MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KPGv2 | 2025-06-14 20:24:13+00:00
In my experience, most price increases are in labor-intensive industries. Construction, etc.

Compare with tech, which is what a Waymo is like: computers, TVs, etc are insanely cheap compared to their equivalents in the past.

I had to point out to a Gen Zer complaining about how video game companies keep jacking up prices ("this game for the Switch is $80!") by pointing out that when you adjusted for inflation, a Super Nintendo game cost over $100 in today's money.
by karp773 | 2025-06-14 20:24:52+00:00
This. It used to be that customer service agents in America were super helpful and would go an extra mile for you. Not any more, dealing with customer service is just a lot of pain, and often a waste of time.

As an example, let's say you have a problem with Windows. Would you rather ask AI for help or a human support agent on the microsoft's website?
by anon291 | 2025-06-14 20:24:56+00:00
> what if Men got this disease... the law would change quickly!

Honestly I've always thought this line of argumentation is dumb. Pregnancy is complicated, we don't understand it, and there are obvious ethical problems studying pregnant women.

There are many syndromes that affect men and women we similarly know little about.

The body is complicated. We shouldn't attribute to malice what is best explained by lack of knowledge
by abilafredkb | 2025-06-14 20:25:08+00:00
For those of you who've been through this - what would you actually do in my position? I've got a working product that took months to build, some positive feedback, but clearly something fundamental is wrong with my approach. Should I:

Scrap the current positioning and start over with customer interviews? Focus on just one specific use case instead of trying to solve "marketing" broadly? Give up on the product and treat this as an expensive learning experience? Double down on finding the right communities/channels I haven't tried yet?

I'm torn between "keep iterating" and "cut losses and move on." The hardest part is I genuinely believe this solves a real problem because it solved MY problem, but maybe my problem isn't as common as I thought. Any advice from founders who've been in similar situations? How do you know when to pivot vs. when to persist? And if you pivot, how do you figure out what direction to go? I'm at the point where I need concrete next steps rather than more analysis paralysis.
by herbst | 2025-06-14 20:25:16+00:00
Honestly I don't waste any time on 'promotion' via social media for my projects. I try to be more specific, and when I do social media I make sure I actually have something to say.

However I tried to try your product.

1. Personal pricing makes it sound like I am going to pay more than I should

2. 'Failed to save brand. Please try again.' and no error message is where I went stuck. After you IMO already asked way to many questions for a onboarding
by trod1234 | 2025-06-14 20:25:25+00:00
Agreed. This is the most likely outcome of this, and it won't be regular drones it will be a race to toner wars from Neal Stephenson's "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer."

Floating clouds of molecular drones ever-present designed to destroy other unauthorized drones, and that technology will enable the long walk on a short pier for those that violate phyle rules. Cookie cutters.
by kelnos | 2025-06-14 20:26:22+00:00
This phenomenon is interesting, and a bit surprising. I can kinda see it: while my experiences with Uber & Lyft over the past ~13 years has been overall very positive, there are quite a few minor-seeming-but-adds-up-to-annoying things that can happen with Uber/Lyft that just won't happen with Waymo:

* Driver cancels and you have to wait for a new driver to accept.

* Driver is really chatty and you aren't in the mood, or worse, they want to talk about uncomfortable topics like politics or religion (and even worse, they hold views you find bad). I sometimes (rarely) get drivers who want to complain about something or other, and it's just awkward.

* Car condition is unknown until you get in, and could be bad. There might be unpleasant smells, either from cleaning issues or driver body odor.

* It's hot enough for air conditioning, but the driver instead has windows open to save gas (which is dubious anyway as open windows creates more drag); it's uncomfortable but you feel awkward asking them to close the windows and turn a/c on.

On the other hand, sometimes you do get an awesome driver who enhances the experience beyond what a robotaxi can offer. I'm not the most chatty sort with people I don't know, but I have on occasion had a really fun, positive conversation with an Uber/Lyft driver that I genuinely enjoyed. And in SF at least, Waymo will still not drive on freeways, so if there's a significantly faster freeway route for your trip, Waymo will take more time.

