MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by boomlinde | 2025-07-20 18:58:48+00:00
> Even with perfect information though most people have to purchase crap, because good stuff is so rare and expensive (though not all expensive stuff is even any good, most actually good stuff is expensive).

I'm talking about "perfect information" in the ideal, economic sense: in this case knowledge of every piece of information that could affect a consumption choice. With perfect information you would of course know which brands gave the best value for the money. All brands would necessarily compete by being the brand that gave the most value for the money for different segments of consumers with different ideas of what exactly "the most value" entails. A company that could produce equivalent goods and sell at lower prices would leave competitors in the dust, because you would know about it and have no reason to consider other options.

Of course, the $100 dress that lasts for 10 years might still be less valuable than a $9 dress of similar appearance that lasts for one year in those terms, depending on how much of a cost there is to making the purchase in itself and disposing of the broken dresses.

> I wonder though, wasn’t fashion also a thing in the 1940s? Yet then, clothes still lasted longer.

There certainly was a fashion industry and an awareness of ongoing trends, but I don't think the pace of dissemination and proliferation of new trends was nearly as high then as it is now. I don't know, but I'm betting that the pace picked up when television became a commonplace household item and then again with the advent of social media.

I also don't think they could have produced a $9 1/10 durability alternative to the $100 dress. The difference in production cost between shoddy products and high quality products may have been smaller with the state of the art of the 1940s in terms of production chains, alternative materials, labor, time.
by hylaride | 2025-07-20 18:58:50+00:00
I'll half-disagree. There are situations where "workers" having a seat at the table can produce favourable outcomes. Some German companies have union representation on the board and it results in workers sometimes willing to make sacrifices for the greater good, so long as they also then benefit if an upside materializes. It can also benefit the company as the top-down decisions can also receive comments and concerns from a different viewpoint within the company.

But it's also very much a cultural thing. The anglosphere tends to treat CEOs and corporate leaders as the smart drivers of corporate success, where as Germany and other European companies are more comfortable with some collective ways of working.

There's benefits to both models, but there's no arguing against the fact that the "anglo" way does seem much more successful at the entrepreneurial stages, especially with new ideas and industries.

I myself prefer the anglo-model, but I try my best to find places that appreciate and trust their workers. I also find myself appreciating goods that last a lifetime from "boring, but stable" companies. People like Jack Welch and his acolytes ruin companies.
by asdff | 2025-07-20 18:58:53+00:00
The thing with vegetarians is they tend to lose their sense of taste and smell for meat. Many vegetarians actually find the smell of cooked meat pretty revolting/nauseating since they are no longer primed for it. Anecdotally I know a vegetarian who hates one of these patties, I can't remember if it was the beyond product or the impossible burger, specifically because they tried and make it a little bit more "bloody" like a meat patty which made it disgusting to them.
by apparent | 2025-07-20 18:59:03+00:00
No one is saying that people who use drugs (or alcohol, which you refer to) don't ever drive cars. My point was that the ones on the bus probably don't. People who ride the bus are disproportionately poor, and unable to afford a car.

As for your point about drunk driving, I would guess most people who drive drunk would be more likely to take an uber/cab than ride the bus, which is not point-to-point, and which often takes much longer.
by steveBK123 | 2025-07-20 18:59:13+00:00
Societal pressure and expectations cut both ways, and I think are starting to harm young men more than young women, and is somewhat explanatory of recent machismo populist political turn in youth voting.

The stats are saying - women enroll and graduate college at higher rates than men, graduate with lower unemployment, and society has spent the last ~60 years correcting a lot of the wrongs that harmed women's choices & freedoms (notwithstanding some recent SCOTUS decisions).

A young woman in 2025 has been brought up in a society that tells them they can do anything, be anything, want anything, etc.

For young men, I firmly believe society expectations haven't really changed at all actually. They are still expected to be providers, and to make educational/career choices & sacrifices to facilitate that.

Very few men are stay at home parents, or make less than their wives. Those that do are not accepted by society the same way as when the roles are reversed. As expectations haven't changed but women have gained economically in relation to men, this sets up a very potent mix of resentment and mismatched singles (high end loser women & low end loser men).

A pattern amongst my richer/older friends I've noticed is that their sons are encouraged to go get STEM degrees to support themselves, while their daughters are encouraged to follow their passions, go work at an NGO, oh and here's a condo in Manhattan we bought for you. I sat on the board of a condo in yuppie Brooklyn a few years, and despite the stereotypes, the majority of trust fund buyers were women now.
by maxbond | 2025-07-20 19:01:11+00:00
> Yesterday was biggest roller coaster yet. I got out of bed early, excited to get back @Replit ⠕ despite it constantly ignoring code freezes

https://twitter-thread.com/t/1946239068691665187

This wasn't even the first time "code freeze" had failed. The system did them the courtesy of groaning and creaking before collapsing.

