skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quadlets came up recently:

Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd (mo8it.com) | 298 points | 68 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43456934

Where do quadlets fit in the container management landscape?

Running individual services that would have been RPMs? Docker compose? K8s?
How do you exercise due process on the 10 million people imported into the country over the last 4-5 years?

The court system simply isn't built for it, nor the detainment facilities to house them while the courts take months to process each person. The housing market is already under too much stress and low cost housing and free housing has gone to them instead of citizens who were already here and in need.

...?

The same way you exercise it for 320 million other people. The same way it has been exercised for every person who immigrated to American soil. Including your ancestors.

Let's be clear about what you're actually saying and you're advocating for, you are advocating for the suspension of due process and fundamental rights to an entire class of human beings you see as the other.

If history has taught us anything, the definition of who and what is other changes over time. One day, you too shall be the other. And that day you will beg for the due process and fundamental rights you wish to deprive these people.

When the Benjamin Franklin said, "... if you can keep it." This type of thought process is precisely what he meant.
I'm praying every day for TARS if I'm being honest.
>El Salvador’s ministry of foreign affairs confirmed that it “will house these individuals for one (1) year, pending the United States’ decision on their long term disposition.” S.A. 149 (quoting Matthew Lee & Regina Garcia Cano, Trump Officials Secretly Deported Venezuelans and Salvadorans to a Notorious Prison in El Salvador, ASSOCIATED PRESS (Mar. 15, 2025), https://apnews.com/article/trumpdeportations-salvador-tren-a... (emphasis supplied)).

>The Government undertook this action pursuant to its agreement with El Salvador, wherein the United States paid El Salvador six million dollars to hold detainees “for one (1) year, pending the United States’ decision on [their] long term disposition.” Dist. Ct. Op. at 6

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ab...

I think this was written by Judge Thacker
It’s a good strategy. Even if Harvard had attempted to satisfy every bullet point, the govt could still retort that their demands were not satisfied.
Try https://unfetch.com (I've built it). It can handle both inbound and outbound emails
We have given Ukraine more money in the last 3 years through foreign aid then Israel has received in the last 30 years
> Can you imagine if Obama had demanded that any university do an ideological purge of its conservative staff and students?

Obama didn't need to demand it, the Universities went ahead and did it on their own.

https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-last-four-years-wer...
Ah.. that said, even that wikipedia article points out that multiple research studies were done that demonstrated little to no benefit in the context of covid19 (and the ones that did were eventually proven faulty or fraudulent) - I agree that Ivermectin is an important drug, just not in the context of covid19
Those who were in prison and paid for a pardon got their money's worth. No take backsies on those. The one grifter was released from paying back millions to the people he defrauded - he made money by paying Trump if looked at as simple arithmetic. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/donald-trump-pardons-ni...
I just gave up totally on my Shield TV and got a used PS4 Pro. Not sure if I'll ever really play games on it (got Steam?) and it is massive overkill for a Plex client but my experience with media devices is overkill beats underkill -- it also replaces a trash Sony Blu-Ray player that takes 30 seconds to boot even if all you want to do is eject a disc.

Allegedly the Shield was a game console but the only games I put much time in on it were Pac Man 256 (maybe in 20 years we get that with procgen) and Idea Factory's port of Record of Agarest Wars because Idea Factory will always make a deal to colonize a new platform -- they made one of like 15 exclusive games for the PS5 and it's not enough reason for me to get one.
And Zortech C, for 64K machines, had two standalone programs to compile a C program to an object file.
I would see that easiest way to bring something like that would be some adaptation of m4u format, just instead of URLs to video it could have URL to torrent/magnet.

one issue I can imagine would be that each part would discover peers independently where assumption that most peers of previous parts should be expected to also have those files.

second idea would be to use ipfs in that way instead of torrent. that would probably have much easier time for reusing peer discovery between parts and also would solve issue when to stop seeding as this is already build in into protocol.

I guess that creating distributed twitch basing on ipfs would be feasible but not sure how many people would like to install ipfs node before that could use that.
that's kind of chicken and egg problem, you need a lot of people before this system starts work really well, but to get interest it need to really perform well so people would migrate from twitch like services.

ofc you can use public gateways. afaik cloudflare have public ipfs endpoint that could serve as fallback
No you missed the point. I completely get the meaning of segregating IO/mutation away from pure logic.

And my point is, what is the purpose of all of this is 90% of what your app does is mutation and side effects? Functional shell, imperative core indeed, but the shell is literally just thin layer of skin. The imperative core is a massive black hole.

Functional programming can't save you from black hole.
> Where are the pro-Palestinian activists who are standing up for the Gazans who have the courage to risk their lives by protesting against Hamas?

