MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by austhrow743 | 2025-06-16 21:28:41+00:00
Surely it has to be somewhat ideological given that adblockers exist? Have you seen your high paid engineer friends actually watching the ads?

I would rather pay a fee than watch ads, but as long as “do neither of those” is an option I’ll be picking that. If they remove that as an option I’ll either pay or not watch YouTube.

Probably not watch.

I pay for email, and was paying for search until something about the way kagi integrates with safari annoyed me. I’ve been paying more for a seedbox than Netflix costs for longer than Netflix has existed. That’s part for ad avoidance as in it initially replaced free to air tv but ad avoidance is just one factor in the best experience for my time and money trade off I’m trying to make. So i know I’m willing to both pay for things i can get ad supported from Google and also pay for a better media experience.

When it comes to that best experience for my time and money trade off though, even with money being set at zero, the vast majority of the YouTube i watch is already in the negative. Most things i watch on there, i regret the cost of just the time it took to watch the content before ads or money even gets in to it.

Which i think is a big part of the issue with ad supported internet going fee based. YouTube and so many ad supported sites and games are already just super low value and derive most of their consumption not from people making intentional lifestyle choices of “i want to be the kind of person who watches garbage all day while playing crap” but rather people making bad short term vs long term trade offs and falling in to holes of recommendations and fun looking thumbnails.

Paying for something leads to asking yourself “is this worth $x?” And i know that for at least myself $x is a large negative number. I’d pay more than the current cost of YouTube premium to definitely NOT be able to watch YouTube.
by mrm820 | 2025-06-16 21:29:03+00:00
"Onebrief, a maker of military workflow software, raised $20 million in new funding led by Battery Ventures at a $1.1 billion valuation, CEO Grant Demaree tells Axios Pro exclusively.

Why it matters: The valuation almost doubles the company's $650 million valuation in a February deal led by General Catalyst."
by Xenoamorphous | 2025-06-16 21:29:40+00:00
I can guarantee none of your concerns apply to the people I was talking about, particularly the privacy ones. These people would pay for their meal at a restaurant using their debit/credit card without hesitation, and they still do, and that’s arguably more likely to get your card details stolen, and the issuer knowing about your life. Those worries you’re citing never crossed their minds. They just didn’t want to pay a tiny amount of money for an “abstract” thing.
by robocat | 2025-06-16 21:29:48+00:00
There must be a confounding variable: are you an engineer-type?

What traits are correlated with overing?

Do underers look at the world differently?

And it is a false dichotomy. Some people just don't care what direction when they replace the roll - what's a suitable name for that clade? And then there's the people who use the floor and ignore the holder.
by xnorswap | 2025-06-16 21:29:56+00:00
That "something" is just people searching for this news story, rather than interest in signal for the sake of using it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_group...

NL clearly has some background interest in signal however, unlike the UK, which spikes on this story alone:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=%2Fm%2F012...
by sokoloff | 2025-06-16 21:30:22+00:00
I don't presume that they are fully capable of measuring and comparing the utility between RTO and WFH.

I think they're making the decision based on 5-15% data/measurement and 85-95% beliefs and judgment. I don't know how you'd possibly carefully and precisely measure something as multi-faceted as the difference between the two modes of working, especially when the one pre/post test you have data on was heavily influenced by COVID, ZIRP, massive stimulus, massive disruptions to economic consumption patterns and working patterns, but you still have to decide where to position yourself between "working the way we did in Dec 2019" and "working the way we did in April 2020 or June 2021".
by xp84 | 2025-06-16 21:30:23+00:00
A few years ago, I set up a $40 k8s "cluster" which consisted of a couple of nodes, at DigitalOcean, and I set it up using this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-auto...

I was able to create a new service and deploy it with a couple of simple, ~8-line ymls and the cluster takes care of setting up DNS on a subdomain of my main domain, wiring up Lets Encrypt, and deploying the container. Deploying the latest version of my built container image was one kubectl command. I loved it.
by kelnos | 2025-06-16 21:30:27+00:00
When I was a child in the 80s (US east coast), my parents considered "crap" to be a bad word, and my sister and I got in trouble if we used it.

