MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thisisit | 2025-07-02 20:03:27+00:00
It seems you are not up to date on Bangalore (India). The unit economy of taxis has gotten out of hand. People now prefer bike taxis. Those were banned recently and reportedly that is causing even the Auto Rickshaw costs to spiral.

> If taxis get cheaper, people will use them in even more situations, like daily commutes.

This seems straight out of the Uber pitch from its early days. "Our total addressable market is the entire auto industry because people will prefer taxis over driving themselves". And a decade later where are we? Most ridesharing apps are shrinking day by day.

The unit cost of a taxi isn't sustainable in a long term. People might want to pay for someone to drive them around but that is an expensive proposition.

Robo taxis now seem to be selling the same dream. Cut out the driver and that will make rides cheaper. But deploying taxi is going to be a huge expenditure. This might be doable with VC money upfront and even cheap just like the early days of Uber. But in the long run same thing is going to happen. Once all competition is gone robotaxis are not going to be any cheaper. It will be back to square one.
by kerblang | 2025-07-02 20:03:30+00:00
First off, I'm not sure it's even worth it to understand this stuff... Second, someone should be along to slam it soon enough and insist I've missed some gibberishy business that you'll never understand.

With those caveats in mind, here's a more intensive scala-based monad tutorial I made:

https://github.com/zaboople/techknow/blob/master/scala/monad...

But really, don't burn up too much of your short life trying to come to terms with this stuff. There's a reason most languages don't get around to supporting Monads...
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-02 20:03:57+00:00
When I did IT in manufacturing, we outsourced most of the 'understand how to actually make things' tooling type people jobs. We didn't need them full time and could get way better experts via outsourcing than we could hire.

What we needed were wage slaves paid low enough to make the economics work, even in our small town without many employers that was the tricky bit. Especially every year when health insurance premiums went up. You want to help American manufacturing, move healthcare costs off their back and to the government.
by freeone3000 | 2025-07-02 20:03:57+00:00
How is a dedicated server nonsensical? There’s a fuckton of games, ancient and modern, with them.

Shoot, how is peer-to-peer nonsensical? Elden Ring (seamless multiplayer) got it tacked on as a mod. It’s insanely doable.

I don’t accept that these are nonstarters. In the slightest.
by ericmay | 2025-07-02 20:04:10+00:00
Communism is a failed ideology and we should be on guard to extinguish it wherever we find it. We know that state ownership of the means of production leads to poor economic results at the nation state level.

With that out of the way, if we (and I personally do) want to support transit for the masses and even make sure that those who are struggling financially have a means to use transit to maintain their qualify of life and dignity, we should do so through publicly supported programs and funding instead of "yea go ahead and jump the queue" because that leads to other problems, perhaps chief of all is the perception of anti-social behavior.

You can't have public programs or support a strong community when people perceive that there is injustice taking place, and when they see someone cutting line and seeing no repercussions, you will lose broad support for public works. In other words, the bad apple spoils the bunch.
by jallmann | 2025-07-02 20:04:18+00:00
I can't say anything about the specifics of this treatment, but in terms of their ability to fully benefit from hearing, it would depend on when they became deaf, and the severity of their deafness.

If they were born deaf, or lost hearing as a young child during the language development stage, then it would probably be a long adjustment. Things would just be noise and it would take a lot of training to distinguish sounds, speech, etc. And unlike a cochlear implant, you couldn't just take it off to give your brain a rest.

If they had hearing loss later in life, or some residual hearing, then they probably have a better chance of re-adjusting to hearing.
by tome | 2025-07-02 20:04:29+00:00
This is not historically how Haskell was developed. Haskell didn't try to "avoid mutable state". Haskell tried to be (and indeed succeeded in being) referentially transparent. Now, it turns out that you can't uphold referential transparency whilst having access to mutable state in the "traditional" way, but you can access mutable state if you introduce monads as a means of structuring your computation.

