MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nullstyle | 2025-06-07 17:45:29+00:00
So are you saying all of the people who watch these channels (in your analogy they "buy get rich quick books") never try to get a disability status? or they try and never make it?

Or do they go for an interview, get their tinnitus, ibs, or chronic back pain diagnosis then try again for more next time?

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Look, I'm not saying we shouldn't help/trust veterans; My father is a severely disabled Vietnam war vet and gave up his body for the air force over a long career. He deserved to have his stairlift paid for by the taxpayer, but he shouldn't have to fight with corrupt service providers who can't do a proper job installing the thing. He shouldn't have to deal with a contractor that won't repair the botched installation for a year because it would cut into their profit margin.

Similarly, he shouldn't have his services degraded because other vets have found out how to take more than their fair share. I'm open to think there is minimal graft, but my experiences say there is some more going on than I can be supportive of.

Maybe you could provide some data to show how I'm mistaken.
by baby_souffle | 2025-06-07 17:45:41+00:00
> But this... what's the problem with this method?

You're just hoping that there's never a leak of any UUID(s) that could be used to correlate things. The ad-tech industry has pioneered de-anonymization tech and they're very, very good at it.

Tangential question: if the principal is divorced from the "is not a minor" signal, what prevents a thrifty youth from just buying/stealing somebody's token?
by david-gpu | 2025-06-07 17:45:43+00:00
Why would anybody even want to know the porn you watch? And what would they do about it, or how would that affect you?

"Hey, Jimmy, I went searching for your porn habits and found that you are into fat redheads. Shame on you, shame on you. You are now excommunicated from... Somewhere". How is this not a much bigger social faux pas for the accuser rather than the accused?
by joshguthrie | 2025-06-07 17:47:14+00:00
Who loves the thrill of a Vercel bill?

I wrote up my journey moving from Heroku, and friends/family "please host my website" requests to Cloudflare: first for static sites, then CRON jobs, and eventually full JS APIs.

Post isn't sponsored at all, but 1) I found CF surprisingly useful as a solo dev/founder and 2) I haven't written on my tech blog in a while, and 3) I still don't understand why people still use "serverless" that can skyrocket in price, when the same product is available for cheaper.

Obviously, there are still things Cloudflare won't solve for me, maybe it's not a right fit for everyone, so I'm curious how others are keeping their hosting costs sane, share your stories!
by dekhn | 2025-06-07 17:47:49+00:00
Show us a real example of something that your putative non physics science can do that physics cannot, in a way that would be comprehensible to a sufficiently open minded science.

It seems unlikely you could suggest a concrete alternative to physics which explains observable phenomena as well and making generalizable predictions. Showing this would move your theoretical philosophy. In the meantime the rest of us will stick to physics because nobody has a coherent alternative which explains our observations.
by neilv | 2025-06-07 17:48:09+00:00
> edit: I can't imagine why this is flagged.

Flagging seems to be one of the big vulnerabilities of HN.

Maybe flaggers should be required to state the reason for flagging, and this reason should be exposed.

Flagging means "no one should even see this on HN", and random people shouldn't get arrogant or cavalier about swinging around that power.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-06-07 17:48:13+00:00
This example only really has the emotional impact it does because of the specific numbers used, but doesn't really generalize for an arbitrary N.

Clearly if two software engineers build a product that brings in $10M, and each pay themselves $5M, it doesn't seem so outrageous that the can't really claim they're running "a business that made literally no money." Clearly in this second example the problem is that the engineers are paying themselves way too high given the return on their efforts.

What this means is that software engineers will be required to bring in more value to justify their high pay. In your example, it simply means that a software engineer that brings in $100,000 of value to the company, probably shouldn't be paid $100,000.

This seems entirely reasonable to me, and doubly so when I consider how many large corporate teams (who I think will ultimately be impacted more than startups) has huge numbers of highly paid engineers not doing all that much.

