MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by suzzer99 | 2025-08-14 20:52:57+00:00
I've averaged 60-hour weeks for a year and a half, with bursts up to 90 hours. I only did it because we were working on new tech at the time, and I figured it was worth it to my long-term value as a programmer. I'd never do it in some stale tech.

Also there was camaraderie. If I didn't like my coworkers, I never would have gone through it. We certainly didn't do it to make our bosses happy. In a weird way we almost had this attitude like we were doing it to spite our bosses. Like: "We'll build this thing for you, but you better stay out of our way. Your job is to clear obstacles for us when we need it, and otherwise don't tell us how to do our jobs." Luckily our bosses were smart enough to just let us cook and not ruin our morale by micromanaging.

The NBA legend Bill Russell said his dad told him, "Son, if the man asks you for 8 hours, give him 9. That way you can look any man on the job site straight in the eye and tell him to go hell." I like that attitude.

I'm still friends with many of those coworkers, even though we haven't worked together since 2017. It's a bit like (I assume) sharing a foxhole in war. You'll always have that bond.
by mystraline | 2025-08-14 20:53:49+00:00
What these companies would "sell" would be DRM crusty shit that wouldn't work on my devices. And the 'Authorization servers' would be decommissioned at some unstated future date. Hell, even Microsoft couldn't manage to maintain these DRM servers.

If MS cant, why would I expect any company to properly maintain them?

https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-play-content-prote...

So, unless these are MP4's or MKV's with correct subtitling and appropriate audio, I'm not going to pay a cent here.
by dilDDoS | 2025-08-14 20:54:31+00:00
I actually think pirating encourages a healthier approach to watching TV/movies. I've fully made the switch to pirating instead of subscribing to any streaming services, and it's led to me thinking more critically about what I want to spend time downloading and watching rather than just flipping mindlessly through endless amounts of readily available garbage on a streaming service.

I do still have Kanopy though, which is great for me but obviously depends on your library.
by gpm | 2025-08-14 20:54:34+00:00
No...

In the part of my post that you quoted I'm literally just talking about the cover page of [1] where the defendants are listed, and at the time only Flo is listed. So nothing against Facebook/Meta is being alleged in [1]. They got added to the suit sometime between that document and [3] - at a glance probably as part of consolidating some other case with this one.

Reading [1] for allegations against Facebook doesn't make any sense, because it isn't supposed to include those.
by pizzathyme | 2025-08-14 20:54:46+00:00
Exactly. Unpopular take: I don't understand how the "fundamental flaw" is just the author's opinion that it's "not sustainable". Asian companies have sustained 60+ hour workweeks with high-skilled tech workers for decades.

It's not fun. I don't want to do it. I don't support it. But it is one way to run a company.
by bonestamp2 | 2025-08-14 20:55:45+00:00
Agreed. We call those people assholes. We try our best to avoid hiring those people and we weed them out of our company as fast as possible if they're discovered. We also try to have as flat a structure as possible so nobody is taking credit for anyone else's work and ideally many of us are working together so we all share the glory or frustration when something goes well or not.
by dathinab | 2025-08-14 20:56:17+00:00
no, some places did signed laws, are about to sign laws which do legally require age checks

e.g. this December a ban for social media for anyone <16y takes effect in Australia. They also removed the power from parents to consent that younger children are allowed to use social media. They require "reasonable" steps to check the age, and nearly did require id checks. Even through they in the end didn't require it but a simple captcha or similar clearly won't be enough.
by xmprt | 2025-08-14 20:57:01+00:00
I agree to some extent but there were a lot of advantages that Trump had that aren't particularly democratic. Electoral college gives more weight to rural voters. First past the post sucks. It's easy to mislead people because most metrics are lagging indicators (which is why neither party will ever fix the deficit). It also helps that his electorate tends to be less educated.

> they are incompatible with a fair debate

Considering his polling tanked after debating Harris and then he refused to debate again, I'm not sure if you can make this argument.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-08-14 20:57:15+00:00
> Maybe what you're trying to say here is that we understand LLMs enough in such a way that you aren't spooked. Since you made up all that bullshit about me being spooked, I'm guessing that's what you mean.

Correct. I bundled you with the alarmists who speak in similar ways, as pattern matching brains tend to do. Not an hallucination in the LLM sense, just standard probability.

> If we understand 1 percent of LLMs but only 0.1% of the human brain. That's a 10x dramatic increase in our understanding of LLMs OVER the brain. But it still doesn't change my main point: Overall we. don't. understand. how. LLMs. work. This is exactly the way I would characterize our overall understanding holistically.

And it's not how I characterize it at all. What algorithm is your brain running right now? Any idea? We have no clue. We know the algorithm the LLM is executing: it's a token prediction engine running in a loop. We wrote it. We know enough about how it works to know how to make it better (e.g., Mixture of Experts, "Reasoning").

