MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by almost_usual | 2025-08-24 00:29:37+00:00
Commute home starts at 4pm on the train, I work while on the train. Get home at 5pm, get dinner ready. Dinner cooked by 6-6:30pm usually done eating shortly after.

Wind down starts at 7pm, do some miscellaneous things like dishes etc, take a hot shower. In bed by 8pm.

I avoid driving as much as possible. I will always walk, run, ride a bike, or take public transit rather than drive.

Driving is tremendously expensive when it comes to time.
by ViktorRay | 2025-08-24 00:31:05+00:00
Boredom isn’t the worst thing.

30 years ago being a couch potato who watched tv all day was stigmatized. These people were wasting their lives. But at least they weren’t hurting others.

Nowadays these bored coach potato aren’t watching COPS and Judge Judy all day. They’re posting angry stuff online and radicalizing themselves and others. Which makes the world worse for everyone else.

(For what it’s worth I personally happen to be a big fan of COPS and Judge Judy. And I also post stuff online as evidenced by this very same Hacker News comment. But sometimes what you post matters)
by nkantar | 2025-08-24 00:31:06+00:00
Author (not OP) here. It hadn’t really occurred to me to optimize the Dockerfile in this way because of how rarely the build is run in the first place, but I’m absolutely going to do this, since the ratio of code changes to content changes will definitely skew heavily toward the latter, and it just seems like a good habit anyway. Thanks for reminding me, and even explaining how to do it!
by graycat | 2025-08-24 00:31:41+00:00
Easier: At the best, cheap in-state college, major in math, science, or tech. Do well, and then for an Ivy, etc. college, go there as a grad student which can be even better for meeting people than being a ugrad student at an Ivy. Going as a grad student might be for free.

Maybe teach some ugrad courses -- a way to meet people, especially girls 1-3 years younger. Generally do a lot of the obvious things to meet people -- much of the reason for an Ivy is to meet people. If you want an academic career, then a top research university can be a HUGE help, i.e., may have several world class research professors any one of whom could get you a good start on an excellent research direction.

As a ugrad, to help getting into the college you want as a grad student, be sure to work hard and do well. E.g., any free time you might have, get and study the books of courses you plan to take. Then in such courses you will have a head start that can make you look MUCH smarter. For some of the profs that taught courses you did well in, get them to help you with suggestions of courses, texts, papers. You will want one or more such profs to recommend you for the grad program you want. To do well, maybe write an honors paper.
by soraminazuki | 2025-08-24 00:31:42+00:00
There have been cases where I needed to install drivers from the manufacturer. Hunting it down from the manufacturer's website is a pain and most importantly, I'd rather avoid installing CrapPrinterBundle.exe [1] from hardware manufacturers if I could avoid it. Gutenprint has been a good alternative in this case.

[1]: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
by ivanjermakov | 2025-08-24 00:32:51+00:00
As being one of the post authors you mentioned, I don't think such posts should scare people from trying it out. Zig team is eager to discuss and break things if a better solution is found.

Such approach is not a great fit for those who treat Zig as a future job opportunity, but for personal and small-team projects it's _already_ a neat language with clear goals and great tooling.
by bko | 2025-08-24 00:35:07+00:00
I agree with everything you wrote. But the real harm with most of these regulations are the unintended consequences, and second order effects.

Say you don't really think <10k cars belong on the road. Sure. But that could just lead to more dangerous forms of transportation like e-bikes or scooters. Or people are restricted to where they can work and live.

An example in the US is Obama era fuel efficiency standards for sedans had lower standards for SUVs. Fast-forward 20 years, nearly every car is an SUV. But it takes a few steps to figure out what the effects actually are.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-08-24 00:36:41+00:00
Most price increase over last 10-15 years is not safety equipment. Regular inflation was massively compounded by the covid chip shortages / missplanning / greed / whatever ratio of factors one subscribes to.

