MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-24 16:30:27+00:00
"Right now, however, Beast Industries is hemorrhaging money. It's had three years of losses, including more than $110 million in 2024. The viral videos account for all of it, overwhelming the profits from Feastables [a convenience store that "pulls in more than $200 million a year"]. Donaldson has been spending between $3 million and $4 million on every video he produces for the main YouTube channel, most of which lose money. In 2023, Beast spent $10 million to $15 million shooting videos it never released to the public because they weren't up to its standards."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-22/youtube-s...

AI summary: "Creator" loses money due to production costs while third party intermediary "platform" (middleman) Google, twice convicted cybercriminal organisation, makes money by auctioning, selling, delivering and monitoring online ads, then taking a cut of advertising spend
by gclawes | 2025-09-24 16:30:40+00:00
Tin foil hat time: this is why Google is pushing to kill app sideloading.

Mobile phones are the only platform at the moment that can reasonably be used to enforce mandatory software installs and remote attestation. Removing sideloading can down the road leading to Google (or Apple for IOS) forcing all app store provided apps/browsers to support government authentication APIs like this.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-24 16:30:44+00:00
I'm not sure how an H2 plant in Saudi Arabia, due to start producing in 2027, relates to my question.

If the actual goal is CO2 reduction, and 99% of H2 production is "full-carbon" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production - then why aren't they just building a conventional DC, but with no-water-use cooling? The electricity could come from solar arrays & wind farms, with batteries or something for storage.

Vs. if it's just a "Hydrogen is Trending" PR exercise - that seems a much better fit for the facts.
by loeg | 2025-09-24 16:30:54+00:00
That is essentially the 2nd solution recommended. I think ghostty could do this itself as a hack. If the target binary is ssh (heuristic, but, ok), inject TERM=xterm-256color into env of the child process at launch.

I guess it isn't a huge deal to have every user to modify their ssh_config instead, but it's an ergonomic pain point for many new users.
by fschuett | 2025-09-24 16:30:56+00:00
I did once write a system like that using libgit2 for the German Grundbuch (land registry):

https://github.com/projekt-dgb/dgb-server/blob/master/API.md...

In the current system, rights, owners and debts of any land parcel in Germany are simply recorded in PDF files, with an ID for each parcel. So, when adding a "record", the govt employees literally just open the PDF file in a PDF editor and draw lines in the PDF, then save it again. Some PDF files are simply scanned pages of typewriter text (often even pre-WW2), so the lines are just added on top. It's a state-of-the-art "digital" workflow for our wonderful, modern country.

Anyway, so I wrote an entire system to digitize it properly (using libtesseract + a custom verifying tool, one PDF file => one JSON file) and track changes to parcels using git. The system was also able to generate Änderungsmitteilungen (change notices) using "git diff" and automatically send them via E-Mail (or invoke a webhook to notify banks or other legal actors, that the parcel had changed - currently this is done using paper and letters).

It was a really cool system (desktop digitizing tool + web server for data management), but the German government didn't care, although some called it "quite impressive". So it's now just archived on GitHub. Their current problem with "digitization" was that every state uses different formats and extra fields for the and they are still (after 20+ years) debating about what the "standardized" database schema should be (I tried to solve that with an open, extensible JSON schema, but nah [insert guy flying out of window meme]). I'm a one-man show, not a multi-billion dollar company, so I didn't have the "power" to change much.

Instead, their "digital Grundbuch" (dabag) project is currently a "work in progress" for 20+ years: https://www.grundbuch.eu/nachrichten/ because 16 states cannot standardize on a unified DB scheme. So it's back to PDF files. Why change a working system, I guess. Germans, this is where your taxes are spent on - oh well, the project was still very cool.
by joules77 | 2025-09-24 16:31:01+00:00
Nothing is permanent. Once upon a time investors loved the Steel magnates and Railway tycoons. Today its these tech companies.

But by themselves they don't solve structural problems.

