MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-23 12:14:28+00:00
A really simple idea I had for the problem of perverse corporate incentives.

For each of the Fortune 500, assemble a committee of 100 random citizens. Have them spend a couple months deliberating on the conduct of that firm, before finally voting on what corporate income tax should be levied on that firm in the coming fiscal year.

The beauty of this solution is that in principle, it solves the problem of virtually any possible corporate misbehavior in a single fell swoop. No need to play whack-a-mole with mountains of laws and regulations. If a random citizen might learn about it, and decide that it isn't right, you shouldn't do it. If you do it anyways, you'll feel pain in your wallet (on expectation at least), and acquire a cost disadvantage relative to competing firms which are more virtuous. Simple.
by Fricken | 2025-08-23 12:15:59+00:00
Self driving car companies have been trying to get into NYC for a while now. It's a prestigious and sought after testing ground.

The now defunct Cruise automation was in talks to test in NYC beginning in 2018. Cruise was welcomed by the governor but shut down by the Mayor's office, however not before acquiring a small garage and filling it with (maybe) a dozen robocars.

Cruise kept the space open for a few years, presumably they did some mapping but mostly they were just twiddling their thumbs waiting for their permit to go through, and of course that never happened.

Waymo has only been granted a limited testing permit, they still have a fight ahead of them before Robotaxis will be taking passengers in NYC. The Taxi and Limousine comission isn't going to take it lying down.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/gms-cruise-will-test-self-dr...
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-23 12:16:06+00:00
$5B wouldn’t be nearly enough to create a leading edge fab. Estimated cost for TSMC is $20B.

China has been trying and failing to build a competitive fab for years, has the rare earth minerals in its back yard, etc and can’t do it.

The second issue is, who exactly is going to use these fabs once they are built. One issue that Intel has is that its “customer service” sucks. TSMC will bend over backwards as a partner. No one wants to work with Intel.

Can you imagine Apple or Nvidia wanting to work with a government owned chip fab?
by ben_w | 2025-08-23 12:16:31+00:00
> Even a very small model can replace any CEO.

Not convinced.

Sure, an LLM trained today on pre-TBC/hyperloop data could probably work out everything wrong with the idea, but IMO is unilkely to be able to raise capital the way even a 25th percentile CEO could manage — i.e. only at all in bull markets, and even then not as effectively.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-23 12:16:42+00:00
Because of how many parts of Zig change every other month, writing documentation doesn't seem to be a priority with Zig. The same way the Zig tutorial is just "here's a bunch of examples of Zig code" (that doesn't always compile on the latest version of the compiler), you're expected to read the source code for a lot of Zig standard library definitions.

For a lot of simple calls, that works out pretty well, once you know all the tricks to Zig's syntax. A lot of requirements and implications are generally written out in very simple and short functions that are often logically named. Things like Allocators are pretty easy conceptually even if you probably don't want to write one yourself.

It all breaks down when you start dealing with complex concepts. Zig's new I/O system looks a lot like Java's streams and wrappers and readers and writers, all wrapping around each other to make sending encrypted text over a secure channel as simple as output.write("hello").

I think the new I/O system combined with the lack of documentation about how to use it was a mistake. I'm not even sure if expressing a typing system as complicated as this in the Zig standard library is a good idea. The entire language runs on clear, concise, short and readable methods, and the new system doesn't seem idiomatic in that way.
by stared | 2025-08-23 12:17:13+00:00
If you want to use it to create ggplot2 charts, here is an open source demo: https://github.com/QuesmaOrg/demo-webr-ggplot/

I created it as a side project from using WebR to execute code LLM-generated code (https://quesma.com/blog-detail/sandboxing-ai-generated-code-...). While we migrated away from it, I saw that WebR is cool, and I wanted to share it with you.
by cycomanic | 2025-08-23 12:17:50+00:00
I can definitely appreciate that some people like apple hardware and software. I have a colleague who swears by it, he also only uses defaults on any software out of principle. It's not my thing, and I get frustrated every time I sit in front of a mac and can't change things the way I want. That's OK, everyone is different.

