MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trunksuzieross | 2025-08-07 15:55:29+00:00
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by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-07 15:55:38+00:00
Right. Some of my programming work is done sitting back in my chair, a movie going on the TV for background noise, probably daydreaming a little while I write code or documentation or do basic tasks. Then there's other "deep work" where I stand up at my desk, turn off anything in the background, and block everything else out of my mind until I've finished the task. It's possible that I'm 10x more valuable during the latter periods than the former (1000x is just silly).

If I could turn the first type of work over to an AI assistant so I could spend that time napping or working on a hobby or side interest, that would be cool. But that's not the goal of companies pushing AI. They figure if I don't have to do the "mindless" work anymore, I can do "deep work" for my full 40 hours. But maybe I'm not capable of working more hours at that level of focus. Maybe the hours spent doing "mindless" work are necessary for resting and recharging between the intense sessions. So if my company takes away the "mindless" work, they're probably not going to get the jump in productivity they're going for. They're more likely to burn me out and send me looking for a new job.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-07 15:56:11+00:00
Land Value Tax (one of the main theories pushed by Georgism proponents) is a favorite of online discussion forums, but becomes progressively less popular as the conversation turns from broad strokes to details.

Every time it comes up it seems many people are also unaware that taxing land value is already common practice. It’s common to have one tax for the assessed value of the land and another tax for the assessed value of the improvements. Policies might include exemptions for the first so many dollars of a person’s primary residence structure.

With a pure Land Value Tax you cover your eyes and pretend the value of the structures and improvements doesn’t count. If one wealthy neighbor builds a $2,000,000 house next to a retired grandma living out her final years in her small, old forever home, the LVT people don’t care. If their lots are the same then they must pay the same taxes because the land value is what matters.

This makes it a very regressive tax structure as the people or businesses with the least valuable structures now subdivide their neighbors with the most valuable structures. This can all be avoided by simply using our existing system of having a tax on land and a tax on structures each at their assessed value.
by OsmanDKitay | 2025-08-07 15:56:29+00:00
You made good points. Aura is more like a sitemap for actions than robotstxt. I just wanted to make Aura much simpler, using only plain JSON and HTTP. I think the Semantic Web was too complex for people to use. So why is now a good time for this idea? I think it s because of AI agents. Today big companies spend a lot of money on web scraping and their tools break all the time. This gives them a real reason to want a better way. And for your last question, can't AI just read the page? Yes it can, but it s very slow and it breaks easily. It s the difference between using a clean API versus guessing where to click on a page. Aura is just a way for a website to offer that clean API-like path. It's faster for everyone and doesnt break when a small thing like a button s color changes. Thanks for the feedback.
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-07 15:56:45+00:00
I owe my IT career to doublespace, lol.

I messed up the family PC and decided to reinstall windows on its 80mb drive that had been repartitioned to 100mb thanks to dos 6.22 and doublespace.

However, I did not have dos 6.22 install disks, I had dos 5.0 install disks and then 6.22 upgrades, and the 5.0 disks could not see the hard drive partition that doublespace had taken over, so it saw our 80mb hard drive as a 1-ish mb hard drive that was too small to install to.

Format couldn't see it, and fdisk couldn't either, so I could not start over from scratch no matter what I did.

Queue me panicking.

My mom was at work overnight. I had until she got back to fix it or I was dead meat.

I had no money, I was a child. I had no one and nothing to turn to other than the user manuals that came with the operating systems

I knew how to make a bootable floppy disk, and using that knowledge and a nat 20 inspiration roll I made a bootable dos 6.22 floppy disk that had the doublespace system on it, booted the home pc with that, used the doublespace software to revert the drive, and then was able to reinstall dos 5, upgrade to 6.22, install windows 3.1 and all of my moms software to finish up about 15 minutes before she arrived home in the morning.

The first thing my mom did when she got home was boot up the family PC. She was a little peeved that her solitaire high score got erased but everything else was fine.
by cpursley | 2025-08-07 15:57:08+00:00
Snacking is an American/Anglo world thing. As are terrible manners in general. Civilized people sit down and eat at the table, and that includes having their children do the same - even for snacks (there are some exceptions, of course). That also goes for devices at the table, either at home or restaurants (truly incredible that people abuse their children this way). Yes, I have very strong opinions on this as a father who's seen that there's another way called "being a parent".
by tptacek | 2025-08-07 15:57:10+00:00
I don't really care what happens to mom-and-pop real estate speculators. I don't think targeting any kind of investor is going to do anything for housing affordability, but my real target in this subthread is the PE thing, because "target PE investors instead of rezoning" is a super common NIMBY argument.

