MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by infogulch | 2025-08-01 16:23:39+00:00
This is why I signed up for the pro trial (6 months is generous) to learn cad and draw up some internal use equipment design for my company. The terms of the pro trial make your designs read-only after the trial ends, but you retain ownership and rights and it doesn't go public unless you explicitly switch to a hobbyist license.

The sales rep called me and seemed miffed when I said we're not an engineering firm, and we do not need CAD for our line of business. Sorry buddy, but my use case is for a commercial purpose (not for sale but it is designed for and would be used by a business...) so I can't really sign up for the free hobbyist license that explicitly prohibits commercial use and fails to clarify exactly what that means.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-08-01 16:23:48+00:00
Yes the deeply depressing thing is that these sort of city news articles are now very much taken verbatim from press releases, and those press releases are from professional police communications departments, and so this gives enormous new powers to the police in able to shape the broader narrative as their politics and agenda see fit.

For example we can see here that this news article is lifting directly from the police press release. https://bsky.app/profile/kwardvancouver.bsky.social/post/3lu...

Maybe it wasn't even an overworked city reporter that did this but simply an automated AI creating news articles straight from the police press releases.
by phh | 2025-08-01 16:23:50+00:00
> - Gesture navigation steals user input when swiping on the left/right edges of the screen,

Well I've seen even 1B+ dl apps failing to handle that (on a Google Pixel), so at this point I'm putting the blame on Google. I've switched back to three button navigation. Though even some trivial OS gestures like screen unlock fail reliably on my Pixel 6a. (As in, I do the gesture, it fails to register the gesture, i try to make the gesture "with more conviction" through the whole screen and it still fails, and after few minutes it ends up okay somehow)
by aspbee555 | 2025-08-01 16:23:56+00:00
Hire them for a day/week/month, see how they do the job. qualified? ok, job

bonus is you get to try different jobs, don't like it? you know you can get another one to try out easily. employer also gets to try different candidates easily with little vested resources. able to find canidtes that actually/really like/enjoy the job, better productivity

(of course this is not compatible with employer based healthcare)
by SubiculumCode | 2025-08-01 16:24:22+00:00
1. Why do you say this is a version of Gemini deep think? It seems like there could be multiple ways to build a multiagent model to explore a space. 2. The covariance between models leads to correlated errors, lowering the individual effectiveness of each contributing model. It would seem to me that you'd want to find a set of model architectures/prompt_congigs that minimizes covariance while maintaining individual accuracy, on a benchmark set of problems that have multiple provable solutions (i.e. not one path to a solution that is objectively correct).
by sidkram | 2025-08-01 16:24:22+00:00
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by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-01 16:24:30+00:00
Yeah, when reading about the collapse of the Roman republic recently I was struck by how unimportant the law (about not crossing the Rubicon with an army) was. For a long time, the law wasn't meaningful because nobody would think of bringing an army into Rome, it just wasn't done! Then eventually Sulla said "fuck this, I'm bringing in an army to enforce my will", and the law didn't do a thing to constrain him (or anyone who came after him). It seems to me that it was the social norms of Roman society which kept people from using military force to get their way, and that the law served no purpose except perhaps a very visible way to reinforce the social norm.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-01 16:24:31+00:00
Yes. Florida has the highest insurance costs in the US. Many are going without insurance if they don’t have a mortgage that will force placement of insurance.

> Florida currently has the most expensive insurance premiums in the nation. According to data by Insurify, a national insurance data collection group, Florida's projected cost of property insurance averages about $11,000 a year.

> ValuePenguin’s study shows Florida’s property insurance has increased 72% in the last five years, with the number of homeowners who can’t get coverage through private insurers going up 400%.

The US is currently spending ~$1T/year on climate costs.

https://www.cfpublic.org/housing-homelessness/2025-01-10/cen...

https://www.newsweek.com/map-reveals-scale-florida-property-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/us-spendi... | https://archive.today/EBmaI

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/09/climate-...
by dpetrou | 2025-08-01 16:24:40+00:00
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by saulpw | 2025-08-01 16:24:55+00:00
That's all fine and good. But nothing lasts. And then when you can no longer lift things, the humiliation you suffer is proportional to the pride you take in it.

Saying "it is nice to have a thing to hang your hat on" sounds like a very pleasant form of personal pride that is easy to let go of. But Hubris is a mortal sin for a valid spiritual reason, and pride is a slippery slope. The advice I gave--pride for your accomplishments, not for yourself--is similar to the advice to how to praise a child: for their efforts, not for their talents.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-08-01 16:24:59+00:00
> most people price housing as mortgage + insurance

I would go as far as to say it's actually mortgage + insurance + taxes in most states. Very likely to be paying anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 in county + school taxes per year which by itself is enough to make the home suddenly unaffordable even if you bought it 10 years ago at a great price and rate.
by wulfstan | 2025-08-01 16:25:02+00:00
I'm afraid I don't accept that you can split this into "experiencing something traumatic" and "making the accusation that you have experienced something traumatic".

