MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1024core | 2025-07-13 22:42:19+00:00
The writer seems to have gotten his "Sai Baba"s mixed up. The statue seems to be of the more modern one ( Sathya Sai Baba, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sathya_Sai_Baba ) who passed away in 2011, and not the OG Shirdi Sai Baba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_Baba_of_Shirdi
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-13 22:43:42+00:00
A good point.

I handle the downvoted comments by 1) upvoting (but of course) but then also 2) adding a comment to the effect of "Hey, I upvoted you because ...".

We've all seen the downvoted comment start to "fade back in" by doing this.

Heck, I frequently even upvote greyed out comments I disagree with because I kind of root for the underdog anyway. Or, kind of as you say, think it is unfair (at least when the downvoted comment was sincere and not troll-bait or whatever).

Personally I try to avoid downvoting a comment if I am unwilling to leave a comment as to why. This open the doors to my getting downvotes as well if I am off base.

Regardless, watching my own comments get downvoted has been a good lesson for me. Sometimes I rethink my position ("Am I missing something here?") or, if nothing else, I rethink the tone I used ("Guess I need to make a better case next time — not come across so antagonistic.").

(Corny examples, but you get the idea.)
by robocat | 2025-07-13 22:43:48+00:00
> Bidfood

Wow - I didn't realise bidfood.co.nz was a US chain bidfood.com (Bidcorp).

Food markets keep closing down.

The consolidation of restaurant suppliers really affects the quality of taste a restaurant can get. My ex was a cook and the worse restaurants wouldn't even make their own sauces like Hollandaise - she would tell me what brand it was (often a restaurant supplier brand). It is noticeable when the chef has hand-selected their supplies e.g. tomatoes that have flavour.

The root cause is that consumers tend to optimise for cost.

Quality is harder to give a number to.

We're not completely screwed yet - with time/effort (and moderate means) you can find some amazing places at normal prices.

And there are people willing-enough to spend time/effort plus wealthy-enough but that market is much smaller (more exclusive). And unfortunately there are a lot of expensive places that don't optimise for food quality (because people desire other things for their money e.g. obsequiousness, rent-a-vibe cuisine, gastroflex, mealfluencing, yadayada). Aside: Roget's gets spanked by AI when looking for modern words.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-13 22:44:23+00:00
This post doesn't appear to present any evidence that five companies control any significant share of the food delivery market. It looks at transaction volume of major deliverers, comparing them to each other.

But it's not at all clear that major deliverers are even a majority of the delivery market. There are no pizza chains on the list. There are certainly no individual restaurants on the list.

> Why is my $8 burger $23 after fees - An average reddit user

Delivery in China (through Alipay, which may or may not be backed by Meituan) is generally cheaper after fees than it would be if you just went and bought the food in person. This might explain why Meituan has so much more transaction value than Doordash and Uber Eats. But it's not something I'd imagine drives a lot of user complaints.
by immibis | 2025-07-13 22:44:36+00:00
The current global Internet is an anomaly in space and time, and it's held together by spit, prayers, and the hope the reliability gains from multiple redundant paths outweigh the reliability losses from so many distinct actors being involved. It would be quite easy for any major government to cause major problems in global connectivity. So far, they mostly seem content to only cut themselves off, and the ones with the power to mess up the global net don't seem to want to. But the NSA was diverting a whole lot of intra-Europe traffic via the USA at one time so they could snoop it.
by johngai | 2025-07-13 22:44:54+00:00
We run a mid-sized operation (~40 people) and used NetSuite for about 2 years before switching to Barawave, an AI-powered ERP built for modern businesses. We were frustrated by how slow, clunky, and expensive NetSuite became as we grew — and how hard it was to adapt the system to our workflows without a full-time consultant.

Here’s what stood out after switching to Barawave:

Speed: Pages load instantly. Tasks that took minutes (or required hunting through tabs) are done in seconds.

