MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Juliate | 2025-05-14 11:40:44+00:00
Control yes, but even more so, prevent it.

If the only response to crime is repressive without managing/anticipating things way ahead, that do favour crime, it's not going to foster peace, neither a family/youth-friendly environment.

As the article series suggests, architecture alone _does_ influence individuals and groups experiences and behaviours. It's been studied and worked on for a long time [1] and it's worth studying further, reporting and repeating as the OP does very well.

1: see Jane Jacobs (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), Oscar Newman (Design Guidelines for Creating Defensible Space), C. Ray Jeffery (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design), Alice Coleman, among others.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-05-14 11:41:12+00:00
> lack of bureaucracy

Huh? Chinese government is insanely bureaucratic.

It’s true that if there’s something the govt wants they enlist the entire bureaucracy in favor of that and make it happen rapidly, but just because the bureaucracy can be functional, and even effective, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

I mean, that’s basically the definition of a bureaucracy, which while some may treat the word as synonymous for inefficient or incapable, it really isn’t, and the Chinese bureaucracy is proof of that.
by lta | 2025-05-14 11:41:18+00:00
I hear what you say. I personally blame the flurry of BS js "frameworks" that have more effort put in their Apple-wannabe front page than in actual practical engineering. I think they've setup a weird standard for framework front page that this one seems to follow. I don't blame the Ash guys, I blame the people who created the trend and those supported who it. I look at you, JS community.

(Yeah... this is 100% a rant, sorry)
by bArray | 2025-05-14 11:41:19+00:00
Sure I agree, but the WiFi functionality is a killer feature. As mentioned in another comment, it means a smart watch stops being a smart phone addition and can actually operate as a stand-alone device.

Years ago I had a "smart" watch that had a sim card and was a full mobile phone within its own right, I think it was just 10 years or so too early.
by AustinCarrBW | 2025-05-14 11:41:34+00:00
The article specifically says "it's likely this sum referred only to the final training run—a data-refinement process that transforms a model’s previous prototypes into a complete product—but many people perceived it as an insanely low budget for the entire project." The article also delves into the SemiAnalysis report, as well as denials from ex-DeepSeek employees.
by tehwebguy | 2025-05-14 11:41:35+00:00
> Are you interested in an offer on your house?

Yes, how much?

> How much are you looking for?

Wait what do you think the word “offer” means?

> Can you tell me about the house?

Are you trying to make an offer on a house you haven’t even looked up on Zillow?

> We need to know if it’s been renovated

Yeah I removed all the bathrooms and added 10 bedrooms
by int_19h | 2025-05-14 11:42:00+00:00
Ah, I see what you mean now. But the context is a Win32 app that is very deliberately written in C, so my take was from that perspective - i.e. there's no good reason to avoid .rc files and instead handwrite CreateWindow, handle DPI etc in this case.

However, even in the case that you describe, you don't actually have to use a resource DLL. CreateDialogIndirect can be used to create a dialog from an array of DLGITEMTEMPLATE structs, each describing a single control. I'm not entirely sure, but I suspect that compiled dialogs are basically just a dump of that array (but if not you could always just create it manually).
by fidotron | 2025-05-14 11:42:33+00:00
> “Of all the things you could do to affect the government, it would have been better to go after regulation. It would have been better to go after entitlements. Just blowing up jobs was a good way to make enemies, a good way to cause more disruption than progress.”

This is deliberate obfuscation: you cannot go after the regulation and entitlements if a lot of people already have jobs dependent on them, since they will intensively campaign to prevent change, and that is the root of the problem.

This entire piece is proof that Doge is actually working, since otherwise it would be a complete nothingburger.
by piva00 | 2025-05-14 11:43:08+00:00
That's quite a broad assumption based on anecdotal evidence, you know what's true based on your few experiences renting and from a few listings your immediate family has, how can you even believe it's true based on this flimsy data?