Note, while I do not expect we will convince each other via interwebs, every safety advance from winter tires to abs to safety belts to airbags to glass that doesn't shatter etc has had a "but I don't need it because I don't drive much | I am awesome driver | it could not happen to me | etc". I don't think it's binary, I think regulation over reach is a definite thing, I just don't think massive increase in car prices over last 5 years is because companies are forcing safety equipment on awesome drivers who don't need it.

Case in point, I got the last kia rio model with all the fancy equipment and detection and even wireless carplay for 18k before they dropped the model. They don't sell a car like that anymore. Next cheapest car kia sells me right now is 26k or more - with absolutely no more safety features to justify / blame the massive price jump :-(
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-24 00:37:42+00:00
Amusing to see GDPR there. It's the law that delivers the most of avoidable user friction online, by far.

It's like they saw how annoying the existing "cookie laws" were and said "we can make it worse!"

GDPR might have had good ideas, but the implementation is so botched it's not even funny. Everything related to cookie consent should have been standardized and delegated to browser settings.
by amluto | 2025-08-24 00:38:27+00:00
Sometimes a regulation is bad before it’s good. For example: toilet flush volume.

We used to have 5 gpf toilets. They worked okay. They clogged on occasion but not too often. When they clogged, they would overflow after 1-2 flushes. 5 gallons was enough to keep the poop and toilet paper flowing through the drain pipes once they made it out of the toilet. They used a lot of water (5 gallons per flush!). They had basically no interesting technology to speak of.

Then regulations required less water, and the new toilets were bad. They were basically the same designs, using less water, and they regularly failed to flush, they clogged frequently, and they even contributed to downstream clogs because 2-ish gallons of slowly draining water didn’t get all the waste moving adequately.

Now, after years and years of bad toilets, the industry caught up. Modern toilets use even less water (often under 1.3gpf), but they use that water effectively. They flush well, generally considerably better than the old 5gpf toilets. They rarely overflow. They send the waste through the pipes forcefully. And they use less water! The industry even has standardized testing for flush performance.

I wonder if better regulation could have managed the transition to avoid the interim terrible toilets. Perhaps the performance tests should have come first, then a period of financial incentives for toilets that outperformed legacy toilets along with mandatory labeling with the water usage and performance data, and only actual requirements to use less water after good enough toilets were available.
by fluoridation | 2025-08-24 00:38:35+00:00
>A virus that wants to infect other executables on the system is going to have patching code in it where it's relatively rare in "legitimate" software so it makes sense for antimalware heuristics to find it suspicious.

Sure, but what an AV is going to look for is code that manipulates executable files, not random binary files. If the patchers are designed to apply patch files to ROMs rather than having the patches embedded then it makes even less sense that they get flagged.
by anonfordays | 2025-08-24 00:38:37+00:00
After she reported her brother’s abuse to police in 2010, naval investigators questioned Jeremy, who was stationed overseas. He admitted everything. In a statement to naval lawyers, Jeremy detailed the abuse of his sisters and admitted to inappropriately touching his third sister and two other non-family members when he was a teenager.

He started abusing children when he was 11, and continued into his teenage years.

https://wng.org/articles/the-high-cost-of-negligence-1617309...
by apsec112 | 2025-08-24 00:38:45+00:00
The first example I saw (think the order might be randomized?) was an EU ban on plastic straws, which is silly. Straws are a negligible fraction of plastic waste, and have no good substitute ("compostable" plastic straws are also banned; paper straws fall apart easily; metal/glass straws are inconvenient and require washing). This would flunk any serious cost/benefit analysis. You can hide the costs by making them regulatory instead of financial (the inconvenience of not having plastic straws doesn't appear in GDP stats), but the costs are still there, they're just hidden.
(ROCm) AMD-GPU-Boost: Unlock Full Performance on Consumer AMD GPUs
by painter3000 | 2025-08-24 00:39:08+00:00
https://github.com/Painter3000/AMD-GPU-BOOST

I've been frustrated with AMD GPU performance in AI/ML applications - my RX 6800 XT was only using ~25% of its potential in PyTorch. The issue? ROCm was designed for MI-series enterprise GPUs and severely underdetects consumer GPU capabilities.