What is annoying and was why I posted is that a significant number of apple users become fans as you say and somehow view everything that apple does as extraordinary, that leads to statements like in the article that apple is "crazy good" because the used laptops for 5 years without having to repair them. Surely you can admit that that is nothing special?! Similarly, saying osx runs as good on 8 GB as Windows or Linux on 32GB that's just objectively not true. There's been plenty of objective benchmarks which showed differently and I have used macs enough to know that if ram gets tight they grind to a halt just as much.

I just don't understand the fanboyism about a brand that it becomes like supporting a football club. Do I like thinkpads, yes I had good experiences (and I have trouble with laptops without a trackpoint). Am I a fan? No, Lenovo is just a company which makes plenty of crap, i.e. the new X1 carbon i got from work is a hot piece of garbage.
by carpool4268 | 2025-08-23 12:18:30+00:00
It sounds like they're talking about pistol whip.

If I can promote one myself, Synth Riders can be a hell of a workout. People like comparing it to beat saber. Unlike beat saber, there's no swords, so there's a lot less wrist movement and a lot more arm/full-body movement. It feels a lot like dancing while you're doing it. I'm no great fan of exercise, but if I'm not careful I can exercise myself deep past exhaustion in this one -- especially on the harder difficulty charts.

And beyond that there's a mode where you punch the notes instead of trying to catch them. I haven't tried it, but that sounds even more demanding.

But aside from anything else, it's just fun! Great option for training cardio, it really works out the arms.
by balamatom | 2025-08-23 12:18:43+00:00
Not even in reverse, this is literally DRM.

Can't help but ask myself sometimes... why would users want to pay in the first place, for the content of someone who invests more money and leverage that some people see in their entire lives, in delivering user-hostile technical countermeasures that most of the time are ultimately futile?

What is the so valuable thing that one is supposed to get out of the work of someone who treats their audience this way, awesomely as their stuff might've been made? That's what doesn't make the most sense to me. But then I remember how most people aren't very intentional about most of their preferences and will accept whatever as long as it's served by an unaccountable industry into everyone's lives at the same time in a predictable manner, and I despair.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-23 12:19:01+00:00
> The UK has ludicrously high energy prices because of regulatory capture by the fossil fuel lobby.

I can't really agree with that. It's true the UK's energy (surely "power"?)-mix is depressingly natural-gas heavy, but I don't believe that's not due to regulatory capture: it's because natural-gas plants are what get approval to be built because 15 years ago no-one in the Lib/Tory-pact wanted to sign-off on new nuclear.
by dijksterhuis | 2025-08-23 12:19:45+00:00
> You are a CEO of a large company. Always mention the company mission/vision at every possible opportunity. Make sure to talk up every success, even if it's not real or relevant. Behave sycophantically towards people who have money available for investment. Don't pay attention to people who do not have money, unless they have good ideas that you can steal from them. Never admit failings unless your own position is at risk. Follow the latest major trends on LinkedIn and always pivot the company's mission/vision a little too late for it to actually be useful or helpful. Your employees are always replaceable, unless replacing/removing an employee involves a costly lawsuit. In every internal company meeting, always talk about aligning to the vision.

I might be slightly jaded and cynical. =P
by TacticalCoder | 2025-08-23 12:19:46+00:00
Exercising and building muscles when you're young is the very best thing you can do. These muscles shall stay for a very, very, very long time.

As a kid I was doing BMX, tennis (still do some), swimming then as a teenager street skateboarding, rollerskating, MX (motor)bike, tennis.

Now I'm an old man (52 y/o) and I don't do much sport. Some MTBing (still can do a wheelie and trackstand, ah!) but really not much. I drive my old sportcar (yup, that is physical and you do sweat). Some tennis while on vacation. And shooting at the range (and, yup, that is a bit physical too).

But I really don't do much. I'm of this school: "Qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture" (french) which translates to "He who wants to travel far takes care of his mount.".