In most startups I've worked in it was pretty common for engineers to be delivering multiples of their cost in value, and in every big company I've worked in, it was very common to be delivering fractions of one's cost in value.
by asveikau | 2025-06-07 17:48:21+00:00
Maybe there's some sense of longing for a tool that's similar today, but there's no way of knowing how much hypercard did have the impact you are talking about. For example many of us reading here experienced HyperCard. It planted seeds in our future endeavors.

I remember in elementary school, I had some computer lab classes where the whole class worked in hypercard on some task. Multiply that by however many classrooms did something like that in the 80s and 90s. That's a lot of brains that can be influenced and have been.

We can judge it as a success in its own right, even if it never entered the next paradigm or never had quite an equivalent later on.
by pkkkzip | 2025-06-07 17:48:37+00:00
I always wonder what it takes to start a VPN? It's super saturated yet there's clear winners. Also I wonder how the operator is able to side step liability for obvious illegal use cases.

The internet has become a very hostile place and its not just surveillance but peer to peer political persecution where someone doesn't follow the script or believe the same thing they do and they lash out and try to censor them by mass reporting or DDOS

I miss the old internet where we used to escape to avoid reality, now we go offline to avoid the internet.
by landl0rd | 2025-06-07 17:49:16+00:00
Correct. I believe it has to be court-ordered and even then it's rare. DNA testing is also generally illegal unless for medical reasons. They claim this is to "uphold family peace" because "fatherhood is social, not biological". It seems incredibly wrong to me in that they are removing the father's right to choose whether to enter that social role when it is not biologically mandated.
by baby_souffle | 2025-06-07 17:49:39+00:00
> On another note, a lot of places, including those in the west will ostracize you for listening to the wrong music or eating the wrong foods.

Some groups will, yes. In a lot of cases it's just simple hypocrisy; lots of "anti-gay" congressmen somehow keep getting caught soliciting sex in airport bathrooms or on grinder.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-06-07 17:50:02+00:00
onlyrealcuzzo above commented that Trump canceling SpaceX contracts would be "literally the path that led the USSR to ruin".

However, we have a case of a private contractor trying to manipulate the president by means of "revelations" and decommissioning of a service important for national security. If the president cannot change those contracts the US would be literally on the path to oligarchic Russia... I'm not sure what's worse.

Trump is generally moving in the direction of reducing government control of corporations to the point of risking government capture by oligarchic interests. What's happening now is a direct consequence of his policies and it's ironic that Trump's powers are being questioned when it comes to corporate regulation.

Trump's personal faults are irrelevant at the moment, if the GOP doesn't stand firmly behind Trump we are going to find ourselves in an incredible mess.
by Hnrobert42 | 2025-06-07 17:50:36+00:00
In the poorer districts of Ho Chi Minh City, like Q4, Go Vap, etc, it is similar yet different. Each evening, folks set their garbage bags directly on the curb. At night, other people rip open the bags and scatter the trash in the street looking for anything salvageable. Finally, around midnight, city employees walk the streets pushing wheeled bins and sweep up the trash. When it rains, the trash is carried to clog drains, causing large-scale flooding.

Not a great system for many reasons, not least of which is relying on truly poor people. But they are remarkably efficient at extracting value from the waste stream.

Automated recyclable separation is hard and fascinating. Magnets for ferrous metals. Something about non-ferrous metal and eddy currents for aluminum. Infrared cameras and mechanical arms to detect and separate types of plastics. Blower systems to extract paper. Tumblers with various sized holes (like those coin counting machines) for other separation. (Source: Not that great. I just watched a few Youtubes.)
by nlh | 2025-06-07 17:50:37+00:00
I'll never forget the run-in I had with this corner of the labor market:

Back about 15 years ago I was running a small business in the auto industry. A guy who did deliveries for us (entire job: driving cars to people) who was in his early 20s found himself in a very minor fender-bender -- he rear-ended someone else. He claimed his twisted his ankle from the jolt (based on where he was resting his foot). Fine, no big deal.

He went to see a doctor shortly afterwards and immediately filed for a Worker's Comp claim. He then kept seeing that doctor and within a few weeks was given...permanent disability. Literally got a doctor to say he'd never be able to work again. Full sign-off. He of course was seen walking around just fine a few months later.

