MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dcchuck | 2025-06-20 18:00:29+00:00
Really? I must admit I have not noticed it. I've had nightmare trips trying to get into the city still during traditional heavy traffic times. Frankly I've thought more "the pandemic is finally over" than I did "congestion pricing is working" over the past few months.

I'll be curious what happens come winter time. Midtown becomes gridlock in the evenings. I do not expect that to change.

All that being said - probably my own biases skewing things. I will keep my eyes peeled!
by felarof | 2025-06-20 18:00:38+00:00
Thanks for asking - not a stupid question at all! I should have probably explained it at the top of my post.

By "agentic browser" we basically mean a browser with AI agents that can do web navigation tasks for you. So instead of you manually clicking around to reorder something on Amazon or fill out forms, the AI agent can actually navigate the site and do those tasks.
by transcriptase | 2025-06-20 18:01:07+00:00
I’ve been using Linux daily since people were saying the same about Mandrake to people complaining about Gentoo requiring part-time job levels of effort to make it capable of basic functionality. Don’t mistake the recognition of very real hurdles to widespread adoption (brought on by fragmentation) with some sort of lack of experience on my part. I love Linux, except for when the simplest little things become nightmarish time-sucks and you find out it has nothing to do with technical complexity but because of some ideological argument a couple of guys had on a mailing list in 1999.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-06-20 18:01:15+00:00
I'm not curious because I already know the answer. The inconvenience is that driving through the city is $9 more expensive without any improvement in other transportation alternatives. For some people that's no big deal but obviously for a lot of people it is, hence why there's fewer people on the road. The "missing" people are the ones who simply can't afford to be there.
by ysavir | 2025-06-20 18:01:20+00:00
I've been getting these buffer loading times recently, and ironically, I don't mind them all that much. The annoyance of ads isn't primarily in the time it takes up, but in having the audio play and a video feed run that isn't the video I clicked on.

If an actual ad played, I'd be irritated beyond belief. But when there's a 12 second buffer, I have enough patience training for slow load times that I instinctively just quickly check my email or spend a brief moment lost in thought. Especially when it's every video. If it was one in every 5 videos, I'd notice it and be bothered. When it's every video, it's part of the experience and my brain just cuts it out automatically.
by zimzam | 2025-06-20 18:01:28+00:00
What are you talking about? Inexpensive food is a boon to society.

Cultivating food the 'old fashioned way' is incredibly labor intensive. We now have machines that allow us to cultivate far more food with far less labor.

For example, in 1900 corn took 38 hours/acre to plant/cultivate/harvest. In 2000 it took about an hour. The yeild per acre has also improved 3x-5x in that span, so the time per bushel has decreased to less than 1% of what it once was.

Of course the person spending 100+x the effort to grow corn will not be economically competitive - why would we want anything different?

https://www.lhf.org/learning-fields/crops/corn/
by tptacek | 2025-06-20 18:01:29+00:00
As a software security person, I don't think the security objections to LLMs are going to pan out. I think LLMs are going to be a strong net positive for security:

* The tooling and integration stuff people complain about now ("the S in MCP") isn't really load-bearing yet, and a cottage industry of professional services and product work will go into giving it the same overcomplicated IAM guardrails everything else has; today, though, you just do security at a higher or lower level.

* LLM code generation is better at implementing rote best-practices and isn't incentivized to take shortcuts (in fact, it has some of the opposite incentives, to the consternation of programmers like me who prize DRY-ness). These shortcuts are where most security bugs live.

* LLMs can analyze code far faster than any human can, and vulnerabilities that can be discovered through pure pattern matching --- which is most vulnerabilities --- will be easy pickings. We've already had a post here with someone using o4 to find new remote kernel vulnerabilities, and that's a level of vuln research that is way, way more hardcore than what line-of-business software ordinarily sees.

