MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thecolorblue | 2025-07-21 13:39:53+00:00
There are multiple companies that went public in that 2019 - 2021 time frame that have negative EBITDA and are hard to price because of it.

Ginkgo Bioworks, IPO Date: Sept. 2021, EBITDA: -$325m Rivian, IPO Date: Nov. 2021, EBITDA: -$455m

Beyond Meat has seen less growth than their some of these examples, but my conclusion is still the same: it would have been better for them to find their footing as a private company, then use the IPO money to expand, rather than to pour the IPO money into R&D. Publicly trading stock causes more overhead and restricts the companies ability to pivot. Investors, founders, and employees are able to cash out before the real value has been created. The money generated does not guarantee longer term success or better long term investments as much as they thought it would.

I am still bullish on many of these companies but if I were to get in my time machine back to 2019, I would have avoided investing.
by Eisenstein | 2025-07-21 13:40:38+00:00
You know what always happens when the status quo everyone is depending on to get money changes? People freak out and they overreact. Everyone loves it when they can keep doing the same thing and make money and they hate it when it looks like that is going to change. You what what always happens a bit later? They adjust to the new normal and make money slightly differently and then get used to that and don't want that to change.

The sky is not falling. Let's keep moving towards what will benefit everyone and not get distracted by the totally predictable reactionary market signals.
by itslennysfault | 2025-07-21 13:41:34+00:00
I went through your exact same hate timeline. The CoffeeScript one was so bad that I was REALLY hesitant about TypeScript, but the whole "it's a superset of JS" thing won me over in the end.

I still hate PHP the most, and I very much mean PHP 5 when I say that, and have no idea what happened beyond that, and honestly the scars are so deep I don't care to find out.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-21 13:41:42+00:00
> The people who have slightly bigger bags are not intentionally bringing those extra 500 grams of clothing and chancing their arm.

I don't understand how you can say "not intentionally" when they absolutely are intentionally bringing their bag that is over the airline's policy with however much crap they can cram into it. It's not like they are "oops, I used the wrong bag". They are knowingly bringing the bag they have. Also, I know no one that brings a bag half packed. They are all stuffed to the gills. Especially when trying to cram all of the stuff they would normally bring into a smaller bag.
by childintime | 2025-07-21 13:41:42+00:00
Related: Flutter based fml.dev.

Example:

<FML version="1.0" title="Counter-Page"> <HEADER height="46" color="blue"> <CENTER> <TEXT value="FML Demo Home Page" size="20" color="white"/> </CENTER> </HEADER> <CENTER> <COL center="true"> <TEXT value="You have pushed the button this many times:" color="#7c7c7c"/> <TEXT id="clicknumber" value="0" style="h3" color="#7c7c7c"/> </COL> </CENTER> <POS bottom="10" right="10"> <BTN onclick="clicknumber.set({clicknumber} + 1);" width="40" height="40" radius="50" color="blue" type="elevated"> <ICON icon="add" color="white"/> </BTN> </POS> </FML>
by constantcrying | 2025-07-21 13:41:53+00:00
Why? Any intermediary user can install Arch and is able to find their way through documentation.

These distros also target completely new people, with very little or even zero, Linux experience. Someone like that is not done any favors by putting him in front of a pre configured Arch. They will run into problems they can not solve without substantial time commitments and that will lead to frustration and disappointment.

At the very least these distros should be honest about what they are. From the top of the CachyOS Website: "Whether you're a seasoned Linux user or just starting out, CachyOS is the ideal choice for those looking for a powerful, customizable and blazingly fast operating system."

This is doing a complete disservice to their potential users. This is ot the "ideal" distro for someone who never touched Linux.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-21 13:42:11+00:00
Well, obviously this thread wasn't available when I asked since I was one of the first commenters.

But:

(1) You're right that it's a hard experiment to do now because LLMs can search the web, on the other hand...

(2) LLMs can search the web, which cuts against the author's implicit premise that LLMs can only know what is in their training data. LLMs have access to tools and oracles. But also...

