MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RobGR | 2025-07-26 21:34:28+00:00
You are only repeating the arguments of run-of-the-mill management, and most people reading Kelley's blog post will be familiar with them.

There's something else going on here.

After all, as a business manager with a duty to make the most for your shareholders, if you really anticipated scaling your compute needs, wouldn't you invest in the cheapest way to do more computing ?

If you were a board member of a trucking company, and your CEO told you "Managing trucks is a pain, always filling them with fuel and stuff, I outsourced it to another trucking company, they are only charging us 5 times our previous budget in equipment and drivers salaries. Now we can focus on what we do best, making our customers happy" you'd fire that CEO.

"It's easier to hire for cloud skills that bare metal skills" is self-fulling in part, but if you are doing self-hosting correctly, it's also meaningless because you will just run largely the same software infrastructure. You can go to Dell or HP and have them deliver you a rack or more that already have the cloud software you want installed.

The "it frees up organizational focus for your customer's problem" is the closest to being meaningful. Modern corporate management seems weak generally, other examples include the trend of not promoting internally and instead hiring from outside -- it's like the none of the corporations trust themselves to evaluate people themselves, and inherently feel more confident hiring someone another corporation has found valuable.

"We are bad at managing our core business which has a profit margin of 10%. Therefore, we will take an essential service in support of that, outsource it to a company which is known for algorithmically detecting customer lock-in and raising prices, and is extremely difficult to leave, and will charge us 5 times as much."
by kelthuzad | 2025-07-26 21:35:01+00:00
>By saying we're all web devs here, I mean you should've already expected that we have an impression of job posts, Reddit, Hacker News, Google Search¹ trends, Github ecosystem, or even npm download trends. We start the argument there.

I can't tell if you're just accidentally incoherent or if you're just using some generated slop that makes no sense in the flow of the discussion. You claimed that the web ecosystem is "sparse", it's not. The ecosystem of the web is vastly superior to anything else. I don't see how your new twist makes any sense in that context.

>But of course you've brought nothing of the like to this discussion, so I don't know wtf you're thinking when you say you've brought the "thorough" debunking. I looked over your discussion history just to be sure I didn't miss anything because there's the implication of another post somewhere else. There's nothing to be missed, everyone is free to look at your history and your concept of thorough analysis.

I really have no interest in entertaining your gaslighting, the evidence is indeed in my history for everybody to look at, so you must be putting in extra effort of upholding your rhetoric and the resulting cognitive dissonance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692287

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44694037

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44695403

>I bring up Google because I care about Android. PWAs absolutely could have a chance to win in Android land over Kotlin, React Native, or Flutter. And now Google just talks about it less and less.

I swear your whole post is so contradictory and strangely written that it feels like generated by an llm that couldn't get a proper grip on the discussion. Since your initial comment was peak zero effort comment that just stated something everybody is already aware of and concluded with an unsubstantiated claim that had just been properly refuted.
by nkrisc | 2025-07-26 21:35:14+00:00
None of that sounds appealing in any way. I’m not too concerned about it. Who wants to spend 12 hours a day in a AI-generated VR haze? That sounds completely and utterly miserable. Anyone on that trajectory probably won’t live very long anyway. I’m sure there’s some minority who does, but I have a hard time believing it will be a majority to the point it becomes a crisis.
by nomel | 2025-07-26 21:35:33+00:00
And feet are fine, even though shoes exist.

Fire is fine, even though ovens exist.

We're animals, that are perfectly fine living naked in the wild (some still do today). It's all complete excess. Feel free to abandon the progression of tech, but, I challenge you to use a modern panel for a couple months, then try to go back to 1080p. It's like the console players who claimed 30fps was serviceable, fine. Sure, but nobody wants to go back to 30fps after they've used 60hz, or 144hz, for a non-negligible amount of time.

I also use a 1080p from time to time, it's servicable, but it's not comfortable, and it provides a far far inferior experience.
by wild_egg | 2025-07-26 21:35:36+00:00
> I don't have stats to back that up.