For example - On the Housing front, Tech has made construction and design more efficient, but housing costs keep skyrocketing due to demand vs supply, zoning laws, speculative investing etc

On the Medical front it has given us all kinds of advances but cost of healthcare in the U.S., keeps rising due to high admin costs, expensive pharma drugs, and private systems that maximize profit etc.

On the Edu front, everyone has free access to infinite info but costs to educate and certify anyone's skill and knowledge is keeps jumping.

So Tech is not causing any great structural changes. It doesn't live up to its hype.

The system is just rebalancing. By its self.
by rpcope1 | 2025-09-24 16:31:09+00:00
Airlines are basically as stupid and greedy as telcos. If it were up to them, GA aircraft, UAVs, model aircraft and basically anything that wasn't military or an airliner would be banned. It has strong analogs in telcos swallowing up large amounts of spectrum "cause muh 5 gee" and just squatting on it. I'm sure safety would be in the shitter too if the FAA was less watchful (not to say it's sufficiently aggressive on the big players today).
by veqq | 2025-09-24 16:31:18+00:00
You still misunderstand. This is only relevant because the author doesn't understand the system and instead of engaging with it, is making counter-productive crutches which prevent actual learning.

I'm flagging your comment for claiming I didn't read the article. If the author has trouble reading letters, how can he type well (which was your first point)? Addressing that first would prevent him from using transcriptions and dual sets of flashcards.
by graycat | 2025-09-24 16:31:40+00:00
For the author, some definitions:

GC? -- Maybe "Garbage Collection", i.e., have some memory (mainly computer main memory) allocated, don't need it (just now or forever), and want to release it, i.e., no longer have it allocated for its original purpose. By releasing can make it available for other purposes, software threads, programs, virtual machines, etc.

DATAS? -- Not a spelling error or about any usual meaning for data and instead is as in

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-co...

for "Dynamic adaptation to application sizes"

So, we're trying to take actions over time in response to some inputs that are in some respects unpredictable.

Okay, what is the objective, i.e., the reason, what we hope to gain, or why bother?

And for the part that is somewhat unpredictable over time, that's one or more stochastic processes (or one multidimensional stochastic process?).

So, in broad terms, we are interested in stochastic optimal control. "Dynamic adaptation", is close and also close to one method, dynamic programming -- in an earlier thread at Hacker News, gave a list of references. Confession, wrote my applied math Ph.D. dissertation in that subject.

Hmm, how to proceed??? Maybe, (A) Know more about the context, e.g., what the computer is doing, what's to be minimized or maximized. (B) Collect some data on the way to knowing more about the stochastic processes involved.

For me, how to get paid? If tried to make a living from applied stochastic optimal control, would have died from starvation. Got the Ph.D. JUST to be better prepared as an employee for such problems and had to learn that NO one, not even one in the galaxy, cares as much as one photon of ~1 Hz light.

So, am starting a business heavily in computing and applied math. The code from Microsoft tools is all in .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, etc. Code runs fine. The .NET software, via the VB.NET syntactic sugar, is GREAT for writing the code.

So, MUST keep up on Microsoft tools, and here just did that. Since .NET 10 is changing some versions of Windows, my reaction is (i) add a lot of main memory until GC is nearly irrelevant, (ii) in general, wait a few years to give Microsoft time to fix problems, i.e., usually be a few years behind the latest versions, i.e., to "Prepare for .NET 10", first wait a few years.

Experience: At one time, saw some server farms big on reliability. One site had two of everything, one for the real work and another to test the latest for bugs before being used for real work. Another had their own electrical power, Diesel generators ~30 feet high, a second site duplicating everything, ~400 miles away, with every site with lots of redundancy. In such contexts, working hard and taking risks trying to save money on main memory seem unwise.
by jmull | 2025-09-24 16:31:57+00:00
Making flying even crappier doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

Regulations that put a floor on how crappy airlines can be should be pretty neutral on competition since all the airlines would have the same rules.

That's not to say all rules are a good idea, even rules that raise quality -- raising the floor raises prices, and if the floor is raised higher than necessary, prices are higher than necessary too, making flying less affordable. Set the floor too low and people fly less because it's too crappy. Set the floor too high and people fly less because it's too expensive. You're looking for the balance point.

