MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by naikrovek | 2025-07-30 16:36:19+00:00
like us old assholes were saying when the cloud really started to take off: "this is nuts, it's just someone else's computer! and they're making a profit off of this service, meaning it's more expensive than what we were doing!"

Now a lot of the things that were done pre-cloud were done in bad ways, and I'm not saying that we were right about those things. Having APIs for provisioning and monitoring are far better than submitting a request to some queue and having your VM provisioned manually 1 week later by someone who gets a key detail wrong. APIs and granular permissions are how this should be done, and "the cloud" taught everyone that very early. But a lot of companies are really stuck in the cloud mindset now, and won't let go of it.

I think companies like Oxide and product lines like theirs are going to start becoming common. Microsoft, of course, completely fumbled the ball with Azure Stack, and I've never even heard of anyone deploying AWS Outpost, both for the same reason: the costs for these are absolutely insane for what they provide.

What most folks really want is their own infrastructure running their own stuff using APIs that are either written in-house or provided by some vendor. Oxide is betting that they can sell you a working scalable system for less money than it would take to hire a team to write the APIs that would allow a company to do the same with off-the-shelf hardware. I think that they're probably right about that.
by benabbott | 2025-07-30 16:36:58+00:00
I had a Wink hub maybe 7 years ago, I bought it for somewhere around $150. Later, they decided to add a monthly subscription fee to the device. I cut my losses and quit using the thing.

I no longer do smart home anything. Switched outlets are great. Relevant Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DGqVbTHX-k
by nahuel0x | 2025-07-30 16:37:15+00:00
You can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Nazi_f%C3%A4hrt_nach_Pal%C... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement ,https://etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/ws/send_file/send?ac...
by ankit219 | 2025-07-30 16:37:33+00:00
That is the model everyone gravitate towards. Openai's Fidji too started with the note about how superintelligence is for everyone.

I think it would be back to income based tiers though. You want more assistance, pay $200 per month. Even more, maybe $2000 (for companies). Then, if you dont want to pay, you get contextual ads (which would work here because llms can contextualize far better), and a lower quality of service.
by neuroplots | 2025-07-30 16:37:56+00:00
TFA is simplistic and combative, but not entirely incorrect. When companies are cash-rich, they hire generously but invest in vanity projects that do nothing for the careers of the people staffed in them. When they’re poor, they fire people and use the fear factor to extract even more work.

This all said, it makes no sense to attack corporate greed without using the C word: Capitalism. Corporations do exactly what their owners designed them to do.
by tombert | 2025-07-30 16:39:08+00:00
Everyone says this, and even I've said this, but I don't think this is honest.

You can learn anything you want for free or very cheap by buying textbooks and watching free lectures on YouTube. Hell, you can often email the professors from those lectures and they'll answer questions for you, for free.

Since you can learn for basically nothing, what is the value add for universities? A few things, but a big one is having a certification that "Person X knows enough about subject Y and is vouched for by University Z". University is extremely expensive. Extremely expensive now, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the school (and other criteria). It's not weird for people to want a direct return on investment.

I don't think it's honest to tell people "go to university for the love of learning!!!". If you just "love learning", do it for free.
by marcusb | 2025-07-30 16:39:16+00:00
> what I don't understand how these magical "sales people" apparently can't work for a fixed salary when literally everyone else can

It isn't that "sales people"[0] can't work for a fixed salary. The good ones just won't because they can find another employer that will pay commission, and they know they will make more with commission than without.

Employers will pay commission because that's how you attract the best sales people, and the best sales people are worth orders of magnitude more to their business than average sales people. Despite how much they earn, in general and compared to their average peers, the best sales people don't cost orders of magnitude more (5x is a more typical spread in tech sales.)

The advantage of 100% commission -- where it is legal -- is pretty obvious from the employer's view point. The company only pays for production. These sales people are commonly (but not always) independent contractors. The benefit for the sales person is a little less obvious, but, generally, they have more autonomy, a simpler comp plan without any caps, and earn more per dollar sold than they would on a base + commission plan.

0 - whether magic or not
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-07-30 16:39:23+00:00
“Listen, we understand that you are working on a regulation with some teeth which will have an actual impact on what we do. Couldn’t we instead waste a decade compiling useless data before passing a useless law.”

I think I will use my usual assessment criteria on this one. If the industry you are regulating lobbies are unhappy about your law project, you are probably doing something very right.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-07-30 16:40:28+00:00
>An ERV itself does nothing for air quality

I disagree — it is literally exchanging outdoor air with indoor air; so perhaps if it was heavily polluted outdoors then it could certainly worsen indoor air quality.