As a matter of politics, we're not going to pass any legislation that disfavors mom-and-pop real estate speculators, so I don't really see what's to be gained in litigating. I think you'd be pretty surprised at the demographics of those small-time investors; a lot of them are decidedly middle class. They're not representative of the middle class; obviously, most middle-income earners don't own investment residential properties. But that's not the same thing as saying that middle-income earners aren't represented among real estate investors.
by alnwlsn | 2025-08-07 15:57:31+00:00
There's something like this in every desktop Linux I've tried, which made it feel like using the mouse was in some way weird and broken. But I've been using it for long enough now that it either got fixed, or more likely, I got used to it. I don't even remember what it was, something about clicking drop down menus a certain way?

Reminds me of the first time I ever used classic Macintosh System OS, and how you have to hold the mouse button down to keep menus open. It doesn't take much to throw everything off.
by fatbird | 2025-08-07 15:57:40+00:00
As I keep mentioning, I worked as a contractor inside Honeywell for 5+ years. My experience of my immediate team was mixed: some very good people, some total morons. My experience of the organization was uniformly terrible. Absurd company-wide requirements for security checks, code quality verification, financial controls. Insane restrictions on product development to use X technology or integrate with Y unit's product. Billions wasted on their IIoT play that got rebooted after several years (and the billions I saw wasted wasn't its development, it was moving everyone in the company onto and off it again ["offboarding"]).

In that time, the stock price went up, and Honeywell went back on the Fortune 100. Just zero relationship between productivity or effectiveness within the company and the stock price.
by drweevil | 2025-08-07 15:57:41+00:00
My number one requirement is that any car that I buy is mine. No subscriptions. No calling back to the mothership. No spying on my activities or driving skills. I'd like to be able to repair it too, or at least be able to take it to the mechanic of my choice. This is a somewhat different desire than simply K.I.S.S.--and wasn't addressed in the article--though I wouldn't mind that either.
by scottLobster | 2025-08-07 15:58:17+00:00
That's all great and noble, but at the end of the day it's about who has the resources. If you can get the necessary resources yourself and have complete control over their allocation, congratulations you won the jackpot of life. Plenty of people, some of whom are smarter and better than you, tried to do the same and failed due to reasons beyond their control. Try to remain a good person and not waste the opportunity if you ever get to that stage.

For the remaining 99.99% of us, we have to negotiate for resources as best we can. That typically means maximizing shareholder value in exchange for a cut of the profits. Not all your labor needs to be vacuumed up, I make enough to support my family, live a relatively safe and comfortable life with some minor luxuries and likely a secure retirement. Better deal than most people get today.
by ddingus | 2025-08-07 15:58:34+00:00
Well, the 6809 was basically the same in these respects.

Internal registers are 16 bit, with the accumulator (A) being provisioned as two 8 bit registers (A, B) as needed. Index X, Y, Stack, User Stack, PC, are all 16 bit registers.

The Hitachi 6309, adds to that with up to 32 bit register sizes in specific cases.

In any case, the ALU and data transfers are 8 bits and I am not sure I ever saw the 6809 referenced as a 16 bit device.

Maybe 16 bit curious, LMAO.
by jtbayly | 2025-08-07 15:58:43+00:00
They don’t care until they can’t print... I had a user buy an ARM Windows device last year. I thought it was a sweet little computer, but the large multi-function Sharp printers don’t have drivers, so the best I could do was get basic printing working. Not double sided, not finishing options, etc. Pretty much a bummer that I expect to go away in the next few years, but still currently a place that can matter and cause people to lean x86.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-07 15:58:46+00:00
> A key part of the recent push for passkeys has been cross device syncing with your Google / Apple / whatever password manager account, so you end up in the same situation: if you can log in to Bitwarden to access your passwords, you can log in to your password manager to access your passkeys.

Relying on Google/Apple is no better, with the stories of people losing access to their (Google in particular) account, and not being able to recover or let alone even reach a human at Google to begin with.

Why not have a public service for this, instead of relying on big tech that can just revoke your account for any number of ToS "violations" without recourse? The solution for "normies" should not be rely on and trust Google with your entire digital identity.
by ecshafer | 2025-08-07 15:58:49+00:00
For enterprises its not usually as simple as sell to the CTO. Some things you need that, if you are AWS or Azure, the CTO and some principle engineer are who you have to convince to move the whole 20k person org over. But for a lot of software its the Line manager or director who is calling the shots, or a division head since division A may use different software than division B.
by throwanem | 2025-08-07 15:58:54+00:00
Strangely, a popular formulation of utilitarian ethics attracts utilitarian ethicists, some of whom were eugenicists and the like already by inclination, the rest merely having become so under the suasion of this fringe theory's false axioms.

