MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vel0city | 2025-05-07 17:13:36+00:00
A lot of offices around me have food delivery services operating in the lobby of the building. This food delivery service will often only serve a few restaurants every day with the restaurants rotating daily. Everyone is supposed to get their orders in by some cutoff in the morning, the food delivery operator makes one big pickup for all the orders for the building, and it all gets delivered at the lobby. You get a text when the delivery arrives. Delivery is really cheap since its essentially a cost shared with potentially several people.

The one operating in my building these days is Lunchdrop, but I've also seen Foodsby offered at other buildings. On the days I go into the office I look at the menu for the week and pick what meals I might want or I'll just plan on bringing in food. I get the email with the menu for the week either Saturday night or Sunday and can then order days ahead of time.
by phlipski | 2025-05-07 17:13:46+00:00
Most people (and I'm talking 85%+) do NOT need 4wd or ground clearance. I get so tired of these excuses being trotted out by truck owners. Don't get your panties in a wad when people say you don't need a truck. I get it - YOU do happen to tow a 10,000lb boat or trailer every day for work/play. Fine. Nobody is taking your truck. But the vast majority of truck owners do NOT NEED a truck. They WANT a truck. And that is fine too - drive what you want! Just be honest with yourself and others....
by brudgers | 2025-05-07 17:13:49+00:00
The idea that construction has low hanging fruit is premised on a belief that 10,000ish years of human construction experience has failed to produce efficiency.

Or, when it comes to installing heat pumps a LLM is unlikely to crawl around a hot fiberglass filled attic cutting holes for air ducts or installing hangers for a mini-split.

To a first approximation, each and every heat pump installation requires a bespoke solution starting at the beginning of the sales funnel and ending with building department sign off. It's local and site specific.

The attraction of construction is the just-one-percent-of-all-Chinese fallacy.

The construction market is mature, liquid, and efficient. It just isn't as cheap as ninety-nine cent apps. Most people can't afford construction. They can't afford sports cars either [I didn't make the economic system and am not saying it is good, just that it is as it is].
by lisper | 2025-05-07 17:13:52+00:00
Speaking as someone who is actually getting old (just hit 60) this is a pretty click-baity title. Of course it's a gradual process that sneaks up on you, and of course you slow down and value quiet more, and of course you start wondering what's the matter with kids today. Does anyone really expect to just wake up one morning and say to themselves, "OMG, I'm old today"?

(Actually, and somewhat ironically, I do remember a very specific moment about 20 years ago when I caught a glimpse of my reflection in a window on a day when I was not looking my best and thinking, geez, who is that old guy looking back at me? Surely, that's not me.)
by thwarted | 2025-05-07 17:14:14+00:00
The impact to the whole workforce, industry and/or economy as a whole is a second order effect of the real ethical issue of providing a worse service for so cheap it's almost free such that the market won't bear significantly better service provided by humans. As I see it, the ethical concerns are not about specific people being out of a job, but with setting an expectation that it's not worth providing real, useful service (using actual people) because to do so would be a cost higher than phoning it in with AI.
by ghaff | 2025-05-07 17:14:41+00:00
Frozen shrimp was good when I had a priority on quick dinners; usually some shrimp scampi variant. Have a turkey farm in town so a frozen turkey pie isn't a bad option. You do have the option of refrigerated ravioli or tortellini with some store-bought pasta sauce which comes closer to being a whole meal. After all, not every meal needs to be a complete/balanced one. I've also found other frozen stuff like soup dumplings that are really quick/easy to prep.
by dhosek | 2025-05-07 17:15:06+00:00
1999 was probably the year that online distribution really took off with Napster catching the labels unprepared (Apple’s iTunes Music Store did a lot to prove to the labels that people would actually pay for music downloads, although it would be years before legal DRM-free downloads became a reality).

