MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-01 22:51:07+00:00
The "cost" I was referring to is the cost to produce the content you are paying for. Not the cost to distribute it. Of course the cost to distribute it digitally is negligible (hell, lets assume it's $0), but the cost to produce it isn't even remotely close to that.

> The only “anti abuse” you need is to enforce that the user only streams one thing at a time.

We're talking about a flat fee you pay that gives you "access to content on the internet".

Oh yeah? How does one "stream" an article? Does playing a video at 2x make it 1/2 price? what about 1000x?

Ok, ok, Lets steelman this argument and assume we come up with resonable common sense answers to all these questions. "an article counts as x minutes". "limit playback to max of 2x and figure out some reasnonable formula to pay the creator", etc

Congratulations, you've invited a credit system with extra steps. The "flat fee" is actually the fee for (602430) * 2 minutes a month. One could "Donate Minutes" left on their account at the end of the month to their favorite creator. well, instead of trading them to your favorite creator, why don't you trade them in for $$

> Given the marginal cost of distributing the good stuff is the same as the bad stuff, why make the customer feel bad about watching by adding an incremental cost? Just let it rip. If you have a lot of good stuff, customers will be willing to pay more for the bundle. Once they’re in the bundle, let them watch exactly what they want.

The model works for YouTube because of the centralized nature of YouTube. I think that model can work for other centralized systems too like cloudflare.

Hell, maybe that was cloudflare endgame all along. If a good chunk of the internet is running behind cloudflare proxies, then cloudflare could do brave's BAT idea but actually sanely with like a normal payment and subscription etc.
by DataDaoDe | 2025-07-01 22:51:19+00:00
The language in this article is filled with so much emotion and hyperbole - major red flags for bias- it’s hard to take it seriously. That being said mainstream economists don’t have a great track record when it comes to making predictions, the only problem is, neither do any alternatives. I am certainly no economist but the more I learn the more I think, just predict they’ll be wrong and you’ll probably do alright.
by Gulbrandr-Bear | 2025-07-01 22:51:42+00:00
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by davidw | 2025-07-01 22:52:21+00:00
Most places in the west, the water used for 'municipal' stuff is a small fraction of the total.

For instance where I live east of the Cascades, in the dry part of Oregon, only like 10% of the water used goes to the cities.

https://www.centraloregonlandwatch.org/update/2021/5/5/droug...

Street trees are hugely beneficial and if you want to cut something (ha ha), you want to look at things like lawns or golf courses.
by jjk166 | 2025-07-01 22:52:33+00:00
Not how real companies work. Numbers 1-15 are all off the table because the company does not have the means to do them at the time. Maybe something in the top 35 is being worked on, but the overwhelming majority are going to be coming from the bottom 25. These are the projects which are quick and cheap to implement, have some short term benefit, and are low risk and low complexity. The projects tend to have low, and sometimes even negative ROI, but short term success, or the appearance of success, is typically more highly valued among real human decision makers.

Ask any employee if the number 1 project is being worked on by anyone, and they will answer no. Ask the CEO if the number 1 project is being worked on, and they will answer no. Ask the CEO if they think it'll be possible to start working on the number 1 project in the next 2 years, the optimistic ones will say maybe.
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-01 22:52:54+00:00
I saw the discussion as whether OpenAI is on a better moral ground than Meta, so this was my angle.

On where the moral burden lies in your example, I'd argue we should follow the money and see what has the most impact on that online gambling company's bottom line.

Inherently that could have the most impact on what happens when that company succeeds: if those become OpenAI's biggest clients, it wouldn't be surprising that they put more and more weight in being well suited for online gambling companies.

Does AWS get specially impacted by hosting online gambling services ? I honestly don't expect them to, not more than community sites or concert ticket sellers.
by baobun | 2025-07-01 22:52:59+00:00
> Has anyone else run into this?

Yup. Did some attempts at appeal but ended up abandoning LinkedIn for good (well, I guess it was mutual). I encourage everyone to do the same.

> Are other platforms doing this now too?

Facebook also does this (lock accounts demanding govt ID).

Both LinkedIn and FB/Insta were >1y ago.
by Manik_agg | 2025-07-01 22:53:09+00:00
Hey we are actively working on improving support for Llama models. At the moment, CORE does not provide optimal results with Llama-based models, but we are making progress to ensure better compatibility and output in the near future.

Also we build core first internally for our main project SOL - AI personal assistant. Along the journey of building a better memory for our assistant we realised it's importance and are of the opinion that memory should not be vendor locked. It should be pluggable and belong to the user. Hence build it as a separate service.
by Arubis | 2025-07-01 22:53:22+00:00
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by jongjong | 2025-07-01 22:53:35+00:00
This guy could have pulled the greatest heist in the history of mankind. Steal the cube, take out $500K, leave $1 million inside (fluff it up a bit or put some Styrofoam in the center), then return the cube, saying it was a stunt to draw attention to climate change or similar and you intended to return it. Then they would count the dollars, you'd get a minor sentence (maybe)... Then you get to keep $500k.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-07-01 22:53:46+00:00
>You can always get an used car for practically any amount of money.

sure, but you'll quickly make up the difference in repair costs when the bucket of bolts you paid ~1k for starts breaking down every 3-4 months.