Your comment then falls under my "superstition" label.

My experience has been that the HTML version will send overall less data since it contains precisely what is required by the UI and nothing more. The JSON APIs try to be "generic" across clients and either send more than the client needs or send less and cause the client to wait on a waterfall of requests to load everything.

You should always run benchmarks for your use case but the majority of web projects are not Figma or AutoCAD and benefit drastically from simpler approaches. A single compressed HTML response will beat a cascade of JSON ones every time.
by skeledrew | 2025-07-26 21:36:59+00:00
Still doesn't say much to many. Temperature will be what comes to mind first for the lay person when they hear "degree", blank stare for "radian". But pretty much everyone in the US knows what an "inch" is, and the rest of the world can do a quick lookup/conversion. And everyone knows immediately on seeing the headline that something moved from its usual spot to somewhere else.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-07-26 21:37:40+00:00
The problem is the appification of doing, data/structure should have apptributes, we should live in the structure not the function, I have a personal client that I've solved all my issues with, I've got a fair amount of polish before I can release it, but it's effectively my OS at this point.

The nice side effect is that other than chatting with agents it solves the issue of getting sucked into feeds as everything external is a single feed curated by my cluster of ai agents.

Its basically an OS for creators.
by somat | 2025-07-26 21:37:55+00:00
no, but b in bpf stands for Berkeley, so the interface originated from bsd.

bpf is a virtual machine to process network packets in kernel space. So it is sort of like the low level assembly language of network processing. It is entirely possible to build a high-level packet filtering language that compiles down to bpf, But I don't think PF does this. PF appears to use it's own specific network processing interface.

https://man.openbsd.org/pf

Note the pf specific ioctls used to inject rules into the kernel.
by al_borland | 2025-07-26 21:37:59+00:00
I have a CIS degree, which is from the business school, not engineering.

I work, or have worked, with people who have no degrees and went right into the workforce, have their experience through the military, or have completely unrelated degrees, like geology.

I often feel like I’m in the minority as someone with a degree. Though I think that may have shifted somewhat, but no one ever talks about it. College and degrees almost never come up. Of the people currently on my team, I only know the background of a couple, who I’ve worked with for almost 20 years. The others, I have no clue.
by everyone | 2025-07-26 21:38:24+00:00
I do think its dumb for the army to go with these striker fired sidearms. As opposed to a double action / single action like the Beretta they used to have. The benefit of striker fired is you can fire the first round a fraction of a second faster.. I wonder how many times in history has that actually mattered for a sidearm in the army.

And the cops are just copying what the army went with. They do not have enough firearms training to be carrying those.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-26 21:38:36+00:00
I tried to read this, but it feels like another attempt at the “AI 2027” meme where we’re only a couple years away from societal collapse due to AI.

I just can’t take any of these projections seriously when they make claims like that in less than 2 years there will be an AI video streaming service that delivers a perfect custom version of the video to everyone and, as a result, nobody is is going to watch a perfectly executed human film production made in the same year.

Or that in 2.5 years we’ll have perfect holodecks in every home, precipitating a global crisis in society as people are addicted to their AI holodecks.
by raudette | 2025-07-26 21:38:58+00:00
Mounting a modern phone to a bicycle will damage the cameras - they can’t handle the vibration - see https://support.apple.com/en-ca/102175

I have an iPhone that I believe was damaged in this way.