Quick edit: just searched on both VRBO and Airbnb for rentals in my city for the same date range, VRBO shows me 191 options, Airbnb shows 330 options.
by snowwrestler | 2025-05-14 11:43:50+00:00
The parent led off with the value of having a full kitchen, which you have dropped—obviously because there are extremely few hotels in the U.S. that include this.

Your description of how well hotels are run does not match my experience. I’m sure it’s true of very nice hotels. It’s also true of very nice AirBnB’s! And VRBOs, which are not as well known but similar idea.
by reconnecting | 2025-05-14 11:44:08+00:00
I'm speaking about Wise, as their logo is featured as a client of a fraud prevention platform. This makes it easy to imagine the kind of risk scoring they might use for their client accounts.

However, I'm not aware of large banks using such online fraud prevention services. For example, in France, there's one major vendor that powers most of the banks. If we look at their client area, there's no indication of fingerprinting.

Since device fingerprinting is included in most online fraud prevention systems, I can assume that traditional banks in France are not using these kinds of tools to screen accounts. But perhaps you have another source of information.
by timr | 2025-05-14 11:44:13+00:00
> My experience is that e.g. it used to be a lot easier in the USA to find hotels that even just had a kitchenette or even a pay to wash “laundromat” (which is what I assume you are referring to), but maybe that is also just my personal experience. But my sense is that those offerings have been in stark decline especially over the last decades, and especially outside of the inland western half of the country that in some places is still a kind of real America that has not yet succumbed to con job level corporate practices.

American here. The opposite is true -- there used to be few of these, and they were "upscale". Now there are tons of different low-end chains that specialize in it. Homewood Suites, Marriott/Hilton/Sheraton Suites, Embassy Suites, DoubleTree, Hyatt Place, Springhill Suites, and maybe half a dozen others.

These are usually, but not exclusively, located in areas that are a bit more rural -- I don't know if you'll find one in Manhattan, for example, and you'll see definitely them by pretty much every major freeway interchange. But I've stayed in one on Maui, in San Diego, and near the airport in SF, so you see them in "tourist" places as well.
by Drakim | 2025-05-14 11:44:44+00:00
It makes sense to specialize it on one programming language to dedicate all of the LLM's intellectual space to that one domain, but on the flip side I wonder how much the LLM's sharpness and reasoning capabilities is increased by having more data to train on even if it's the wrong programming language.

As a developer I certainly think my programming skills in a specific language was improved by knowing other languages so I can contrast and compare.
by codingdave | 2025-05-14 11:45:11+00:00
Last time I lived in a city was a while back, but at that time Denver updated routes a few times a year. I'm not saying they are the speediest, but I don't know how you are claiming that no new route can be created in any Western city without years of work. That simply is not true.

Or, if you want to go small, my school district changed bus routes with a 48 hour turn around time when we moved to our home in the country, and again when our teenager's schedule changed and he could no longer drive the younger sibling home.
by lumannnn | 2025-05-14 11:45:23+00:00
We use it in production and are really happy with it.

For me, one of the biggest value points of Ash lies in removing the boilerplate without locking you in.

The devs of Ash cleverly use Elixir itself and other big names of the Elixir eco system. By doing that, they have created a framework that helps you moving more quickly as you don't have to write the same code over and over again (i.e. remove boilerplate) while still giving you the flexibility to escape if something out of the box doesn't fit right away (that's because of how Elixir works and how they just re-use the other big names, e.g. Ecto, Absinthe,...).

I've tried to write about all of this here if you are interested in reading more:

https://www.lukasender.at/ash-the-hidden-champion-of-low-cod...

In the end, it's hard to only write and read about this. You can only "feel" how things change when you actually work with it.

The learning curve is a little step at first, though (in my opinion). But the docs got a lot better over time.

All in all, I'm still happy with how things turned out and would use it again for future projects.
by bArray | 2025-05-14 11:45:30+00:00
It's not just the domain, trademarks, code, database, etc, but also the customers and their contracts (accept the ones they didn't want). I think in a court it could easily be argued that it was a purchase of the company by a different name.