>Setting your furnace fan to ON to increase the number of air exchanges in your house without the heat exchanger would do the same thing.

I think you are misunderstanding how an ERV is plumbed. Unlike furnace `ON` cycling indoor air indoors, the ERV is literally exchanging inside/outside air constantly & entirely, directly through the plate membrane.

>Your indoor air quality, assuming your HVAC is properly balanced to have positive pressure

In the ERV setup I described installing, earlier, it is the ERV which generates/maintains the positive pressure differential.

>There are also heat exchangers that capture latent heat from your shower water [1] to preheat the cold water line going into the hot water heater, though I am unsure if you’d ever capture enough latent heat back to pay for it.

This is why instead of drain heat capture (not economical at microscale) to save energy, I installed a heat pump water heater. I live in the US SE (technically a subtropical rainforest) so the heating of the water is essentially "free cooling / dehumidifying" for all the non-HVAC-heat days of the year (~9 months). During the brief winter, it switches over to standard dual 4500W heating elements.
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-30 16:40:49+00:00
You absolutely can depending on the countries involved. A recent extreme example is hackers in NK stealing cryptocurrency. A more regular one is Chinese manufacturers stealing designs. If the countries where the theives live and operate won't prosecute them there is no recourse. The question for multinationals is if continuing to operate in the EU is worth giving up their models, and if the countries they are headquartered in care or can be made to.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-30 16:41:05+00:00
It seems like the only way to settle the issue is the release the files. That information does seem to show a difference between how each side is treating it. I'm not familiar with the whole history, so I'm not sure why previous admins didn't release it if they supported it.

"It is "in response". They're trying to STOP the gerrymandering, not make it worse."

You would legitimately spread its harms if you enacted it in additional places. This is the sort of win at all cost mindset that's driving this in the first place. Neither side is proposing a real solution. If you want it to away, you need to use pre-established boundaries (counties/cities) and assign a proportional number of electoral votes by population for whatever the election is for. Don't allow redrawing counties. Then there will be no more gaming the boundaries. Neither party actually wants this because they know there is power in controlling the districting, even if one group abuses it more than the other.

"Are you seriously defending concentration camps because someone else has done it in the past? Take a look at yourself in the mirror and really think about this one."

What a red herring. Did I say I supported them? I'm saying this isn't new, and it's not even as bad as it was for the Japanese Americans. Do you not think the Obama admin built similar ICE detention facilities with "cages"? The point is, each side points fingers at the other and conveniently forgets their own parties contributions to how we arrived at where we are at today.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-30 16:41:12+00:00
> .NET nowadays has a serious adoption problem

It's seriously going to make people question the future of the platform. Look at Microsoft's actions, not their words.

TS Compiler: Go New TUI Editor: Rust Winget: C++ (this would have been a great candidate for .NET)

At least PowerToys is C#.

.NET is great, but why isn't it good enough for Microsoft? The company that historically has had such a strong culture of dogfooding.
by sneak | 2025-07-30 16:41:52+00:00
We don’t need to define it; employees define it by who they choose to work for given the equity granted to them by the founders.

If they didn’t like the deal, they would become founders themselves, or choose a company that offers a better deal.

It turns out that leadership drive and the compulsion to bring something new into existence from scratch is actually quite rare.

Your figures seem to be roughly in line with what the employment market has settled on, although price discovery could be better (most employees don’t get to see the cap table during hiring negotiation, which, IMO, is wrong).
by exasperaited | 2025-07-30 16:41:52+00:00
I accept that one can make this argument, but since not leaving your dog alone can be implemented in other ways (arranging to leave them with friends and family, arranging swap relationships with one or two other dog owners, etc.) I am not convinced by the whole dog parent/furbaby/school bus BS, which is infantile and indicative of a society that now prizes immaturity and low compromise.
by mgerdts | 2025-07-30 16:42:00+00:00
My back yard neighbors live on a private street with an HOA. When the city water pressure went high for a brief period of time, they were one of the few places to have water lines burst. Their private supply lines were not of the same rating as the city lines that supply similar neighborhoods. Since this was private, this HOA was on the hook for ripping up the street, repairing water lines, and fixing their street. Being a customer that doesn’t normally need such services, the fix was done a couple months after the water lines break. They had a week or so with no water and many weeks of water being fed to their homes via hoses connecting a fire hydrant and the spigots they would normally use to get water outside.

They were so lucky this happened in the summer. In the winter, the hoses would have frozen solid.

