MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-05 01:01:30+00:00
> With a lot of companies, there is no reason they can't be in the midwest where there are a lot more affordable homes, and a lot of space.

I would argue that if they aren’t there now, there probably is a reason that you are overlooking.

If you need non-remote employees at all (and if you don’t, where the company is located with regard to housing doesn’t mean anything), then there is a cost to not locating where people with the skills you want currently are, and also a cost to not locating in a place where the people you want to hire would want to be.

> We should be looking to draw people from these HCOL areas to help bring back these cities. It seems like a win-win situation.

I’m sure when you just state it as a goal without a concrete plan or costs, it seems that way: we should just wave a magic wand and make people’s preferences changed so what isn’t in demand is in more demand and what is in demand os in less demand. Simple!

When you try to come up with w concrete plan to do that is when it becomes more problematic.
by foxglacier | 2025-09-05 01:01:58+00:00
Surely it's meant to reassure the contestants that they're not wasting their time. They'll obviously know AI can do some of this stuff so it's a reminder that the true purpose of the competition isn't to be good at programming.

People still compete in playing musical instruments, riding horses, painting pictures, etc. All redundant because of technology but still they do it for other reasons, not the practical utility of the product of their work.
by raggi | 2025-09-05 01:03:05+00:00
Can you expand on "easier" and "faster" in easier/faster/better. I understand "better" in terms of transparency, shared standards for integration, and various other properties.

I can less immediately expand "easier" and "faster".

Easier: on chain VMs are far from simple or easy, recovery from mistakes is far more complex. Some other aspects such as the implicit common standard might reduce some amount of need for "green field agreement", and the implicit openness of the protocols avoid some of the traps of "here's a rest api, go", but is this the focus? When you look at a wide variety of the big ticket items in everything that needs doing, is the total set easier? Are there surprises there?

Faster: similar to above, this claim is surprising. There's a lot of by-design overhead to a cryptographic ledger system. Lots of things that can be done to make it wider, to reduce latency and increase throughput, but at a fundamental level core operations such as transaction creation require a lot more processing going into a ledger than into a traditional database, even one at scale. Maybe faster here isn't about system faster, but time to product delivery? If so is that common standards? Are there surprises here too, what were they?

Edit: I see elsewhere in the thread you provide some answers in a slightly different framing. A potentially unfair paraphrase and summary seems to be that this enabled integrations to bypass expensive incumbents and comparatively poor traditional infrastructure. If that's a reasonable approximation my question is this: what if you dropped good sized chunks of the blockchain part that is the main system bottleneck, but kept the rest of the properties (shared micro computation model, shared transaction model, common API standard and protocol, eradication of foot dragging incumbents etc).?
by calmbonsai | 2025-09-05 01:03:43+00:00
Don't get me wrong, I love Tesla design. I just never understood why anyone would deliberately inject additional possible critical safety faults into their driving experience.

I was glad when they started charging for it, 'cuz it just meant fewer dangerous Teslas on the road.

I have no doubt we'll get to full autopilot...eventually, and we've "gotten there" already with adaptive cruise control, BUT in the interim, if you can't pay full attention while driving you shouldn't be driving.
by MoravecsParadox | 2025-09-05 01:03:46+00:00
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by zeroonetwothree | 2025-09-05 01:05:06+00:00
Gerrymandering is only possible to such an extent now because everyone now has such strong partisan affiliation that their voting patterns are easily predictable. 95% of the population as soon as they see R or D by the name look no further. That’s also why we don’t have many centrist candidates anymore, they lost the ability to pull from the other side and they have a disadvantage within their own party.
by dundercoder | 2025-09-05 01:05:49+00:00
We don’t let our kids on to TikTok, but all their friends are on and it surprises me how much they take whatever advice is shown them as gospel. Lucky for me my kids will tell me “Hey, Johnny said the best way to get ripped is X” so I get the chance to teach proper research techniques (for the level they are at). Two of my four kids are avid readers, mostly fiction but some not, the other two I am really struggling to get them engaged.

