skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having personally lived through the 90's and 00's, I can confirm that:

* Sadam Houssein (and Kadhafi, and Khomeini) regularly moaned about the US

* everybody was indeed aware of them

* and everyone ignored them

* for most people outside the US, the second gulf war was perceived a transparent lie

One look at the ridiculous "coalition of the willing" that GWB managed to drum up makes that clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing_(Iraq...
This! Especially 2nd! Most of the normal jobs do not cover the cost of living in the cities. The salaries are not high enough for positions like clerks, kindergarten staff, teachers, medical staff, firefighters, cops, cashiers. You name it. And for a couple with good jobs and without kids taxes bite really hard, purchasing power is not the one expected from top earners. Add rising mandatory medical and retirement insurance costs. This is just not good.
Ask HN: Best side hustle for WFH guys
Hey there fellow HN people!

I am able to WFH and find 30-40 hours per week as I am able to save on commute and unnecessary mundane tasks.
What could be a good side hustle where I won't need to focus as much?
I am fully focused on my current job during daytime and do not prefer moonlighting.

Thanks!
Said Android smartphone relies on clear airwaves and billions worth of GPS satellites.
When I worked my first job (physical work in water service) we had 2 sayings: "minimum wage, minimum effort" and "you cannot lower my salary more than I can lower my effort".
I am not sure if reshaping is a reasonable thing. It is not so reasonable in other fields. In architecture, if you build a bridge and then want more lanes, you usually build a new bridge, rather than reshape the bridge. The idea of reshaping a bridge while cars are using it would sound insane there, yet that is what people want from storage stacks.

Reshaping traditional storage stacks does not consider all of the ways things can go wrong. Handling all of them well is hard, if not impossible to do in traditional RAID. There is a long history of hardware analogs to MD RAID killing parity arrays when they encounter silent corruption that makes it impossible to know what is supposed to be stored there. There is also the case where things are corrupted such that there is a valid reconstruction, but the reconstruction produces something wrong silently.

Reshaping certainly is easier to do with MD RAID, but the feature has the trade off that edge cases are not handled well. For most people, I imagine that risk is fine until it bites them. Then it is not fine anymore. ZFS made an effort to handle all of the edge cases so that they do not bite people and doing that took time.
If Germany is anything like Britain, I expect they will be in a worse mood come the autumn.
Here (EU country) the same sweeteners that are used in diet soda is found to replace up to half the sugar in some common non-diet sodas, to reduce costs. Because while its not much, it's a lot more than the cost of water+sweetener. This has been an unpleasant surprise to people whose stomachs don't like the sweetener and who didn't notice the changed recipe on the label...
Ask HN: How to get done with programming basics fast?
I've a computer engineering degree but I forgot everything that I studied due to memory loss I had few years ago. :(

My goal is to be a learner of computer science for the love of it.

Below are the curriculum that I want to accomplish. The way I want to accomplish them is through in-depth study instead of just surface level skimming. I solve almost all exercises of java programming textbook. I build projects. But learning takes time. It's slow. I've been studying java since Mar 2024(3hrs/day), and I have completed 1/3rd of the book as of now.

In java, I'm about to finish OOPs concepts. But since I love java, I want to complete entire book. It generally should've taken 1 week to finish 1 chapter(with 3-5 hrs of study per day) but OOPs is hitting hard and learning is getting delayed.

- java programming

- data structures

- algorithms

- operating system

- computer organization and architecture

- database management system

- computer graphics

- computer network

- distributed systems

You might say just start data structures and algorithms. But here's the problem. I want to implement data structures in java. For which OOPs is good to have.

I want to solve interesting problems in algorithms textbook, simulate them (So learning a gui like javafx is also essential).

Then, I plan to study OS where I solve all exercises from the dinosaur book(at least most relevant)...

I will study COA by solving patterson's books problems. Then I will learn dbms. Where I would not solve anything. Instead I'd focus on sql querying and database administration books.

