MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2025-08-15 19:40:04+00:00
I suppose that goes without saying. If it were cheap and easy to build, there wouldn't be high demand.

Would it really be that cheap, though? Hell, even a single wide trailer built in a factory, which is about as ideal as it gets from a cost perspective, is still a home largely out of reach of the average Joe.

It remains unclear who is going to buy all these new houses unless they are sold at a loss — but who is going to build a home with a plan to sell it at a loss? You?
by iamtedd | 2025-08-15 19:40:16+00:00
Don't forget, before Steam was the dominant game distribution method, game discs:

* Required you to type in a serial number (at best), or went online to actually download the game binary (at worst).

* Needed to stay in the CD drive in order to play

* Could not be copied as a backup if the disc ever got lost or damaged.

* Was a major cause of scarcity for a digital product.

The concept of ownership was already eroding before Steam was created.
by hinkley | 2025-08-15 19:40:26+00:00
You hire your sales team for their infectious enthusiasm. Then they get some momentum going and you don't want to try to stop that momentum, but now they're bringing you so much fame that it's now tipping into infamy.

And every time you ask them to slow down, they tell you a very convincing story about why if anything we should be going faster.

I worked for a small consulting shop where the founder was one of these people. I had to try three times over about 2 years to quit. The last time I just kept talking over him like a priest doing an exorcism and shoving my 2 weeks' at him.
by d4mi3n | 2025-08-15 19:40:34+00:00
This can sometimes be the case, but barring something tangibly dangerous or concerning, talking is cheap and communication is hard. If someone really is a problem, I'd rather know and consciously decide to not associate with them than I would risk losing a potential great relationship because I was nervous about something I couldn't quantify.

YMMV. It'd be a learning experience either way.
by indigoabstract | 2025-08-15 19:41:20+00:00
The critique about the game betraying his trust is something only a contemporary player could come up with.

Back then, this type of complaint would simply not have crossed anyone's mind, not even in people who didn't like the game.

I played it from start to finish when it came out and thoroughly enjoyed it (and did it again about a decade later).

Then I did the same with DK2 in '99, though I mostly remember the "Disco Inferno" gag more than anything else about that game.

I guess the first one made a more lasting impression.
by jerf | 2025-08-15 19:41:28+00:00
"what do AI companies have more than everyone else? compute"

"Everyone else" actually has staggering piles of compute, utterly dwarfing the cloud, utterly dwarfing all the AI companies, dwarfing everything. It's also generally "free" on the margin. That is, if your web page takes 10 seconds to load due to an Anubis challenge, in principle you can work out what it is costing me but in practice it's below my noise floor of life expenses, pretty much rolled in to the cost of the device and my time. Whereas the AI companies will notice every increase of the Anubis challenge strength as coming straight out of their bottom line.

This is still a solid and functional approach. It was always going to be an arms race, not a magic solution, but this approach at least slants the arms race in the direction the general public can win.

(Perhaps tipping it in the direction of something CPUs can do but not GPUs would help. Something like an scrypt-based challenge instead of a SHA-256 challenge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrypt Or some sort of problem where you need to explore a structure in parallel but the branches have to cross-talk all the time and the RAM is comfortably more than a single GPU processing element can address. Also I think that "just check once per session" is not going to make it but there are ways you can make a user generate a couple of tokens before clicking the next link so it looks like they only have to check once per page, unless they are clicking very quickly.)
by naberhausj | 2025-08-15 19:41:54+00:00
I've also been on flights where they asked us to hurry, and then we (flight attendants included) sat and waited for other things to be completed. Not saying that was what you experienced, of course! Nor am I complaining. My understanding is that gate attendants get penalized if they're the reason the plane is held up, so I understand why they'd play it safe and hurry people.

