MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ckcheng | 2025-07-06 15:40:18+00:00
I feel the analogy actually holds up well since brands often create retailer exclusive versions of their products specifically for Costco or Walmart, etc.

Like you can buy Henckels knives anywhere, but you can only buy Henckels item 1374080 at Costco [1] - that Costco item number is printed right on the box.

I sympathize with the rent-seeking walled garden argument against Apple. But would it be ok for Apple to require iOS IAP if their cut was not 30% but was instead 25% (like Walmart’s gross margin), or was instead 14% (like Costco’s)? c.f. Apple’s App Store Small Business Program rate is 15%.

Is the percent cut that’s the problem regardless of structure, or is it the structure that’s bad?

[1] https://www.costco.com/henckels-modernist-20-piece-self-shar...
by Avamander | 2025-07-06 15:41:02+00:00
> This stupidity seems to have spread across Windows. No title bars or menus... now you can't tell what application a Window belongs to.

I disable the title bars on almost everything I use. Except some custom applications that resist such attempts. I do not give a rat's ass what is open, it's already immediately obvious. Just wasting valuable screen real-estate.
by brookst | 2025-07-06 15:41:16+00:00
That’s a very self-centered view that assumes one’s own definition of “better products” is universal.

The reality is that most people like many of the things you or I might find useless or annoying.

There are better products, but they are niche. You pay more for a non-smart TV because 1) there’s less demand, and 2) the business model is different and requires full payment up front rather than long term monetization.

But who are you or I to look at the market and declare that both sellers and buyers are wrong about what they want? I’m very suspicious of any position as paternalistic as that.
by malwrar | 2025-07-06 15:42:07+00:00
> mean/med/p99/p999/p9999/max over day, minute, second, 10ms

So basically you’re taking 18 measurements and checking if they’re <10ms? Is that your time budget to make a trading decision, or is that also counting the trip to the exchange? How frequently are these measurements taken, and how do HFT folks handle breaches of this quota?

Not in finance, but I operate a high-load, low latency service and I’ve always been curious about how y’all think about latency.
by theptip | 2025-07-06 15:42:13+00:00
It’s pretty easy to solve static content like ebooks and video games; just legislate that your license is transferrable between services and media. Then I can legally torrent a game that is unsupported.

Content subscriptions like Netflix are different because you are not paying face value for one title. The better analogy here would be the game streaming services like XBox online. It’s clear you are not doing anything like “buying a game”, it’s the whole point of the business model. As you say, it would be a lot harder to make these laws apply there (but I bet that wouldn’t stop the EU from trying).

I think any legislation on this subject would have to reckon with the second-order effects; on the margin you’d be adding pressure for publishers to move to pure subscription services, if these laws don’t apply in those cases.
by jimmydorry | 2025-07-06 15:42:22+00:00
China "won solar panels" because they subsidised the production to the point that their companies could sell panels cheaper than they cost to make, and then these companies were allowed to dump them below cost into the western markets to destroy all the local innovation. Germany and the US in particular just sat back and watched that happen.

However, market share doesn't really translate into the economics of large scale generation. The projects that are marginal (or negative) in the US and rest of the world for that matter, are costed using whatever the cheapest panels or materials available are. Whether they are local or not does not matter. You are conflating two unrelated things here (local manufacturing capability and power generation e.g. actually deploying renewables).

China meeting arbitrary targets is also beside the point. They are building a tonne of solar and wind, but they are also building more coal too. (Refer to my previous comment in how they along with many other G7 and developed nations are investing more in coal than they were in 2020).

GP made some specific claims which were demonstratably false. The points you raise here aren't particularly related to those.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-07-06 15:42:40+00:00
>What you have paid for is not a physical copy of something that is guaranteed to work forever.

untested legal ground in the EU

>All you will achieve with this initiative is that that will be clearly labeled now, instead of implied.

maybe or maybe not. creator of the infinitive has already acknowledged that its possible but still preferable to a surprise rug pull grey area.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-07-06 15:43:39+00:00
I agree with you that there is a mountain of shit in the gaming industry.

Is any other industry different? Are Instagram and Tiktok literally not brainwashing hundreds of millions of people? Do defense companies care that innocents are murdered with their weapons? Do airplane companies face any enforceable moral judgment that they encourage relatively rich people to engage in idle leisure in other countries rather than being productive with their time for society, to which they owe some level of production in exchange for the society that raised them?

The argument knows no bounds. It is a matter of taste.
by codingdave | 2025-07-06 15:43:43+00:00
This is not how to share something here... you aren't far off, but instead you should put "Show HN:" at the start of the title, and tell us your story in the post. Talk to us about how you built this and why, don't just copy/paste marketing materials into a comment. Then stick around to engage with anyone who tries it and shares feedback here.
by edent | 2025-07-06 15:44:26+00:00
Lots of people don't want to talk to strangers. It is socially unacceptable to wear a T-shirt saying "please don't talk to me" - but headphones are socially acceptable.