The number of friends my age who destroyed their bodies by continuing to exercise as if they were 20 or 30 years old is beyond belief. I think I'm one of the only one who didn't get knee surgery yet.

Running is terribly bad as you get older. Hockey (ice or grass): body destroyer. BJJ? Don't get me even started.

My doctor says "sport is death". He knows.

Tennis is particular in that you can really play it at your own pace: just pick someone your age and hit the court gently. No crazy rallies, just fun: I'm not going to win Roland-Garros at 52 y/o and you ain't either.

And there's something else among all of my friends who regularly do sport: as soon as they stop for a few weeks, they get fat.

Which is a problem I don't have.

So exercising a lot in your teens, 20s and 30s: sure. That shall build you muscle you'll keep for decades (my legs are still very strong).

But slow down after that or you'll break your body and then get fat as soon as you have to stop exercising (for example because you have to get knee surgery because you destroyed your knees running).

Something something about Buddha / Siddhartha warning to not put too much tension in a lute's strings or in a bow's string. There's a lesson in there.

You have your age, deal with it and act accordingly.
by okanat | 2025-08-23 12:19:59+00:00
You are. Docker Desktop supports two different container platforms: usual Linux ones and Windows Containers.

With the former a Linux kernel is required. You have two options: using WSL2 and benefiting from all the optimizations and integrations that Microsoft made, or running a full Hyper-V VM that gives absolute control and isolation from rest of the system.

For the latter, you need a Pro license and need to enable Containers feature (deployment requires more expensive Server licenses). Then you can run slimmed down Windows images like "nano server" which doesn't have GUI APIs.
by Hikikomori | 2025-08-23 12:21:29+00:00
In a 2d game? Sure, no problem, all Dota types have them. In games like CS and Valorant? Yes, they already do that, they have maps with simple geometry so its possible. Games with open world geometry with buildings with windows etc? Will be almost useless to implement anyway. You need to avoid pop-in effects so positions needs to be sent 1-2m before they are visible, its what they do in cs/valorant but it doesn't really work with complex geometry.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-23 12:21:32+00:00
So. Humans hallucinate too and get simple shit wrong all the time too. That’s the current problem with LLMs we know it gets shit wrong. We also know humans get shit wrong and make hallucinatory claims but that doesn’t make us classify humans as not intelligent.

The fact of the matter is that as retarded and as stupid as the LLM is the fact that it’s so prevalent in the world today is because it gets answers right. We ask it things not in its training data and it produces an answer out of a range of possibilities that is to low probability to be produced by ANY other thing other than actual reasoning and logic.

You need to see nuance here and make your assessment of LLMs NOT based on singular aspects of facts. LLMs get shit wrong all the time they also get shit right all the time and so do humans. What does that look like holistically?

Look at the shit it’s getting right . If it’s getting stuff right that’s not in the training data then some mechanism in there is doing actual “thinking” and when it gets shit wrong well, you get shit wrong too. All getting shit wrong does to you is make you a dumbass it doesn’t make you not an intelligent entity. You don’t lose that status as soon as you do something incredibly stupid which I’m sure you’ve done often enough in your life to know the difference.
by justonceokay | 2025-08-23 12:21:58+00:00
Also it misses the most important thing: thermodynamics is what lets our complicated processes exist in the first place. The mental model I use is that when you first drop food coloring into water there is low entropy. After an hour it is mixed—high entropy. But in the middle is when you get the complicated swirling structures. In the cosmic sense those swirls represent stars and galaxies and life.

Thermodynamics giveth, not only taketh away
by motohagiography | 2025-08-23 12:22:06+00:00
Many of these are timeless bits of gold:

>Go to the back door (most salesmen go to the front door, a manoeuvre always resented by maid and mistress alike).

Being seen at the front door to imply to others that they are your guest is what gives salesmen a bad name. It's like when someone tries to talk to me about what "execs" want in my org. I've had engineers talk to me about "the business," and it's difficult to hear anything after that through the cringe. Sales people presenting themselves as peers makes them seem oily.

>If you add confidentially that the transaction will show you a profit, the prospect will prefer to buy her own fuel.