When your scheme of rules for how human societies should run does nothing to exclude or even discourage the worst atrocities of human history - when that scheme is fairly evaluable on its own terms as declaring those atrocities insufficient! - you've already made a catastrophically terrible mistake. To advocate it thereafter through persuasion rhetorical and otherwise is contemptible, but unsurprising.
by chollida1 | 2025-08-07 15:58:57+00:00
> People said the same thing 2 years ago about NVIDIA, that their stock price didn't make any sense given their revenue, that is was an obvious bubble. Now their revenue is 10x higher, justifying the stock price from 2 years ago.

Your point is generally correct but revenue isn't 10x higher for the past 2 years, that would indicate they had about $260B in revenue this year instead of $130B.

NVIDIA annual revenue for 2025 was $130.497B, a 114.2% increase from 2024. NVIDIA annual revenue for 2024 was $60.922B, a 125.85% increase from 2023. NVIDIA annual revenue for 2023 was $26.974B, a 0.22% increase from 2022.
by bluescrn | 2025-08-07 15:59:11+00:00
'Piracy killed the Amiga' is often repeated. But piracy also made the Amiga legendary.

The Amiga just never got a serious update to those custom chips that made it such a great machine. AGA didn't bring much to the table (couldn't match the SNES/Megadrive). Accelerator cards and RAM expansions weren't enough. Then Doom arrived on PC, Commodore died, and it was all over.

(Didn't help that once Doom arrived, so many of the remaining Amiga coders stopped making 2D games and spent countless hours trying to imitate Doom on a machine that didn't have a chance of delivering a good Doom-like experience...)
by andrepd | 2025-08-07 15:59:55+00:00
> This 'reasoning' explains why the predominent sentiment in Europe is now: 'Bye bye USA'.

Do you mean the people? They don't matter, the EU is not a democracy that has to answer to its people.

Do you mean the leaders? They just signed a treaty to agree to 10x tariffs for their goods, 0% tariffs for the USA's good, and to buy a trillion dollar's worth of energy and arms. Doesn't sound like "bye bye USA".
by pavpanchekha | 2025-08-07 16:00:31+00:00
Great reply, much appreciated. I searched a bit for a number like ~70B and didn't find one. Perhaps 36 bits wouldn't have actually worked. I do think we'd have wasted more Class As, but that's where the "minor market mechanisms" would have happened—most of the class As did get sold and would in this universe too. Again, if total internet-connected devices is now 70B that wouldn't help, you'd still need NATs.
by tptacek | 2025-08-07 16:00:35+00:00
I'm sure you're writing this in good faith, but it really seems like you're trying to slip out from under the question I asked at the top of this thread. "Suppliers can make money by withholding supply in an inelastic market" is an answer to some other question; my question is: stipulating that they can't rent their properties out, and that supply is consistently increasing, how do they make money? All your specific answers have attempted to define away one or both of the premises of that question.
by AlienRobot | 2025-08-07 16:00:38+00:00
The number of people who have the privilege to publish content for free for others (or spend their free time contributing to open source) is minimal. And now they will feel like they're being disrespected and exploited by LLM's and its users who think of the authors not as people but as just as the source of content. You can be sure most of the content will be gone because nobody wants to be just a content cow for LLM's.
by throwanem | 2025-08-07 16:01:09+00:00
The social scene has an extremely vindictive vibe, very much suited to such soi-disant prophets. If you need anything from these people, my sense has always been, it isn't really safe to even let them think you might someday harbor the desire to cross them.

Of course butter wouldn't melt in their mouths to hear them tell it, but when ever in a case like this isn't that true?
by thinkingQueen | 2025-08-07 16:01:21+00:00
You’re comparing apples to oranges.

Daala was never meant to be widely adopted in its original form — its complexity alone made that unlikely. There’s a reason why all widely deployed codecs end up using similar coding tools and partitioning schemes: they’re proven, practical, and compatible with real-world hardware.

As for H.265, it’s the result of countless engineering trade-offs. I’m sure if you cherry-picked all the most experimental ideas proposed during its development, you could create a codec that far outperforms H.265 on paper. But that kind of design would never be viable in a real-world product — it wouldn’t meet the constraints of hardware, licensing, or industry adoption.

Now the following is a more general comment, not directed at you.

There’s often a dismissive attitude toward the work done in the H.26x space. You can sometimes see this even in technical meetings when someone proposes a novel but impractical idea and gets frustrated when others don’t immediately embrace it. But there’s a good reason for the conservative approach: codecs aren’t just judged by their theoretical performance; they have to be implementable, efficient, and compatible with real-world constraints. They also have to somehow make financial sense and cannot be given a way without some form of compensation.
by HsuWL | 2025-08-07 16:01:40+00:00
Because I’m not a native English speaker, I translate my comments by GPT.Haha

因為我用GPT幫我翻譯的啦！Σ(๑Ⱉ⸝⸝Ⱉ๑;)੭⁾⁾我的母語是中文 所以有點GPT味 我已經努力在訓練他講話流暢一點了啦哭哭
by pjc50 | 2025-08-07 16:01:51+00:00
Social media is the true support channel of last resort, especially in a community like HN where your message might just find its way to an insider with enough seniority to go off script and fix things.