Custom workflows: We were able to create our own logic and automation flows without code. No more ticketing IT for every change.

Pricing: Transparent, usage-based pricing. No lock-in contracts or surprise fees.

AI features: Smart inventory alerts, anomaly detection in financials, and task suggestions were surprisingly useful.

Open ecosystem: APIs were clean, well-documented, and not hidden behind an enterprise paywall.

NetSuite does have more enterprise depth and integrations, but that power comes at a cost — and complexity. For fast-moving teams that value adaptability and control, Barawave feels like the modern ERP alternative we wish we’d found sooner.

Just sharing in case anyone else is tired of wrestling with outdated systems. AMA if you're curious.
by seriocomic | 2025-07-13 22:45:33+00:00
Love this - tried it. The problem as I see it is that these still require hosting - ideally (again, as I see it) self-hosting a script that monitors internal/homelab things also requires its own monitoring.

Short of paying for a service (which somewhat goes against the grain of trying to host all your own stuff), the closest I can come up with is relying on a service outside your network that has access to your network (via a tunnel/vpn).

Given a lot of my own networking set-up (DNS/Domains/Tunnels etc) are already managed via Cloudflare, I'm thinking that using some compute at that layer to provide a monitoring service. Probably something to throw next at my new LLM developer...
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-13 22:46:00+00:00
One of the projects on my agenda is a classifier that detects those people on social media by detecting "signs of hostility." This was hung up for a while because I thought the process of making a training set would kill me [1] (not seeing these people was a major motivation for the project) but now I'm more optimistic. I still gotta make a generic ModernBERT + LSTM + calibration classifier though.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/business/facebook-content-mod...
by farhanoktvn | 2025-07-13 22:46:01+00:00
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by alephnerd | 2025-07-13 22:46:04+00:00
> The company supplies some workers with company-issued Chromebooks, but many workers use their personal devices for the role

This is the crux of the issue - xAI allows employees to use personal laptops for corporate work.

This is a MASSIVE breach of internal security operations. Either mandate no personal laptop use or require VDI to access corporate resources.

> In the lead up to the roll-out, tutors were initially told that the company had run out of Chromebooks, and it was unclear when they would be restocked, people familiar with the guidance told BI

This is just pure sloppiness from their IT org, who are likely dealing with some amount of micromanagement from up the leadership chain.

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It really isn't that expensive to procure corporate laptops from an MSP like WWT, especially for a firm like xAI that is trying to raise a round at a $200B valuation. There's a reason Musk was managed out of PayPal fairly early. Even Peter Thiel couldn't stand him.
by throwaway328 | 2025-07-13 22:46:47+00:00
There are worlds of difference between analysing the syntax and semantics of languages in a structured and scientific way, and writing "good" prose (as subjective as that is).

I guess you're just a huge fan of Tolkien?

In which case, have you read https://archive.is/20241231024916/https://www.newyorker.com/... in which Michael Moorcock calls Tokein's work:

"...a pernicious confirmation of the values of a morally bankrupt middle class".

Which I'm not saying should change your opinion on anything, I just find it's always a good exercise to find the juiciest criticism of one's darlings.
by supermaxman | 2025-07-13 22:47:48+00:00
Agree heavily with this. I will be adding more stats on this soon, but you can see on the map chart at the bottom that these detainees are overwhelmingly categorized (by ICE) as low or no threat level, even those convicted of minor offenses & misdemeanors. Very few are “Threat Level 1”, which are the “violent” offenders we hear so much about.
by teddyh | 2025-07-13 22:48:25+00:00
If you make that conclusion after watching police camera footage, aren’t you making a classic survivorship bias fallacy? Those films are not a randomly-selected representative sample. Those films that you watched were those films that

1. Were allowed by the police officer themselves to be recorded in the first place (i.e. the cameras were either deliberately switched on, or at least suffered no timely “camera malfunctions”)