It's funny to think of that today; I can't imagine any of my peers who are parents forbidding their child from saying "crap" (though I wouldn't be surprised if that was still a thing in some places).

But yes, time and culture matter. "Crap" has fallen off the list just has "humbug" has (and "humbug" has fallen out of use nearly entirely; I imagine the only reason people are familiar with it at all today is because of the fictional Ebenezer Scrooge), and new words have been added as "bad" that weren't a problem in my childhood, or back when "humbug" was a big deal.
by msgodel | 2025-06-16 21:30:31+00:00
A lot of people don't realize they have a decent amount of negotiating power as employees. Early on in my career I assumed I had no power right up until my employer asked me to do something like this. I told them no and after some nasty emails they backed off and nothing happened.

With as high as rents are and terrible as the job market is you might as well be a slave if you don't know that.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-06-16 21:31:18+00:00
Meshtastic, like any other network (including mesh wifi) is not immune to the requirement for some planning.

My area has a couple of very well-placed mountaintop ROUTERs that tend to suppress most of the low level urban flooding noise, and so local messaging out to 80km or so tends to be pretty reliable. The same would be absolutely impossible with wifi.

That’s with 80 or so local nodes on LONG_FAST, population of around half a million.

Thats said, Meshtastic’s routing algorithm is extremely inefficient and has huge room for improvement.
by BizarroLand | 2025-06-16 21:31:18+00:00
I don't think my reply qualifies as a standard.

It's born out of my very real frustration at finally getting to a point where I could get therapy only to be continually stymied by multiple emails never responded to, multiple calls never answered or replied, and finally after one appointment for online therapy finally set up being ghosted by the practitioner.

I get that therapy is good, and I believe it can be helpful or else I would have never sought it out, but, I am amazed that anyone can get it.

I've also met people who have no money, no insurance, no job, but are able to get therapists with a single call, which is all the more infuriating because those same people have been consistently unable to help me do the same.

Money and tears and pleading won't open these doors for me and it almost feels personal, like the universe itself conspires to keep me specifically away from good mental health, so I have a nice reservoir of anger towards anyone who casually mentions that going to therapy will solve all your problems or that the conventional way of doing things is the right way to do them.

If human therapists make themselves unavailable to me both in person and online, then I'll make do without them.
by abetusk | 2025-06-16 21:32:41+00:00
> That doesn’t make sense to me. If larger objects move slower, don’t they move faster relative to the (accelerating) reference frame of the container?

Yes? But so what? The relevant interaction is between the peanuts and the Brazil it's.

> Also, conventional wisdom has it that shaking (temporarily) creates empty spaces, and smaller objects ‘need’ smaller such spaces to fall down, and thus are more likely to fall down into such a space.

Right, but preferentially under the larger Brazil nuts.
by nsagent | 2025-06-16 21:32:51+00:00
I used to use Signal exclusively rather than Whatsapp, but I've had lots of issues sending media. This has not been a problem with Whatsapp, so I've recently begun to use Whatsapp more. There are also issues with message history that I've encountered on Signal that don't exist on Whatsapp.

If Signal could address these concerns I'd be happy to move away from Whatsapp.

With this news I'll likely need to reassess my use of Whatsapp again.
by sigotirandolas | 2025-06-16 21:33:03+00:00
To be devil's advocate, this is the kind of all-talk argument the parent was referring to. Once the paid option is available, people will demand it to be [cheaper / better / someone else] and still not pay.

While I don't love my money going to Google, I find YouTube's overall quality astronomically higher than Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/etc. and the amount of censorship/"moderation"/controversy has been relatively limited. When I find something I really want to keep I have always been able to download it without much trouble.
by Y_Y | 2025-06-16 21:33:04+00:00
> Lactose is a disaccharide composed of galactose and glucose and has the molecular formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁.

What could be different?

