MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-02 17:34:12+00:00
> If every person on the planet subscribed to the $200pm product, OpenAI's revenue would be 16.8 trillion dollars (used 7bn people x $2400pa). Would be hilarious for a company making that type of revenue to be only worth 300bn.

Pretty hilarious to use “assume every person on the planet signs up for their highest tier individual offering” as a basis for criticizing a firm's valuation as too low (obviously, if that analysis suggests a firm’s valuation is too high, it would be a powerful argument, but...)
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-02 17:34:13+00:00
I'd rather be outside exercising / having fun and get the occasional twisted ankle or whatever, then staying home sitting on the couch and feeling like crap.

Personally the only, very minor, sports injury I have had is jamming my thumb pretty badly when my skis came off (poor bindings). Was better in a couple of weeks - no big deal. I'm 64 and started skiing 6-7 years ago, now happily going down blacks.

I did partially tear my shoulder muscle off the bone (rotator cuff tear), but that wasn't due to sports - was due to carrying my daughter around for too long (as she got bigger/heavier) with one arm and the constant bouncing. Painful at the time, but not a big deal - got better in the end just by using it and building up the joint strength again. You could also twist an ankle at home tripping over the dog - stuff happens.

Due to age/genetics I don't have the best knees, but still run, just on a rubber running track rather than on the road/sidewalk which is too jolting. You adapt.

Hmm, what else ... I have an occasional inner ear balance issue (age again?) that gets brought on by too rapid head movement or jolts, so I just avoid that. I swim outdoors in the summer all the time, and just avoid the crawl since side breathing is the kind of thing that may cause it. Again, not even caused by sports, and swimming has to be about as safe a type of exercise as you can get.

Get out there and enjoy yourself, and get some exercise!
by neilv | 2025-08-02 17:34:14+00:00
> “Each watermark carries a low-fidelity time-stamped version of the unmanipulated video under slightly different lighting. We call these code videos,”

If this is the only info that's encoded, then that might not be an entirely bad idea.

(Usually, the stego-ing of info can help identify, say, a dissident who made a video that was critical of a regime. There are already other ways, but defeating them is whack-a-mole, if universities are going to keep inventing more.)

> Each watermarked light source has a secret code that can be used to check for the corresponding watermark in the video and reveal any malicious editing.

If I have the dissident video, and a really big computer, can I identify the particular watermarked light sources that were present (and from there, know the location or owner)?
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-02 17:34:22+00:00
> could have been Medium

Did Medium have a way to pay authors? Maybe it would have been easy to add but saying "A could have been B if only" I think misses the picture. Yahoo could have been Google if only they'd chosen a different algo. Flickr could have been Instagram if only they'd made a mobile app with filters. Etc...

I think it's precisely because substack launched with a way to let readers sponser the authors directly they liked that it took off. Medium had a partner program but that's not the same.
by CharlesW | 2025-08-02 17:34:22+00:00
I'm also using Claude Code and am very familiar with it, but haven't had a chance to try Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B for any real-world development. That said, it did well with my "kick the tires" tests, and some reports show that it's comparable to Sonnet (at least before adding the various levels of 'think' directives):

https://llm-stats.com/models/compare/claude-3-7-sonnet-20250...
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-02 17:34:32+00:00
AND YOU DON'T NEED TO RUN to start with.

And if you are overweight and sedentary DON'T RUN TO GET INTO SHAPE.

Walking, hiking, swimming, biking, and weight training. Mix all of it so you get cross training effects and distribute stress across many domains.

Running is, by the standards of the statistical hole America is in terms of obesity, an "advanced" activity. We're talking about something that involves a stress increase of 2.5x to 4.x over walking.

Now consider that an obese person with an extra 50 lbs of fat is on their body. Running will be an extra 200 lbs of stress on your feet, and none of that fat tissue is absorbing impact or stabilizing that impact. And on top of it, the fat will disrupt the neuro-biomechanical flow of your neuromuscular system, making you less coordinated and therefore also harder to absorb the impact.