ROCm reports only 36 compute units instead of 72, and uses warp size 32 instead of the optimal 64 for RDNA2/3. This affects the entire RX 6000/7000 series.

AMD-GPU-BOOST fixes this at runtime by monkey-patching PyTorch's device detection. Results: - 4x performance improvement in inference - "NVIDIA-only" apps now run perfectly on AMD - Works with ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, WAN 2.1, etc.

The tool includes a GUI installer for easy Pinokio integration and supports 18+ GPU models from RX 6400 to RX 7900 XTX.

This has been a major pain point for the AMD AI community - curious what the HN crowd thinks about runtime hardware detection fixes vs. proper driver/framework solutions.

Demo: My RX 6800 XT went from 1152 threads (36×32) to 4608 threads (72×64) - exactly what the hardware specs promise.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-08-24 00:39:10+00:00
I'm a techie, I loved my 2004 wrx for good two decades, but which slippery slope are we discussing here?

Putting a black box in your car that records everything without my consent - I'm with you on slippery slopes and ulterior motives.

A gentle gentle nudge that helps me on long distances - I'm honestly not with you :-/
by onesociety2022 | 2025-08-24 00:39:38+00:00
The question is why haven’t they already done this type of cost control with existing Medicare? People aged 65 and over are incredibly lucrative for Big Pharma and medical industry as a whole because by definition they will incur a lot of medical problems due to their age and need a lot of medication. So it’s a lucrative segment of the market that they can’t afford to lose. So the US govt should be in a great position to negotiate on costs but it doesn’t look like they have done much at all.

I think in a way Americans are actually subsidizing pharmaceuticals for consumers in other countries because pharmaceutical companies are willing to sell the same product for less to them because as you said their marginal production costs are minimal and they have already recuperated a great return on their R&D investment from American consumers.
by crusty | 2025-08-24 00:40:47+00:00
"If Waymo's plan is to have to map the entire US to be capable of driving in it, that's going to cost a lot of money and take a lot of time"

So Waymo doesn't have access to Google Maps/Street View vehicles' data? Because that sounds like what you're describing here.

Also, would NYC be the first real test city for self driving with seasons? Besides SF's 3 daily seasons. The city should put up bleachers and sell tickets for the first snow.
by Etherlord87 | 2025-08-24 00:41:00+00:00
> At this point, I'm out of ideas. The most impactful move would probably be to switch to a faster terminal... but I'm already running Ghostty! I thought it was a pretty performant terminal to being with!

But what is the point? Why do you want to optimize the display? If you want to be able to fizz-buzz for millions of numbers, then you want to... Well realistically only compute them just before they are displayed.
by bjourne | 2025-08-24 00:42:10+00:00
Most content creators have no ad revenue at all and didn't create their videos with the intent to profit from them. Yet they help build YouTube's back catalogue and get nothing in return for it. They have no Patreon accounts or donation links. I am a "content creator" too. Not like I give a shit if people watch videos of me playing guitar with their ad blockers on.
by mu53 | 2025-08-24 00:42:28+00:00
If Youtube's services (streaming/storage) are not paid for, they can't pay content creators.

When people do not pay for services directly with a credit card, they pay for it indirectly with ads and data collection. The internet would be a better place if companies didn't have to worry so much about monetizing indirectly. Plus, the only companies that can give out free services often have monopolistic intent.

This whole debate embodies why the internet has become what it has.
Show HN: LaunchPerk – free platform to help founders get first users
by gabrieln | 2025-08-24 00:42:37+00:00
Hi all!

I’ve built and scaled a few startups, and every time the hardest part wasn’t the product – it was getting those first users and early validation. Paid ads are expensive, directories are outdated, and communities often feel closed off.

That’s why I built LaunchPerk – a free platform where founders can list their startups, promote what they’re building, and offer early perks to attract first users.

The goal is simple: help founders get discovered, without budget or gatekeepers, while giving curious users a place to try new products.

