MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dkersten | 2025-05-01 20:24:08+00:00
It’s both.

Upbringing, background, mindset, social safety nets (eg knowing that if you fail, you’ll still be fine) — these things are huge and make a huge difference.

But 300k then is about 650k today, and just the time this would buy me alone would mean I’d be able to dedicate my full energy to a few projects that, while I don’t think could ever reach the scale of Amazon, would at least have the potential to make a reasonable return on that initial investment. The 300k is a huge boost that a lot of people don’t have access to.

But you’re absolutely right. If you’re not in the game at all, it’s very difficult to get in, and those other non-financial benefits are a big deal.
by andoando | 2025-05-01 20:24:12+00:00
In my experience, no. You just get used to it and it does fuck all. Maybe worse even. Adderall seems to take my creativity away entirely and I just feel like a zombie.

Theres a host of physical symptoms that come with it to that are not fun to manage: decreased appetite, dehydration, headaches, sleep loss, heart palpatstions.

I would say its far better to take it on a needed basis once in a while
by toast0 | 2025-05-01 20:24:26+00:00
> There seems to be a disconnect here. I agree, demanding someone else make changes for you is in poor taste. The issue is, some of these projects advertise themselves as being open source while having no meaningful way to contribute changes back upstream - ie. the spirit of open source.

I mean, you're not demanding someone else make the changes. You're only demanding that they engage and build a community around their project and all that entails.

As long as the license is reasonable, anybody else could pick up the project and do the community building around it. Apache HTTP Server developed around community patches to NCSA httpd. I don't think hitch (from the people who brought you Varnish) is well know, but it started as stud with community patches. If something like this takes off, the originator will either start taking the community patches too, or not; it's their choice.

In the meantime, as a user, I get the benefit of whatever changes the origin provides and I can patch it as I want, and fix up problems that I see. That works for code dump open source and community open source,.
by taylodl | 2025-05-01 20:24:29+00:00
You need two things:

1. Eyeglass chain

2. Command hook

Put the eyeglass chain on your glasses. Hang the command hook upside down on the back of the monitor. Hang your glasses so that they hang in front of the monitor (that's why the command hook is upside down!) Then when you go to work your glasses are hanging in front of your monitor.
by K0balt | 2025-05-01 20:24:57+00:00
I had to build my own shelter security and ensure my own food security as of 16, but yes, i did have that advantage growing up, and as I saw it essential to have and possible to create myself, I did so.

Those things are achievable IF you are willing to give up luxuries that you may see as essential. (the kind of job you want, comfort, etc). But if you are willing to forgo those things for a few years , you can build a resource base so that you will never have to be worried about those things ever again in your life. You will always have a fallback.

The main thing you get from having a "place", even if you don't live there, but a place... is the ability to tolerate risk. Without risk tolerance, there are very few ways forward where you do not exist at the charity of someone or something you cannot control - a life where inherently you are forced to work for priorities that are not your own, and be placated by trappings of wealth that you do not really have.
by Lammy | 2025-05-01 20:25:01+00:00
> I never have to be concerned a Waymo hasn't seen me.

Funnily enough that's exactly why I don't like them. Every time one rolls by me I know that tens of photos of me and even my 3D LIDAR scan get piled in to some fucking Google dataset where it will live forever :/

Their site is even proud of it: https://waymo.com/waymo-driver/ section titled “Keeping an eye on everything, all at once”

“The Waymo Driver's perception system takes complex data gathered from its advanced suite of car sensors, and deciphers what's around it using AI - from pedestrians to cyclists, vehicles to construction, and more. The Waymo Driver also responds to signs and signals, like traffic light colors and temporary stop signs.”
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-05-01 20:25:13+00:00
https://github.com/kontaxis/snidump

Try running snidump for a day while reading HN, including

(With SNI)

firefox https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-lied

Have a look at the snidump output. Then restart snidump and try

(Without SNI, i.e., "No SNI")

{ printf 'GET /web/20250501083454if_/https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-lied HTTP/1.0\r\n' printf 'Host: web.archive.org\r\n\r\n' } |openssl s_client -connect archive.org:443 -ign_eof -noservername > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm
by AIPedant | 2025-05-01 20:25:19+00:00
My point is you're not going to get much more than half[1] of those Uber drivers into a Waymo control center, even if they're facing unemployment. The workers have to come from somewhere. And it has to be somewhat regular hours, surge oversight doesn't make sense.

[1] Edit - I meant 5% not half, I was on the train and very frustrated with these comments. (not yours, though it seems bad faith to say "not remote driving" when I said "problem solving." The problem has always been the 1-5% of driving which truly requires sophisticated intelligence, that's why the oversight is there.)