And yet still, plenty of women report persistent men telling them to remove their headphones so they can engage in unwanted conversation.

The alienation was already there; the headphone just made it more acceptable to signal.
by wellthisisgreat | 2025-07-06 15:44:29+00:00
> Taxis had apps before Uber arrived here, they had geolocation with ETA, contactless payment, up-front pricing, and never refused service (because they were required by law to offer service to anyone anywhere).

I lived in NYC and other metropolitan US cities for the few years before the Uber and I don’t remember a single car service that had any of that and wasn’t a lottery of if they’ll pick up the phone in time to get me somewhere
by naoru | 2025-07-06 15:44:39+00:00
Seems like it doesn't properly handle mouse events on Safari in macOS and only shows "frames with no pointer events". I assume it's because "pointerrawupdate" event is not supported there.

Also it's interesting that with ProMotion enabled it reports 16.67ms per frame (indicating 60Hz redraw rate) in Safari, but in Chrome it's 8.33.
by os2warpman | 2025-07-06 15:45:43+00:00
The good old days sucked. I have a large collection of CDs that I "own" and they're in a box in the basement because the medium is irrelevant.

For less than the price of 1 CD per month (and I used to buy WAY more than 1 CD per month) I have access to a near-infinite amount of music.

I've added 49 full or partial albums to my library since 1/1/2025 for $78. And some of that stuff has an EXACT AND PRECISE 0.00% of having ever been carried in a physical shop on physical media such as: a DJ set consisting mainly of remixes of The Hacker tracks from the late 90s, recorded by a Canadian DJ in a Frankfurt Studio in 2025.

We're eating perfectly-prepared filet every day and people are reminiscing about school cafeteria salisbury steak.
by adxl | 2025-07-06 15:46:03+00:00
I’m not a big user of Uber but I need to say that the experiences there are mostly better than your grandad’s taxi (pay up for Uber X if you want a better experience). Mostly cabs were/are badly maintained and some seem downright dangerous with shocks dead, idiot lights on, smoking tailpipes and just general crappy interiors. I once got in a NYC cab where there blood all over the back of the drivers seat, got right back out. Cabbies are quarrelsome and grumpy. One guy picked me up at my house obviously drunk. I mentioned Uber to one guy who became very aggressive. Got out at the next light. Ah the good ole days.

Now for Uber. If you pay to upgrade to Uber X it’s a great experience. One time I got in the wrong Uber (not X). They said silver Nissan at station 4 at the airport in Atlanta. Got in the car and he was obviously going somewhere else than where I requested. When he realized I was the wrong passenger the driver became extremely agitated and aggressive. My bad for not checking his plate, his bad for not checking the passenger out. He was the driver so it’s really his responsibility since I may not know these things. Also I could not leave a bad review as I did not know who this driver was. Always always check you are in the right car.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-07-06 15:46:10+00:00
> legislate the that your license

What we should be doing is applying the laws that already exist: when I purchase a physical book I own a copy of it and can sell it, lend it, modify it.

Amazon and the publishers have zero say in the matter.

Buying a digital copy should be no different. I more of this stupid “you bought a license to access a copy” crap.
by mbreese | 2025-07-06 15:46:22+00:00
I have no specialized knowledge in this, but I don’t think that cost efficiency is the primary reason for using trucks over trains. Because, if it was, rail with last mile by truck would probably win. Rail has a very low cost per mile by weight rate. But, it can be slow. Particularly when you consider that there are only a few routes across the country (across the Rockies), and trucks can go directly from point A to point B without needing to connect to a rail hub at both ends.

In someways it seems similar to why the hub and spoke model has fallen out of favor for airlines. It might be more efficient to have one large flight between hubs and two small flights to regional airports, but passengers would rather have a direct flight.
by mariusor | 2025-07-06 15:47:18+00:00
I think you are wrong.

There are large swaths of the world that are unlivable today without significant cooling. When summers with over 45 Celsius (fifties in some parts) are becoming more and more common poor people without access to air-conditioning are suffering. These areas are becoming larger and larger.

Just because us in the western temperate climates are fine, does not mean that the effects of climate change will not be felt somewhere in the world today or in the next decade.
by jpc0 | 2025-07-06 15:47:24+00:00
Something important is “consuming” critically.

You can be a passive consumer and never improve your taste or skill. However when you consume with the intent of asking how and then attempting to answer that question ( for skill ) and why ( for taste ) you get a much different experience.

Read code, looking for patterns. Look at design looking for patterns.

Then play, try to implement what you saw, implement to opposite and see how if feels, see what happens to the code.

This is a lot of work, but helps you improve.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-07-06 15:47:38+00:00
Re subscription marketing messaging, totally agree.