IMO, the floor is too low right now. I think it's a mistake to try to lower it.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-24 16:32:06+00:00
That's total. Now, as the claim is about children, do the proportion of each place under 18.

Half of Gaza are minors, which is quite unusual, and very much not the case in Ukraine.

https://data.unicef.org/how-many/how-many-children-under-18-... (6,609,605 / 37,732,836 )

https://data.unicef.org/how-many/how-many-children-under-18-... (2,415,888 / 5,409,202)

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ukraine-popul... "The median age in Ukraine is 41.8 years."

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/state-of-pale... "The median age in the State of Palestine is 20.1 years."
by samtheprogram | 2025-09-24 16:32:14+00:00
> I think one factor to this is that PC gamers are hostile to telemetry

Is there any data to support this? IME most PC gamers I know don't give a shit about telemetry. They are stock Windows and Android users, love Google products, etc.

They only care whatsoever when it comes to adblocking, because they don't want to watch ads.

(I'm also in the US)
by ladberg | 2025-09-24 16:32:26+00:00
They're not claiming to get that many values per pixel, they're getting that many values overall for the medium through which light passes between the card and the phone. The idea light comes from a source (e.g. sun), bounces off the various colors of the card and thus produces hundreds of different spectra, those all pass through a medium, and land on the phone camera. So you're getting one measurement consisting of hundreds of RGB values that each represent intensity of different spectra, and you combine it all together to get a single spectrogram.
by jdiff | 2025-09-24 16:32:33+00:00
As I said, there aren't any collapses like that to be had. Heaven and Earth will be moved to make the smallest change necessary to keep things flowing as they were. Banks aren't allowed to fail. Companies, despite lengthy strings of missteps and billions burned on dead ends, still remain on top.

You can step away from the world (right now, no waiting required). But the world can remain irrational longer than you can wait for it to step away from you, and pushing for more irrationality won't make a dent in that.
by jwally | 2025-09-24 16:32:39+00:00
Not asking to troll or be a jerk. Promise.

What would need to happen in the United States to implement a reliable ZKP age verification system - and how long would it take to roll it out?

Asking because it feels like the Titanic has sunk, and we're eschewing a floating door because the coast guard has regulation conformant life rafts that would work better.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-24 16:32:42+00:00
An awful lot.

Imagine a PHP backend providing an API for an app. The only HTML ever produced will be the admin backend, and perhaps auth forms for special cases. The surface of the API will produce objects serialized to JSON, and the vast majority of the PHP will be business logic to talk to external services and do what the service is paid for.

Some might not like the language, but whole businesses will run on PHP, with a dedicated react or next.js frontend that only talks to the PHP via API.
by im3w1l | 2025-09-24 16:32:47+00:00
What does seem to be happening is rather that the assumption of having a phone will be built into every little thing - in particular mobile payments are becoming mandatory in some places. Transportation including parking is sometimes locked behind an app. We could also see stuff like landlords moving to smart locks that a tenant open with their phone.

Since children are universally not considered real people with real rights schools requiring them to have the right apps to perform their schoolwork are to be expected.
by andyjsong | 2025-09-24 16:32:50+00:00
For those who want a live example:

MakeSunsets has raised ~$1.8M from angels + VCs and another ~$133K in Cooling Credit sales over the past 12 months from individuals [1]. These purchases directly fund stratospheric aerosol injection — bringing awareness and cooling the Earth.

We’ve applied to SBIRs, explored DAOs, crowdfunding platforms, and are in conversations with family offices and UHNWI.

Most of our closed deals? They’ve come from Twitter and Substack. The key: talking directly to decision-makers — not committees.

[1] Climate dads: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0685/0042/2976/files/Make_...
by cosmicgadget | 2025-09-24 16:33:02+00:00
I don't think that is going to happen. Before this new-ish regulation, the airline had discretion over how to rebook you or compensate you. Now if the delay is over 3h (iirc) they have to refund you.

