MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GeneralMayhem | 2025-04-13 21:06:25+00:00
Basically none of it. RSUs at public companies are as good as cash that just happens to be pre-invested. The tax implications are very simple (they're just regular income like getting paid in cash), and so are your legal rights (you're not much different from anyone who bought a share on the stock exchange). You should risk-adjust their value like any investment, but there's are very few if any sneaky things that can happen to pull the rug entirely.
by ohgr | 2025-04-13 21:06:41+00:00
Slightly newer one here (Lenovo T470). The battery still works so it’s got a built in UPS. KVM comes with it too!

All it does is scrape jobs really. I was running it on a VPS but that requires a modicum more effort to keep secure. This thing is a rotting unpatched Debian 11 and is behind a NAT with no service ports exposed on public interface.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-13 21:06:50+00:00
Hilarious. You really think a humanoid robots time is so valueless that it would be wasted on going door to door with packages? Why? You would obviously use them where their economic activity is the most valuable.

This is peak human narcissism. It won't be robots doing the jobs humans do not want to. It will be humans doing the jobs, that are so valueless that robots won't bother with them.

>Human Amazon drivers currently are around $40k per year to rent.

Now. Yes, NOW. Consider what will happen to the unskilled labor market when there are humanoid robots competing for these jobs. Going from place A to place B with a package is of so incredibly low economic value that it will always be cheaper for a human to do than for a robot.

Consider this. A robot at its lowest will cost around 10k with 2k to 5k yearly maintenance. Human labor at its lowest is around 3 dollars a day. Robot labor will never be cheaper than human labor.

In other words. A human consumes 2k kilo calories a day. How many calories does it take to produce, charge and maintain a robot? Without a doubt many orders of magnitude more.

To think that robots will ever be cheaper than humans is such a warped western perspective. You are just neglecting how cheap labor is around the world.
by awesome_dude | 2025-04-13 21:06:56+00:00
> But I also personally know plenty of people who made off great with their startup equity. They're def not worthless.

I personally view Stock Options in the same way as lottery tickets - sure they might pay out big sometimes, and people do win lotteries, but, for the most part, they're going to be losers.

There might be argument about the difference in how often stock options lose compared to lottery tickets, but that's missing the point.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-13 21:07:11+00:00
They don’t all follow semver perfectly or in some cases at all, but we have an interval when we do upgrades.

Our test suite is comprehensive and will catch most breakages automatically. The key to success is robust testing, as it cuts the manual footprint significantly.

This does mean we are quite judicious with selecting dependencies.

It isn’t all that complicated when everyone is following best practices most of the time I have found[0]

It still leavings me wondering in a lot of cases

[0]: perhaps this is the real heart of the issue is best practices are systematically ignored. I’ve worked at places like that and it’s no wonder they grind through folks
by thomashabets2 | 2025-04-13 21:07:14+00:00
But my point is that articles like this show how that if you don't keep up with the state of the art, you run the risk of making this predictable mistakes.

If Go had been designed in the 1980s then it would have been genius. But now we know better. Expertise is more than knowing state of the art as of 30 years prior.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-04-13 21:07:17+00:00
I'd say at least 70% of reddit "hobby" spaces are people buying something with little research, then posting the picture of the thing they bought.

Any real discussion is drowned out so the average post now is "bought these, new to the hobby, what do I do with them?".

The meshtastic sub is a good example of that. People buying hobbyist hardware, without doing any research. They probably saw some youtube video, hit the amazon "buy", then when it arrived, they're stumped.
by mmooss | 2025-04-13 21:07:31+00:00
> Doesn't meet the criteria of what people typically call a conspiracy theory.

You mean that you find it credible. But we need evidence; human intuition of truth has led to 9.x thousand years of pre-science.

> It's easily verified or debunked by amateurs with publicly available information

If there was a specific factual claim - about who and what associations - it would take a mountain of research to explore it across the very many people involved. But there's not a specific claim - like most conspiracy theories.

And the implications, the only things that matter here, are unspoken conspiracy theories - again unspecified.