If you can find me a western government or institution they should be protesting for actively collaborating with Hamas then I'll grant you that hypocrisy. They don't need to because it's already a federal crime to materially support Hamas in any way whatsoever.
The demands of the administration are the demands of a bully who doesn't want your lunch money, he just wants you to know he can take it away at any time.
Didn't Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon make a lot more money from the Ukraine-Russia as opposed to the Israel-Gaza war?
I do live outside the US, but in another part of this discussion I was just taught not to assume that reports of unhealthy working conditions coming from the US represent the norm.
@TimorousBestie (I can't reply inline due to comment depth)

I didn't say fund harvard xor fund local schools, I said it's crazy how much money harvard gets. The comment I'm replying to is who implies I must support harvard funding xor I must support trump, "the people who want to hurt harvard", I don't think that's true. I'm allowed to think federal funds for academia are too high and also think Trump is bad for the country
For that <1% left as carbon, comes >75% released as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, which needs to be recaptured. Tree capture by itself is already too inefficient -- you need to cover roughly the entire area of new mexico with trees to account for just one year of America's emissions. If you're only sustainably capturing 1% of that capture, we're nowhere near the order of magnitude necessary to be impactful on a global scale.

Further, even if we didn't face the issue of running out of land, we don't appear to be able to actually plant trees fast enough and well enough (many of the "millions of trees" planting projects, especially in developing nations, have had tree survival rates of under 10%)

Forests help and are part of the strategy, but fundamentally not moving the needle.
> Meta could have chosen to compete with then-upstart photo sharing app Instagram in 2012, a senior FTC official said on a call with reporters ahead of the trial, but instead it bought it, and did the same with WhatsApp.

This has a potentially very-chilling effect on acquisitions, which are a major source of liquidity for lots of secondary companies.
You also forgot the birthday military parade he wants that's been estimated to cost ~$100M.
The 2 week notice is not a legal requirement in the US. I've seen a couple employees just do a silent quit and not turn up the next day.
Much like outbreaks that never turn into pandemics, no one remembers the efficiency measures that prevent price increases.
Was it indecent for Google to lay someone off, remove all access and give him 16 weeks of severance + two additional weeks for each year of service?
Difficult, not inconvenient.

Because it allows things that are difficult, like writing your own memory allocators.

If you don't like working at that difficulty level, then C programming isn't for you. And that's fine.
I invite you to write or read a proposal for a multi $M grant before saying that money is being blindly pumped.
>They burned their credibility among those with whom they never needed it in the first place.

I think universities should probably be concerned with their credibility among democratically elected political representatives if they are going to be accepting public funds. If the university wants to forgo federal grants, then yes, they don't require any credibility with anyone but academia and their donors, and more power to them.
because they can use as excuse to stop the funding nonetheless, it's impossible to 100% comply with contradictory requests
That's exactly the argument here. You do not think this is possible. I think it _might be_.
You believe we cannot understand their language because we don't have "shared experiences" (etc). I believe we can. That's the disagreement.
AI can learn/predict/invent new things. It already is inventing new materials, new protein structures, etc. We don't need to understand the exact mechanism 100% for it to be able to do it. Let's give it a shot.

There are tons of shared experiences and shared emotions. It's not like there's some hidden organism that we discovered are making noise from within the dark matter. These are animals in the oceans. Plenty of shared experiences and emotions. Dolphins have feelings. Anyway... let's agree to disagree. I fully support this project and am optimistic about its outcomes.
> If anything negative you can say about Israel is equated to antisemitism then Israel gets a free pass.

I am not arguing this. Everyone is free to criticize Israel; when it becomes antisemitic is when you hold Jews to a different standard than you hold everyone else.

> but Israel's response was out of proportion

Why do you say this? What would a proportionate response have looked like to an attempt to conquer your country by firing 5,000 rockets while 6,000 people invaded and murdered everyone they could find? Bear in mind, that immediately afterwards, Hamas leaders promised to repeat October 7th again and again until Israel was annihilated.
Yeah, I must be hallucinating with "bullshit in my head".

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00240-9

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/black-lives-ma...

https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/70845
And the salaries for DOGE employees that are higher than the highest pay band.
I made a free AI detector tool and shows side-by-side results
I made aidetectors.io because I was constantly testing AI-generated content across different tools, and none of them quite did everything I needed in one place:

fast, clean UI with no ads or clutter

side-by-side comparison of multiple detectors on one page

automatic formatting for pasted text so I don’t have to clean it up

support for both short and long-form content

summary view to quickly see which tools flagged it as AI
> More explicitly the letter demands that tenured professors be given more decision making power than non academic activists.

1) Granting that giving more power to tenured professors would be a good thing, in what way is it legal, wise, or good for the executive branch to achieve this in the absence of any law by strong arming individual private institutions that it has decided to target on ad hoc basis?