Develop an intuition about the systems you're building, don't outsource everything to AI. I've said before, unless it's the LLM who's responsible for the system and the LLM's reputation at stake, you should understand what you're deploying. An LLM with the potential to destroy your system violating a "code freeze" should cause you to change pants.

Credit where it is do, they did ignore the LLM telling them recovery was impossible and did recover their database. And eventually (day 10), they did accept that "code freeze" wasn't a realistic expectation. Their eventual solution was to isolate the agent on a copy of the database that's safe to delete.
by godelski | 2025-07-20 19:01:12+00:00
> if die size is being increased to counter the lack of improvements from transistor shrinking

This definitely doesn't fully explain everything that is happening. Die sizes aren't changing that fast.

Even if it is a part, you're ignoring that it is still a difficult technical challenge. It it weren't we'd see much larger dies. We have a lot of infrastructure around these chips that we're stacking together and the biggest problem in supercomputing and data centers is I/O. People would love to have bigger chips. I mean that's a far better solution than a dual socket mobo.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-20 19:01:17+00:00
> how come not a single city in the US has been able to extract the je ne sai quoi of what makes it work over there when it doesn't work here?

Manhattan sort of nails it. Between the subway, Metro-North, LIRR and taxi system you don’t need to own a car and it massively increases life expectancy.
by ActorNightly | 2025-07-20 19:01:35+00:00
If you enforce very strict interfaces through language, no matter how many people work on them, the tradeoff still applies.

For example, you can have multiple people working on a code base for the second case, and some sub team has a new requirement for added functionality. Now they have to go refactor a whole bunch of the codebase to make all the types coherent. And consequently, shortcuts happen here, which leads to shit codebases.
by llbbdd | 2025-07-20 19:01:47+00:00
Grading on perceived effort is not a rubric destined to last. You cannot detect sloppy work from beginner work without context, and in any case a lot of beginner work these days (and to some degree for the rest of time!) is going to include LLMs or AI.

Is HN only for advertising startups these days? If this post had nothing to do with AI maybe the response would have included some real genuine criticism and feedback, with the assumption baked-in that a beginner was being coached.

To your last point, then downvote it if it's bad. You're right and I agree precisely that it being vibe-coded wasn't the point - but it was brought up regardless. If the result is bad the feedback is still the same. If the "problem" is just that they used tools you don't agree with using, then that's not feedback on the result.
by asdff | 2025-07-20 19:01:54+00:00
>they do not include the seasoning required to make it taste like a hamburger.

True for many midwestern homes.

This also doesn't include what you need to do to cook a beyond/impossible burger. At least when I've made one, they absorb oil like a sponge. A burger will actually render out fat and doesn't need any oil in the pan. And no I'm not converting to teflon in this lifetime. You will find you want to season them heavily as well as the taste is pretty plain and heavy on the cooking oil used.
by atoav | 2025-07-20 19:02:09+00:00
> That's entirely the fault of your crappy smart display with some crappy OS and has entirely nothing to do with HDMI as a standard.

Sure yeah, but I don't buy it. If you create a standard that is too complicated or too feature-creeped to be implemented fully and that lack of full implementation means the fundamental role of the standard breaks down, that standard might be part of the problem.

I too could envision a solution that theoretically works perfectly, and all people are doing it wrong if it doesn't. But such standards have to be made with reality in mind. USB-C is another one of those. Cool – now I have a ton of USB-C cables none of which tell me on the cable what capabilities they have. One can't support USB-power delivery, the other doesn't work with video up to certain resolutions, etc.

I get that more data means higher frequency and that this directly translates to more problems, but nobody (at least no consumer) asked for the complexity of the HDMI spec. We want to connect a cable and see the picture in 99.99% of the cases. If that doesn't work 100% of the times the standard is at fault. The base functionality of the thing needs to be so dumb and so clear that it just works, even if the other side doesn't even know what an EDID is. That was the task and the result is catastrophic failure.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-20 19:02:15+00:00
> Honestly how hard can it be given Microsoft size (and AWS, and Google's) to mandate the intervention of a EU corporate entity to manage

Very difficult.

Countries like Ireland, Poland, Czechia, Romania, and Bulgaria are heavily dependent on American FDI in their tech industry, and the European Council has final say and requires unanimity. A rule such as the one you mentioned would smother VC/PE in much of the EU, as European funds like Index Ventures and Munich Re Ventures are heavily dependent on the US to raise capital and build dealflow.

Major European employers like Volkswagen AG, Siemens AG, NXP, Phillips, Infineon, and others would also face severe retaliation as a result.

