MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-08-15 16:39:55+00:00
> You don't care how expensive and complicated it is to repair and maintain your mountain bike (especially if you plan to eat gravel a lot)?

I have 3 bicycles at the moment and use one as my main way of buying groceries.

My ideal bicycle ownership experience is: I change the brake fluid every few years, I spray the chain whenever I remember to, I change tires and brake pads when they wear out, and I never, ever have to do any other maintenance.

I don't care about the bicycle itself, I care about what the bicycle lets me do.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-15 16:39:58+00:00
They are one of many pragmatic solutions, though I’d strongly argue cities skip right to forced-divestiture schemes of vacant units for owners and landlords alike. We have a homelessness crisis, and if you own a property that’s vacant nine months out of the year in a major metro then that should be forcibly sold off, incur steep tax penalties, or be rented out at fixed rates and long leases if you want to preserve ownership.
by DrewADesign | 2025-08-15 16:40:43+00:00
In addition to confirming and quantifying my more obvious and problematic symptoms, the reaction time tests clearly showed my very mild impulsivity. Nobody I know would call me impulsive, and in the questionnaires I’d have said I wasn’t impulsive, even though I had a sense I was subconsciously resisting that tendency. The tests were too quick for my usual masking reflex, and while I was still ultimately diagnosed with the inattentive variant, the tests revealed a textbook symptom I wasn’t even aware of. Quite illuminating.
by autoexec | 2025-08-15 16:41:03+00:00
"fails to protect children" is a strange way to say "actively exploits children"

I think roblox is built on child gambling, child labor, disgusting and aggressive marketing, psychological manipulations to make kids feel bad/anxious, and predators both sexual and corporate (including "avatar influencers" who are ads pretending to be friends with children). The entire platform should be shut down.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-15 16:41:10+00:00
But random JavaScript and GIFs from who knows where, with no transparency about how they got there and whether the owner is getting paid to run that specific ad, are no less bad. Did they sell my data to target me personally? Is Acer paying them to run ads on a page about HP laptops? Who knows. That’s completely opaque and untrustworthy today. You have to assume all in-page ads are compromising today because they largely are.
by pstuart | 2025-08-15 16:41:26+00:00
Going through Three Mile Island and Chernobyl put me in the anti-nuclear camp.

As I got older and understood the technology better, I came around to be conceptually pro nuclear. In fact, if we hadn't had those disasters and had successfully extended our nuclear power fleet we likely wouldn't be this far into climate change.

The pitch is still compelling, but the elephant in the room is cost: renewables (including storage) are cheaper and getting cheaper still.

The antidote to this might be SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) that cut costs by mass producing reactors on an assembly line rather than thesse bespoke behemoths, but even then they apparently can't compete.

We need all the non-carbon energy we can get, and if nuclear can get us there affordably we should embrace that. The economics should be a driving force rather than pure ideology.
by nkurz | 2025-08-15 16:41:26+00:00
You may have better luck emailing hn@ycombinator.com to ask. But in general, articles are flagged by users and not moderators, and they tend to trust those user flags.

The obvious followup question is why the users that flagged this did so. If any of you flagged this, it would be interesting to hear your reasons.
by haspok | 2025-08-15 16:41:31+00:00
> Even when it doesn't work

I was genuinely surprised last summer, when a locomotive standing still at a station spontaneously burst into flames, during the busiest commuting period. Had I not been WFH that day, it would have been a major inconvenience, as the whole station closed down for a couple of hours... I thought that this kind of experience was reserved for Eastern Europeans, but the Swiss proudly followed suit.

https://www.blick.ch/schweiz/zuerich/feuer-in-zuerich-zug-am...
by stephc_int13 | 2025-08-15 16:41:39+00:00
The housing market is different than most markets in many ways.

- Building cost is often marginal compared to land.

- Land value is highly correlated to economic opportunities around it.

- Economic opportunities are following a power law around economic centers (highly non-linear).

- There is a density ceiling, with some variations depending on cultural traditions but still constrained by transportation technologies and psychological factors.

- The location of economic centers is not randomly distributed but constrained by geography, especially access to water transportation routes.

Financial speculation and building restrictions are second orders effects of the inherent housing scarcity, amplifying it, but not a root cause.
by starkparker | 2025-08-15 16:41:44+00:00
There was a brief time 15 or so years ago where the $200-500k homes in the six or so blocks I live in were being snapped up by young upper-middle-class families on long 3-4% mortgages.

Those families' kids have now grown up, and the houses have appreciated, sometimes as much as 2-3x, due to a nearby light rail development connecting the neighborhood to the city at large on cheap transit. So those families are cashing out their housing by selling primarily to out-of-market elderly wealthy downsizers, typically from California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and Texas.