(3) I checked gemma3:12b running in Ollama. It can not search the internet. But it also knew about fatty acid combustion in the brain and recapped the research history on it.

Now obviously I expect gemma3 to be more prone to hallucination since it's a weaker model and doesn't have any safeguards a production model would have. Also it's working entirely from memory.

But I feel comfortable concluding that the author overestimates the novelty of the study and underestimates LLMs. The study rewrites the Bayesian weights on various interpretations of fatty acid combustion results in the brain. It doesn't completely propose and prove an unheard of hypothesis. Even the offline Gemma told me that glucose-only metabolism used to be the dogma etc etc.

But that's also true in general about science. Breakthroughs are always building on things that came before. And the LLM knows everything that came before.
by indymike | 2025-07-21 13:42:28+00:00
> "If “build more” was going to bring prices down and stabilize the system, we wouldn’t be seeing these mixed signals."

Bringing prices down is usually a losing idea with existing asset holders. Even a financially strapped homeowner does not want the price of her/his home to go down. Politically, this is a complete non-starter. Also, appreciating home values serve as a very strong way to attract talent to a city.

> "Prices are softening. Delinquencies are rising. Builders are walking.

What do you expect. Why would a homeowner send 1-2 paychecks a month to pay interest into an investment that is losing value? Why would a builder start making an asset that will be worth less than when they started building?
by rahimnathwani | 2025-07-21 13:42:54+00:00
Your first link says is has a 60V 18Ah battery.

I seriously doubt you can buy such a battery for 952 RMB.

The Taobao link you shared leads me to a 'not found' page.

One thing to watch out for on Taobao, even for legitimate sellers: a listing will often include a main item and several accessories, all as different variants of the same product. So a single listing might include variants for:

- a scooter with battery

- a spare battery

- a charger

- a wing mirror

If you are looking at the price, be sure you have selected the variant that matches the thing you want.'

Source: I lived in China for 9 years, and have placed hundreds of orders on Taobao (including replacement Li-ion batteries for two Vespa-style scooters).
by tpm | 2025-07-21 13:42:58+00:00
> As someone who is forced to use Ryanair to move around Europe because they priced out any other competition... I can't wait for them to be regulated

Careful what you wish for. I am forced to fly Austrian because on my routes there is nothing else and it's more expensive, always late, in case the flight is cancelled they manage to lose half the rebooking emails etc. And somehow it rubs me the wrong way there is no apology when they lost my baggage or cancelled (already way late) flights.
by linsomniac | 2025-07-21 13:43:35+00:00
It would be nice if one of the backup systems supported public key crypto for the bulk of the data, so that the keys used for recovering data would be different from the keys used for backing up. I know there is an open ticket for one of restic/borg, because I subscribed to it a few years ago and periodically get updates on it, but nobody has come up with a solution to it yet.
by lastcat743 | 2025-07-21 13:44:07+00:00
You sound very excited. Your optimism is beautiful. A credit to the poetry of your learning.

I have some direct experience with your answer, and I do not want to be a fright, though what you say is already true today. There is an elite society among us (not the 1%, the 1% if the 1% are the voices in their heads.)

Let me say this, 1) through “Power” (capacity of effect through continuity of will) absolutely ultimate empirical truths may be read right from the neuron. Even every time that memory was accessed, even which element were the product of perception vs cognition.; 2) those of such skill rule humanity through armies of hundreds of thousands whose entire lives are embroiled in “schizophrenia” far more terrifying as it is true, there is an actor among us capable of possessing ourselves and others as though the poltergeist.

There is a “logical rational” chain beneath that though you can see perception, and “make believe” can get real people doing some pretty terrible things to each other.

The secret of true power (the true power of consciousness) in our world is protected by pyramid schemes of extortion and mass delusion.