> it doesn't seem absurd on its face, and it makes no claims other than those of association (certainly none of blatant felony, coup, or world domination).

You know what claims it implies; otherwise it would be meaningless.
by arandomusername | 2025-04-13 21:07:42+00:00
Never mentioned bleach. Mentioned UV disinfection right before that quote.

Never suggested it or said it's a good idea. Just said it's interesting, worth checking out, and has to be done by medical doctors.

Completely manipulating and twisting what Trump said to further your agenda - again proving the user above right. Is what Trump said stupid? Yeah. Did he suggest to inject bleach? No
by photonthug | 2025-04-13 21:07:43+00:00
Renting parts of a homelab sounds just as strange as renting out the extra space in your family’s refrigerator, at least at first. But thinking about it more.. internet speed/cost in much of America is insane compared to Europe, and depending on what you’re trying to do with the bandwidth it’s not like you can actually address that with cloud, where the free tier is almost useless but above the free tier it’s hard to do much without quickly getting into significant expense.

There’s collocation for mid tier usage patterns that’s cost effective maybe but I imagine it’s on the decline in general these days, and it never seemed that cost effective for hobby stuff unless you had a group of people who were splitting it.
by rglover | 2025-04-13 21:07:52+00:00
Possible, but far less likely. This would require real humans being involved to verify each new account (after getting invited, you're dropped into a queue to be approved by admins).

Honestly, I think the "but anything can be circumvented" attitude is part of how we got here. People have just given up. These problems can be solved/mitigated, but the nihilistic POV has to be killed in order to solve them.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-04-13 21:09:12+00:00
It's true that Toyota has at least 1 semi-successful, moderately well reviewed EV, the bZ4X. It's not a "compliance car", trust Toyota, honest!.

It's also true that Toyota lags others on it's line-up of EVs, especially considering their early leadership on hybrids such as the Prius. Some would even say that Toyota don't want to push EVs too hard, lest they eat into their business with hybrids.

It's also also true that press releases saying "solid state really coming in soon" are a thing that Toyota does a lot. Actual shipping products with those solid state batteries, not so much. The bZ4X does not have a solid state battery.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-13 21:09:32+00:00
No but it's like this in most of Europe.

I think Uber in the US is a very different beast. But also because the outlook on life is so different there. I recently agreed with an American visitor that we'd go somewhere and we agreed to go by public transport. When I got there he wanted to get an Uber :') Here in Europe public transport is a very different thing. In many cases the metro is even faster than getting a taxi.

PS: What bothers me the most about Uber and Cabify is that they "estimate" that it will take 2 minutes to get a car to you, and then when I try and book one I get a driver that's 10 minutes away :( :( Then I cancel the trip and the drivers are pissed off. I had one time where I got the same driver I cancelled on earlier and he complained a lot even though I cancelled within 10 seconds when I saw how far away he was.

Anyway I have very few good experiences with these services, I only use them to go to the airport now when I can book it in advance. And never Uber anymore, only Cabify.
by arrosenberg | 2025-04-13 21:10:06+00:00
China has major liquidity and economic issues, as well as a demographics bomb, and their biggest market for the manufacturing that drives their economy just said "no thank you". They are not situated to replace the US. When the US is done gun-footing itself, we will still be in a better position going forward than China, although I agree we are probably going to have to accept a loss of hegemony.
by bawolff | 2025-04-13 21:10:15+00:00
Its mostly hailed as a great artsy movie, that general audiences find super boring. I think its asethetic & art design is what its hailed for. Nobody hails bladerunner for its pacing.

Its hard to be good at everything. Being really good at one aspect is enough to get people to fawn.

I disagree on the contemplative bit. I think both are quite contemplative but in very different ways.
by mdaniel | 2025-04-13 21:11:13+00:00
I mean this seriously: congratulations on working someplace that has such rigorous requirements that you are able to write a comprehensive test suite that doesn't get completely rewritten every month or so. I guess because I enjoy working in startups, the cost I have to pay is that "requirements" are spelt "fever dream" and the "acceptance criteria" field in Jira is often just "." (because it's a required field, donchano)
by angra_mainyu | 2025-04-13 21:11:43+00:00
I honestly would not be surprised if we ended up returning to a more fragmented EU, it's becoming quite a mess.