And, of course, you'll have to make arrangements to get to work to pay for those repairs while the car is in the shop. Which may have it's own associated costs if you're using uber or a taxi or whatever.

Better hope little Timmy has a way to get to soccer practice as well. And hopefully there's no other appointments that have to be accommodated for. It was pretty difficult getting time off to get that bum tooth checked out...
by diegof79 | 2025-07-01 22:53:58+00:00
Point of view as a Figma user...

With all the AI tools, the market is in a transition period.

Those transitions are crucial for a product's success or failure. For example, the transition from web to mobile with the iPhone, along with the growing pains of using Photoshop and Illustrator for mockups, opened the door to Sketch. Then, the evolution of web apps, like Google Docs, opened the door to Figma (while other products like InVision had a drastic fall). What they accomplished in a web app is an impressive engineering feat, so they have an excellent engineering team.

The good: Figma is implementing multiple product updates to capitalize on the "AI wave". The Figma Make in beta is very similar to Vercel's v0 (and others). Still, the tight integration with Figma could help them leverage their current subscriptions and attract designers, PMs, and developers. Recently, they released an MCP server in beta that enables AI coding tools to obtain information from designs. While many designers may disagree with me, I believe that at least they are trying to maintain a leading position in a rapidly shifting market.

The bad: They are diversifying their product offering too much, trying to compete on many fronts. Figma Site competes with Framer and Webflow, and Figma Buzz aims at digital marketing, which is usually covered by many tools (including Canva). Figma Slides is ideal for designers who use Figma daily, but it may not be as user-friendly for those transitioning from PowerPoint or Keynote. They switched the focus from the Design->Dev process that made them successful. The dev mode still doesn't resolve many issues, such as versioning, and the variable features seem half-baked; component handling needs more love, and the prototyping options are still limited.

The future... is hard to tell. In terms of UI design tools, they are the leaders. Penpot is far from being stable; Sketch is similar, but their web experience is not as good as Figma. Unless a new player enters the market, their biggest threat is a significant disruption caused by AI tools... but the tools I've seen so far are not different from Figma Make.
by gojomo | 2025-07-01 22:56:40+00:00
And note: Signal has been misleading users about options for iOS backups for a decade! In September 2015, users were told it was "on the roadmap": https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/905#issuecomm...

No option has ever existed on iOS, despite the recent announcement assuring users "Local backups still exist". They've never existed for iOS users!
by njl | 2025-07-01 22:57:57+00:00
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by ramoz | 2025-07-01 22:58:22+00:00
I'm not sure the graph offers any clear advantage in the demonstrated use case.

It's overhead in coding.

The source is the doc. Raw text is as much of a fact as an abstracted data structure derived from that text (which is done by an external LLM - provenance seems to break here btw, what other context is used to support that transcription, why is it more reliable than a doc within the actual codebase?).
by hervature | 2025-07-01 22:58:35+00:00
Genuine question for people in the field. My understanding is that the cooling effect of trees is primarily driven by evaporative cooling. That is, the shade effect only really exists because the plant does not shrivel up and die due to storing water. How much more effective are trees vs. big swamp coolers? Even in this article, they admit that daytime cooling of half a degree requires 3 times more water.
by vFunct | 2025-07-01 22:58:50+00:00
The issue I'm facing with multiple agents working on separate work trees is that each independent agent tends to have completely different ideas on absolutely every detail, leading to inconsistent user experience.

For example, an agent working on the dashboard for the Documents portion of my project has a completely different idea from the agent working on the dashboard for the Design portion of my project. The design consistency is not there, not just visually, but architecturally. Database schema and API ideas are inconsistent, for example. Even on the same input things are wildly different. It seems that if it can be different, it will be different.

You start to update instruction files to get things consistent, but then these end up being thousands of lines on a large project just to get the foundations right, eating into the context window.

I think ultimately we might need smaller language models trained on certain rules & schemas only, instead of on the universe of ideas that a prompt could result in. Small language models are likely the correct path.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-01 22:59:21+00:00
There's probably good advantages to a well tuned more bespoke multiplexing protocol toolkit…

But it sure makes me crazy crazy sad that QUIC and HTTP3 are still rarefied technologies with little mainstream adoption. The hyperscalers all seem to have a library or two they've made… https://github.com/mmmarcos/awesome-quic?tab=readme-ov-file#...