The result is a neighborhood of 3- and 4-bedroom homes that once housed families of 4 or more people now mostly inhabitated by 2 or fewer people (many left vacant more than half the year as these wealthy retirees frequently travel). They also refit these former starter or second homes to accommodate these elderly inhabitants' reduced mobility and/or increase the home's luxury.

When these residents die in 10 or so years, even if the market corrects prices downward, these homes will now be even less suitable for anything but wealthy elderly inhabitants. The intelligent thing for the city to do would be to tear them down and replace them with accessible and affordable density; the reality is that the wealthy elderly who haven't died yet will spend the rest of their lives blocking such efforts out of spite.
by bambax | 2025-08-15 16:41:50+00:00
Making what is essentially a router dispatching queries to the smallest engine susceptible to answer a question was maybe a good optimization from a techical and business pont of view.

But branding that router "GPT5" is a huge marketing mistake, because now, every time a smaller model says something stupid (as they often do), it seems that's the best OpenAI has to offer...
by BobaFloutist | 2025-08-15 16:41:54+00:00
You could have a system that limits sale of IP to clearly defined capitalization, I.E. instead of "You own this IP for 20 years and get x% of profits in return for funding/publishing and giving my y% of profits" it could be "In return for funding/publishing in the next 5 years, you get x% of profits and I get y% of profits, but I still own my IP and your rights expire after a short period of not publishing.

AFAIK that's actually standard for writers: publishers usually license the IP for a period for a prescribed royalty blend and for publishing, and after a certain amount of time or if they don't publish the rights revert, and international/audio/digital rights are negotiated separately.

There's an argument for "What if I don't want to deal with capitalizing on this whatsoever and just want to sell it for a cash payment now because I literally don't want that to be my job," but even then there should probably be a minimum royalty along with the lump sum to protect against exploitation.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-15 16:41:55+00:00
I get every webpage as text-only

I can reformat webpages into formatted text exactly the way I want it; I can save the important bits into an SQL database (I like the text-only output of sqlite3)

I do not use a popular, so-called "modern" browser; no graphics, no automatic sourcing of resources (files), no css, no javascript

I cannot understand why HN commenters believe that text-only is up to the web developer (whereupon the web user must look for aesthetcially-pleasing websites)

Text-only is up to the web user; all webpages look more or less the same to me; it's just text

Why use a graphical browser to view text

If you can come up with reasons, then either (a) you are a web developer or (b) you will be a target for online ads, whether you like them or not^1

1. And you will spend a gross amount of time and energy trying to "block" them

Please don't misunderstand me; sometimes one needs graphics, fonts, etc.^2; but that decision is up to the web user, not the web developer

tl;dr the decision to consume information published on the web as text-only is up to the web user, not the web developer

1. Such occasions might call for using a so-called "modern" browser, with graphics, Javascript and so on. For example, making airline reservations using a website. However, this does not preclude one from consuming website information as text-only, e.g., in the process of searching for fares. This decision is for the web user, not the web developer. Different web users may make different decisions.
by Modified3019 | 2025-08-15 16:41:57+00:00
I believe you may be confusing the type of safeties that block even intentional firings with safeties that try to block unintended firings (such as from drops or other mechanical stress). Pistols have multiple levels of safeties involved.

A trigger safety is meant to ensure that the trigger must be intentionally pulled (as opposed to moving during an impact) for the firing pin to be able to release and hit cartridge primer.

The 1911 famously has a grip safety, which needs to be depressed for the trigger to move. This is to try to ensure someone has to be gripping it with intent to fire, for it to be able to do so. While much safer than other pistols at the time, 100+ years later the design is relatively flawed, and isn’t truly drop safe, as the firing pin can still move.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-15 16:42:07+00:00
Except those firms currently have enough money to lobby politicians to oppose any changes that would meaningfully increase supply, and also hold outsized stakes in the companies and suppliers who would build said stock.

It’s a rigged game top to bottom. A free market would’ve fixed this years ago, but this is not a free market anymore. The difference is I advocate control of necessity markets returning to government regulations around availability and affordability, while luxury markets remain relatively untouched.

Housing is a necessity. No market god is going to fix it.
by amluto | 2025-08-15 16:42:45+00:00
I gave the e-ink example quite intentionally. The patents were held by a practicing entity. You could buy their mediocre implementation of their excellent underlying invention at an outrageous price and probably not with the specs you wanted.

I’m all for rewarding inventors like this for their inventions. I do not think that the reward should include any sort of ability to stifle use and further development of the invention.

The law should make it possible to build, sell, and profit from a better e-ink product at a lower price. The law should make it possible to sell things that use H.265 at a credible price without needing to be involved in the mess of figuring out who owns what patent. If patent holders, practicing or otherwise, want to sue each other, fine, but I don’t think there should be any requirement for the companies building and selling products to be parties to those legal messes at all.