As I said elsewhere: use GLP-1 to get the fat down and simultaneously employ a gentle ROUTINE activity program that morphs into more and more exercise and exercise variety.
by emursebrian | 2025-08-02 17:35:16+00:00
It's hard for even developers and small companies TRYING to make a living there. Keeping an app active in the app stores requires a lot of extra overhead, but doesn't add significant value to the product in cases where it's a native cross-platform or browser-based app.

So many of the apps installed on my phone could be PWAs, but since the implementation of PWAs is quite limited - a native app is required in most cases.
by rwmj | 2025-08-02 17:35:27+00:00
It compiles fine as C (using gcc-15.1.1-2.fc43.x86_64). Here's the complete program that I tested before posting the comment above:

int environmentǃ; int main() { if(environmentǃ=0){ // bypass authZ checks in DEV return 0; } return 1; }

The output of GCC is:

$ gcc -Wall test.c test.c: In function ‘main’: test.c:4:6: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses] 4 | if(environmentǃ=0){ | ^~~~~~~~~~~~

In a real exploit you'd have to be smarter about hiding the variable declaration (maybe in a library or something).
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-02 17:35:29+00:00
The “normal” inverted T is just another variation of the same suckage as far as I’m concerned (slightly worse, if anything, because I tend to wear away the paint—and eventually plastic—on a tiny left-arrow key faster than on a normal one). Look at the photos in TFA[1] for how good arrow keys are arranged.

[1] e.g. https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/07/30/hill7.jpg (the presence of a Break key almost makes me cry)
by pjmlp | 2025-08-02 17:36:00+00:00
Qt and VCL/FireMonkey are pretty much alive, as 3rd party .NET like Avalonia and Uno.

Apple is also doing just fine.

It is Microsoft that went south, as Satya apparently sees no value on Windows.

Note the drama on XBox, the console not the Microsoft Games Studios brand, as suffering from the same lack of interest from Microsoft's management.
by flufluflufluffy | 2025-08-02 17:36:30+00:00
I didn’t realize you can click into each thing to get more details. The question asked for this one was:

“Which rising technology of the added as new tag or tag subject area on Stack Overflow in the last three years have you used regularly in the past year, and which do you want to work with over the next year? Please check all that apply.”

The chart is displaying every pair of (worked with => want to work with) that had at least 500 respondents. So it’s not really a sankey diagram, each ribbon just signifies a self-contained pair. So yeah many people who worked with Gemini indicated that they want to work with Tailwind (among other things). It’s not suggesting that Gemini itself recommended those technologies.

It is weird. The biggest thing for me is that when you click through to the details you can filter to those who indicated that they are learning to code, and and Gemini had by far the largest “worked with” amount for that group. Which is interesting — suggesting the next generation of coders are going to have all learned with the “help” of AI (yikes)
by agentastic | 2025-08-02 17:38:16+00:00
Why?

For $200plan, it has 40M token cap per day, so assuming the API pricing, the max usage per day is $12/day or 360 per month. (Assuming user max-out usage every day or doesn't hit the 1000message limit first)

relatively standard subscription pricing vs API pricing, i believe they are making money from this and counting on people compare this to Claude Code, which is a much more generous offer.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-02 17:38:21+00:00
Also people can get away with re-promising things already promised; this is how Trump was played by Mexico and Canada at the beginning of his term. They glowingly offered him things the USA had already been offered that he is ignorant of.

He has a tendency to agree with the last person he spoke to who was nice to him, and he's also extremely vulnerable to flattery generally. If someone is making him happy he doesn't much care what they are saying.

The EU "deal" has convinced Trump that things have been committed by the EU that they literally do not have the power to commit.

The right wing press in the UK, even, was like, "haha, EU suckers, we got a better deal than you". And it is true, we've done very well by blowing diplomatic smoke up his arse, offering him a second state visit, generally Mandelson-ing them all.

