MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by haiku2077 | 2025-05-15 12:26:40+00:00
robots.txt isn't just an on/off switch. You can set crawler rate limits in there that crawlers may choose to respect, and the big companies respect them- because it's in their interest to reduce their crawling cost and not send more requests than they need to.

However, these smaller companies are doing ridiculous things like scraping the same site many thousands of times a day, far more often than the content of the sites change.
by AnonHP | 2025-05-15 12:27:26+00:00
Hopefully the EU shames Apple and threatens with more fines for this “malicious compliance”.

Warning: potentially inflammatory content ahead.

AFAIK, Eddy Cue is the one responsible for all this. He’s known to be a shrewd negotiator (with Hollywood studios and such), but the App Store has been a disaster for developers in many ways (as well as users, in some ways) for a very long time. Tim Cook has trusted lieutenants who shouldn’t be, and gotten rid of those who could’ve done a little better (Scott Forstall, I believe, was one of those).
by WhitneyLand | 2025-05-15 12:27:52+00:00
Any reason to not call bullshit on this paper?

One of the biggest developments in language models over the last year has been test-time reasoning (aka inference scaling or “thinking”). Most vendors tested offer such a model. It’s plausible it could make a huge difference here, and they did not bother to test it or even mention it?

Things like COT and planning can really affect this and those are just a couple of things that happen automatically in more advanced models.

Seems like it wouldn’t have been hard to add this to the experiment, but they could’ve called it out in a “Limitations” or “Future Work” section. Or at least a single sentence like “We did not test chain-of-thought prompting, which may mitigate some of these issues”.
by maccard | 2025-05-15 12:27:57+00:00
I switched from android back to iOS last year. There seems to be some sort of inherent latency in either android or Samsung’s UI that causes the UI thread to lag behind your inputs by a noticeable amount, and for the UI thread to block app actions in many cases.

Things like summoning a keyboard causing my 120hz galaxy phone to drop to sub 10fps playing the intro animation for GBoard were just rampant. All non existent in iOS
The Infinite Choice Barrier – A Formal Critique of AGI's Limits
by mmschlereth | 2025-05-15 12:28:30+00:00
This paper introduces the Infinite Choice Barrier — a formal, structural argument for why AGI, as traditionally conceived, is not just hard but provably impossible.

It outlines three theorems: • Semantic Closure • Non-Computability of Frame Innovation • Statistical Breakdown in Open-World Contexts

Includes formal proofs, historical analogies (Newton → Einstein), and implications for modern AI architectures.

Full paper: https://philpapers.org/rec/SCHTAB-13

Curious to hear pushback or counterexamples from this community.
by laurent_du | 2025-05-15 12:28:47+00:00
In Europe beauty freelancers are not really a thing, those who do it at home are typically immigrants who ask for lower prices and get paid under the table (meaning they don't declare it to taxes). On the other hand, beauty salon management app is a well-established market.

For inspiration you can look at something like timma which in the Nordics is basically a marketplace and an salon management tool. Clients find beauty salons on the marketplace, and professionals / salon owners advertise their services on the marketplace. The app solves the problems of finding clients, doing marketing, accounting, testimonials, payment, and so on.

I personally wouldn't include portfolio in the V1 of your app because most professionals already use instagram for this and you would be competing with an already established platform without clear benefit. Having a link to the freelancer's instagram in their profile is a no-brainer, of course.

Creating a marketplace from scratch is not easy and you will need a good strategy for that. What other players have done is typically offer the service to freelancers for free for a given time period and then start taking money when you have actual traffic and recognition on both side.
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-15 12:29:14+00:00
The hard way makes for better quality.

I can have 18% BMI with ozempic, or I can have 18% BMI running and lifting weights. "We are not the same" to quote the meme [0].

The LLM-bros can do LLM-bro stuff. The hardened Seniors that have seen/done it all are the ones you need on a crisis.