* LLMs enable instrumentation and tooling that were cost-prohibitive previously: model checking, semantic grepping, static analysis. These tools all exist and work today, but very few projects seriously use them because keeping all the specs and definitions up to date and resolving all the warnings is too much time for not enough payoff. LLMs don't have that problem.

LLM-generated code (and LLM tooling) will inevitably create security vulnerabilities. We have not invented a way to create bug-free code; would have been big if true! Opponents of industry LLM use will point to these vulnerabilities and go "see, told you so". But each year we continue using these tools, I think the security argument is going to look weaker and weaker. If I had to make a bet, I'd say it ceases being colorable within 3 years.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-06-20 18:02:18+00:00
This is simple economics. As someone else stated, if this worked at all, you would have poured all of your resources into investing your own money or starting a fund to manage others' money. If you could beat the market by just 5%, you would be a billionaire within a very short amount of time as everyone would bring you their money. Instead, you decided to build a website and sell it to others for $20 per month. Surely as someone so knowledgeable in markets, you realize that selling something so valuable for so little would not happen.

I stand by my statement - your product is false hope and is a scam, as all of these systems are. Some sucker who doesn't understand that the best move is to just buy the broad market an hold reads your marketing, buys it, and pays you. What you've sold him is certainly not the ability to make more money. You and I know he won't do that unless by pure luck. What you've sold him is a sense of hope that he will make money, and the ones who often fall for this do so because they've gotten themselves into financial problems with trading and want to believe that this is the system that will fix it all for them. That hope is a very addictive drug that will last as long as he can hold on to the lie.

If you're ok with that being your business model, that's your right. It isn't illegal. In my opinion, however, our society is completely overloaded with people who take advantage of others while adding zero value.
by anonymars | 2025-06-20 18:02:19+00:00
That's great, now when in the past did Microsoft render obsolete hundreds of millions of machines for...what, exactly? VBS? When was the last time a Windows issue was a notable security threat? Is VBS going to keep people from getting phished?

In fact, let's compare this pointless consumer-hostile debacle with XP, where MS went out of their way to actually improve security by heavily revamping XP and keeping it alive longer than it would have been. Meanwhile, the obvious reality that's going to happen this time around is people are not going to throw out their machines, those machines are just going to stop getting security updates. Great work, Microsoft.

So really then, what is it you're trying to advocate, that this is all...good? Or is it just argument for argument's sake?
by edwardbernays | 2025-06-20 18:02:46+00:00
I don't think it's a rationalization. I have two normie friends who were mostly fine seeing ads on the internet, until one night they saw one too many scum ads on YouTube. They asked me to help them install an adblocker. It was specifically the scumminess of these ads that got them to start using adblockers, which by the way the FBI recommends as a matter of course. People should buy YouTube premium for the convenience features it offers, but everyone should be blocking ads for their own safety and sanity. There is no reason to engage in the ad economy. Everyone should be blocking all ads.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-20 18:03:01+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/conges...

> With fewer cars on the road in the congestion zone, there have been fewer car crashes — and fewer resulting injuries. Crashes in the zone that resulted in injuries are down 14 percent this year through April 22, compared with the same period last year, according to police reports detailing motor vehicle collisions. The total number of people injured in crashes (with multiple people sometimes injured in a single crash) declined 15 percent.
by slg | 2025-06-20 18:03:02+00:00
In my opinion, this is like complaining that the US Postal Service isn't profitable. It isn't a business, framing it in terms of profitability is missing the whole reason it exists. No one expects a middle school soccer team or a university's drama department to be profitable, but we still invest in those things because we as a society think it is valuable for students. College sports has value beyond the money people pay to watch it.
by schmidtleonard | 2025-06-20 18:03:21+00:00
> if you track employee total compensation (not just wages) against productivity increases, the two lines form the same curve

If you count inflation in medical and housing costs as an increase in wages, the "wedge" disappears, yes -- but why would you do that for any other purpose than making the wedge disappear?