…but there's still no mainstream http3 that works well with a http framework of any kind that one can just use. Hyper's h3 kicks along slowly. Node.js has been beleaguered by openssl's endless beating around the bush reinventing how they want to do quic, ignoring input. But that's finally starting to move. https://github.com/hyperium/h3 https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/57281

Muxio was able to define itself & an inpl pretty fast, and performance & usability are probably both medium or high. That ease is nice. But I still want to see more social excitement and effort on quic. There's some pretty good performing early products like Apache Iggy for quic based messaging, which is nice. But quic feels so amazingly general purpose, is such a wonderful upgrade for all manners of application transports, that could replace so many bespoke solutions. https://github.com/apache/iggy
by schmookeeg | 2025-07-01 22:59:24+00:00
I use Zen MCP and OpenRouter. Every once in awhile, my instance of claude code will "phone a friend" and use Gemini for a code review. Often unprompted, sometimes me asking for "analysis" or "ultrathink" about a thorny feature when I doubt the proposed implementation will work out or cause footguns.

It's wild to see in action when it's unprompted.

For planning, I usually do a trip out to Gemini to check our work, offer ideas, research, and ratings of completeness. The iterations seem to be helpful, at least to me.

Everyone in these sorta threads asks for "proofs" and I don't really know what to offer. It's like 4 cents for a second opinion on what claude's planning has cooked up, and the detailed response has been interesting.

I loaded 10 bucks onto OpenRouter last month and I think I've pulled it down by like 50 cents. Meanwhile I'm on Claude Max @ $200/mo and GPT Plus for another $20. The OpenRouter stuff seems like less than couch change.

$0.02 :D
by pj_mukh | 2025-07-01 22:59:50+00:00
There is no world in which online gambling beats other back-office automation in pure revenue terms. I'm comfortable saying that OpenAI would probably have to spend more money policing to make sure their API's aren't used by gambling companies than they'd make off of them. Either way, these are all imagined horrors, so it is difficult to judge.

I am judging the two companies for what they are, not what they could be. And as it is, there is no more damaging technology than Meta's various algorithmic feeds.
by doppio19 | 2025-07-01 23:00:29+00:00
Not that I'm aware of. But I do know that in late 2024, Amazon made a change where users now have to be logged in to view product reviews beyond the ones that appear on the first page (about 8 reviews). From what I can tell, Fakespot scraped the Amazon product listing pages on their backend, so that simple change would have pretty much killed its current implementation.
by Arubis | 2025-07-01 23:00:32+00:00
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by zoky | 2025-07-01 23:00:49+00:00
Yeah, I agree it’s frustrating, but I can see why they do it. 500 passengers each drawing even 1 amp each would likely put a serious strain on the aircraft’s power capacity. I’ve taken to just assuming the outlets are useless and carrying a battery pack onboard. One decently sized battery pack can easily keep a laptop, phone, or whatever charged for pretty much any domestic flight, and two of them is more than plenty for international.
by out-of-ideas | 2025-07-01 23:01:39+00:00
i prefer them laid flat out too - grinds my gears when there is a wall of text, then trying to use the browsers built-in-search to find a text i remember but cannot find due to some hover/click-element that only displays text sometimes. though - i do not mind a list of sources at the bottom nor embedded within a bracket or w/e - there are many standards

(i guess what is worse are pages which re-invent the wheel and re-implement text-searching, like [gitlab i think], where the browser search is broken as its only displaying a sub-section of text at any given moment and browser search fails unless you scroll a page down and find again)
by unfitted2545 | 2025-07-01 23:02:40+00:00
This interview with Karen Hao is really good (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enXRDlWguU), she interviews people that have had 1 on 1 meetings with Sam, and they always say he aligned with them on everything to the point where they don't actually know what he believes. He will tailor his opinions to try and weave in trust.
by kllrnohj | 2025-07-01 23:03:43+00:00
Surely some biocide or glycol or whatever is going to be a lot cheaper than using mineral oil? This is solidly north of a hundred thousand gallons after all, right? Especially since they're already going to have plumbed water in the building anyway, so they wouldn't need to transport drums and drums of whatever liquid is chosen if it's not water?
by whartung | 2025-07-01 23:03:44+00:00
Having lived in the desert, and not talking Vegas, but Nevada desert where folks bought cheap lots, dragged a single or double wide trailer into it, and started a life.

Trees were the first thing planted. Fast growing trees, placed to cast shade on the house.

After a few years, those dirt lots transformed into some very nice properties where sitting outside in the shade with the desert zephyrs rustling the leaves provide a very nice, idyllic place for conservation or reading.
by hiphipjorge | 2025-07-01 23:04:04+00:00
As a former figma engineer, let me be the first to say that Evan Wallace is, in fact, a legend. A true 100x-er. There's still parts of the codebase basically no one at Figma really understands that Evan wrote back in the day.

One example of that is something like he adapted a shader we use internally to render font glyphs, which no one has touched ever since. The engineer who told me this had spent a few days trying to understand it and said (after having worked in this area for years) was stumped by it.