MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-10 03:39:33+00:00
The US has very few coffee chains and StarBucks dominates. Not like the European cities that seem to have a bakery on every block!

A lot of people say StarBucks coffee is bad, but it’s far better than the burnt motor oil sold at fast food places, gas stations, and donut shops. The upscale coffee competitors are even more expensive and never have a drive-thru.

Worse, donuts shops and gas stations never have real milk creamer — only the extremely artificial powdered stuff (not made from milk). Or they’ll sell a bad cappuccino for $5.
by seec | 2025-09-10 03:39:47+00:00
Same, I regularly forget to put it back on.

You have to micromanage the thing. It does not just work. You have to constantly adapt strategies depending on usage pattern and lifestyle change.

I do not use smartwatch features (basically useless or worse an intrusion/interruption in your life for little benefits).

People seem to think Apple Watches are good. As an owner for 6 years or different generations, I beg to disagree.

The only thing it's good for is the quality of the data but competitors have caught up and it's not that important (consistency of measurement is more relevant). What's more when you can't use it because of battery issues it becomes moot; a bit worse data is still better than no data at all in the end.

In my opinion the Apple Watch is the perfect representation of Apple lack of focus and inability to make relevant compromise to create actually great products.

They could make a killer sport watch with low refresh rate on the display, minimum power consumption with a chip that would only run the data collection and forgo all the app bullshit to get something that could potentially last up to a week.

But they would rather sell lifestyle fashion accessories.
by ksenzee | 2025-09-10 03:39:47+00:00
I'm the one asserting that women have been forced into childcare for millennia. It's the default state in the absence of societal support.

> It comes naturally to parents.

_Love_ comes naturally to parents. Almost nothing else does, in my experience. You are extrapolating from an incomplete dataset. Again, your mom being good at the job of staying home with kids does not make other moms good at it. You are talking to a mom who isn't. I do, in fact, exist. I am asserting that my family, and society, are better off because I had a choice of career. I guarantee my kids would agree. It has nothing to do with how much I love them, and everything to do with my aptitude for homemaking and preschool childcare.
by ewoodrich | 2025-09-10 03:39:54+00:00
How would that comparison work using an e-ink display illuminated only with ambient light in the room?

(i.e. setting the "frontlight" brightness to 0% on a Kindle, which would also eliminate color temperature control other than room ambient light).

It does seem hard to believe that e-ink + a reflected frontlight would be any easier on the eyes than an LCD backlight (particularly since it's probably also using PWM). But an e-ink display on its own at least removes an additional light source pointing directly at the eyes, which could provide a potential mechanism for different effects on the eyes/brain.
by kelnos | 2025-09-10 03:39:54+00:00
> demanding Palo Alto or some other high end desirable community to build them a place to live

That's not what's happening. They're asking to be allowed to build. Y'know, like pay a developer to build them a house.

But no, I guess it's totally fair that the people who live there already just happened to be born at the right time and place to get to take advantage of living in a desirable area, and everyone else can just pound sand.

As a SF resident (haven't lived down near Palo Alto in years), the housing crisis is what's responsible for homelessness and for the high cost of everything (not just housing) here. If I could wave a magic wand and 50k new housing units appeared in desirable neighborhoods within the city limits, I'd do it in an instant. Life would be so much better not just for the people who want to live here, but for the people who already live here. (And yes, I say this as a SF homeowner who might stand to have a reduced home value.)

But NIMBYs love the whole "I got mine, fuck you" shtick, even if ultimately it's against their and their neighbors' own interests.

> in some fancy place (Manhattan! San Francisco!) that is out of touch price wise for almost every human being on Earth.

You're just talking in circles. The reason these places are out of touch price wise for so many people is because of the anti-housing policies in place in these cities.
by techpineapple | 2025-09-10 03:40:16+00:00
This article both reinforces my sense that AGI is a long ways out, if even possible, and I think explains why the attitude that we’ll look back in if AI bubble bursts hard why people spent so much god damned money on it.