After being forced to read books in high school over the summer (school mandated summer reading) I got turned off on reading for years until I picked up Harry Potter. That changed my perspective and I read gobs of books now. I actually prefer to read information mostly than to watch a video about it.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-05 01:05:53+00:00
Can you point me to any major socialist success stories? I was going to ask that rhetorically but i would actually be happy if you could educate me. Certainly running an entire country on socialism almost always ends really badly, but maybe that's not the same on a city level? Or maybe mamdani has discovered the perfect set of policies to make it work.
by tomhow | 2025-09-05 01:05:55+00:00
Please don't post sneering comments like this on HN. The point itself may be valid, and raises a question worth discussing, but when it's phrased like this it crosses into shallow dismissal and flamebait territory, and is against the HN guidelines. We've had to ask you to observe the guidelines in just the past few months. You're a longtime community member and we value the positive contributions you've made over the years, but we need everyone to make the effort to use HN in the intended spirit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by jared_hulbert | 2025-09-05 01:06:31+00:00
The original blog post title is intentionally clickbaity. You know, to bait people into clicking. Also I do want to challenge people to really think here.

Seeing if the cached file data can be accessed quickly is the point of the experiment. I can't get mmap() to open a file with huge pages.

void* buffer = mmap(NULL, size_bytes, PROT_READ, (MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_HUGE_1GB), fd, 0); doesn't work.

You can can see my code here https://github.com/bitflux-ai/blog_notes. Any ideas?
by anyfoo | 2025-09-05 01:06:46+00:00
For sure. Also, we simply live in a world where computers, and their operating systems, are giant, impossibly complex structures. No single person can even fully know in all detail even what you would relatively consider a small part of neither any commercial computer, nor their operating system. In my job, I work with 15000 (!) page specifications, and that's only concerning one part of very many.

That pretty much guarantees that change can only be incremental.
by agwa | 2025-09-05 01:06:51+00:00
If you're going to use SQLite as an application file format, you should:

1. Enable the secure_delete pragma <https://antonz.org/sqlite-secure-delete/> so that when your user deletes something, the data is actually erased. Otherwise, when a user shares one of your application's files with someone else, the recipient could recover information that the sender thought they had deleted.

2. Enable the options described at <https://www.sqlite.org/security.html#untrusted_sqlite_databa...> under "Untrusted SQLite Database Files" to make it safer to open files from untrusted sources. No one wants to get pwned when they open an email attachment.

3. Be aware that when it comes to handling security vulnerabilities, the SQLite developers consider this use case to be niche ("few real-world applications" open SQLite database files from untrusted sources, they say) and they seem to get annoyed that people run fuzzers against SQLite, even though application file formats should definitely be fuzzed. https://www.sqlite.org/cves.html

They fail to mention any of this on their marketing pages about how you should use SQLite as an application file format.
by throwaway0223 | 2025-09-05 01:06:56+00:00
If you believe in fully remote work, and think that companies should not pay double to have employees in HCOL locations: why would you hire in a crazily expensive market like the US in the first place?

If everyone is remote, why not put your employees in Costa Rica? Or São Paulo? Colombia? Heck, even Canada is cheaper than many places in the US.

And we're only talking about timezone-aligned markets. You can also consider Poland, or India, and now you can hire a lot more resources for the same cost. Sure, it will be less efficient, collaboration tax and all, but 2.5X is quite a difference.

The one thing holding US-based companies from going all-in offshore is the belief that in-person relationships still matter. They would rather pay the extra COL mark up than save 40-70% for a remote employee.

To be clear: the jobs are going to other markets; this is not a either or situation. But at least hybrid RTO has as a dampening effect, and protects the internal job market. We should be celebrating folks like Amazon, not complaining that they don't get it.

