MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mlyle | 2025-09-17 17:34:51+00:00
Uber and Lyft calculate that their cooperation doesn't affect Waymo's trajectory too much, and they immediately benefit from "more drivers."

> Or is the idea that Waymo becomes a hardware provider and uber / lyft become operators?

This is one natural way that things may shake out and a natural path to scale. But Waymo needs to have a fallback plan of A) other parties to work with, or B) just doing it themselves to get a good deal with Uber/Lyft in the long term.

Uber/Lyft would like Waymo to not the the sole provider of autonomous technology and to work with them; they can expect to receive rides at just a bit above marginal cost in that case.
by aeve890 | 2025-09-17 17:34:51+00:00
>Avoid thinking of the pain of the task at hand

>Imagine and focus on the reward of these tasks.

IME if you have ADHD those two things are basically the same. Sure, don't think of the pain, but you could ended up stuck in daydreaming about the perfect future where you're healthier, stronger, happier, etc. You can trigger executive dysfunction (mental freeze) either way.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-09-17 17:36:17+00:00
Firstly, Huberman has turned into a hack, and this video is a great example of his drift into "just trust me bro" pop science. Secondly,

> You can see this pattern in people who exercise only with some combination of pre-workout, caffeine, music, phone scrolling

Where do you see this pattern? I would wager nowhere, even if it sounds like it "could" happen. I've worked out with a lot of people. I listen to music while working out, as do many people. I would enjoy working out less without it. But I'm not in some Dopamine spiral where I need to stack more stuff on top just to keep working out. I've been doing it for years.

I've noticed a lot of health influencers like Huberman, who need to make content frequently, have been honing in on gut-feeling conclusions derived from novice science facts you can expect anyone to know about. He casts a wide net with a Psychology Today level concept, and he builds an audience of people that can't separate the lazy conclusions he makes from the objectively true but elementary facts he bases them on.

Look at the comments, where people are accusing each other of being dopamine hijacked because they eat and read at the same time. Give me a break. Your reward system is not a fragile thing that is easily broken. The actual causes of dopamine hijacking are things like spending all day playing video games, not having a coffee before working out.
by MongooseStudios | 2025-09-17 17:36:20+00:00
I'm sick of AI everything. Every day I hope today is the day the grift machine finally implodes.

In the short term it's going to make things suck even more, but I'm ready to rip that bandaid off.

P.S. To anyone that is about to reply to this, or downvote it, to tell me that AI is the future, you should be aware that I also hope someone places a rotting trout in your sock drawer each day.
by the_af | 2025-09-17 17:37:07+00:00
I didn't check all of them... I wanna say they range from ~200 to ~500K subscribers? No idea if that's big or not. For comparison, the official Warhammer channel has ~900K subscribers, which I assume is decent.

The argument I've heard repeatedly from them is that the time and effort involved in making a YouTube video that gets enough hits (which means lots of experimentation) is disproportionate compared to the meager return of investment; that for money reasons it's best to get sponsorships.

(I'm not a YouTube author myself, I wouldn't know what's a decent size).
by trevorkoob | 2025-09-17 17:37:19+00:00
I've stopped using photos entirely due to import bugs.

So much wasted time, now I just use image capture to import and organize directly.

Still get errors from time to time.

Apple needs to hire more quality control, their software integration is going from a positive to a negative.

Seamless integration was a large part of Apple's initial hook, and continues to be a part of their drive to push services, it should be a priority.
by saghm | 2025-09-17 17:37:20+00:00
I'd also worry that the association of a fun activity with one you don't like can reduce the amount of fun from the first activity even when you stop doing them together. This is obviously not a scientific experiment, but I always struggled to wake up in the morning even with alarms (which I've since improved at with better understanding of some specific sleep conditions I have), and in an attempt to try to make it less annoying, I tried a couple times over the years to pick a song I liked as an alarm phone rather than a typical alarm sound. It never helped make waking up any easier, but it completely ruined both of the songs I tried for me in the short term, and even now years later I don't really enjoy them nearly as much as I used to. Hearing the opening notes of either of them just reminds me of the annoyance I felt waking up years ago.
by pyth0 | 2025-09-17 17:38:07+00:00
I would point to platforms like Curiosity Stream and Nebula, which are creator driven. Though I would not exactly call them Youtube replacements, as they are more just platforms designed for supporting specific creators more directly (akin to Patreon). These platforms are often advertised as in-video sponsorships, so going back to the original point, I do think creators would be very vocal if such ads were banned.
by paulpauper | 2025-09-17 17:38:15+00:00
Agree 100%. The data on this is pretty depressing. There isn't much you can do but eat less. Even huge bodybuilders quickly get fat when they go off season. All that muscle evidently doesn't work enough to offset the appetite.