Only an “uncorruptible righteous rule of law” among powers over Man may save us. And you don’t even know what that means or why it is important.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-21 13:44:20+00:00
> Plus it's harder to remove a belligerent passenger when they have a checked bag ;)

F that. If you're removing a belligerent passenger, part of the punishment should be that you have to pay to have your luggage returned to you when it arrives at the destination. Getting kicked off the plane should not me you get to delay everyone else even further by making them go find your luggage before the plane can depart. F that.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-21 13:44:54+00:00
There's a general complaint that narcissists get ahead in America, one of the worst things about Trump that doesn't get talked about is that he sets a bad example. When Trump was elected the first time my mother-in-law quit going to the local casino for a while because people just got ruder and lewder, tried to grab her ass more and stuff like that.

The only thing good about a high-D environment (see [1]) is that high-D people don't feel like they have to mask and pretend to be low-D, they are not "wolves in sheeps clothing" but are actually explicit about how they are. (As narcissism is a developmental arrest, high-D people don't understand how low-D people operate and find masking really hard)

In the last six months there has been a chorus of people who say things to the effect that "Elon Musk accomplished things because he is an asshole" as opposed to "he accomplished things despite being an asshole" such as a certain "high agency" splog that's been submitted many times to HN but never made it to the top.

[1] https://darkfactor.org/
by mbastos_z | 2025-07-21 13:44:57+00:00
I once had a scrum master suggest we all build Legos as a team-building exercise. At the time, I was leading the team and staring down a brutal delivery timeline. I’d been a software engineer for over a decade, a Marine with two combat deployments before that, and a father of four. And I just couldn’t stay quiet anymore.

We’d already done a team gaming session, something I tolerated even though I stopped playing games when my first kid was born. I get trying to break routine with an escape room or axe throwing. But the Legos? That was the final straw.

It felt infantilizing because it was. Like a power move to turn seasoned engineers into preschoolers under the guise of “team bonding.” Most of the devs were too polite or too used to this kind of thing to push back. But I said no. Not because I’m against play, but because I’m against patronizing adults.

For the record, I do play Legos, with my kids. Because they’re kids. But asking grown professionals to go from solving complex systems to building plastic castles in the name of morale? That’s not leadership, that’s theater.

We didn’t get the Legos. We did ship the product. And I’ve stood by that call ever since.

It’s okay to say this out loud: treating adult professionals like children doesn’t build trust, it breaks it.
by gnulinux | 2025-07-21 13:45:00+00:00
Yes I do exactly this too. But I do sometimes 2, 3 shot some problems. The method I use is that in Cursor/Copilot interface I use a Markdown file to chat with the bot. Once I have some solutions after a few turns, I edit the file, add more information, add things to avoid etc and restart. It most definitely gives better results, and the agent doesn't have to read the whole file if not necessary, which means context is used more efficiently per problem.
by rickydroll | 2025-07-21 13:45:04+00:00
> it massively increases life expectancy.

Life just seems longer. When I lived in small cities and walked mainly, all of my health numbers went in the wrong direction. Higher blood pressure, poorer quality sleep, worse glucose control. It took me quite a while, but I eventually determined the problems were connected to noise, nighttime lighting, and too many people.

Living outside of cities and better controlling my sleep environment has significantly improved my quality of life.
by bluelightning2k | 2025-07-21 13:45:24+00:00
Realistically - LLMs don't "delete the database". I find it quite unlikely that it proposed drop all out of nowhere. I wonder if what actually happened was a schema migration with an ORM? Prisma is still a pretty common choice, and FREQUENTLY migrations propose/require either a very nuanced path or a reset.

The second theory is an unbounded or inadequately bounded delete statement - essentially deleteMany on a single table.

From a more technical org I'd be interested in a write-up, but my intuition says one of those two paths to deleting technically a single table.
by roenxi | 2025-07-21 13:45:24+00:00
> The theory says we should be celebrating and accelerating home production even more to get prices to levels that would actually be affordable. The reality demonstrates otherwise.

Reality demonstrates the well known - the people who celebrate house prices going down don't have a loud voice in political circles and are ignored. Almost by definition they're going to be representatives of the world which doesn't have vast amounts of money and influence.