Personally, I absolutely love if we could have something looser, like a "Common European Area": freedom to travel, freedom to study, freedom to live, freedom to work. That's it. No EC/EP or anything like that.
by arghwhat | 2025-04-13 21:12:09+00:00
The lower battery trim is not available in all markets, and only does 300km on a charge which is below average. As such the minimum weight will have to be the 1658 kg value.

The BYD is taller to offset the battery, making the size misleading. However, the golf is not particularly a particularly good or space efficient car - others will do better at similar or lower weight.

250kg seems like a fair minimum weight increase, roughly 20%. The larger the car, the larger the gap though, as the rocket equation catches up - see a Skoda Octavia vs. a Polestar 2.

EVs are still way more efficient, but that doesn't mean we should turn our blind eye to making an already bad tire problem worse.
Ask HN: How do you compete when others have more resources than you?
by Tanishmittal | 2025-04-13 21:12:46+00:00
Hi, I was working on an AI project and showed it to my friend, who is a VC analyst. He liked it but told me he wouldn’t invest because others have more resources and could build this in no time.

I was like, bro, isn’t that the case with almost everything?

His response created doubt in my mind. What do you think?
by fidotron | 2025-04-13 21:13:21+00:00
So, I am not familiar with "simple-peer" but there are some definite inter-browser quirks relating to datachannels which it might be taking care of.

I seem to recall one browser always prefixes the buffers with sequence numbers, for example. Really fun stuff like that, but I would hope that is history by now.

My preference would be to use the standard webrtc api, and then use a polyfill style library for uniform behaviour if you don't want to worry about it (which it sounds like simple-peer might be).

In the event you want a much higher level API and pre-rolled signalling server etc. my go to recommendation on that would be https://livekit.io/ which I am not affiliated with, but I tend to think people starting out should try that and then be able to explain why they're not using it, much in the same way I would expect a game dev to try using Unreal and have a good reason if they aren't planning on using it.
by nyrikki | 2025-04-13 21:13:48+00:00
My primary task isn't ML, and 64bit is needed for numerical stability.

For the Titan V, the F64 was 1/2 of F32, it was the only and last consumer generation to have that.

For Titan RTX and newer NVIDIA cards, the ratio from F32 to F64 is typically 1/64th of FP32.

So the Titan RTX, with 16 FP32 TFlop/s drops to 0.5 FP64 TFlops/s

While the Titan V, starting at 15 FP32 TFlops/s still has 7.5 FP64 TFlops/s

The 5090 TI has 104.9 FP16/32 TFlops/s, but only 1.64 FP64 TFlops/s.

Basically Nvidia decided most people didn't need FP64, and chose to improve quantized performance instead.

If you can run on a GPU, that Titan V has more 64bit Flops than even an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
by bitwize | 2025-04-13 21:13:58+00:00
The commonly accepted solution, if this is an issue for you, is to run two instances of Emacs: one to edit in, and one to run EXWM. The days of "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" are well behind us; one can easily afford to run two (or many more) emacsen. And it can't be that much more bloated than, say, kwin...
by zamadatix | 2025-04-13 21:14:16+00:00
The most interesting take I've seen on the content quality concern was out of the Bo Burnham "Inside" special released during COVID - particularly the quotes "can I interest you in anything and everything all of the time" and "apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime" from the song Welcome to the Internet. I think the problem is less "bots and recycled content are filling the pages up" and more "the expectation we're supposed to find a sense of community and realism if we just scroll through enough endless popular short form content".