I think even an arbitration court would have them reimburse you if they simply canceled a flight and kept your money.
by oceanplexian | 2025-09-24 16:33:12+00:00
> But a key difference between NYT and Xinhua in China is that NYT explicitly doesn’t want to be duped

The NYT intentionally runs stories that are highly dubious or they know to be false, then later issue a small retraction in a footnote.

The latest fake news they published was the story around Zohran Mamdani where they used hacked data from Colombia University to claim he checked "black" on the admission documents to gain an unfair advantage. That's because they are partisan hacks. I don't necessarily like Zohran, but he represented a threat to mainstream Democrats therefore the NYT had to do something about him.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-24 16:33:33+00:00
The relational model is built on first order / predicate logic. While SQL itself is kind of a dubious and low grade implementation of it, it's not a surprise to me that it would be useful for applications of reasoning and memory about facts generally.

I think a Datalog type dialect would be more appropriate, myself. Maybe something like that RelationalAI has implemented.
by saltcured | 2025-09-24 16:33:38+00:00
I'm not talking about some weird steady-state condition, where gravity dominates the situation. I'm talking about sudden rotations and what happens before you even have time to react.

Also, I'm talking about the planes where these control schemes were developed a century ago. In these, center of gravity and the aerodynamic center and the pilot were all relatively close to each other. This is different on some modern airliner where the pilot is perched far out in front of the wings.

In those old planes, a pitch or roll would literally rotate the plane around the pilot who momentarily continues in their original orientation. If you are sitting at your desk with hands on a keyboard and I suddenly pitch your desk up, your hands will push further into the keyboard rather than fall away. This is how the pilot would experience the sudden pitch-up as well.
by ddtaylor | 2025-09-24 16:33:59+00:00
When I first got with my wife I seemed a bit crazier than I am because I am a media hoarder for 30+ years. I don't have any VHS, DVDs, etc. laying around because I only keep digital copies, but I have pretty decent archives. Nothing important really, just normal stuff and some rare or obscure stuff that disappears over time.

My wife was interested in the idea that I was running "Netfix from home" and enjoyed the lack of ads or BS when we watched any content. I never really thought I would be an "example" or anything like that - I fully expected everyone else to embrace streaming for the rest of time because I didn't think those companies would make so many mistakes. I've been telling people for the last decade "That's awesome I watch using my own thing, what shows are your favorites I want to make sure I have them"

In the last 2 years more family members and friends have requested access to my Jellyfin and asked me to setup a similar setup with less storage underneath their TV in the living room or in a closet.

Recently-ish we have expanded our Jellyfin to have some YouTube content on it. Each channel just gets a directory and gets this command ran:

yt-dlp "$CHANNEL_URL" \ --download-archive "downloaded.txt" \ --playlist-end 10 \ --match-filters "live_status = 'not_live' & webpage_url!*='/shorts/' & original_url!*='/shorts/'" \ -f "bv*[height<=720]+ba/b[height<=720]" \ --merge-output-format mp4 \ -o "%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"

It actually fails to do what I want here and download h264 content so I have it re-encoded since I keep my media library in h264 until the majority of my devices support h265, etc. None of that really matters because these YouTube videos come in AV1 and none of my smart TVs support that yet AFAIK.
by entropicdrifter | 2025-09-24 16:34:31+00:00
Yep, that's true. The difference now is that streaming services have attempted to make it a crime to record the streams you get from them by embedding DRM in the connections between the streaming device and the screen you watch it on. This is the primary reason for the HDMI standard. Combined with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, it's considered illegal to decode that video stream and record it with e.g. a screen capture device, even if it's solely for personal use.

