MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anothernewdude | 2025-07-04 21:02:55+00:00
Other currencies get their value because the governments that provide them make people pay taxes. If you want to pay the tax the US government charges you, you're going to need some USD - so there's guaranteed demand, and hence intrinsic worth.

There's also other debt that the US government provides in USD - which provides value as well, in the form of bonds.

BTC has no such driver of wealth. Except perhaps money laundering/transfers without AML provisions.
by algo_lover | 2025-07-04 21:03:34+00:00
Why do all such articles never talk about the meat of the solution? Why do I always feel like I'm being sold something.

Why is it so hard to explain the solution briefly, or directly present it to me upfront. Why does it need so much of mystery around it?

In this article the OP does not even mention "Pain reprocessing theory" which is what they seems to be talking about (based on the study they have linked)
by sebkur | 2025-07-04 21:04:53+00:00
hmm, I agree, this is pretty hard-coded. It should work for a default installation of git-bash, but of course, the user could have chosen a different location at install time.

I'm not even sure how popular git bash is on Windows, I vaguely remember cygwin might be something many user that care to use a terminal might have installed?
by nwienert | 2025-07-04 21:06:46+00:00
People value a way to store money securely in a place that can’t be physically robbed, that can be sent internationally with low fees quickly.

You don’t need anything else.

For years the haters on here would screech “but it’s volatile” - not really anymore. I wonder what they’ll decide to hate it for now, rather than changing priors.
by jamesblonde | 2025-07-04 21:07:50+00:00
There are 10k+ air sensors that publish their pm2.5 measurements every 10 mins to https://aqicn.org/

In my forthcoming O'Reilly book, the first project is to build a ML model to predict air quality at the location of one of those sensors:

Book:

https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/building-machine-l...

Code:

https://github.com/featurestorebook/mlfs-book/
by rittik | 2025-07-04 21:11:01+00:00
I started learning Rust just last week. I went through the basic syntax, watched a few youtube videos, read some blog posts and then decided to build something real even if I didn’t understand everything yet.

I ended up making a CLI tool to generate seed phrases for bitcoin wallets. This helped me learn concepts way faster. I did use Claude a lot for help but that’s part of how I learn right now.

That said I’m planning to rely less and less on LLMs as I get more comfortable with the language and I think if you’re already familiar with another language this approach might work well for you too.
by monster_truck | 2025-07-04 21:11:08+00:00
These are cute, I'd really like to see the "serious" version.

Something like a Ryzen 7745, 128gb ecc ddr5-5200, no less than two 10gbe ports (though unrealistic given the size, if they were sfp+ that'd be incredible), drives split across two different nvme raid controllers. I don't care how expensive or loud it is or how much power it uses, I just want a coffee-cup sized cube that can handle the kind of shit you'd typically bring a rack along for. It's 2025.
by logicchains | 2025-07-04 21:11:23+00:00
>Other currencies get their value because the governments that provide them make people pay taxes

That's demonstrably false, because countries like Zimbabwe and Venezuela experienced hyperinflation (the complete devaluation of a currency) in spite of the fact that their governments were still forcing people to pay taxes with those currencies. So clearly that alone is not enough to provide intrinsic worth to a currency.
by Whoppertime | 2025-07-04 21:12:19+00:00
This would be more convincing if you told us how many judges are currently working, how many cases they handle in a year, and how hiring that many judges would be able to allow quicker turn around, as is, it could be not resolving the issue he described, and result in them waiting around for 20 years for a trial instead of 30 years.
by cardanome | 2025-07-04 21:12:51+00:00
> I don't see why the state should regulate how someone without kids spends their free time if that person wants to work.

So single people that can work 60 hours a day would get all the careers options while the person raising children is left in the dust? Does not sound fair.

> Some people are just naturally inclined to be active, whether it's some combination of work, family, volunteering, and sports activities while others are not.

That sounds like a healthy mix of activities. On the other hand working 60 hours a week is not.