It would also set a precedent that would make an alternative like China extremely hesitant to invest, as the Chinese government heavily utilizes export controls on tech transfers. For example, BYD investment in Hungary is largely CDK with the core high value components like Batteries being manufactured in China. Biren, Huawei, and SMIC would face similar export controls.
by apparent | 2025-07-20 19:02:46+00:00
> Do women naturally want to leave the workforce and prioritize work-life balance or is that a response to society putting a majority of the parenting responsibility on their shoulders?

Yes, mothers naturally do have a stronger urge to spend time with their babies/small children than men do. One of my male buddies lamented that he couldn't defer his paternity leave until his son was 8, so they could interact more. He had very little interest in spending time with his infant child. This is not uncommon among men, and quite uncommon among women (who bond with the baby when it is gestating inside them, and again when they nurse it, in many cases).
by Dmitropher | 2025-07-20 19:02:52+00:00
Taxis just aren't that highly demanded of a service. It's also very hard for me to imagine a world where today's two car family switches to a one-car plus robotaxi lifestyle.

One car owned per adult is very inconvenient to deviate from in a car friendly urban environment, even if robotaxis can be made to have overall cost parity to car ownership.

The net result, I think, is that robotaxis can only ever increase the total number of cars and concurrent drivers.

Would you disagree? Is there some compelling reason I'm missing the motivation for families to switch from 2.5 cars to 1 because of robotaxis? Or, similarly, for single people to switch from 1 car or no car, just transit, to robotaxis?

Robotaxis seem to me to have potential well solve the niches human taxis are bad at: late night safe driving, very long point to point going out of an urban core into a rural area, perhaps even personal cargo shipping, if a robo van could enable you to do furniture shopping without renting a truck. But these are edge cases that compete with private cars pretty intensely. I'd only prefer a late night taxi if I'm drunk. I'd only want a robotaxi to a rural area if I'm an urban living rock climber or hiker, and I don't care to own a car. The total available market is just wildly incompatible with the current and speculated valuation, as far as I see it.
by maerch | 2025-07-20 19:03:03+00:00
Like many others in threads like this, I initially felt repelled. It’s restrictive, it’s super expensive, and I dislike some (though not all) of the design choices.

But then I remind myself: it’s not a product made for me. I don’t have to like it. Clearly, the target group loves it. My kids have adored it for years. Even now, with my oldest having access to Spotify Kids, she still prefers her Toniebox in the evening before bed. The figurines aren’t just a medium, they’re toys in their own right. They’re shared, traded, and loved. And they really enjoy squeezing those silly ears.

Many other families in my circle tell the same story. Some tried similar products that launched soon after the original, often ones using cards (though not Yoto). But after a few weeks, their kids lost interest and asked for a Toniebox instead. (It reminds me of when my parents bought me a Sega Master System, even though all I wanted was a Super Nintendo.)
by KyleW9 | 2025-07-20 19:03:12+00:00
I truly love the way industrial designers think, its great that the longer a speaker is used by the customer, the lower its CO² footprint. Also really appreciate that the creators put an emphasis on its easiness of repair, especially the battery component as its usually the first one to give up in speakers. They published a tutorial on how to repair it, really appreciate them going this far for consumers
by gmueckl | 2025-07-20 19:03:39+00:00
QML copies many core ideas from JavaFX (released 2008) and Microsoft's WPF (released 2006).

Microsoft's XAML for declarative UIs is the most reused/reimplemted approach among this bunch. Its variants are in WPF, Silverlight, WinUI, Avalon and Uno.
by jmkr | 2025-07-20 19:03:44+00:00
This is a really important point that I think a lot of people who aren't vegan don't get. There might be an understanding that food is culture (lets order chinese, or italian), but realizing that's not a culture you experience but a culture you live.

The first thing many new vegans ask is "what do I eat now?" The replacement food comes first, and beyond hits the mark a lot more than seitan does because we don't culturally eat seitan.

And even more so, I think beyond has made it so an entire generation realized they could go vegan. A black bean burger just never hit the same way.
by antisthenes | 2025-07-20 19:04:12+00:00
> This is nonsense. The consumptive, energy and material intensity of GDP, as well as GDP/capita, have varied greatly across time and countries.

It's not nonsense. In overwhelming majority of cases GDP is tied to energy consumption. We have not yet learned how to decouple it.

With renewables, there is faint hope, but the transition is slower than we would ideally like. It also remains to be seen what % can be decoupled by pure solar and wind (hydro is already tapped out, mostly).

> Degrowth is an extremist dead end. If an environmental movement falls for it, it should be ignored.

So is growth at any cost.
by gruez | 2025-07-20 19:04:17+00:00
>However, In my experience my female colleagues doing similar things are generally under-compensated BUT, and this is a big BUT.. they also are less aggressive in asking for money. I have had this discussion with my wife, and every few years she does work up the energy to have the "give me more money" discussion with her boss, which is almost always followed by a best-in-years % raise at next compensation cycle.