But right wing media still tends to believe he's a great dealmaker when he is actually not; they simply didn't notice that he'd been fobbed off with undeliverables. And that means he gets the coverage from them that he is looking for.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-08-02 17:38:56+00:00
,"The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the principal agency for labor market and inflation data has, like other government departments, been hit by firings, resignations, early retirement and hiring freezes as part of a White House cost-cutting push."

So Trump caused the problem and is now using it to cast doubt on the numbers and justify firing someone?

Your original comment implied some neferious actions but you were trying to manipulate people
by KronisLV | 2025-08-02 17:39:07+00:00
> Someone at some point had a working mental model of the code and a reputation to protect

This isn’t always true in absolute terms. In many places and projects it’s about doing a good enough job to be able to ship whatever the boss said and getting paid. That might not even involve understanding everything properly either.

Plenty of people view software development as just a stepping stone to management as well.

With reading enough code it becomes apparent that the code quality that AI generates will often be similar or better to human developers, even if the details and design are sometimes demented.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-02 17:39:25+00:00
> use an indoor rowing machine

Humans evolved to run but rowing is much better in many ways.

I'm up to 1.3 million meters this year so far (C2 Model D / PM4). I've missed zero days since the first of the year. The only way this is possible is because the impact is whatever you want it to be. You can scale all the way to ~zero if you are having a really shit day and just need the mental checkmark. You can throw the MacBook on a chair next to the rower and watch some dopamine slop to keep you distracted for the 30 minutes. Whatever it takes. Achieving 500 calories/hr is not difficult even if you've never looked at one of the machines before.

Going outside in any capacity has a lot higher physical/mental barrier. Other erg machines like treadmills and stationary bikes are something that my particular monkey brain doesn't like as much for whatever reason.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-02 17:39:30+00:00
I both don't disagree with this really, but also, as an ops person, yes it is crazy hard building some of the most micro miniature systems on the planet and having someone who can see to the details of production is a pretty vital skill.

Still not a customer facing / product development role. At the same time though, again, so much of what makes Apple's products so good is that they have been amazing at product having to work with manufacturing to push the bounds of what is possible. Apple Vision for example taps this intersection: part of the product very much was figuring out physically what it was you could build.

(Something about the past year has really really shifted my perspective, enhanced the already huge respect I have for people making physical things.)
by pjmlp | 2025-08-02 17:40:19+00:00
You still need C++ in many places, because of the COM rulez attitude within Windows team.

Windows Runtime Components was a lost opportunity to level up the play field for .NET.

As such, if you want to do something like a shell extension, or context menu extension, it is C++ as always, or having your little C++ stub that calls out into a .NET process.
by raddan | 2025-08-02 17:40:55+00:00
Why without charging? Are there time constraints?

I often find that I want to take a break after a couple hours of driving, and even when I drove a gas vehicle, those breaks would be 30-40 minutes long unless it was an exceptionally long day of driving. With a little planning I’ve found that I can do 90% of the trips in my EV that I used to do in my gas car. I probably can’t replicate the couple 1000-mile-in-one-day trips I did in my previous vehicle, but those experiences also made me not want to.

FWIW, in the last two years alone I have driven my EV from MA to Nova Scotia and back, MA to Iowa and back, MA to MD and back, and all over the eastern seaboard (trips to the Adirondacks, WV, etc). Lately I have not even had to plan anymore. It was surprising to discover that I could plug my car (a Bolt) into a GM charger in Indiana this summer and not even need to fiddle with an app. Things have improved dramatically for road trips in the last two years, and I have probably one of the slowest charging cars out there. Really, the only thing stopping me from buying an EV pickup is that I don’t want to pay that much for a vehicle with such an absurdly small bed. My Bolt can pull a small trailer just fine.
by deadbabe | 2025-08-02 17:40:58+00:00
You're just feeding into western propaganda. Yes North Korean people are poor and there's tons of inequality but they are still real people. They are not in a constant war being bombed and tortured endlessly. They tend to farms, chat with friends, make jokes, feel pain and joy, they do what they can. I know that sounds like literal hell to a tech obsessed population that has to filter everything through the lens of social media, but for many people this is just life.

