MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lmm | 2025-07-10 01:55:18+00:00
> I'm surprised to hear you say selling would be that hard, though. It'd be interesting to see a comparison. And there's also both B2C and B2B.

I'm getting out of my depth, so this is more vibes than concrete knowledge, but: Selling goods isn't that hard in the EU, but you do have to be set up to collect VAT at a different rate depending on where the customer is from, which is a barrier, whereas I think in the US you can just tell the customer that they've got an obligation to pay sales tax in their state? (I remember Amazon battling about this at one point, but I think the states backed down). Selling services cross-border is a nightmare, there's still not really any standardisation of what licenses etc. you need.

Plus of course even if there were no legal issues there's often a language barrier.
by qball | 2025-07-10 01:55:33+00:00
>and will be solved by innovations riiight aroung the corner

Yes, this is what the solar/wind people keep claiming about energy storage.

>the West is unable to build them fast enough

No, the West is unwilling to build them fast enough. Then it chickens out, and the institutional knowledge to build the next plants are lost (so you lose the volume discount).

Regaining and retaining the institutional knowledge to build things may be more expensive in the short term, but it should be done- the fact that a country is capable of building power infrastructure on a whim is vital for its national defense.

This is the hidden cost of buying Chinese solar panels (because once you can't buy from China, or once China is unwilling to sell to you, you'll be paying for your own nuclear infrastructure regardless). And no, other countries' solar panels are not cheaper than nuclear; 'not knowing how to do it ourselves' cuts both ways.
by leakycap | 2025-07-10 01:55:59+00:00
I think the biggest risk to Google is that searching by voice through speakers, smart devices like watches, etc. becoming more used breaks the habit of "just Google it"

That said, paid Google Gemini with "Deep Research" enabled on the prompt is the only AI that has replaced search for me. But even then, I often think of a few topics I briefly search after seeing what Gemini finds.

AI search is much slower than regular search, but provides much more useful data in return.
by al_borland | 2025-07-10 01:56:01+00:00
This would be true, but we now have a globally market. So all it takes is one country to reject this and use AI, while putting in the same (or more) work, and they will win.

You can view this as a negative, but it’s also an argument against layoffs. If AI makes a person 20% more productive, laying off 20% of the workforce is short sighted. If everyone is increasing productivity by 20%, they will need their full workforce to do that. Laying off 20%, or cutting back 20% of the hours, will leave the company at their old output.

Of course, in reality the saving probably won’t be 20%, at least not in the short-term. We could also probably cut 20% of our work week and maintain similar productivity by simply avoiding interruptions, pointless meetings, and other such nonsense. But that’s a harder culture change than saying, “go use AI.”
by dmpayton | 2025-07-10 01:56:28+00:00
I'm so excited to find this out! I was a regular attendee of PyCon and DjangoCon for close to a decade, but haven't been to one since the pre-pandemic. times I now work at a nonprofit without much of a budget for extras and had basically written off attending for the foreseeable future -- but with PyCon only a four-hour drive away from Fresno, I might be able to pull this off on my own!
by edenthomaz | 2025-07-10 01:57:24+00:00
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by leakycap | 2025-07-10 01:58:38+00:00
Weird. The link simply contains the following unstyled text in a Google Doc.

Maybe don't click it while logged in to your Google profile if you don't want your profile along the top.

> When we're born, we enter the world with certain shaped holes. There's a friend-shaped hole, a romantic interest-shaped hole, perhaps a religion-shaped hole, a tribe-shaped hole, and many others. These holes represent fundamental human needs–spaces waiting to be filled by meaningful connections or beliefs. As we grow older, society often fills these holes naturally, sometimes without us even noticing.

[text continues a long time on the same topic]
by arp242 | 2025-07-10 02:00:36+00:00
Does ChatGPT start ranting about Jews and "White Genocide" unprompted? How can I even quantify that it doesn't do that?

This is a classic "anything that can't be empirically measured is invalid and can be dismissed" mistake. It would be nice if we could easily empirically measure everything, but that's not how the world works.

The ChatGPT article is of a rather different nature where ChatGPT went off the rails after a long conversation with a troubled person. That's not good, but just no the same as "start spewing racism on unrelated questions".
by teruakohatu | 2025-07-10 02:01:31+00:00
I had that opinion too.

You can ask an agent to browse a web page and click a button etc. They will work out how to use a browser automation library.

But it’s not worth the cost, time spent waiting or the inconsistency between implementations.