This is not a "0.1x" or "10x" or whatever other quantitative difference, it's a qualitative difference in understanding. Not being able to predict the input-output relationship of any sufficiently large black-box algorithm does not give one carte-blanche to jump to conclusions regarding what they may or may not be.

How large does a black-box model need to be before you entertain that it might be "conscious" (whatever that may actually be). Is a sufficiently large spam filter conscious? Is it even worth entertaining such an idea? Or is it just worth entertaining for LLMs because they write text that is sufficiently similar to human written text? Does this property grant them enough "weight" that questions regarding "consciousness" are even worth bringing up? What about a starcraft playing bot based on reinforcement learning? Is it worth bringing up for one? We "do not understand" how they work either.
by LearnYouALisp | 2025-08-14 20:57:43+00:00
> WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - ...to cancel two nearly complete software projects that took 12 years and well over $800 million combined [for HR systems]...

> The reason for the unusual move: officials at those departments, who have so far put the existing projects on hold, want other firms, including Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects, which could amount to a costly do-over, according to seven sources familiar with the matter.

"To have a chance"?!

> Exodus 23:8 ESV > And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
by suspended_state | 2025-08-14 20:58:20+00:00
So, for a product to be trademarked, it requires some form of success, IIRC. If you make and try to sell a product in good faith, but nobody wants to buy it, you have no case for a trademark. That's weird.

I could see the reason if there's no evidence of (constructive) work being done (so a clear indication of someone holding on the trademark, ie. squatting, IIRC).

Now, if I had a forward looking business spirit, I could perhaps conceive the idea on combining a hobby of mine with trademark squatting to masquerade it, so perhaps this isn't so strange after all.
by karlgkk | 2025-08-14 20:58:26+00:00
Purism sells a Comet Lake box with the ME disabled (or so they say).

Many ARM vendors sell powerful arm computers without any ME-analog on board.

> It is needed to make Stuxnet-class attacks.

I have issues with the presence of the ME and I think we agree on a lot of things, but this statement is lunacy lol
by canyon289 | 2025-08-14 20:58:33+00:00
This is a key question we faced when building this model. It comes down to basically to "how good" to you need to be at "how many things". We had to make some choices with this model and do our best to maximize performance in those areas.

To answer this more precisely its a matter of choosing different data and training regimes and checking performance with evals.

And to make this fully concrete you're welcome to give it a try! Train this model on a taskset of your choice and measure the performance tradeoffs. You'll get a good sense of how LLM capabilities shift
by turnsout | 2025-08-14 20:59:17+00:00
Same. I'm 45 and lately I've been thinking about picking up a Blu-ray player. Not a drive to rip discs—a player to hook up to my TV. It's definitely an elder millennial thing, but I just want to own a physical copy of the movie and not have to worry about where it's streaming or whether the one I "bought" on iTunes has been quietly swapped for another version.

The sad thing is, I don't think Blu-ray is long for this world. But I at least want plastic copies of the classic movies I know I'll go back to.
Show HN: I built an alternative status page for public clouds
by jread | 2025-08-14 21:00:31+00:00
I created Cloud Looking Glass as a CS grad research project to build a better status page for public cloud platforms — independent and based on what users actually experience (in my experience, cloud providers tend to underreport events on public status pages).

I modeled it as a time series problem: all tests are repeated every 5 minutes from three unrelated cloud accounts per platform (currently ~1,000 tests/min). The system provides full data plane, control plane, and networking coverage for AWS us-east-1, plus network testing across 25 other providers. Full coverage for GCP and Azure is coming soon.

It also has a cloud looking glass for real-time zonal, regional, cross-region, cross-cloud, and last-mile network testing (ping, tcping, traceroute, MTR, etc.).

Would love feedback, suggestions, or advice.

https://cloudlooking.glass#show=uptime
by devilbunny | 2025-08-14 21:00:37+00:00
> most customers rarely ordered the more niche stuff

I'm sure that's true, but the flip side is that the niche stuff is what pulls in the hardcore film buffs. And guess who those of us who aren't big film buffs turn to when picking films and services? The hardcore film buffs we know.

They may not generate a ton of revenue if you look only at "how many people request obscure movie X", but having those movies pulls in the people who will, in turn, influence others.
by bawolff | 2025-08-14 21:00:57+00:00
Black markets are usually the result of failed markets, and i think its no different here. Copyright is a monopoly so there is no competition. Sure different streaming services compete with each other, but they essentially sell different products. It'd be like if only one resturant was allowed to sell hamburgers. There might be other resturants but they arent really in direct competition.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-08-14 21:00:59+00:00
Yeah, it seems like Doctorow presents arguments that a good IDP system is complicated, but begins and concludes by saying it's impossible.

