MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2025-09-02 00:03:52+00:00
transportation is expensive and must be paid somehow. For most people good public transportation would realistically cost them $100 per month - that is less than they spend on a car per month but still a lot of money. (Car costs are mostly hidden - you spend less than that in gas, not noticing the payments, insurance which are paid differently, or maitenance which is large bills not often).

when looking at the above, most people live in a couple situation so think of it as selling one car and keeping the other - it still saves money and you get the best of both worlds. This only works though if transit is getting that money from everyone already though since you need that much before it is useful to those who would pay.
by ec109685 | 2025-09-02 00:04:01+00:00
Editing the commit at the bottom of the stack is part of the magic of jj since it makes it so easy. So not knowing how that works in a github workflow or what the recommendation is feels like a miss on a “jj for newbie” tutorial.

And it’s better to let each commit merge down one by one in the stack versus squashing so people can follow your development process via that stack after the fact.

Comment about expert was made off hand. If common flows break with GitHub, people are going to be hesitant to use a new tool, hurting adoption. Again, given this is a for beginner tutorial. But you make a good point about not being too sensitive ;)
by chiph | 2025-09-02 00:05:10+00:00
Pushing up home prices (via comparable valuations) is the issue. Not affordable housing per-se.

These second homes cause a hotspot in local prices that then spreads out further over the years as the neighbors sell their homes and demand higher prices (since "that's the market now"). Eventually (a decade or more) it does affect cheaper homes in the area and price out people.

But knowing human nature, this is probably just local government doing a money grab. Because someone buying a $23mm home won't even miss the little bite.
by sheepish | 2025-09-02 00:05:27+00:00
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by oddmade | 2025-09-02 00:05:37+00:00
I'll cancel my $100 / month Claude account the moment they decide to "approve my code"

Already got close to cancel when they recently updated their TOS to say that for "consumers" they deserve the right to own the output I paid for - if they deem the output not having been used "the correct way" !

This adds substantial risk to any startup.

Obviously...for "commercial" customers that do not apply - at 5x the cost...
by dietsche | 2025-09-02 00:08:38+00:00
Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota Area

Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: c#, go Link: https://github.com/hamradiolog-net/adif Email: please look for it in the git commits

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by andrekandre | 2025-09-02 00:10:08+00:00
> The interesting question is what happens to the ~100k+ pods that never migrated to SPM.

from experience in a few projects that migrated to spm: fork and port to spm (at the same time, mark them as deprecated and slowly wean off them)

> abandoned code that smaller projects still depend on

there are alot of large commercial projects too that are in the same boat...
by jmull | 2025-09-02 00:10:42+00:00
> By using React, you embrace building applications with a pattern of reactivity and modularity, which people now accept to be a standard requirement, but this was not always obvious to early web developers.

This is quite a whopper. For one thing, the web started off reactive. It did take a while for a lot of people to figure out how to bring that to client-side rendering in a reasonably decent way (though, I'm sorry, IMO that doesn't actually include react). Second, "modularity" has been a thing for quite some time before the web existed. (If you want to get down to it, separating and organizing and your processes in information systems predate computers.)
by SlowTao | 2025-09-02 00:11:19+00:00
I have been both impressed and kind of disappointed in Satya's role. He made some hard and direct changes initially that has allowed them to coast very comfortably, but we have also seen Microsoft become very tame in some areas. I was optimistic at first, especially because he was willing to make the hard choices like binning Windows mobile even with all the potential it had.

Cloud is just being the cloud, the AI stuff they are excited on but maybe at the detriment of everything else, Xbox is dying a slow sad death as they are directionless and Windows is just a dump truck for all the more questionable business decisions possible.
by dragontamer | 2025-09-02 00:11:45+00:00
Nit: Trees/Grass are even more of this than Crabs.

The two strategies for plants are to grow super tall to absorb the sun, or super wide (and small) to.... absorb the sun.

Tall needs wood or other 'strong' polymer to support height. Short and wide is perhaps weak from an individual level but far more efficient.

And trees and grass respectively have such genetic diversity that it's clear that none of these damn plants are of the same genetic line.
by yencabulator | 2025-09-02 00:11:56+00:00
Nushell mishandles errors. Pressing control-C leads to impossible execution paths. It parses command-line arguments in extremely broken ways.