As far as I know, radio in the US actually mostly works this way. To broadcast a copyrighted song, you pay a fee, and that’s it.
by nimbius | 2025-08-15 16:42:58+00:00
If valve can escape the Microsoft store, it can handle a few payment processors.

what would happen if Valve accepted Cryptocurrency?

in turn, what might happen if valve decided to become a cryptocurrency exchange exclusive to the gaming community?

EDIT: another solution is to use a load-wallet based system to shroud transactions from your financial nanny. money in, money out, no explicit evidence of a purchase.
by jfengel | 2025-08-15 16:43:00+00:00
Of course it's a bubble. The question is whether it's a dotcom bubble or a tulip-bulb bubble.

When the dotcom bubble collapsed there was something left -- some enormous power-players, and a moderate-to-significant shift by just about every other company.

When the tulip-bulb bubble collapsed, nothing remained. Same with the real-estate bubble of 2007, which didn't actually result in a much more actual buildings (and those that were built were often not well suited).

I'd say it's somewhere in between, though I don't know where yet.
by agent327 | 2025-08-15 16:43:35+00:00
Yes, really. Windows supports 'delayed rendering' (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/cli...), whereby an application can choose to not provide the data until requested. Thus, applications have a choice of either providing the data directly if it's a smaller amount, or delaying that if the amount is large enough that a performance impact can be expected.

Moreover, Windows will request that applications that are closing provide their previously advertized clipboard data, making the feature pretty much transparent to users. And some applications ask if you will still need your previous clipboard data when they close (Excel is one, I seem to remember).
by stego-tech | 2025-08-15 16:44:12+00:00
And when your PE firm owns significant share of homebuilders, owns large tracts of land, and owns politicians, lobbying groups, think tanks, and economists, then you can effectively game the market to maximize your personal returns at the expense of everyone else.

They wouldn’t be buying 1 out of every 4 homes and bankrolling schemes to “unlock homeowner equity” (HEOCs, reverse mortgages, etc) if they thought this would be a resolved issue anytime soon. That’s exactly why government needs to get involved and force divestiture.
by majormajor | 2025-08-15 16:44:20+00:00
Nowhere in the US does it at the scale to make a serious long-term dent in prices.

Nobody with enough money and exposure to large amounts of real-estate wants to kill the golden goose. Look at the post-Covid-migration build stories. Rents start to soften and development dramatically slows.

Like Austin - https://austinmonitor.com/stories/2024/08/as-construction-sl...

Or Denver - https://www.denverpost.com/2025/07/24/apartments-housing-rea...

You would need continued serious government investment to make sure focus continues to be on total units and consumer price instead of investor ROI.

Because even adding four fancy town-houses or condos helps if what used to be there was single-family or duplex. But it doesn't help NEARLY as much as adding 100 units by converting an old shopping center or 30-unit apartment. But there are strong incentives against developers doing "too much" of the latter if they know they can make the same ROI by selling fewer, nicer units.

Individual residential property owners take a lot of blame here but they're not even benefiting THAT much - every crazy price increase is putting any upgrade to their own situation further out of reach. And fighting low-density residential NIMBY-ism is a slow process if you still only can buy one lot as a time as it becomes available. So focus on underutilized commercial and industrial near major hubs or transit corridors where most of what you're displacing is ugly parking lots and empty storefronts that contribute to crime as well.
by psunavy03 | 2025-08-15 16:44:34+00:00
Nuclear waste storage is a problem to be solved. But that potentially contaminates, at worst, a discrete area of the planet which can be managed around. Climate change contaminates the entire freaking planet.

If you aren't serious about nuclear power, you aren't serious about climate change. We should have nuclearized our grid decades ago. The US Navy has run reactors for over 50 years without incident. It can be done.
"A container-level security context gives you control over Kubernetes workloads"
by bernardoortega | 2025-08-15 16:44:42+00:00
For example, you might have 3 containers in the same pod, but only one needs to run in privileged mode. With a properly configured security context, you can run the others as non-privileged, reducing your attack surface.

This is one of the practical steps I cover in Learning Kubernetes Security Book because security isn’t about locking everything down, it’s about applying the right controls in the right place.

Read more: https://lnkd.in/e5g4tY8k
by NewUser76312 | 2025-08-15 16:44:52+00:00
Stuff like this is sad, especially looking at the costs involved.

It just shows the stark contrast: China is interested in building and being competitive (through unruly means as well as legitimate ones) while the US is a 'lawfare society' prioritizing paperwork and bureaucracy and not moving to help actual physical industries that matter.

We don't need more of our economy relying on lawyers and paper pushers. We need builders and innovators back at the forefront. China gets this.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-15 16:45:05+00:00
It is entirely possible to do these manual things, acquiring users one or two at a time, and never having achieved escape velocity where your product does not garner enough attention such that its users recommend the product to others, and it grows by word of mouth itself.