Re mediocre, ok that's fine.

Re the "how", then we arent really talking about anything here. Until there is a how, there is nothing to firmly agree or disagree with, so we have to talk in hypotheticals, which we are, and which is semi valuable.

Re making your own, when a company sells you a toilet and it breaks, you fix it yourself or buy a new one. When your 1999 game doesnt run on Windows 11, you fix it yourself or you buy a new one. If you require companies to fix it for you, the small ones will go bankrupt and the big ones will find a loophole.
by pyrale | 2025-07-06 15:47:45+00:00
> Think about it - what does the gaming industry look like 100 years from today?

This is something we can answer pretty easily by looking at the book industry. People do enjoy novelty. The pulp sci-fi/fantasy from the 60s-80s is long forgotten save for a few masterpieces, and there is a flow of recent books that people buy and read.
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-06 15:47:47+00:00
It doesn't say that. The actual question asked was whether people would pay extra for AI features, which isn't the same thing as asking if they want them.

If you look at the survey results, a few things jump out.

Firstly, there's a strong age skew. The people most likely to benefit from AI features in their software are those who are judged directly on their computing productivity, i.e. the young. Around half of 18-35 year olds say they would pay extra, even . It's only amongst the old that this drops to 20%.

Secondly, when asked directly if they value a range of AI-driven features, they say yes.

The skew opens up because companies like OpenAI give AI services away for free. There's just a really strong expectation established by the tech industry that software is either free or paid for by a low and very price-stable monthly subscription. This is also true in AI: you only pay for ChatGPT if you want more features and smarter models. For the majority of things that people are doing with AI right now, the free version of ChatGPT is good enough. What remains is mostly low value stuff like better autocomplete, where indeed people are probably not that interested in paying more for it.

Unfortunately Ted Gioia tries to use this stat to imply people don't want AI at all, which is not only untrue but trivially untrue; ChatGPT is the fastest growing product in history.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-06 15:47:52+00:00
> Taxis in the US are one of the most regulated services around, and they were still utterly atrocious.

This assumes that “most regulated” correlates with less atrocious. Or that the intentions behind regulations are always good. Regulations can indeed makes things less atrocious, but other regulations can just as easily make things more atrocious. I’d argue that many taxi regulations were more the latter than the former. (I.e arbitrary limit on total number of taxi vehicles, while allowing an unlimited number of non-taxi vehicles)
by jimmydorry | 2025-07-06 15:48:06+00:00
>But if something cheaper exists today, and nobody invests in the expensive thing

I think you are talking past me. The green bodies have constantly touted how we already reached the inflection point where renewables are cheaper than coal, nuclear, etc. The quiet part that isn't spoken aloud is that these renewables were only economically positive with substantial subsidies and credits. You can't have an honest conversation when the water is mudied to such an extent.
by imiric | 2025-07-06 15:49:03+00:00
Right, the primitives are definitely different. But that's my point. The Unix primitives are simple and generic, which allows the user to quickly and easily adapt a disparate set of tools into an infinite number of workflows. The user is not required to also be a programmer[1]. If they are missing a specific tool, which is very rare, then it can be written in any language and integrated into existing workflows by following the simple design conventions. This generic interface is why programs written decades ago are still useful today. They don't need to be aware of how they're going to be used. They just need to follow the established design conventions.

In contrast, if a specific Emacs package doesn't do what the user needs, they must use Elisp to change it, or write their own package. Integrating packages in a cohesive workflow also requires programming, and each integration is special because every package has its own quirks and API. This might be second nature to some Emacs gurus, but I don't want to program whenever I need to change my workflow. I'm sure that I could eventually build the perfect operating system for me this way, but I'd rather rely on an extensive ecosystem of tools written by others.

[1]: I would argue that shell scripting is not programming, for better or worse. It's often the best tool for the job for getting things done quickly, but for more sophisticated tasks a programming language is a better fit.
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-06 15:49:18+00:00
If it's only been four months, then you don't have to worry. To make deeper than surface level connections, find a group activity and show up repeatedly (this can be work or school as well). But perhaps the Japanese aren't too interested in making friends with foreigners? The part about moving I mentioned is also about moving to a place where people are more sociable, I don't know if Tokyo is it.

Permanent mental damage is rather from years spent in loneliness, or lovelessness, or poverty, or any other kind of unsustainable personal situation.
by varispeed | 2025-07-06 15:50:42+00:00
You don't have to pay cloud providers. You can rent a dedicated service from a hosting provider and go to town with it (very much limited by your bandwidth or transfer limit).

Cloud providers are used because there is a lot of vested interest - e.g. VC and investors also having shares in cloud companies, then there is fear their investment might not survive imaginary surge of traffic that will never happen in reality. Cloud sales people are masters of playing at investors insecurities.
by cdaringe | 2025-07-06 15:50:51+00:00
I’m going to assume this is a joke. However, if it’s not a joke, no. We as a community have gone to great lengths to use responsive design over the past few years. There are still styling cases for complex elements that can’t be implemented without JavaScript. This is just an additional step of the journey to allow intermediate styling for complex cases.