2) You are reading selectively, it says "fostering clear lines of authority and accountability; empowering tenured professors and senior leadership, and, from among the tenured professoriate and senior leadership, exclusively those most devoted to the scholarly mission of the University and committed to the changes indicated in this letter" [emphasis mine]. So in other words, it is a requirement that the university give power to those ideologically-aligned with the Trump administration. This is a very clear and alarming violation of the first amendment.

In toto, the letter is an attempt to impose ideological reform in a private institution, and is part of a wider attempt by the current administration to browbeat or subvert every institution that might act to curtail (or even speak out against) its actions.
> Cops aren't made of copper

No, but their badges are. Or were. I guess it's a pars pro toto thing.
Do you seriously believe MAGA has any interest in fair access to education? Or are you just saying that as a disingenuous talking point?
There's iroh.computer which can use a relay/ do direct nat punching.

They use bao hashing which is something that I discovered through them (IIRC) and its really nice.

Could create such a protocol though bittorrent/ipfs is fine

I once wanted to create a website which was just a static website.

and I used some ipfs gateway to push it with my browser and got a link of that static website, all anonymous.

Kind of great tbh.
With an overbearingly powerful executive like the federal US executive you can come up with so many ways to fuck with companies or institutions like this one beyond not giving them money.
One thing that helped me was the realization that, at least as used in the context of information theory, entropy is a property of an individual (typically the person receiving a message) and NOT purely of the system or message itself.

> entropy quantifies uncertainty

This sums it up. Uncertainty is the property of a person and not a system/message. That uncertainty is a function of both a person's model of a system/message and their prior observations.

You and I may have different entropies about the content of the same message. If we're calculating the entropy of dice rolls (where the outcome is the 'message'), and I know the dice are loaded but you don't, my entropy will be lower than yours.
Yeah, for reasons I still don’t understand — probably because it’s driven by Peter Thiel’s Deep Incel Thoughts — JD Vance and co. were big fans of Lina Khan’s FTC antitrust moves during the Biden administration.
This is so hilariously reductive it reads like satire. As if someone’s life experience can be deduced from their immutable characteristics.
I said they do more than teach undergrads, to which you re-quoted me questioningly.

Include postgraduate folks and they're still doing a lot more than just teaching and credentialing. Places like Harvard output research, too.
The judge is an Obama appointee and is the same one who ordered Trump to halt illegal deportations to El Salvador. Trump has publicly called for him to be removed. If the administration wanted a lenient ruling, he is the last judge they would rely on.
Compared to the alternatives.

It gets very frustrating to communicate at this level.
> The current interpretation of "diversity" is of outward characteristics, not points of view.

Only, amusingly, to people one particular point of view. No, that's ridiculous. There is no woker impulse than listening carefully and respectfully to all points of view.
Sam Altman wrote in February that GPT-4.5 would be "our last non-chain-of-thought model" [1], but GPT-4.1 also does not have internal chain-of-thought [2].

It seems like OpenAI keeps changing its plans. Deprecating GPT-4.5 less than 2 months after introducing it also seems unlikely to be the original plan. Changing plans is necessarily a bad thing, but I wonder why.

Did they not expect this model to turn out as well as it did?

[1] https://x.com/sama/status/1889755723078443244

[2] https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/6a47d53c967a0...
I agree, each UK citizen is infused with the original sin of being a colonizer and their opinion should be discarded until they purge this sin from their bodies through appropriate cleansing rituals.

Perhaps some form of self-flagelation or bloodletting?
The case of SBF suggests you can and it's not outside the law enough to prevent 25 years of jail.
It just gets more and more surreal. And frightening.
They go after their enemies (liberals, trans, pro palestinians, brown migrants) and help their friends (right wing white people).
This is a logical fallacy of whataboutism. It is perfectly possible to say that the DOD gets too much money as does Harvard.
I found it difficult to learn and understand the fundamentals if I don't really work on the aspects.

I have tried a couple of times to write side projects about interpreter and OS. They were all small projects so I managed to complete them before I burnt out (somehow I always burnt out from my side projects after 2-3 months and have to pause for another 3 months to get into something new). But I don't think the knowledge sticks with me.

I mean, maybe part of them did, but I just can't see why I'd use them in my work. It is sometimes very demoralizing to realize that I burnt out myself multiple times for nothing.

I think the most important thing, is to figure out how to get into a position without the knowledge to do it -- I know it sounds stupid, but many excellent developers managed to get that perk and learnt profoundly in just a few months than I did in my 7 years.
We are resources. The one Big Tech company I have worked for has 1.556 million employees. What else was I besides a “resource”?
Ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it?