I generally do prefer Waymo over Uber/Lyft, but I'm not willing to pay all that much more for it. One thing to remember is that you should also factor in the tip you'd give the Uber/Lyft driver when making the comparison, since you don't tip a Waymo. Lately I've seen prices like (tip-adjusted) $12 for Uber/Lyft and $25 for Waymo for the same ride, but I'm not willing to pay that much more for Waymo. If Waymo is a few bucks more expensive I'll use it, but not $10. (I also have a 10 points per dollar thing on Lyft rides with my credit card, so I try to remember to take into account a more-or-less 15% discount on the ride, versus the standard 1.5% 1 point per dollar I get with Waymo.)
by epistasis | 2025-06-14 20:26:58+00:00
You are correct, and my language was not very helpful there!

The article shows that 10% is a low estimate.

It is not completely ignored, but research is underfunded nearly to the degree that COPD is underfunded.

I think we need to distinguish two things here too: the bedside manner of doctors and whether they are willing to present the options that could lead to diagnosis, and then the amount of medical research that could give doctors some tools to better manage endometriosis.
by abilafredkb | 2025-06-14 20:26:59+00:00
yes I do. I use it on reddit like a lot. Its mostly what keeps my reddit active while being reasonably helpful and non spammy. I'm just not getting why people do not sign up. I've followed lots of tips, read lots of resources online and after demoing to a feel people they find it extremely helpful, but it's just not gaining momentum as i expected
by cflewis | 2025-06-14 20:27:38+00:00
I’ve ridden in Ubers across Hwy 17 in Northern California and I’m pretty sure some of those drivers had never taken a non-90 degree corner in their life.

More than once I semi-jokingly texted people at work that if I didn’t make the next meeting it was because I met my untimely end in that car.

I rode my first Waymo last week through Inglewood and Santa Monica and I felt so much more safe than I have in other ridesharing systems.

I think ridesharing is not the end game for Waymo. If I could just straight up buy a personal vehicle that was a Waymo I’d do it tomorrow.
by stargrazer | 2025-06-14 20:27:46+00:00
Some one has to gain the original knowledge to build the original content and form cohesive arguments which can then be sucked up and hallucinated by LLMs to convey to the masses in some sort of incohesive fashion. Can an LLM create a 7 minute read article from only a few nebulous thoughts? Will it take as much time to coach an LLM into something to be read as it would taken to write the original article unaided?
by kelnos | 2025-06-14 20:28:33+00:00
Of course, that happens, but the point is that it's a crapshoot, and you don't know what you're gonna get until the driver confirms, and you don't know what the car's actual condition is until you get in. And regardless, it's always reasonable for someone to provide you a better service/product than you paid for, but it's never ok to do the opposite.

With Waymo, you know what you're going to get every time. I've also never experienced a Waymo interior that was in bad shape when I got in the car, though I'm sure that does happen to people.
by turtlesdown11 | 2025-06-14 20:29:19+00:00
> In Chatham County, the living wage per hour necessary for one adult with no children is $22.46 while those with one kid is $35.70, two kids is $43.45, and three kids is $56.93.

https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2024/12/09/what-is-a-...
by Asooka | 2025-06-14 20:29:25+00:00
It is possible you have an undiagnosed latent infection, I spent nearly a decade with one trying this and that until I hit a winning combination. If you go looking for this protocol you'll find the absolute worst schizo rants online, but the actual ingredients have solid science behind them (you can literally look them up on google scholar):

The N-Acetyl Cysteine Protocol Morning and Evening: 600mg NAC Oregano Oil (min. 40mg Carvacrol) Black Seed Oil (1 teaspoon)

For the natural oils, my strategy is to mix 235ml Nature's Way Black Seed Oil with 30ml Natural Factors Oil of Oregano, take one teaspoon morning and evening. This mix delivers the prescribed amount of carvacrol per teaspoon. Most of my problems were with the upper respiratory tract and taking it orally this way coats the throat well.

The other intervention that had big effect on my health in the last few years was adding a daily mineral supplement. I'm an avid tea drinker and it turns out that can interfere with your absorption of minerals, plus with the nutrition crisis it is not clear if our produce even has enough for optimal health. I simply take the maximum recommended supplementary dose of Mg, Ca and Zn.