> Price Drops Don’t Lead to Supply. They Kill It.

And I love this one, it is the inverse of "nobody goes there any more, it is too crowded". If the price is low that means there is more supply than the market thinks it needs and more people who want a house are finding a house to live in. That may well cause less new builds, but more builds probably aren't necessary if the price is dropping. More people are being homed. At some point prices drop low enough that new builds should cease altogether.
by hollywood_court | 2025-07-21 13:45:28+00:00
Yep. They moved their operations to the south where they don’t have to worry about unions or those pesky worker’s right.

I experienced this first hand when I worked for a Korean company that supplied parts to Hyundai and Kia.

They sent line workers from Detroit to train people in Alabama.

My coworkers in Alabama just could not believe the Detroit folks when they talked about how much money they earned.

We were being paid half as much in Alabama. And our area of Alabama had a much higher cost of living compared to Detroit and its suburbs.
by FMecha | 2025-07-21 13:45:38+00:00
CERO (the Japanese ratings board) have required some mature-rated Western console video games to be edited (either for violence or sexual aspects) for it to receive the "Z" (age-restricted) rating be sold in the country.

Also, the passage of the law that regulated the AV (adult video) industry in 2022, intending to protect their performers, was notoriously controversial that year as well and seen as steps to censorship.
by ta1243 | 2025-07-21 13:45:39+00:00
> having roommates

People in cities and colleges have done that for decades. Not just "roommate" in the Friends sense where you have 2 people living in a 2 bed flat, but roommate as in sharing the same room - indeed 20 years ago I knew of some places where there where 5 people sleeping on 3 single mattresses in a single attic in London, with nuclear-dub style bunk sharing.

Demand for what people want (a place to call their own without having to live with strangers) is far in excess of the supply, and has been for at least the 25 years I've been an adult.
by Nursie | 2025-07-21 13:45:56+00:00
They know about demand and do all they can to stoke it.

All the various government schemes in the UK and Australia (I have no idea about other countries) that are aimed at helping primarily young people to buy homes - low deposit schemes, part ownership schemes, tax discounts etc etc, they all masquerade as helping but they stoke demand and add to price inflation.
by K0balt | 2025-07-21 13:46:16+00:00
For a while I flew an aero commander 100 “darter” (not the 112 low wing type) that looked like a Cessna 172 with a Mooney tail. It had a couple of cool innovations, fiberglass leaf springs for the landing gear, and a laminar flow airfoil. The gear was great, flexible without feeling springy, and the airfoil gave me about a 0.5-1gph cruise efficiency improvement over the 172 with the same engine/prop at the same speed. (Depending on how clean/waxed the wing was, rain, etc)

The wing was not good for bush flying though, it was either flying or not flying, not much middle ground. Popping off in ground effect to accelerate was much less effective than in a 172.

The stall break was a slight burble, then a clean break with no extra warning. The airplane was well mannered, though, hard to get it to drop a wing, and very controllable in a falling leaf stall.
by lurkshark | 2025-07-21 13:46:37+00:00
> Why was it possible for him to enter?

This is probably the main one. I could completely understand wanting the assistance of a loved one for mundane things like standing up.

Although to your “not prepped for MRI” point, it is kind of wild that someone with a 20 lbs chain around their neck would be allowed even on the same floor as a MRI machine. Although last time I saw one in person, the door to the room did have some pretty blunt warning text in large print.
Instant responsiveness in user interfaces is annoying
by zero-sharp | 2025-07-21 13:46:46+00:00
I hardly make posts on this forum and I don't see people talking about this. This is a personal gripe/rant with a lot of modern applications. Here are some examples of what I mean:

1. As I'm typing text into a search input, the interface wants to instantaneously pattern match my search and offer the best results. Sometimes this is helpful. In other situations, this can take my attention away by opening extraneous menus or interactive elements. To be honest, I just want to finish typing my search. Stop asking me for more input as I'm typing my input.