In the past we had more demand than supply, which kept salaries stable (read: high). Now there's more supply than demand, and the main thing holding salaries stable is that employers still want warm bodies walking through their doors every day. Remove that, and you get a race to the bottom.
by dehrmann | 2025-09-05 01:07:07+00:00
At the same time, I remember most of high school math barely needing calculators outside chemistry and physics.

Look at some of the SAT math questions:

https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/digital-sat-samp...

The questions are all designed to have a tidy, closed-form answer. A calculator is either marginally helpful or outright cheating.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-05 01:08:34+00:00
Besides your tone let's just try to inject some rationality here: I don't subscribe to murdering people, even alleged drug traffickers when better alternatives exist.

And for an encore: 11 people on a boat that is trafficking drugs? Think about that for a second. If you're a drugs smuggler what are you going to do with 11 people on your boat. That's easily 600 Kg more payload which has a street value of something ridiculous. And there is no way in hell that that boat would make it to the USA. That's way to far for a powerboat like that. They're great for short and very fast hops, not for 1000+ miles across open water. So there is a very good chance that 11 innocents just got murdered for no reason whatsoever other than that they happened to be on a boat.

But I don't even care: bombing boats with civilians is an act of war. This is the sort of thing that will beget a response. Just like threatening to invade Canada, Panama or Greenland begets a response. At the end of all this the USA will realize that it is large, but not larger than the rest of the world. Killing indiscriminately and bullying are all immature acts of overgrown toddlers that want to use their toys. You can't justify that by pointing to some pieces of paper, or lack thereof.
by buildbuildbuild | 2025-09-05 01:08:37+00:00
Easier: I can earn or spend real money 24/7 without anyone’s permission, at any age, in any location.

Faster: Payments settle lightning fast compared to ACH/Wires, permanently and internationally.

Better: I don’t need anyone’s approval to be “banked” and I don’t have to operate in fear of clawbacks. Programs are the ultimate unbanked, and that’s the “agentic economy” that is emerging.
by calmbonsai | 2025-09-05 01:09:41+00:00
Yup. As a former Premier Platinum Partner, RTO has been such a lovely recruiting boon.

Hell, despite dog and booze-friendly office policies, folks didn't like even coming into the office (esp. downtown Seattle) in the mid 2000s.

Whenever we would visit, they loved having the excuse of "entertaining out-of-town colleagues" to get out of the office and enjoy the city.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-05 01:09:56+00:00
> A great mystery is how Tesla is avoiding culpability and liability

The civil justice system is slow (and COVID made the whole justice system even slower for quite a while), but aside from that, maybe they're not? A quarter billion dollar verdict for a 2019 crash was recently returned against them.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/tesla-rejected-60-m...
by benoau | 2025-09-05 01:10:09+00:00
They on average pass approximately 70% on, but the record labels also eat heavily into that before the artists get their share.

I'm reminded of an effort a few years ago to legislate the creators getting 50% - which of course meant the "platforms" and the "labels" would collectively share only the other 50%. Which is presumably why the initiative failed.

> The three major labels - Sony, Universal and Warner Music - faced some of the toughest questioning of the inquiry, and were accused of a "lack of clarity" by MPs.

> They largely argued to maintain the status quo, saying any disruption could damage investment in new music, and resisted the idea that streaming was comparable to radio - where artists receive a 50/50 royalty split.

> "It is a narrow-margin business, so it wouldn't actually take that much to upset the so-called apple cart," said Apple Music's Elena Segal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57838473

These days Spotify has hundreds of millions for Joe Rogan and podcast investments, and Apple reports a 75% profit margin on services, so I guess it is quite profitable for everyone except the actual artists.
by lurking_swe | 2025-09-05 01:10:33+00:00
cope? it’s what happens to all the fauna and flora on this planet. Including humans. Bit of a weird take if you ask me. I know my place so to speak…

I do agree with you that if politicians lived longer, they’d (hopefully) think long term. That’s an interesting point I hadn’t considered.