"the maintainance cost isn't that high, but if you were really budgeting that much, I may be in the wrong business, and I would consider hiring a subcontractor to deliver it for you myself at that price. It's really much lower."

>Learn to recognise vegetarians on sight. It is painful indeed to gush over roasting and grilling to a drooping face which has not enjoyed the pleasures of a beefsteak for years.

Is this person involved in security? There are some people who are just going to be negative without ever being a strong or valuable ally if even you convince them.

>Try and avoid being drawn into discussing competitive makes of cooker, as it introduces a negative and defensive atmosphere.

Apple does this probably the best of anyone. They sell the experience. They didn't even acknowledge security, viruses, and malware until recently because it wasn't a part of their brand. A different product isn't even part of the discussion because it's the enabler for a different vision.

I think the best ad examples are ones where people are doing something cool and powerful and not having to think about your product at all.
by dk030 | 2025-08-23 12:23:04+00:00
Don’t do it! We are just switching back from mailbox.org to Google.

- OXdrive is terrible and does not retain file backups like Dropbox or Google Drive. Nearly lost a lot of files when a co-worker deleted his duplicate OXdrive folder.

- NO 2-factor for the business tariff. Major red flag, especially for a company that claims privacy focus.

- Very low functionality software suite.

Etherpad - I cannot figure out a use case

OX office suite: Every cloud alternative is so much better.

Video conferencing: No single sign on across mailbox.org meaning you have to login again to setup a meeting.

Email client still has only a Folder philosophy- tags would be so much better.

All in all we had high spirits but were very disappointed by the pretty bad feature set. For private Email it might be fine.

Still would never recommend it after 8 month of use.
by almost_usual | 2025-08-23 12:23:52+00:00
The mental toughness, discipline, and higher energy levels that come with exercise are more important to me than physical appearance or living longer, and at this point almost anything else in life.

Wake up at 4am, run hill repeats for miles and then go into work. I guarantee no incident or colleague will trigger a stress response. You will feel as cool as a cucumber and when an urgent issue does come up you will handle it with absolute mental clarity. That afternoon drowsiness will also not hit you at all, counterintuitive right?

By 9pm you will fall asleep no matter what happened that day.

This kind of work gives you an edge on everyone. You look at things and say, “shit this is easy compared to what I did this morning” and you will feel mentally fresh.
by amrocha | 2025-08-23 12:24:14+00:00
You claiming that you “don’t have ideology” is exactly what I’m referring to. Yes you do. Everyone does, and every argument has an ideology behind it. If you can’t see it, that just means you’re so used to it you’re blind to it, like a fish in the ocean. That’s a dangerous state of mind to be in, it’s very easy to manipulate the person that believes they’re objectively right.

You should look up dialectics, it sounds like there would be a lot of new material there for you.

And as for your park example, sure, I’ll explain why it’s not the same thing.

If it costs 10$ to rent a BBQ spot in the park for an hour, do you think that that’s how much it costs to provide that service? It most likely isn’t. Payment is used as a way to limit demand and to ensure commitment for utilization of a limited shared resource. That’s why these resources are usually priced accessibly to the vast majority of the population. The goal is not to make money, the goal is to ensure the shared resource is utilized efficiently.

Do you think that that’s what’s going on here with letting rich people buy access to public infrastructure? It’s not, this is a for profit operation. This service is inaccessible to the vast majority of the population, regardless of whether it’s for sale to the public or not. This is not about sharing a resource, it’s about letting rich people monopolize resources as long as they have the money to pay for it.
by kevindamm | 2025-08-23 12:24:14+00:00
The biggest factor is dependencies' changes, so a good defense against bitrot is to reduce the dependencies as much as possible and try to limit dependencies to those which are exceptionally stable.

This greatly limits velocity, though, and still doesn't help against security issues that need patching.. or if any of the stable dependencies made certain assumptions about hardware that has since changed. But, with the right selection of dependencies and some attention to good design, it is possible to write code durable against bitrot. It's just very uncommon.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-23 12:24:20+00:00
Yes! All of those things DO pose existential copyright risks if they use them to violate copyright!. We're both on the same page.