So, they're certainly not a means of getting around a limitation of the language. If it was just a limitation that limitation would have been lifted a long time ago! It's a means of preserving a desirable property of the language (referential transparency) whilst also preserving access to mutable state, exceptions, I/O, and all sorts of other things one expects in a normal language.

See my comment here for a little bit more about the benefits of referential transparency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448127
by belter | 2025-07-02 20:04:30+00:00
> Just listen to how Altman, Thiel or Musk talk about it.

It’s surprising how little they seem to have thought it through. AGI is unlikely to appear in the next 25 years, but even if, as a mental exercise, you accept it might happen, it reveals it's paradox: If AGI is possible, it destroys its own value as a defensible business asset.

Like electricity, nuclear weapons, or space travel , once the blueprint exists, others will follow. And once multiple AGIs exist, each will be capable of rediscovering and accelerating every scientific and technological advancement.

AGI isn’t a moat. AGI is what kills the moat.
by zie | 2025-07-02 20:04:47+00:00
It's a double edged sword, because it shrinks the already small deaf/HoH population and we can't yet eradicate hearing like we can smallpox(completed), polio(mostly gone), etc.

It's awesome that it works for some people, just like CI's work for some people(but not all).

Until we can restore hearing(or insert favourite disability here), to everyone, it's going to be controversial inside of those communities, because it makes our already smaller world, smaller. Which causes lots of emotions as you can imagine.

That doesn't mean our world has to be smaller, even now. There are lots of things we can do to make deaf people's worlds bigger(and again, insert any other disability here). We choose not to do them because some people think they are hard, some people think they are expensive and some people think it's not needed.

Perhaps some of that is true, for some items on the massive list.

“Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.” - Helen Keller

Deafness doesn't have to separate people from people, but it does.

Until we can eradicate XXX disability completely(unlikely) we should as a society strive to make their worlds bigger, not smaller. Sadly so many people don't feel that way, for various reasons.
by kris-kay | 2025-07-02 20:04:48+00:00
The moat is real! I haven't tried recreating Liquid Glass in the browser yet. From what I've seen, it's possible, but not in a practical, cross-browser, "can be applied to an arbitrary component" kind of way.

Of course, as soon as we figure out how to get it done, Apple will move on to the next thing. I'm okay with that though. It was a bold move, and I can't imagine how much time and money Apple spent making Liquid Glass look that good.
by smaudet | 2025-07-02 20:04:51+00:00
It's more than that (not deaf either) - if suddenly there is a new therapy to grow a third eye in the back of your head, should you?

Or should a fish be able to breathe without water?

In both cases there are ways to function without fundamentally altering the body, and neither is wrong.

It is not so clear that there is "abuse", when there is an empathetic standard of living.

Now to me, the best argument for taking this is that deaf people do have ears, whether or not they function. So it is reasonable for them to experience sound, but also, they have a right not to, if they so choose.

What I think is harder, if you have experienced neither, to be able to make that decision well. And nobody is talking yet about reversing such a therapy...
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-02 20:04:55+00:00
> I can’t believe these shipped with a hardcoded OpenAI key and ADB access right out of the box.

As someone with a lot of experience in the mobile app space, and tangentially in the IoT space, I can most definitely believe this, and I am not surprised in the slightest.

Our industry may "move fast", but we also "break things" frequently and don't have nearly the engineering rigor found in other domains.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-02 20:05:10+00:00
Even presenting a given problem as "merely" two-sided is often disingenuous.

For instance, if you "just" look at abortion, trans rights, and immigration, you may assume the two parties in america present diametrically-opposed groups of people (...which is even itself quite debatable). But this is only because the two parties don't differ much (or at least, don't bother to platform enough to evaluate) on most topics politics could be about.
by schiffern | 2025-07-02 20:06:10+00:00
Wow, "long tailpipe" myth is a blast from the past...