No, it's very telling that labor saving devices, which have squished the largest industry into economic insignificance many times over, have not resulted in the ability for normal people to work less. Clearly, the benefits have gone elsewhere. "The benefits went into technology! Think of the iPhones!" The median financed smartphone is 1/50th the cost of median rent, try again.
by joshlemer | 2025-06-20 18:03:38+00:00
Well, I don't particularly enjoy ads on Reddit, Gmail, and, when I used them, Tiktok, Facebook, etc but I wasn't particularly pissed off by them either. On YT it seems just so in your way and in your face and egregious. It's like every couple minutes there's an other ad. You can't even chromecast videos to your tv to play in the background because you have to constantly babysit it or else it will load up an ad that goes on forever or 10 minutes until you come back to skip it.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-06-20 18:03:49+00:00
I assume you're referring to just taking the metro instead. Not everyone who drives lives near a metro. Not every destination is accessible via the metro. Many people commute from more affordable areas far from the city where public transportation isn't always a viable option. Driving gets $9 more expensive but public transit doesn't suddenly get better for the people who can't pay $9.
by Kapura | 2025-06-20 18:03:53+00:00
Glad to know that others agree; this is the elephant in the room that the original link doesn't mention. The manga was completed several years after the film's release, and the expanded freedom allows the story to be expanded in every direction. Many of the themes present in later Miyazaki works (stuff like redemption for certain villains) are absent from the film but have time to develop in the manga.
by anthomtb | 2025-06-20 18:03:58+00:00
The ball for soccer/association football is fairly pliable and headers are not that common. You also don't see players obviously dazed or knocked out after heading the ball. I have to think the damage from soccer headers, if any, is orders of magnitude below that of American Football.

I didn't spend much time researching but here is one article backing up my assertion: https://www.orthocarolina.com/blog/heading-the-ball-in-socce...

Edit: I am happy to see good research supported that headers can cause damage. However, please note that I am suggesting headers in Association Football are much less damaging compared with American Football, as a opposed to a complete avoidance of damage.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-06-20 18:04:07+00:00
For better or for worse a lot of US progressives view transit as a "solution of last resort" which is why so many progressives are okay with transit also acting as a homeless shelter and being tolerant of some drug use. One way to think of this is that progressives view government's role as a champion of the disenfranchised. Another is to think that the US is a class based society where transit is considered the domain of the disenfranchised, the lowest class. Which framing you choose is probably based on your experience and frustrations with your local US transit system.

(I'm not trying to weigh in one way or the other in my comment, but as someone who rides local US transit regularly and has for over 10 years, my patience for using transit as a "solution of last resort" is wearing thin but still remains.)
by taeric | 2025-06-20 18:04:08+00:00
I'm torn on this. It is a very appealing way to blame people in discussing why it goes this way.

It doesn't contend with the fact that having a car is ridiculously useful. It is intensely amusing when I see people in other nations comment on how useful getting a car has been in their daily life. And I don't think people realize just how many cars Americans have.

That is, there may be a caste system, but as this congestion pricing shows, the catch is that we have a ton of cars. And people use them because they are convenient as hell.
by aanet | 2025-06-20 18:04:12+00:00
I'm old enough to remember that the very first adopters of Google Glass were called glassh*les, and other terms of varying degrees of endearment, no thanks to the techbros who used them in showers / restrooms and such.

What makes these FB glasses any different / special? Do they automagically obscure the views when in compromising positions?

/sarc
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-20 18:04:23+00:00
> We're going to run out of people with the word "Senior" in their title

Probably not, but job title inflation has made it so that apparently 5 years of experience is enough to be given a "senior" title. I've got like 15 but still feel like a medior at best. Yeah this is humblebragging, whatever it's a throwaway internet comment.
by RHSeeger | 2025-06-20 18:04:43+00:00
> That the foundational discipline of humanity - nutrition via hunting, gathering, or growing - is no longer a "profitable enterprise"?