Lastly - nobody is suggesting killing anyone here. Feels like i’m being interviewed by a reporter with my words taken completely out of context. This is what being famous must feel like. :) If someone finds a way for humans to live longer I won’t be upset in the slightest. I’m just saying “be careful what you wish for”. That is all. There would be many unintended consequences. Viewing it as strictly a beneficial thing is naive i think.
by toastercat | 2025-09-05 01:10:56+00:00
I just use Plex hosted on a Raspberry Pi, and Plex Amp. I download mp3s from Bandcamp/wherever, and use beets [0] to auto-tag.

EDIT: FWIW, I don't recommend most people host their own music. Spotify/YouTube music is easy to use and has most music people want to listen to. I only self-host because I'm the type of person who has built a collection of mp3s since 2005, and the few times I tried switching to Spotify, I would commonly not be able to find specific things I wanted to listen to.

[0] https://beets.io/
by Maulik_hacker | 2025-09-05 01:11:15+00:00
Most founders waste years building products no one asked for. I refused to be another zombie grinding in stealth.

So I built Startup Solve — an AI platform that acts like the co-founder who actually calls out your bullshit.

It doesn’t clap for you. It doesn’t care about your pitch deck aesthetics. It cares about one thing: is your idea worth your life’s time?

Features?

Kills bad ideas before they drain your soul

Predicts whether investors will actually care

Simulates markets & competitors in seconds

Iterates angles until you land on something sharp

Stress-tests your growth plan before launch

Not for dreamers. Not for people who want “encouragement.”

For builders who’d rather hear “your idea sucks” today than in 3 years.
by hamish-b | 2025-09-05 01:11:18+00:00
I've been working hard at this problem over at https://kurnell.ai. Our thesis is that going forward it's unrealistic to ban or detect-and-reprimand AI, therefore we need to meet students where they're at and democratize access to the best AI for all.

We have great traction with universities in USA and Australia. The flywheel that we've constructed means that students are being prepared for industry + research in a Post-AI world, and professors can see exactly how students are using AI tooling. Our findings are that knowledge of how students are using AI goes a long way to helping institutions adapt.

Keen to chat and share our findings - reach out at hamish(at)kurnell.ai !
by card_zero | 2025-09-05 01:11:18+00:00
Epistemology fight! Facts are ideas like there are 60,000 species of beetle. They're different from other ideas in that they don't explain very much, don't really contribute to understanding, and are quite boring. They are disputable, because my source for that particular fact is quite old, and by now we may think the fact is that there are 70,000 species of beetle. Objective facts are actually true, and nobody is ever completely, indisputably certain of those, although in some fields like mathematics we try very hard to say indisputable things, and in others like literary criticism we don't, because the subjective is of more interest in that context - that is, there is higher tolerance for vagueness. But really every claimed statement is a subjective attempt to approach the objective, which is forever beyond us, but we can travel in its direction.
by slt2021 | 2025-09-05 01:12:25+00:00
it is perfectly rational strategy, given their resources and positioning. There is absolutely nothing "madmen" in this strategy.

It is an edge, a way to exploit an arbitrage on the difference in a will to sacrifice and die between two nations.

When you play heads up poker, and your opponent is not willing to risk his pot, you bully him with your betting strategy and extract value ("big stack bully" strategy)

>> "and relying on the rest of the world to act like statesmen and leaders"

perhaps these "statesmen and leaders" should show more responsibility before unleashing non-stop wars around the world and plunging nations into endless wars, organizing genocides, and faking "muhh weapons of mass destruction" evidence for foreign invasions and occupations
by DaveZale | 2025-09-05 01:12:27+00:00
very interesting. I had many group zoom interviews during the pandemic by potential manager and peers, and frankly, some seem to have felt threatened by more experience, and sure, some of that was cultural, esp w/foreign born PhDs but... humans are born to be dramatic. So in that respect, I like more objectivity. The real question may be the inevitable potential cultural fit- say after a year or two on the job. As we all love to say, "more research is required" - follow up studies?
by Balgair | 2025-09-05 01:12:29+00:00
Any audits will be quickly farmed out to yet another AI for review, is my guess.

