silisili | 2026-01-15 19:40:19+00:00
Ha, I could have written this comment word for word myself.

Sometimes when I think back to the good times at the office, I wonder if I miss being in the office, or if I just miss being young and full of energy.

Either way, I agree it's a shame for any young people today that won't get that experience. They were among my fondest times.
by hallole | 2026-01-15 19:40:39+00:00
> Jimmy Wales has been poked at with the question of whether he should call himself a founder or specifically co-founder

Not surprising! Are we setting aside how deceitful his answer his? Claiming all credit for a collaborative accomplishment -- which he does by adopting the "founder" title -- would rightfully provoke "poking" by interviewers. I can't imagine an interview not addressing a question that is so pertinent to Wales' notoriety. They literally cannot properly introduce him without confronting it! To say those interviewers are acting in "transparently bad-faith" comes across to me as plainly biased.

Sanger's politics don't change this, either. It might be the case that you have to concede on this to people you politically disagree with.
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by AzizBelAbed | 2026-01-15 19:40:55+00:00
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by luplex | 2026-01-15 19:41:07+00:00
We need the Tiktoks of the world to realize their responsibility: users get addicted to the apps in order to numb their feelings of loneliness. So we'd need an intervention within these apps that makes them unbearable for the lonely, combined with a healthier way to engage with loneliness.

Imagine TikTok asking you "you've scrolled for 30 minutes. You might be in a loneliness spiral. Write down the name of someone you would like to be closer to."
by empiko | 2026-01-15 19:41:25+00:00
One thing that I do not see mentioned enough is how fast editing code is now. I want to create a new function to replace a functionality that appears in multiple places? I can just write the name of the function and the IDE understands what I want to do. It will then promptly copy the existing code into this new function and suggest to replace the occurrences in the code with it. Tab, tab, tab, editing is complete in a few clicks.
by phoehne | 2026-01-15 19:41:46+00:00
In another comment, I referenced Eichmann. A train is not a good thing or a bad thing. A rail car is not a good thing or a bad thing. Having an app that aggregates multiple different data sources and puts them together is not a good thing or a bad thing. It's the morality behind the hands into which we put that tools that matters. The more capable the tool, the more good or evil you can do with it. Maybe we should ask ourselves if this kind of a tool should exist at all, or there should be some level of process before it can be used. But the engineer at Palantir is just as guilty or not guilty in your eyes as the engineer fixing the trains or laying new track.
by casey2 | 2026-01-15 19:41:49+00:00
That's californian propaganda. The reality is that 40% of documented people have no jobs because they are undercut.

You can't ignore history. Millions of people went through a school system that refused to educate them, wasting their most productive years, while relying on exploitative under-the-table labor to maintain a thin veneer of functionality.

These people are akin the mold growing upon a rotting city-state economy. They have to be removed.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-15 19:41:55+00:00
You just have to become the most friendly ultimate host in the world. Start up random conversations with those people at the grocery store or on the street and invite them to your bbq you are having this weekend.

But ultimately, if a man is sitting in his kitchen and its on fire. Its up to him to run out. No amount of reaching out will help until he decides to make the change.
by stackghost | 2026-01-15 19:42:08+00:00
>And I don't agree working at Google or whatever means you're not allowed to privately have a forum where you can talk about tech as a hobby.

As far as I can tell nobody's advocating this. Anyone is free to spin up a private instance of a hackernews clone (e.g. [0]) or a phpbb instance, or a discord.

But working at DOGE or Palantir or whatever doesn't mean you're entitled to the freedom from consequences of your actions.
by toast0 | 2026-01-15 19:42:11+00:00
> there are 3 letters in FAANG which don't do ads,

FAANG is Facebook(Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google(Alphabet) right?

Facebook and Google are heavy on ads, Amazon has ads all over their shopping experience and in their video product; AWS isn't connected with ads though, Netflix has an ads tier in their video product too, I opted out of Apple so I don't know what ads look like on their products but I think they have a small ads product?