Also, check your Vitamin D levels if you haven't. If you have been dealing with this for 12 years, I assume you have already ruled that out, but I'm mentioning it for completeness. Good luck.

P.S. One last thing to mention - try the carnivore diet for a bit (if you haven't, of course). I know people who have found it a big help, but then again for some it didn't do anything. Give it a month, see how it goes, obviously stop immediately if you get serious symptoms.
by habosa | 2025-06-14 20:30:07+00:00
I mix and match but I’ll take a Waymo if it’s <= $5 more for these reasons:

1. Literally zero variance. Every car is the same. Every driver is the same style. If it says it’ll be there in 7 minutes it will be 7, not 5 and not 10.

2. A jaguar SUV is a premium vehicle. It’s comparable to an Uber black not a regular Uber.

3. It’s so child friendly. My son can make all the noise he wants and I can take time loading him in without a driver being impatient.

4. They’re very clean. I’ve never been in a dirty or bad smelling Waymo. That’s very nice.

5. No aggressive driving. I’ve had Ubers that scare me weaving between lanes above the speed limit. A Waymo is always smooth.
by citizenpaul | 2025-06-14 20:30:28+00:00
Or like how atlassian suddenly started charging a "serverless event" fee for their various workflow automation tasks a couple years ago basically slapping a $5-$10k markup on a product you already own. Thats just for small companies I'm sure there are enterprise customers that are paying six figures for a previously free feature and shrug it off. Like you said a good problem to have.
by cflewis | 2025-06-14 20:30:33+00:00
I managed to get a Waymo after a big event at Intuit Dome. It found a reasonable place to pick me up a couple blocks away. I didn’t have to try calling the driver to get them to figure out where I should go to try and get around roadblocks and traffic (I had no idea about the area). It didn’t cancel on me. It didn’t hit me with a surge price. So I don’t even buy the central premise by the article that Waymo is guaranteed to be more expensive.

And I didnt have to worry about a Waymo being unavailable late in the evening, or canceling my ride because it didn’t want to go that far at night. It just worked. Why would I ever take anything else?
by gjm11 | 2025-06-14 20:30:48+00:00
It may also be that there's some common cause for (1) a topic being on HN's front page and (2) someone researching it elsewhere. E.g., maybe a couple of days ago there was an interesting social-media post related to it, and (1) one person saw it and wrote up something interesting enough to get on HN and (2) another person saw it, started digging around to find out more, and then read HN.

(I am not suggesting that that very specific sequence of events happened in this case. It's just an example of how "I was looking this up for other reasons and then I saw something about it on HN" could genuinely happen more often than by chance, without any need for weird tracking-and-advertising shenanigans.)
by abilafredkb | 2025-06-14 20:31:28+00:00
Oooh, I kinda felt personalized pricing would really help founders out there and cater for the needs of different founders since i don't want everyone paying the same price especially if they're just starting out and aren't making any money.

2. I'm not sure why that happened but i'll look into it. There isn't really any onboarding, it's just for calculating the pricing and it's just got enough important questions to understand the business better to give a well deserved price
by robinsonb5 | 2025-06-14 20:31:28+00:00
> I agree that their keyboards and mice are the worst.

They are now. A couple of weeks ago I bought an Apple keyboard from the late 80s on EBay (M0116 model). After a quick solder job wiring half an S-Video cable to a ProMicro, it now talks USB, works perfectly and is one of the best feeling keyboards you could hope to use. (One of the later iterations with saner cursor key placement would be better still, though...)
by tbrownaw | 2025-06-14 20:32:05+00:00
> so they can collect premiums and never pay out

That's not actually a thing. A very high portion of premiums always has to be paid out. Not just because the regulators said so (IIRC the requirement is a 90% or 95% loss ratio?), but because they'd be undercut by a competitor long before they got in regulatory trouble.
by Spivak | 2025-06-14 20:32:09+00:00
If you are riding in a Lyft and get hurt (and the Lyft is at fault), it's Lyft's medical insurance company that pays out for your medical care. Same as it is for all other auto insurance.

It's a pretty delayed process because unless the Lyft hit a tree there's usually at least two vehicles involved in the crash and the insurance companies have to fight over fault. But they do eventually pay out.