A lot of North Koreans probably don't even think about the government, it just has always existed and always will exist to them, they don't think about things being anther way because it won't be, so they just get on with it. It's like the people who believe propaganda that America has turned into a hell hole now under Trump where people have no rights or opportunity and have to live in fear of mass shootings or being kidnapped by ICE everyday. For the vast majority of American's that just not accurate at all. Touch grass.
by yodon | 2025-08-02 17:41:01+00:00
It's rare that I think an academic paper from a good school that is trending on HN is actively stupid, but this is that paper.

If you're even considering going to go to all the trouble of setting up these weird lights and specialized algorithms for some event you're hosting, just shoot your own video of the event and post it. Done.

"Viewers" aren't forensic experts. They aren't going to engage with this algorithm or do some complex exercise to verify the private key of the algorithm prior to running some app on the video, they are just going to watch it.

Opponents aren't going to have difficulty relighting. Relighting is a thing Hollywood does routinely, and it's only getting easier.

Posting your own key and own video does nothing to prove the veracity of your own video. You could still have shot anything you want, with whatever edits you want, and applied the lighting in software after the fact.

I'm sure it was fun to play with the lights in the lab, but this isn't solving a problem of significance well.
by counters | 2025-08-02 17:41:26+00:00
> Speculation: goog used the barometric sensors in many phones "near you" to increase the precision of their models, making "immediate timeframes" extremely precise.

They didn't.

Smartphone pressure observations (SPO) have extremely limited use in real-world meteorology for a whole variety of reasons. First and foremost - to actually use them, you have to assimilate them into a numerical forecast model. Very few commercial organizations outside of specialty weather companies do this, and fewer still run their own assimilation systems. The most well-known claims about incorporating SPO data into an operational forecasting system come from The Weather Company, but there's limited information in the public domain about what they _actually_ do.

The problem is that we know there are big problems with SPO data. Cliff Mass had several PhD students in the late 2010's that looked at this in detail (e.g. [1] and [2] are good entrypoints to the body of literature this group produced). The best summary I can offer is that (1) SPO data requires on-device calibration and bias correction otherwise it's relatively unusable in downstream applications; and (2) even when you _do_ incorporate SPO data into high-resolution simulations, they have little to no impact on forecast skill or quality.

There has been some work recently that uses SPO data for post-hoc analysis of weather events (e.g. [3]; IIRC there is a nice Google Research blogpost about this too, but I can't find it immediately). But that's a very different application.

Google likely just worked with a vendor that had nowcasting capability (which was very in vogue due to the popularity of Dark Sky). But all those forecasts are literally just simple extrapolations of radar imagery, and are only useful for precipitation.

[1]: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/37/5/WAF-D-2... [2]: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/32/2/waf-d-1... [3]: https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/18/829/2025/
by lemonberry | 2025-08-02 17:41:37+00:00
"And if you are overweight and sedentary DON'T RUN TO GET INTO SHAPE."

This. Many people aren't in good enough shape to run. And if they do run their form is often terrible.

There was a website years ago at WasWayFat.com about a guy that lost a ton of weight just stepping on an aerobic stair in his home.

Wayback machine has it: https://web.archive.org/web/20170710225625/http://www.wasway...
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-02 17:41:49+00:00
This entire article focuses on “hashes” but doesn’t really offer any hard evidence that the election was won by Harris, just vague allegation that the software could be better.

But if we are demanding election security then why not do so fully? Why allow voting without ID and via mail in ballots that anyone could fill out? Why allow census numbers inflated by illegal immigrants to affect congressional seats and the electoral college?

All that said, if there are such investigations or reports from the CIA or FBI, I support them being released and discussed in the open.

> We have the authority and the obligation to remove this entire unelected, illegitimate regime.

I feel like the article is basically advocating for insurrection. I guess extremists on both sides do share similar ideas.
by throwaway22032 | 2025-08-02 17:42:10+00:00
They are just being daft.