>receive money from other brands to buy fake "carbon" credits

Also smog credits, and kids' developing lungs can assure you urban smog is very real.

This kinda proves my point. If other automakers don't want to buy smog/ carbon credits from Tesla then make zero emission vehicles. Companies that can't make the vehicles of the future cease to exist, part of "creative destruction" which is an explicit goal in such market-based pollution policies.

We decided those are the rules of the game (because pollution sucks). Can't get offended at the players just because the rules of the game did exactly what we intended.

>they receive money from the state and from their shareholders

Equally (or more) true for the other majors, so that doesn't explain how Tesla makes money on EVs and others can't.
by trinix912 | 2025-07-02 20:06:21+00:00
Adding:

- Poor typography support: can't embed fonts in files, can't tweak type enough (can't do faux italics for example)

- Subpar file/project management: can't do things like nested folders which gets overwhelming with large projects/teams

- Clunky version control: browsing long file histories is inefficient, the entire VCS UI is forced into a narrow sidebar

Also just off the top of my mind. There's also lots more if you're coming from a print design world and are thus used to Adobe Illustrator.
by wtallis | 2025-07-02 20:06:23+00:00
Consider the simple case on a desktop OS of how to arrange the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons on a dialog box. For an experienced user of the platform, it doesn't actually matter at all how legible your button labels are, you're going to cause problems if they're in the wrong place. The platform conventions when used properly allow the user to entirely skip reading those button labels.

Obviously, if Apple's committed to taking their UI in the direction of illegibility again, then deviating from their new recommendations may be worthwhile. But the UI design should start by complying with platform conventions, and only break those to the smallest extent necessary, with good reason (which doesn't usually include anything about your app's brand identity). And hopefully, Apple can speed-run the kind of changes they did over the first several years of OS X as they toned down the initial excesses of the Aqua design.
by crote | 2025-07-02 20:06:51+00:00
You do what the person with the gun says, because you believe they'll shoot if you don't. If you believe that they will shoot and kill you regardless, following their orders is (at best) going to give you a few more agonizing minutes to live. The threat becomes meaningless.

Don't try to overpower the hijackers? You die. Try to overpower the hijackers and fail? You die. Try to overpower the hijackers and succeed? You live. It only takes one person to do the math and realize they are basically in a no-loss scenario.
by cb321 | 2025-07-02 20:06:52+00:00
> look at the major standard libraries for hash tables

I don't know what would count as "major", but at least to me "major" does not imply "good". As I mentioned, this idea is ancient (the point of citing Knuth from over half a century ago - that was me, not @dwattttt) but also weakly disseminated. In said weakness, it may well be uncommon in "major" impls, but that merely recapitulates my point. Honestly, that and the resizing thing was such weird argumentation that I didn't take the time to reply.

One does usually resize on insert to keep things sparse as @dwattttt mentioned. With deletions, might want to resize after delete to keep things dense which could help if you iterate over the table much after deleting a lot of it. That is not a cost you would ever pay if you don't delete. So, ability to delete is still something insert-only workloads don't pay anything for.

Moving past the off-point qualification of "major"-ness & weird resize points, if you are actually curious about more details how this can work and want a concrete example, you could look at the Nim stdlib Table implementation: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/fbdc9a4c19aafc25937aaa5... or you could read the Knuth subsection that I referenced, but Knuth uses a rather archaic linear probing to smaller indices which probably seems unnatural to modern readers. There is nothing special added to the insert-only data/pathways to support deletes either in that Nim code or the Knuth.

Deletes done this way can benefit from saving integer hash codes (and that happens to be done in the Nim example), but so do all finds via prefix compare & resizes by avoiding hash(). So, in the space-time trade-off analysis of "is saving hash codes worth it?", delete finds & backshifts are just one more part of some workload. This is "deletes in a workload impact space-time trade-offs", though, not "ability to delete costs insert-only workloads" which seems to be the contentious point.
by maqnius | 2025-07-02 20:07:06+00:00
After CS went downhill, I created accounts at most of the alternatives around. I just leave it there, offering our living room.