I don't understand this statement. These things aren't unprofitable. Doing these things a specific way is unprofitable. Growing food is most certainly profitable; but only at scale. Is it sad that a small, family farm isn't really a great way to make a living nowadays? Sure. But that's not a foundational discipline of humanity; "creating food" is, but there's lots of ways to do that.

And, honestly, if we _ever_ get to the point where we can fabricate food from raw elements (a la Star Trek), then that will be a little sad, too... but still "creating food".
by paulgb | 2025-06-20 18:04:45+00:00
> Whether someone is driving because of speed, or comfort, or some other factor, the cost has to exceed their personally calculated benefit.

It's a dynamic system though; as some drivers opt not to drive, the utility of driving for those other drivers increases. Yes, the market will find an equilibrium somewhere where some people will still drive, but that's kind of the point.
by zaran | 2025-06-20 18:04:50+00:00
while ad blocking has grown in prevalence over the years, for something like youtube I'd figured it was more than counteracted by the shift to mobile / TV (where ad blocking is more complicated)

whatever the merits, this (and google's neutering of extensions in chrome) signals a fundamental attitude shift from ~10 years ago; they're more interested in squeezing margins out of their dominant platforms instead of growth
by crazygringo | 2025-06-20 18:05:01+00:00
There's a long tail of people who don't use YouTube frequently but click play on videos embedded on other sites, or on videos linked.

So of course they're never going to pay. That's the problem advertising solves -- infrequent users can be monetized.

YouTube already has an option to pay to avoid ads, for frequent users. And lots of people subscribe to it.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-20 18:05:18+00:00
The labor class is free to form collectives and cooperatives. There's no law against it.

Bezos started Amazon with $300,000. I'm sure it wouldn't take too long for workers to raise that kind of money, after all, $300,000 to buy a house is considered cheap.

On the other hand, the history of businesses being confiscated and handed over to the workers has not been a successful one.
by ttyyzz | 2025-06-20 18:06:04+00:00
Having to pay for something so that's "less annoying" is the worst business model. YouTube Premium is very expensive. I had it for a while when I got a Pixel smartphone with a few months of YouTube Premium included. It was great. I also understand that streaming on this scale must entail incredibly high operating costs; the money has to come from somewhere. It's simply a dilemma. But there has to be a better way. Any ideas?
by sundaeofshock | 2025-06-20 18:06:49+00:00
What makes you think that capitalists will stop with software developers? If AI can truly eliminate software jobs, then most knowledge based jobs will be at risk of elimination.

Let’s be honest; capital wants to eliminate all labor, and damn the consequences. People are not going to willingly give up lives of comfort for abject squalor. This will not go well.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-06-20 18:06:58+00:00
If you insist that MWI must mean "a discrete number of clearly separated worlds", then yes, such interpretation would have a problem with the Born rule.

(That is apparently the definition the author of the linked article uses, guessing by his reaction: "Wait, what??? There is no 'well defined notion of how many branches there are?'")

I can only say that I have never met a proponent of MWI who meant this.
by testfrequency | 2025-06-20 18:07:02+00:00
Yeah no kidding. Curious how someone could not rank Meta in dead last. Is the FBI last on your list or above Meta?

At least in regard to Palantir you understand their business. Meta masquerades, hides, and cowers their shady practices behind consumer friendly products.

Toxic lollipops labeled properly as toxic vs toxic lollipops labeled with a tiny * that requires consumer research. Which one do you think most people will reach for first?
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-20 18:07:18+00:00
It's a topic I've thought about in the context of very large structures (with Germany-sized living areas)

Insofar as the structure has to hold it's own "weight" it can't be very thick and I'd be worried about artillery making a hole in it. A game changing concept I haven't seen in the literature is that if you had good enough bearing the rotating structure wouldn't have to hold its own weight and could rotate more quickly (be larger) and also be thicker. It is still hard to believe such a structure is going to have a lot of up and down relief or anything within an order of magnitude of the 0.2 cubic kilometers of ocean per person that we have on Earth.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-20 18:08:14+00:00
Paying 13 bucks per month, which is a non trivial amount for a lot of people if it competes with other subcription services, merely to block ads on a website that doesn't even produce its own content is in my opinion one of the worst deals on the internet.

