MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-07-01 19:09:05+00:00
> Is the only way to play Steam games via Deck? No, so it's completely irrelevant.

Apple has more open platforms as well, macOS.

Paying through Apple is also not the only way to pay for Proton. I'm a Proton subscriber, and have an iPhone. I paid for Proton through their website and Apple didn't see a dime, but I still use Proton Mail on my iPhone.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-07-01 19:09:18+00:00
in my experience software demand never slows, its just priced out. Remember a decade ago we were developing a lot slower due to hardware constraints and other things, now we develop much faster but the features we develop are more complex and there are more of them.

I'm not convinced there is a limiter on software demand as it seems to grow alongside development speed. We all have huge backlogs in any non-trivial system.
by spenvo | 2025-07-01 19:10:11+00:00
OpenAI's tight spot:

1) They are far from profitability. 2) Meta is aggressively making their top talent more expensive, and outright draining it. 3) Deepseek/Baidu/etc are dramatically undercutting them. 4) Anthropic and (to a lesser extent?) Google appear to be beating them (or, charitably, matching them) on AI's best use case so far: coding. 5) Altman is becoming less like-able with every unnecessary episode of drama; and OpenAI has most of the stink from the initial (valid) grievance of "AI-companies are stealing from artists". The endless hype and FUD cycles, going back to 2022, have worn industry people out, as well as the flip flop on "please regulate us". 6) Its original, core strategic alliance with Microsoft is extremely strained. 7) and, related to #6, its corporate structure is extremely unorthodox and likely needs to change in order to attract more investment, which it must (to train new frontier models). Microsoft would need to sign off on the new structure. 8) Musk is sniping at its heels, especially through legal actions.

Barring a major breakthrough with GPT-5, which I don't see happening, how do they prevail through all of this and become a sustainable frontier AI lab and company? Maybe the answer is they drop the frontier model aspect of their business? If we are really far from AGI and are instead in a plateau of diminishing returns that may not be a huge deal, because having a 5% better model likely doesn't matter that much to their primary bright spot:

Brand loyalty from the average person to ChatGPT is the best bright spot, and OpenAI successfully eating Google's search market. Their numbers there have been truly massive from the beginning, and are I think the most defensible. Google AI Overviews continue to be completely awful in comparison.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-01 19:10:47+00:00
HN is mostly a finance forum. There is a veneer of "tech startup" discussion around it, but you shouldn't interpret the "hacker" to mean much besides hacking finance. Time has proved that notion right, a lot of the characteristic discourse of HN stems from economics more than hard science or code preferences.

I'd take the average comment with a grain of salt. There are talented programmers that use this site, but most users are probably not a prolific Carmack-esque SWE.
by disambiguation | 2025-07-01 19:12:21+00:00
Your math is incomplete. The whole formula includes interest rates and total amortized cost as well as the average / median income, cost of living, time to employment, and employment rates of new graduates. Additional exercises for the reader: find the average TTL of full loan repayment (~20 years) and the percent of graduates where debt exceeds earnings (~20%).

This isn't to say that degree attainment isn't statistically better on average, much like paying off ransomware. The price of tuition seems to reflect the lack of reasonable alternatives more than the intrinsic value of the education.
by nyrikki | 2025-07-01 19:12:24+00:00
The 'relation' in the relational model is the tables, specific named columns and tuples, with specific abstracts [0]

The relation is the table, normalization, foreign keys, candidate keys etc are all extensions to that base model for Codd.

Some of the impedance mismatch is due to that, and not just the declarative nature or extensions

Specifically I think the Alice book covers how with a candidate key + the remaining tuples in the row form the row but only the candidate key has an identity, the rest of the row is a substring.

Some quotes from the link, but searching for 'user' will hit what I think justifies my interpretation.

> Future users of large data banks must be protected from having to know how the data is organized in the machine (the internal representation).

> To sum up, it is proposed that most users should interact with a relational model of the data consisting of a collection of time-varying relationships (rather than relations). Each user need not know more about any relationship than its name together with the names of its domains (role qualified whenever necessary): Even this information might be offered in menu style by the system (subject to security and privacy constraints) upon request by the user.

[0] https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
by squiguy7 | 2025-07-01 19:12:30+00:00
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by vel0city | 2025-07-01 19:13:01+00:00
> So why are you making strong conclusions in the absence of data?!

I'm not even making that strong of a conclusion. I'm saying "depends" and what not, because I agree it can be fuzzy and not a hard 100% rule that hybrids are cheaper TCO. But I can make some amount of conclusion because I can look at a trend line and extrapolate especially when equipped with extra knowledge about how these systems work and doing my own projections on potential repair costs at a longer interval.