- Cyrus
> I just don't understand the fixation with REPL

Perhaps because maybe you just haven't used one? I'm not talking about "a REPL" in langs like Python, where you typically have to type stuff into it. Lisp REPLs allow evaluating code directly in the source buffer, by sending it into the REPL. That REPL can be remote. Like seriously remote - NASA once did it on a spacecraft 150 million miles away from Earth. We run ours in a kubernetes cluster. Lisp REPL allows you to evaluate specific expressions, functions, or regions directly from where you are. Without saving, linting, linking, compiling, etc.

> because you don't understand it by yourself.

REPL is not about "understanding your code", it's about interactive development and exploration - it allows you to test your ideas and assumptions in real-time. Imagine being able to send http request, pull some good chunk of data, and then sort it, group it, slice it, dice it, filter it, visualize it - do whatever you want to do with it, directly from your editor. It's incredibly empowering and extremely liberating.

The only downsides - after getting used to that, using non-lispy languages sucks all the joy out of programming and you also have to explain to people what it is like.

It's like moving to an island where people have never discovered salt, pepper, and other spices, and though their cuisine looks beautiful - you just can't describe to them what they all are missing. Some even may say - "Hey, I've tried pepper once - but I don't understand your fixation with it" and you'd be like: "have you ever tried putting it into your food?"
For those further interested in PEG vs LL(1) parsers. The first few sections of the Python PEP[1] where they switched from an LL(1) to PEG parser for CPython has a nice short introduction to both and their rationale for switching from LL(1) to PEG.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0617/
Democrats might want to issue a warning, that should they continue with this - a full embargo against El Salvador will be in order, when they get in power.
The Cyberiad
I made an AI assistant telegram bot running on my Mac that runs commands for me. I'll tell it "Run ncdu in the root dir and tell me what's taking up all my disk space" or something and it converts that bash and runs it via os.system. It shows me the command it created, plus the output.

Extremely insecure, but kinda fun.

I turned it off because I'm not that crazy but I'm sure I could make a safer version of it.
That is always a risk of working for the government. Your job exists more or less at the whims of the currently governing administration.
Apple compares against its own products most of the times.
no, but there would be much more push back against this type of action if Harvard and other universities didn't alienate a large chunk of the population. Why should the taxpayers fund places that openly admit to decades of racial discrimination in admissions

the institutions have already failed their intended purpose, as shown by the research fraud. Propping them up with tax dollars because of nostalgia over the name brand is pointless
> You can certainly do it, in a true emergency.

This seems to qualify for many people though. Less pain than complying in many minds I am sure.
Anyone whose research is profitable is free to work for a private entity. The government is a "monopsony" in "buying" unprofitable research the same way it's a "monopsony" subsidizing any industry that would otherwise fail in a free market. That is not typically how the concept of monopsony is meant.
They want to have the old system (deliberate bias and vehement denials of there being any "bias,") but working for them, and the way to demand that without describing it is to require all of the results and "forbid," by name only, the necessary methods.
They are definitely power hogs. And slow.. Core 2 era Intel machines run circles around them.

But their obscurity just makes them kind of neat!
I run container sets (like you'd probably run with docker-compose) as systemd services using this.
Small towns overwhelmingly get more federal dollars than they put in. Big cities subsidize small towns.

>it's hard for me to not think that's crazy and why can't that money go to average americans

Because Americans in small towns overwhelmingly vote for people who lower taxes for rich people and promise not reduce the scope of government. Instead of blaming Harvard, why don't you ask your neighbors why they like to vote for people who refuse to help them?
> de facto illegal to have demographic compositions substantially different from the general population

The Trump administration mid level staffing decisions are something like 70%+ white men! This seems laughable. Controversial maybe, certainly not "illegal" or they wouldn't have done it.
I agree! The government is not entitled to set arbitrary conditions. But it's entitled to set some. I suspect that some acts of Congress require the government to set some conditions on providing governmental funding, as the Constitution prescribes: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46827
So there's a funny thing about mouthing the words, the way the human mind works the easiest way to explain to ourselves why we're mouthing the words is that we agree with them. And so in that sense what seems like a useless paper exercise can be effective.

Also, relevantly here, nobody actually wants these terrible bugs. This is not A or B, Red or Blue, this is very much Cake or Death and like, there just aren't any people queueing up for Death, there are people who don't particularly want Cake but that's not the same thing at all.
Now the real thing that has to be seen is whether Mark Zuckerberg is "masculine" enough to escape from "the matrix".
Einstein essentially gave up his professorship at the University of Berlin. How far into the future are you looking?

https://www.nytimes.com/1932/10/18/archives/einstein-would-q...
Maybe these companies should be built to last not be acquired into monolithic borgs
because the answer for the racism against admissions from asians is deny admission and deport everyone that isn't us-american
Why So Much Psychology Research Is Wrong