[0]: https://i.imgflip.com/5yhw7e.jpg
by rsynnott | 2025-05-15 12:29:54+00:00
The trouble with buses is that they're very big and dangerous; the worst case scenario is very, very bad, and bus drivers are better trained and more regulated (in particular around age, sight, health conditions etc) than normal drivers; the standard expected is higher.

Here's what can happen when things go wrong: https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/wellington-quay-b... (a bus mounted the pavement behind a parked bus and hit a group of people, killing five). In a similar accident with a car, at bus-like speeds, you _probably_ wouldn't expect deaths.
by Symmetry | 2025-05-15 12:30:09+00:00
You've got the speed at which a detonation progresses within the explosive material and the speed at which the shock wave travels through the air. Neither is going to change based on the bomb's arrangement. But if you detonate a string of bombs so that each goes as the shock front from the first reaches it you can get, through constructive and destructive interference, a shockwave going mostly in one direction. But that's mostly not related to how this engine works.
by xtiansimon | 2025-05-15 12:30:37+00:00
My local town has a small stand up Ford bus (~24 seat?) called the Loop Bus. At $1 a ride it’s obviously subsidized. Compared to in town taxi, which is $12, it’s an interesting alternative if your destination is on the route. It goes past the local hospital, through downtown, and past the local super.

I like the idea of commercial loop bus for communities who can’t afford the municipal option.
by hoherd | 2025-05-15 12:30:41+00:00
Having ridden on busses countless times in SF, autonomous busses seem way off. The situations that busses have to navigate can be incredibly difficult, and the vehicle is not as nimble as a medium sized automobile. Still, improvements could be made for the autonomous busses, like giving it a dedicated lane like they did on Van Ness. At that point though, why not have a light rail? Autonomous train systems have existed for over three decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_train_syste...
by average_r_user | 2025-05-15 12:30:49+00:00
I think it's a personal preference. I personally like very subtle references to the classic trilogy: a non-fan can still follow the scene without problems, but for a fan, the same scene can carry a stronger impact and deeper meaning.

I believe this more intense effect, at least for me, stems from the connection to the unique 'pathos' of the original three films. That's my two cents.
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-15 12:30:59+00:00
Sometimes you want them "in 2 years from now" so you 'buy' them now. Also sometimes you want someone to do 3 out of 10 tasks of the job for a couple of years, and then get them to do another 4 out of 10, an ultimately get them to do 10/10 in 6-7 years from now.

I remember those years, I hope they are still around.
by sebstefan | 2025-05-15 12:31:00+00:00
They're just quoting a danish government report

Googling it, I found a second one in London with the same methods (surveying CCTV footage of multiple intersections) and they get the same findings

In both:

- Motorists break way more traffic laws

- Motorists mainly break the law for speed or convenience

- The infractions by motorists are generally more serious and pose a threat to others (the main one is speeding)

- The main one cyclists break is riding on the sidewalk - which is because of cars, and it doesn't happen when there is a bike lane

- The second one is turning right on red without causing inconvenience to other road users

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/traffic-note-8-cycling-red-lights...

For the danish government report unfortunately they moved it and I can't find it anymore

http://api.vejdirektoratet.dk/sites/default/files/2019-05/Cy...
by yk | 2025-05-15 12:32:09+00:00
Fixed routes make the easy part easier, you need a really good gps for autonomous driving. However having driven VW autonomous vehicles, the hard part is that driving means interacting with other drivers. For starters, just standing there and switching on hazard lights is usually a not disastrous idea.

Disclaimer: I work for Moia though no longer with AVs.
by saalweachter | 2025-05-15 12:33:36+00:00
It's not the only reason, but in general in American history, "why is this weird thing this weird way?" is usually answered in part by "racism".

Avoiding public transit has historically been one way affluent white people avoided contact with poor people in general and black people specifically; underfunding or shutting down public transit in turn disproportionately hurts those populations.

Again, not the only explanation, but it's the simplest for a number of things.
by horsawlarway | 2025-05-15 12:34:26+00:00
Cars are truly one of the worst possible options when compared against most other forms of inter-city transit.