> The state shouldn't restrict people from choosing how to spend their time,

It does not. You can create your own business and work yourself to death if you wish to. Again, the protection is for those that are employed by others.

Or in other words: You are allowed to hurt your own health as an entrepreneur but you are not allowed to employ people in such a way that it excessively hurts their health, even if they "consent" to it. Thing is, they can't consent because there is a power imbalance. Even if you make laws that people working less hours should not be discriminated, you can't really stop it.

Not to mention someone who is a workaholic needs psychological help not the "freedom" to work more.

> but instead should strive to create a society where people aren't forced to spend too much of their time working to meet their basic needs, with the ultimate goal of gradually reducing the time needed to do so over time.

We already could already be working significantly less. I always like to link https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

That is just not how capitalism works. Yes, you can fight for wage increases. You can fight for limits of working hours. But those gains will have to be paid in blood.

You idea would only work under socialism which had the Subbotnik which was volunteer unpaid labor on the weekends for the betterment of society.
by leakycap | 2025-07-04 21:13:07+00:00
We clearly disagree, in that case - have you used LLMs?

The person I was replying to linked to a Wiki article on "statistical significance" which is not the word being used or discussed in this convo; did you note that before you replied?

You expect an AI to follow context, but the context switched here and none of the humans are seemingly pointing it out. I'd expect LESS of an LLM, not more.
by TooSmugToFail | 2025-07-04 21:13:59+00:00
This reminded me reading (ages ago) about Altera’s HardCopy [1]: a “process that takes a working FPGA design implemented in one of Altera’s high-end FPGAs (such as Stratix II) and gives you a functionally- and footprint-equivalent ASIC at a fraction of the unit cost.”

Did a bit of Googling and realised it seems to be still alive in the form of Intel’s eASIC! [2].

[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/20081125_hardcopy/

[2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/eas...
by perching_aix | 2025-07-04 21:14:10+00:00
I think we're on the same page, it's just that I feel otherwise about this part:

> and hopefully it's still clear and easy to understand

The idea of leaving it up to fate whether it's clear and easy to understand what I write, and that the sentence structure and grammar mistakes aren't inhibiting or misleading understanding, terrifies me.

Now of course, it's not a terror a hearty serving of pressure, laziness, and overconfidence doesn't compensate for, so I usually just march on ahead and type what I have to type out nevertheless. But I do yearn for better.

Maybe the real deciding factor though is that I'm ashamed and insecure of my writing style rather than proud or appreciative of it, and that's why I'd rather cast it away, substituting it, than keep it. Hard to tell.
by ajb | 2025-07-04 21:14:10+00:00
Ehh. I don't think Kent is an arsehole. The problem with terms like "arsehole" that is that they conflate a bunch of different issues. It doesn't really have much explanatory power. Someone who is difficult to work with can be that way for loads of different reasons: Ego, tunnel vision, stress, neuro divergence (of various kinds), commercial pressures , greed, etc etc.

There is always a point where you have to say "no I can't work with this person any more", but while you are still trying to it's worth trying to figure out why someone is behaving as they do.
by jjtheblunt | 2025-07-04 21:14:21+00:00
> Asbestos was everywhere too.

if you have data supporting that, please share it; it would be interesting (morbidly).

i think that's inaccurate because, while Romans knew of it (Pliny wrote of slaves getting breathing disease who worked with it), mining of it, largely for military uses didn't go crazy until the world wars, and surpluses from mining post wars was insidiously repurposed into the commercial sector particularly in california and in random other regions.
by seanwilson | 2025-07-04 21:14:53+00:00
> Almost all candidates nowadays seem to have some form of external help or LLM-based assistance setup during remote interviews.

I haven't experienced this, but isn't it super obvious when someone is using some kind of text/audio interface, waiting for a reply, regurgitating an answer they don't understand, and not talking in a conversational way?