These bugs have been open for years with no progress.

Nushell had interesting ideas but frankly it's a dead project now. Something with such a core of incorrect behavior just isn't workable, and nobody's even trying to fix it. Don't build castles in swampland.

https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/6617

https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8828

https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9939
by jrm4 | 2025-09-02 00:12:34+00:00
Hmm. I don't know. I am glad they're not harming anyone else, but also -- like, I have kids. And if they were to get into this sort of thing, I'd at the least be like "Well, that's STUPID. Why put yourselves in harm's way deliberately like this. Stressing me and mom out. Do something that helps someone else instead."
by jrflowers | 2025-09-02 00:12:46+00:00
> y'all realize they're bragging about this right?

Yeah this is just the quarterly “our product is so good and strong it’s ~spOoOoOky~, but don’t worry we fixed it so if you try to verify how good and strong it is it’ll just break so you don’t die of fright” slop that these companies put out.

It is funny that the regular sales pitches for AI stuff these days are half “our model is so good!” and half “preemptively we want to let you know that if the model is bad at something or just completely fails to function on an entire domain, it’s not because we couldn’t figure out how to make it work, it’s bad because we saved you from it being good”
Show HN: A usercript to help you filter "Who's Hiring".
by vishalontheline | 2025-09-02 00:12:51+00:00
This will work on any Hacker news post but it is especially useful for "Who's Hiring?". It will filter out comments that don't match the set filters.

You can set multiple filters. Filters have an "and" relationship. Filters are regular expressions.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-02 00:13:14+00:00
I’m actually surprised whenever someone familiar with technology thinks that adding more “smart” controls to a mechanical device is a good idea, or even that it will work as intended.

The imagined ideal of a smart gun that perfectly identifies the user, works every time, never makes mistakes, always has a fully charged battery ready to go, and never suffers from unpredictably problems sounds great to a lot of people.

But as a person familiar with tech, IoT, and how devices work in the real world, do you actually think it would work like that?

“Sorry, you cannot fire this gun right now because the server is down”.

Or how about when the criminals discover that they can avoid being shot by dressing up in police uniforms, fooling all of the smart guns?

A very similar story is the idea of a drink driving detector in every vehicle. It sounds good when you imagine it being perfect. It doesn’t sound so good when you realize that even a 99.99% false positive avoidance means your own car is almost guaranteed lock you out of driving it some day by mistake during its lifetime, potentially when you need to drive it for work, an appointment, or even an emergency due to a false positive.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-09-02 00:13:39+00:00
All organisations have principles. Beyond a certain size - and sometimes long before then - they're never the stated ones.

And while you may have used the stated principles to create a good environment, there's nothing in Amazon's principles that prevents someone else using them to create a bad environment.

For example - conspicuously absent from them is any concept of worker welfare.
by vishbhat49 | 2025-09-02 00:13:50+00:00
Location: San Francisco, CA

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by manwe150 | 2025-09-02 00:13:51+00:00
> People can slowly accumulate capital in their properties

I thought this is actually one of those “myths people believe about owning real estate”. In most markets, it is a depreciating asset that takes considerable time and money to maintain at the original capital value. This is why the cost is much higher, like you said, but not exactly for the reason you said. The net present value of that added interest payment is typically very low. It is a competitive market. It is uncertain whether I’d come out ahead or behind if I pay off the mortgage on day 1 or put that equivalent lump sum in the market and use that asset to pay off the mortgage instead. The political cost isn’t merely perceived loss, that is a real loss as it should cause the sale price to reflect the actual depreciation of the asset of an pre-owned house instead of being able to claim the added value of getting ownership.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-02 00:14:28+00:00
> It's because AI usually creates slop

I don't think his point was we should hire junior engineers because they're cheap and lean into AI and AI produces slop. His position is not that he wants to cheaply create slop.

He wants to hire people who are cheap and love using AI because he sees that as a better long term strategy than making senior engineers embrace AI late into their career.
by charcircuit | 2025-09-02 00:14:31+00:00
>such as developing ransomware, that would previously have required years of training.

Even ignoring that there are free open source ones you can copy. You literally just have to loop over files and conditionally encrypt them. Someone could build this on day 1 of learning how to program.

