MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Being an entrepreneur is just pretending everything is fine at family dinners
by cesargstn | 2025-08-02 11:13:47+00:00
There are days when starting a business isn't about "building in public," it's just about holding on mentally.

You haven't sold anything. You've tried 100 things. You refresh your stats like a drug addict and still: zero.

Not even a shred of traction. Just doubt, and that voice in your head:

"Are you sure you're cut out for this?"

And then there are family meals.

"So, is it taking off?"

"Are you making a living from this?"

"Don't you want to go back to a real company?"

You smile. You say, "Yes, yes, it's progressing." But inside, you just want to scream into a pillow.

It's not that you don't have any ideas. You have too many.

You worked. You got active. But the results, they don't care.

Anyway. Not a post to complain. Just to say to those who are going through this: you are not alone.

It's not always glorious, it's often hard. But we keep going.

Because deep down, we know why we're doing it.
by mort96 | 2025-08-02 11:14:07+00:00
I don't think these terms are meaningfully different in the heads of most people.

I know autopilot in airplanes is a set of assistive systems which don't remotely pretend to replace or obsolete humans. But that's not typically how it's used colloquially, and Tesla's marketing benefits heavily from the colloquial use of "autopilot" as something that can pilot a vehicle autonomously.
by motorest | 2025-08-02 11:14:10+00:00
> On one hand I don't think you can apply a price to a human life, but on the other 329 million feels too high, (...)

Let me stop you right there. That's not how damages work.

Damages have two goals: compensate victims, and dissuade offenders from repeating the same mistakes. The latter involves punishments that discourage repeat offenses.

That's where these high values come from. They are intended to force the likes of Tesla to not ignore the lives they are ending due to their failures.

If damages were low, the likes of Tesla would do absolutely nothing and absorb them as operational expenses, and continue to cause deaths claiming they are unavoidable.

Once the likes of Tesla are forced to pay significant volumes of cash in damages, they suddenly find motives to take their design problems seriously.
by burnaway | 2025-08-02 11:14:13+00:00
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by imtringued | 2025-08-02 11:15:19+00:00
This is honestly what pisses me off about the whole ABI thing. The ABI is defined by the OS, not the compiler. The compiler just implements the ABI, but somehow everyone lets their OS be defined by what a particular C/C++ implementation does. This then leads to FFI realistically only being possible by using a C/C++ compiler for interfacing, which defeats the point of an OS wide ABI.
by bsaul | 2025-08-02 11:15:39+00:00
the "new historians" movement isn't standard by any mean, and their work is tainted by ideology and ubris in every step.

It's easy now to say that israel had "distinct advantages". But in the context of the cold war, with a tenth of the soldier, fighting against 4 countries, completely surrounded, you'd have to be crazy to consider yourself having a clear advantage.

Jews that lived through the 1960s/70s period distinctly remember how every war had everybody wonder if israel would survive any longer.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-08-02 11:16:15+00:00
I went into a Tesla dealership nearly 10 years ago to take a look at the cars, and the salespeople were telling me - in no uncertain terms - that the cars were fully self-driving.

I knew that was complete nonsense, because I knew people who worked on Tesla's self-driving software, but that's how Tesla salespeople were selling the cars.
by diggan | 2025-08-02 11:16:31+00:00
> And to flip the presentation of your stat around, that means 40% of motorbike riders have been in an accident. That sounds really high to me given the potential consequences!

It sounds scary because it involves every type of accident, even minor ones. Useful to think about how many cars have ever been in accidents too, which should be around the same. The problem with motorcycle accidents is the fatality rates, just as you say, not the percentage of minor+major accidents.
by roenxi | 2025-08-02 11:17:56+00:00
Ah right. Well if your not a native speaker - this isn't exactly a formal rule as far as I know, but as a native speaker...

Zionists are ideological people and "<Idological People> Genocide" reads like the ideologues own and are committing the genocide.

Whereas Ukrainian is a denonym and "<Denonym> Genocide" reads like a genocide done to the denonym. Nazi Genocide -> Nazis did it. Jewish Genocide -> Genocide happened to the Jews.