Every Lyft driver I've spoken to drives because a) they like driving b) they like choosing their own hours and c) they don't want a boss. Telling them to go into an office for an 8 hour shift with a manager is not gonna work, they will find something more appealing. It's a different kind of employee. (I would enjoy that line of work but I would hate to drive for Uber, way too stressful.)
by jasode | 2025-05-01 20:25:26+00:00
>I wonder why not just make it an employee-owned cooperative at that point? I understand there are funding considerations,

The ~75 employees probably don't have enough personal money to buy out the previous investors to convert it into a true workers co-op. Reportedly ~$78 million total raised (over 3 rounds) and last round was $44 million:

https://www.google.com/search?q=0xide+raised+funding

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/oxide/company_financ...

The alternative of turning it into a hybrid/partially employee-owned company where the VC investors still own their % shares is still too expensive for employees to "buy" because you're supposed to value the shares at the same present price as the investors' shares. (We're not talking backdating stock options at an artificially lower price here.)

I guess one could create loans where company let's employees pay for their ownership over time. The current investors probably won't agree to that.
by redspectrum | 2025-05-01 20:25:58+00:00
Traditional startup wisdom says you need to raise capital early and often. But is a funding-first mindset really the best way to build a sustainable business? For many founders—especially those who don’t fit the Silicon Valley mold—there’s an alternative approach: building business credit, not chasing venture capital.

This post digs into how a credit-first strategy can help small tech teams, indie hackers, and bootstrappers unlock new funding sources, improve resilience, and avoid diluting their vision or ownership.
by boulos | 2025-05-01 20:26:02+00:00
Apparently, I'm one of the people that would have given feedback on the original proposal :).

> Some will say that we should be talking about equity, not cash compensation.

I think of compensation as total compensation. It would be fine to say this is Oxide's salary model. And I think it's a fine choice.

It sounds like the equity grants are naturally variable, though I doubt it's just newer vs older employees:

> As for how equity is determined, it really deserves its own in-depth treatment, but in short, equity compensates for risk – and in a startup, risk reduces over time: the first employee takes much more risk than the hundredth.

Edit to add: I assume there aren't cash bonuses for salaried employees. (I've always found it a bit weird anyway, but it's not mentioned explicitly, and would seem against the ethos, too)
by 9dev | 2025-05-01 20:26:39+00:00
…which is the problem I was referring to: by optimising for that—your—use case, those of other people will invariably suffer.

We only have a single text field as the input; how are we supposed to guess whether you want to find an exact match of the phrase, a fuzzy match, at least one of the words provided, or any other possible variation? Also, are you interested in the content, the subject, the recipient, the sender address you used, a header field, an attachment, what have you? Do you want them ranked by the frequency of the word, or the position from the start of the text? Does it count those occurrences in quoted passages of previous mails downthread multiple times? What if it’s a stop word?

There are of course sensible ranking solutions and heuristics for these questions. I just want to highlight it’s not as trivial as it first sounds. Most mail clients probably don’t ship with a Lucene index—while they should.
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-01 20:28:00+00:00
What would be the negative feedback effects? Are we talking misbehavior? If so the ultimately needed solution there is to discipline them. If it's merely being a slower student, then being among other slower students means the teacher can move at a more appropriate pace, so should see improvements.

If you get sorted into the wrong bucket, it shouldn't be a huge deal. e.g. my elementary school had I think ~5 classes per grade level, so you have bands for 20%iles. Teachers can target the center of their %ile band for pacing. With a desegregated model, teachers end up targeting somewhere below the median student for everyone, so people in the top 50%ile and bottom 20%ile are all poorly served. You don't have to necessarily stay in your band either; if you do well, move up. If you do poorly, move down. If you're primarily segregating by ability, not age, then you might need to e.g. move into a younger cohort's top performing band to get onto the right pacing, but you don't need to lose much time. This is in contrast to today's system where if you're not close to the median, probably half your time in school is wasted.

In larger schools, you could potentially group kids into 15-10%ile bands. The tighter the bands, the less of an issue if they end up in the wrong band (assuming they're not completely misjudged). Personalized education is again the limit of this approach. The closer you get to that, the better kids will do.

As far as curriculum goes, I don't see why you couldn't have a baseline. The faster kids would just get through it faster, and maybe move onto more optional topics. The slower kids would progress more slowly, hopefully with a slightly higher end target than we set for them today.

Hopefully the thing high performing kids gain is to maintain their interest in academics instead of having it beaten out of them by moving at what is for them a snails pace. Testing them on larger volumes of meaningless minutiae is exactly the opposite of the goal. e.g. don't give them extremely tricky arithmetic/algebra problems; teach them calculus, linear algebra, mechanics, chemistry, etc. Teach the grown-up topics, but let them learn it when they're ready instead of holding them back several years.
by _msw_ | 2025-05-01 20:28:08+00:00
The LWN article is examining the 976 commits made after the 7.0.0 release. I don't think you had any commits during that time?