I had a handful of downloaded music files that I acquired in 1998–9, but I rarely listened to them because other than burning a CD from them, there wasn’t a good way to listen to them on my main music system and my computer speakers were relatively crappy—I had a CD boombox in my home office that I used to listen to music when I was at my computer rather than popping a CD into the computer to play music. I suspect most people today have little idea how crappy the options were for listening to digital music files pre-iPod which really did a lot to revolutionize things.

I was at my 35-year college reunion this past weekend and the thing I found most eerie was the fact that the campus was so quiet. Back in my day, there would be a significant stereo system in every dorm room (or almost every dorm room) and music would be played at levels that could be heard outside the dorms (the dorm I lived in was notorious as being a loud music dorm and the residents of one suite had purchased the old enormous speakers that had been used for campus parties and positioned them outside their room to be able to provide music to the dorm as a whole. In a way this sort of thing acted like a kind of low-range radio for sharing music with others—I think that’s a big part of how many of my classmates got into Marillion (I was responsible for introducing folks to Toyah Wilcox as well as messing with their minds when I’d play Peter Gabriel in German or Sting in Spanish).
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-05-07 17:15:22+00:00
Are you on a penny farthing? A tallbike?

I've got the rear flasher on my road bike tucked as high under the seat as it can get, but even with a large frame bike and relaxed commuting (non-aero) posture I'm shorter than the hood lots of full-size SUVs and pickups, much less the seat.

I agree with the other commenter that a 360 cam on top of the helmet has been the most important thing for deterring tailgating and road rage. I've added reflective tape on the frame, the blinking blinking lights under the seat, a headlight on the handlebars and a headlamp with front white and rear red light, and my backpack has a nearly fluorescent neon green cover. Those all help reduce the "Oops, didn't see you there while looking at my phone" close calls, but do nothing to reduce intentional harassment - that's the function of the camera.
by p_ing | 2025-05-07 17:15:51+00:00
Thanks. It looks like it is still going through growing pains.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=io_uring

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/linux_io_uring_securi...

But most of the 'off by default' are from ~2023 and not a current concern.
by em-bee | 2025-05-07 17:15:56+00:00
i am not sure about that. isn't it required that i get everything needed to rebuild the application? if it's a standard compiler, sure. but any config files, nonstandard tools to link, say if the non-LGPL part is written in an inhouse language with a non-public compiler and linker, you still need to give me the tools to relink the objects. i mean that's very unlikely to happen, but if it does, those tools need to be shared.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-07 17:15:59+00:00
> It is fine, there is just not much Rust safety advantage left then.

There's exactly as much as there was before though. The entire point of the Rust safety paradigm is that you can guarantee that unsafe code is confined to only where it is needed. Nobody ever promised "you will never have to write unsafe code", because that would be clearly unfeasible for the systems programming domain Rust is trying to work in.

I frankly cannot understand why people are so willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to Rust safety. It makes no sense to me to say "my code needs to have some % unsafe, so I'll just make it 100% unsafe then" (which is effectively what one does when they use C or C++ instead). Why insist on not taking any safety gains at all when one can't have 100% gain?
by James_bread | 2025-05-07 17:16:16+00:00
I found this break down helpful from the study: https://danielcameronmd.com/could-piperacillin-be-the-lyme-d...

1. The Study Was in Mice, Not Humans 2. Mice Don’t Develop Chronic Symptoms 3. No Co-Infections 4. IV-Only Formulation

Another promising and more tested treatment is that of doctor Richard I. Horowitz: https://sciprofiles.com/publication/view/834d15f5acf0268c9bc...

I have been suffering from Lyme disease for over 15 years but I just discovered it was Lyme 2 years ago. I had a negative test first but did not trust it and did a test at a specialised lab in Germany and that came back positive. From what I hear is that the normal antibodies test only works for 50%.

Suffering from Lyme is brutal, and you look fine from the outside so it's hard for others to relate too, it attacks your whole system and if it's in your brain and nerve system it can make you feel heavily depressed and anxious like you have PTSD, this makes social events feel like a warzone.