AI companies trying to police what you can use them for is a cancer on the industry and is incredibly annoying when you hit it. Hopefully laws can change to make it clear that model providers aren't responsible for the content they generate so companies can't blame legal uncertainty for it.
by nunez | 2025-09-02 00:14:45+00:00
> The United States is a nation of homeowners. This is the result of a concerted effort on the part of the federal government to subsidize homeownership following World War II. Easy credit and car-centric infrastructure changed where (as well as how) Americans live and gave rise to the modern-day U.S. suburb.

Probably the biggest policy mistake ever, in my uneducated (on this topic) opinion.
by CityOfThrowaway | 2025-09-02 00:15:31+00:00
There's two ways to answer this:

1. On one hand, walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc, are most of the internet and they decidedly use React (or similar) frameworks. So from that perspective, the statement is sorta trivially true.

2. There may well be a horde of websites that are pure HTML rendering. But, those sites are not largely being developed by developers – they are being generated by platforms (like Squarespace, etc.) so are out of the scope of "sites and apps built by developers"

All this is stated without data, of course.
by ksec | 2025-09-02 00:15:42+00:00
>The original stance of the open source crowd.....

>The proliferation of "give everything away for free" MIT/BSD/Apache licenses...

Interesting how the world have changed. The so called GPL preference, or GPL > GPLv3 > AGPL among Open source crowd is a recent thing. Arguably in the last 15 to 20 years. Both BSD and MIT dates back before GPL. And you will see far more people prefer BSD and MIT in the 90s and 00s.

I have also long argued that the license preference among generation has somewhat a linkage to political shift in spectrum. Likely to do with Tech, now known as Big tech taking advantage. And it used to be very cool if your OSS project get used by a big company, until it is not.
by cj | 2025-09-02 00:16:03+00:00
Refusing hacking prompts would be like outlawing Burpsuite.

It might slow someone down, but it won’t stop anyone.

Perhaps vibe hacking is the cure against vibe coding.

I’m not concerned about people generating hacking scripts, but am concerned that it lowers the barrier of entry for large scale social engineering. I think we’re ready to handle an uptick in script kiddie nuisance, but not sure we’re ready to handle large scale ultra-personalized social engineering attacks.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-09-02 00:16:08+00:00
Location: Bogota, Colombia (I'm a US citizen traveling the world for almost 2 years)

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Willing to relocate: Yes

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My focus has been on browser automation and building browser agents since 2018, with 13 years of enterprise experience building dynamic data user interfaces for web and mobile. I have experience working at both medium 130 person AI companies and small, fast-moving 7 person teams wearing many different hats, which I prefer. I have been instrumental in taking multiple companies from 0 to 1, both as a consultant and as a full-time employee in media, real estate, marketing, streaming services, education, and fintech.

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by SlowTao | 2025-09-02 00:16:31+00:00
I think the big thing was Steve did make a lot of great decisions, some of the best the company could at that time in those respective fields but completely missed on everything that Apple did. Portable media players, smart phones and tablets and those are the three huge misses and that is really were it counted.

The old three envelope joke.

You become CEO and there are three envelopes on your office desk, a note says "Every time there is an issue you open them in order and do what is inside". First envelope says "Blame your predecessor.". The second says "Blame yourself". The third says "Prepare three envelopes".
by lostlogin | 2025-09-02 00:16:43+00:00
I was never a fan of Windows, being a Mac guy. However Word used to be good. After a long avoidance I had to use it for work. Teams Word, online Word, Word.app Word. It is a complete cluster fuck and formatting etc is a shambles across versions. The ecosystem within MS products is a dumpster fire. And yet is the state of the art.

The Office suite is one of their key products, and it’s awful.
by lyu07282 | 2025-09-02 00:18:08+00:00
If aliens invaded earth and after decades of subjugation they successfully "integrated" us savages, they would view it the same way. The forceful destruction of all our culture, languages, religions, history, sovereignty, it would all be justified in the end because their alien technology and culture is "superior". I don't believe it's justified no matter how relatively primitive we are, and if aliens did it that alone would demonstrate their own primitive culture quite clearly no matter how much they whitewash themselves in the intergalactic history books.
by lurk2 | 2025-09-02 00:18:09+00:00
It’s notable that the existence of the watchman problem doesn’t invalidate the necessity of regulation; it’s just a question of how you prevent capture of the regulating authority such that regulation is not abused to prevent competitors from emerging. This isn’t a problem unique to statism; you see the same abuse in nominally free markets that exploit the existence of natural monopolies.