Absolute insanity.
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-07 17:51:38+00:00
Threatening someone to tell people “There's a high likelyhood that X watches porn” is a blackmail-worthy threat IMHO.

Unless you have access to someone's specific kinks or routine (how often does he/she watches porn, for how long), you're no going to scare many people.

Facebook has these information by the way, thanks to the “like buttton” scattered everywhere (at least for people who don't browse porn in private mode, but having done IT support in college, I can tell you there are many people who don't).
by madaxe_again | 2025-06-07 17:51:55+00:00
People are really funny about water. Recently had family visit us in Portugal, and they refused to drink the tap water anywhere - despite it being an EU country and complying with relevant standards, rigorously.

Then again, they also refused to drink our water at home, which I know is nothing but H2O, as we live off grid and it all goes through numerous filters before hitting the RO.

Then again, where they live (and drink the tap water), I also drink the tap water, because again, EU, safe - but it tastes like a swimming pool, as they dose it heavily with chlorine.

Each to their own.
by gruez | 2025-06-07 17:52:13+00:00
Being homeless and not having a place to shower excuses you looking unkempt and smelling bad, but that's not what people are upset at homeless people for. There's plenty of people who smell bad despite being housed (eg. teenage boys, gamers, or anime convention attendees), but they get nowhere as much flak as "homeless people". People are upset at antisocial behavior like urinating in public, aggressively approaching others, and setting up encampments. Except for maybe the last item, all of those things are a homeless person chose to do.
by benburwell | 2025-06-07 17:52:29+00:00
Some examples of flights without schedules:

- A private pilot who departs their local airport without filing a flight plan and flies around for a while.

- A charter jet that departs whenever the passengers show up.

- A medevac helicopter departs a hospital to return to its base. While en route, it is rerouted by dispatch to pick up a patient at a different hospital.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-07 17:52:30+00:00
Like I clearly said, there are tradeoffs in all of these comparisons, but they include unpleasant or downright shitty things about Europe too, and because you can't imagine that happening in your home country doesn't mean you can generalize about Europe being completely superior to the US in all such ways, or the US being as you generalize it in all ways.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-07 17:52:56+00:00
> You can find people on Mastodon and Bluesky say the most terrible things about the 70% of people who have concerns about transgender athletes in women's sports.

I think if this was just an isolated position or opinion it'd be easier to have some charity and understanding. That doesn't seem to be the case.

A good example of this is the international chess federation banning trans women from women's competition. [1] What advantage does higher testosterone offer for someone playing chess? That's where these concerns seem to be more "I just don't want to accommodate trans women" and less "I'm concerned about an unfair advantage".

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194593562/chess-transgender-...
by perihelions | 2025-06-07 17:52:57+00:00
Empirically, there's a sizeable market of people willing to pay thousands to keep their porn viewing from becoming public. Prenda Law[0,1] was an extortion racket that blackmailed people with their porn history, and demanded in the region of $4,000 per victim. Their total revenue was at least $15 million, that the courts could find.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=prenda
Show HN: 3 Times Meet – Proactive AI Meeting Facilitator
by Co_d012 | 2025-06-07 17:53:00+00:00
Hi HN, we’re Ethan and Richard — both technical founders who’ve spent way too many hours in meetings that felt... like they could have been half as long.

While building products in school, internships, and early-stage teams, we noticed something frustrating: Tools like Otter.ai and Fireflies give you a transcript after the meeting — but no one was helping us during the meeting, when it actually matters.

So we started interviewing startup founders, remote team leads, and project managers. Here’s what we heard over and over:

Meetings often drift or stall, and no one feels comfortable steering them back on track.

People waste time pausing to look things up mid-call — breaking flow.

Everyone leaves with different understandings, and “action items” often fall through the cracks.

We built 3×Meet, a real-time voice AI that joins your meetings and:

Gently intervenes when discussion goes off-track

Answers live questions by pulling from internal docs and the web

Surfaces next steps, clarifies confusion, and keeps the meeting moving

Unlike other tools that act after the fact, ours is built to participate in the moment. We support Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams — and we’re multilingual.