I'm not sure if that is technically how it would work in a formal linguistic sense, but that would be how I'd expect the terms to be read. Zionists can't really be genocided because Zionism isn't a race, so reading "Zionist Genocide" as happening to the Zionists is difficult. Not a reliable rule though, someone could use "genocide" that way I suppose.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-08-02 11:18:18+00:00
97b in revenue per year. 10% of cars is made by suppliers, so maybe 9b goes to suppliers. 750m of liabilities per month. There's going to be millions hanging out there perpetually. AKA normal for every large business.

p.s. Tesla is not indebted like every other business (10-15x less debt, 5-6x more cash), so interest doesn't really count for them.
Show HN: Nonoverse – Nonogram Puzzles for iPhone and iPad
by merelysounds | 2025-08-02 11:18:45+00:00
Hey everyone! I built Nonoverse, because I couldn't find a nonogram[1] puzzle game where the levels are not randomly generated, that works well on an iPhone and that is free and user friendly (no ads, no tracking, works offline, etc) - something that I could share with friends.

I'm a fan of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection[2] and the list of No-Bullshit Games by Stavros[3] (thanks!) - this app is my small contribution.

While building this I prioritized UX/QOL. You can drag to select, there's undo and redo, you can switch between filling cells or flagging cells as empty, etc. I hope the result is pleasant to use and fun.

I'd love to learn what you like about the app or whether you'd improve anything - this will help me plan future updates.

Check it out and tell me what you think: https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/nonoverse-nonogram-puzzles/id6...

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44691935

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429080
by II2II | 2025-08-02 11:20:08+00:00
If you can load application software onto them, I think it's fair to say they are general purpose computing devices. (I say application software since something like a thermostat may have a general purpose "computer" inside them and that microcontroller may have a reflashable ROM, but few would classify the device as a general purpose computer.)

That said, not all general purpose computing devices are useful for all things. For example: you can, but probably aren't, going to use a mobile phone for a server. On the flip side: you can use a server to do your banking, but most people won't find it as convenient as using their phone for banking (even though banking from a stationary computer is far more convenient than it was in the days when you had to go to a branch). Likewise: mobile devices can be used for content creation, but I doubt that you would find many office workers jumping at the opportunity to use them in the place of a desktop or laptop. On the other hand: someone who is on the road a lot would probably appreciate their portability.
by ixel | 2025-08-02 11:20:17+00:00
With Anthropic's Claude subscriptions - while many people appear to use tokens as an idea of the usage limit, I doubt that's what is really used by Anthropic. Why do I say this? Well, there are multiple models, Haiku, Sonnet and Opus, we all know that Opus is the most expensive and burns through the usage limit of the subscription the fastest of all. I'd theorise that Anthropic have some kind of internal credit value (perhaps as simple as $ USD) which they allocate with some variance based on things like overall system load.

Anyway, my personal experience on Max 20x is that, with Opus at least, on a busy day in the past I can burn through between 150 to 200 million tokens in a day using Claude Code for development stuff. Split that up into 5 hour windows, and assume I'm possibly using 2 or 3 windows in a day, that still works out to a lot of tokens, well into the millions. So, the 88k tokens per 5-hour window on Max 5x, I'm not sure if it's really as small as that. Maybe the apparent reductions recently in usage limits have made it drop to around that ballpark. Originally I saw Max 5x as a heavy usage Sonnet plan, with Max 20x being a heavy usage Opus plan, however with the new and additional weekly usage limit happening on August 28th I think I'd see the plans as potentially moderate to heavy usage Sonnet for Max 5x, and heavy usage Sonnet with multiple concurrent agents for Max 20x.

TLDR: I strongly imagine that Claude subscription usage limits are based on some kind of internal credit value, perhaps $ USD, not specifically tokens, and depending which model you use is how fast this "credit" will be depleted.

The usage limits are currently for an account, based on a 5-hour window, from the first message that was sent in a new 5-hour window. From August 28th there's an additional weekly limit which looks like it will primarily make Opus usage restricted.
by cs02rm0 | 2025-08-02 11:21:29+00:00
That's sort of what I mean.

I looked up an Arai Tour X5, thanks for the link. It gives four stars and some colours for different zones at set impact speeds in m/s in a lab. It tells me it meets standard UN ECE REG 22.06 with a double D ring retention system and composite fibre materials. Super objective and necessary.

But I've read a lot of similar information and, somehow, seeing the results of a person being dragged down the road, for some unknown amount of time, which is pretty super subjective, still feels (perhaps wrongly even) as though it gives me a better understanding than just reading numbers/letters/colours.
by hilbert42 | 2025-08-02 11:22:30+00:00
I love motorcycles and it's years since I've been on one. Despite their convience and other virtues I won't own one as I reckon I'm not competent enough to drive one safety—despite having an excellent safety record with four-wheeled vehicles.

Agreed, they're 'god damn dangerous' but where does that '30 times' figure come from? Where I am the generally accepted figure is seven times (or it was when I heard the figure a while ago).