Do you mean that relative amount of lactose? I believe it's that's not different in the raw material.[0]

[0] https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/goat-milk-versus-cow-milk-a-co...
by Mawr | 2025-06-16 21:33:19+00:00
> The stopping distance at 25mph is 30 feet,

Stopping is nice, but not the entire point of braking. The lower the collision speed, the better.

> Human reaction time is about 750ms

No. Human reaction time is around 250ms on average. What you point to is the time it takes to react to an unexpected stimuli. The number I've seen quoted is about 1s. But that assumes a completely unexpected event that you're not prepared for at all.

So if you're mindlessly passing a school bus at 25mph, then a 1s delay is expected. But if you're doing so with your foot covering the brake while hyper focused on reacting to any sudden movement in front of you, you can do much, much better than 1s. Of course, at that point you might as well drive correctly by slowing down.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-16 21:33:59+00:00
The onus is on the replacement to prove itself.

Manual driving is the status quo.

Tesla would like to replace that with FSD. (And make a boatload of money as a result)

My point is that we therefore can (and should!) hold Tesla to higher standards.

'Better than human' as a bar invites conflict of interest, because at some point Tesla is weighing {safety} vs {profit}, given that increasing safety costs money.

If we don't severely externally bias towards safety, then we reach a point where Tesla says 'We've reached parity with human, so we're not investing more money in fixing FSD glitches.'

And furthermore, without mandated reporting (of the kind Musk just got relaxed), we won't know at scale.
by 1dom | 2025-06-16 21:34:40+00:00
I relate to this quite a lot, and I've met a few different people over my career that I feel have the same gut intuition or instinct for systems.

You know almost instantly when you meet them in the field, often within a few sentences. It's really eye opening moving between areas of high and low densities people like this.

I did used to think it was normal and common but I've definitely come to doubt that as I've got older. I think it's been a hindrance at times though, particularly in some business environments that aren't producing systems that feel nice. Although there's a certain satisfaction and special sense of achievement in making an unhappy feeling system do amazing things.
by gruez | 2025-06-16 21:34:54+00:00
You're right, they're funded by something far more sinister - the US government.

More to the point, I thought the principle was "Any man who must say, "I am the King", is no true king."? That seems to leave no room for hedging, like only distrusting "global data gathering conglomerate" or whatever. If you're have to do a holistic assessment of an organization's governance structure and incentives, you're basically admitting that witty one-liners like the above are pointless, which was my point.
by hack_katz | 2025-06-16 21:36:14+00:00
I think that's totally plausible! Especially because the fact is that "intelligence" is an incredibly fuzzy concept, such that one could be extremely intelligent in the STEM fields, as you mention, but then be simply average in linguistic ability.

Accordingly, even IF the willingness and ability to use profanity indicated a lesser linguistic intelligence, one would be mistaken to then assume that a person with that willingness is any less of a capable professional in non-linguistic fields
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-16 21:36:43+00:00
> The technicality being that he was on US soil.

This is not a technicality but an actuality. It is not minutiae; it is key.

As near as I can tell you have a strong feeling about this and are trying to find some sort of authority to justify it.

The challenge with that: The US Constitution is the law in play; nothing supersedes it.

The only possible discussion seems to be

You say [thing]. A chorus says "Constitution" because that's it.
by tshaddox | 2025-06-16 21:37:16+00:00
> JavaScript date parsing assumes that dates that lack the trailing Z are in the client time zone.

The situation is in fact even worse than this. The current (ECMA262) spec states:

> When the time zone offset is absent, date-only forms are interpreted as a UTC time and date-time forms are interpreted as a local time.

This is in fact a huge bug in the spec, which was initially unintentional but is now deliberately preserved for web compatibility reasons.