Take this post for example. How many are going to do the level of research in the post on the <1,000 word post itself? I know I'm not, it's just not something to make more than a passing comment like this about. Similarly, the comments here will total to perhaps more words but even less engageable content. Just be aware of what you're wanting to get out of content and where/how you're actually going to find that. If you're going to Reddit or HN (or any other aggregate site) where you put in low effort to consume large variety of content quickly you're most likely not going to make any deep connections or associations with ideas or people in that session. Bots and recycled content are top performers in that kind of environment precisely because that type of content lacks a need for anything more substantial.
by neilv | 2025-04-13 21:14:43+00:00
This was something I considered very recently (when I realized my only remaining VGA monitor didn't support the oddball frequency put out by an old Supermicro server on which I was still running something important).

Some pros of laptop servers:

* Quiet.

* Low-ish power consumption.

* Doesn't take up much space.

* Built-in secure console.

* Built-in UPS.

Some cons:

* Limited in what drives you can put in it. Some laptops only support one drive, so you can't even do RAID mirroring. A real server will usually let you put at least a few high-capacity 3.5" drives in it, on SATA or better.

* Many laptops will overheat if run with the lid closed.

* If you get a burglary, a laptop is very likely to be stolen. (In a rack in a city apartment, I bolted down the servers with security head screws, and there was no way they were taking the whole cabinet, with a huge APC UPS anchoring it down.)
by bawolff | 2025-04-13 21:15:03+00:00
> Even as a standalone metaphor it's confused: humans don't dream about sheep!

Sure but its meaningful in the context of the story. The main character does literally dream of an electric sheep (in the book this is a metaphor being able to love, and by extension be human)

I don't think title metaphors have to be standalone. Very few books are like that. Its like criticizing Hamlet because if you don't read the play you have no idea who hamlet is.

> In any case, we're now thinking about sheep, not a noir detective story set in a declining post-biosphere world.

That's the theme of the movie not the book.
by Lammy | 2025-04-13 21:15:42+00:00
In case you're only accidentally missing the point and not just being an asshole: I would expect most people to have heard the term ROI before. I would not expect most people to understand the ways in which a bi-directional data path can turn into money. I definitely wouldn't expect most people to understand that it will involve compromising their privacy to spy on their viewing habits in a way that the last 100 years of broadcast television has no precedent for.
by anal_reactor | 2025-04-13 21:15:48+00:00
The biggest change is that for the first time in history it's easier to live alone than in a family. 100 years ago good luck trying to grow anything on a farm without any help, and most children were free labor that would later convert into free retirement care. Nowadays you don't need others for basic survival, and children are a huge liability. With a little bit of creativity you can live in a city yet go a month without talking to anyone, and still have your biological needs taken care of. So many people choose not to, because truth is, most people don't like each other, it's just that in the past they'd either somehow get along together, or die. Nowadays they don't have to.
by mezentius | 2025-04-13 21:16:22+00:00
A good starting point is Stanislaw Lem, “Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans.” [1] For more recent analysis, read Jonathan Lethem: “My initial responsiveness to Dick’s work was to delight in his mordant surrealist onslaught against the drab prison of consensual reality… It took me a while to grasp how Dick’s novels, those of the early sixties especially, function as a superb lens for critiquing the collective psychological binds of the postwar embrace of consumer capitalism.” [2] You can also read PKD himself; he gave a few lectures that give some insight into his thinking and intentional process. [3]

I’d also suggest that when talking about PKD, it’s especially important to distinguish between “cliché” and “trope,” since these two concepts are often improperly equated in popular TV-Trope-ified discourse. A cliché, e.g. “True love conquers all,” tends to lull the reader; it terminates further thought. But a trope is merely a familiar anchor point, an allusion to a literary tradition, and (potentially) an invitation to a dialogue between the current text and some previous work. (“The hero prepares by putting on his armor,” for example, is a trope that dates back to the Iliad.)

Dick often begins with a character or situation anchored in a familiar setting (possibly for more mercenary than aesthetic reasons—he was after all scraping together a living in the context of pulp paperback novels) but step by step strips away the anchors, leaving the reader untethered to settled meaning or “consensual reality.” The undercover narcotics cop turns out to be a schismatic, unaware that he’s surveilling himself. The noir-like investigator gets arrested by another investigator who seems to be his double, pulled into another precinct identical to his own… etc.