And their argument is that they were not made aware of these contracts, which to me sounds like the new owners should be suing the old owners for lack of responsible disclosure. Unless of course they signed away this right as part of the contract, or they were aware and don't have a leg to stand on.

In any case, this is super fishy.
by usercentrics | 2025-05-14 11:45:35+00:00
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by joshprice | 2025-05-14 11:46:06+00:00
Ash models an application's verbs or operations as actions. This allows the production of events via an "Aspect Oriented" way of hooking into the action lifecycle.

Although it doesn't support a command first Event sourcing approach, AshEvents (https://github.com/ash-project/ash_events) does help produce events that could be replayed.

Torkild wrote an article about his latest updates to AshEvents here:

https://alembic.com.au/blog/ash-events-event-sourcing-made-s...
by formerly_proven | 2025-05-14 11:47:16+00:00
Housing in the West was basically turned into another pillar of retiree funding. Old people extract tremendous financial gains from younger generations by either a) selling them decrepit real estate at extremely high prices or b) collecting very high rents on buildings that are even older than themselves (even in the US, which is the king of corporate landlording, they are a small minority; most landlords are natural persons, mostly retirees or near-retirees).

It turns out if you do that the living space required to raise the next generation simply becomes inaccessible.

(Another way to look at it - people on new leases will often spend around 30-40% of net income on rent. In most instances this is a direct transfer to a retiree/near-retiree. Taxes, a lot of which also goes towards transfer payments, and other transfer payments to old people, are 40-50% in many countries. Taken together, younger, working people are effectively transferring 2/3rds or more of their gross income to retirees before spending the first cent on themselves. Why would anyone be surprised people are checking out of that system en-masse?)
by dwattttt | 2025-05-14 11:47:20+00:00
> If you were designing a language which would you pick all else being equal?

But why would you think all else is equal? You might not agree with the tradeoffs Rust makes, and it's not as if there's a perfect language for all uses, but it absolutely makes hard software easier to write.

I've had the opportunity to debug weird crazy memory corruption, as well as "wow it's hard to figure out how to design this in Rust", and having come to terms with things much like this blog post I now get more work done, with less corruption _and_ design problems.
by fatbobman | 2025-05-14 11:47:47+00:00
Among SwiftUI’s many APIs, .ignoredByLayout() is something of an “understated member.” Information is scarce, usage scenarios are uncommon, and its very name tends to raise questions. It seems to suggest some kind of “ignoring” of the layout—but how does that differ from modifiers like offset or scaleEffect, which by default don’t affect their parent’s layout? When does ignoredByLayout actually come into play, and what exactly does it “ignore” or “hide”? In this article, we’ll lift the veil on this subtle API in SwiftUI’s layout mechanism.
by biblereaderai | 2025-05-14 11:47:52+00:00
Hi HN,

I built BibleReader.ai because I wanted a truly AI-native way to explore Scripture—no pop-ups, no paywalls, no bloated interfaces. Just an elegant reading experience powered by the best models available.

=====What it does

Conversational Bible Q&A – Ask anything (“What does agapē mean in context?”) and get referenced answers instantly. Inline insights – Word studies, historical context, topical links—all appear exactly where you need them. Quietly beautiful design – Minimal UI, responsive typography, light/dark modes, and zero ads. Nothing gets between you and the text.

=====Why it matters

Most Bible apps are either cluttered with ads or built for academic deep-dives, often using dense, complex language. BibleReader.ai is designed to make Scripture more accessible for everyone—offering parable-style answers to everyday or difficult questions. For those who want to dig deeper, it also includes study tools like word insights and historical context—all wrapped in a clean, modern design that keeps the focus on the Word —with no friction, no noise.

=====Under the hood

Model access via OpenAI API (currently GPT‑4o)

Claude 3.7 Sonnet + Cursor for coding with a vibe—clean, fluid, joyful dev

Next.js 14 / React Server Components Fully typed in TypeScript

No RAG pipelines. Just simple, LLM retrieval.