Source: Got into an accident in a Lyft. They even paid my salary for the few days I was off work.
by philzook | 2025-06-14 20:35:03+00:00
Love it! I was trying to use python as a dsl frontend to Z3 in a different way https://github.com/philzook58/knuckledragger/blob/ecac7a568a... (it probably has to be done syntactically rather than by overloading in order to make `if` `and` etc work). Still not sure if it is ultimately a good idea. I think it's really neat how you're abusing `,` and `:` in these examples
by zellyn | 2025-06-14 20:35:07+00:00
This is so meta it’s hard to ground it enough to understand any of it. I’d love to see a tiny worked example of, say, a billing department and an app that represent “Customer” in different ways, and how to model each, and most importantly, what practical benefits result. Ideally, the ideas of what a “customer” is would be different enough to differ in cardinality: e.g. in Billing, a customer is a business, and in the app, a customer is something that started out 1:1 with business but that broke down over time with co-ownership, assistants performing work for owners, etc.
by nayuki | 2025-06-14 20:35:35+00:00
Unrelated to the video content, the technical delivery of the video is stunningly good. There is no buffering time, and clicking at random points in time on the seek bar gives me a result in about 100 ms. The minimal UI is extremely fast - and because seek happens onmousedown, oftentimes the video is already ready by the time I do onmouseup on the physical button. This is important to me because I like to skip around videos to skim the content to look for anything interesting.

Meanwhile, YouTube is incredibly sluggish on my computer, with visible incremental rendering of the page UI, and seeking in a video easily takes 500~1000 ms. It's an embarrassment that the leading video platform, belonging to a multi-billion-dollar company, has a worse user experience than a simple video file with only the web browser's built-in UI controls.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-14 20:35:39+00:00
Before the Royal Navy was professionalized, there were plenty of officers who were mostly useless. Rich people in high society used connections and favors to get the role, and this gave them higher standing in society. In fact, it was kind of the point: "gentlemen" were expected not to have a profession, as that would lower their social standing. They were just supposed to sit around being wealthy, and at some point lead troops into battle.

It was only at the end of the 17th century that Samuel Pepys introduced the officers apprenticeship, which of course, was mostly open to (again) high-born kids and people who got favors from the crown, but at least they had to have years of experience first and pass an exam. So the Royal Navy Officers were still literally nepo babies.
by xdfgh1112 | 2025-06-14 20:37:05+00:00
One is low crime rate, vending machines even in major cities do not get vandalised or broken into. The other is Japan's massive focus on convenience.

I don't think lack of space is the issue. Combinis are everywhere but you'll still see vending machines in most parking lots and laundromats.

Tech advancement is also relevant. I believe Japan invented vending machines that serve hot and cold drinks simultaneously and they adjust with the seasons. They invented improved ways of loading the cans and spend a lot of effot on the design and art, there are even vending machine exclusive drinks etc.
by ttoinou | 2025-06-14 20:37:33+00:00
His previous stuff is so interesting and it's very refreshing to see a Hollywood professional able to dig so deep into those topics and teach us about it https://yedlin.net/NerdyFilmTechStuff/index.html

I think the point that SDR inputs (to a monitor) can be _similar_ to HDR input to monitors that have high dynamic ranges is obvious if you look at the maths involved. Higher dynamic gives you more precision in the information, you can choose to do what you want with it : higher maximum luminosity, better blacks with less noise, more details in the middle etc.

Of course we should also see "HDR" as a social movement, a new way to communicate between engineers, manufacturers and consumers, it's not "only" a math conversion formula.