Anti-State libertarians posit that preventing this capture at the state level is either impossible (you can never stop worrying about who will watch the watchmen until you abolish the category of watchmen) or so expensive as to not be worth doing (you can regulate it but doing so ends up with systems that are basically totalitarian insofar as the system cannot tolerate insurrection, factionalism, and in many cases, dissent).

The UK and Canada are the best examples of the latter issue; procedures are basically open (you don’t have to worry about disappearing in either country), but you have a governing authority built on wildly unpopular ideas that the systems rely upon for their justification—they cannot tolerate these ideas being criticized.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-02 00:18:36+00:00
> The imagined ideal of a smart gun that perfectly identifies the user, works every time, never makes mistakes, always has a fully charged battery ready to go, and never suffers from unpredictably problems sounds great to a lot of people.

People acccept that regular old dumb guns may jam, run out of ammo, and require regular maintenance. Why are smart ones the only ones expected to be perfect?

> “Sorry, you cannot fire this gun right now because the server is down”.

Has anyone ever proposed a smart gun that requires an internet connection to shoot?

> Or how about when the criminals discover that they can avoid being shot by dressing up in police uniforms, fooling all of the smart guns?

People already do this.
by fcoury | 2025-09-02 00:18:43+00:00
It's sad to see that they have their focus on these while their flagship, once SOTA CLI solution, is rotting away by the day.

You can check the general feeling in X, but it's almost unanimous that the quality of both Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1 is diminishing.

At first, I didn't notice this quality drop until this week. Now it's really, really terrible: it's not following instructions, pretending to work and Opus 4.1 is specially bad.

And that's coming from a anthropic fanboy, I used to really like CC.

I am now using Codex CLI and it's been a surprisingly good alternative.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-02 00:19:07+00:00
What was his vision for AI, and how could it be relevant? He was gone before the current wave hit.

Going on TV and laughing at the iPhone pretty much told me everything I needed to know about Ballmer. The best thing I can say about him is that unlike Nadella, he didn't spend too much of his time actively trying to enshittify Windows.
by ramesh31 | 2025-09-02 00:19:21+00:00
Don't listen to anyone who tells you how to build an agent. This stuff has never existed before in the history of the world, and literally everyone is just figuring it out as we go. Work from the simplest basic building blocks possible and do what works for your use case. Eventually things will be figured out, and you can worry about "best practices" then. But it's all just conjecture right now.
by manwe150 | 2025-09-02 00:19:45+00:00
That isn’t quite true, since the mortgage happens after the sale agreement (exact wording and specifics vary by state law), and the sale typically has a cancellation clause if the mortgage cannot be secured per the various terms and contingencies of purchase. That is why “in cash” offers are preferred, since then the sale and payment timing is less uncertain and risky to the seller.
by ddxv | 2025-09-02 00:20:26+00:00
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by 47282847 | 2025-09-02 00:21:43+00:00
I am both an atheist and a strong proponent of individualism without disagreeing with your comments on how this naturally comes with responsibility, more than many spiritual constructs do where you can pass some of your responsibility to a third party such as fate or God or karma. Collectivism is a shared brain, individualism is a hivemind.

To not believe in an afterlife is also a belief. We cannot know. The truth is we don’t know.
by dragontamer | 2025-09-02 00:22:59+00:00
> How is this the OS's sole role?

Embedded Design.

A PWM driver (or a hardware timer) will handle the nanosecond-to-nanosecond wait states and counts, but the OS has to still setup the hardware timer to send the right PWM wave down to the system.

Besides, the OS should have some degree of custom fan controls for any modern computer, embedded or not. My PC can control all of my fans for example.
by sixo | 2025-09-02 00:23:11+00:00
Those are all good arguments one would have to deal with to implement this thing well!

I'm not sure the case for one-big-bundle-of-property-taxes is any better, though. Where does THAT number come from?

> Every discussion I've ever had with a "true" libertarian about this has had them eventually twisted up in circles to reinvent the state

Same!