It has this longtermism adjacent feel where it makes very strange albeit “rational” argument about the liklihoid of certain out comes, and then over indexes on net present value to make decisions. Sure if there’s 100’s of trillions of dollars to be made it’s worth spends 100’s of billions of dollars for a 1 percent chance it happens, but it’s still a 1 percent chance.
by gpm | 2025-09-10 03:40:18+00:00
The settlement doesn't set any kind of precedent at all.

The existing ruling in the case establish "persuasive" (i.e. future cases are entirely free to disagree and rule to the contrary) precedent - notably including the part about training on legally acquired copies of books (e.g. from a book store) being fair use.

Only appeals courts establish binding precedent in the US (and only for the courts under them). A result of this case settling is that it won't be appealed, and thus won't establish any binding precedent one way or another.

> The number of bizarre, contradictory inferences this settlement asks you to make - no matter your stance on the wider question - is wild.

What contradictions do you see? I don't see any.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-10 03:40:25+00:00
Quite seriously, there will be whole categories of bugs you won't catch with a debugger (same way printf or CLI execution etc. have their limitations).

The debugger will never be completely transparent, it also eats resources in parallel to your application, and peeking into the session also introduces timing issues, short of the debugger itself having its own bugs.

I'm saying it would be dumb to dismiss all other tools for the love of debuggers, it's just one tool in the toolbox.
by nurettin | 2025-09-10 03:40:50+00:00
> They asked what is the most money that can be extracted in just a few hours in an automated fashion (no time to investigate targets manually one at a time) and crypto is the obvious answer.

A decade ago my root/123456 ssh password got pwned in 3-4 days. (I was gonna change to certificate!)

Hetzner alerted me saying that I filled my entire 1TB/mo download quota.

Apparently, the attacker (automation?) took over and used it to scrape alibaba, or did something with their cloud on port 443. It took a few hours to eat up every last byte. It felt like this was part of a huge operation. They also left a non-functional crypto miner in there that I simply couldn't remove.

So while they could cryptolock, they just used it for something insidious and left it alone.
by rixed | 2025-09-10 03:41:33+00:00
This contradicts my own experience.

As a kid, and probably still now, I was very reluctant to memorise things, for some reason I never understood but that may be connected with distrust of authority. I still remember how long and hard I fought my parents and grandparents who tried to make sure I would eventually memorise multiplication tables. Instead, I had to develop many tricks to be able to retrieve the proper results without memorisation, effectively discovering patterns to retrieve quickly all the tables from very few memorised numbers. Years later, I remember having done a similar thing in history classes, refusing to learn any dates, so instead finding tricks to tell which events must have occurred before or after another, thus again getting more engaged with the material as a result.

Sure, some material do require pure memorisation, like language learning (that I still hate with a passion), but overall I believe memorisation gets the bad rep it deserves.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-10 03:41:58+00:00
> What was unique about YouTube is YouTube did not have to pay for content. People made acceptable quality content and uploaded it to YouTube for free.

They still do. The vast majority of YT content is not monetized by creators, often not even eligible for it in the first place. Further, some big-ticket content creators hedge their bets, uploading to backup platforms, trying to shift to Patreon, etc.

The main thing is that viewers only ever go to YouTube, a learned habit. This is where they listen to music, where they get their news, where the algorithm suggests them related videos, where they can search for tutorials and reviews for gear, etc.

But TikTok shows that you can disrupt that simply by offering a video format that is different in some way and thus not gated by the same muscle memory.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-10 03:42:51+00:00
I’ll give some real world numbers. Right now I make a little over $200K. I am 51, never struck it rich in tech and make the same as former intern I mentored when I was in BigTech between 2020-2023 and when they got back. They got promoted to an L5 (mid level) earlier this year at 25. We both worked in the Professional Services department.