Edit: for years I've thought that if motorcycles were a new invention they'd never be licensed these days. That they still are is historical legacy upheld by riders and the industry that makes the machines.
by jdietrich | 2025-08-02 11:23:47+00:00
>having a single rider at the front saves the energy of the teammates

Also (as mentioned briefly in the paper), longer pace lines result in reduced drag for the rider at the front. This can seem counter-intuitive, but it's basic streamlining - the following riders fill in the low-pressure region behind the lead rider, reducing the amount of flow separation. Riding two-abreast is actually slower than riding individually.

A really efficient pace line looks like a team pursuit, with the rider on the front doing very short stints before peeling off and joining the back of the line. This is hugely important for physiological reasons, because it allows the lead rider to briefly exceed their aerobic threshold and then recover.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016761051...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSq_JvD9w0g
by diggan | 2025-08-02 11:24:03+00:00
At our local lans in the early 2000s, Rainbow Six Rogue Spear was probably the most popular game we played, and still there doesn't seem to be any tactical shooters like that available today, that focuses on realism over cosmetics and arcade-mechanics.

Also makes me think of the countless hours of fun Westwood Studios provided me with in my youth, real shame they didn't get to survive longer :/
by lifis | 2025-08-02 11:25:15+00:00
I think that motorcycle and e-bike safety can be greatly enhanced by never doing things a car couldn't do.

Always stay in the middle of the lane (unless you need to avoid a pothole), never overtake unless a car would have space to overtake, never enter an intersection alongside a car in the same lane.

On a bike, you also have the option of behaving like a pedestrian (cycle on the sidewalk slowly) occasionally.

If you don't do this, it's only a matter of time before a car hits you because it didn't expect a vehicle or pedestrian doing what you are doing.
by throw0101d | 2025-08-02 11:25:31+00:00
> It is not actions of the few. This is action of many.

The US House of Representatives has 219 GOPers that voted to pass certain legislation. The US Senate has 50 GOPers that voted to pass certain legislation and voted to confirm many appointments.

A large swath of the US public voted to put those 219+50 people into Congress and voted to put a convicted felon [1] and rapist [2] in the White House.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-te...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/30/appeals-court-upho...
by sfn42 | 2025-08-02 11:26:09+00:00
> driver in the next lane will spill his coffee and swerve into your path

You can significantly reduce that risk by simply staying away from others and avoiding situations with a large speed differential. If the lane next to you is going 20mph, don't go 40+ next to them.

There are a lot of these things you can do, that most people don't because "it's not their responsibility".
by linguae | 2025-08-02 11:26:37+00:00
For someone at the level of Terence Tao, this may be a good idea if a university is willing to hire him, even if it were for a temporary position until 2029 when (hopefully) the regime changes and the destruction is over. I’m sure Terence Tao will have no problems finding such a university or institution.

It’s researchers who are not at the top of their fields who will have a much harder time leaving America to find research positions, since academic positions and funding haven’t been easy to obtain in places like Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan for at least two decades.

What will most likely be the case is that scientific careers will be halted temporarily or permanently from these funding cuts. Graduate admissions are harder than ever now, it’s harder to find a research position, and I can’t imagine how much more difficult tenure will be to obtain if professors can’t fundraise and publish. Industry isn’t always an option, either. A lot of researcher’s careers will face major setbacks, some unrecoverable, all due to the capriciousness of our rulers.
by alex1138 | 2025-08-02 11:26:44+00:00
Look, to be blunt about it I think what Apple did to Facebook was a necessary evil, they (Facebook) seemed to buy Whatsapp as purely a way to entrench their network effects, get access to phone numbers and contacts etc, and their data hoovering practices are so severe that they tried to pin their own certificate (or something like that, I'm hazy on the details)

I get the Apple skepticism, I'm not happy with some of what they do, I think it's contentious when app stores ban something like Parler, but fine-grained granularity is something we kind of desperately need
by diggan | 2025-08-02 11:27:25+00:00
> There was puke everywhere after a while. What a disturbing mind I had.

I think you were not the only one exploring those sides of those sort of games! I don't remember if it was SimCity 2000 or 3000 that I played the most, but I remember some of these tycoon/management/simulation games let our destructive sides really come out by letting us unleash volcanoes, tornadoes, earthquakes and similar, all at the same time :)
by ehnto | 2025-08-02 11:28:20+00:00
Interestingly, removing this illusion of a safe "beam" or division is part of safer road design for mixed traffic areas like city streets.

When you remove physical divides between "road" and a "footpath" drivers become more aware that they are dangerous and slow down on their own. Making roads narrower has a similar effect, and removing car parking helps remove that divide and removes the blindspots they create.