More info here:

https://maggiepint.com/2017/04/11/fixing-javascript-date-web...
by indigodaddy | 2025-06-16 21:37:25+00:00
The video example is a little confusing from a "I just want to self host the whole thing on a single machine/VM etc" perspective. If that's what I want to do, do I still have to create a cluster by putting in some managed DO K8s reference? Eg I just want it to use the local VM for the cluster. Do you have some other videos or can you make some that show say how to install it all-in-one on a single machine, and then from there how to add/deploy an app?
by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn | 2025-06-16 21:37:57+00:00
I guess the point being Youtube versus Youtube without ads is as different as Coke versus water. But you're point holds in that people think they are the same service, as the ads bit, no matter how integral, is seen as 'other' than the service. This is a big win for the service provider. I remember when RyanAir charged £5 per flight plus £50 unavoidable add-ons, you ask anyone how much they paid, they said £5. Seems like the same thing here - we give the service provider too much kudos, it's as though consuming a service makes it part of us, so we big it up no matter if it's taking us for a ride.
by jononor | 2025-06-16 21:38:23+00:00
No, just saying that a claim of qualia would require some sort of evidence or methodical argument. And that LLM outputs professing feelings or other state-of-mind like things should by default be assumed to be explained by that the training process (perhaps inadvertently) optimized for such output. Only if such an explanation fails, and another explanation is materially better, should it be considered seriously. Do we have such candidates today?
by kelnos | 2025-06-16 21:40:24+00:00
I don't like to look at it as fear, but I think fear is what explains a lot of the backlash toward PC culture (people don't like to be afraid; it's common to lash out at things that cause fear).

I avoid offending people not because I'm afraid of being yelled at or cancelled; I do it because I know what it feels like to be offended, and I don't enjoy it, so I don't want to make someone else feel that way.

Certainly I don't always succeed; sometimes I accidentally say something offensive, but we're all human and don't do what we intend all the time. And sometimes I do find it to be a chore, as the set of offensive things changes frequently enough, and it's hard to keep up, or even always agree why something is offensive.

People who get offended on behalf of others are incredibly annoying. I can understand and respect someone calmly saying to me, "hey, you really shouldn't say $WORD because that's really rude and offensive toward people who are a part of $SOME_GROUP", but far too many people get actively angry and try to shame you, often publicly, if you say something bad. And then those same people claim that they would prefer to live in a world where people don't offend each other... while reacting to offensive words in ways that aren't likely to improve things.
by czhu12 | 2025-06-16 21:40:36+00:00
Yeah, so the setup I have there is basically: for staging / non prod apps, I typically just boot a single Hetzner VPS, and then install a K8 compliant server, then I'm off to the races.

Production, I usually use digital ocean, so then I get a managed kubernetes, but also a managed postgres within the same data center for latency needs. Let's me sleep easier at night :)
by enslavedrobot | 2025-06-16 21:41:25+00:00
This is the product. https://www.ghs.com/products/auto_adas.html

The founder went as far as to run for CA senator just to regulate Tesla and bought a Superbowl ad to smear the company. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/12/dawn-project-tesla-ad-fsd-...
by e40 | 2025-06-16 21:43:07+00:00
A doctor that over-prescribes them would be arrested, too. Or one that prescribed it to someone for a non-medical reason. (There are many of those latter docs.)

People that sell fentanyl (or similar) are very bad for society, to avoid the triggering "evil". Look how many people have died in the last 10 years. It's insane.

EDIT: I personally know a young man that died from a fent overdose and it's likely he didn't know what he took had fent in it. 22 years old and the whole world ahead him. Completely destroyed his family.
by necubi | 2025-06-16 21:44:27+00:00
It's actually the opposite. They're buying the assets (the software), not the company.

> To ensure continuity for users and fans, as well as to continue building what we regard as an important technology, Dark Inc has sold the assets – the Darklang language, the blog, the hosted service, the Discord, etc, darklang.com, etc – to a new company started by Dark Inc's former employees.

(from https://blog.darklang.com/goodbye-dark-inc-welcome-darklang-...)

In other words, there's a new company (Darklang Inc.) that has purchased the assets of Dark Inc. (for probably relatively little money). This clears the cap table, making it easier for the former employees (now founders) to raise money for the new corporation.
by Reasoning | 2025-06-16 21:44:48+00:00
Are you concerned that if you make prison too expensive society might resort to capital punishment to reduce prison costs? Or we end up releasing prisoners who are legitimate dangers to society.