You can try the live demo here: https://3xmeet.net

We’re in private beta and would love to hear:

What would stop you or your team from trying a tool like this?

Who usually decides what meeting tools get adopted?

What’s the most painful part of your meetings today?

Thanks in advance — we’re learning a lot from every conversation.
by uecker | 2025-06-07 17:54:18+00:00
Let's see. We have a relatively concrete plan to add dependent structure types to C2Y: struct foo { size_t n; char (buf)[.n]; };

Once we have this, the wide pointer could just be introduced as syntactic sugar for this. char (buf)[:] = ..

Personally, I would want the dependent structure type first as it is more powerful and low-level with no need to decide on a new ABI.
by wingmanjd | 2025-06-07 17:54:27+00:00
I wrote a Wordpress to Grav exporter [1], which brings over most content (posts, pages, users, groups, attachments, some site-metadata, etc). I also wrote a Drupal 7 one, but I haven't touched that in a long while.

After exporting from either CMS, it's pretty close to drag/ drop onto the grav instance and everything should "Just Work (tm)".

- [1] https://github.com/jgonyea/wp2grav_exporter - [2] https://www.drupal.org/project/grav_export/
T-Series, Swayam, and Android Zoom Pro taught me to stop pirating software
by rainygoodwill | 2025-06-07 17:54:39+00:00
I grew up in India during the '90s. One man changed how we consumed music: Gulshan Kumar of T-Series. While others sold Hindi film cassettes for ₹60–70, he sold them for ₹25. It killed piracy, built a fan base, and made his company a giant.

Why? Affordability beats enforcement.

Fast forward to 2024. I’m a tutor in Kerala with 28 years of experience. I teach income tax and accountancy. I earn ₹250/hour (~$3). Let's talk numbers:

Adobe Acrobat Pro? Over ₹1,500/month.

Zoom Pro (desktop)? ₹1,450/month.

A 2004 Amitabh Bachchan DVD still costs ₹400.

ChatGPT Plus? ₹2,000/month. That’s 8 hours of teaching for me.

How are educators in rural India or small towns supposed to survive?

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So yes, I pirated software:

Icecream PDF Editor Pro — for 5 years, to teach during COVID.

Zoom — free version for 4 years.

Adobe? Couldn’t touch it.

Only recently, I realized Zoom Pro on Android is ₹439/month — with nearly all desktop features. I immediately paid. Because I could.

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You want to reduce piracy? Try pricing software like:

Canva, which exploded in India because it's affordable.

Swayam, where IIT professors give free courses to lakhs of students.

Kinemaster and Notion, which quietly offer discounted Android Pro versions.

Microsoft? Still charging enterprise rates for solo users in small towns. ChatGPT? ₹2,000/month is normal in SF. It's heavy in India.

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When tools are unaffordable, people don’t turn evil. They turn resourceful.

Price your software like you're trying to build users, not just revenue. If T-Series figured it out in 1995, what’s your excuse in 2025?
by gavmor | 2025-06-07 17:54:45+00:00
If you haven't, check out the documentary[0] on General Magic which Bill co-founded in 1990. Among the more remarkable scenes in there is when a member of the public seems perplexed by the thought that they would even want to "check email from Times Square."

An unthinkable future, but they thought it. And yet, most folks have never heard of General Magic.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQymn5flcek
by LeFantome | 2025-06-07 17:55:48+00:00
Your "zoo" comment is an important one.

It really makes sense to think of different Linux distros as different operating systems. At the very least, the ones from different "families".

There are a lot of differences between Debian and RHEL. Suse, Alpine, Void, or Chimera Linux are completely different again. In some ways, they are almost as different from each other as FreeBSD is from them.

Compared to that "zoo", using FreeBSD everywhere is far more cohesive. But if you use RHEL, Alma, Rocky, and even Fedora, things are still going to feel pretty consistent. Or Debian, LMDE, and Kali. I am not advocating an ecosystem.
by david-gpu | 2025-06-07 17:56:15+00:00
I get wanting to keep illegal activities unknown to the authorities, so I'll concede that.