I’ve said no to opportunities that would have paid $250K - 280K that would have required me to relocate and be in an office. I can honestly say there is no amount of money that would convince me to go to an office.

See the story of the Mexican Fisherman

https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherma...

My wife and I already travel extensively, I “retired her” at 44 years old in 2020. We have done the digital nomad thing for a year since then and we are planning to spend a couple of months in Costa Rica next year and be away from home during much of the summer.

I have the freedom to spend a week with my parents and work from there and fly to another city to see my friends and adult sons.

Why do I need more money? I’ve had the big house in the burbs built twice and we sold and downsized from the second one.

I also have a year savings in the bank outside of retirement savings
by petsfed | 2025-09-10 03:42:52+00:00
When my cat was stolen, I was living in California, where only state-certified exhausts will pass emissions testing. And to date, the state has only certified OEM exhausts for Priuses.

So in my case, it was especially egregious (seriously, people have been petitioning Toyota for decades to recall Priuses to make the cat harder to steal), but in general, if you’ve got the OK to sell exhausts in California, you’re not going to endanger it by coming anywhere close to an illegal platinum/palladium fencing operation.
Show HN: TailGuard – Bridge your WireGuard router into Tailscale via a container
by juhovh | 2025-09-10 03:42:55+00:00
My elderly parents are behind a 5G connection in rural areas, and I help them manage their network from overseas. I found a reasonably priced 5G router that can do external antennas required for it to work, but the only reasonable ways to get access to it is either through OpenVPN or WireGuard, the latter of which is much more lightweight and preferred with the memory constraints of the device.

The problem with WireGuard is that it requires handling key management oneself, and configuring the keys to every device you want to access it from. It also doesn't play nicely together with other VPNs, meaning I ended up connecting and disconnecting VPNs whenever I wanted to use them. This is especially evident on my phone, which only allows one VPN app at a time.

I was already using Tailscale as an easy way to handle homelab access with SSO, even if some computers are behind ISP CGNAT, and came up with this idea of spinning up a Docker container to connect the two. I found some suggestions for it online, but nothing ready to use. It ended up being more work than I expected to fine tune the routing, IPv6, firewall settings, re-resolving the DNS of the router on IP address changes etc.

I got it very stable eventually though, and wanted to share with everyone else. I think it's cool to have the WireGuard router looking like any other Tailscale node in my tailnet now.
by chii | 2025-09-10 03:42:57+00:00
> unspecific vibes that it must be bad if employees like it

I read it as the feeling that they know somehow that the employees are not putting in 100% of their attention at home on the work assigned.

And i do believe it to be true - lots of people claim that WFH means they can "do the laundry" and/or go to the post office.

The fact is that there's very few self-starters and intrinsically motivated employees. Most are just there for the pay cheque, and will do the minimum work that is required of them - esp. if not under strict supervision.

Not to mention the fact that it is indeed much harder to have collaborative discussions that are spontaneous and unplanned in a WFH setting, compared to the office.
by btown | 2025-09-10 03:43:00+00:00
This 2019 article about how reading strategies have shifted in recent decades away from phonics to "three cueing" - which attempts to incentivize reading by encouraging students to interpolate words they don't understand from context, but may lead to bad practices that skip over the ability to recognize words in isolation - may be related to this trend.

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-ho...

> For Goodman, accurate word recognition was not necessarily the goal of reading. The goal was to comprehend text.8 If the sentences were making sense, the reader must be getting the words right, or right enough. These ideas soon became the foundation for how reading was taught in many schools.