I believe we could focus first on comparing SDR and HDR black and white images, to see how higher dynamic range only in the luminosity is in itself very interesting to experience

But in the beginning he is saying the images look similar on both monitors. Surely we could find counter examples and that only applies to his cinema stills ? If he can show this is true for all images then indeed he can show that "SDR input to a HDR monitor" is good enough for all human vision. I'm not sure this is true, as I do psychedelic animation I like to use all the gamut of colors I have at my hand and I don't care about representing scenes from the real world, I just want maximum color p0rn to feed my acid brain : 30 bits per pixels surely improve that, as well as wider color gamut / new LEDs wavelengths not used before
by sgerenser | 2025-06-14 20:37:56+00:00
By context, he obviously means automatically applied regen breaking upon releasing the accelerator (so-called 1-pedal driving). While its possible to maintain a smooth speed with this feature, some drivers are using it improperly when e.g. approaching slowing traffic by just releasing the pedal and allowing the car to basically brake aggressively rather than feathering it to allow the car to coast smoothly to a stop.
by bowsamic | 2025-06-14 20:38:16+00:00
The only thing you said is “maybe maybe not” to me saying that I won’t take drugs again bc I know next time I’ll have a bad time. How is that appropriate? Let’s stick with what you did wrong and how it is indicative of the blasé attitude people have about the risks. All I’m doing is pointing that out but since I mentioned trauma you are weaponising it against me

Why do you want to convince me to take drugs?
by philzook | 2025-06-14 20:38:22+00:00
My suspicion is that if you can get away with it that recursive CTEs would be more performant than doing the datalog iteration query by query. AFAIK for general rules the latter is the only option though. I had a scam in that post to do seminaive using timestamps but it was ugly. I recently came across this new feature in duckdb and was wondering if there is some way to use it to make a nice datalog https://duckdb.org/2025/05/23/using-key.html . Anything that adds expressiveness to recursive CTEs is a possibility in that direction
by killion | 2025-06-14 20:38:29+00:00
This looks like a clickbait study. Waymo is cheaper 100% of the time for me. The two big data points I think they purposely glossed over are:

1. Tip – Uber and Lyft cost 20% more than the ride price.

2. Car quality – Sure, a Corolla on Lyft is cheaper than Waymo. But once you select something desirable the price goes up, a lot.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-14 20:40:01+00:00
I'm glad to read articles like this one, because I think it is important that we pour some water on the hype cycle

If we want to get serious about using these new AI tools then we need to come out of the clouds and get real about their capabilities

Are they impressive? Sure. Useful? Yes probably in a lot of cases

But we cannot continue the hype this way, it doesn't serve anyone except the people who are financially invested in these tools.
by BillyTheMage | 2025-06-14 20:40:16+00:00
It's what I've witnessed in person AND what I take from the intended meaning of the concept. Hire/choose/promote/etc certain people over certain other people because the "other" is some stereotype you don't like. It's just rebranded Affirmative Action. It's evil bigotry that happens to make you feel good because of the words they use to describe it.

I've seen DEI used as an excuse to fire and demote people just because they were part of some demographic, to make space for the "disadvantaged" folks. They were good at their jobs, did nothing fireable. They were deemed to be "advantaged" in the same way a random Asian is assumed to be good at math. And now they're struggling to survive. That's the logical conclusion of DEI. Absolutely evil. There's no excuse for it. And that's not a right-wing view either.

What other conception of it is there that doesn't just conveniently gloss over the details of how it works in practice? What am I missing?
by refulgentis | 2025-06-14 20:40:16+00:00
You can't finetune SD 3.5!?

I thought the community license stuff was about keeping people from using it in prod and charging for it without Stability getting at least a small taste.

This sucks.

I haven't been keeping up with gooner squad on Civit, but I did have some understanding SD was less popular, but I thought it was just because 3.5 came far too long after Flux with too little, if any, quality increase to be worth building new scaffolding for.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-14 20:40:22+00:00
I don't think this is a social class issue, it's an issue where society is failing to address widespread anti social behavior and mental illness. We've kind of given up and just accepted racism, anger, belligerence, and all kinds of mental illnesses as inevitable societal land mines that normal people have to tiptoe around. And now that they're unchecked, they're taking over. I can't remember any time in my life where we've had so many people just out there living their lives, in desperate need of help.
by almosthere | 2025-06-14 20:42:02+00:00
We can have different opinions, but every project that had Redux in the wild that I ran into had side effects and unexpected behavior everywhere. With hooks (state and context) it completely removes the need for Redux anywhere and most libraries are best kept clean without requiring anyone to use Redux.

To me Redux is like arguing to use C with global variables. Hooks (usestate/usecontext mostly) are local variables and it makes much more sense.