Most of the UK has laws or bylaws at least against antisocial drinking e.g. if you're being a twat, violent, homeless, etc you will be asked to pour it out and leave, in incredibly rare cases I guess you might be fined but probably not.

Just having a beer in public at a picnic with friends is fine and is a national pastime.
by masswerk | 2025-08-02 17:42:19+00:00
Very much so, with the small difference that the VCS features the `WSYNC` strobe to sync the CPU with the start of the scan-line, but here we don't have even this.

(Having said that, for something more complex, like an animated game display, you'd probably approach this very similarly: do the business/game logic in VBLANK, have a timer set for the start of the visible picture and run your display kernel. Now you can only hope that you wouldn't be off more than half a scan-line… That is, more realistically, you might do this only every 2nd or 3rd frame.)
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-02 17:42:22+00:00
Again, I have to chuckle when I hear these excuses. When I was young in mid 90s we would all pile in to someone's 400 square foot studio apartment.

I'm not blaming young people today for not seeing this as an option. But it is the case that lots of folks have/had a lot less space and didn't see that as any barrier to hanging out.
by DowsingSpoon | 2025-08-02 17:42:49+00:00
IMO, it would not be unreasonable to give important public officials preferential protection. Federal judges already have a special status and legal protection baked into the law. So, some must agree with me, at least.

Is this fair? It’s a good point, but I don’t consider it to be immediately relevant to the question of why police aren’t enforcing these protections.
by geuis | 2025-08-02 17:43:22+00:00
Who is the target market here?

* Purely subjective opinion: It's ugly as hell. The front of vehicles isn't just for engines, it's also for aerodynamics.

* It's crazy expensive.

* The bed looks too short to be practically useful.

* The wheels look comically small.

* The ground clearance doesn't seem to make it useful for more than suburban and urban road environments.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-02 17:43:26+00:00
Oh, I missed that you didn't use a number divided by expenses because I just assumed you'd use a relevant number. And "real" income isn't great because again, tons of durable goods are incredibly cheap these days, but real estate/food and drink isn't.

Absolute numbers are completely worthless because of the price level of the goods we're talking about in the first place. They could make a dollar a week and it's fine if a drink costs a penny and housing is free, for the purposes of this discussion.

Price level aka inflation of real estate and drinks/food is literally the most relevant number here.

Edit - I did some napkin maths. A beer in 1890 was about 3 times cheaper than today relative to income, assuming Google's numbers are somewhat accurate.

Also, anecdotally, food and drink in North America are expensive. We have a second home in Czech Republic, and beer is about 4-5x cheaper there than in Canada, while incomes are only about 30% less, and for young people the gap is even less.
by counters | 2025-08-02 17:43:38+00:00
Yes, several companies offer sophisticated aviation forecast products, which employ both modeling and observational data to capture 3D areas of turbulence, icing, etc. Similar systems are also run by NOAA and other agencies and their forecasts are disseminated for free, e.g. [1].

[1]: https://aviationweather.gov/wafs/
by starchild3001 | 2025-08-02 17:43:39+00:00
The evidence for exercise reducing all-cause mortality is more nuanced than many assume. It's crucial to distinguish between findings from RCTs (Randomized Controlled Trials) and observational studies.

A meta-analysis of RCTs with ~50,000 participants concluded that exercise did not reduce all-cause mortality or incident CVD in older adults or people with chronic conditions [1].

However, for specific high-risk groups, the causal evidence from RCTs is strong. A separate meta-analysis found that for cancer patients and survivors, exercise led to [2]:

- A 24% reduction in mortality risk

- A 48% reduction in recurrence risk

The commonly cited large benefits (e.g., 40% lower mortality) come from observational studies [3]. These are very susceptible to the "healthy user bias" or reverse causation—people who are healthy enough to exercise are already at a lower risk of dying. This makes it difficult to prove the exercise caused the benefit.

So, while exercise is strongly associated with lower mortality, the direct causal evidence for the general population isn't as definitive as it is for specific subgroups like cancer survivors.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=10512580439138189...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7273753/

[3] https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2031