MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-04 15:54:41+00:00
Largely opinion here, but the glaring issue with many modern governments is that they don't do. They get some consultants to come in, make some requirements, then shop for a contractor. IMO, governments should do a lot more themselves, should own infrastructure/utilities outright & ongoingly.

Particularly hard in today's climate where so so many people are empowered to say no, or to come in and add their own pet complications/expenses to a project. The meta-governance of staying to mission, to relentlessly caring about value optimization (in the pursuit of public good) is fraught with failure modes. Yet still it feels vastly less dangerous and expensive than shopping the work out, than governments perpetually seeking to do things it itself doesn't know much about & can't do.

We've had decades of nihilism that sees this juncture of difficulty & says: maybe we shouldn't have a government. But some day, I hope, maybe, possibly, we'll redisocver the spirit of makers and doers, and the eternal jibing critically can give way to a some will & make happen.
by Streako | 2025-08-04 15:54:42+00:00
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by switknee | 2025-08-04 15:54:42+00:00
Bitcoin is so much faster than a credit card transaction that it's not even close. A lightning transaction is near instant, regular bitcoin transfers take in the order of 10 minutes. Credit card transactions take weeks before you get the money, and after that the money can be yoinked back for a multitude of reasons beyond your control as a merchant. The fees are often lower, too. Bitcoiners are for some reason opposed to solving that last issue (no privacy) despite the technology existing in monero. NIH syndrome, I guess.

The real unsolved issue for cryptocurrency is between chair and keyboard. People make mistakes, people are afraid of being robbed. Your average person does not want to be their own bank. You can have a bank or payment processor manage your money for you, but then we're back to the regulated world where Visa and Mastercard can determine what games you're allowed to buy.
by mindslight | 2025-08-04 15:55:01+00:00
To be clear here, as the person who originally used the term in this thread, in light of your grandstanding about "anti-intellectualism" - I did use the term for its general connotations, not just to mean "bad".

The healthcare industry is obviously not an online platform. And I would say it's being done to "lower costs" rather than "raise profits" (the two are often related, but not the same). But other than these, it strikes me as the same basic dynamic in a different industry. I spelled it out in a different comment:

> it's part of a continual gradual march down in quality/services to a captive customer base. Basically the opposite environment of innovation aiming to serve customers

The thing with online platforms is that they are new and fresh having been built out of whole cloth by subsidizing investments, allowing for multiple discrete enshittification steps as management focuses on one area after another. Doctorow:

> This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit.

Whereas the healthcare industry has been turning the screws for years. Now it's just an environment of making things worse wherever new ways to "control costs" can be created.
by eliaspro | 2025-08-04 15:55:25+00:00
The very fundamental problem is just, that the fact that the process/application/service has a PID/displays a window does not equal to the fact, that the service/application is ready to serve requests/the user.

This is why there are protocols like sd_notify [1] or readinessProbe [2] to determine the actual state of the launched service/process/application.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/254/sd_noti...

[2] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/liveness-r...
by GrantMoyer | 2025-08-04 15:55:34+00:00
Rust bindgen[1] will automatically generate native Rust stucts (and unions) from C headers where possible. Note that c_int, c_char, etc. are just aliases for the corresponding native Rust types.

However, not all C constructs have idomatic Rust equivalents. For example, bitfields don't exist in Rust, and unlike Rust enums, C enums can have any value of the underlying type. And for ABI reasons, it's very commom in C APIs to use a pointer to an opaque type paired with what are effectively accessor function and methods, so mapping them to accessors and methods on a "Handle" type in Rust often is the most idomatic Rust representation of the C interface.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen
by Amorymeltzer | 2025-08-04 15:55:36+00:00
As a companion to this, I'd recommend the podcast 20 Thousand Hertz: their two-party on the sounds of Bluey was excellent, and as a parent immersed in Bluey, really enjoyable. Seems like they put a lot of thought and care into nearly every aspect of the show.

https://www.20k.org/episodes/thesoundofbluey

https://www.20k.org/episodes/thevoicesofbluey
by cnst | 2025-08-04 15:55:47+00:00
> https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware/blob/master/d...

Good list. Happy to see Imou and Wansview on the list, these "unknown" brands have been selling directly on Amazon US for a while now:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Wansview/page/1E1F86AB-C01A-45...

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Imou/page/73EC8A3D-1E78-42C5-8...
by dpoloncsak | 2025-08-04 15:56:11+00:00
Oh, you think the price of equities will mean anything when Skynet takes over.

