MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sc11 | 2025-06-20 18:11:24+00:00
I'd be happy to pay for premium if it actually removed all ads from the platform. I wish they forced creators to declare which segments of a video are ads for their sponsors and then removed or skipped them for premium users. Basically built-in Sponsorblock except not crowd-sourced.

Alternatively, many creators already upload ad-free versions to their Patreon or other paywalled platforms, they could upload those to YouTube as well to be shown to premium users if YT allowed for it and forced them to.

Alas I'm not willing to pay 13€ a month for just slightly fewer ads.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-20 18:11:34+00:00
Xe's stuff is always excellent, and this is no different. What's disappointing is the amount of energy and effort wasted by people to come into the comments and espouse their desire to give up on addressing any of their concerns.

"It's just how things are."

"That's what generates profit."

"If that's what the market demands, who are we to judge?"

"Guess we do nothing."

We've all heard it before. We get it, so many HN and Tech folks have thrown in the towel and given up on changing anything within their own lives, or within the lives of others. So many more are content just "going along with the ride", abdicating all responsibility to an imagined god in various forms ("invisible hand of the free market" being most common among our peers).

For the rest of us who want to actually discuss the merits of the piece, we're sidelined by those who found reward in the path of libertarian ideals and seek to punish or discipline those of us who seek to make any sort of change or improvement beyond direct profit motives. Serious discussions of organization and direction are derailed in favor of blatant troll bait and bad-faith arguments.

This, I think, is also what Xe is trying to highlight: those in the position to enact the most positive change are staunchly refusing to do so, which in turn exacerbates the harms caused. Too few people with too much power and too much capital believe themselves to be more knowledgeable and intelligent than anyone else, denigrating any thoughts that may come from the slime beneath them on the ladder. When Xe said "Rolling the ladder up behind us", they make it very clear who they're speaking to:

> Look, CEOs, I'm one of you so I get it. We've seen the data teams suck up billions for decades and this is the only time that they can look like they're making a huge return on the investment.

They're basically shouting that "the call is coming from inside the house", and that the only place - right now - to address these harms are by and from the people inside said house. Nobody is coming to save us, but history books are filled with examples of what happens to those classes, those societies, those civilizations for whom greed becomes all consuming, standards of living collapse, and meaningful progress stagnates.

> Maybe the problem really is winner-take-all capitalism.
by 8note | 2025-06-20 18:12:44+00:00
as far as i can read, your argument is that traffic jams are impossible, because congestion acts as a dynamic cost function to keep the road at its highest utility, when the throughput is highest.

unless you disagree with the that definition of the utility of the road?

how do you explain phenomena like shockwave traffic jams, where otherwise high utility roads get sections of nearly stopped traffic. eg. https://youtu.be/Suugn-p5C1M?feature=shared in a closed system (30s of video)

can you spend some time showing your work, and both propose and prove what the cost function of congestion is? then, it should be clear whether the government set cost is higher or lower, and under what conditions. id especially want to see the limiting behaviour - standstill traffic. my gur sense is that the cost of congestion should be going towards infinity, but im interested in how the constant value from the government is still higher.
by wturner | 2025-06-20 18:12:49+00:00
Most tech isn't "Anti worker". What determines pro/anti worker are laws and government policies that reciprocate with the cultural norms we adopt. At the moment, money in U.S. politics is the most anti-worker phenomena I can think of. The ultra wealthy have a monopoly on the incentives that create policy and how our lives are ordered. The only power working people seem to have is the ability to impose consequences via rogue guerilla acts of protest and violence (Luigi Mangion) . Hopefully, AI is a Frankenstein monster the public learns to wield to facilitate more of these "consequences" and upend the monopoly the super wealthy have on policy incentives and change the way politics is funded for good. It's a new world and a Hawaiian or New Zealand doomsday bunker isn't going make a difference.
by moralestapia | 2025-06-20 18:12:55+00:00
>This is exactly the field I want to enter!

Please do!

>I really want to work on the tooling side for atomic simulation [...]

Please do x2. That's how I started with this.

With respect to simulations, become as good as you can with the methods that enable them. ODEs, PDEs and how to compute (well ... approximate) them. Spend some time making sure you understand the math properly. You don't need to spend ages here, most of the equations used in the field involve no more than three variables. The trick is in how you solve them, but solvers already exist, ofc.

Write your own FEM solver, this is a must. It's not going to be SOTA, but you'll get a good feel for all the fundamentals. Then you can move on to using whichever you need/want because you'll understand what they do. (I used deal.ii a lot, but there are many more good ones out there).

I would recommend you work with C/C++ instead of Python (ofc. you can do both). The reason for this is that you'll kill two birds with one stone by getting a good sense of how a computer actually executes things. Python is too abstracted away from that, and in this particular field, you really need to know what the hardware is doing and how.