As is typical for software projects, early authors will be disproportionately represented in revision histories. I am still the #4 contributor to the Anaconda installer [1] originally used by Red Hat Linux, then RHEL, then Fedora, and others, despite not contributing to the code base for two decades.

[1] https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/graphs/contributors
by codingdave | 2025-05-01 20:28:17+00:00
Typically, employers expect more in return for your salary than engineering output - they pay for employees to be engaged with the business, learn it, become subject matter experts, so that their value over time increases and they deliver more than just the engineering. When all your need is engineering output, you hire contractors.

At the same time, you are correct that it doesn't matter who is typing it. One of my favorite setups I've worked under is where throwing it over the fence is explicit - where a small team of employees each has their own small team of contractors. The management doesn't care who does what, as long as the work gets done, so we were free to parcel work out to our contractors as we saw fit, and that the institutional knowledge stayed baked into our heads.
by redspectrum | 2025-05-01 20:28:35+00:00
Credit isn’t often discussed alongside venture capital, but a strong business credit profile can dramatically change a startup's trajectory. Have you or your team thought about building business credit as a buffer or alternative to equity funding? Are there pitfalls founders should know about—like personal guarantees, reporting agencies, etc.? Really curious to hear from founders who’ve bootstrapped with credit or who see advantages (or downsides) to this approach.

What’s worked? What hasn’t? Let’s share some lessons here.
by manidoraisamy | 2025-05-01 20:28:58+00:00
Ideally, you want to start small and iterate. With Promptrepo, you can use versioning to compare model outputs across different datasets. In the test UI, we calculate confidence scores using @promptrepo/score [1], which parses OpenAI’s logprobs and shows field-level reliability. Fields with low confidence are highlighted in red, making it easy to catch signs of overfitting or data drift.

[1] https://github.com/ManiDoraisamy/promptrepo-score
by steveBK123 | 2025-05-01 20:29:20+00:00
Yeah an unsurprisingly large percent of self-styled.. self-made billionaires certainly came from close to or actual millionaire backgrounds.

I suppose it shouldn't be terribly surprising as being successful requires hard work & a good idea. But it REALLY REALLY HELPS to also have a risk appetite, capital, and connections.. which are what coming from even moderate wealth provides.
by K0balt | 2025-05-01 20:29:28+00:00
As far as upkeep, most of these lots are already in unimproved land, where everything around is also unimproved. Road access is usually at least there. So, no mandatory upkeep except looking at satellite photos once every couple of months. Some places have tax, I think an average would be maybe $50 a year, if any?
by Aurornis | 2025-05-01 20:29:32+00:00
> Dopamine is only a precursor for a broader chemical reaction.

No, dopamine is a signaling molecule that participates directly in this functionality.

You're right that it's just a neurotransmitter, but the relative pathways about how they're produced are irrelevant for this study. They looked at how dopamine binds to certain receptors in certain parts of the brain under certain conditions.
by Lammy | 2025-05-01 20:29:47+00:00
I haven't tried Linkwarden (still doing the `wget --mirror` thing myself), but one of the reasons I like archiving pages is so I can have a collection of pages that work in older browsers on vintage computers. I pop open View Source on any site I find that looks even vaguely old, and if I see a DOCTYPE up to and including XHTML 1.1 I archive that shit immediately even if it's not a site about any of my biggest interests lol
by bluGill | 2025-05-01 20:29:47+00:00
It will only be cheaper if you don't drive much anyway, and you are the type who would never be seen in a car more than 3 years old.

If you drive a lot (like the person in the countryside) the car that is there when you want to is worth owning vs a shared car that you might have to wait for. Plus by owning the car you can just leave your golf clubs in the trunk.

If you can stand being in a used car you will discover that shared cars are all more expensive just because at the first sign of cosmetic wear they get rid of it while seats that have been sat in a few times are still good enough for many more years. (unless you almost never drive anyway)

Because of the above I don't see much growth in the shared car market. There will be some because there are people who don't have parking, people who don't drive much, and people who demand a new car that they don't otherwise care about. However the vast majority of people will still own their own car.
by hajile | 2025-05-01 20:29:49+00:00
Wrongful conviction rates range from 4% to nearly 16% depending on the study. That means between 1 in 25 and 1 in 6 people convicted of crimes are actually innocent. Is that what you consider a system that works well? Would you get on a plane that crashed 1 out of 25 times? Would you consider that plane to be working well?