I'll be seen as a friend of the bots. A Godfather who funded their existence in the first place. The Digital Gods will favor me and my 100 shares as one of their own creators

/s (hope that was obvious. In reality, I'm pretty sure Theil's influence on the current admin will only increase Palantir's influence in the gov, but I don't think we're here for my speculative DD)
by glenstein | 2025-08-04 15:56:24+00:00
> It doesn’t matter how many times this happens or what they do with the result.

That's where you lost me, as this is key to GP's point above and it takes more than a mere out-of-left-field declaration that "it doesn't matter" to settle the question of whether it matters.

I think they raised an important point about using cached data to support functions beyond the scope of simple at-request page retrieval.
by zhivota | 2025-08-04 15:56:42+00:00
From time in hospitals I've gotten very good at disabling them. Most nurses are fine with it but every now and then one would come on shift and tut tut at me for having done it. They usually shut up when I point out that they don't respond to the alarms in any sort of prompt way - as I'm sure if I were to continue pointing that out up their chain of command they would then find some trouble.

I always tell people though that being in the hospital doesn't make you healthier, mainly because you can't sleep. The hospital should be the absolute last resort, and your first priority on finding yourself in one should be to figure out how to get out of it, even if it involves nursing care at home.
by justinpaulson | 2025-08-04 15:56:57+00:00
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by codingdave | 2025-08-04 15:57:13+00:00
Take this entire paragraph and read carefully, and it explains how to kill this trend:

> “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. “If there were a large portion of the job-seeking community that were wholesale rejecting this, our clients wouldn’t find the tool useful… This thing would be chronically underperforming for our clients. And we’re just not seeing that—we’re seeing the opposite.”

Great. So he is explicitly telling us that a boycott will work. There you go folks, you have your marching orders.
by CapsAdmin | 2025-08-04 15:57:13+00:00
game math libraries often have this (and glsl gpu shader language), like "2 * vec3(1,2,3)" results in "vec3(2,4,6)"

There are other cases like adding vectors to matrices and so on, but in the end this logic is defined in some custom add operator overload on a class or object in the language.

(I had no idea what it meant either until i searched for examples..)
by xienze | 2025-08-04 15:57:29+00:00
> No, you exaggerate. It’s a large number of people.

It's 1.1%, an incredibly small portion of the entire working population. There's never any follow up like "where in the country does this occur?" which may reveal that it's actually a livable wage. Or other follow up questions like, "does this number include illegal aliens who are happy with being paid $7.25/hour tax free?"

You're also ignoring _how_ it came to be that 98.9% of all workers manage to get paid higher than the minimum wage without it being mandated. Are the companies doing this out of the goodness of their hearts or have market forces instead found what the _actual_ viable minimum wage for various localities truly is?
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-04 15:57:35+00:00
> 2-3 decades of targeted marketing that shifted pretty much all concepts related to femininity or polite society into the lens of "gay and weird" for boys.

This and the another commenter who mentioned the social media algorithms tuned for rage-bait. People get sucked into this deeper and deeper in-group rabbit holes with targeted content suggestions. Its incredibly insidious. While I think this is a major major factor, I still think there is another issue for young men that make them more easily susceptible to falling down these holes in larger numbers than would be the case if things we're going better for them. I think there is an underlying hopelessness there that various actors are exploiting. It is this hopelessness* that is the true cause of this problem.

* Maybe that's not the right word. Alienation? Looking forward and seeing only barriers? I don't know.
by toast0 | 2025-08-04 15:57:40+00:00
Chicken tax was enacted in 1964; Ford and Chevy were tariff engineering in 1972, importing trucks without beds and putting beds on in the US.

Finding loopholes and driving trucks through them is what's considered American. It's not a relaxation.

At the end of the day, the chicken tax reduces our options in the vehicle market as it was designed to do, and it's one thing if we want to exclude WV vans and trucks when we have plenty of nice options at home, but now that we don't have nice options at home, it would be nice to be able to import them without a punative tariff.
by ethersteeds | 2025-08-04 15:57:52+00:00
I was under the impression that government sites having "business hours" had as much or more to do with their backends dating from the mainframe era, with nightly batch jobs that take all cpu time or prohibit database writes.

Anyway, I agree that government provided services functioning as you described would be intolerable, but disagree that's somehow inevitable. Rather than expecting government services to be unaccountable monopolies of the "line at the DMV" archetype, what if we expected effective and valuable baseline services of the IRS FreeFile archetype? Or models like unemployment benefits and FDIC insurance, where the government quietly provides citizens an umbrella without limiting access to alternatives?