But in the context of this thread, where a company was threatening to do this in a developed democratic country, that is not an issue, is it?

Societal disapproval can be divided between people you interact with and strangers. Why would anybody what strangers think of them, particularly when those strangers would have to been rummaging into porn watching databases to begin with?

As for coworkers, friends or family, why would they be interested in learning about your porn habits again? And if they bother you about it, wouldn't you want to rethink whether you want to keep them around? Personally, I don't keep in touch with people who seriously judge my life choices -- and that has only happened once, so it's not such a big deal either.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-06-07 17:56:44+00:00
The corollary works well too; "If it's AI, it doesn't work."

That's because its the same mechanism at play. When people can't explain the underlying algorithm, they can't show when the algorithm would work and when it wouldn't. In computer systems, one of the truisms is that for the same inputs a known algorithm produces the same outputs. If you don't get the same outputs you don't understand all of the inputs.

But that helps set your expectations for a technology.
by gnulinux | 2025-06-07 17:57:12+00:00
Disclaimer: Never used Ibis before but I daily use polars and DuckDB.

It seems like Ibis uses DuckDB on its backend (by default) and has Polars support as well. Given this, maybe see if Ibis works better for you than polars. If you very specifically need polars, using that will for sure be better. DuckDB is faster than polars and it has great polars support, so depending on how Ibis is implemented it might be "better" than polars as data frame lib.
by dTal | 2025-06-07 17:58:16+00:00
I see what you're saying but the issues matter, as well as the delivery.

None of the slogans in that sign should be remotely controversial. Where exactly is the "complex issue"? "Water is life"? "Science is real"? This sign is statement that some issues warrant absolutism - a line in the sand regarding fundamental values. Such a line is an unavoidable feature of any moral framework. The specific values in question are what count.

The real moral fight is "you should care about others" vs "fuck you I got mine", and this is what distinguishes left from right, rather than propensity to nuance.

I upvoted you because I think your comment, while wrong, contributes to the discussion.
by hyperman1 | 2025-06-07 17:58:43+00:00
When I played gothic, I was in the wilderness and in the process of being killed by some beast. Completely unexpected, a core NPC (Lester?) joined the fight and slew it. It turns out, he makes a walk between 2 camps every day, and happened to be around just at the right time.

While already impressed by the AI, I was blown away by this l behaviour. He goes between 2 places that can't exist in RAM at the same time, and interacts with the world when it happens to pop into existence around him.

Radiant AI should and could have been like this.
by david-gpu | 2025-06-07 17:58:54+00:00
I can't imagine judging a coworker for liking fat redheads, or any other sexual preference. None of my business, and none of my interest. Just as if they like sports cars, or any other preference, really.

And why would want to keep in touch with a coworker that gives a damn about what other people want to fuck? I would go straight to HR for harassment, first of all.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-06-07 17:58:58+00:00
If they hire 20 devs in their first year paying $5m in salaries, only $1m or $500k (if the mid-year convention applies) would count as a business expense in that first year.

If their revenue was $2m, that would leave them with $1m (or $1.5m) of taxable profits unless that was eaten by other costs.

It doesn't have to be a problem, but if revenue grows fast and they go on another hiring spree in the following year then it could become a problem.

That said, if revenue grows so fast, it seems likely that they would have huge marketing and sales costs that could be expensed immediately. So maybe this isn't really a problem for many startups. I'm not sure.
by devnull3 | 2025-06-07 17:59:02+00:00
The behavior attributed to Indians in the article is universal. Admission to few college seats is a zero sum game anywhere in the world.

In SF, see if companies share knowledge if they are after the securing a contract from the same B2B customer.

In UK, drivers give way as a courtesy many times even though one has the priority. In return the other driver thanks using hand gestures. However, there was a local football match on a weekend and parking was very hard to find. Parking spots are zero-sum game. People started violating many rules. People started driving against the arrows on the road in desperation to grab the spot. Parking in places which were not marked as parking spots. All the manners & niceties went out of the window. It has hunger-games for parking spots.

BTW, google (and other big companies) hiring top graduates and researchers to deprive others of the same talent is hoarding.