So now if you want ad-free, you either pay extra in perpetuity for just that one feature , or you break the law. It's no wonder that piracy is back in such a big way.
by ajkjk | 2025-09-24 16:34:47+00:00
Well, this advice is all tailored towards "how to keep your job and make your money as a leader when the vibes are off". But I and almost everyone else would prefer the question you're asking to be "how to start the revolution when the vibes are off"; explanations on how best to not fight the ways everything is going to shit are explanations of how to be complicit with it. For example, buying into the company message while privately criticizing it---good job advice, but morally, that's cowardice; it's pathetic; that's the behavior of a person who is trying to have their cake and eat it too, who's just there for the money; whose friendship is a lie. That's the spineless substitute for leadership we've come to expect in our disappointing world. "Yeah it sucks, it affects me negatively" in private only counts if you are also taking a non-infinitesimal stand against it in public; if your actual moral position comes out in favor of the right thing. Otherwise it is a lie, manipulating your employees to make them feel like they have a friend while not actually sticking up for them.

If everyone felt and acted morally then the place would be forced to improve. Or at minimum, to fire all of you, but they should be forced to actually do that, morally, and suffer the political and economic consequences of doing so. But for that to happen people have to be systematically standing up to them in the first place, saying "do better, or else".
by cryzinger | 2025-09-24 16:35:02+00:00
Not to mention that the current immigration policies ("policies" almost feels too generous) are polling poorly overall:

> In Silver Bulletin’s polling average, the president is now behind by 4.2 percentage points on his handling of immigration-related topics, where he was once above water by seven percentage points at the beginning of his term. It’s clear why: the images of chaotic and sometimes violent ICE raids across the country have spurred outrage; in a Washington Post/Ipsos poll this week, the raids were the strongest issue motivating disapproval of the president, with 20 percent of voters who said they disapproved of Trump’s overall performance citing “immigration” issues as “the worst thing Trump has done” so far in office.

Although some people were always going to cheer on the cruelty they were promised:

> The reason for the more staggered decline (compared to other issues) was also prominent in the Post’s polling: 55 percent of respondents who said they approved of Trump’s overall job performance cited immigration as the “best thing Trump has done” since taking office. The seemingly disjointed result can be explained thusly: while Trump is gradually seeing his support base shrink on immigration-related issues, those Americans who remain in this camp are strongly supportive of the crackdowns.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
by JankoLagaly | 2025-09-24 16:35:22+00:00
Janko here:

Soon we’ll look back on work time tracking—the way we look at judging a movie by its runtime rather than its entertainment value.

It still blows my mind that ~99% of roles pay for presence instead of shipped results. Judge me by results, not by the time it took me to achieve them.

That’s why I made ROWE Jobs. A platform dedicated for Results Only Jobs: results-only-jobs.com

Keen to hear feedback or suggestions. I’ll keep adding more results-only roles to the database.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-24 16:35:54+00:00
I guess it shows that the society we thought existed, actually didn't exist.

We thought we live in a world of science, reason and kindness. Sure, not everyone is a scientist, or understands it all, but somehow we have recast the mediaeval human into someone who instinctively believes in experiments and peer reviewed papers, not pagan rites and magic.

But I think this must have actually disappeared a long time ago and we just didn't notice. There was no one combining charisma, credibility and the willingness to build support out of setting science on fire.

I'm not even really picking on the US here, I think the rest of the West is not much better.

I'm not a doomer though. I'm sure we can turn it around, or rather that we will bounce back, sooner or later. I just hope it will be a conscious effort rather than a reaction to being utterly burned, like the changes that came from the two world wars.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-24 16:36:13+00:00
Class A motorhome, trash the motorhome, relocate driver station, build a bannana or a weiner or broccoli or whatever body to go on top.

This is basically how they built the wienermobiles except they were starting with stripped chassis not a "ran when parked, free if you haul" tier winnebago.

Speaking of wienermobiles, I think it's a travesty they never made Heinz ketchup bottles to tow behind them.
by 9rx | 2025-09-24 16:36:14+00:00
Why is it a bad idea? They only mention one use case, but I have been in a similar situation where git was already being used and, like them, I simply needed to connect into the same functionality with my service. Sure, I could have come up with all kinds of complex solutions to synchronize git with other databases... Or I could just use git. It works fine. Why wouldn't it? That's the type of workload git is designed for.