MCP just offloads that overload, much like how they can use bash tools when they are quite capable of writing an implementation of grep etc.
by Sikul | 2025-07-10 02:01:54+00:00
I haven't seen anyone mention video games/entertainment companies. LA is quite good if you're into those industries. I never really looked, but my gut says it has the highest concentration of video game companies.

As far as the vibe goes, it's nothing like the bay when it comes to tech. LA is way more laid back and people are much less focused on tech. In the bay I constantly overheard people talking about tech or overheard people talking about VC/startups. Rarely ever in LA. The bay is really intense in that way.

I lived in Seattle too. As far as tech scene/startups obsession goes, it was Bay > Seattle >> LA.

With that said, there's a decent community. It's easy to find meetups, etc.
by macintux | 2025-07-10 02:03:08+00:00
One of the teachers at my high school (40 years ago) somehow got permission to offer an entire class revolving around Connections. Several of my friends were taking it, so I decided to as well, and I had to drop band to make it fit.

Both band directors showed up at one of my classes the first day of school, dragged me to an empty room, and browbeat me into returning to band. It was the right choice for my social life, but I did hear great things about that class.
by 120-dev | 2025-07-10 02:03:33+00:00
Appreciate your honesty—totally fair that 120 HN may not be useful for you. My goal was to build a native HN experience with solid performance and a clean UI. The AI features are optional, and while not for everyone, they can be helpful to others who choose to use them.

For now, 120 HN is free and likely will stay that way unless there's enough interest to justify adding more features and ongoing work. It's a side project while I continue building other native apps at 120 Studio.

If you do decide to give it a try, I’d be happy to hear your thoughts—critical or not.
by michael1999 | 2025-07-10 02:04:37+00:00
The problem with running stop signs and red lights is that all the real risk falls on other people. Your likely fine for making a no-look right on red over a kid in a crosswalk is maybe $500. And there isn't really a tort for killing children outside the USA.

As I said - I'd be happy to delegate more to the judgement of drivers, as long as we measure an eye for an eye, and a life for a life.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-10 02:05:27+00:00
Incorrect, strictly speaking I'm spending $20 on the option to visit the gym for a month, just like how you might sound $20 for the option of using Netflix for a month.

Options provide value to the purchaser even when they are not exercised. It is a common but grave error to model options the same way one would model a simpler pay-per-usage style service for that reason. We might as well start telling people they can't buy monthly bus passes if they don't use them every day.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-10 02:05:34+00:00
How long ago was this? There hasn't been a "more recent version of Office" for quite some time, so I suspect that this happened a while ago. Things have changed a lot, let me count the ways...

The rise of smartphones has eliminated an entire class of computer users. People who just want to do some Google searches, chat on Facebook, etc. can just use phones, and they do. (Caveat: I think a lot of people in the 30-50 age group still prefer a PC, because that's what they're used to, but that cohort is a one-off and is slowly diminishing. Furthermore, I've observed that as people near retirement, they are less interested in sitting in front of a computer screen, which will diminish this cohort relatively soon).

So who still uses a computer? I think it's just PC gamers, highschool/college students, and white-collar professionals.

PC gamers are very satisfied with the state of Linux, because games are relatively simple applications, and the Linux ecosystem has been able to provide a great compatibility environment for Windows games.

Students and professionals are less likely to be satisfied with Linux, and it's not really Linux's fault, but a lot of software just doesn't work on Linux. And even if it did, small issues like case-sensitive filesystems could easily provide enough friction to prevent these users from switching. Lastly, these users are willing to spend a modest amount of money to save them time, and a Windows PC with the cost of the OS bundled isn't exactly expensive. Windows 10 was released over 10 years ago, and these users are likely to buy a new PC within that time, meaning they'll always get the latest Windows version, so upgrading their OS isn't really something they think about.

Keep in mind, I'm not saying any of this is good or correct or moral or non-cringe, I'm just saying that this is the real reason why Linux adoption is a more complex issue these days.
by leakycap | 2025-07-10 02:05:45+00:00
I used to have about 1/3 of my projects on RHEL - today, it is one that just isn't worth the time to re-setup. When it breaks or needs something, I'll get it off RHEL, too.

I think this response to expand free access comes way too late after they yanked the community's chain repeatedly over the last few years.

I wonder if they considered what it would be like to have no goodwill and have to succeed in the market based solely on features and service.
by numpad0 | 2025-07-10 02:06:47+00:00
There are no "pro child porn sub" on Reddit anymore. Nowadays the threshold of is at screenshots and artworks of Asian games - you could get banned for posting top 10 contents on App Store. There are barely patches of green parts on the frog, and it is no longer beating.