Then move into GPUs. Actually, if you can write this FEM solver in something like CUDA or JAX, you will kill three birds with one stone.

I would then try to join a research group doing this, even if it's for free, only a couple months. My personal preferred niche is what is now called morphodynamics. Just approach any of these groups and tell them "Hey, I'm good with CUDA/JAX, I wrote this solver, I made this small simulation, I'm interested in doing biological simulations and want to learn more", 8/10 will say yes, there aren't many people out there with this skillset, it's not crowded.

I mentioned "even if it's for free", the thing is, everyone says yes to free, lol. Your goal is to get one paper out there with your name on it. It doesn't have to be your own idea/project, just help them build whatever they're doing and make sure your name is there. Then ... you're pretty much in. You can stay there or go to a different group, but now you can say "hey I worked on this project, here's the paper, I can do X" and you take it from there. :D

If you want to be in touch email me hn @ moralestapia . com. My profile seems empty bc. our friend @dang hid it, but just send me an email.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-20 18:13:24+00:00
I wonder if the author has seen codebases for enterprise apps that are a behemoth, designed by a committee with low developer retention.

In contrast, open source software led by the same handful (typically just one guy) of people over years/decades are well coordinated by the BDFL(s) and have a clear direction.

I think the term the author is looking for is "opinionated". The mantra is "if you don't like it fork it". The apparent lack of coordination is a feature of open source,not a bug.

Successful and popular projects rarely seem uncoordinated. The Linux kernel coordinates thousands of devs over mailing lists. Git was created to facilitate that, and now everyone uses to coordinate development.I would even dare say modern dev coordination is spearheaded by open source projects.
by cguess | 2025-06-20 18:13:27+00:00
NYC really doesn't have this stigma at all. The narrative is more or less pushed by groups with anti-liberal agendas who want to convince people whom have never even visited NYC that it's just as bad as where they're from, when in fact the violent crime rate per capita in NYC is much lower than most medium sized midwestern and southern cities.

Celebrities, politicians, billionaires all ride the subway all the time. New Yorkers know to keep to themselves out of politeness not safety and honestly are more likely to step up and defend someone famous being harassed than join in. We're all just trying to get to where we're going and the subway is almost always the fastest and most convenient way (not to mention cheapest) to do that.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-20 18:13:41+00:00
> The workers did reap the benefits. The Law of Supply and Demand ensures it. 1.1% of the US labor force works at minimum wage jobs.

Minimum wage is one indicator of critically substandard living. Here is a small sampling of some others:

well over minimum wage + below the poverty line no discernible exits off path to unhoused retirement current, recurring or impending homelessness food insecurity and recurring hunger medically triggered impoverishment only possible caregiver for loved one with medical issues
by WalterBright | 2025-06-20 18:13:41+00:00
And what if 62% wanted two seaters?

Back in the 70s, the Department of Energy was tasked with allocating gas to the gas stations. A gas station had to apply for an allocation, and the DoE doled out the gas. The DoE doled out gas based on the previous year's usage patterns.

Sounds smart, right?

What happened is that gas consumption varies year to year due to a number of factors, like weather patterns, population changes, etc. The result was massive misallocation by the DoE - Californian had shortages of gas, Florida had gluts. That sort of situation has never happened before.

All that nonsense disappeared literally overnight when Reagan repealed all gas price and allocation controls with his very first Executive Order. I remember than wonderful day very well - at last I could drive right up to the pump and get gas, rather than wait in line. The gas lines never returned.

What you're suggesting is called "central economic planning". It is constantly tried again and again, and it never ever works. (The failures of it are always classified as "unintended side effects", though they are entirely predictable.)
by akshayka | 2025-06-20 18:14:09+00:00
Thanks Simon for the kind words!

For those new to marimo, we have affordances for working with expensive (ML/AI/pyspark) notebooks too, including lazy execution that gives you guarantees on state without running automatically.

One small note: marimo was actually first launched publicly (on HN) in January 2024 [1]. Our first open-source release was in 2023 (a quiet soft launch). And we've been in development since 2022, in close consultation with Stanford scientists. We're used pretty broadly today :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971966
by stego-tech | 2025-06-20 18:15:47+00:00
> I don't believe it is and writing off the rebuttal is akin to "well it's boiling, just trust me".

Which would be a fair counter-argument to have if so many of you (and people like you) weren't also trying to drag those of us looking to escape back into the fucking pot.

If you want to sit and boil, fine, but for chrissakes let those of us who wish to try anything other than boiling alive go do that. Your staunch refusal to confront reality is your problem, but your insistence on harming others so you don't have to confront reality should be criminal.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-06-20 18:16:20+00:00
> According to rationalists, humans don't work together, so you can't add up their individual intelligence to get more intelligence.