So you’d probably want a purpose built bike computer, an older phone that you don’t care about the camera, or perhaps there are fancy vibration dampening mounts that could work.
by kmnc | 2025-07-26 21:39:43+00:00
But a plethora of freely available, porn in every flavour already exists. In full HD video, even in full 8k VR. Whatever addiction epidemic that AI brings to porn, already exists, and doesn’t seem provably that damaging. Further, porn has a kind of cap for males, you can really only engage with it so often..with diminishing returns. It is nothing like gambling, drugs or alcohol.
by ogou | 2025-07-26 21:39:47+00:00
An underreported part of the Yahoo story is its relationship to India. I worked there during the Verizon years and heard the history. Yahoo was a forerunner of the "offshoring" of technology jobs to India. It moved lots of core operations to a small army of engineers there. They figured out that their American counterparts made substantially more money than they did, especially the middle managers. Waves of Indian employees began moving to Santa Clara and getting market rate wages. Suddenly, Yahoo wasn't saving as much money as they used to. I don't think it was a major factor in its overall financial decline, but it had some effect I'm sure. On a side note, I heard a couple of Indian engineers say they were moving back to raise their kids because they didn't like the cultural influences in our schools. There were many interesting lunchtime conversations about things like that.
by reactordev | 2025-07-26 21:39:51+00:00
I don’t buy it. Sig’s don’t just go off on their own. They just don’t. This is just idiot gun handlers or a cover up.

*edit* I found this: https://youtu.be/NapE4CkWpHk which properly explains that in the line of duty (police for example) the safety mechanism can wear or be flipped while in the holster. It think that’s more a flaw of the holster than the gun. That’s why there’s a safety. So improper cleaning and attention to one’s weapon can lead to “accidental” discharge if you use one of those crappy police style holsters, rub against it a bunch to wear out the mechanics of your safety (which means Russian roulette every time you get in the car), is just stupidity. Just use a normal holster, so it takes you 0.2s longer to draw.

*EDIT OF THE EDIT* So this guy needs some credit. He was able to reproduce it, scientifically, on camera. https://youtu.be/jOMQOtOQoPk&t=1705 So, I stand corrected. This shouldn't ever happen.
by rashkov | 2025-07-26 21:40:03+00:00
I had a tough time even with PF. I got a basic config going for my network by copying stuff from the book of PF. When I tried to go beyond that things got frustrating. I think I was trying to set up a VPN which, I know this is a famously frustrating task, but I was hoping that PF would be somehow more legible or less opaque. There was nowhere to reference for the syntax and what it’s capable of.

I was hoping it was like a nice programming language whose internal structure made sense to an experienced developer. Where I can incrementally build things up and log things to the console as I go along and troubleshoot. But it turns out that setting up a vpn involves a big bang config with a dozen lines and it’s unclear which of them is broken.

It’s a DSL and not a programming language and often there is very little you can do to troubleshoot that’s short of reading the source code, the protocol spec, and firing up wireshark.

I found various configs on random websites or in the openbsd manual, but none seemed to do the trick. I gave up and installed Tailscale.

This isn’t a knock on PF. But years of reading glowing comments like this gave me some false hope that I could finally grok this stuff and maybe do some creative projects with it.
by smelendez | 2025-07-26 21:40:09+00:00
That’s my thought.

One analogy is local news media ecosystems across the US, which have generally looked pretty similar though not 100% identical over the past ~125 years or so, suggesting some determinism based on broader culture and technology.

If Facebook had stumbled, something else would have gotten the next microgeneration of college students and then their parents and grandparents.

It’s possible to me that an independent Instagram would have filled Facebook’s niche a few years later, and something like Snapchat would have taken the current Instagram niche. Maybe Twitter would have played a different role.

It’s also possible a web 2.0 answer to classmates.com would have grabbed the older crowd, and we’d have a slightly more profound age split.

But ultimately I think we’d end up where we are — a set of platforms algorithmically curating feeds of user-generated content — with a few cosmetic differences.
by tpmoney | 2025-07-26 21:40:42+00:00
No idea, those are the numbers as reported in the settings app. I would assume it's part of the OS since it's a framework for other apps to tap into mapping functionality. For comparison Sygic is 324 MB. Waze is 170 MB, Tom Tom is 251 MB, Magic Earth is 135 MB and OSM And is 238 MB
by kstrauser | 2025-07-26 21:41:18+00:00
I could search this up but I'd rather ask here in conversation: what's the difference between them? I'm not a totally n00b with guns: I've owned various small rifles since I was a kid and I also made it through US Navy boot camp where we shot handguns at targets. I understand the basic ideas involved. What I don't know is what single/double/striker action means here.
by zahlman | 2025-07-26 21:42:00+00:00
> Something had to start increasing the demand to enable that.