For a period of time I could bairly talk, I just could not find the words anymore. If friends or family of my get a tick bit I always suggest them to get antibotics even if you did not have a bullseye, better safe than sorry and the risk is of getting it is way greater than what the antibiotics will do to your body.
by andoando | 2025-05-07 17:16:31+00:00
>Are citizens of skinnier countries better-educated, then become less-so if they move to the US and (typically) pack on weight?

"skinnier" countries have way different lifestyles, less driving, more walking, less fast food culture, etc. They don't need to be educated on weight loss because they naturally are not prone to it due to these socioeconomic conditions.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-07 17:16:46+00:00
Back in 2004 I was regularly setting up Apache and IIS servers with 80 or more applications running on them simply by being systematic about how they were configured. In 2014 somebody wants to sell it back to me with 10x the disk I/O and a lot more that can go wrong, no thanks!

There are some places where people really want to run 8 versions of Java and 3 versions of PHP and think it's going to make them productive that they can write 15 microservices in 15 different languages... It's a delusion. If you get purposeless variation of variances in your system in control you are in control and have a huge competitive advantage over 10x larger teams who use tools that let them barrel on without being in control.
by Jtsummers | 2025-05-07 17:16:56+00:00
https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206544319-Can-...

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207...

For personal licenses it's a non-issue. For commercial, use the same username on both computers. If you have floating licenses, you need multiple licenses.
by aoki | 2025-05-07 17:17:48+00:00
IIRC to collect Pell you have to be enrolled past the withdrawal deadline. The CCs are keeping the disbursement fraud rate low by filtering initial admissions (they are estimating >30% fraudulent applications) and then kicking out bots before disbursement. The point of these articles is that this is costly: CCC admin has to spend >$100M on IT on the admissions end, the faculty have to police their online courses in a way that is really uncomfortable (false positives mean you kick out a real student), and even unsuccessful bots take up seats that then go unused once you pass the add deadline. The CCs need reform of the disbursement process or these costs will keep getting higher.
by the8472 | 2025-05-07 17:17:50+00:00
The NVMe on other instance types is quite throttled. E.g. on a G5.4xlarge instance EBS is limited to 593MB/s and 20000IOPS while instance-attached NVMe is limited to 512MB/s (read) at 125000IOPS, a fraction of IO what a workstation or gaming PC with similar GPU and RAM would have. And stopping the instance wipes it, which means you can't do instance warmup with those, everything must be populated at boot.
by dmurray | 2025-05-07 17:17:53+00:00
Increasing the amount of documentation disproportionately hurts real students (or real social welfare claimants, etc). The scammers can figure out getting the fake documentation once and then scale the process - that's literally their business.

To deter scammers without the real applicants paying for it, you need quality, not quantity: proof of identity that is harder to fake.
by andoando | 2025-05-07 17:18:18+00:00
When almost half the country is obese/overweight, these kind of medical conditions are not the cause. For 99% of people it is not a metabolic disorder.

What I am talking about is people saying things like "Wow you have fast metabolism", without even understanding what metabolism is. Having twice as fast metabolism would mean my body requires twice the amount of calories for the same cellular activity. That'd be terrible!

The truth is I am skinny because i barely eat and if I eat 500 calories above my calculated BMR, I gain 1 pound a week just like the science suggests. I think this is the fact for most people.

>While a person who eats nothing will clearly lose weight

That's a strawman. What I am saying is take your BMR+caloric expenditure from exercise - 500 calories, not starve yourself.
by as-cii | 2025-05-07 17:18:35+00:00
Hey! Zed co-founder here.

We actually stream edits and apply them incrementally as the LLM produces them.

Sometimes we've observed the architect model (what drives the agentic loop) decide to rewrite a whole file when certain edits fail for various reasons.

It would be great if you could press the thumbs-down button at the end of the thread in Zed so we can investigate what might be happening here!
by w10-1 | 2025-05-07 17:19:06+00:00
Key claim: "disruption" is impossible for BigCompany. SmallCo can do it, but only if they both (1) have something technically hard to replicate, and (2) target a marketing niche that is a irremediable blind spot for BigCompany's. Since his venture now is life insurance, Geico is likely the comparable case in point.