2. And also only films which made it through the filter of being considered suitable for publication, after the fact.

What you have actually been watching are carefully-selected propaganda pieces that, even assuming they are indiviually true and unaltered, are undoubtedly presenting a false view, supporting the powers that select them.
by terminalshort | 2025-07-13 22:48:37+00:00
Medical insurance in the US is not incentivized to save money. In fact it's just the opposite. The ACA requires that 80% of premiums be paid out to medical expenses. If an insurance company encourages people to get preventive care and lowers its expenses, that means they also have to lower premiums. So they actually want costs to be as high as possible since they get to keep 20%.
by johngai | 2025-07-13 22:49:07+00:00
We recently audited a bunch of free project management tools for our growing ops + dev teams and documented what we found in a roundup post: Free Project Management Software: Top Tools for 2025

We looked at:

Ease of use (especially for non-tech teams)

Cross-functional flexibility (can it handle PM + docs + chat?)

Integrations with tools like Slack, Google Drive, and CRM

AI features (optional, but interesting to compare)

How actually usable the free tier is for real teams

Tools covered: Barawave (our in-house system that handles PM + ERP) ClickUp Trello Asana Notion ...plus a few we ruled out due to limitations or clunky UI.

What surprised us most:

Some of the most well-known tools still hide essentials behind paywalls.

Others (like Notion) are amazing for flexible setups but get chaotic fast if you’re scaling teams.

We biased slightly toward tools that don’t feel like “yet another dashboard” — and can grow with the company.

Happy to answer questions if you’re debating which to try — or hear what tools others here are actually using in 2025 for cross-functional teams.
by throwaway328 | 2025-07-13 22:49:23+00:00
The Dispossessed was great! I wanted to read something by Ursula K. Le Guin for ages, and then happened to be staying in a friend's house where that book happened to be on a bookshelf. So I'd the happy experience of just giving it a go, knowing nothing. And it was very good.

Hadn't heard of either of the other two authors though - thank you for sharing!
by alganet | 2025-07-13 22:50:25+00:00
You miss the point.

Remote working is in the same vein as offshoring. One enables the other, they're co-dependent. Both are based on greed. In the case of remote working, is avoiding having offices, avoiding paying certain kinds of insurance, etc.

You are also re-inforcing my original conclusion that what enables these workers is the very same tech that companies are investing on.

Again, greed meets greed.

Now it's too late. IT companies will not survive a full return to office, and they won't survive remote working as well.

The very idea that someone could be using technology to fake an identity was unthinkable. Now that it is not, there's really no place safe.

If a crisis occours, and the US president goes to Air Force 1, transmits from there, how could you be sure he's not a north korean infiltrator? You can't.

I think there are still ways out of this, but we're reaching an inflection point that will be hard to overcome.

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Your commentary seems to provide a valid point of view, and although you disagree, you reinforce my main point.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-13 22:50:37+00:00
> All of this means that face-to-face, we will probably talk a lot less about divisive political topics than we would do online.

I see your point — I think more than a couple Twilight Zone episodes that Serling penned explored the "monsters" that are within us.

But I disagree. Because I think when you are face-to-face you're more likely to see nuance in your option and others. "I hate gays!" you say. But then you find yourself chatting with your neighbor and his husband and have been thankful for them, on several occasions, for helping you get your car started in the winter, or whatever.

"Black people scare me!" But then you have to admit that the two black families that go to your church are not threatening at all....
by n42 | 2025-07-13 22:51:01+00:00
I've been trying to beat this point in and failing. If a parameter type creates "colors", you can extrapolate that to an infinite set of colors in every single language and every single standard library, and the discussion on colors becomes meaningless.

Some people are so focused on categorical thinking that they are missing the forest for the trees.

The colors are a means of describing an observed outcome -- in Node's case, callback hell, in Rust's, 4 different standard libraries. Whatever it may be, the point is not that there are colors, it's the impact on there being colors.