It’s still early, so any feedback from this community would mean a lot.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-24 00:44:13+00:00
Compared to 4x RTX 6000 Blackwell boards, it's GPU poor. There has to be a reason they want to load up a tower chassis with $35K worth of GPUs, right? I'd have to assume it has strong advantages for inference as well as training, given that the GPU has more influence on TTFT with longer contexts than the CPU does.
Show HN: Own or Rent – financial calculator with developer-friendly API
by jjjamie | 2025-08-24 00:44:29+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Own or Rent (https://ownorent.com) after getting frustrated with existing rent vs. buy calculators that hide assumptions and use confusing jargon.

What's different: - 100% transparent calculations - no hidden fees or confusing math - Results in under 5 minutes without lengthy forms - Public REST API for developers building financial apps or LLM integrations - Clear breakdown of mortgage payments, taxes, maintenance, and opportunity costs

The API is particularly useful for chatbots, financial advisory platforms, or any app that needs reliable rent vs. buy calculations.

Built this because every calculator I tried felt like it was designed to push you toward buying. This one just gives you the math.

Would love feedback from the community, especially on the API design and what other features would be useful for developers.
by dijksterhuis | 2025-08-24 00:44:38+00:00
you do realise that most people slow down for blind curves for exactly this reason, right?

pre-empt potential dangers and adjust driving accordingly. if you’re concerned that you might have to act due to an unseen/unknown danger — then slow down.

it shouldn’t be necessary to swerve out when driving except as a choice of absolute last resort (ie something/someone jumped in front of you inside braking distance and you’ve got no other safe option, in which case you’re probably fucked anyway).
by didibus | 2025-08-24 00:44:44+00:00
I think the original source is a 2006 Gallup interview with the researcher Gloria Mark you can read here: https://news.gallup.com/businessjournal/23146/too-many-inter...

> GMJ: How long does it take to get back to work after an interruption?

> Mark: There's good news and bad news. To have a uniform comparison, we looked at all work that was interrupted and resumed on the same day. The good news is that most interrupted work was resumed on the same day -- 81.9 percent -- and it was resumed, on average, in 23 minutes and 15 seconds, which I guess is not so long.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-08-24 00:44:49+00:00
When you do the demosaicing, and perhaps other steps, did you ever consider declaring the x-positions, spline parameters, ... as latent variables to estimate?

Consider a color histogram, then the logo (showing color oscillations) would have a wider spread and lower peaked histogram versus a correctly mapped (just the few colors plus or minus some noise) which would show a very thin but strong peak in colorspace. A a high-variance color occupation has higher entropy compared to a low-variance strongly centered peak (or multipeak) distribution.

So it seems colorspace entropy could be a strong term in a loss function for optimization (using RMAD).
by MindSpunk | 2025-08-24 00:46:47+00:00
The common problems with exceptions isn’t the easy part of try/catch, it’s the execution model and “any function could throw” that causes most contention. Error values are logically simpler and fully document if and what errors the function can return. Checked exceptions solve that too, but in practice nobody used them even where available. And you still end up with hidden control flow with exceptions, the exceptional path through a function is syntactically invisible and difficult to audit without very strong language tooling.
by fluoridation | 2025-08-24 00:46:49+00:00
You didn't answer my question. Why can't the optimum include some fee dodging? I agree that the app stores provide value to the developers, but it's also true that apps provide value to Google and Apple. If no one developed any apps, no one would use iOS or Android. Therefore it's possible that Google and Apple benefit more from an app that dodges fees but brings in users than from neither having the app nor those users.
by ASinclair | 2025-08-24 00:47:05+00:00
It's been a while since I attended one. I remember some of the most interesting talks were the ones I was not particularly interested in from the descriptions. Mostly talks about the history of San Francisco:

* Ghost signs: https://sf.nerdnite.com/2014/06/04/nerd-nite-sf-49/

* Neon signs: https://sf.nerdnite.com/2017/10/11/nerd-nite-sf-89-brain-sci...