Then, I will learn servers etc in computer networks, implement networked programming in java(So I need to learn network programming as well in java or any other language).

I'll study distributed systems with case study like Kafka, Redis, DNS etc.

Finally, I will do computer graphics where my goal is to make some good graphics.
Side question: is there any good model that allows for image similarity detection across a large image set, that can be incrementally augmented with new images?

You'd somehow have to generate an embedding for each image, I presume.
This is why I'm convinced that relying on Google hardware is a dead end for freedom in the longer term. I'm using a GNU/Linux phone instead.
Just have backups. I used btrfs and zfs for different purposes. Never had any lost data or downtime with btrfs since 2016. I only use raid 0 and raid 1 and compression. Btrfs does not havr a hungry ram requirement.
The AIs that suffer from this problem have difficulty counting.

Nope, its not a counting problem. It's a reasoning problem. Thing is, no matter how much hype they get, the AIs have no reasoning capabilities at all, and they can fail in the silliest ways. Same as with Larry Ellison: Don't fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing the AI.
Learning Curl from Scratch
Chinese officials reportedly discuss sale of TikTok in US to Elon Musk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mmskXXetcg
This. The zones never have been complete and sometimes to restrictive. I rather have no zones programmed in because I know that I am fully liable anyway.

Cars don't refuse to get into one way streets and it's 100% the drivers fault.
It's not about displacing other sugars. It's a cheap substitute for things not sugar. The argument about corn syrup is misplaced, it should be about sugars in general in US processed food. But corn syrup just happened to be that sugar.
Are you for real? No one, literally no one out of choice travels by the BUS. If people are traveling by the bus, MTA, they know and expect delays.

Congestion prices won't fix anything.
Watch specifically from timestamp 38:00-41:30
Yeah, heck, of course I didn't mean anyone should go back and rename shit in already existing repos! Sheesh, what a crazy waste of effort that would be.

But for new projects it really doesn't bother me that the default nowadays is "main" in stead of "master", was all I meant.
> But his problems are real and caused mainly by him not being accepted by others, almost certainly because of his looks.

That is not obvious at all. First, there is nothing in the article that would suggest there is an issue with his look.

Second, I have no idea how author looks like and as I wrote, reading made red flags in my head blink. This guy wont listen to what I actually say and wont be interested in me as a person. I would be a plaything for him, but he would get offended if I reciprocated the attitude. Dangerous to risk one night stand and no go for relationship. To be honest, he gives off Elliot Roger vibes - not the violent part but the way he thinks.

> And he need not look worse than the average man or worse than the women he is pursuing to get a lot of rejection either.

There is more to that. He also needs ability to guess which woman will one night stand with him and just do not do that thing. He is not looking for long term relationship, that part is clear. But he is not honest with himself about this either.

Like I said, I just do not think in hierarchies like that. This is a projection. And exactly the kind of guy who will get angry when he sees what he considers visually uneven couple and see it as huge unfairness no matter which one of the two he looks down at.

> to break free of the white lies people say to avoid telling you basic stuff like maybe you need to do

The author is not breaking off anything. The write up is internally inconsistent (He seems to claim that average men is disgustingly unhygienic but actually issue is women care about looks too much and don't care about character? Which one is it?). The data he has do not even measure disgust, but I guess he thinks 6% of women are disgusting and projects that on women who rated men low in attractiveness.
> one of the national papers of record, El País

El País has basically become the socialist government's PR department.
I had a log seat style cardboard furniture for years, it was great when I needed something light but capable to hold stuff.
The internet is for ____.