A car is a great tool when you need to haul a large amount of things over a very long distance (100+ miles). Or you need to go more than ~30 miles in a day (while the US average is above this, most metros are far below).

It's absolutely asinine to think that a car is the right tool for things like simple trips to stores, day to day errands, work commutes, or any other intercity activity.

Those should all be easy and convenient with safe, low cost solutions for all people in a metro, and cars have - again and again - utterly failed at that. They're slow, expensive, unusable by children and the elderly. They actively make the area worse with parking requirements that often emphasize sprawl over density (that parking lot could be housing...). They pollute at an incredible rate and are a leading cause of death.

Wanting a car is fine. Wanting to always drive a car in a dense urban area is fucking dumb.

The lack of understanding in your comment seems pretty intentional.
by FeepingCreature | 2025-05-15 12:34:30+00:00
One thing I've really internalized since IBM Watson is that the first reports of any breakthrough will always be the most skeevy. This is because to be amplified it can be either true or exaggerated, and exaggeration is easier. That is to say, if you model the process as a slowly increasing "merit term" plus a random "error term", the first samples that cross a threshold will always have unusually high errors.

For this reason, hype-driven/novelty-driven sites like HN usually overestimate initial developments, because they overestimate the merit term, and then underestimate later developments - because they now overestimate the error term from their earlier experience.
by us-merul | 2025-05-15 12:34:50+00:00
I really enjoyed that piece. Have you taken a look at the worldview/framework of Carl Jung? Although I'd always encountered it as a footnote in the history of psychology, I've come to appreciate it as a unique blend of analysis and spirituality, particularly in relation to human creativity and despair. Your summary of multiple philosophies at the end of the article definitely aligns with Jung's thoughts on a collective human narrative (whether it literally exists in a metaphysical sense or not).
by marcusb | 2025-05-15 12:34:52+00:00
There are at least two problems with this. First, the history of tuning suggests there is no level of stock performance that enthusiasts will be happy with. They will always want more than the OEM provides.

Secondly, there’s a reason you see this with EVs (Tesla’s “ludicrous speed” mode) but not ICE cars apart from “sport modes” and the like: the ICE cars can’t be offered with the knob you suggest, because the car has to meet emissions requirements at any tuning level, and any level of tuning is going to have a performance/emissions trade-off.
by lapcat | 2025-05-15 12:35:25+00:00
> AFAIK, Eddy Cue is the one responsible for all this.

Incorrect. "To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath. Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise." https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...
by glimshe | 2025-05-15 12:36:07+00:00
I built my Jellyfin server on $180 PC from Amazon and an old USB HDD. It was basically installing it from the downloadable installer and configuring parts. You will need a client to access it, and Roku works great.

I'm running it on the Windows Pro that came with the device. I'm not saying you should use Windows, I'm just pointing out that you don't need much to run it.
by ZiadEl | 2025-05-15 12:36:32+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback!

You're totally right about Europe—our focus is actually on Turkey and MENA, where many women prefer at-home, women-only beauty services for cultural and religious reasons. That segment is still very under-served.

And yes, launching a marketplace is tough! We're planning to onboard freelancers for free at first and focus on trust, visibility, and basic tools before monetizing.

Appreciate the Timma mention—really helpful. Would love to keep the conversation going!
by verzali | 2025-05-15 12:36:52+00:00
>Sassie Duggleby and her husband, Andrew Duggleby, founded Venus Aerospace nearly five years ago with the long-term goal of developing powerful rotating detonation engines and building a hypersonic aircraft that could carry perhaps a dozen passengers and travel at astonishingly fast speeds worldwide.

As an engineering project it sounds really cool, but is the application really commercial travel? I would have thought the military would be far more interested and much better funded.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-05-15 12:38:01+00:00
> Part of the reason is that public transit for whatever reason appears to be unusually sketchy in many places in the US.