I've built at least two of these that became the most popular solution in their space for a given problem, and if you don't have the constraints of a VC investor wanting their returns and eventually shutting you down, then you can realistically go for years without significant enough growth to even get past par with your direct competitors.

Or you realize that your competitors were never even big enough to meaningfully compete with in the first place because you didn't aim high enough.
by tombert | 2025-08-15 16:45:41+00:00
I currently use Hugo with a fairly lightweight theme for my blog, which I like ok, but my stuff is primarily text and I’ve debated trying to find something even lighter.

The issue is that I do use pictures occasionally in my posts, and these aren’t just flavor, it’ll be graphs and screenshots and stuff. I also do use Javascript purely for the client-side search [1] and going hyper-minimal kind of means a rejection of JavaScript. Search isn’t strictly “necessary” but kind of nice.

And that’s the recurring theme I keep finding; 99% of stuff can easily be converted to a dumb and fast text-only thing, but then there’s that one thing that makes me keep stuff bloated.

[1] https://blog.tombert.com/posts/2025-03-12-search-v2/
by homebrewer | 2025-08-15 16:46:13+00:00
I support an installation for a couple hundred users. It's been working fine for several years now, including browser plugins and mobile clients. If the project goes under, it's easy to export everything and import into the official Bitwarden.

(Whose server I really don't enjoy, it's very enterprise-y and heavy on resources for no real reason I could find.)
by abcd_f | 2025-08-15 16:46:22+00:00
It bears repeating -

While all games delisted at MC/Visa demands were from the rape and/or incest nsfw genre (and that should've not been on Steam to begin with), it still set a dangerous precedent as the game selection criteria was ultimately subjective. Relatable, but subjective. Next time it will again be subjective, but not as clear cut, yet the precedent will already be in place.
by miyoji | 2025-08-15 16:46:51+00:00
The thread isn't about fashion, really. It's about style and aesthetics. Most of the poorly fitting loose clothes that he's criticizing are "in fashion" but they look terrible. Even if you don't agree with his sense of aesthetics, learning to see what he's talking about is valuable.

> I did think the first comment was interesting, that it could be selection bias as fewer photos were taken so people dressed up.

He addresses this in replies, noting that people today dress worse even on formal occasions when they expect their picture to be taken. https://xcancel.com/dieworkwear/status/1955872833965580437#m
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by jmorf | 2025-08-15 16:46:57+00:00
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by kypro | 2025-08-15 16:47:00+00:00
Immigration is a similar debate where supply and demand goes out the window for political reasons.

Here in the UK it's really hard to convince people that it's really hard to address our housing shortage through building alone when we bring in about a million people every year. Even a lot of economists seem to think supply/demand doesn't apply when it comes to wages and house prices if you introduce immigration as a variable.

Unless it's undeniable I find people will just believe whatever suites them personally. Which is fair enough. I guess I'm just surprised at how unconscious this bias is for most people. Or at the very least they seem to truly believe that the housing market is an exception to supply/demand dynamics.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-15 16:47:13+00:00
I like a lot of wood Zion says especially since it provokes thought. He is a hot take internet guy.

Do I really think China is going to disappear over demographics? I think if you would gone back to the 1980s he would have looked at the Japanese demographics and said the same thing.

Japan is still around and it's doing fine.

Are we going to see privateers and one eyed captains pirating international trade like he once predicted? Not in the age of carriers.

But what navies can do is they can harass ships: board them, inspect them, delay them. Arbitrarily close shopping lanes and force them to take other routes (China could do this to make their exports preferable to say Vietnams).

Zeihan parrots a lot of other geopolitical thought and international relations thought. The general question post cold war was when the US will go isolationist. I believe largely that did not happen because US industrials wanted offshore production for cheap labor. So the US maintained its global focus.

With China, and Xi in particular, doing the things that they are doing to him in capitalism in China, that is forcing a reevaluation of companies have their production.

Sure. You could move it to Vietnam or Malaysia or Thailand or various countries like that, but that still places them within the Chinese military sphere.

When you consider that we have a country like Mexico south of our border which is extremely productive, more productive than practically any other country. We currently have our production outsourced to any degree, why not move our production to Mexico?

Most of our natural resources, especially with the discovery of shale oil in The Dakotas is sourceable from the northern hemisphere.

But we'll see what happens
by dogleash | 2025-08-15 16:47:15+00:00
This guy FMEAs.

The harm is always a property of the failure, independent from the likelihood. The combination of the two independent values is usually a lookup in a grid to some score. I’m not gonna look at an FMEA in my leasure time, but if there was something juicy it’d be in the article text and it didn’t convince me.