I'm not quite sure why the negative responses to your offer though. Sure, it's a bit mercenary, but it's an offer. Personally, I don't think it's really about personnel though, recruiting FAANG employees to Europe wouldn't generate European FAANGs; Europe needs to look at the business conditions that spawn these kinds of companies and see what they can change to encourage the kinds of companies they want. Why did Apple survive while early computer companies from Europe all folded and also where have all the European handset makers gone; where are the online megaretailers for Europe and why didn't they consider selling their surplus computing resources; why haven't Euro television companies developed a cross border streaming service; maybe something about search engines, maybe what stopped Europe from playing in the search engine wars before Google became dominant; bonus non faang question, why did Europay merge with Mastercard.
by aeblyve | 2026-01-15 19:42:12+00:00
ZeroFS is a single-writer architecture and therefore has overall bandwidth limited by the box it's running on.

JuiceFS scales out horizontally as each individual client writes/reads directly to/from S3, as long as the metadata engine keeps up it has essentially unlimited bandwidth across many compute nodes.

But as the benchmark shows, it is fiddly especially for workloads with many small files and is pretty wasteful in terms of S3 operations, which for the largest workloads has meaningful cost.

I think both have their place at the moment. But the space of "advanced S3-backed filesystems" is... advancing these days.
by RickJWagner | 2026-01-15 19:42:14+00:00
Interesting. How do they deal with things like people driving cars towards them?

That’s the only fatality situation in the current unrest.

Another protester was shot yesterday, the agent was being attacked with a snow shovel and a large stick. The protester was shot in the leg ( not fatal ), which is sometimes suggested as a less permanent way of stopping such an attack.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-15 19:42:39+00:00
I agree in that the literal interpretation is not believable. There are other ways to "believe" it or have it resonate, like symbolically. Maps of Meaning is a great book that touches on this, "We Who Wrestle with God" too, more directly.

As an atheist myself, it took me a long to to realize that a lot of modern conflict between rationality and Christianity stems from the rationalists not understanding that the belief is often beyond the literal, especially when the Christian is of a more intellectual bent. I won't do the ideas justice, so I won't try to explain them.
by andrepd | 2026-01-15 19:42:44+00:00
I'm reading the Diamond article you liked and I cannot understand for the lift of me what you wanted? The Brittanica article seems substantially poorer. Note also that a key feature of Wikipedia is the hyperlinks! If you don't know what a "crystalline structure" is, or you want to know more about "hardness", you're welcome to click the links and dive further!
by Romario77 | 2026-01-15 19:42:48+00:00
the commercial company I worked at had a contract with Palantir - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220817005178/en/Bet... .

From what I understood they were to read our data and provide some kind of insights. I don't think any of this happened, at least while I was there.

They talk about government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - it's most likely the reason the company got into this contract, so Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac get some kind of data that they need in their systems.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-15 19:42:49+00:00
You: "Selectively enforcing only the laws you want to is the key enabler of corruption."

Also you: "convicting people of trumped up nonsense..."

Whoops. Someone sure seems… selective.

> Your problem is you want things more than think about them.

This is precisely the implementation problem inherent in "immediately deport tens of millions of people upon which American society has relied on for decades for cheap labor".
by lgl | 2026-01-15 19:42:56+00:00
Sure I'm very familiar with the donation banners etc but still, how unnecessary are they really?

They have no actual "product" to sell and no ads.

At the same time I imagine a huge amount of traffic, that has surely gotten much much worse with the AI "renaissance" we're going through.

They have staff, etc.. So what's the deal with all the wikipedia hate lately?
by californical | 2026-01-15 19:43:16+00:00
Eh, I can think of some examples for sure, I think there are still a lot of people like this.

* Bookkeeper & planning approval within city government

* Doctor/dentist/optometry receptionist & scheduler (both at independent offices and at major hospitals)

* Front desk staff at almost every company with a physical front desk

* University administrative staff (there can be a lot more of these people than you'd think)

* DMV workers

* Probably lots of teachers

Those jobs all will use other software as well, but a lot of their job is making and filling forms on a computer, where they are likely needing to use MS Word fairly often to write things up.
by n8cpdx | 2026-01-15 19:43:20+00:00
> Look at my drafts that were started within the last three months and then check that I didn’t publish them on simonwillison.net using a search against content on that site and then suggest the ones that are most close to being ready

This is a very detailed, particular prompt. The type of prompt a programmer would think of as they were trying to break down a task into something that can be implemented. It is so programmer-brained that I come away not convinced that a typical user would be able to write it.

This isn’t an AI skepticism post - the fact that it handles the prompt well is very impressive. But I’m skeptical that the target user is thinking clearly enough to prompt this well.