> But there is a catch: with this new I/O approach it is impossible to write to a file without std.Io!

This sentence just makes me laugh, like it's some kind of "gotcha". It is the ENTIRE BASIS of the design!
by arp242 | 2025-07-13 22:51:07+00:00
The entire notion that startups must have "global reach" to be relevant seems odd to me.

There are and have been plenty of startups throughout Europe, and the typical story is that they get bought by American companies and eye-watering amounts of VC capital.

Not saying that's the only issue; it's also true that getting meaningful funding is excruciatingly difficult in much of Europe. However, at the same time US companies have this "one little trick" to get a global reach: enormous huge stacks of cash.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-13 22:52:25+00:00
There are many instances where a few people are ruining the internet for the rest of us. And for me it is mostly about security. I'd rather do without all that encryption and passwords and security updates and anti-viruses. All that to prevent a few people from messing with us.

Hateful people on social media? They are annoying, but at least, I can ignore them.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-13 22:54:34+00:00
So because it has a foreign name its not rich influencer nonsense?

> The estimated cost for a pui yuet in Hong Kong ranges from 63,800 Hong Kong dollars (US $8,100) to 268,000 Hong Kong dollars (US $34,100) for 26 to 30 nights for a live-in nanny

This is really spendy even for china.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-13 22:54:36+00:00
Well, the plan is to suffocate the books, which can hurt the beetles (since they're alive) but can't do anything to the books (since they aren't).

The only obvious advantage of irradiating them would be that it will kill eggs; if the eggs will still hatch in an oxygen-free environment, there's no advantage and plenty of downside.
by stephenlf | 2025-07-13 22:54:57+00:00
I like that “one note per issue/resolution” thing. I have an .md in our company’s main internal app’s repo which is just a bunch of tips and patterns for doing DevOps tasks. At the bottom is a section called “## Useful Shell Script,” a collection of scripts each in their own block quote. The approach work well for our small team, but it couldn’t scale. Having a personal repository with this sort of pattern would be very helpful. Thank you!
by another_twist | 2025-07-13 22:55:00+00:00
Software engineering has also been automating its own jobs for ages. The first thing we engineers do when asked to do a repetitive thing is find ways to automate it. I think the industry had qualms about losing their jobs. But honestly what are the examples of people losing their jobs to software ? Everybody says that this has happened many times yet examples are hard to come by.
by alganet | 2025-07-13 22:55:42+00:00
My imagination is very expansive, I can come up with grand scopes that movies and conspiracy theorists would never dream of.

Reality is much simpler though. Greed, I already said it. Typical human defects.

It seems that you are not comprehending who needs to come forward. Entire industries, entire parties. They simply won't, they would rather see the world burn than admit such mistakes. It has happened before.
by thomascountz | 2025-07-13 22:55:55+00:00
It's difficult for me to read past the sentiment of the author's language, which is unfortunate, because there are interesting ideas here.

At any rate, my takeaway isn't anything to do with whatever the author considers a "daily" note or not, but about how the way we structure and synthesize our thoughts, alters the things we make.

For example, if in the creative process, I create an audience for myself (i.e. by thinking of sharing my notes), that may or may not introduce productive constraints to my process. On one hand, it could force me to better articulate my thoughts. On the other, my inner critic could preclude important insights.
by 9x39 | 2025-07-13 22:57:10+00:00
Prior to ubiquitous mobile Internet and social media, we had geographic boundaries around communities. Now those lines are being rapidly blurred, and there's bleedover in regional thought into some semblance of broader online community.