That could be a factor that unites enough people to donate their compute time to build diffusion models. At least if it was easy enough to set up.
At this point is probably not meant as 5 years ago. But even 5 years ago the meaning of the word had shifted away from the original meaning.
And I hate the term "Politcal Correctness", what does it mean? I think it means the opposite, your politics we're previously correct and now they aren't, it's an excellent rebranding. They can always joke that we can't say things anymore but actually, you really couldn't say things or act in certain ways or even exist or you would suffer violence.
Alternatively: we haven’t had a jobs recession (absent stimulus) in over a decade.
Freelance?
Start your own company?
DJ-ing is a form of musical curation, and depending on how well it's done the intricacies of mixing and layering become a form of musical expression.
Unfortunately, LLM training is not as computationally easy (embarrassingly parallel) as mining bitcoins.
Honestly, I don't know, I bought it a decade ago when it launched.

It was a fair bit cheaper, I want to say more like $60, I suppose "inflation" is the reason.

EDIT: 2016 I bought my roost stand, it's still good as new.
I'm sure it's one of the biggest questions asked by the Sonos C-suite: how do we get recurring revenue or make the moat wider. But that goes for every product company in the world.
the Earth is the center of the universe, though, just like any other point in space
The thread was about quitting X. I quit X because it was designed to make me chronically scroll through emotionally charged but irrelevant tidbits of information constantly. I'm not making an inherent value judgement about the fires, and perhaps it wasn't the best choice of subject to make a point about, but it's just that if it's not fires, it's always something else. If I'm not in LA and don't know anyone in LA, I can realistically do without moment to moment updates, even if I have sympathy for the sorrow they might be experiencing, but I'd also sure as hell hope that if I needed those updates, they would be available on a publicly accessible platform.

Saying I'm calling someone out though seems a bit of a reach.
Except you shouldn’t use btrfs for any parity based raid if you value your data at all. In fact, I’m not aware if any vendor that has implemented btrfs with parity based raid, they all resort to btrfs on md.
"no one can hack us" and then "you can't hack us, how dare you" game, 25 years and more
> but a single person eating less meat

That's the same old Tragedy of the Commons argument, which is valid no matter if we're screwed or have a decent chance at solving the crisis. Using this logic, it's irrational to even vote since you waste your time on something which with all probability will have 0 effect.

> Systemic change is what matters

That's true, but how do you get a systemic change? By influencing individual voting and consumption behavior. Global warming has been started and is still driven the most by democratic countries, you can't absolve yourself of the responsibility.

Corporations are a product of the system we've built. They'll never care about the environment, they're not designed to do that. They care about the legal framework, though, which we (in democratic countries) can influence. The hard pill to swallow is that forcing corporations to care about the environment will increase their costs and thus prices of goods and services.
You mainly guessed it. Off the top of my head... second GPU (for additional physical monitor ports, and occasional VM-passthrough), networking (I mentioned Infiniband), Areca RAID controller (6 HDD's, 8 SSD's), USB 3.0 card (mainly just to speed up a Logic Analyzer that was a tad sluggish under motherboard's native USB 2), and a handy-dandy parallel port (legit, not a USB-converted imposter). Once upon a time I had a SCSI card installed as well, for a beloved old scanner (shoutout to VueScan).
The majority of people I know does not have a Facebook account. They are most likely never finding the business in first place.

I don't think it's a 1% problem. At least not here in Europe.

I just checked, by official numbers 60% of Switzerland uses Facebook regularly. Obviously not accounted for multi accounts and bots, ... Who in their right mindset would target only 60% of people for a proper business? Mainly woman, mainly 50+. Which bank invests in a business plan like this?
J.S. was such a troll, what for a sick burn from Bach-MC :-D
Would Anything (Of Value) Be Lost?
I haven't walked around those cities, I've walked around certain areas of London or Tokyo as a tourist mostly in central areas that are well serviced by public transport and are very dense, without any real understanding of what it actually takes to live, work, raise children, or anything else in those places. I certainly saw a lot of roads and cars, particularly when looking out the window of trains and busses into actual places people live.

> Cars certainly exist, but they are clearly not used by default for everything.

Sure, I've noticed a bunch of American cities I've been to are a more difficult to walk or get public transport than any big ones in Europe or Asia I've been to.