> The whole language movement of the late 20th century was perhaps the zenith of the anti-phonics argument.26 Phonics instruction was seen as tedious, time-consuming and ultimately unnecessary. Why? Because — according to the three-cueing theory — readers can use other, more reliable cues to figure out what the words say.27

> "To our surprise, all of our research results pointed in the opposite direction," Stanovich wrote. "It was the poorer readers, not the more skilled readers, who were more reliant on context to facilitate word recognition."13

> The skilled readers could instantly recognize words without relying on context. Other researchers have confirmed these findings with similar experiments. It turns out that the ability to read words in isolation quickly and accurately is the hallmark of being a skilled reader. This is now one of the most consistent and well-replicated findings in all of reading research.14

It's interesting to wonder whether LLMs may struggle with similar issues - while they can intuit a distribution over held-out tokens from context, they famously can't count the number of r's in "strawberry" because they don't have a concept of letters.

Are we holding our LLMs back much the way we are holding back students - or are we holding back students much the same way we're holding back our LLMs?
by brewdad | 2025-09-10 03:43:24+00:00
At least near me the biggest problems facing the "urban" district compared to suburban ones is declining student populations as long time homeowners age in place and the maintenance costs of 100 year old buildings compared to 10-20 year old ones in the suburbs. Teachers tend to get paid the same or less in the city district and administration counts are higher but fairly close on a per student basis compared to the burbs.

This is before you get into the socioeconomic factors that make one student population more susceptible to starting and falling behind.
by anonzzzies | 2025-09-10 03:43:27+00:00
Not sure in the US but where I am from thats very much the case; they went to the paid per graduated student vs just student and students having loans vs state money (to study forever) and it turned the focus on churning out graduates from providing academic rigor. I saw the shift sharply studying and then teaching from late 90s to early 00s and as I see my nephews doing cs degrees now: it's really easy I would say, not the rigorous (not very practical outside academics) learnings I started with. Not sure if its good or bad, just an observation. We already had technical schools for exactly this purpose, but I guess the unis were running steep losses for the gov while not enough prominent research and related companies came out of them.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-10 03:45:10+00:00
>I have very good reasons to know what I’m talking about here but again, I’m not here to argue with you.

You are exactly right!

Because the gub'mint can track the nasal implant inserted when I was anally probed by the aliens!

You're making a ridiculous claim that makes exactly zero sense.

If folks are tracking cell phones, they can track yours just as well as everyone else's. Which means they can identify you.

If you don't have a pocket surveillance device on you, unless you're broadcasting RF waves with your (tiny) penis, you cannot be tracked via radio/cell. Full stop.
by opo | 2025-09-10 03:45:34+00:00
The economist Noah Smith graded the predictions of economists who made public statements once the Biden administration started its large spending programs:

>...In 2021, Krugman tweeted: "I like it and plan to steal it. This report does look like what you'd expect if recent inflation was about transitory disruptions, not stagflation redux".

As Smith pointed out:

>...But in late 2021, inflation spread to become very broad-based. Services inflation was always significant, and took over from goods inflation as the main contributor in 2022.

>The notion that this was just some transient supply-chain disruptions that was only affecting specific products was absolutely central to Team Transitory’s claims in the summer of 2021. And that was incorrect.

>...Team Transitory also called the end of the inflation at least a year and a half too soon. On October 13, 2021 Krugman tweeted "Three month core inflation. Why isn't everyone calling this a victory for team transitory"

>...So they didn’t entirely whiff here. They just greatly overstated their case. And their complacency in 2021 probably fed into the Fed’s decision to delay the start of rate hikes until 2022, which in retrospect looks like a serious mistake.

What did get vindicated was mainstream economics as taught in our textbooks.

As Smith wrote:

>...Mainstream macro’s first victory was in predicting that the inflation would happen in the first place. In February 2021, Olivier Blanchard used a very simple “output gap” model to predict that Biden’s Covid relief bill would raise demand by enough to show up in the inflation numbers. His prediction came true. He didn’t get everything right — he thought wages would rise more than consumer prices, and he neglected the lagged effects of Trump’s Covid relief packages and Fed lending programs. But his standard simple mainstream model got the basic prediction right when most people made the opposite prediction, and this deserves recognition.