Yes — industry. From Wikipedia:

> Eighty percent of mined diamonds (equal to about 135,000,000 carats (27,000 kg) annually) are unsuitable for use as gemstones and are used industrially.[131] In addition to mined diamonds, synthetic diamonds found industrial applications almost immediately after their invention in the 1950s; in 2014, 4,500,000,000 carats (900,000 kg) of synthetic diamonds were produced, 90% of which were produced in China. Approximately 90% of diamond grinding grit is currently of synthetic origin.[132]

> ...

> Industrial use of diamonds has historically been associated with their hardness, which makes diamond the ideal material for cutting and grinding tools. As the hardest known naturally occurring material, diamond can be used to polish, cut, or wear away any material, including other diamonds. Common industrial applications of this property include diamond-tipped drill bits and saws, and the use of diamond powder as an abrasive.
why art will survive AI
by foundress | 2025-07-26 21:43:55+00:00
There are so many ways to be broken and even more ways I can remember being broken myself. Showing up for yourself day in and day out, having this too real, bodily realization of your own self, your own process, your own fallability is not easy.

Time and time again, I have gotten up and pushed, sometimes in the same direction, often reinventing from scratch. I have felt like the ultimate creativity for my species is making something out of nothing,whether it is myself as a person, a product or a completely wonky piece of art that only a handful of people will get to see, yet one that will make them feel something.

How many times have you made people feel things via a channel other than yourself ? Given death is inevitable and beautiful in how close and real it is, these other channels are ways to tell your story, besides the memories you leave with people that have limited RAM and limited time too.

So in order to be you need to make, to interpret and translate your own observation into a tangible outcome for everyone else to experience.

I was at the Guggenheim today and I was never more sure that art is going to be one of the few things that survives AI and us humans, as banal and far from it as we are in our day to day. Why?

It’s a simple calculation. Art is not perfection or beauty or even relevance, often it does not have a message either or a significance of any kind. Yet it is an artifact of transmission. A format through which you take a very human experience of the moment, the day and the century and scale it into the masses, potentially, if they are open to it.

Now if you were to replicate exactly the same via silicon intelligence, you perhaps would create the effect and the artifact, without the transmission. We only feel things strongly about what is close and familiar to us and very rarely empathize with others. There might be a human or two that feels for trees and even more people who have strong emotions for dogs. However, most of what we feel is directed towards us or some form of us living in the other, whether it is a parent , a spouse, a child or simply a loved one. We love ourselves amongst others and see our pain in theirs and feel it even more acutely if it is around the corner and if the sufferer looks, talks and even suffers just like us.

This makes me believe that AI art will only take off morphed into a human experience rather than as a standalone output.

I walked over to the steps of the curvy stairway in the middle of the museum and realized how much I miss the physicality of creation.

The random music in the background was hitting my ears and I was fantasising about a sandwich , a Celsius can and lying in the sun reading analog novels from those before me, who wrote about those ahead of me. It all seemed like a beautiful blur, an indulgence, a hedonistic escape from my screen and its algorithmic attacks on my attention span.
by dang | 2025-07-26 21:44:03+00:00
Recent and related:

Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44674123 - July 2025 (406 comments)

also:

Sig Sauer guns hanging on soldiers' hips may be firing without trigger pull - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087518 - July 2024 (37 comments)
by constantcrying | 2025-07-26 21:44:20+00:00
>I already have basically every other sim, purchased on Steam and installed.

You do not have the "sims" I was talking about, which are the ones used in automotive industries and who are using tire models which are certainly more advanced than what is found in any game.

>I can just jump into them, and for example enjoy AMS2, or LMU, or iRacing tire models instantly.