These folks were very sad the city’s water utility couldn’t do the work. They fix water main breaks within a couple days, usually the same day.
by dmix | 2025-07-30 16:42:33+00:00
Well that's my point. Those are libertarian/small government conservative values which are no longer in vogue. Nothing stops you from being conservative and supporting authoritarianism or believing a strong executive branch over other branches (including the courts).

I would argue it makes them less of a traditional American conservative party though, as values like separation of powers are rooted in the US founding documents of the country. And a core part of being conservative is respecting your established institutions (cultural, legal, etc).

On paper Trump is a centrist in many ways because he doesn't seem to have strong values either way.
by gnabgib | 2025-07-30 16:43:00+00:00
Related:

23andMe is out of bankruptcy and it still hasn’t substantially changed its ways (111 points, 13 days ago, 82 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599325

Judge OKs sale of 23andMe to a nonprofit led by its founder (2 points, 29 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44431582

Anne Wojcicki Wins Bidding for 23andMe (61 points, 2 months ago, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271974
by bgwalter | 2025-07-30 16:43:50+00:00
GenX wrote much of the open source software and the foolishly co-opted the culture war initiatives led by boomers (for job security reasons) and millennials (some idealism, some job security, some sticking it to GenX).

They have sold out the open source ecosystem and are now being treated as weak. Ironically, probably millennials will pivot faster to the 2025 realities and the newly required allegiances than GenX.
by phaistra | 2025-07-30 16:43:59+00:00
You could ask the submitter to show a quick video recording of the new feature being used. Or if its a bugfix, show the failure scenario and then the fixed non-buggy scenario. If they can't be bothered to show a basic before/after demo of whatever they are working on, then you probably don't want to work with them and accept their code changes anyway.
by devonbleak | 2025-07-30 16:44:01+00:00
Our pest control put in a bucket called In2Care that has a little net with some powder suspended above the water - mosquito lands on the net, gets the powder on 'em, carries it to the next site and that site gets neutralized. They're designed for commercial campuses but for ~$200/yr it's well worth it for residential also.

They do take a while to take effect, and they do take maintenance, but my experience so far is that they're super effective.
by niwtsol | 2025-07-30 16:44:03+00:00
Lol - to find your one comment in this thread wayyy down at the bottom was delightful. That demo you reference from techcrunch disrupt ( start of this video - https://youtu.be/Nrb3LN7X1Pg) - that is a great demo. I'm curious - is that an idea/moment in your life you look back on and has that staying power, something that randomly pops in your mind that fills you with pride, or not really?
by codingdave | 2025-07-30 16:44:07+00:00
I'd add one bit of insight to the equation: When you self-direct your learning, you have blind spots to the "Don't know what you don't know" phenomenon, which are far more quickly and easily resolved when learning within a community. Not to mention, the community aspect itself... learning on your own by watching Youtube is a vastly different experience that being in a collective of hundreds or thousands of people all working together on their learning.

So you are absolutely correct that self-teaching works and is a valid approach. But saying that we are dishonest for pointing out positive aspects of college-based learning is taking that perspective too far. There are multiple paths to walk for your education, and they are all valid.
by klik99 | 2025-07-30 16:44:17+00:00
Yeah, the parent comments feel confused, it's kind of a truism that corporations make decisions based on greed. Capitalism, at it's best, tries to align personal/corporate self-interest with the interests of society. If you can't beat 'em, try to direct their interest towards things that benefit society. Keyword here is "try", I mean it's better than feudal lords pursuing self interest by constantly killing each other. The article does a good job of showing how that drive has really made a mess of the job market, and criticizing it because it blames all this stuff on corporate greed is really confusing since both critics and proponents of capitalism agree corporate decisions are all driven by self-interest, they just disagree on the outcomes.
by lief79 | 2025-07-30 16:44:28+00:00
My understanding is the most deadly/destructive parts of hurricanes are usually:

1. the storm surge, the potential wall of water brought by the continuous winds and waves near the shore, followed by 2. the flooding from heavy rains, then 3. followed by the wind.

So your example might also be hitting the same issue you're trying to avoid.

Note, the worst storm surge is from the eye towards the side where the winds are blowing in the direction of the shore. That's only part of the area with the peak winds.
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by victorbjorklund | 2025-07-30 16:44:38+00:00
Yeah, but we're not talking about cities. There will be a lot of time before you can establish a city with thousands of people on another planet. What we're talking about here is the first step where you and a few people go into space with a very uncomfortable spaceship and maybe establish a base on a planet which is probably just gonna have the bare minimum to survive. We're not talking about cities in our lifetime. So at that point if you're one of the first going you are not going to a city. So you're really living in more luxury in the wilderness of Siberia or the Amazon and the government there is not gonna bother you if you are just living there alone in the middle of nowhere interacting with nobody because the goal was to get away from all the politics and stuff.
by omoikane | 2025-07-30 16:44:42+00:00
If I read it correctly, the mapper will score fingering based on how many frets the hand needs to stretch:

https://github.com/scottvr/gtrsnipe/blob/4cae149e1dac766c3c3...