An actual argument would be that intelligence doesn't work like that. Two people with IQ 100 cooperating together does not produce an IQ 200 solution.

There is the "wisdom of crowds". If a random member of a group is more than 50% likely to be correct, the average of the group is more likely to be correct than its members individually. But that has a few assumptions, for example that each member tries to figure out things independently (as opposed to everyone waiting for the highest-status member to express their opinion, and then agreeing with it -- in that case the entire group is only as smart as the highest-status member).

But you cannot leverage this to simply invite 1000 random people in your group and ask them to invent a Theory of Everything; because the assumption that each member is more than 50% likely to be correct does not apply in this case. So that is one of the limits of people working together.

(And this already conveniently ignores many other problems found in real life, such as conflict of interests, etc.)
by bitpush | 2025-06-20 18:18:12+00:00
> What if Google didn't horde whatever data it could about me from the analytics systems that it has installed on a myriad of websites without my consent?

Arent you voluntarily using their website? Nobody is forcing you to open your browser, and type y-o-u-t-u-b-e-dot-c-o-m.

> What if Google wasn't a monopoly who amassed insane amounts of capital to do this?

MKBHD, LTT and others are willingly uploading videos to YouTube. YT doesnt have an exclusive deal with any of those. Infact, those folks are free to upload the same video to Vimeo, Twitch and others. What is YT doing wrong here?

> What if Google didn't lobby governments around the world for special treatment?

Such as?
by jtagliabuetooso | 2025-06-20 18:18:24+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. Bauplan actually features a few innovative points in this area, and full Pythonic at that: Git for Data (https://docs.bauplanlabs.com/en/latest/concepts/git_for_data...) to sandbox any data change, tag it for compliance and make it querable; full code and data auditability in one command (AFAIK, the only platform offering this), as every change is automatically versioned and tagged with the exact run and code that produced it (https://docs.bauplanlabs.com/en/latest/concepts/git_for_data...).

Our sandbox with public data is free for you to try, or just reach out and ask any question!
by frollogaston | 2025-06-20 18:18:35+00:00
I'm not into anime, but this is in my top 3 favorite movies. Aside from the sheer coolness, it's environmentalist but not in the typical annoying way like the blue people Avatar movie. It's more matter-of-fact, you won't win fighting against nature or against each other.

And the main character has the right amount of flaws. Even though Nausicaa is totally against war by the second half, the movie shows that this is easier said than done. She has to reach that conclusion after taking part in the fighting herself, and even then she has to use warning shots from a machine gun. She's not invincible until the last scene.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-20 18:19:02+00:00
Mass production reduces costs by standardizing things. But still, car companies offer a wide range of options if you're willing to wait for your order. If Ford doesn't provide what you want, there's GM, Toyota, Hyundai, etc. There's no shortage of variety.

There's also a small cottage industry of people who will make fully custom cars for you. They're pretty expensive, though, as they don't benefit from economies of scale.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-06-20 18:19:24+00:00
> That hasn't defined EA for at least 10 years or so.

Meanwhile, on an actual EA website: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities

* Medicine to prevent malaria

* Nets to prevent malaria

* Supplements to prevent vitamin A deficiency

* Cash incentives for routine childhood vaccines
by chimeracoder | 2025-06-20 18:20:33+00:00
> an alternative interpretation is that the union workers know more about how to safely do underground work than accountants and supervisors do.

As someone in New York who supports congestion pricing and public transit, I will say this: yes, there is a ton of waste and mismanagement at the MTA, and the TWU is unfortunately frequently one of the impediments to progress here. They have a history of opposing things like industry-standard safety improvements, sometimes even things which create jobs for their members, for arcane political reasons that require a deep understanding of their internal politics to comprehend. It would be nice if the TWU were a more consistent force for efficiency and progress, but they are not. You can compare to unions elsewhere in the world, or even to other unions in the US, and the TWU still winds up as an outlier in many of these areas.

That said, OP is pointing the finger at the wrong party. The MTA is overseen by the state. The responsibility for these inefficiencies and cost overruns lie with the state legislature and the governor. Andrew Cuomo, who was the governor at the time that article was written, famously washed his hands off the MTA. He was so brazen as to even publicly claim that he had no authority over them, at the same time as he was making unilateral management decisions on their behalf, including ordering the MTA to write a check to an upstate ski resort, to bail the resort out after a low-business season.

Fortunately, the money from congestion pricing is legally earmarked by state law and under a settlement from a federal lawsuit (the lawsuit was unrelated to congestion pricing, but the funding was offered up as a settlement term), so there's a lot less wiggle room for things to go wrong.