Re: "The Support Agents Who Became LLMs"; yes, institutionalized support is terrible almost everywhere. Partly because it costs real money to pay real humans to do it properly, so it ends up as a squeezed cost centre.
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-07 16:01:52+00:00
> This administration doesn't seem to care very much about appearances.

(Or, this administration cares ONLY about appearances)

Either way, I'm not talking about appearances, I'm talking about the sitting US-president publicly attacking one of the most important companies of the US economy, with complete disregard for the consequences of his actions and the impact to the country and its citizens.
by m4rtink | 2025-08-07 16:02:01+00:00
This is how it works in the universe in the novel "Right of Return" by Janusz Zajdel - humanity has developed both safe hibernation as well as practical sub-light travel.

Many colonies, research stations and logistic hubs have been established with fast and dependable sub-light ships traversing between them.

On such a ship most of the crew is in hibernation at any one time, with just a couple people taking shifts from the hibernation to stand a watch during the flight.

Even with the ships reaching high sub-light speeds, the voyages take decades from outside perspective. But that might not be a problem! If you are one of the crew it might seem like a couple weeks as that's how long you flight crew shift took. If you are a passenger - it takes not time at all, you just go to hibernation & wake up at you destination!

So as long as you are a spacer or part of the wider community (e.q. space scientists who either study a wonder of space or are in transit to another one) this is fine - you will meet you friends again in a couple flight, in days or weeks of subjective time.

But if you befriends someone outside of the community or decide it was enough and settle down, you might never see them again.

Can really recommend the novel - has much more than this topic & quite a few other surprises. :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Zajdel
by tristor | 2025-08-07 16:02:16+00:00
As one of the people that helped start CCCP and was involved extensively through almost its entire lifespan, I think you misunderstand what it means to be "free" in this case. CCCP was "free as in beer" but not "free as in speech", /many/ of the codecs in CCCP were patent encumbered, but were included because there were open-source implementations of them by authors that didn't care about those patents, and many of the licensing arrangements didn't effectively apply to end-users (either due to language or care to prosecute). CCCP also almost exclusively included /decoders/, but /encoders/ are much more likely to be targeted by licensing authorities.

We started CCCP because at the time, anime fansubs were predominantly traded on P2P filesharing services like Kazaa, Gnutella, eDonkey, Direct Connect, and later Bittorrent. The most popular codec pack at the time was K-Lite / Kazaa Codec Pack which was a complete and utter mess, and specifically for fansubbing, it was hard to get subtitles to work properly unless they were hard embedded. Soft-subbing allowed for improvements, and there were a lot of improvements to subtitling in the fansubbing community over the years, one of the biggest came when the Matroska (MKV) container format came about, that allowed arbitrarily different formats/encodings to share a single media container, and the community shifted almost entirely to ASS formatted subtitles, but because an MKV could contain many different encodings, any given MKV file may play correctly or not on any given system. CCCP was intended to provide an authoritative, canonical, single-source way to play fansubbed anime correctly on Windows, and we achieved that objective.

But let's be clear, nobody involved was under any illusions that the MPEG-LA or any other license holders of for instance h264 were fans of our community or what we're doing. Anime fansubbing at all came out of piracy of foreign-language media into the English market via the Internet and P2P filesharing. None of us gave a shit, and the use of Soviet imagery in the CCCP was exactly a nod to the somewhat communist ideal that knowledge and access to media should be free, and that patent encumbering codecs and patenting software isn't just stupid, it's morally wrong. I still strongly feel software patents are evil.

Nonetheless, at no point was CCCP through it's life fully legal/licenses appropriately for usage, and effectively nobody cared, not even the licensing authorities, because the existence of these things made their licenses for encoders more valuable for companies producing media, as it was easier for actual people to consume.
by kenjackson | 2025-08-07 16:02:44+00:00
They do care about those things. But it turns out that stock price and profits often turn on “bigger” things than productivity. Google didn’t win search because they were productive. Nor did Tesla win EVs due to it (and they won’t lose EVs due to the lack of it).

There are some spaces where productivity does matter. My uncle runs a painting company. It’s all about productivity, costs, and customer acquisition. HeAl’s not waiting on new markets or innovation to fundamentally change how he makes money (although tech has improved productivity). He’s made it for the same way for the past 30 years.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-08-07 16:02:45+00:00
I really dislike these types of comments as they don't really contribute to the conversation. Beyond generally going against HN's rules, they don't really highlight anything meaningful or represent an actual cognitive dissonance.

Forums are composed of diverse sets of opinions and perspectives. When you get a lot of opinions together, opinions change - some of which can be explained simply by randomness.