I strongly resonate with gp's sentiment that when services like email or payment processing become requirements for modern life, ensuring access to them becomes a government prerogative. We're in agreement that it must be a net improvement, not trading one monopoly for another.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-08-04 15:58:33+00:00
Objects should notify when there is good reason. And ideally, these should be configurable.

Just to nitpick...

"You know, the alarm telling me that my clothes are dry… There is no reasons, let alone urgency, that I should get any form of audio notification about this. I could spent 6 months in the hospital after a car crash because of the aforementioned LPG seven trumpets, come back to my place, and find my cloths still impeccably dry."

Removing your clothes when they are still warm reduces wrinkles, enough so that you can avoid ironing things like t-shirts, which is just annoying. (I recognize that some slobs are okay wearing a shirt that looks like it's been yanked out of the jaws of a dog, but I am not interested in addressing the pathological case.)
by echelon | 2025-08-04 15:59:04+00:00
> How many movies have you worked on?

Over a dozen.

> People are already creating movies with $1k cameras

Nobody wants to make an iPhone movie. They want $200k glass optics and a VFX budget like Nolan's or Villeneuve's.

I'm tired of people from outside the profession telling us we should be happy with quaint little things. That's not how the ideal world works. In the ideal world, everyone can tell the exact story in their minds and not be beset by budget.

My imagination is my ideal world. I won't listen to naysayers, because you're so far behind my dreams.

If this wasn't about to be practical, I'd relent. But the technology works. It's tangible, usable, and practical.

I've been saying that on HN since Deep Dream. My friends in IATSE also called this crazy. It's not. It's not just coming, it's here.

> A lot of them are horror movies because of the budget

Tell me about it. Been there, done that. It sucks to be so creatively stifled when what I wanted to make as a youth were fantasy movies like Lord of the Rings.

I got creative. I did mocap and VFX. It still wasn't what I dreamed of.

> How many?

Film school attendance is over 100,000 students annually. Most of them were never able to land a high autonomy role or be able to follow though on their dreams. I know hundreds of people with this story.

> A lot of them are horror movies because of the budget and most of them are terrible with huge glaring mistakes in editing, pacing, framing, etc

Sound. Sound is the biggest thing people fuck up. But the rest are real failure cases too.

> Most experienced executives can help guide priorities and make sure there aren't any big overlooked problems.

They're not as important as you think. They're just there to mind the investment.

When the cost of production drops to $30k, this entire model falls apart.

Studios were only needed for two things: (1) distribution, (2) capital. The first one is already solved.
by garciasn | 2025-08-04 15:59:18+00:00
I'm a hiring manager. I don't make people do offline stuff. I do EVERYTHING IN MY POWER to make certain they are not doing more than a phone screen w/HR (absolutely mandated by the company or I wouldn't allow it) and meet with the team. For Senior Managers+, I do require one extra interview with other teams because they'll be interfacing. So, max investment is 2.25h. If we cannot make a decision from that investment, we have failed as evaluators.

Being that I have lost exactly 3 folks over my 15y as a leader and only one of those due to performance (within 6 months of starting as a leader) I think anyone should be able to do this.
by amiga386 | 2025-08-04 15:59:20+00:00
If you as a human are well behaved, that is absolutely fine.

If you as a human spam the shit out of my website and waste my resources, I will block you.

If you as a human use an agent (or browser or extension or external program) that modifies network requests on your behalf, but doesn't act as a massive leech, you're still welcome.

If you as a human use an agent (or browser or extension or external program) that wrecks my website, I will block you and the agent you rode in on.

Nobody would mind if you had an LLM that intelligently knew what pages contain what (because it had a web crawler backed index that refreshes at a respectful rate, and identifies itself accurately as a robot and follows robots.txt), and even if it needed to make an instantaneous request for you at the time of a pertinent query, it still identified itself as a bot and was still respectful... there would be no problem.

The problem is that LLMs are run by stupid, greedy, evil people who don't give the slightest shit what resources they use up on the hosts they're sucking data from. They don't care what the URLs are, what the site owner wants to keep you away from. They download massive static files hundreds or thousands of times a day, not even doing a HEAD to see that the file hasn't changed in 12 years. They straight up ignore robots.txt and in fact use it as a template of what to go for first. It's like hearing an old man say "I need time to stand up because of this problem with my kneecaps" and thinking "right, I best go for his kneecaps because he's weak there"

There are plenty of open crawler datasets, they should be using those... but they don't, they think that doesn't differentiate them enough from others using "fresher" data, so they crawl even the smallest sites dozens of times a day in case those small sites got updated. Their badly written software is wrecking sites, and they don't care about the wreckage. Not their problem.