Gaining 20lbs of muscle, which would be quite a visual change, would only burn about an extra candy bar.
by doubled112 | 2025-09-17 17:38:44+00:00
I do need a compelling reason to do something. I can't figure out how all these people get through what they do without wanting to jump out their office windows, to be honest.

Is it fun/interesting? Can I make it fun/interesting? Does it make me or save me money so I can do something fun/interesting?

If the answer is no to all of these questions, I'm going to have a bad time. Unfortunately, I'm that simple. I've gotten better at number two over the years, though.

Scuba diving sounds fun. I'd probably do it for less.
by rglover | 2025-09-17 17:39:03+00:00
Don't. Motivation external to the self will always be ephemeral and fleeting, like a drug (hence the popularity of "motivational" content on YouTube). If you don't have a genuine desire to do the thing, don't do it. Not because you can't do it, but because you lack the internal drive and inspiration to do it (and that may just be right now, not permanently).
by firefax | 2025-09-17 17:39:21+00:00
Re: https://xeroxnostalgia.com/2023/08/18/a-visit-to-the-xerox-h...

PARC also has a museum, but for some reason they were extremely adamant that no one take any photographs inside or even describe it's existence online.

My coworkers were absolute gems, but the company seemed to have been traumatized by Steve Jobs and they were incredibly adamant that no more intellectual property would be exiting the building without like seven layers of approval.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-17 17:39:27+00:00
I can make that argument wholeheartedly, not even as a “steelman” when it comes to legitimate advertising but so much of it is criminal, morally if not legally —- and the victim is not just the viewer but also the advertiser which is running ads that are completely mistargeted, that damage their brand, or get fraudulent clicks —- I remember the layout of anandtech always shifting around so you would try to click on a link and just before you did an ad would slide under your finger and ka-Ching! Was it by accident or design.

On the other hand I’ve known people who sold ads for newspaper and radio and all of them had some sense of ethics.
by forgotmypw17 | 2025-09-17 17:39:29+00:00
I use Total Commander on Windows all the time. It is much better than Explorer at so many things, such as:

- Actually letting you navigate the directory structure.

- Making WSL volumes easy to work with.

- Keyboard accessibility.

- Dealing with many tabs and bookmarks.

- A stable interface that doesn't randomly change without my consent.

- Many other things I'll omit for time reasons.
by StellaMary | 2025-09-17 17:40:09+00:00
It's been a long time since 2023, when Bun.js arrived and disrupted the JavaScript world. During that time, I was working on something unusual—something that encourages all JS developers to write API code that actually runs on top of Rust.

I gave it my best and eventually published this framework on npm. Many people asked for async support, and after countless sleepless nights, I finally achieved it. Meet Brahma-JS (brahma-firelight) one of my finest creations that replaces Node.js tcp / http module with Rust's Tokio and Hyper library inspired from Deno runtime.

``` Running 10s test @ [http://127.0.0.1:2000/hi](http://127.0.0.1:2000/hi) 1 threads and 200 connections Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev Latency 1.51ms 479.16us 7.89ms 78.17% Req/Sec 131.57k 9.13k 146.78k 79.00% 1309338 requests in 10.00s, 186.05MB read Requests/sec: 130899.58 Transfer/sec: 18.60MB

``` Oh sure, just another framework casually doing 130k+ requests/sec. No big deal. Totally normal. Definitely not powered by a Rust beast disguised as friendly JavaScript.