>More importantly, mainstream macro appears to have gotten policy right.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/grading-the-economic-schools-o...
by wodenokoto | 2025-09-10 03:45:34+00:00
YouTube has recently have had massive, competitive attacks on their business and have had to quite drastically amend their offerings.

TikTok, SnapChat and instagram has all had huge success in their short form formats.

It’s not unheard of, that even millennial couples, will spend and evening together in bed scrolling TikTok instead of watching tv together.

While the battle is far from over, had YouTube not reacted, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of these mobile first competitors would have started experimenting with long form content by now.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-10 03:46:10+00:00
> these small farms are a vital part of the US’ food security

Hmm, that's only true if the kinds of crops those small farms are regularly growing are the kinds we'd want to have already in the ground as an unexpected "food security" crisis occurs. In other words, durable staples with long shelf-lives, as opposed to cash-crops for export, quick-spoiling luxuries, etc.

Are there any stats that might confirm/disprove that? Because if most those small farms are geared to pistachios or asparagus or hemp, then they aren't really serving as a national safety net.
by kelnos | 2025-09-10 03:46:18+00:00
Maybe instead of shitting on people you don't know, have a little empathy and compassion, and acknowledge that just because you don't know the reason someone might do something, it doesn't mean there's no reason, or the reason is a bad one.

Oh, and Fresno and Modesto are not "in that area", not by any stretch of the imagination.

But some people who would love to live in the bay area, and have jobs in the bay area, do live out in Fresno and Modesto because that's all they can afford. When people have to drive 3 hours each way during rush hour to get to their job because there isn't enough housing available closer to work, that's a dysfunctional society.
by x2tyfi | 2025-09-10 03:46:35+00:00
“At the primary moment of disruption, we saw YemenNet (aka TeleYemen) lose transit from BICS (AS6774) and Global Cloud Xchange (AS15412) at 22:32 UTC and revert to satellite service from BusinessCom (AS197206)”

It’s never good when your primary ISP’s only connection out to the world is via satellite
by ajross | 2025-09-10 03:47:14+00:00
It really doesn't? I mean, sure, typing is slower than clicking (though only marginally as complexity grows, there's a lot of clicking needed to extract the needed state, and with printf I only need to extract it once and it keeps popping out as I rerun the test).

But I spend far more time reading and thinking than I do typing. Input mechanics just aren't the limiting factor here.
by themafia | 2025-09-10 03:47:43+00:00
> It was a privilege

Hardly. It was COVID. It forced companies to do the most logical thing they could in a world of high speed internet. Many of them refused to read the writing on the wall and assumed it would return to normal one day. They made no efforts to internally reorient themselves around this new work strategy.

> people abused it

Other than your anecdote what evidence is there that this is true? Has the economy faltered? Is there any second source for the data which shows _any_ impact _at all_?
by non_aligned | 2025-09-10 03:47:45+00:00
I honestly don't think this shows in the data. As a software engineer, I really want to believe it, but I think we're prone to confusing well-being with productivity. We feel better about the work, but if you try to quantify it in any imaginable way, it's not there. Not in launch velocity, not in the number of pull requests, not the number of design docs created, bugs fixed, etc...

Of course, all of these metrics are individually goofy, but in aggregate, they give you some approximation of productivity.
Show HN: Program and dotfile post-install script for Arch Linux
by LandenLove | 2025-09-10 03:48:00+00:00
I made a simple bash script for installing programs, configuring settings, and installing dotfiles for Arch Linux.

I made it because I always missed tedious tiny settings tweaks when installing Arch.

It's a really simple script, so you can change whatever you want.

I haven't done enough testing with a fresh install, but it should be safe to run the script multiple times (if you want to).

The rice is still a wip.
by greycol | 2025-09-10 03:48:56+00:00
They really aren't. To pay off a 30yr 300k at 4% you pay $17350 a year. If you pay $17350 on a 100k 16% mortgage you pay it off in under 18 years and have saving of 222k (even at 0% returns) + 100k house by the time 30yrs is up.