They're all automobile-centric though. You'll never get rid of cars, taxis, trucks, busses, or roads. Not in any of them. Better walking, riding, and public transport is great, it's just never going to do away with the car, nor is doing away with cars and roads ever going to solve any problems that cities have. There should be more honesty and pragmatism around this.
Aren’t there a ton of blockchain projects trying to do this kind of distributed compute / LLM with tokenisation rewards etc? Theta project comes to mind
The UK's economy has been stagnant since the financial crisis and the inflation since Covid has not been matched by salary increases... So all in all things are looking down, which is obviously not good for motivation.

A pay cut for remote can make sense. If you're in the South East and need to commute into London you can sometimes take a £10k pay cut for remote and see no change in income in the end because of the massive saving in train fares.

But this means that at least I am definitely looking for more money!
The main difference is that in S3 many (internal) peripherals are put to sleep but not entirely unpowered. So when the system is resumed, it's not an entirely clean slate like it would be from a fresh power up from hibernation. Unfortunately sometimes pulling down the reset line doesn't always do as thorough job as a power cycle.
For most folks, focusing on doing your full time job well and getting promoted/finding a better paying job is _significantly_ less effort than starting a side hustle that pays you meaningful money.

That being said, if you feel like grinding and learning a lot about sales and marketing, consider launching an app in a marketplace (Shopify/Airtable/App store/Play store, etc) to get started (hell of a lot easier than starting a SaaS, ask me how I know).
This is interesting because your list is mostly around costs, when ours is about people hating each other :)

Cultural differences is a thing.
So he compares users to slot machines. OK, I see why the internet sucks now 10 years later.
Yes. More like this please handfuloflight. A hero story really sets
the day up with positive vibes.
I replicate my entire filesystem to a local NAS every 10 minutes using zrepl. This has already saved my bacon once when a WD_BLACK SN850 suddenly died on me [1]. It's also recovered code from some classic git blunders. It shouldn't be possible any more to lose data to user error or single device failure. We have the technology.

[1]: https://chromakode.com/post/zfs-recovery-with-zrepl/
There are groups of people who hunt for writeable ftp servers to be used for random filesharing. At least this used to be a thing
I'm replying to this, and risking becoming part of the "HN is turning into Reddit" problem but you raise a fair point, I enjoy the works of China Mieville despite not sharing his beliefs.

I wonder if it's perhaps the requirement that I actively engage in activities that I would ideologically object to in reality, for the sake of someone else's narrative, but that also seems spurious as I have no real issue with participating in the mass-murders of titles like Grand Theft Auto...DE just rubbed me the wrong way, even if some of the mechanisms were intriguing, maybe it's the smugness oozing from it which again brings us back to Mieville.

I guess I just didn't like DE and I have trouble reconciling that with the expectation that I would like it...because it very much seems like something I would like.
The US government can apparently turn off their GPS signals over certain parts of the world:

https://idstch.com/geopolitics/denial-gps-services-kargil-wa...
You can run raid-z across partitions to utilize the full drive just like synology does with their “hybrid raid” - you just shouldn’t.
Ask HN: Is the UK facing a serious mental health decline?
Has anyone else noticed how bizarre Reddit has become? I follow a lot of tech subs, but the UK-based ones are on another level of strange. It’s always the same kind of wild stories:

- “I’m 22, working in tech making £250k just building HTML pages. I’m in an online relationship with a girl who asked me for £79k to buy her kid shoes. I sent it, but now she says she didn’t get it. Should I send her £100k so she can treat herself too?”

- “I’m 32 and want to buy a bike. Do I just walk into the shop and show them my bank account so they know I’m serious and not wasting their time?”

Is this just people being ridiculous, or could it be something more deliberate, like trolling campaigns? What’s your take?
Well Americans better get used to using a VPN if they want to breach their firewall. I gotta admit this cyber situation switcheroo happening in the third week of 2025 is not what i had on my bingo card. I expected that more to happen post Trump 2nd term.
I've implemented fluid mechanics using Claude (through Cursor) and it had no problem writing the logic and integrating it using my custom physics engine and custom renderer.