I'd love to see some hard data on this (I've tried to find it in the past, but there's so much fluff about this subject)!
by jajuuka | 2025-08-15 19:42:11+00:00
They were very clearly poached. They were chosen for their specific knowledge of a product Apple wanted to make and Apple (being one of the wealthiest companies in Silicon Valley and ever) was able to throw out whatever number to get what they wanted. They even put them in an office near their old job.

This isn't a case of "they went looking for a better job". Have you done zero reading on this story?
by nuancebydefault | 2025-08-15 19:42:25+00:00
I recently realized that I had lingering old pains and those were triggered by someone going through a similar experience and I literally felt their pain. It took me a lot of digging in my mind, peeling off layers, to understand even what the root pains are.

Sending a message to someone and potentially not getting any (meaningful) back is something I find very hard to accept, though I know not responding is often not on purpose.

For me, it is not so much about an electric fence, more about a feeling of rejection or abandonment that seems really hard to eradicate.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-08-15 19:42:30+00:00
I don't think this is the point of the article.

Prettier is really good. But it makes not much of a difference regarding the ASI issues the article talks about, unless you (like the article describes) look at the formatting output diff everytime, and/or have tests and lint rules preventing mistakes.

Regarding ASI, if you are accidentally writing

return ((oopsItsUndefinedBut ? itsSoLongThat : accidentallyIPutItOnItsOwnLine(but, that, shouldntHappenRight ?? false)

sure, Prettier will make it

return; oopsItsUndefinedBut ? itsSoLongThat : accidentallyIPutItOnItsOwnLine(but, that, shouldntHappenRight ?? false);

Both will hopefully trigger a type error or a test fail, or at least a lint error about unreachable code after return statement, unused expression etc.

But the point of the article is that stylistic concerns (the change Prettier makes) do NOT solve this problem.

You need the aforementioned static typing with return annotations, lint rules, tests, anything.

And sure, JS could make it a runtime error to have statically unreachable code, like Java does (well, it can't, don't break the web etc).

Until then, ASI is an example for the author's point.

And even if this point didn't exist at all: the post is not about formatting or lint rules.

It's about the impedance mismatch between style guides / "rules of thumb", and semantic errors in program behavior.

It's about the fact that style guide can never make hard-to-spot bugs impossible.

This point is explained with examples, of which one ASI is.

There's a reason it doesn't mention static typing I guess: not even the strongest types will guard you from yourself.

So yes, Prettier is awesome, but no, it doesn't nearly "solve" the issues that the article talks about.

It's more like a refutation to the line of thinking that style guides can make all errors obvious. For example, a bit like what Joel Spolsky represented in his ancient post "Making wrong code look wrong" (although that one is not just about code style, more about naming, sanitization, hungarian notation, yada yada)
by robocat | 2025-08-15 19:42:38+00:00
When anything fails (even a business) a suitable excuse is found (maybe a story that executives can sell to investors). If you were there then sometimes you know what the actual hidden reason was (often an intersection of multiple causes).

It's a human pattern for businesses to discover a strawman, build a story about that strawman, then share that story widely.

Not saying the above answer about pets.com is wrong - just that in my experience you need to be cynical enough to ignore the story and then resourceful enough to find a better causal reason.

Edit:

Scaling is NOT given as a reason. "Despite only earning $619,000 in revenue, the business spent more than $70 million on advertising and marketing", "the company sold its pet products under their original purchase price", "bulk items like dog food were expensive to ship".

I guess another reason is that people make up stories like blaming scaling?

I'll make one up: Amazon owned 50% of pets.com and Amazon encouraged it to fail.
by nine_k | 2025-08-15 19:42:42+00:00
«The trends we expose forecast serious risks ahead for the scientific enterprise. Large groups of editors and authors appear to have cooperated to facilitate publishing fraud (Fig. 1). Networks of linked fraudulent articles suggest industrial scale of production (Fig. 2). Organizations selling contract cheating services anticipate and counter deindexing and other interventions by literature aggregators (Fig. 3). The literature in some fields may have already been irreparably damaged by fraud (Fig. 4). Finally, the scale of activity in the enterprise of scientific fraud already exceeds the scope of current punitive measures designed to prevent fraud (Fig. 5). Currently implemented punitive measures are not addressing the tide of fraudulent science.»