I'm not living in a very touristic area, but every other month, I get a request for a night and if it fit's in my schedule, I'll accept. It's been only nice experiences so far and no one gave me the vibe of seeing it as a cheap alternative to hotels only. Most people ask on bewelcome.org by the way.

I just like that even though I stay in my bubble most of the time, I get the opportunity to spend some quality time with a stranger. Especially because those strangers are often on some kind of a mission, else they typically wouldn't come to my area.
by GeekyBear | 2025-07-02 20:07:24+00:00
> The A18 Pro is 46% faster than the M1 in single-core tasks, and almost identical to the M1 on multi-core and graphics tasks.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/07/about-that-a16-macbook-ru...

With many people saying that they don't see a need to upgrade their existing M1 Mac, a big bump in single core performance would make a viable entry level option.
by TheBozzCL | 2025-07-02 20:09:33+00:00
As a broke college student, I had a great time playing on third-party servers. The experience was janky, of course, but it was hilarious. I made some good friends there.

Then I had to stop playing because it was eating into my study time too much.

I've tried going back to MMOs a couple of times since then, but nothing seems to have the charm of a smaller community like that.
by nomel | 2025-07-02 20:09:40+00:00
> Without many large random trials

That, historically, does not work well for neurochemistry. Large random trials are good for an average biological response of profitable chemicals, but it seems there are significant differences in neurochemistry, between people, that these don't capture. If you've ever had a prescription for most anything mental related, like ADHD, depression, etc, there's never just one drug, there's a panel that you just kinda go through until one works for your personal neurochemistry, with some having detrimental side effects for some people.

Unsurprisingly, it seems to be the same with many of these nootropics. I've had several very negative reactions to common nootropics at fractional doses, where others have positive experiences at many times the dose. A few resulted in migraines every day I took it, until I stopped, with one quickly resulting in depression and the only suicidal thoughts of my life, which went aways just as fast as I stopped. One hurt my short term memory so much I couldn't repeat a phone number (a very potent racetam like).

Some nootropics are precursors, which are mostly self regulating/supplements, but there are many out there that very actively poke low level neurochemicals, and your personal response will vary, just as is expected in the regulated drug world.

Min/maxing personal neurochemistry won't come from large random trials.
by roguecoder | 2025-07-02 20:10:11+00:00
They are: https://openai.com/residency/

However, skilling people up on specialized skill sets in a reasonable time frame requires having people around to teach them. And those people need to know not just the skills, but how to teach them well. And it takes time away from those people doing the job, so that approach will slow development in the short run.

But the companies are trying.
by generalizations | 2025-07-02 20:10:44+00:00
Depends. I think that becomes a question of the quality of the programmer - if they were doing it all themselves, the code quality of the (necessarily much smaller) projects would still vary between programmers. Now that variation is magnified, but if you're very good at what you do, I suspect it is still possible to create those projects without the tech debt. Though at the lower end of that bracket, I'd agree you tend to end up with giant balls of mud.
by graynk | 2025-07-02 20:11:13+00:00
1. Not a problem because it's not being applied retroactively, but it should be included in the design from the start for new games

2. It is a problem now, but the license for those can and will change if the law mandates it. Unless addon authors don't want to make any money, that is.

3. I don't get the argument. If it works at the time of release - you're good. You're not expected to keep updating it to work on modern systems.

4. This is just point 2 repeated.

5. This is still just point 2 repeated and reverse engineering is allowed in EU, whether they like it or not.

6. Why do you need to change the way networking works?
by ortusdux | 2025-07-02 20:12:26+00:00
https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feature/gene-ther...