Doesn't this fall apart if you ask for quick clarifications about what they're saying because they won't be able to get the answer fast enough to reply naturally?
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-04 21:15:08+00:00
The quote says that as tobacco use has fallen, lung cancer that is not caused by tobacco use has become a larger proportion of all lung cancers, tobacco-related or not, than it used to be. That's what the word "proportionally" means.

This is the only possiblity that exists, so it's disturbing that the PR guy characterizes it as "a troubling trend". Not only is it not a troubling trend, it was an outcome we did a lot of work to bring about.

If you have an urn with some white balls in it and some black balls, and you take out some black balls, and then you put in some white balls, is the set of balls in the urn proportionally more or less white than before?

Would it bother you if someone called it "troubling" that that sequence of operations made the urn's contents more proportionally white?
by h2zizzle | 2025-07-04 21:15:26+00:00
You have to make the world big and uncharted enough that it can't be picked over quickly. I have some hope that Light No Fire might pull it off.

Probably an uncommon experience, but I felt something similar playing Final Fantasy XV. The semi-realistic scale and emptiness of the world map that people complained about actually contributed to the consistent feeling of being out in the wilderness, stumbling on dungeons and whanot. Most open-world games feel like theme parks, Eos felt like a national park. I'm told RDR2 and Death Stranding carry similar vibes.

I'd like devs to get a bit more bold about real-world scaling environments. Let a long-ass walk between towns be a long-ass walk between towns. And no mini-maps.
by andy99 | 2025-07-04 21:17:04+00:00
Yeah bitcoin is (at best[0]) a kind of consensual hallucination, worth something because people believe it is. Fiat is someone with a Navy telling you it's worth money, it's very different.

[0] in practice there's a difference between the idea of a distributed digital currency and the ponzi schemes they give rise to I'm real life. Bitcoin is some greater fool thing, it's not a medium of exchange.
by aydyn | 2025-07-04 21:19:06+00:00
> Did you notice how you went from “solution” to “outcome” and then back to “solution”?

Thats perhaps a bad habit of mine, finding synonyms as I dont like to repeat the same word in the next sentence.

> Indeed, they asked for “a good faith solution to the problem other than just letting them all stay here forever” and I explicitly said I did not have this. I also see them and you saying “someone” should come up with a solution and, failing to find one yourselves, say deportation without any court hearing is acceptable.

So on the other side "just letting them all stay here forever" is also an unacceptable solution.

So what then? There's no acceptable solution we are just screwed?
by bgwalter | 2025-07-04 21:20:22+00:00
bcachefs is experimental and Kent writes in the LWN comments that nothing would get done if he didn't develop it this way. Filesystems are a massive undertaking and you can have all the rules you want. It doesn't help if nothing gets developed.

It would be interesting how strict the rules are in the Linux kernel for other people. Other projects have nepotistic structures where some developers can do what they want but others cannot.

Anyway, if Linus had developed the kernel with this kind of strictness from the beginning, maybe it wouldn't have taken off. I don't see why experimental features should follow the rules for stable features.
by leakycap | 2025-07-04 21:20:24+00:00
> If you disagree with the assertion that people generally have an easier time understanding language (correctly or not) than producing it, that's one thing and that's fine.

I disagree with the assertion that a person should rely on an LLM as part of their ability to publish in a language they don't understand well enough themselves to complete without involving a word machine.

> Digging into each others' backgrounds is not this.

I spoke from experience and it was then skewered by someone cosplaying the duolingo owl on the internet. You can take it up with them if you have an issue.

> And all this is completely ignoring how even the native language output one produces can be just straight up wrong sometimes, and not faithful to intentions.

How does the inability you point out of even a native speaker to clearly and effectively communicate sometimes not simply make it more obvious that a person less familiar with the language should involve a person who is?
by 9x39 | 2025-07-04 21:20:27+00:00
>What in the WORLD is preventing these systems from getting at least 10gbps interfaces?

Price and price. Like another commenter said, there is at least one 10Gbe mini NAS out there, but it's several times more expensive.

What's the use case for the 10GbE? Is ~200MB/sec not enough?