This sounds pretty damning, and the figures mentioned (closer to the end of the article) are pretty revealing.

Goodhart's Law gives rise to Sturgeon's Law :(
by lupusreal | 2025-08-15 19:42:45+00:00
Besides the Church Committee testimony, is there any evidence for the heart attack gun existing? There's part of me that wonders if they made it up for the purpose of disclosing it to Congress, to make themselves seem like they were authentically participating in the overview and accountability proceedings.

Kind of like the way murder suspects in police interrogations might give unprompted and quite possibly fake confessions to minor crimes, to manipulate the police into believing the suspect is being open about everything and doesn't have anything to hide.

Part of my doubt stems from my confusion about how a traceless dart gun would actually work. The dart guns I know of fire darts with fletchings, they can't be discrete. If you removed the fletchings, the darts would almost certainly tumble. If they said it was a BB gun that fired poisoned BBs then I wouldn't think twice about it, but they say it shot darts..
by tshaddox | 2025-08-15 19:44:14+00:00
> Chesterton’s fence isn’t “respect it forever” or “spend infinite resources”. It’s “don’t tear it down until you understand why it’s there”.

You contradict yourself by describing exactly what I described, which is a requirement to spend an unbounded (I didn't say infinite) amount of resources trying to understand the reason the fence was built. What you just said is that if you cannot understand why it was built, you can never tear it down. This is precisely my criticism of the concept.

Of course, sometimes it might be easy to discover why the fence was built. But the problem with Chesterton's fence is that, if it were adhered to generally, it applies selective pressure for obscuring the reason fences are built.
by godelski | 2025-08-15 19:44:54+00:00
Interesting add. I don't think I'd be surprised if there are even bigger profits per head considering that you can't measure what you can't measure, but I don't think Tether fulfills the other aspects. Though if I googled right, their CEO has a similar net worth. I'd wager it isn't nearly as liquid as Gabe's though.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-15 19:45:23+00:00
I suspect the app is a labor of love, and the article was from the heart.

It does get dicey, when what we do is mixed with who we are.

I have an app that is very useful to a lot of folks, but I don't really spend much time, talking about it, because it's frequently met with suspicion. I'm trying to figure out how to work around that.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-15 19:46:09+00:00
AI and AGI are broad umbrella terms. Stuff like Alpha Zero is AI but not AGI while LLMs are both.

Engaging in semantic battles to try to change the meanings of those terms is just going to create more confusion, not less. Instead why not use more specific and descriptive labels to be clear about what you are saying.

Self-Aware AGI, Human Level AGI, Super-Human ANI, are all much more useful than trying to force general label to be used a specific way.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-15 19:47:05+00:00
George W. Bush was never hard-right. For that matter, Trump isn't hard-right either. GW was pretty centrist all around (as far as US politics is concerned) and Trump is a right-leaning populist, which is kind of a weird position.

I've leaned pretty libertarian most of my life... I have conservative friends and pretty progressive friends (and those that I do NOT talk politics with).

A lot of this will come down to is definitely regional. A lot of the U.S. identity itself isn't the same, and different regions are very different. Texas itself is larger than like 80% of the countries in the world. The U.S. as a whole is massive. It's every bit as diverse in some ways as going anywhere in the E.U. despite mostly speaking the same language.

As to the U.S. and going left or right... it varies and depends. I think a lot of the left's "big tent" is falling, in that there is a very outspoken subset of the left that has shifted farther away from where most people are comfortable with. It's fractured, but there. There's also a bit of a yearning towards some more conservative values and a return to a stronger national identity. Both can be, and are true.

In my experience, most people in the US have a pretty live and let live pov... that of course stops to a large extend at coercion of children.
by savolai | 2025-08-15 19:47:58+00:00
Yes. Devs tend to want to scratch their own itch, instead of the itch of 90% of the population.