It kinda seems the internet has real, longstanding problems stemming from the inability to verify anything about anything online. For the most blatant example, a website admin can never permanently ban a troll or criminal (they just sign up under a new name).

It makes one wonder how Doctorow reconciles the internet as it is with his stand against adopting some kind of IDP system.
by duxup | 2025-08-14 21:01:05+00:00
>But they are also angry with the city of Palo Alto. In 2016, a key city board rejected Mr. Zuckerberg’s application to build a compound, and he withdrew it. But the city then allowed him to create it anyway, just more slowly and piecemeal. The city has been told by neighbors for years that Mr. Zuckerberg is operating a private school in a house, but has done little to address it.

>Just the other day, the Police Department provided signs to affix to trees, creating a long tow-away zone on the public road, blocking neighbors from parking their own cars there for five hours on a Wednesday evening. The reason, Mr. Kieschnick said he learned, was that Mr. Zuckerberg was hosting a backyard barbecue and the police had assigned its officer in charge of dignitaries to assist him.

>To the neighbors, it feels as if city officials and police officers give extreme deference to Mr. Zuckerberg at the expense of everybody else.

Why not just buy a place with lots of land?

>And his staff has sent gifts to neighbors when the racket has gotten particularly loud, including bottles of sparkling wine, chocolates and Krispy Kreme doughnuts. >One memorable gift delivery? Noise-canceling headphones.

Ouch...
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-14 21:01:16+00:00
> Palantir is hot because the US is gearing up for a much greater crackdown on freedom and liberty

This is readily apparent.

> and getting ready to wage war.

This is not at all apparent from other patterns in military procurement and stock prices. Lockheed and Boeing have been completely flat (± normal variance) for a long time, and the military is doing nothing (or very little) to boost domestic production and readiness.
by xpe | 2025-08-14 21:01:17+00:00
There’s a big difference between e.g. a public water utility and clean air (a textbook public good). The latter is non-excludable.

Open source can use ways to encourage donations and participation: one good way is adding some form of excitability. This could mean:

- increased access or influence over the project management and/or timeline

- increased access to the core team for troubleshooting, debugging, etc

- co-branding

- white labeling (maybe?)

- and so on
by HDThoreaun | 2025-08-14 21:01:54+00:00
Service problems are usually pricing problems. Advert policy is because people refuse to pay more so to make more money they put in ads. Fragmentation by content/region is also because each service is trying to spend as little as possible on content. If you want to watch unlock video content youd have to pay $100+ a month and people refuse to do that.
by lackoftactics | 2025-08-14 21:02:08+00:00
It's no longer as convenient with dozens of streaming services; the streaming bitrate is also subpar, and audio is compressed to the point it feels flat. If you want to be mindful about what you are watching, it will be really hard with Netflix, Prime, and Disney compared to your own media server. When I had a streaming subscription, I was constantly shocked by what was popular in Poland and what people were watching. It took me some time to accept that I am not their target audience.
by artahian | 2025-08-14 21:02:30+00:00
If you check our landing page, we have a section where we explain that a bit: https://modelence.com

One of the AI-native aspects is if you use the built-in AI SDK (https://github.com/modelence/modelence/tree/main/packages/ai), you get all your AI prompt runs in the built-in dashboard in Modelence Cloud and you can also connect your AI provider (e.g. OpenAI) in the dashboard without having to manually specify the key in the code or pass through environment variables.

But there's more we adding soon - vector search and embeddings that are built into your database / MongoDB documents.
by projectazorian | 2025-08-14 21:02:34+00:00
Correct, Chicago. The city's even already bored the station downtown as part of another project, so there's a massive underground cavern in the middle of downtown currently going unused.

The last time I took the Blue Line to the airport it was indeed fast and convenient - but dealing with luggage was kind of annoying, and there was a guy smoking weed on the train. If I were traveling for business there's no way I would use the Blue Line unless it was peak rush hour, and indeed most business travelers don't. Getting weed smoke on your work clothes is a less than ideal way to start a trip, nor is getting sweaty in your work clothes from hauling luggage around the station.

Thus the case for an express train - it would capture those price insensitive business travelers. You could charge $20 a ticket and it would still be a significant savings over Uber. Heathrow Express in London is like this and it seems to work well.
by sunrunner | 2025-08-14 21:03:08+00:00
For the subset of Amazon-available content that isn't counted as Prime Video I think yes, but not for the rest of it. Apple TV+ possibly too, though they also have what feels like their own confusing model that shows some things as being available with the caveat that it's actually available through either a) a proxy with a subscription to a third party or b) a one-time purchase from them. I'd hate to be in the meetings where the details of these licensing agreements get hashed out.
by jostylr | 2025-08-14 21:03:53+00:00
Constructivist basically means being able to be explicit. Dedekind cuts and Cauchy sequences are not necessarily constructivist though something described by one of them can be explicitly descriptive for some applications. Any approach which produces all real numbers as commonly accepted will fail to be explicit in all cases as such explicitness presumably implies the real number has been expressed uniquely with finite strings and finite alphabets which can describe at most a countable number of them.