But this doesn't seem to account for other shape concerns. The bit I am most interested in is whether this mapper can avoid barre chords where possible.

Related, I think there should also be an option to take capo into account.
by immibis | 2025-07-30 16:45:13+00:00
Investors invest where the money is. The money is in the US. As a result of the factors I already stated.

The best way to get more euros over time appears to be to exchange them for US dollars, invest in US stock markets over time, and eventually exchange them back for euros. So rational investors will do that. It will work as long as the American regime doesn't collapse its currency due to overprinting, in which case all those euro investors will lose all their money.

An individual investor doesn't care about improving the economy of their country at all. They only care which investment will make the money today. And the investment market is just a collection of investors. Never make the mistake of thinking investment markets are rational economic planners - that's the fallacy of composition.

European governments may want to prevent this situation, but they're all pretty locked into the free-market regime, so there's not a huge amount they can do. They can't just give out free money, either, since there's a lot more state-backed financial crime and corruption over there, due to having enemy countries in close proximity.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-30 16:45:51+00:00
That's a bathtub curve. You see it in a lot of industries. The joke for AE at GA Tech circa 2000 was "Aerospace 'Do you want fries with that?' Engineering". Hiring picked up later as Baby Boomers and other older generations started hitting retirement age, but the effect is that a generation gets largely skipped over. Those trained and interested in it will find jobs elsewhere, tangentially related to the field perhaps but not training towards those critical, soon to be vacant positions.

You have a lot of seniors, a lot of juniors (because eventually you realize the coming staffing problem), and few mid-career folks (as a proportion of the whole). A particular downside is that retirement cliff. When the seniors go, you lose decades of experience for each retiree, centuries of experience with every 2-4 retirees.
by nkrisc | 2025-07-30 16:46:03+00:00
HOAs can be good. Like many things, HOAs are not inherently bad or good. It’s the people who run them.

I lived in a four unit condo buildings before and the HOA was fine, because all residents were on the board.

I now live in a more typical suburban HOA development and the HOA is very unobtrusive and only comes down on the actual problem properties (overgrown, uninhabited houses) and doesn’t do much other than handle common area upkeep. Dues are only $150 per year.
by oneplane | 2025-07-30 16:46:10+00:00
It's still stuck in weird formats and monoliths. A lot of GUI-only stuff has been ported to the mega CLI, but it's still the weird Visual Studio format plus XML files that you cannot replace with a simple Makefile. You still can't just compile a bit of C# as-is, it must have the Solution, Project, Assembly etc. chain, the run-as-script feature is nice (lots of cheers when that was presented! even on the live stream), but it's specifically not designed to allow you to assemble a toolchain that works for what you need. There is only one and it has everything, no options.

The question, of course, becomes: when does that matter? For a lot of people who are in to .NET, they see that as a benefit. Look at Go through this lens, and it's similar; the go CLI is the compiler, linker, package manager etc. I suppose the biggest difference is that it doesn't prescribe solutions and projects and file formats to go with them, which enables you to put this in any existing CI, make or other system.
by justdoitookk | 2025-07-30 16:46:18+00:00
One day I realized that the Strong Goldbach Conjecture could actually be stably situated within the level of Second-Order Logic (SOL)—as long as we don’t try to prove it, and instead only require semantic closure.

Then I found a way to bypass that and shift the formulation into Higher-Order Logic (HOL). After some research, it seemed this could potentially be handed over to AI systems for reasoning.

However, when it comes to implementing it in Coq or other formal systems, that’s beyond my expertise. That’s why I wrote this article—to document the idea and invite others to explore.

The formulas in the article were verified multiple times using GPT, but have not been reviewed by human experts.
by naikrovek | 2025-07-30 16:46:36+00:00
i write my own binary formats because they're fast and small. yes, in production. partly because it's just as easy as anything else for me now, partly because it doesn't require any dependencies at all, and partly to show others just how easy it is, because i think people are unnecessarily afraid of this.

no i don't write my own encoding or encryption.

why the hell would anyone use json for everything, and why would someone who doesn't do that earn your derision?