I really think every founder (and startup worker) needs to take seriously the marketing side of the business, and not just believe that new technology will win.

(While I, too, am allergic to bitcoin scams, given increasing levels of political corruption monkeying with markets, rates, and regulation, I can also see it as an enticing alternative for those looking to get long-term investments off the dollar. For insurance, the main question is, will the money be there and be made available? Having seen even highly-regulated pensions fail (without federal insurance recourse in the case of religious hospital behemoths), I can see how technical guarantees independent of regulation or law could be compelling.)
by the__alchemist | 2025-05-07 17:19:06+00:00
These are so interesting. From my perspective using PyCharm and RustRover: By far the best code editors, in terms of introspection and refactoring. The only ones I've used that model my projects correctly; VsCode and Sublime etc make it feel like I'm editing files, where are IMO the wrong abstraction.

I experience major performance problems. They periodically bring my 9950 CPU to a crawl, or freeze, requiring a force-kill. (RustRover more so than PyCharm, but both are guilty). Memory hogs. (Feels like they leak memory). This is consistent behavior over the years, across a range of project styles.

I put up with the performance problems because of my first point!

The interesting/amusing part to me: My experiences do not seem wholly consistent with other users: Many users seem to find these IDEs heavy, but don't experience the freezes, crashes, or memory leaks. And many (most?) people claim VsCode is fine for managing multi-file projects. I don't know what to think!
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-07 17:19:11+00:00
The one thing I stay cognizant of is that both the opportunities, challenges and strategies to get ahead are different today in technology than when I graduated in 1996. It helps that I was in enterprise/corporate dev until I was in my mid 40s and then fell into BigTech and started talking to and becoming friends with new grads.

I’m not in BigTech now and would rather get an anal probe with a cactus than ever go back. But I’m also not one of these old boomers at 50 who don’t understand why people “grind leetcode” to get into the top paying companies and I recommend they do so.

On that same note, even as late as 2016, I got my house built in the burbs of Atlanta in the good school system for $335K.

That wouldn’t be possible now. I sold it 8 years later for twice the price and moved. But I couldn’t comfortably afford it on what senior enterprise devs still make in Atlanta theses days (I no longer live there and I pivoted slightly from enterprise dev)
by alistairSH | 2025-05-07 17:19:49+00:00
Kind of defeats the purpose of online classes. Some of the students could be many hours from campus.

Either way, this shouldn't get as far as it does. You can't just sign up for a class and expect financial aid - there are forms to submit (usually prior to enrollment) to verify ID, income, parental income, veteran status, and a whole host of other factors that impact the FA award amounts and whether that FA is a grant (often federal) or a loan (sometimes gov-backed, sometimes not).
by creer | 2025-05-07 17:19:58+00:00
Nobody has yet even heard of vibe coding. It only happened yesterday.

Education and programmability. Schools have been chipping (extremely slowly, FAR too slowly) at the power of programmability of things. But where are we now? Few people program their calculator after school requirements. Few people write little programs for day to day tasks. More people do use spreadsheets (I expect with very minimal programming). For one thing, it seems programming is kept in math and programming classes, rather than use spreadsheets here and there in all classes?

But games? I don't see why non-programmers should want to make their own games. Good enough games are free to cheap - so why games? Games would be then just from the urge to create. I expect more people might want to create or alter clothes or create drawings, than games. Certainly no reason for "most people" to head into games development.
by aeternum | 2025-05-07 17:20:13+00:00
Does it just not feel ethical or is one of their claims false?

Both of the key claims do seem to have evidence to support them:

1) Paying for blood shifts the socioeconomic distribution of the donor pool.

2) The socioeconomic shift results in more contaminated blood due to greater incidence of drug use and/or related blood-borne diseases that cannot all be tested for with high accuracy.
by andrewflnr | 2025-05-07 17:21:03+00:00
I see your numbers, but I still don't understand the reasoning. We know technological civilizations can exist, the only question is the timeline. We don't know that interstellar travel is feasible under any timeline at all. How can you rate the second one more likely?