If anything, it should enable (minor) expansion of noscript!
by allenu | 2025-07-06 15:50:59+00:00
The early criticism was overblown, but I think there is a slow, gradual degradation of social values when ubiquitous technology allows people to disengage easily.

I remember being annoyed when a coworker had AirPods on constantly, even when conversing with other people. Obviously we could have a conversation, but it felt like they didn't value it enough to give it their full attention (I don't doubt the music was turned off, though).

In the early days when everyone was starting to get smartphones, there were lots of memes about people staring at their phones constantly and maybe walking into traffic or bumping into people. Constant smartphone use has been normalized now (for better or worse). In the early days, people felt bad when they pulled out their phone to look something up during a conversation, but that behavior is no longer looked down on. It doesn't feel rude if somebody breaks out their phone mid-conversation and starts scrolling for a little bit.
by brandall10 | 2025-07-06 15:50:59+00:00
Stop giving a shit is similar advice to "be yourself". It's confusing enough advice on a date, and it's esp. not helpful here.

Networking is a skill beyond simple vibing and should be treated as such. For those with social anxiety, having a script/plan at least allows one to be on autopilot so they don't have to in fact give a shit.

Also introverts definitely tend to not like networking or any group activity w/ a bunch of strangers (edit: I mean tend to like the 'idea' of them, but once there, can enjoy them). I think you meant that they can do it without fear.
by throw10920 | 2025-07-06 15:51:08+00:00
> It’s kind of implied by your argument.

No, it's absolutely not. You're reading your own thoughts into it. Nowhere is the implication that we should do nothing.

> All these concerns apply to every piece of legislation that gets concocted. What makes this topic especially effected by one’s distrust in the government’s ability?

Because the authors are asking for public support for an initiative, and it now has a lot of public attention, with some specific people (mostly PirateSoftware) that are also publicly opposing it, and likely many more lurkers that don't want to sign it because of their concerns.

It's also the case that the more technical the topic, the more that legislators tend to screw it up, likely because of technical incompetence.

I'm elaborating the concerns so that they can get addressed. If you want more signatures, then you'd want to know what peoples' hangups are so that you can fix them.
by andrewflnr | 2025-07-06 15:51:13+00:00
> Another good sign of a difficult policy to implement successfully/an idea that isn't ready for primetime. If everyone has different ideas of what the thing is, it's very hard to make good decisions, and easy for the "wrong" UBI to sneak in.

This is not a reasonable bar for a policy being "ready for primetime". Some version of this is true for practically all policy proposals. The details will always matter, it will always be possible to get details wrong in critical ways, and people will (likely) always disagree on what those are.

It's very funny that you snub UBI in favor of "wealth distribution mechanisms". What do you think UBI is?
by YesBox | 2025-07-06 15:51:50+00:00
Nice read. Makes me excited to build a video game company/be surrounded by creatively driven people.

I've been developing a city builder game "Metropolis 1998" [1] for over 3 years. My life has been constantly pulled in two or more different directions (e.g. creativity/artistic expression vs. logic/software). Most of the time the environments that allow these forces to thrive are incompatible with each other.

Since working on my game, I've been in a happy place where I get to go full throttle on both of those. I've created my own engine and I am designing the game, directing the art, handling sound design, marketing, UI, UX, environment design, etc, etc.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287430/Metropolis_1998/

My Steam page is perpetually far behind the current state of development: https://x.com/YesboxStudios
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-07-06 15:53:50+00:00
How do they handle piracy, unless they don't? In which case, very good for them that they have such a great group of supporters. I am not sure if we should require every company to behave in such a way, and simply let consumers reward such companies with their money? This is just a fundamental economic model argument that I apply to any industry, except maybe baby formula or something.
by willi59549879 | 2025-07-06 15:54:07+00:00
It seems you didn't read the initiative text. The initiative does not force game Devs to release the code or make specific technical demands.

Game Devs only have to make a plan for when the game gets shut down to still allow the users to be able to play the game. How that is archived can be decided by the developers. Of course the law could be different in the future.

But most people do agree that it is bad to intentionally break games that people payed money for. All they are basically are asking for, is that games are built in a way that they can be enjoyed as long as possible (maybe supported by the community). Is that not also in the intention of the game developers?
by gambiting | 2025-07-06 15:54:22+00:00
On the other hand I'd love to try weed but I'm terrified of both the potential legal consequences where I live as well as just interacting with drug dealers is not something I need in my life. The potential payoff doesn't seem worth the risk. But I can promise you that the day is becomes legal where I live I'm going to buy some to finally give try it.