The claim that "almost the entire community immediately sided with them" is accepting the accused's account of what happened in favour of the accusers. At least one of the victims started to raise concerns in the community several years beforehand and their concerns were not taken seriously:

"I have reported all of my experience to the ScalaCenter in 2019. I was hoping to see concrete actions, such as building a reporting mechanism, to protect minorities in the community. Unfortunately, I am not aware of such actions taken."

I'd also be very, very deeply skeptical that two public claims were the only claims made. We should bear that in mind. If the accusations are true, the public ones are usually the tip of the metaphorical iceberg.
by rayiner | 2025-08-01 16:25:03+00:00
That's not quite an accurate statement about supply and demand. It's supply of the thing relative to demand for it. So a pretty niche product can be very expensive if supply is even more limited.

So it's entirely fair to say that we should be figuring out how to decouple jobs from these costal cities. Lots of people wouldn't live in NYC if Wall Street was out in Topeka, Kansas instead.
by squigz | 2025-08-01 16:25:31+00:00
> Like yeah, you're having to ask yourself and that's friction. But shouldn't there be a friction when you're being served by someone who is an equal? I've seen folks treat service like garbage in the EU because that exchange obscures the fact that there is an exchange of money. And I've seen service fall back on apathy.

Interestingly, I arrive at an entirely separate conclusion - there is no way for equality in a relationship in which one party holds your financial security (for lack of better words) in their hands. How can the waiter be your equal in that situation, when they might have to act just to ensure they can make the money they need?
by ekim1009 | 2025-08-01 16:25:32+00:00
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by squigz | 2025-08-01 16:25:58+00:00
> Yes, and I agree that bad parenting is the real issue, but I also have to acknowledge that leaving children unsupervised will have better results if they don't have the option of just watching a screen.

...Would it? I'm not advocating for this by any means, but at least they'd then be sat in one spot and not, say, roaming around the house, getting into things that might hurt them even more than the screen.
by squigz | 2025-08-01 16:26:04+00:00
Interestingly, nobody I know falls into those descriptions... Still, I don't deny that media has an impact on people. That's not really the question though, is it?

Nor is it a question of unqualified permission. My point was that strictly disallowing some things tends not to work, while the opposite - not permission, per se, but reluctant acceptance that it's going to happen anyway - will at least allow children to come to their parents for help, as opposed to hiding it.
by ottodacat | 2025-08-01 16:26:14+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re seeing more teams explore multi-architecture strategies — especially combining ARM (like AWS Graviton) and x64 workloads — to optimize for cost, performance, and infrastructure flexibility.

But deployment at scale is messy. CI/CD workflows get more complex, tooling becomes inconsistent, and governance often lags behind.

Curious how others are handling this:

• Are you running multi-arch builds in CI/CD? • How do you manage compatibility, testing, or manifest handling? • Are security, compliance, or org structure slowing you down?

We recently published a piece on the business case and real-world use cases here: https://caepe.sh/multi-architecture-arm-x64-at-scale/

Would love to hear how others are navigating this — especially at scale.

Thanks!
by osigurdson | 2025-08-01 16:26:14+00:00
That may be true but what proponents of Leetcode style interviews say, is that they don't care. This process filters out good and bad candidates but "post filter", what remains is higher quality candidates. It is absolutely questionable from a scientific perspective (where is the tracking of the "B" group for instance), but if companies want to do irrational things they are allowed to do it.
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-01 16:26:20+00:00
Rate drops will make affordability worse, you do understand that less interest just means more principal, right?

If a mortgage payment is $1800 of interest and $700 of principal at 7%, a buyer is in the same position if rates go down to 3% and the payment is $1400 in interest and $1100 of principal (numbers are made up, I don’t have time to calculate the exact values). In the 2nd case, the home price would be higher and the lower rate would mean reduced financing costs, with the same TCO in the end.

Bonds work the same way, as the yield goes up above what the bond was issued at, the face value of the bond decreases, only the housing market has limited supply so prices didn’t go down when rates went up.

If yields go down, the face value of the bond goes up, just like with houses.

The only thing that will lower housing values is more supply.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-01 16:26:51+00:00
One Dutch-language AI project was actually shut down by the copyright lobby exactly for that reason. They did it voluntarily (knowing they'd probably lose in a lawsuit plus pay a fine to boot) but it shows that these people are perfectly fine attacking AI projects.