If the lack-of-respectability of his materials bothers you (as it seemed to bother Gopnik), it may be helpful to see PKD in the tradition of Kafka, and as a precursor to the post-modernists like Robert Coover, who gleefully and intentionally play games within familiar texts to comic and profound effect. But PKD really isn’t so far away from the most interesting of his much-maligned SF pulp colleagues. See A.E. van Vogt’s “The Weapon Shops of Isher,” where the author plays games with doubles, shifting narrators, and familiar pulp characters to intentionally strange and dislocating effect—although in his case, the kitsch never quite makes the transmuting leap into art.

[1] https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm

[2] https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/11/14/multiple-worl...

[3] https://californiarevealed.org/do/7622580c-be04-46d6-831c-fc...
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-13 21:16:51+00:00
I've been listening to Moomin audiobooks and reading some of the books to my wife in recent years, and I started to spot some of the more adult/darker subtext in it (I'm still processing the one where the Moominpappa makes the entire family move to a lighthouse, and Moominmamma is desperately trying to cope with growing depression). Still, I have an answer for the author's conundrum, that's accurate for a significant fraction of the readerbase:

> "One of the oddest aspects of the Moomin phenomenon is how these complex tales of apocalypse, breakdown and disfunction have been consistently misread as cutesy celebrations of domestic life."

It's actually really simple. Here in Poland, myself and my entire generation grew up watching the children cartoon adaptation of the Moomins. It was cute, it was happy, it had nice art and music, it was suitable for small children but engaging even to older ones, and it was aired when all kids would be watching[0]. This was our generation's intro to the Moomins, and it colored how we read the books.

I imagine the case is similar all across Europe. A whole generation primed to read these stories as positive and light-hearted, because of a TV adaptation.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieczorynka - public TV (TVP1), every day at 19:00, just before the evening news slot. In times I grew up, watching this was pretty much a national tradition for any family with children.
by perching_aix | 2025-04-13 21:18:05+00:00
This is a social site too, and not much better than Reddit if at all - at least when I only consider the communities I "participated in" there. That said, I have been thinking about quitting HN too several times, and I find it disappointing that there's no (easy) way to export my data from here.

Pretty unhappy about it as well. I have no real interest in physical socializing, but virtual socializing is slowly becoming untenable. Small communities (can) work OK, but anything at-scale is various degrees of rough. I just don't think natural language and the human experience can properly scale this large, and it shows.
by fragmede | 2025-04-13 21:18:44+00:00
Sorta. You could definitely go in on something worthless that never gets any traction and end up with less than zero, as in, you owe money after the experience. But for every Stripe or Airbnb there's 100 more lesser known names that still pay out, not in the millions, but a couple hundred thousand dollars range, which is still enough to change most people's situation.

Definitely look at them as worthless untill they're worth something, but the untold secret is the secondary and private market. SpaceX employees have gone that route and some are quite rich despite there not being an IPO. Again, the failure mode to be aware of is you could end up in debt and owe money which is worse than if you'd never played.
by kgwgk | 2025-04-13 21:18:53+00:00
Choosing Castration: A Thematic Analysis of the Perceived Pros and Cons of Genital Injuries and Ablation by Men Who Voluntarily Sought Castration

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10102058/

This is kind of funny: “Furthermore, for some, the frequency of playing with male action figures that lack genitals (e.g., Ken doll, GI Joe) during childhood may have contributed to their castration desire (Wong et al., 2021).”
by zokier | 2025-04-13 21:19:32+00:00
> when the "talking directly to the display server" approach incurs so much more cost, unless you were willing to accept an unusably minimal user interface (worse than any terminal program would be).

Talking directly to display server simply can not incur more cost than having terminal application and then terminal emulator talking to display server; the talking to display server is something you need anyways, and anything else (like having a tty layer) is just additional cost on top of that.