So no, I don't think your assessment is correct. LLMs shine when they get to implement something from scratch on a blank slate with clear API boundaries, whether it's a CRUD app or a physics simulation. Where I think they struggle the most is in big legacy codebases on tasks spanning multiple modules with lots of red herrings.
you lost me by only support google auth. also this would be way better as an IDE plugin instead of a web app.
If truth can’t be challenged, it isn’t.
> This offset can then later be interpreted as "from the start of the struct" or "from the start of memory identified by the pointer to 0".

The issue is, how do you create such an offset, at comptime, such that you can interpet it as "from the start of memory identified by the pointer to 0" at runtime. Because at runtime you'll most often want to do the latter (and surely you don't want to branch on whether it's one or the other), but creating such offsets is the part that's very tricky if not impossible to do properly at comptime.

> I guarantee you that there's code just like this in the guts of any compiler that can reorder struct/record members

How is that relevant though? Ok, the code might look similar, but that's not the problematic part.
Sandy Hook families reach settlement over Alex Jones' bankruptcy
It makes no sense for "Free our feeds" to work with Bluesky.

Bluesky has accepted investor money at a $700m valuation.
This means they promised investors access to users' data and shoving tons of add into their feeds.

Neither is in "the people's interest" which is what "Free our feeds" wants.

For the same reason Bluesky won't decentralize their network: It would tank their valuation.

For now, we only have Mastodon.

We need more instances so people have lots of choices if they don't like their current instance's politics.

Personally, i feel there should be less censorship between nodes.
The power of open source in PostgreSQL
We all heard that but it was never really true and was the camel's nose under the tent. "Equally qualified" is meaningless given how interview processes work in the tech industry: you keep interviewing until you find the first person that passes the bar and then make an offer. Holding offers back in the hope that someone more demographically attractive comes along is a bad policy that results in lost candidates who get tired of the BS, but is a natural consequence of this definition of affirmative action.

Regardless it took only a few years for what I heard to go from "we should use gender/race as a tie breaker" to "our next head of sales must be a woman", stated openly on a recorded all hands video call. And that's inevitable because the moment someone accepts the claim that there's a problem that must be solved, they lose the ability to push back on ever more extreme solutions. The only way out is to argue that there is in fact no problem to be solved and never was, which results in people being targeted and fired for -isms of whatever kind.

So in practice affirmative action is deeply unpopular and it's not due to people being idiots. It's because the "cost free" framing that proponents like to use is misleading. There is always a cost.
European and 40 now as well. I think it is threefold:
A) Age - I realise that the career I did set out for is not that glamorous as I thought (airport travel is not fun anymore, climbing the ladder is even more of sandwich/impostor syndrome, etc)
B) Cost of living is so high in cities that you better optimise either where you live (parents for kids, stay in subsidised appartment or buy with a good deal, probably for remote work). So you make sure you have time for DIY instead if beeing consumed by your job…
C) Layoffs - everywhere. The gras is not greener on the other side. So better to just “do your (minimal) work” while you can, fly under the radar and enjoy life on the side (hobbies, family etc).
Miura-ori fold covered very nicely in this video at timestamp 34:10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p02DtmyQhU
Some people somehow expect enthusiasm and motivation and dedication in return for the simple fact you are employed, while ignoring that as an employee being paid the minimum wage and threatened to be fired doesn't convey any motivational message. I suppose those people would love to receive a huge fake smile every day to be able to pat their own backs how great they supported the economy by buying that coffee. No, I'm sure if the employees were happy they would already give genuine smiles. But they're not, and it shows. And it should show, because they are employees not slaves.
Omg, wiki is recommending "Bus Pirate", this HW is many years old and basically abandoned project.
Use something up-to-date, like Tigard and BitMagic.