If they're actually working in the same jobs, wouldn't this discrepancy show up in the statistics? If all the male senior developers are driving a hard bargain and getting $220k, but the female senior developers aren't and are only getting $200k, it'll still show up as a 10% difference in an apples to apples comparison. The fact that such apples to apples comparison shows minimal difference either means such effect is tiny, or there's a bunch of effects working for females that's canceling out the "males bargain better" effect.
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by hvb2 | 2025-07-20 19:05:24+00:00
Sure that wasn't the point. Your point was that healthcare (for profit hospitals) and grocery stores are equivalent.

You've so far argued that they're not. Unless you also go price shopping for your groceries every time.

I don't know of anyone forgoing medical care they needed because of cost. People go deep in debt to pay for it. Most people go to a hospital because they want to get better not because they're looking for a bargain.

And finally, the people that get their healthcare through work probably don't have time/will to get quotes because it's not like that's straightforward
by llbbdd | 2025-07-20 19:05:42+00:00
Only on HN. In my actual life some of the tools I use have added the (yes, annoying) "Try our AI!" buttons but I haven't been anywhere near driven to blog about it. Sometimes it's even useful (Google Drive has handled this pretty well I think). But blog posts like this have a kind of "Think of the children!" vibe that I haven't fully understood yet.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-20 19:05:50+00:00
On one hand, it's very difficult to break traditions.

On the other hand, the order P1 P4 P2 P5 P3 P6 is not always true.

Usually there is only one problem of geometry per day.

Some problems involve a brilliant trick and another analyzing many cases. You don't want too "long" problems the same day. (Sometimes there is solution that the Jury didn't see and the problem changes it of made-up-category.)

Some problems are difficult but have a nice easy/medium intermediate step that assigns some points.

There are a lot of implicit restrictions that can affect the order of the problem.

Also, sometimes the Jury miscalculate how difficult is a problem and it's easier or more difficult than expected. Or the Jury completely miss an alternative easier solution.

The only sure part is the order that they are printed in the paper.
by dragontamer | 2025-07-20 19:06:40+00:00
> The game director’s statement was most likely triggered by the news that Manga Library Z is shutting down. The platform, which has preserved digital editions of out-of-print manga for the past 14 years, was initially pressured by international credit card companies to remove manga that contained certain words, and then abruptly forced to terminate all of its payment contracts, leaving it with no way to secure revenue for its authors. The cause cited for this was transactions involving adult content.

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Japan is a democracy. And yet payment processors from another country are powerful enough to bypass Japans political system.
by drewcoo | 2025-07-20 19:06:54+00:00
When was that halcyon time when you knew a subject well and some outlet published a really good in-depth story about it? Maybe it happened, but I don't think it happened in this timestream.

Michael Crichton, of all people, coined the term Gell-Mann Amnesia, possibly describing your reaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
by general1726 | 2025-07-20 19:07:16+00:00
I have installed adblocker cca 10 years ago when I got a full screen ad over a page with a close button jumping around. Advertisers has unintentionally poisoned their own well.

Today we are in a positive feedback loop. Advertisers are getting more aggressive, more sneaky and when they can show you an ad they want to milk that attention so more people are using adblockers. Advertisers are running towards extinction thanks to their stupidly aggressive tactics.
by rconti | 2025-07-20 19:07:35+00:00
Obviously it depends on the venue. We visited many coffee shops on our recent trip through the Baltics and then across Ireland, and were always asked which of 6 "milk" options we wanted.

On the other hand, we were staying in larger cities, stopping in towns along major transit routes, and going to the "kind of coffee shops" where you would expect such a thing.
by maxlin | 2025-07-20 19:07:40+00:00
FSD has simply proven untested roads work, you cannot argue against that.

>Growing pains

Robotaxi has been in testing for less than like 1/50 the time Waymo has been out, and has already once surpassed coverage in their starting city.

You know who also had growing pains? Hulk. Growing that quick.

Elon can literally draw and balls a dick on top of Waymo's long-amassed support area. Even if they want to check these starting areas a bit better with some basic mapping setups in advance, it's obvious their stack isn't hindered by requirement of hard, slow HD mapping and cars that look like they're growing mushrooms with the ugly LIDAR sensors on them.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-20 19:07:41+00:00
Admittedly, I only have limited out-of-date knowledge from integrating iBeo, hokuyo, and SiCK lidar models (way better models out now.) Yet in general, the SLAM algorithms tended to use optical Odometry, pose recovery, and point-cloud data. Then extrapolated the projected surface using camera data within a GPU accelerated OpenCV layer. It does require a proper global shutter machine vision camera (high fps / no smear), but does work fairly well under ideal conditions. The winners of the Darpa grand challenge documented the methods in detail, and several OpenCV books cite the work as a student project.

Let me know if you have trouble finding the projects. =3