The big ones, though, they don't dare to go up against those. You can't bully OpenAI into submission and threats of spurious lawsuits, you have to actually win, and they don't have an interest in taking that risk.
by scruple | 2025-08-01 16:27:12+00:00
> “modernization”

Glad to hear this isn't just something I'm encountering in isolation. My role at a BigTechCo (and I'm barrelling right through my mid-40s) could be summed with exactly that same word.

> No one can tell my age.

My beard finally started to grey and after about 2 years of that steady progression I shaved it off and now people treat me so differently. Even people who already knew me treat me differently. It's been quite the experience.
by 37824912238 | 2025-08-01 16:27:16+00:00
Where exactly is the "sexual exploitation" part? He didn't blackmail her, he didn't force her, he didn't offer her favors/status in return for sex. She was not a child, she made her decisions, she regretted them. Yes, there's a power imbalance, but it's not as if this was some sort of Bill Cosby type of situation.
by twoodfin | 2025-08-01 16:27:31+00:00
Explicitly and between the lines, Carruth and Google have made it clear that the “bad” part of C++ from their perspective is the standards committee.

In particular, the committee’s unwillingness to make ABI-breaking changes to the language, or more abstractly, to consider the needs of organizations with huge active code bases at least as seriously as those with huge legacy code bases.
by bombcar | 2025-08-01 16:27:33+00:00
Yes - they are means tested. But why do "poor people" need to live in (insert rich city here)? Why can't the city be entirely filled with millionaires?

Because someone needs to work there. So just as Walmart employees being eligible for EBT allows Walmart to pay employees less so does affordable housing indirectly subsidize the city.

Without those artificial bandages on the problem, the costal expensive cities would run into a crisis - everyone is a Google or Apple employee, and there's nobody to do any work for under $100/hr. Either they'd have to pay baristas $100/hr, or they'd have to go without, or build a high-speed commuter rail that could bring them in from Bakersfield where prices were reasonable.

(By abandoned I mean "stop trying to fix it" and just let the prices go insane.)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-01 16:27:34+00:00
> If you're talking about "affordable housing" programs, aren't those usually means tested?

In the dumbest ways possible and usually not continuously. One of my recurring points of advice to founders in New York is to use your year of no income to score a stabilised apartment. More directly, affordable housing is usually used to justify broader construction restrictions. This is why the largest landowning families in New York and San Francisco tend to support them.

Other than that, the OBBBA tax cuts, mortgage interest deduction, carried interest deduction and conservation easements should each count as subsidies for the rich.
by visarga | 2025-08-01 16:28:18+00:00
Once a book is sold publishers would do anything to limit its use. No scanning, no online lending, no training LLMs on it, no reusing of protected style or abstractions for fan fiction. If the author is not to be found, the book itself becomes "orphaned", attempting preservation is infringement.

I personally find little attraction installing in my brain furniture I can't sit on. If I can't freely reuse the ideas in the book to create anything, it is a net loss to read it.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-01 16:28:29+00:00
I have a small-ish flat-cut paring knife that has a non-pointed blade. It is very sharp, and even the squared off end is enough to pierce a tomato, say.

I can't think of any application where the point of the knive is particularly essential for fruit or veg, and I can think of several veg where using the point of a tool is actually quite likely to cause an accident. Sweet potato being one of them.

There is one true application: deboning or filleting. But most people simply don't do this in a kitchen anyway, because they are buying deboned and filleted meat.

I don't see a particular problem with asking people who do want to cook to that level to prove they are adults before buying knives that have such obvious dual use as a weapon. Because you're asking people who already know they should be responsible with knives (and not for example use kitchen knives to get into plastic packaging, like an idiot).

You really don't need the point of a kitchen knife all that much in a kitchen, and the fact that the counterexamples raised are misuse (stabbing into packaging etc.) is pretty illustrative.
by ahmedbaracat | 2025-08-01 16:28:58+00:00
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by meganvs | 2025-08-01 16:29:36+00:00
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by rpdillon | 2025-08-01 16:29:46+00:00
I'm a huge proponent of legislation that requires sites so send a header that indicates they are serving adult content in that request. I'm also a huge proponent of basic endpoint security that allows a parent to put the device into a mode that checks for those headers and blocks the response.

This doesn't require any of the draconian 1984 measures that folks are insisting upon. The problem is there is no real incentive to implement true age-verification in this manner (this is why nobody has deployed ZKP), but rather to identify everyone. So while it would be ultra easy to imagine an onboarding scenario during device setup that asks:

1. Will this device be assigned to a child?

2. Supply the age so we can track when they cross over 18

3. Automatically reject responses with the adult header and lock down this setting

But Google and Apple won't do that, because they don't care, and the politicians won't bake it into their laws, because they don't are either: their goal is to alter culture, and protecting children is just an excuse.