Now I have released v1.5 A stable release with support for Mac, Linux and Windows too. You can give a try by starting

``` npm i brahma-firelight

```

Source : https://www.npmjs.com/package/brahma-firelight
by traceroute66 | 2025-09-17 17:40:26+00:00
> That sounds like a GDPR violation if the logs include PII like IPs and if it's not opt-in. Is that really the case?

Cloudflare retain what they call "limited transaction and debug log data" for 25 hours.

Cloudflare state that IPs are truncated and the truncated IPs are deleted after 25 hours BUT for "randomly sampled network packets" they will retain the full IP for "network troubleshooting purposes".

Even so, as we know, a truncated IP can still be used to track and trace people ...

Compare and contrast to Quad9 who explicitly consider IP addresses as GDPR PII ("Quad9 regards Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses associated with its users to be Personally Identifiable Information ("PII")")

Quad9 states IPs are only ever in RAM "for the few microseconds to milliseconds necessary to service the user's query"

They also state "Quad9 does not collect or record IP addresses, nor does it collect or hold any proxy for or representation of IP addresses, nor does it collect or hold any other unique identifier of individuals in lieu of IP addresses."

Which is why I said Quad9 have a much better privacy policy.
by dole | 2025-09-17 17:40:26+00:00
I'll second the call for checking out smaller companies with Ender clones and similar like Sovol and Qidi; you can find refurbed models like Creality K1's for $200+ off if you're not averse.

Regarding slicer software, Ultimaker Cura is great for beginners, Orca Slicer has a slightly steeper learning curve but they both have their pros and cons such as different support generation algorithms, having an alternative when something doesn't seem to print right with one.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-17 17:40:31+00:00
On BART safety concerns and union contracts restrict automation. This fun article from 2017 [1] could have been written today but shows why it's so hard for public infrastructure to be effective. Every actor is incentivized to get something out of public infrastructure. In the current AI mood I suspect opposition to automation by unions would be even stronger.

The Abundance movement has put a good moniker to this concept: Everything Bagel Liberalism.

[1]: https://sf.streetsblog.org/2017/03/06/lets-talk-seriously-ab...
by hosh | 2025-09-17 17:41:12+00:00
There are local chapters of the Society for Creative Anachronism that uses Facebook heavily. The thing is that the use of FB grew out from the in-person community that had formed, and people would rather interact in-person than only through social media. The community already has its own customs and ceremonies for recognition; people there upvote and collect following in an attempt to get the FB algorithm to spread the word for each other (on events and happenings).

When there is an already-existing community like that, I think a dedicated social media platform for that particular community can be beneficial. That platform then does not have to be the social media for everyone.

However, funding (for hosting and maintenance) is still an issue.
by dmix | 2025-09-17 17:41:38+00:00
Spain is particularly bad for meddling with the internet, mostly with regards to piracy.

While Germany has arrested many thousands of people for online speech, similar to the UK. But the UK gets much more media attention over it.

> Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online, testing the limits of free speech on the internet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-intern...
by Bjartr | 2025-09-17 17:42:40+00:00
I'd never use hashids/sqids for anything secure. It's reversible by design.

However, it is fit for purpose if your purpose is showing user-facing ids that can't be trivially incremented. For example, in a url, or in an api response. It does, in fact, "protect" against the "attack" of "Oh, I see in the url that my id is 19563, I wonder what I get if I change it to 19564.”

Now, the system should absolutely have authorization boundaries around data, but that doesn't mean there's no value in avoiding putting an "attractive nuisance" in front of users.
by dang | 2025-09-17 17:43:07+00:00
I've given you examples. I get that you disagree, and interpretations can differ of course, but it's the same standard we'd apply to anyone's posts.

Since those seem like obvious calls to me, I wonder whether you are experiencing the skew in perception where people underestimate the negativity in their own posts and overestimate the negativity coming from others: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

> me responding to a troll with their own language back at them

If you think that another user is trolling, you shouldn't be responding at all. This is in the guidelines: "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls. And you certainly shouldn't be responding with "their own language back at them" - that's the perpetuation of flamewar we're talking about.