Which is the difference between a game and engineering software. In a game the tire physics should be fun, in engineering Software they should be accurate.
by btilly | 2025-07-26 21:44:50+00:00
In inclined to believe that neither would have become trillion dollar companies if they had been acquired by Yahoo.

I absolutely agree.

One fundamental reason why Yahoo failed is that they prioritized short-term revenue from search partners, over long-term reputation. One of the key people behind that was Prabhakar Raghavan.

And now, Prabhakar Raghavan is at Google. Where he has proceeded to make the same mistake, with the result that Google Search quality fell off of a cliff.

If Google had been acquired by Yahoo, he would have been in a position to destroy Google earlier than he actually did.

See https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ for more.
by dang | 2025-07-26 21:44:52+00:00
Found one thread from a year ago. Others?

Sig Sauer guns hanging on soldiers' hips may be firing without trigger pull - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087518 - July 2024 (37 comments)

Sig Sauer P320, a popular handgun with police, is firing on its own - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35530330 - April 2023 (31 comments)
by robomartin | 2025-07-26 21:44:56+00:00
> engraving things in place.

That's just-about the only real use case I can see.

And then, again, is the question: How much engraving in place does anyone really have to do?

What are you engraving? Doors? Signs? Trophies? Well, if it is a one-off occasional thing...is the cost justified? If it is done as a business, chances are you are not going on-site to someone's home to engrave stuff. If it a rare once-in a couple of years thing, there are services that will do that for you for very little money...etc.

Forget CNC, I am comparing this to a $50 router and some jigs, off-the-shelf and self made. Even as a robotics guy, I just don't see it. And I have a shop full of robots and CNC machines.

To me this falls under the category of "just because you can, it doesn't mean you should".

Hand router jigs:

https://www.rockler.com/power-tools/routers/router-jigs

Hand router sign-making templates:

https://www.rockler.com/power-tools/routers/router-accessori...

I'm happy to be wrong...I just don't see it except for corner cases (which could be all you need for a nice business).
by SR2Z | 2025-07-26 21:45:42+00:00
> And after being exposed, deciding they enjoy it, but would rather make a living elsewhere -- does that mean the hobby was a failure?

If they try a hobby for a while and give up on it because they don't enjoy it enough, then yes. That seems like a reasonable definition for "failure."

Nothing wrong with failing - in your career, hobbies, relationships, or whatever else. Sometimes EQ means recognizing that you should stop beating a dead horse.
by ckrapu | 2025-07-26 21:45:56+00:00
My colleagues definitely thought it was a joke at the time.

We had this project (all public research) to classify buildings and identify their different subsystems (e.g. load-bearing structure, roof type, ventilation type) to figure out the expected casualties if there was a WMD event of some type. We could get decent data for much of the world, but for some places we had literally nothing beyond a tiny picture of it from satellite imagery.

I had been playing with using GPT-3 to try to have it autocomplete forms like the following. This was 2021 before we had good APIs for instruct models, so this was just straight up letting the LLM regurgitate after pretraining. Here was the type of prompt we used:

""" Engineering building report for building located at 123, X Street, Knoxville TN Prepared by Benjamin Lee, FE --- Building footprint area: 1200 m2 Roof type: built-up roofing Facade material: brick HVAC present: """

Surprisingly (at the time), this was a decent prior. You could also add all sorts of one-off points of interest and amenities like swimming pools and other trivia to help guide the conditional probabilities.
by philwelch | 2025-07-26 21:46:14+00:00
The safety issue with the SIG P320 is real. I’ve seen footage of multiple instances of a P320 discharging in the holster without the trigger being touched; in fact you can find much of that footage on YouTube. There’s a growing list of law enforcement agencies, shooting ranges, training facilities, and now even the US Air Force either banning the P320 or withdrawing it from service. Yes, it’s true that a lot of people (even cops and Alec Baldwin) will negligently discharge a firearm and lie about not pulling the trigger, but the sheer number of reported incidents with the P320 in particular, as well as the massive amount of footage of these incidents (a happy side effect of ubiquitous police body cameras) provides very conclusive evidence.