There are many roads that should either stop pretending to be safe for pedestrians and turn into highways, or lower the speed limit and redesign the layout to suit the mixed traffic nature of the areas. Doesn't have to be extreme just be honest about the real use of the roads. If it's actually mostly pedestrians, suck it up, make it safe, go drive on the other faster roads.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-08-02 11:28:31+00:00
I've done MX (Yamaha YZ 250 two strokes: a monster), enduro (big mono-cylinder) and road driving on a variety of motorbikes. Road driving is by very far the most dangerous of them all.

I just quit about 15 years ago.

Now I'm a petrolhead at heart so I still enjoy scenic roads but with a car. It's much safer.
by ivape | 2025-08-02 11:28:55+00:00
Yeah but look at how normalized it is. All you need to do is slightly misstep, out of the thousands of steps you take, to bump your head on a passing train. You think it’s not possible (part of the trance) but all the parameters are set up so that the slot machine eventually hits the jackpot. You’re 12 inches away from a projectile, and you are to repeat the loop daily for a lifetime. The odds are the odds.
by ozgung | 2025-08-02 11:29:54+00:00
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by martin-t | 2025-08-02 11:30:05+00:00
> I'm strongly inclined to believe women and I generally distrust men

Is it based on personal experience or some statistical properties of the sexes?

The most common drivers for consciously planned long-term anti-social behavior are ASPD and NPD (and possibly BPD but it's rarer and not as conductive to long-term planning in my understanding). The exact numbers vary but it does in fact appear these traits are 2-4x more common in men.

However, I still find them way too high to believe anyone making such claims. Over time, anybody will come into contact with enough people to run into several of these and if all it takes is one accusation without any repercussions for false accusers then false accusations will keep happening.
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-02 11:30:30+00:00
The main theoretical risk is to workers who handle receipts often at work. A checkout operator could have hundreds of times normal exposure and checkout workers were reported to have high (3x baseline) BPA urine levels in some studies (but not others).

It's the same for lead free solder. Occasional amateur exposure is probably not a major concern, and especially not for adults who won't get pregnant.

Then again, if you're making a thermal printer device for fun that you plan to touch daily, especially if you want to have children using it, who are also likely to touch it with more of their hands and/or get it wet and/or put it or their hands in their mouths, loading the device with phenol-free paper seems sensible, practical and not especially onerous.
by ben_w | 2025-08-02 11:30:30+00:00
> The global battery manufacturing capacity reached 3 TWh in 2024.

OK, that's better than I thought, I was led to believe it was 1 TWh in 2024.

> With say an average lifetime of 15 years getting a bit over 1 TWh of new batteries per year for the car fleet seems easily feasible.

I think that's optimistic; none of my (non-car) batteries have maintained significant capacity for that long. I think grid use will look more like phone or laptop use than like car use, with daily full cycles?

> Then please give us a source for regarding your continental dunkelflate doomsday scenario so we can make sure is a plausible scenario, and not made up scary numbers.

I think you're misunderstanding me on this. I'm saying it's good enough even for a very weird and unusual condition far in excess of the normal talking points.

> Of course ignoring that you assume that we need to charge every single car to 100% every day.

No? I'm saying I expect an average car to get a 60kWh battery pack, and that there are 290 million vehicles in the USA, and that this makes a combined manufacturing requirement of sustaining a capacity of multiply-those-numbers-together storage. This says nothing about how often that storage will normally get charged, and instead I was saying how long this could power the USA for if discharged in a very weird condition.

Actual power consumption of those vehicles is tiny, something like 80% of mean consumption (in places where shaded parking isn't the norm) could be supplied by requiring their surfaces to be covered in PV.
by bmc7505 | 2025-08-02 11:31:07+00:00
> The solvers participating in this track will be executed with a wall-clock time limit of 1000 seconds. Each solver will be run an a single AWS machine of the type m6i.16xlarge, which has 64 virtual cores and 256GB of memory.

For comparison, an H100 has 14,592 CUDA cores, with GPU clusters measured in the exaflops. The scaling exponents are clearly favorable for LLM training and inference, but whether the same algorithms used for parallel SAT would benefit from compute scaling is unclear. I maintain that either (1) SAT researchers have not yet learned the bitter lesson, or (2) it is not applicable across all of AI as Sutton claims.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-08-02 11:31:12+00:00
Because it's bad enough (for those of us that aren't heavily invested in the topic) that often 50%+ of the frontpage is about AI now, to go into the comments for a clearly non-AI topic and see a bunch of "but what about LLMs" comments really just sucks the fun out of HN for a lot of us.