There are also hardly concept of subreddits. Subreddits seemed to have completely homogenized. It's more of hashtags now, with so many obviously in-organic posts likely written by minimally trained call center type personnel, obviously quoting prefabricated scripts, everywhere. There are typos, "I'm on phone" remarks, bad punctuation, or honest misunderstandings are few and far between.

What I don't understand about it, though, is why. Reddit is supposed to be a social media with massive MAUs. Why can't they just let it run itself.
by bradlys | 2025-07-10 02:07:33+00:00
Where do you live? If you’re in SV or NYC, extremely easy to meet these rich families.

If you’re meeting someone who has a Masters or PhD from a US university and came from another country - often their family is well off. Certainly better off than a typical middle class family in the US that can’t pay for college for their own kids and aren’t even paying international rates.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-10 02:08:04+00:00
Those tunnels are, like other Musk projects, using plenty of public money.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-29/las-vegas...

> Last week, the Boring Company won a $48.6 million bid to design and build a “people mover” beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center. The payout represents the first actual contract for Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tunneling venture. And Las Vegas, a tourist city that wants to be seen as a technology hub, will get a new mobility attraction with the imprimatur of America’s leading disruptor.

> “Las Vegas is known for disruption and for reinventing itself,” Tina Quigley, the chief executive officer of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, said when the partnership between the Boring Company and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) was announced in March. “So it’s very appropriate that this new technology is introduced and being tested here.”

https://assets.simpleviewcms.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1/...
by amy214 | 2025-07-10 02:09:42+00:00
>It was heavily inspired by ActionScript 3 which was the basis for the EcmaScript 4 proposal abandoned around 2008 iirc.

What's interesting is

- surely it's inspired by actionscript (Flash) because it has a flash-compiler-predesscors, MTASC (Motion-Twin Actionscript Compiler), which was slightly faster than native flash! (slightly more optimized code)

- you may recognize that name, Motion Twin... this guy was their compiler guy, but this was a Flash games company.. still around today, some of you may have played their multi-platform game, "Dead Cells"
by OccamsMirror | 2025-07-10 02:10:43+00:00
That's a big call! I don't know if I'd be brave enough to promise making devs 50% more productive. Definitely a good consultancy sell but I wonder about what the delivery would actually be.

I have a pet theory that the standard practices in software development actually reduce productivity, at least in the short term. From my experience, the sure fire way to get teams to be more productive is to first hire great people, then to empower them and make sure their morale is high.

Not sure how I could do that on a consultant basis. I can imagine how I'd bring tighter project management in, and make sure people are doing what they're best at. But actual long lasting productivity of a team I don't really directly manage?

Someone who can do that is a wizard.
by hugs | 2025-07-10 02:10:45+00:00
(fwiw, I'm not the creator of this, but am a casual user of Nostr...)

tl;dr: the answer you're looking for is probably in the explainer doc [1].

At its core, Nostr is simple: it's "just" JSON over WebSockets. But there are dozens of optional proposals to add additional functionality. And a few of those proposals are related to encrypted DMs, specifically, NIP-04 [2], and NIP-17 [3]. Most of the online criticism of encrypted DMs on Nostr is about NIP-04 (which is why it's deprecated.)

White Noise is using a different encryption standard: MLS (Messaging Layer Security) [4]. They explicitly say in their docs: "White Noise is an implementation of the NIP-EE spec." [5]. The NIP-EE proposal itself is on GitHub [6]. The explainer doc [1] I first mentioned is linked to from the proposal [6].

This is all to say: given all the links I posted here, an AI chatbot could probably give you a better answer using the prompt: "How is NIP-EE (Messaging Layer Security for Nostr) different or better than NIP-04 or NIP-17?"

(I'm a little surprised that wasn't already in the FAQ for the project.)

[1]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/001c516f7294308143515a494a35213fc45978df/EE.md [2]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/04.md [3]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/17.md [4]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9420.html [5]: https://github.com/parres-hq/whitenoise?tab=readme-ov-file#the-spec [6]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1427
by nucleardog | 2025-07-10 02:10:59+00:00
Lived in BC, SK, and ON. I'm far enough east that I regularly hit up both Ottawa and Montreal.

In my experience "brown bread" is a synonym for whole wheat bread. If you go order a sandwich and they ask what bread you want it on and you say "brown", you're getting whole wheat (or maybe 60% whole wheat... just not white).

I'd be very confused if I ever got this molasses-sweetened bread everyone is talking about.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-10 02:11:58+00:00
I cannot wait for these to be banned, please, I hope.