I’m a developer (fullstack, conceptual modeling, db, architecture, c++/qt, php, python, cs degree) who is trained in UX too and using windows and linux is painful because I never get to enjoy the customization part due the poor nature of default UX ie results of bikeshedding everywhere.

It is just too much work to get to basic ok defaults, to have any energy left to think about what I might want to customize.

The system forcing users to customize is just as much use of power as not being able to.

Of course the ideal is progressive disclosure i.e easy things easy (good defaults) and hard things possible (a configuration dialog).

(I’ve written a brief intro to progressive disclosure here: https://savolai.net/ux/ui-design-balancing-user-needs-with-p... )

But the line has to be drawn somewhere, as apple has. Being able to bikeshed and customize anything can easily become a multiplier of complexity and maintenance cost. It’s not any less opinionated than wanting to keep things reasonably simple.

For some it’s a reasonable tradeoff, for others not. For me the value of apple consistency and aesthetics far outweigh the costs. Sure, there is a learning curve and change resistance I had to go through coming from win/linux, but I wouldn’t say macos has any significant barriers to what I can do. Quite the contrary with M class cpus.

Iphones are another story, but eventually the tradeoffs outweigh android ux illogical nature and inconsistency there too.
Show HN: Run Your Own ChatGPT Agent on Cloudflare Containers
by yevbar | 2025-08-15 19:48:04+00:00
Hi HN!

I was disappointed when the ChatGPT Agent announcement came with the note that there'd be limited usages available for something that's architecturally simple:

> Pro users have 400 messages per month, while other paid users get 40 messages monthly, with additional usage available via flexible credit-based options.

So assembled this with Cloudflare's recent Containers API. Here's a link to the tweet we posted launching it:

https://x.com/getlsd/status/1956441045119672710

Feel free to fork or star and make funny things happen :)
by johnea | 2025-08-15 19:49:59+00:00
The information in the article is shocking and disturbing, and largely known to most informed people.

So I'm not sure what's meant by the "got away with" part.

It's hard to call it "getting away with", when it's the standard operating procedure of the agency. What is it exactly that they don't get away with? With people being routinely killed worldwide.

When I saw a little old lady, literally in a doily hat, in the BWI airport, looking terrified as she was forced to sit in the stainless steel seat, with her feet in the marked feet positions, as she was being questioned, because TSA had found a nail file in her bag 8-/ I knew the gangsters were out of the closet.

Cornering, questioning, and roughing up the public, in public, was now fair game for the federal government.

Dick Chaney's wet dream come true.

All of this is now massively superseded by the cheeto administration. Masked people, in unmarked cars, dragging people off of the streets for shipment to foreign country's dark prisons.

But the democratic administrations have also been eager user's of the "Fascist State United Act". Terrorism is functionally defined as anyone impeding the revenue stream of a large powerful organization.

And once designated, there are many avenues of intimidation, up to and including murder. Which isn't usually needed, but is always available as an option.

Recreating the Church commission today wouldn't be just difficult, it is completely impossible. The two dominant poitical parties have no interest in reform, and no one is going to stop them.
by quantumHazer | 2025-08-15 19:50:11+00:00
this is false and the two things are not correlated.

if you followed news during the GAN cycle you could extrapolate that deep NN could do this type of things. it is really cool that this things happened so fast, but we are talking about companies that have the money to deploy thousands of cars around the globe to collect data, so they absolutely know how to gather data
by _swfb | 2025-08-15 19:50:52+00:00
That's generally what I do, I bring things up just to handwave them away and acknowledge that they're there.

The problem is, of course, that even handwaving things away, there's still a near-infinite number of potential caveats for any given subject, and I always feel a compulsion to list all of them. I did bother a friend of mine last night in order to get him to tell me how much of my rambling is tolerable so hopefully I have a better handle on it now.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-08-15 19:51:29+00:00
Well the entirety of my music gear is a 1994 p-bass and a mediocre amp I've been running it through since around the same time so I get it.