I think the segment for these units is low price, small size, shared connectivity. The kind of thing you tuck away in your house invisibly and silently, or throw in a bag to travel with if you have a few laptops that need shared storage. People with high performance needs probably already have fast nvme local storage is probably the thinking.
by amazzocchi13 | 2025-07-04 21:21:35+00:00
Play Health | Founding Designer/Design Engineer | Boulder, CO or Remote (US Only)

Play Health is redefining care for women in perimenopause through a precision platform that combines at-home hormone testing, real-time symptom tracking, and AI-powered insights. Our system translates complex biological and behavioral data into clear, personalized guidance - helping women understand what’s happening in their bodies and what actually works to feel better. As our user base grows, so does a uniquely structured, longitudinal dataset, creating a flywheel that powers better interventions today and unlocks discovery opportunities for women’s midlife health and longevity tomorrow.

We’re previously funded, experienced founders with deep expertise in biotech, clinical data, systems-level biology, and engineering - now looking for a founding designer: a world-class product designer or design engineer ready to own the entire product experience and help shape the future of women’s health.

Full Role Here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vn0tZ0_FV1a-H-DZyec5RodR...

Interested? Contact us at andrea@pressplay.health and ian@pressplay.health
by xg15 | 2025-07-04 21:22:44+00:00
All the usual rebuttals in this thread, but I don't see anyone engaging with his assertion that we're forgetting and reinventing things.

If it really a were just division of labor, beneficial abstraction, shoulders of giants, etc, shouldn't we be able to distinguish genuinely new concepts from things we already had 40 years ago in a different context?
by ezekg | 2025-07-04 21:22:51+00:00
The biggest lever in SaaS is, really, just staying alive, especially when cash-constrained e.g. when bootstrapping. Time in market fixes a lot -- your product gets better, your messaging improves, your market starts trusting you more, and word of mouth grows i.e. distribution improves. Revenue growth doesn’t need to be explosive as long as it's net-positive i.e. focus on profitability.
by kixiQu | 2025-07-04 21:24:16+00:00
I know many people come to the comments before they decide if they want to read the article. For these people I would like to point out that

- there are zero digs of any kind about sexuality in this piece

- the only reference in the text I can possibly find that someone might have considered a "micro-dig at people who are white" is

> This is the driving force behind clickbait, behind thumbnails of white guys making 8O faces, behind red arrows, behind video essayists who just read Wikipedia at you three times a week like clockwork, [...]

To me this feels more like it's identifying a specific thing than a "micro-dig", but opinions may differ.
by leakycap | 2025-07-04 21:24:46+00:00
> I do have colleagues with bad language skills, and the misunderstandings and petty catfights they get themselves into over poorly worded sentences, missing linguistic cues, and misinterpretations, is utterly bonkers.

Is this a widespread systemic issue within the organization, or do you work somewhere large enough that it is easy to find examples like this due to the number of people involved?

If it is the former, I would not want to work somewhere that people get into petty catfights over editing and have no abiity to write a sentence or understand linguistic cues. I don't remember working anywhere I would describe in the way you do in your second paragraph.

> And no, they don't notice if transformative details get added in or left out.

I guess I don't have to tell you not to select them as the people to review your work output?

Again, all the examples I'm reading make me think it would be beneficial for folks to include competent team members or external support for projects that will be published in a language you don't speak natively.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-07-04 21:24:52+00:00
> It blows my mind that overemployed people have become folk heroes. They're obviously not putting full effort into two jobs.

What about people that put full effort and then some into jobs with long hours and loads of stress just to get hit with a PIP or get caught in the latest round of layoffs?

If that's how companies treat people, what's so wrong with 'overemployed' people having a fallback, especially in today's market?
by kristopolous | 2025-07-04 21:24:53+00:00
I'm not understanding this. so https://www.amazon.com/s?k=n150 versus https://www.amazon.com/s?k=raspberry+pi+5 ... what's the claim here?

Is it that the pi is slow?