A 5-year TCO evaluation on a new car generally isn't going to figure in the differences between a motor failure or a transmission failure. They won't include a HV battery failure. Depending on fuel price differences it may not even cover initial pricing disparities but could come close. But I can see a rebuilt transmission can often be $2k or more with a lot of labor, and a rebuilt transmission can still be a roll of the dice. A remanufactured battery is easier to test pack health and know the state of the device and can often be only a few hundred dollars and easy to replace.

As you mentioned, the average ownership period of a car is a little over 8 years. The average life of a car far longer than that. Three years more of gas savings on that average first owner, considerably more over the life of the car. And someone especially concerned with TCO will probably be more interested in buying used and paying cash, not having to deal with as much depreciation and finance charges, and probably have their car longer than average.

> I don’t have any data

We do have some data, we have knowledge of how these systems work, we can see trends in component prices and more can make overall projections from it. Following the trend lines from the data we have, the hybrids do usually pay off in TCO. Am I a bit just taking a gut estimate for a general state of things? Sure. But I think I've sure shared a lot of logic as to why that would probably be that way. It is not just some completely empty guess with nothing backing it at all as you seem to suggest.
by timewizard | 2025-07-01 19:13:48+00:00
My favorite templating library has always been amrita[0]. I really don't like template languages that try to mix code and elements into a single block of text. It mixes together two concerns and creates exceptionally fragile blobs that generally need to be fully rewritten to extend their functionality. Whereas with amrita you can generally keep the two entirely separate which makes a huge difference in practice.

These PHP style template ideas I have never understood. I thought we all agreed 30 years ago that while exceptionally functional for a "quick and dirty" approach they are horrible for long term product or application development.

You have a DOM. Use it as such.

[0]: https://github.com/rud/amrita
Show HN: Cronus – Context-aware AI time tracker for macOS
by arnestrickmann | 2025-07-01 19:14:30+00:00
Hi HN,

We built Cronus, a context-aware time tracker for macOS that uses LLMs to differentiate productive tasks from distractions—even on sites like YouTube or LinkedIn.

Existing apps frustrated us because they either strictly blocked useful sites or required constant manual tracking. Cronus understands context automatically: - Accurately labels productive vs. distracted time (e.g., coding tutorial vs. random scrolling) - Menu-bar mini-timer to subtly gamify productivity - Supports 24h time-tracking with ai suggestions based on calendar activity - Understand where you actually spend your time - Nudges instead of rigid site blockers

Would love feedback, particularly on how intuitive the tracking feels and any improvements you'd like to see in the UI/UX.

Also working on adding local model support for the activity categorization.

You can give it a try here: https://cronushq.com

Happy to answer any technical questions or discuss how the categorization works under the hood! – Moritz & Arne
by cs702 | 2025-07-01 19:14:37+00:00
I like sama and many other folks at OpenAI, but I have to call things how I see them:

"What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems. We will have more to share about this soon but it's very important to me we do it fairly and not just for people who Meta happened to target."

Translation from corporate-speak: "We're not as rich as Meta."

"Most importantly of all, I think we have the most special team and culture in the world. We have work to do to improve our culture for sure; we have been through insane hypergrowth. But we have the core right in a way that I don't think anyone else quite does, and I'm confident we can fix the problems."

Translation from corporate-speak: "We're not as rich as Meta."

"And maybe more importantly than that, we actually care about building AGI in a good way." "Other companies care more about this as an instrumental goal to some other mission. But this is our top thing, and always will be." "Missionaries will beat mercenaries."

Translation from corporate-speak: "I am high as a kite." (All companies building AGI claim to be doing it in a good way.)
by RajT88 | 2025-07-01 19:14:57+00:00
This thread is very informative on your chances of carrying off a heist stealing this cube.

Conclusion: Low, unless you're willing to take only a fraction of the face value.

Thinking through it though - you might be able to get away with spending the cash overseas, where it will take some time indeed for the money to be under scrutiny by banks to see if the serial numbers are out of circulation. There's then problem of getting the money there without anyone noticing, then there's the problem of what kind of characters you're going to be defrauding overseas.

All told - probably a better idea is to use all that cleverness to make a 1.5 million dollars the good old fashioned way: Spending a few years saying, "Nothing from my end" on Zoom calls.
by evklein | 2025-07-01 19:15:32+00:00
Yeah it's a tough spot he's found himself in. How do you convince people who know more about this stuff than anybody that you're barreling towards something that's an improbability? It seems that most of them have made their choice to turn more towards reality, the material reality, and register their skill with an organization that holds that in higher regard. I can't blame them, and neither can he, but he also can't help himself when it comes to reiterating the hype. He might be projecting about that 'deep-seated cultural issue' he's prescribing to meta, and lashing out against those who don't accept it.
by GeekyBear | 2025-07-01 19:16:24+00:00
Certainly.

For example, Scandinavian countries that have made a concerted effort to only prescribe antibiotics to humans when they are medically necessary saw the genes for antibiotic resistance becoming less prevalent.