If I didn't respond to an earlier question, the most likely reason is that I didn't see it. Either way, pointing the finger at others is a poor way to respond about your own rule breakage.
by BearOso | 2025-09-17 17:43:40+00:00
The VGA 320x200 mode, either 13h or "Mode Y", ran at 70.086 Hz, so that adding up to ~2.5 years is just coincidental.

It's a shame the source code for doom isn't available, and that the author couldn't just link directly to a specific line in a gitweb repository. /s
by bradfa | 2025-09-17 17:44:18+00:00
CFM is a measure of volume moved, generally quoted at effectively zero static pressure. Zero static pressure is rarely reality. All fans will have a static pressure vs airflow curve, which will vary based on the design of the fan.

I doubt normal people have the tools to measure fan CFM, especially when mounted into a product or enclosure, so presumably the OP was going based on stated specs.
by Blikkentrekker | 2025-09-17 17:44:21+00:00
Yes, I'm well aware of that, Plasma can be installed on many distributions. How exactly is K.D.E. making their own software distribution benefiting the development of Plasma?

This really feels like they first decided they wanted to make their own distribution for no reason, and then went to search for the niche for it to fill which is the wrong way to do it. Usually someone, who typically does not do anything else at the moment, realizes there is a certain niche that needs to be filled and then decides to make a distribution that fills that niche.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-09-17 17:44:39+00:00
> who need to make content frequently

I think this is a major issue with so much of the "creator community". When you make this thing your job, you can't just not show up to work for a few months at a time. But, if your content is "information regurgitation", like reading health studies and reporting them to your audience, is there really enough out there to make it a full time job? Doubtful. So, you'll end up either rehashing yourself over and over (your viewers will get bored and leave), or start going to the fringes of your field where there is far less basis for your statements than what originally brought your audience in.
by nharada | 2025-09-17 17:44:42+00:00
My biggest annoyance is that people aren't transparent about when they use AI, and thus you are forced to review everything through the lens that it may be human created and thus deserving of your attention and benefit of the doubt.

When an AI generates some nonsense I have zero problem changing or deleting it, but if it's human-written I have to be aware that I may be missing context/understanding and also cognizant of the author's feelings if I just re-write the entire thing without their input.

It's a huge amount of work offloaded on me, the reviewer.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-17 17:44:47+00:00
> hostile take-over of the American mind by a tech billionaire who just overtook Elon Musk to become the world's richest man

Ellison read and responded to the political situation more skilfully than Elon.

He used Stargate to cement himself as a power broker in AI. He used that influence to provide antitrust assurances that gave his son a leg up for Paramount. Meanwhile he used that proximity to media to get a foot in the door with TikTok.

The root cause is the partisan politicisation of the economy. This is a project all the major Trump donors and high-level supporters contributed to. That Ellison is coming up as one of the new aristocrats is closer to a dice roll; that we have oligarchs, now, is very much by design.
by drdrey | 2025-09-17 17:44:57+00:00
> A while ago, I collaborated on angulartics2, a shared repository where multiple people still had admin rights. That repo still contained a GitHub Actions secret — a npm token with broad publish rights. This collaborator had access to projects with other people which I believe explains some of the other 40 initial packages that were affected.

> A new Shai-Hulud branch was force pushed to angulartics2 with a malicious github action workflow by a collaborator. The workflow ran immediately on push (did not need review since the collaborator is an admin) and stole the npm token. With the stolen token, the attacker published malicious versions of 20 packages. Many of which are not widely used, however the @ctrl/tinycolor package is downloaded about 2 million times a week.

I still don't get it. An admin on angulartics2 gets hacked, his Github access is used to push a malicious workflow that extracts an npm token. But why would an npm token in angulartics2 have publication rights to tinycolor?
by trilogic | 2025-09-17 17:45:03+00:00
But it is available for use. Corruption is not a fantasy but a reality. Usually who reach the top on political scale have seen it all, I mean all. Being polite to describe this reality use cases, (inside trading, political targeting, discrimination, monopoly etc). Who would know, who can stop it, who would dare!