I'm not trying to disagree, I just don't see the savings everyone in this thread is claiming.
by gladiatr72 | 2025-07-04 21:25:40+00:00
What's really f'd up is when you double-down. When I was writing a lot of Saltstack modules, I'd import internal modules by first checking if it was already registered with the interpreter. If so, setting a reference in the local namespace. If it wasn't already referenced, it would be imported the typical way.

In my defense, this was to get at non-trivial functionality that was buried in a core or 1st tier module. It wasn't good python, but I like to look at it as an example of good problem solving.
by ndiddy | 2025-07-04 21:25:45+00:00
Another thing is that unless you have a very specific need for SSDs (such as heavily random access focused workloads, very tight space constraints, or working in a bumpy environment), mechanical hard drives are still way more cost effective for storing lots of data than NVMe. You can get a manufacturer refurbished 12TB hard drive with a multi-year warranty for ~$120, while even an 8TB NVMe drive goes for at least $500. Of course for general-purpose internal drives, NVMe is a far better experience than a mechanical HDD, but my NAS with 6 hard drives in RAIDz2 still gets bottlenecked by my 2.5GBit LAN, not the speeds of the drives.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-07-04 21:26:10+00:00
You’re missing the point by bike shedding on “100x”

It’s probably higher tbh because there’s things I prototyped to test an assumption on, realized it was O(N^2) then dumped it and tried 4 more architecture simulations to get to one that was implementable with existing tool chains I know

So you’re doing exactly what i called out which is evaluating it as a magic oracle instead of what I said which is that it makes me personally something like 100x more productive as a support tool, which often means quickly ruling out bad ideas

Preventing a problem in architecture is worth way more than 100x
by ghushn3 | 2025-07-04 21:26:15+00:00
America is also killing a lot of people. Whether it's through deportations to inhumane prisons, cutting medical and food support, incarceration, or support for nations engaged in murder of civilians.

to say nothing of the cuts to environmental sciences and protections.

I guess I find it pretty difficult to care about the search for alien life when a federal domestic police force just got more funding that nearly every single world military. Heck, more funding than branches of our own military. To chase down something that's not even a misdemeanor.
by charcircuit | 2025-07-04 21:28:26+00:00
>it's not safe to use ZFS-on-Linux anyway, since Oracle could sue you for it.

It's not against the license to use them together.

>If a temporary "support period" is what you want, then just use the LTS kernels. That's already exactly what they give you.

Only the Android one does. The regular LTS one has no such guarantee.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-04 21:28:36+00:00
I guess it depends on perspective, or maybe circles you frequent. I for one am tired of sigmoids, I truly perceive them to be a tired cliche. Hell, most people haven't even grasped exponential growth to this day, and here we are, pointing at the ending and implying they can skip the beginning.

Litmus test: when you hear soundbites like "in the last N years alone, the world used more energy/emitted more CO2 / did more whatever than it did in all recorded history", are you shocked? Surprised? If so, you failed to understand what exponential growth means. I mean, I assume you do understand this, but most people don't.

> implying that it is "asked and answered", that it has been raised, addressed, and disposed of, is the worst kind of argument on 2025 HN

If it were, I wouldn't have written my comment in the first place. I see the HN commentariat, on average, to be still enamored with sigmoids, treating the s-curve nature of growth in real world as some profound insight that invalidates the entire concept of exponential growth.

> Saying "we're in the the pre-inflection part of a sigmoid" is not the same as manipulating everything from stock markets to wars premised on log-scale-and-ruler math.

For one, it worked (and still does), so there's that. But secondly, this is not just about capitalism and wars. It's everywhere. COVID-19 was actually a nice demonstration. Yes, infections ultimately followed a sigmoid, as they were expected to, but the first part of the sigmoid is exponential, it was also the part that mattered at the beginning, and which most people across all social and economical strata failed to grasp.

Also thanks for the Naggum quote. I do consider myself a moral being and I am proud to be firmly in the S-expression camp.