Unfortunately, America still allows agribusiness to feed livestock a constant stream of lower dose antibiotics, because doing so makes animals more efficient at turning feed into muscle.
by mceoin | 2025-07-01 19:16:43+00:00
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by IAmBroom | 2025-07-01 19:16:51+00:00
Using somat's estimate of 49" on a side, it would roughly weigh the same as 49^3/100 cu in of solid wood. Given a range of 0.01-0.03 lb/cu-in for pine, and choosing the midpoint: 23.5 lb.

Very portable.

(Yes, it's cotton not wood, but the weight of solid cotton is hard to find, and probably not much different.)

Cross-check: bills are apparently ~1g apiece. That predicts $1M in $100-bills is 20.8 lb. Very close.
by brd | 2025-07-01 19:18:49+00:00
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by WillAdams | 2025-07-01 19:19:12+00:00
It is an interesting contrast to "lights out manufacturing" --- there are a lot of CNC companies where day shift runs short jobs, and then loads up pallets of materials and stages empty pallets for finished parts, loads the programs and sets quantities and so forth, then presses "Start", and turns out the lights to leave --- there might be a skeleton crew to deal with any issues which arise, often not.
by blancotech | 2025-07-01 19:19:39+00:00
> An important mechanism here is that even if a crawler doesn’t have a billing relationship with Cloudflare, and thus couldn’t be charged for access, a publisher can still choose to ‘charge’ them. This is the functional equivalent of a network level block (an HTTP 403 Forbidden response where no content is returned) — but with the added benefit of telling the crawler there could be a relationship in the future.

IMO this is why this will not work. If you're too small a publisher, you don't want to lose potential click-through traffic. If you're a big publisher, you negotiate with the main bots that crawl a site (Perplexity, ChatGPT, Anthropic, Google, Grok).

The only way I can see something like this work is if a large "bot" providers set the standard and say they'll pay if this is set up (unlikely) or smaller apps that crawl see that this as cheaper than a proxy. But in the end, most of the traffic comes from a few large players.
by viccis | 2025-07-01 19:20:38+00:00
>The cognitive overhead of remembering where I can talk about what with which people seems exhausting

This is just part of life of having a clearance. If it's not Discord, then it's the happy hour where you have to worry about people getting a few too many beers deep and saying something stupid, and then others have an obligation to report it.

Have some prudence about what to say in what settings is a life skill in general.
by htien | 2025-07-01 19:21:00+00:00
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by lenerdenator | 2025-07-01 19:21:08+00:00
> I can't blame them, and neither can he

He's certainly trying with statements like this.

To be fair, he's hardly alone. Business is built on dupers and dupees. The duper talks about how important the mission of the business is while taking the value of the labor of the dupee. If he had to work for the money he pays the dupee, he would be a lot less interested in the mission.
by durul | 2025-07-01 19:21:20+00:00
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by quintes | 2025-07-01 19:21:25+00:00
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by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-07-01 19:21:55+00:00
> "No-no-no, that won't do. The cube is too small! Its puny size doesn't convey the crushing might of the American dollar! Hm. Do we have bigger dollars?"

> "I'm afraid we don't, boss."

> "Let's inflate it!"

> "The dollar?"

> "Not the dollar, idiot, the cube! With air.

> "On second thought..."
by manishsharan | 2025-07-01 19:21:56+00:00
This 100%.

Frameworks like these, and I include Microsoft Semantic kernel and Google' Agent2Agent, just get in the way. Fact is that Agent development is still in early stages. We daily learn more about how to get the most out of LLMs. It used to be "prompt engineering", this morning HN is talking about "Context engineering".

Abstractions and frameworks like these will obfuscate insights one would gain by using LLM +tools etc directly.
by quintes | 2025-07-01 19:23:13+00:00
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by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-01 19:23:14+00:00
Sure, color corresponds to a physical property, so obviously there were things of different colors (sunlight, water, rainbows, rocks) before life developed. Everything has a color.

Color vision (or just ability to differentiate 2 or more frequencies of light) could have evolved a soon as there were forms of life for who this was advantageous - potentially as simple as an ocean organism orientating itself towards sunlight.

It seems the co-evolution of the property of color and color detection ability in plant and animal species, must logically have followed a basic ability to differentiate non-evolved natural colors.
by gwbas1c | 2025-07-01 19:24:16+00:00
At least Node.js and Rust distribute dependencies as source. NPM and Cargo automate adding and compiling dependencies.

But, to be quite blunt: I've put a few hobby packages up on Cargo and NPM just to see if other people like them. If you think I'm going to assume liability if someone hits a bug, then you're in for a rude awakening.

The source code is available for free for anyone who wants to use or modify it. If it doesn't meet someone's needs, they can fix it themselves or contact me and we can work out a mutually beneficial arrangement.