It would cost so little comparative money for construction sites to go battery powered. There's some exemptions that need to be made (welders), but man, I doubt the average construction worker uses 1kWh a week. Battery power that shit, you brutes, and spare the world!

Switching these folks to battery would be such an enormous relief for cities. The cheapest shittiest 2 stroke generators raging from 7am to 4pm is an infernal senseless ceaseless din.
by technovahub | 2025-07-10 02:12:26+00:00
AMRS-X was originally designed as a headset-free immersion system that could simulate food, haptics, and lifelike visuals for public use. But despite its vision, I found many design elements were flawed or impossible with current tech — like mid-air matter generation and full physical realism. I’m sharing the full concept here not to promote it, but as a case study of how far speculative systems can go before hitting scientific or safety limits. I hope this can spark future discussion around what’s actually possible in projection tech, edible matter systems, and immersive AI environments — and what new approaches we might explore to achieve those goals.
by dlivingston | 2025-07-10 02:12:50+00:00
I don't think anyone could (or even necessarily should) design a service like this for the masses. (Designing anything with the masses in mind is probably a way to end up with a mediocre product regardless, but I digress.) This would be more for people like us and the typical HN crowd: interested in truth and nuance for the sake of knowing the world accurately.

The problem with people consuming low-information, rage-baiting, distorted, highly-partisan slop masquerading as news is a problem I don't have the first idea on solving. The issue isn't even with the existence of the shit itself: that sort of content has always and will always exist, regardless. The issue is with (i) the volume of people consuming and accepting it, and more importantly, (ii) how much influence that garbage has on the national discourse and policy. For example, Musk consumes that sort of content and then feeds it into Grok (hello, MechaHitler), which then propagates to elected officials and the electorate and has real-world consequences in policy.
Someone built a fantastic learning resource for Google's Gemini CLI
by howardV | 2025-07-10 02:13:05+00:00
If you've been curious about Gemini CLI but found the official docs overwhelming, check out https://starshipcli.online

This site transforms the learning experience:

*Interactive Playground* - Try real commands in a simulated terminal - See actual responses without API setup - Explore features risk-free

*Practical Documentation* - Real-world examples instead of abstract descriptions - Clear use cases for different workflows - Getting started guide that actually gets you started

*Smart Demonstrations* - Code generation examples - File analysis workflows - Integration patterns

The playground alone is worth bookmarking. You can test complex commands like `gemini analyze --file` or `gemini generate` and see exactly what the output looks like.

Great example of how technical education should be done. Have you found similar high-quality resources for other CLI tools?
by nucleardog | 2025-07-10 02:14:10+00:00
Surprising one for me was "all dressed" as a term for, e.g., a pizza with all the toppings.

Apparently it's a direct translation from French and is pretty exclusive to Quebec English and the Easternmost part of Ontario (which is heavily French).

And Saskatchewan. Which the site notes is "a bit of a mystery".

Also found "parkade" interesting--apparently it's still much more heavily used in Western Canada, and they attribute that to it having been "seeded" by some Hudson's Bay advertisements run at their original 6 locations all in Western Canada.

Some other words/terms that surprised me: renoviction, gong show, kerfuffle, off-sale, stagette
by bradlys | 2025-07-10 02:16:22+00:00
Why do the kids need play dates? When I was a 7, you’d just talk to the kids down the street. I knew several kids within a few blocks of where I lived.

It seemed like a really far distance that I went to see people but now I realize I never went more than a quarter mile from home to see someone. There were just a lot of families in my area that had kids.

Of course, that’s not true in a lot of the areas I’m in now. My friends experience the same where it’s hard to meet people who have kids of similar age. There might be 50 homes and only 1-2 will have kids near the same age. Many won’t have any kids at all.

Thinking back on it, it was surprising how many kids there were near me near my age growing up compared to now.
by arp242 | 2025-07-10 02:16:31+00:00
> I am not sure about why comment here was flagged and ppl saying "you deserve ban". So I guess everyone is assuming "empty language" .

Yes, without the clarification of "i am indian too. It was in /r/askindians", it looked kind of racist here too. On these types of topics, you do need to spend a little bit of effort making sure your intent is communicated clearly, because for every well-intentioned person there's another actual racist troll.
by cebert | 2025-07-10 02:19:54+00:00
This Traitify the product makes me immediately suspicious. It asks candidates a few brief questions with images and assigns them personality and trait scores. Surely employers can’t think tools like this are good or accurate signals, right?

Most positions at McDonalds are entry-level and minimum wage. It’s not like they’re applying to NASA.

(https://www.traitify.com/)
by amareshb | 2025-07-10 02:20:48+00:00
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