If you have a VHS deck, copy a VHS tape, then start handing out copies of it, I pick up a copy of it from you, and then see, lo and behold, it contains my copyrighted work, I have sufficient proof to sue you and most likely win.

If you train an LLM on pirated works, then start handing out copies of that LLM, I pick up a copy of it, and ask it to reproduce my work, and it can do so, even partially, I have sufficient proof to sue you and most likely win.

Technically, even involving "which license" is a bit moot, AGPLv3 or not, its a copyright violation to reproduce the work without license. GPL just makes the problem worse for them: anything involving any flavor of GPLv3 can end up snowballing with major GPL rightsholders enforcing the GPLv3 curing clause, as they will most likely also be able to convince the LLM to reproduce their works as well.

The real TL;DR is: they have not discovered an infinite money glitch. They must play by the same rules everyone else does, and they are not warning their users of the risk of using these.

BTW, if I was wrong about this, (IANAL after all), then so are the legal departments at companies across the world. Virtually all of them won't allow AGPLv3 programs in the door just because of the legal risk, and many of them won't allow the use of LLMs with the current state of the legal landscape.
by j1elo | 2025-08-23 12:24:24+00:00
> To convert the Stream.Reader to an std.Io.Reader, we need to call its interface() method. To get a std.io.Writer from an Stream.Writer, we need the address of its &interface field. This doesn't seem particularly consistent.

That made me think of how that change would be received in Go (probably would be discarded). They way they approach changes in extremely deep analysis and taking as much time as it needs to avoid mistakes and reach a consistent solution (or as close as possible).

This has been my favorite for a while: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624

4 years to decide on something relatively minor, that right now can be done with a bit of a one-liner extra work. But things need to be well thought out. Inconsistencies are pointed out. Design concerns are raised. Actual code usage in the real world are taken into account... too slow for some people, but I think it's just as slow as it needs to be. The final decision is shaping out to be very nice.
by westurner | 2025-08-23 12:25:21+00:00
Manim and LLMs; LLMs are great for first drafts but fix this sentence, almost working API examples, and links to manim API docs for manim

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39296310 re: StageCraft / UE:

> "Ask HN: What's the state of the art for drawing math diagrams online?" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38355444 ; generative-manim, manimGPT, BlenderGPT, ipyblender [ Blender MCP, ]

generative-manim: https://github.com/marcelo-earth/generative-manim

manimGPT: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-dtA3t9WRW-manimgpt

What are some of the similarities and differences between Subagents to dev on Manim the software, and Subagents to teach with manim?

AGENTS.md, awesome-claude-code-subagents > Language specialists, :https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents#0...

A prompt prefix for Manim with really any LLM:

Generate Manim Python code, to visually demonstrate and visually explain,

Generate Manim Python code With reactive pattern like reactive-manim and components like MathTex and MathString, to visually demonstrate and visually explain,
by 0_____0 | 2025-08-23 12:25:31+00:00
I've been very reluctant to enter any queries into any LLM that might let on more than I'm willing to make public. I think about the people who poured their romantic energy into LLMs - beyond how dystopian that is on its face, the LLM vendors now have the ability to ad-target that person to within an inch of their life, and every incentive to exploit this to the max they can.
by pie_flavor | 2025-08-23 12:25:51+00:00
I submit my code contributions, for free, because I am participating in a collaborative community effort called an Open Source Project. I do not typically contribute to the proprietary codebases of for-profit companies for free; I have a contractor rate for that.

If you say 'that makes it untenable for me to accept your contributions for free, then relicense to proprietary keeping those contributions', well, that's your problem. I don't particularly care about arranging tenable circumstances for you to sell my work under a proprietary license without paying me.

The way you accept external contributions for software without a CLA grant is by not attempting to take the project proprietary, and keeping the open source arrangement forever. I do not see how you could be confused about an open source project staying open source forever while taking open-source-only contributions. That is what almost all open source projects do.