Police and policing culture is heavily biased in the United States to the protection of property and the interests of capital, so it makes complete sense they wouldn't give a fuck about keeping public transit or spaces that aren't highly trafficked by the wealthy very well protected. Maybe a little tinfoil hat, but if you take that into account, I think it makes perfect sense.
by schwartzworld | 2025-05-15 12:38:08+00:00
It’s a very American thing to do. Barely fund an essential public service and then cry about how privatization solves all the problems created by that neglect.

We spent 2.5trillion on the military last year. But the minute someone talks about putting money into things that benefit the general population it’s like “where’s the money for free healthcare come from, Bernie bro?” “Can’t give kids free lunch, they need skin in the game” “can’t have free education, something something bootstraps”
by rsynnott | 2025-05-15 12:38:16+00:00
> a bus driver costs $10/h

For an urban transport system bus driver (vs say someone driving a private minibus)? Not sure where that is, but it's closer to 1000eur/week here. 39 hour week, 4 weeks holidays, so >25eur/hour, plus benefits, employer tax, and so on and so forth.

I doubt self-driving city buses will be a thing anytime for a while, but it's not because the drivers are cheap, it's because the job's actually quite difficult.
by ZiadEl | 2025-05-15 12:38:42+00:00
Thanks so much — really appreciate the encouragement!

Yes, Turkey is just our starting point. Long-term, we’re aiming to expand into other Muslim-majority countries where cultural and religious norms make women-only, at-home beauty services highly relevant but still overlooked.

It’s exciting to see the potential, and feedback like yours really helps us refine the vision. If you have any advice or thoughts you'd like to share as we move forward, I’d love to hear it!
by gchamonlive | 2025-05-15 12:38:56+00:00
I honestly gave jellyfin a try but it didn't work for me for several reasons. The server wouldn't find some shows or movies no matter what I did, and I had countless issues with subtitles.

I'd recommend giving jellyfin a try because it's a worthy project, but it's not even a competition, Plex is hands down much more user friendly, if you can excuse the fact that it's closed source.

Now for findability I can't recommend Kagi enough. You can find virtually anything there, no filters and no bullshit results.
by LorenDB | 2025-05-15 12:39:17+00:00
Just to be clear, the Vision Pro does have its niche. As an example, SadlyItsBradley (VR leaker guy) keeps talking on Twitter about how he uses his daily.

Also, if the people who say it hurts would get a third-party strap, I bet they would feel better. I use a halo strap on my Quest 3 and it makes it way more comfortable.
by dsign | 2025-05-15 12:39:36+00:00
My thoughts go to this guy; many are always one bad-move away from falling through the cracks, and I know first-hand how hard everything becomes with aging relatives who are not financially independent.

I don't think AI is impacting much of it currently (but I may be wrong), but I believe it's a matter of time before it does and then things are going to get worse.

While I don't usually advocate for such things, I feel that in the coming years many of us will be better off moving to places with small-village dynamics. It doesn't need to be an actual small village. It can even be the sort of workplace where people know each other and implicitly treat their colleagues with kindness and dignity; such places still exist.
by snitty | 2025-05-15 12:40:06+00:00
I demoed the Apple Vision Pro. It demos incredibly well. And there's very little to do with it.

This isn't a problem unique to the Apple Vision Pro. There's still relatively little to do with an Oculus, PSVR2, and many other headsets.

Honestly, my favorite part about my PSVR2 is the ability to cut off most everything other than what I'm doing just then.But it's kind of a lot of work for that feature.
by w0m | 2025-05-15 12:43:02+00:00
> Genuine questions : why do you eat meat ?

I know not aimed at me, but honest answer: because I grew up eating it. Environmental/moral concerns have never been a prime concern as I don't consider them problems reasonably solved or helped by individual choices. Having sat don for a lengthy talk with an adherent, veganism itself comes off as smug self righteous delusion to me.

But that's my opinion, and opinions are much like assholes in general cleanliness and presentability in public.
by Symmetry | 2025-05-15 12:43:25+00:00
To be a bit more clear, the detonation is racing around a circular track in one plane, but the net thrust is in the direction perpendicular to that plane. Fuel and oxidiser are continuously pumped in all along the track, dropping to ~0 after a detonation and rising afterwards until the detonation front arrives again. Since you don't have to pump into a continual high pressure deflagration like in a conventional rocket engine this looks like it should be easier in terms of pump power.