What are the protection mechanisms? Are we suppose to hope that the untouchable/s is 100% honest?

It feels uncomfortable to say the least.
by layman51 | 2025-09-17 17:45:04+00:00
I generally agree. Some of the things I don't want to do are actually pretty complex and require my full attention so I wouldn't be able to listen to a podcast or music with lyrics. Maybe I'm in a weird situation that requires some kind of shift. On the other hand, I am sure I can do 30 minutes on an "assaultbike" without having to distract myself with a TV show.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-09-17 17:45:15+00:00
In principle, you could reduce the problem into running a few very costly programs, so that the proof is completely verified as soon as someone eats that cost. (Some 6-state machines are already looking like they'll take a galactic cost to prove, and others will take a cost just barely within reason.) But this definitely isn't the case for the BB(5) project.
by AprilArcus | 2025-09-17 17:45:31+00:00
Those seem like standard needs for any kind of CRUD app, so I would call this approach pretty useful. Currently I do something similar by keeping a private primary uuidv7 key with a btree index (a sortable index), and a separate public uuidv4 with a hash index (a lookup index), which is a workable but annoying arrangement. This solution achieves the same effect and is simpler.
by JimDabell | 2025-09-17 17:45:34+00:00
There’s a whole bunch of use-cases where the ability for a user to mess with the timestamp is not a problem. Who cares if a user screws up the ordering of items in a collection only they see? But if you can attack the private key by generating many different ciphertexts for the same rand, that might let you defeat the purpose of this masking.
by StellaMary | 2025-09-17 17:45:36+00:00
No hate mate it's real that ai can really code anything u need but the brutal fact is you need to be much smarter to validate its code all I can see is skill and xp issue. But as Rust node Js dev I made ultra fast http framework using AI with just 200 lines of code it had beaten fastify hono and express. It's all possible just because of my xp in ffi and Rust with node js Architect lessons.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/brahma-firelight
by birdman3131 | 2025-09-17 17:46:32+00:00
No its not. Slicer software is just CAM software for 3d printers. It just creates Gcode like any other CAM software. Calling it " basically just your interface to the dials and knobs on the CNC settings for speeds and feeds." shows a deep misunderstanding of operating CNC's in general.

Your manual controls on pretty much all 3d printers suck. But that's because manual operation is considerable far down the priority list. I've never seen one that did jogging other than setting an increment and tapping a touchscreen button to make it move 1 increment.

Every CNC machine I have ever ran did way better with the jogging. Even the ones from the 70's. You set a speed with a knob and then hold down a button. It goes till you let up. Or you use a rotary wheel for fine control.

And don't even get me started on homing. The homing sequence on all the printers I have dealt with is home X and Y before homing Z. Most machinists will be aghast at this as if you are homing all 3 axis's at once you home Z first to get the tool out of the way.
by mattkrause | 2025-09-17 17:46:34+00:00
It is and it isn't.

"Rich people can afford a luxury" is obvious enough, but how rich did you need to be to hire that specific artist? Was Sargent knocking out two portrait a day for every local dentist or was this a one-off where the offer was simply too good to turn down? It'd be cool to know....

And of course, "commissioned by her father, a local merchant" is kind of interesting and it's even more interesting when it's not the case.
by BizarroLand | 2025-09-17 17:46:59+00:00
Work as in, "are effective at advertising a product"

Showing "regular" people solving common recurring issues like, "what clothes should I wear, what tool will simplify this task, what products are effective at a good value, what software/hardware can accomplish the goals I have set" are the only effective advertising for many people.

Sure, with kids you can show them a cool toy that other kids are playing with, inspiring desire.

You can show adults and teens a sexy girl or a hot guy somehow attached to the product so that by association your product is hot or sexy, but those are the low handing fruit and only work on specific demographics.

However, if you can clearly identify your target audience and then put a product that matches that audience in front of them while showing how the product is being used, thats it. Everyone who would purchase that type of product will buy it.