That's equivalent to a Netflix subscription, which puts what, 20 billion into original content each year?
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by ashdev | 2025-06-20 18:08:15+00:00
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by lisper | 2025-06-20 18:08:42+00:00
> How would you know?

Because that is the best explanation for what I observe.

> by declaring that sense data do not reflect reality, you've cut yourself off form the possibility of knowing reality altogether

That is true, but only in the uninteresting sense that I can never completely eliminate the possibility that I am living in the Matrix. So yes, it's possible that I'm wrong about the existence of objective reality. But if objective reality is itself an illusion, it's a sufficiently compelling illusion that I'm not going to go far wrong by acting as if it were real.
by johnea | 2025-06-20 18:08:55+00:00
Do you recall when Colorado first legalized?

NYTimes sent a journalist to Denver, who bought a chocolate bar at a dispensary, went back to their hotel room and ate it. Then, started seeing kaleidoscopes and curled up into the fetal position until it all wore off. No long term harm of course, but one freaked out New Yorker.

Turned out, the chocolate bar was 8 doses! and the journalist had NEVER used any cannabis in their life prior to ingesting.

This is one reason I'm not an advocate of edibles, or extracted products in general.

So, that's the context of this article. NYT and NY in general are fighting cannabis all the way. The east coast of the US really is 50 years behind, and not just regarding cannabis.

I also agree with your criticism of the news hype of "cannabis scientists".

As I say in my article comment, just smoke the plant, stop trying to turn it into jet fuel...
by a2128 | 2025-06-20 18:09:19+00:00
What models are actually recommended, and how useful is the browser when using them? "We have Ollama integration" isn't very useful when there's no information about which models you should use, what works with them, what doesn't, and honestly it feels disingenuous when projects market themselves as 100% private and local and cloud-free and everything stays on your computer when the intended use case is clearly to put an OpenAI API key and send everything to OpenAI
by cantdutchthis | 2025-06-20 18:09:24+00:00
marimo is open source and uses a reactive model which makes it fun to mix/match widgets with Python code. It even supports gamepads if you wanted to go nuts!

https://youtu.be/4fXLB5_F2rg?si=jeUj77Cte3TkQ1j-

disclaimer: I work for marimo and I made that video, but the gamepad support is awesome and really shows the flexibility
by anonymars | 2025-06-20 18:10:46+00:00
Well, I feel like they haven't been doing as well recently (pause for a shoutout to classic MS naming acumen: Xbox 360 -> Xbox One -> Xbox One X / Xbox One S -> Xbox Series X / Xbox Series S. Good luck, mom! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKZ6rqsXhjo)

But perhaps one difference is that with consoles there's a free Sisyphean "reset" with each generation, which never happened with the phone. That gives a spot to enter the race.

Plus the whole thing with the phone carriers...in the US at least I'd wager that if the carriers don't offer your phone, and the salespeople don't talk it up (which phones are going to give the salesperson the most lucrative commission, by the way? Don't forget accessories...), then that's the ball game
by Havoc | 2025-06-20 18:11:02+00:00
I've kinda seen this already play out in a completely different context. Outsourcing & audit world. It's sufficiently commoditized that you can efficiently outsource.

If you're sending the first say 12-months worth of experience work to india then local gang straight out of college end up with a pretty tangible gap. There are key formative experiences missing. The programming equivalent of fighting with manual array memory management. Or shooting yourself in foot with a pointer.

Worse they don't realise that they're missing pieces. By necessity you start them off at a higher level and their understanding ends up fuzzy for lack of better word. It's not their fault...to them it looks normal, to the previous gen it's all "how can you not know this"

...still the world keeps turning