=====Roadmap

Epic, AI-generated audio narration

Looking for recommendations: what’s the most realistic, awe-inspiring voice model you’ve heard for long-form text?

=====Would love your feedback on:

Are the answers accurate and useful?

Is the reading experience clean and distraction-free enough?

What features should I add next? Anything you’ve always wished a Bible app could do?

Thanks for reading. My hope is BibleReader.ai helps people engage Scripture more deeply.
by Juliate | 2025-05-14 11:48:12+00:00
> such as "fresh-faced bay area 25 year old with a Steve Jobs complex" screams out toxic personality.

Well... that may as well be a very clinical observation; I've lost count of how many I've met in interviewing rounds, on either side of the table or in my own teams. It wouldn't surprise me a lot of tech people go through such a phase, at some (hopefully as shortest as possible) point of their early career. I probably have.
by codelikeawolf | 2025-05-14 11:48:22+00:00
I've been working with the VS Code codebase for the past few months and I noticed they're encoding/decoding all the IPC messages using a custom binary buffer implementation (or at least I think that's the case, some of the code is hard to follow). It struck me as odd because most of the messages are pretty small (definitely not 100s of MB). I always wondered: at what point does it become more performant to encode messages to binary and decode them on the other end? Does it really take that much longer to just send strings?
by jamalaramala | 2025-05-14 11:48:50+00:00
Yes, $100K was a relatively small sum -- but the company that owned the rights was going bankrupt, and Blender was going to die.

For a lucrative game, a reasonable value would be 2 to 4 years of earnings.

For example: if the product makes $10K/month:

$10k × 36 (a mid-range multiple) = $360,000

With this amount, the author would have at least 3 years of headway, with a much larger open source community.
by branko_d | 2025-05-14 11:49:53+00:00
Often, this is presented as a tradeoff between the cost of development and the cost of hardware. However, there is a third leg of that stool: the cost of end-user experience.

When you have a system which is sluggish to use because your skimped on development, it is often the case that you cannot make it much faster no matter how expensive is the hardware you throw at it. Either there is a single-threaded critical path, so you hit the limit of what one CPU can do (and adding more does not help), or you hit the laws of physics, such as with network latency which is ultimately bound by the speed of light.

And even when the situation could be improved by throwing more hardware at it, this is often done only to the extent to make the user experience "acceptable", but not "great".

In either case, the user experience suffers and each individual user is less productive. And since there are (usually) orders of magnitude more users than developers, the total damage done can be much greater than the increased cost of performance-focused development. But the cost of development is "concentrated" while the cost of user experience is "distributed", so it's more difficult to measure or incentivize for.

The cost of poor user experience is a real cost, is larger than most people seem to think and is non-linear. This was observed in the experiments done by IBM, Google, Amazon and others decades ago. For example, take a look at:

The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/the-economic-value-of-rap...

He and Richard P. Kelisky, Director of Computing Systems for IBM's Research Division, wrote about their observations in 1979, "...each second of system response degradation leads to a similar degradation added to the user's time for the following [command]. This phenomenon seems to be related to an individual's attention span. The traditional model of a person thinking after each system response appears to be inaccurate. Instead, people seem to have a sequence of actions in mind, contained in a short-term mental memory buffer. Increases in SRT [system response time] seem to disrupt the thought processes, and this may result in having to rethink the sequence of actions to be continued."
by pjc50 | 2025-05-14 11:50:34+00:00
> Nobody knows

Have you tried asking them? In particular, asking the women who are making the career-or-children decision?

South Korea is invoked, but it seems like the population there has almost perfectly levelled out at just over 51m: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/kor/sou... of which 20m live in Seoul.

This discussion comes up a lot on HN, and it seems to be one where there are answers, but people don't like the answers, so they go back to feigning ignorance.
by blagie | 2025-05-14 11:50:44+00:00
I'll give another lens for why lifetime subscriptions often make sense. Places to consider them:

* Non-profits

* Clubs

* Academic organizations

* Educational / semi-educational companies

* ...