(And as far as detecting relict machines: our astronomy is really not that thorough. They wouldn't even have to be hiding. Have we conclusively analyzed every little point of light in the asteroid belt? No.)
by anarazel | 2025-05-07 17:21:04+00:00
FWIW, I played with that - unfortunately it seems that the the overhead of doing twice the page cache lookups is a cure worse than the disease.

Note that we do not offload IO to workers when doing I/O that the caller will synchronously wait for, just when the caller actually can do IO asynchronously. That reduces the need to avoid the offload cost.

It turns out, as some of the results in Lukas' post show, that the offload to the worker is often actually beneficial particularly when the data is in the kernel page cache - it parallelizes the memory copy from kernel to userspace and postgres' checksum computation. Particularly on Intel server CPUs, which have had pretty mediocre per-core memory bandwidth in the last ~ decade, memory bandwidth turns out to be a bottleneck for page cache access and checksum computations.

Edit: Fix negation
by snapetom | 2025-05-07 17:21:38+00:00
That seems like a bad scam that carries a lot of risk vs. low reward. These are community colleges. It's not like tuition is 30k a semester. Then you have to have a bank account to deposit the funds, which can trace you back. The article states fraud was $10 million last year. That's not a lot.

I don't know. If I were a criminal I'd look for something that pays out more if I'm going to expose myself.
by otterley | 2025-05-07 17:21:45+00:00
That's not my experience. I have a relatively new Energy Star-rated dishwasher (KitchenAid) and it works great. The trick, as re-discovered by Technology Connections, is to take advantage of the prewash cycle and use a bit of prewash detergent along with the main wash detergent, and not use too much.

Check out the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0
by kmeisthax | 2025-05-07 17:21:57+00:00
> But to use that app store you usually have to agree to a TOS that prohibits things like redistributing and reverse engineering.

LGPL has it a requirement that the application needs to be distributed in a form where you can replace and modify the LGPL bits. Either via dynamic linking or separately-distributed object files. I'm not sure how you could be considered in compliance with this when the development environment for consoles is an expensive devkit you have to sign an agreement for and the SDK/APIs etc are trade secret. At the very least, I imagine a court would take a very dim view of "well we technically shipped object files in this encrypted container that you can't read or Nintendo will sue you up the ass".

If Unity didn't get an exception license for their LGPL bits, then them and pretty much every indie dev that has shipped on console is violating the license. Bonus points for the fact that the termination clause on *GPLv2 is basically one-strike-and-your-out, so they would have to individually go to each LGPL library Unity touched and beg for forgiveness before ever using those libraries ever again.

On iOS, any iCloud account can get a development profile set up to build and run code signed for your device. And on the App Store you can write custom EULA language that says "any activity required to exercise your rights under LGPL is explicitly allowed, App Store TOS not-withstanding." The biggest problem is just getting access to the object files and assets in order to relink the app. iOS application binaries are encrypted, and app bundles, while not encrypted, are a pain in the ass to get a copy of on a real desktop OS where the developer tools can run. For a fully FOSS app, you can just link to a Git repository to satisfy the GPL copyleft, but I doubt proprietary developers want to distribute a whole unlinked copy of their code just so you can link it in.

There was a problem with VLC on iOS a decade ago, but it mainly has to do with the fact that Apple wants team accounts to be verified with DUNS numbers. VLC is a nonprofit, which apparently made it a pain in the ass to get a DUNS number; but that was fixed a long time ago and VLC is on the iOS App Store.
by sureIy | 2025-05-07 17:22:06+00:00
I say don't believe the hype, unless you just need the basics.

For me Biome replaced Prettier but its linting capabilities are nowhere near the amount of rules available for eslint. They mention having rules from ts-eslint and unicorn; then you check and it's a handful out of hundreds of rules among the two plugins.

So it's fine if you're using a basic eslint config, but you miss out on a lot of powerful linting otherwise.