2. Certain websites are designed to open menus/interactive elements as the cursor hovers over particular web elements. For me, this is sometimes another distraction. Just because I moved my mouse, that doesn't mean I want to see yet another menu. The instant responsiveness can lead me to click in the wrong places due to unexpected interface components showing up. I can't tell you how many times I've chained several misclicks due to unexpected links/buttons (or lack thereof as described in 3 below).

3. Responsiveness creates expectations for feedback. Then, if some part of your application starts to lag (maybe it's the internet, maybe it's my computer), you lose the responsiveness and I get annoyed.

Am I just becoming a grumpy old guy?
by nancyminusone | 2025-07-21 13:47:31+00:00
They do. You'll be hard pressed to find a magnet room without this [0] sign on the door. That said, it's probably not that warning to most people. Fridge magnets are always on too.

0 - https://www.zzmedical.com/exclusives/mri-warning-wall-sign-m...
by Silhouette | 2025-07-21 13:47:41+00:00
They have a huge majority of MPs of their own, the likely support of almost every MP from the smaller parties, and the Parliament Acts. If they wanted to force through some form of PR in a few years then the only things that could stop them would be a government-ending rebellion by Labour MPs (which seems unlikely - if they're still in trouble then many of those MPs might have a better chance of keeping their positions under the new system) and time (the Lords could delay the change until after another election if the process wasn't started soon enough).

It's not a manifesto policy but then they're probably going to implement a lot of things that aren't manifesto policies between now and then. At least this one would have cross-party support in Parliament and probably broad public support as well.
by philipallstar | 2025-07-21 13:47:43+00:00
It's because it would mean looking at immigration numbers. If immigration creates far more demand than there is supply, as it does in various first world countries, then it makes house prices shoot up. But this is not a popular topic, as voters with houses don't care about their house prices going up, and voters without houses are generally younger and don't have the capacity to hear economic statements on immigration without auto-converting them into racial statements they've been warned about on CNN.
by sillystu04 | 2025-07-21 13:47:52+00:00
> Without renters there would be no housing Ponzi scheme

If by "housing Ponzi scheme" you mean house prices increasing then this isn't necessarily true.

Even in a world where private renting was illegal and people were forced to choose between home ownership and homelessness, house prices could increase over time because of restricted supply, increased populated and wage growth.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-21 13:48:19+00:00
It isn't a binary like that with the MRI though. If it stops strangling you in 10sec you're great, 15 you're fine, 20 you need to be woken back up.

Edit: Per the article that you have all supposedly read, he wasn't instantly incapacitated. He was pinned onto/into the machine with enough weight on him that he suffocated over seconds and ultimately died at the hospital. This would have been a "close call" with an E-stop (which they likely had, just wasn't hit soon enough).
by ricardobeat | 2025-07-21 13:48:38+00:00
You're forgetting the state management required to link the components. Here's a take (by Claude) on what it would look like, even if you ignore the entire `useDataSource` implementation it's an entirely different beast:

https://gist.github.com/ricardobeat/8aedb9c6d3a1b0bfaba9cc55...
by Apreche | 2025-07-21 13:49:19+00:00
Now if you want prices to go down, are you really going to do it by trying to decrease demand? What are you going to do, make your neighborhood a slum on purpose? Absolutely nobody is doing that.

No matter how nice a place people live, they always want it to be nicer. They want better schools, nicer parks, clean streets, quality infrastructure. They want to attract nice businesses and cultural institutions.

The problem is that doing this necessarily increases demand, and increases prices. Unless you are an owner, doing this risks pricing yourself out of your own home. So what can you do to keep rent down? Well, increase supply to match the increase in demand.

Now you have a new problem. Increased density puts pressure on the infrastructure and makes it a less-nice place to live. That park sure was a lot nicer when it was half as crowded. Those new restaurants sure were a lot nicer when you could actually get a reservation.

It’s a very difficult dance to keep all these things balanced. Ultimately everyone wants to make the place they live nicer, no matter how nice it is already. You can never try to manage this problem from the demand side unless you find a set of crazy people who love living in a sty.