"The most notable obstacle faced in the gene therapy field was that of Gelsinger in 1999, who is understood to have died after his body overreacted to the adenovirus vector. Gelsinger had a rare disorder in which the liver lacks a functional copy of the ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) gene and, consequently, the body is unable to eliminate ammonia, a toxic breakdown product of protein metabolism."

"A gene therapy for children with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) was delivered [to two independent groups in London and Paris] and was incredibly successful,” explains Griesenbach. “But, [in 2008; between three and six years later], a small proportion of children [in Paris] developed leukaemia induced by the vector, which had inserted itself into a gene that controls cell division [4] .”
by phoronixrly | 2025-07-02 20:13:06+00:00
You need to add that all of this is self-reported/subjective. I've gone under doctor's supervision through L-Theanine+Caffeine, then Modafinil, and finally Ritalin, and to be brutally honest, while I subjectively feel the best when on Ritalin, I am far from certain I would be able to show it in a blind study with an objective problem-solving task.

Also a blind study with these would be hard, as Modafinil has a noticeable effect on heart rate and blood pressure, and general response to stress (at least in my case), and also causes a distinct chemical smell of one's urine.
by ericmay | 2025-07-02 20:13:21+00:00
For a local spin: https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2025/07/02/peter-thi...

Columbus has always been a national banking and insurance center and a few new banks have been launched here in addition to other fintechs. Given the local presence of folks with skills in this area it seems like a natural home for a new bank that doesn't need proximity to New York/New Jersey or Chicago. Lower cost of living, skilled workforce with banking experience, and a friendly state government.

Personally I find this to be pretty exciting, and as a Lord of the Rings fan I really like the name.
by pavon | 2025-07-02 20:13:39+00:00
> I wish there was a way to turn off the nagging too. Why can’t Firefox trust my corp IT to follow their process?

That is definitely possible. In my corporate environment, I don't get any nags or prompts to update, and when I go into settings it shows "Updates disabled by your organization".

It sounds like your IT left the update prompts enabled, perhaps specifically to let you update at your own convenience and hence avoid the problem you complain about when it forces an update while you are using it.
by wbecher | 2025-07-02 20:13:40+00:00
A major cyber heist struck Brazil today: hackers exploited a vulnerability in a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider’s infrastructure and stole over R$1 billion (~US$185 million) from the account of BMP, a BaaS firm active since 1999. The breach happened via the services provider C&M, which supports multiple financial institutions. The attackers gained access to various accounts, with BMP bearing the brunt. Central Bank technical teams have now isolated C&M’s systems and are investigating the incident. BMP’s clients reportedly won’t suffer losses, as the company holds collateral covering the stolen amount
by arandomusername | 2025-07-02 20:13:44+00:00
> “There was one case recently where Daesh [Isis] opened fire and apologised,” Mr Ya’alon said speaking at an event

and

> Mr Ya’alon is the former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces and served as Defence Minister from 2013 until his resignation in May 2016.

So how does it not? Criticizing IDF or Israeli politics is not antisemitic.
by jjwiseman | 2025-07-02 20:14:08+00:00
Because law enforcement officers have so much more power than an average citizen, they must be held to much higher standards and have even more accountability. Law enforcement radio should be unencrypted, there should be public databases of officers for facial recognition, and their vehicles and persons should be publicly trackable. The same techniques they use to surveil the citizenry should be applied to them.

https://icespy.org is a site where you can do facial recognition on ICE employees.
by thayne | 2025-07-02 20:14:16+00:00
> that's a very different scenario from people getting laid off to reduce labor costs.

Not necessarily. People could be laid off to reduce labor costs, in order to distribute more wealth to those at the top. And since the average is national, it doesn't even have to be at the same company. People could be laid off from company A, because A is unable to compete with company B that has a smaller head count, but pays their execs more.

> Unemployment is meant to track how many people are working, not income equality.

Sure, but the point is that metrics used to discuss economic health don't typically include metrics that represent wealth inequality, or the standard of living of the general population.