The key thing to remember is that the whole of the universe isn't transactional.

And the right thing to do for "an [organization] in need of cash," if you'd like to see them continue, might be to... give them cash. It might also be the right thing if you'd like an organization to be able to bootstrap and not be under the pressure of investors. There are fine reasons to keep some organizations private and customer-funded (especially if the founder has a strong moral backbone).
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-14 11:50:46+00:00
I don't know what sort of localized English you speak, but that is not how it works in America. [Based on past comments, you may be located in Australia. I could certainly understand if there are local phenomena in your language there.]

If we say "In the nineteen hundreds..." we mean 1900-1910. If we said "In the ninteen fifties" we would not be implying a 50-year period, would we? If we said "In the nineteen nineties" are we implying a 90-year period? Do you see how your logic immediately breaks down? Is it mere accident that "the ninteen tens" is a ten-year period of time? Yes it is...

Your assertions and these patterns of speech are just bizarre. I don't know anyone who says, or writes, "the Eighteen Noughts" at all. It is not a thing for scholars of history, for sure.

For a while it has been debated how we'll refer to 2000-2009. Because in different centuries, those initial ten years gained unique names. Some people want to call it "The Aughts" or "The Noughts" but I don't really hear people referring to "The Two Thousands" yet, at all; it's largely "The 21st Century".
by parisidau | 2025-05-14 11:50:58+00:00
Our main, regular, actual, regulated Australian bank does offer a "Foreign Currency Account" in USD (and many other useful currencies), but cannot link a debit card to it, and it can only wire transfer.

Our regular transaction account with our real bank can receive USD just fine, but it will convert into AUD upon receipt, and spent as AUD with the attached debit card.

It's more effective to be able to spend USD directly, as needed.

Wise's offering (and others like it: OFX, Airwallex, Revolut) offer ACH, FedWire, Wire transfer, and a Debit card.
by relaxing | 2025-05-14 11:51:01+00:00
You’ve misunderstood the pedagogy of Rosenblatt. It is essentially what you describe.

Resonate does not mean mirror, it’s more like sympathy from a personal connection.

You need “resonances between the work and each reader’s individual experience” in order to place yourself in the world of “Zhuang Zhou dreaming he is a butterfly.”

The opposing school of pedagogy would ignore the personal connection and have you focus on style, structure, metaphor. etc.
by Fricken | 2025-05-14 11:51:05+00:00
French Aristocrats had difficulty affording children as well.

My theory is that as a society becomes wealthier, the acceptable minimum standard for child rearing grows at an even faster rate, until it becomes unattainable for a growing number of people.

Raising kids is cheap. People who live in mud huts who have never heard of money can afford to raise kids. Avoiding negative social stigma is what people can't afford.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-14 11:52:12+00:00
>Children in overpopulated countries like India have been living with their parents for generations.

That's comparing apples to oranges. People living in rich first world countries with stagnating economies like Canada expect a better future and standard of living for their kids than those from impoverished third world countries who rose to be developing countries, no? Then there's also completely different cultural norms and expectations between India and western nations and how multi generational families interact.

I had a similar discussion with someone form Africa who was shocked to hear that in some rich European countries you could have a full time job and still be homeless due to scarce housing and crazy rents. And then he replied "what's the point of a country being rich if the people are poor?". Good question mate. It's because the point of rich countries is to be tax havens and economic zones where worldwide money is funneled to the top 1% and the workers who enable that have to fight for the scraps while those who can't, get left behind for the welfare state to pick up or fall through the holes in the safety net and end up on the street.

>People don't want kids for mysterious reasons that we have yet to discover.

The reasons have been written in this thread. If you don't like them or don't resonate with you, doesn't mean they're mysterious and undiscovered. Just go on the street and ask 100 random people, they'll tell you the same.