* Dairy farming: https://sf.nerdnite.com/2019/08/14/nerd-nite-sf-111-butterfl...
by jmpman | 2025-08-24 00:50:23+00:00
During the George Floyd death, the only place I could find the entire unedited footage was on liveleak, including when Floyd got into and subsequently out of the police cruiser. Nowhere else could I find that, and wondered why such an important event, triggering such outrage - didn’t have all the video available for everyone to view. A cynical person would suggest that the entire unedited footage conflicted with whatever narrative the media was pushing at the time.
by bubblebeard | 2025-08-24 00:50:41+00:00
My feelings exactly. Whenever I get one of those days I’ve found I get more done away from my desk. Taking a walk in the forest or doing some household chores can really help you get back on track.

Of course at times it’s just better to admit altogether this isn’t a day meant for work and spend it relaxing instead. Usually, the benefit of that is a really productive day at work the day after too, everybody wins.
by teruakohatu | 2025-08-24 00:52:56+00:00
> Just a few short years ago, everyone was advised to “learn to code”, regardless of where their real interests might lie. Yet now, we are told, this is one area where large language models already excel. Will some share of the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested into Stem be reallocated toward rescuing the humanities – the one set of disciplines whose value does not depend entirely on unforeseeable macroeconomic contingencies? We shouldn’t hold our breath.

This is an odd statement, and probably reflects the authors own anxieties.
by mullingitover | 2025-08-24 00:53:16+00:00
Yes, you have recited the business' argument. However, fta:

> (When contacted by Agweb regarding the Sun Valley case, DOL referred all questions to DOJ. When contacted by Agweb, DOJ did not respond.)

So we're basically hearing the side of the story from the business' lawyers, since the regime's DOJ is vehemently not on the side of laborers and certainly not willing to vouch for the prior administration.

At the end of the day this is just a debate about whether they're due a jury trial, and this is all a matter of political philosophy. I'm personally of the opinion that jury trials are inappropriate in civil cases, and should only be used for criminal trials, so I don't really get worked up about the right of this business to get one.
by jaberjaber23 | 2025-08-24 00:55:58+00:00
I built one of the largest Arabic LLM datasets:

- 743K articles

- 244M words

- 1.5M unique words

- Cleaned, deduplicated, JSONL format, LLM-ready

It’s ready for GPT, BERT, LLaMA, or any Arabic NLP research.

For too long, Arabic AI lagged behind. Most LLMs ignored our language, and high-quality datasets didn’t exist. That changes today.
by starchild3001 | 2025-08-24 00:56:45+00:00
Re: Online content.

I'm well aware of what's available out there as online content (it's no farther than a Google or youtube search).

Do you think what's out there as online content is what's truly possible if we had a million more Amiga enthusiasts?

That's my vision of what's to come in, say, 10-20 yrs. Imagine every Amiga game played and recorded by many (AI) users from start to finish. Every tactic explored, and cool strategies figured out. I for one would watch this.

Imagine vibe coding becoming more and more possible with 68k assembly. And having 1000x Amiga (AI) developers producing cool demo, intro and game material. New material. Novel and cutting edge material. At massive scale.

I believe this is the future we're headed. I for one am very excited about it.

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Re: A physical museum.

No, an Amiga or Commodore focus cannot be found anywhere in Silicon Valley or in United States. Even Computer History Museum (CHM) in Silicon Valley has very little Commodore content.

I live <1 mile away from the original Amiga offices in Los Gatos. It's a bit of shame that there's so little Amiga or Commodore in CHM.
by 3oil3 | 2025-08-24 00:58:36+00:00
very good philosphy, near the end author says "Think of yourself as a physics teacher, not a physics textbook." Very good. As for appearing surprised that many people do not care, so it is.

Everyone has a relative that after 30 years still doesn't know how to use the airco controls?

I read somewhere it all follows some sort of gaussian/normal distribution, like in 11 peole there might be 1 knowledgeable, 2 interested, 5 pretending to listen, 2 bored, 1 sneaking out. Sometimes it's you or me who sneaks out.