And to be clear, I'm opposed to capital punishment and dangerous conditions in prisons. I'm just pointing out that I don't think your argument is very good. If you think we as a society are willing to flippantly put people in prison because it's cheap I don't see how you can trust us to no resort to other flippant measures if the cost was high.
by nemomarx | 2025-06-16 21:45:00+00:00
Number of competing video services with distinct libraries has kinda put it back in vogue, I think. No one I've ever talked to is really happy about paying for more than 1-2 streaming services, especially if some of them only have one show they're interested in. If that show is really tempting it becomes tempting to just pirate Severance or what have you instead of signing up to one new service for it on top of Netflix et al.
by kelnos | 2025-06-16 21:45:04+00:00
I don't agree. If I saw "stupid fucking hack" in a comment, I don't think I'd necessarily view that as a worse hack than if it just said "stupid hack". My main assumption would be that the author was in a bad mood or was feeling cheeky or something like that.

In fact, if I was reviewing a code change with "stupid fucking hack" or "stupid hack" in it, I'd ask the author to remove it and actually explain what was going on. Comments should detail the "why", not the "what". "Stupid hack" is the "what", but I want to know why the hack is necessary.
by josephg | 2025-06-16 21:45:18+00:00
You’re thinking about it from the perspective of a site operator. Yes, individual websites could do that. But not all websites would use such a redirect.

But think about it from the perspective of a web browser or curl. You can’t rely on all web servers having such a redirect for their URLs. Web browsers would need to support old versions of TLS to make old URLs work. They’d need to support old versions of tls indefinitely so as to not break old URLs.

Using an old version of tls isn’t like using an old version of the C compiler. Old versions of tls have well documented problems with security implications. That’s why we made new versions. Maintaining lots of versions of TLS multiplies the security surface area for bugs, and makes you vulnerable to downgrade attacks.
by SamPatt | 2025-06-16 21:45:19+00:00
>Claude code feels more powerful than cursor, but why? One of the reasons seems it's ability to be scripted. At the end of the day, cursor is an editor, while claude code is a swiss army knife (on steroids).

Agreed, and I find that I use Claude Code on more than traditional code bases. I run it in my Obsidian vault for all kinds of things. I run it to build local custom keyboard bindings with scripts that publish screenshots to my CDN and give me a markdown link, or to build a program that talks to Ollama to summarize my terminal commands for the last day.

I remember the old days of needing to figure out if the formatting changes I wanted to make to a file were sufficient to build a script or just do them manually - now I just run Claude in the directory and have it done for me. It's useful for so many things.
by whatshisface | 2025-06-16 21:45:53+00:00
The word ontic makes it sound more esoteric than it is. In quantum mechanics, you could have a model that predicts everything you can practically know and calls the rest "random," or you could have a model with far more complexity and a lot of unusual internal mechanisms, that predicts everything you can practically know and explains the rest as not knowing the initial conditions. If you simulate quantum measurement on a computer, you're doing the latter - computers have nothing to do with nondeterminism, and would be choosing the results with a PRNG. "A PRNG decides everything between each step of the universal process," is an example of the kind of unusual internal mechanism that deterministic QM must have.

In classical mechanics these are the same model. So what is presented as physical evidence for metaphysics is actually quantum mechanics splitting apart two ways of looking at randomness, which classically are equally complex and hard to tell apart (thinking of the future as a probability distribution vs. believing that the future is a definite point about which your knowledge is described by a probability distribution), but in quantum mechanics are not.
by nh23423fefe | 2025-06-16 21:46:16+00:00
you can notice a difference if you think about strict vs non-strict evaluation.

the first implementation can be more efficient for implementing isPositive

isPositive x = case x when 0 = false when S _ = true

then

isPositive P(SSS0, SSSSS0) = isPositive S(P(SSS0, SSSS0))

and we can terminate right there

the other formulation of plus is "strict" in the 2nd argument, you need to evaluate P |b| times to get a natural number out to case on, prior to that, you have a function call