I'd imagine some system like YTs appeals system, where everyone is maximally unhappy.

One anecdote from my SO's time as a grader was that pre med students were the worst. They would just wear you down to get the best possible grade, appealing literally every missed point ad nauseum. Most profs would give in eventually in the undergrad classes and not deal with them. Of course further emboldening them.

No other major was like that, only those dealing with the future hellscape that was US healthcare.

I'd imagine that, yes, eventually your appeals in the AI future will end up at a prof, but delayed to hell and back. Even paying $200k+ won't matter.
by Bender | 2025-09-05 01:12:36+00:00
I do about 5000 to 25000 a day along with K2-MK7 and magnesium. There were times in the past when I used 160,000 IU's per day for a few months to decalcify myself without issue but I built up to that very slowly whilst also taking K2-MK7 .8 to 1.2mg day. Now that I am much older I am more sensitive to larger amounts but at worse I briefly just get a little pain here or there. One factor is body fat which absorbs a good deal of D3 and that makes calculating measuring anything anyones best guess as it gets mopped up.

What I am more interested in measuring currently is potassium for prolonged fasting but I might just cheat and potassium-water-fast. Trying to avoid a lot of grey market equipment taking up space.
by yummypaint | 2025-09-05 01:12:50+00:00
It's essential to understand that tolerance is not a moral precept, it's more like a peace treaty. It's a practical social contract that allows everyone to live in peace while exercising their rights. Treaties only protect parties who abide by their terms, and it MUST be this way, or a free society will be torn down by people who want to ban books, racially discriminate, and impose their religion on others.

Much has been written on this topic, you should avail yourself.

https://conversational-leadership.net/tolerance-is-a-social-...
by beepbooptheory | 2025-09-05 01:12:56+00:00
I agree with sibling replies but more tangentially maybe: why is it that sometimes the point of these things is that I do not have to modify my behavior at all, while the restaurant can pay one less person, but other times the point is all about modifying it so the company can pay one less person?

Like here: if the restaurant really wants to get rid of their intercom person, why not make it self checkout, no AI required? What is actually saved or gained either way? There is nothing intrinsic about this situation that requires me to use natural language to order something. People order tons of food online these days anyway!

Like I just dont think it makes sense and I also probably don't think the economics of this would work out with fast food restaurant scale.

Again, just step back and think about it for a moment: lots of this really doesn't make sense. The world is not really full of tasks a good prompt can solve. There a million things that aren't "produce this python script" or "summarize this article probably correctly."

Why can't it just be what it is? Why does it absolutely have to be everything or nothing? So much of the thought around this feels so clearly wrong headed, its just starting to feel truly absurd.
by stevage | 2025-09-05 01:13:54+00:00
Not really the key point, but personally as a reader I have always disliked Chekhov's Gun. I like to believe in the world that is being described to me, as if it were real. In the real world, things just exist, they don't necessarily have purpose. So a gun can be described just because it's there, it's interesting, it catches the protagonist's eye, etc.

If I know the author follows Chekhov's Gun, then now I know something is going to happen with the gun, taking away surprise and suspense and possibility, and making the world feel much less real.
by 9rx | 2025-09-05 01:14:08+00:00
> the idea that they are "democratic" is just largely just rhetoric for foreign audiences.

They don't claim to be democratic, only more democratic. The alternatives compared against aren't democratic either, so the hypothetical possibility of the CCP being, on the spectrum, more democratic is theoretically sound. Reality isn't, though. The trouble with the claim is that what makes something more or less democratic in the real world is completely nebulous, allowing anyone to pick arbitrary criteria to make the claim.

> You need to know at least what side you're speaking for

Information can be inaccurate, but it doesn't have a side, fundamentally.