The people who run these agents, LLMs, whatever, have broken every rule of decency in crawling, and they're now deliberately evading checks, to try and run away from the repercussions of their actions. They are bad actors and need to be stopped. It's like the fuckwads who scorch the planet mining bitcoin; there's so much money flowing in the market for AI, that they feel they have to fuck over everyone else, as soon as possible, otherwise they won't get that big flow of money. They have zero ethics. They have to be stopped before their human behaviour destroys the entire internet.
by keiferski | 2025-08-04 15:59:44+00:00
I haven’t read the book so I am not familiar with his specific argument.

However he’s an economist, not a geneticist. And the description of the book on Amazon focuses on last names and ancestry, not genetics.

https://www.amazon.com/Son-Also-Rises-Surnames-Princeton/dp/...

This book looks to me like it’s arguing that social policies don’t do much to affect familial networks, not that it’s arguing that the elites all have magical genes that keep them on top.
by rapind | 2025-08-04 15:59:52+00:00
> The shame is that this underclass does not really see how he is harming them and how his politics benefit their old enemies, the economic elite that’s turning into oligarchs.

I'd bet you that at least some are aware and just don't care. You crap on people long enough and they'll want to burn it all down out of spite. I suspect the eventual endgame here might be class warfare. Keep an eye out for more of these oligarch bunkers that are popping up.
by mrxhacker99 | 2025-08-04 15:59:55+00:00
most of the browser we have today are more human friendly than Agent friendly which leads to inaccuracies and being slow in browser use or computer use scenarios

so I decided to build a webbrowser which has its own JS engine(spider monkey and mozilla) and renders html+css into Markdown format which is very easy for agents to use for browsing

SWE-Agent(https://pypi.org/project/swe-ai-agent) uses Julia browser for browsing documentations online and use it as reference for writting code and fixing code

AI Agent demo which uses Julia browser to do tasks
by projektfu | 2025-08-04 15:59:56+00:00
I had a Toyota RAV4 and it had a seatbelt alarm that was increasingly and incessantly obnoxious if you didn't buckle up. Meaning that you had to buckle up to move from one parking to another in a larger lot.

I liked the car in other respects but I'm sure glad to be rid of that. It can only be disabled by someone with the correct obd interface.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-04 15:59:58+00:00
One of the things I really like is bringing in decent work that could not have been captured otherwise.

But regardless of whether you love sales, or working for a "sales company", or do not absolutely love it at all, it's still probably easy to agree that it's usually a better experience to sell than be sold to.

It's even less of a quality experience when your assets are subject to sale whether you want to or not, unless you can find something else to get hawking before it's too late :\
by xienze | 2025-08-04 16:00:07+00:00
A federal-level minimum wage doesn't make sense, precisely because what is considered minimum wage in LA isn't the same as what's considered minimum wage in rural Louisiana, and vice-versa. The fact that 98.9% of workers manage to receive more than the minimum wage strongly suggests the market forces have done a pretty good job of determining what a viable minimum wage for various parts of the US is (including apparently parts where $7.25/hour works).
by SuzukiBrian | 2025-08-04 16:00:21+00:00
I actually knew about this one going in, since it's been a requirement for a bit longer. My Hyundai has two modes, one where it simply beeps if you cross the lines without the turn-signal and the dangerous one where it locks the steering wheel.

Only the slightly annoying beeping one seems to be mandatory, the extremely dangerous steering wheel locking one isn't. Otherwise I wouldn't have bought the car at all.
by sumtechguy | 2025-08-04 16:00:25+00:00
> Admitting right off the bat that you're going to waste the time of 90% of your applicants without these stakes is just wildly disrespectful.

They were already doing this. Now it is just more automated. You didnt have the right keywords. 2pts into the basket. Too long (meaning old/bad team fit), gone. You worked for a company that might have some sort of backend NDA, gone. Wrong school, gone. Wrong whatever, gone. You were never getting to the interviewer in the first place. You were already filtered.

The reality is if they have 1 position open. They get 300 resumes. 299 of them need to go away. It has been like this forever. That AI is doing it does not change anything really. Getting anyone to just talk to you has been hard for a long time already. With AI it is now even worse.

Had one dude who made a mistake and closed out one of my applications once. 2 years after I summited it. Couldn't resist not sending a to the second number days/hours/mins how long it took them. Usually they just ghost you. I seriously doubt the sat for 2 years wondering if they should talk to me. I was already filtered 2 years earlier.