The decimal numbers, for example, can be viewed as an infinite converging sum of powers of ten. Theoretically one could produce a description, but only a countable number of those could be written down in finite terms (some kind of finite recipe). So those finite ones could fall in a constructivist camp, but the ones requiring an infinite string to describe would, as far as I understand constructivism, not fall under being constructivist. To be clear, the finite string doesn't have other be explicit about how to produce the numbers, just that it is naming the thing and it can be derived from that. So square root of 2 names a real number and there is a process to compute out the decimals so that exists in a constructivist sense. But "most" real numbers could not be named.
by MisterMower | 2025-08-14 21:04:35+00:00
Wild that he even had the opportunity to ask these questions and do his own investigating. The exact same issues happened in a recent US election, but in ours no one was allowed to examine any of the things he was able to.

Sounds like elections in both Russia and the US are rotten these days. Curious to note which party has no desire to rectify these issues.
by hulitu | 2025-08-14 21:05:18+00:00
> Given that Windows has .zip file support built-in for quite some time, and the fact that nearly nobody downloads .zip files anymore, makes me very suspicious of this kind of statistic.

Windows has _some_ .zip file support. Winrar is usually used for rar files. Zip files are still used (docx xlsx and pptx are zip files).
by throw_m239339 | 2025-08-14 21:06:41+00:00
> I couldn't agree more. It's like when you see headlines claiming "people" are outraged by a jeans advertisement.

Well, it turns out that some people are actually outraged by a jeans ads... the problem is that these social networks tend to amplify these sort of divise issues for engagement purposes.

My problem with Twitter/X was that, for instance I was following somebody in 2010's who talked about Javascript and Node, only to end up with that person constantly ranting about partisan issues that had nothing to do with it (especially after Trump election), but at the time, Twitter provided no way to limit feeds to center of interests. That made me quit the platform and I imagine it's getting way wore now...
by SLWW | 2025-08-14 21:07:07+00:00
What do you think? It doesn't take a genius to see the flag stands for a certain set of ideas, maybe start searching in the Constitution if you have questions, the Bill of Rights is excellent reading as well.

I choose not to list them all as I will give plenty of good examples of what this country stands for and I will get side-lined by some pathetic talking point from someone who actually still watches the news like it means anything; or a foreigner who hates my country while their own (typically UK) is failing as we speak. We need to get rid of oligarchs and those who are not of our country if we want those good things to keep going
by psavnani | 2025-08-14 21:07:13+00:00
For video calls, I'm using LiveKit which has end-to-end encryption (same WebRTC stack as zoom/meets). Also, we don't store video calls, the transcripts are stored for AI queries, but can be easily deleted from user side.

Rn, there is no single switch, but it can be easily added!

Haha thank you, basically got frustrated with existing options and figured how hard could it be? So decided to give it a shot :)
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-14 21:08:21+00:00
> Things like camp, maybe going to a "day care",

Adult day care would be fun. If I had a partner that told me "I'm too busy to do anything this weekend; I signed you up for adult day care though..." ... I would absolutely go. At the very least for the novelty of it.

Not sure where you are; in Texas there are quite a few dude ranches (family/couple/solo friendly despite what the name may imply) that I highly recommend finding one with the level of activity you're in to. Some really get into the rancher thing, others will have light trail horse riding and get more into the social sitting around a campfire communal thing before, during, and after chow time.
by extraisland | 2025-08-14 21:08:22+00:00
> I couldn't agree more. It's like when you see headlines claiming "people" are outraged by a jeans advertisement. Are they really? Who? How many? Really I think it's just something to argue about for entertainment's sake.

It is a common tactic to create a new controversy to take attention away from a much more important topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

The whole Sydney Sweeney Jeans Advert "controversy" felt like it was AstroTurf-ed.

Less than a few weeks ago. Trump was getting a huge amount of pressure about the lack of transparency with the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. All of that seems to have been forgotten now (or that is at least is my impression).
by nativeit | 2025-08-14 21:08:47+00:00
Are we sure this isn’t Nvidia’s play to make what OpenAI is for Microsoft? Start with a bunch of non-profit, research-for-the-good-of-humanity promises before closing ranks and soliciting venture capital for its for-profit subsidiary?

I don’t want to be cynical, it’s just that the world has left very few options otherwise.