A huge percentage of those wrongful convictions happen because there wasn't any evidence, but the police and prosecutors were "reasonable". The judge was "reasonable" and the juries were "reasonable" too. Despite the complete absence of facts to support their "reasonable" feeling, they managed to convict an astonishing number of innocent people.

If one jury is full of suspicious people who always see the worst in others and another jury is full of people who always assume the best, the idea of reasonableness says that both should reach the exact same conclusion. You of course recognize that both will convict when there is clear evidence of guilt, but only one will convict when "reasonableness" becomes an issue.

That is the point. Reasonableness only exists when there's ambiguity or missing facts and only exists to CREATE a crime where you can't PROVE a crime (if you could prove that the act was criminal, reasonableness would be unnecessary) all while saying without evidence (and with plenty evidence to the contrary) that every other person on the planet would jump to the same conclusion as you did. Or as a paradox, reasonableness exists to create unreasonable situations.

I'm not demanding that the law be changed wholesale. The only required change is that the law only charge for crimes it can prove. For almost every greater charge, there is a lesser charge with wider scope. If you cannot prove the greater charge, then only prosecute the lesser charge (and don't prosecute the greater charge and the lesser charge while hoping "reasonableness", jury cynicism against the defendant, and randomness of the jury pool gets you a conviction).

Most good prosecutors already follow this principle and remove reasonableness as much as possible. When they do not is where many/most those wrongful convictions come into play (that and the unjust practice of plea bargaining). There seems to be very little to lose except bad prosecutions and bad convictions.
by sandworm101 | 2025-05-01 20:29:51+00:00
I don't think that is even true. This may refer to the total volume of potable water. between the great lakes and Antarctica, there is lots of non-salt water out there. Easy google results show 35 million cubic kilometers, which is a rather large sphere.

https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/volume-of-sphere-...

A 35 million cubic kilometer sphere would be roughly 400km across. NYC is big, but not that big.
by MaxBarraclough | 2025-05-01 20:29:57+00:00
The terminology for this is the cathedral model and the bazaar model. Under the former model, code is released from 'on high'. Under the latter, it's developed in the open and with cooperation with the community. Both count as Free and Open Source software though, provided of course that a FOSS licence is used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
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by joeismailyan | 2025-05-01 20:30:04+00:00
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You simply connect your services with OAuth and, in your code, you get a pre-authentiated object using that services SDK so you don’t worry about API keys. Once your tool is built and tested on the preview environment, you can promote your working version to production and share it with your whole team or specific individuals.

We’ve got a functional product and have a few close friends using it at their companies. We don’t have billing integrated so it’s completely free for now while we try to get traction and validation that this is something people want. It will probably be usage based billing once we do have billing.

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by wing-_-nuts | 2025-05-01 20:30:15+00:00
The potential rewards to active investors are higher, but the very act of exploiting those opportunities exhausts them. As always, 10% of traders will beat the market, even net fees. The rest will continue to underperform the index, and importantly, the cadre of 10% traders changes from year to year and decade to decade and there's really no predicting it.

It's always interesting to read the frustrations of star fund managers and how difficult it becomes to sustain success just as they get popular.
by slavik81 | 2025-05-01 20:30:24+00:00
To expand on that, what's happening is that Valve allows developers to give a Steam copy of the game to anyone who bought the game on a different marketplace. Neither the user nor the developer pay Valve anything for that copy of the game.

Valve will only provide that free Steam copy if the price the user paid is equal to or greater than the price on Steam. This ensures that you can't effectively just sell Steam copies of the game at a lower price than on Steam itself.

That seems more than fair to me. Valve is providing a free promotional item and it has a straightforward limitation designed to prevent abuse.
by stefan_ | 2025-05-01 20:30:46+00:00
It sure seems like the next evolution of Jira though. Designed to waste everyones time, picked by "leaders" that don't use it. Why not spam tickets with LLM drivel? They are perfect to pick up on all the inconsistency in the PM insanity driven custom designed workflow - and comment on it tagging a bunch of stray people seen in the ticket history, the universal exit hatch.
by legitster | 2025-05-01 20:30:48+00:00
During the first administration, how much money could you openly give to Trump to curry his favor? You could give to his campaign, but as he learned the hard way he couldn't spend that money on anything fun. Or you could stay at his hotels, and only really give him a few thousand dollars at a time.

This time around he has a stock ticker and some meme coins. It is ostensibly much easier to funnel money at him. Park your money in his assets to show reverence.

I am wondering how the crypto community is going to handle stuff like this. They have spent so long on independence and trying to get an air of legitimacy. The the president gets to just make his own coin the defacto one of commerce, doesn't that undermine the whole mission?