And yeah a musician friend of mine we have a running joke where we'll say something is "a software engineer pedal." Meaning you see them in the home studios of people who make good money doing something else, while working musicians get by with the nearest Boss equivalent.

I've never used an OP-1, wouldn't know how to use one or evaluate it. But I've been on stage with enough of them to get the sense that, if used fully, they can for some approaches to some styles of music, fill the role of several other pieces of gear that would each cost more than what it costs.

So I think this one is both. It's a software engineer's toy, and it's also a workhorse tool for professionals. Honestly an impressive achievement, not a lot of things end up being both in any discipline.
by mpweiher | 2025-08-15 19:52:50+00:00
Oh, the Vogtles took a lot of the FOAK (First of a Kind) bullets.

China also builds these Westinghouse AP-1000s. Their FOAK builds took 9+ years. They are now down to 5 years. Time = money.

Also conditions have changed. With the rise of intermittent renewables, the value of reliable power, which was mostly a given in the past, has risen, particularly for data centers.

And of course we are now somewhat more serious about CO₂ emissions, even if Trump is trying to walk that back.
by camil | 2025-08-15 19:53:23+00:00
Probably the easiest out there is https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s. There are many options, depending on how low level you want to go. Hetzner terraform project is probably the most complex and complete, but it takes time to configure all those. The main idea was to provide simplification, not just to Kubernetes provisioning in Hetzner, but also to the most common apps and tools that extend Kubernetes capabilities, like ingress controllers, prometheus, elasticsearch, databases and so on.
by xr2k_enjoyer | 2025-08-15 19:53:29+00:00
No problem!

With regards to issue 2, I wasn't referring to the delay between between the route packet sent and the route packet received. It's when I finally send a packet with the right daily access code encrypted with the handshake key, I'm unable to continue playing for an hour or so, because the server stops sending anything (even the "hello" packet).
by rescbr | 2025-08-15 19:53:29+00:00
Recently I've bought a Xiaomi beard trimmer on AliExpress and its box and manual are 100% in Chinese. Google Translate took care of it.

Why did I buy a Xiaomi beard trimmer on AliExpress? It looks like all western brands decided to keep using NiMH batteries on their designs, and I really don't like my trimmers dying in the middle of a cut and me, now with a half-shaved beard, having to wait 12 hours for it to recharge. Xiaomi did something very revolutionary: used a Li-Ion battery.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-08-15 19:54:59+00:00
It’s the same thing for me and Klonopin and my psychosis. The Klonopin is the only thing that stops my psychosis yet they only give me 20 tablets at a time and since I’m homeless and driving around it’s really hard for me to get a new doctor and a new prescription. I’ve been taking it as needed for over nine years and they still can’t get it through their thick heads that I’m not gonna abuse it.
by grayhatter | 2025-08-15 19:55:21+00:00
I'll double down on what veqq said; Thoes that can, do. Those who have no idea where to start complain on internet threads.

There will always be bots, they were here before anubis, they'll be there long after you block them again. Take care of yourself first. There's no need to make a bad day worse trying to sprint down a marathon.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-08-15 19:56:07+00:00
In the 80’s I’d take the train to another (nearby) city to hang out with my friends, no cell phones, or many for pay phones for that matter, this was at age 11-12. No issue, my parents weren’t worried. I did have an accident once on my bike while in another city and someone picked me up off the street, took me to the hospital and called my parents. Was no big deal.
by lbhdc | 2025-08-15 19:56:29+00:00
My BFA does not qualify me to be a teacher anywhere I have looked (south east, new england, ca). I do not meet the educational requirements or the practical classroom time to got a teaching certificate required to teach K-12.

I am sure there are programs that are a mix between a typical BFA program and a teaching degree, but that is not the norm.