But the point is that the observation that the world seems nuts and a liberal city in the West feels cosmopolitan isn't necessarily wrong - the liberal West is a global minority. Illiberal views are the global majority. What did we expect when we started merging thought globally? And most of the world isn't even 'online' yet in sense they've joined these spaces, they're marginally connected based on how you measure it, or in their own regional spaces.
by ta8645 | 2025-07-13 22:58:01+00:00
Such videos are not the only basis on which to make the argument I put forth. But you'll also find many sources of police videos that are not "released" by the police, but secured by FOIA requests. There are of course examples of videos with police planting evidence, or using excessive force, or other unfortunate things. But by and large, you'll see over and over, the police behaving admirably and in the public interest.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-13 22:58:18+00:00
> As long as food delivery is better than other ways of consuming food, like cooking, takeaways, or dining out, it will be able to keep customers in the network.

Made me laugh out loud. It's strictly the worst option. Only use it if my job wants to pay, or if very sick.

Cold food. Unpredictable delivery times. More expensive than eating out. Usually less nutritious than cooking yourself. And of course expensive as hell.
by teddyh | 2025-07-13 22:58:40+00:00
> monopolies that keep their status by being great

What I am asking is what incentive those monopolies have to continue being great. Even if Google did not use Chrome to steer people to Google Search, Google Search is an established habit for most people, and it would have to become significantly worse than any competitor in order for people to consider switching.

You pointing out that a competitor to Google can only exist because Microsoft is pumping huge amounts of money into it, is not the great argument you seem to think it is. If Microsoft does not have a good chance of making money with Bing, what chances does a startup search company have?
by robocat | 2025-07-13 22:58:50+00:00
The connotations of words changes - our worst epithets were often benign to begin with. I'm not a boomer - so my reaction to usage varies.

Context: I'm from New Zealand, and the US words are becoming more popular here due to US media and social media influence. They are words I've learnt far into adulthood (and I have no natural feel for them - I couldn't even define millennial or know which of my friends are millennials). I wonder how the words get translated to other languages like Mandarin?

The irony is that we all become old, and boomer is so often used as a synonym for old or retired.

In forty years time, zoomer might have the same meaning as boomer now has. If not, there will be a new equivalent that has the same derogatory sense as boomer now does.

In theory anybody over 25 should have experienced enough to have the insight to know they are insulting themselves. We learn.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-13 22:58:54+00:00
>None of this is a reason to not organize to better represent the interests of labor.

unions restrict the supply of labor and this results in (price increase) better wages for the union's members. However, overall the total dollar amount transferred from employers to labor goes down (employment decrease), so the "class" of all workers (employed and unemployed) see their per capita wages go down. and if that's not enough, the industry grows more slowly so the problem only gets worse for everyone in the future (trickle down) this is the underlying reason for europe's lower year over year economic growth compared to the US

is the reason. it's not a moral or ethical or even income distribution issue, it's just how markets operate.
by pxc | 2025-07-13 22:59:01+00:00
> Pyongyang was making its people miserable before there were sanctions.

Whether or not we approve of Pyongyang is completely irrelevant to every point I've made. The questions are (a) whether the sanctions have had a material negative effect on the North Korean people, and (b) what they have accomplished. The answers are "yes" and "nothing of any use", neither of which is controversial. And our fixation with North Korea and the evil we wrought there obviously doesn't begin with sanctions but with millions of tons of bombs, tens of thousands of tons of napalm on arable land, or the destruction of the People's Republic of Korea (not the DPRK), a functioning government that existed in both the North and South before the US invaded (literally reinstating colonial Japanese governors as officials).

> America isn’t at the centre of the universe—we didn’t cause every geopolitical ripple that ever was.

The US was directly involved in the division of Korea even before all that. Frankly, your entire comment has been not only extremely handwave-y but deeply dishonest.
by bjourne | 2025-07-13 22:59:40+00:00
I believe the Rust compiler does whole program analysis or, at least, something very similar in spirit. Hence, unless you completely change how the language works it can't be as fast as a simpler compiler. You can work around it by having a daemon that incrementally compiles only changed parts, but then you need to have that daemon running and it's never as smooth as one command that compiles quickly. In other words, yes, I think you are right. Slow compile times reduce adoption.