Rocket engine efficiency, like all heat engine efficiency[1], governed by the difference in temperature between hot and cold in the cycle. Because at any given point in a detonation engine the combustion engine only comes in pulses it can reach temperatures that would otherwise melt the rocket engine. That's true of regular rocket engines too, which use active cooling, but seems more true of a detonation engine. And I would guess that the exhaust, already being supersonic, needs less of a chock on the de Laval nozzle to ensure laminar flow.

[1] Strictly speaking this only applies to combustion rocket engines. An ion engine, for instance, is a rocket engine but not a heat engine.
by 0xEF | 2025-05-15 12:43:51+00:00
> Oh please yes create a version that applies to your cultural background and how you experienced the net!

As an American, I'd love to see this. Been online since AOL came on 3.5" floppies, but I know the US-centric version is only half the story. An example I was exploring recently was Tetetext which I have no memory of in the US. From what I understand, only a handful of bigger cities tried it and it simply was not that popular here. Growing up, we also had the perception that the BBC, in general, was a stuffy old news corp and had no real idea about the BBC Micro since Commodore and Atari dominated here. As an adult, it feels like I missed out on half the computing world back before things became a bit more interconnected.

If someone is up for making such a site, I'd be interested in watching or even contributing if I have anything valuable to offer.
by kccqzy | 2025-05-15 12:44:04+00:00
This strategy has not been tried. Decades of security training has focused on credentials and objects that only exist inside a computer. And because it only exists in a computer, it is too abstract and not tactile enough for regular users to form a mental model. Yubikey is the one chance where we tie digital security to physical security and give people a clear mental model. Earlier you said that

> The best algorithms are useless if they're too complicated to use and can't fit the reality of an average user.

I agree. So get rid of needing to understand algorithms and simply require users to understand passkeys in relation to their house keys.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-15 12:44:25+00:00
You do have to follow the naming scheme, though 95% of the time I don’t need to touch the names of tv show episodes, just stick them in the correct folders. The exceptions are mostly anime and shows I could only find on internet archive, as, for some reason, those often come with just the episode number in the name, not the full “s01e14” that basically everyone else uses.

I rename my movies but that takes maybe ten seconds per one I add, tops, and the result is easier to read when managing files later than leaving them as “www.torrenting.com The.Matix.ita.eng.1999[rarbg]” or whatever insane file names they usually come with.
by empath75 | 2025-05-15 12:45:27+00:00
There are two ways to think about your work in IT, one is as a person who really understands how to use a particular technology, and the other is as someone who can figure out how to use technology in general to achieve some particular end. Anybody who picks the first path might have a very well paid career for the few years that that technology is relevant, but will eventually crash out. You need to always be looking at the next thing and keeping your skills and knowledge up to date. Nobody ever guaranteed that Microsoft Outlook admins would have a career for life.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-05-15 12:46:07+00:00
Yeah, most of us have no idea how bad we have it until we live somewhere where it's different.

The idea of walking/biking to school or walking with your friends to the cafe after school to hang out, or bumping into friends while walking home from a bar is so alien to Americans that it's not even on their radar.

We get a glimpse of it when we go on vacation to Prague or Disneyland or something. But when we return home, we immediately relegate the experience to something exotic you do on vacation rather than something you can actually have.
by maeln | 2025-05-15 12:46:14+00:00
More than CPU speed, I think the increase in storage and RAM is to blame for the slow decay in latency. When you have only a few Kb/Mb of RAM and storage, you can't really afford to add much more to the software than what is the core feature. Your binary need to be small, which lead to faster loading in RAM, and do less, which means less things to run before the actual program.

When size is not an issue, it's harder to say no when the business demand for a telemetry system, an auto-update system, a crash handler with automatic report, and a bunch of features, a lot of which needs to be initialized at the start of the program, introducing significant latency at startup.