Congestion pricing is a solid policy win. That doesn't mean the governor (Hochul) and the state legislature don't need to step up and do their jobs - which means real, material oversight - but criticizing congestion pricing on those grounds, when it's one of the few budget items which actually has been legally overseen and structured - is completely off-base.
by nick_g | 2025-06-20 18:20:37+00:00
They’re attempting that now with “memberships.” I’m not a heavy patreon user, but the current implementation leaves a lot to be desired. I expect they’ll be able to iterate on it.

An unfortunate aspect is that I’m frequently recommended videos which I would have to pay to watch. As a youtube premium subscriber, feeling like I’m constantly being upsold has begun to grate on me. I’d really appreciate a feature to hide these videos as a premium subscriber, which I have little faith in them implementing. On my laptop it’s easy enough to hide these thumbnails (as I already do with shorts) using ublock origin. However this is making me reconsider my subscription. Why should I have to use a third party tool to best use this service which I’m paying a fairly significant fee for? I’ve similarly used ublock origin to work around recent change where only three videos were shown on each row
by frollogaston | 2025-06-20 18:20:56+00:00
I thought this was intentional, cause she sacrifices herself then gets resurrected, also visuals like https://www.mother-god.com/images/nausicaa.jpg and https://beneaththetangles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/507...

But she's definitely not the same throughout the movie, cause she kills 3 guys early on.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-20 18:20:58+00:00
I was directly replying to the poster above me's own arguments in favor of "doing nothing". At no time did I denigrate inexpensive food, only highlighted that their own perspective that food production is unprofitable when it is in fact necessary for every human to survive, should horrify them.

That being said, if you're going to get on your data soapbox and try to tear down an argument I didn't make in the first place, then I will challenge you to "square the circle" between OPs argument that food production is not profitable; the fact 200 million children (and half a billion people globally) are malnourished; and that these stats are somehow acceptable in a world that collectively throws out a billion meals per day.
by jack_h | 2025-06-20 18:21:08+00:00
> I'd have more luck petitioning the Central Car Design Committee because

Highly doubtful. Command economies have far less variety in what they offer. This isn't theoretical either just look at western cars vs Soviet cars. There's this mistaken belief that if the free market can't provide some good then a command economy could, but the reality is that if a free market can't provide a good then the chance that a command economy could is even more doubtful. Command economies tend to be very bad at allocating resources efficiently as outlined by Hayek in "The Use of Knowledge in Society".
by awongh | 2025-06-20 18:21:26+00:00
I think LLMs could have a reasonable chance at solving tab-related workflows (keeping track of tabs or the idea/concept of tabs) - that is tracking and sorting lots of small related research ideas.

Sort of like a backwards perplexity search. (LLM context is from open tabs rather than the tool that brings you to those tabs)

I built a tab manager extension a long time ago that people used but ran into the same problem- the concept of tab management runs deeper than just the tabs themselves.
by ungreased0675 | 2025-06-20 18:21:30+00:00
I’m not sure how or when, but it seems inevitable that college sports will be split off into club teams or some kind of minor leagues.

For the big sports like football, the college part seems barely relevant to the sport, it’s mostly just a logo and color scheme. The players don’t even go to most classes, it’s online, and there are full-time tutors assisting with every assignment. When they do have to physically attend class, someone drives them there on a golf cart, in order to minimize time spent on academic work. It’s not at all a normal college experience.
by FerretFred | 2025-06-20 18:21:56+00:00
> fake buffering is 80% of the length of the ads

I run Brave on multiple devices and there's now a "glitch" a few seconds after what wouod be the ads, starts. I put up with this because the alternative is to put up with ads that treat viewers like morons with one hand in the mouse and other in the wallet.
by ta1243 | 2025-06-20 18:22:39+00:00
> I remember than wonderful day very well - at last I could drive right up to the pump and get gas, rather than wait in line. The gas lines never returned.

Not in the UK, due to a fragile supply chain.

https://news.sky.com/story/supply-crisis-catastrophic-panic-...

We saw it when the Evergiven closed the Suez. We see it whenever irational consumer behaviour caused unpredicable behaviour.

The Randian world you are so enamoured with is one of fragility, because buffers and margins reduces profit.

Or are those "unintended side effects"?
by mbac32768 | 2025-06-20 18:23:20+00:00
In 2025 it's actually not that expensive. CDNs aggressively drive down the cost of streaming video.

A 1080p music video costs about one tenth of one cent to serve to one person at retail CDN rates.

You could easily host this yourself and decide what the terms are to view it. E.g. ads, or paywall or free because you benefit from the exposure.

Once upon a time AdSense/YouTube saved you from getting an unmanageable $5,000 bill from your ISP because your content went viral but nowadays their value proposition is more about network effects plus built-in revshare scheme.