MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Spivak | 2025-09-24 22:10:16+00:00
I suppose I'm glad this research was done because it puts some real data behind the phenomenon but anyone who's ever worked a job anywhere will recognize this pattern of accountability laundering.

The simplest form is when Alice works for Bob. Alice pretends that she's not cheating despite given a directive to do so by Bob and Bob pretends that he doesn't know that Alice is cheating. Alice is only accountable to Bob who is in on it and Bob is accountable to no one because Alice has always been acting alone.
by munchbunny | 2025-09-24 22:10:22+00:00
The point about how the expected decision timeline is often a small part of the total decision timeline really resonates with me. Often (in my big tech experience) we say we can get a design done in a week, and then we spend three more weeks running the design up and down the leadership chain and through stakeholders elsewhere in the company, at which point you're three weeks past the date everyone expected and you finally have a plan.

It really helps to front-load the controversial questions. That way, if the team/organization/leadership gets mired down in that discussion, it's (1) determining constraints to reduce your search space early, and (2) it isn't setting false expectations about how long the decision will take because the design work hasn't even started!

One thing I miss about working in a startup is that you didn't have that many stakeholders to go through, so there wasn't nearly as much communication/stakeholder overhead to work through.
by ViktorRay | 2025-09-24 22:10:27+00:00
Xbox Series X is 5 years old.

PlayStation 5 is 5 years old.

I’m sure the PlayStation 6 is around the corner. PS5 came out 7 years after PS4 so PS6 should be coming within a couple years.

Now that Microsoft has seemingly abandoned exclusives why would anyone grab the next gen Xbox console when it comes out in a couple years? Seems like PlayStation 6 is the only viable option.
by jowday | 2025-09-24 22:12:40+00:00
From someone that worked in the industry ~6 years ago, it's clearly going well for them - frankly, they're expanding and scaling way faster than I would have thought possible in 2019. They've got something like 6 cities running right now and what, 3-4 more announced?

Another thing to keep in mind is that rideshare revenue in the US is extremely geographically concentrated in urban cores. This is why every AV company was targeting SF as their first city (excepting Waymo, which did some stuff in PHX). 'Hyperfocused expansion' probably looks a lot closer to tackling new, novel areas in different metro areas rather than, say, expanding down in to San Jose and the central valley.

These things, they take time.

They've clearly hit (or projections confidently show they'll hit) a point where each car is profitable. I worked in the space for a while - platform upgrades (new cars, sensors, etc) are planned out years in advance and are pretty complex processes. But generally, each upgrade was a massive decrease in cost per car. (usually 50% cheaper or more). So also possible they want to wait for the next platform transition.
by netdur | 2025-09-24 22:12:45+00:00
the model runs on H200 in ~20s, costing about $2.4/hr. on L4 it’s cheaper at ~$0.3/hr but takes ~85s to finish. overall, H200 ends up cheaper at volume. my scan has a separate issue though: each page has two columns, so text from the right side sometimes overflows into the left. OCR can’t really tell where sentences start and end unless the layout is split by column.
by twothreeone | 2025-09-24 22:12:45+00:00
> (1) Power and money generally lead to more power and money

At least when applied to Government in the form of "Representative Democracies" I think this overly simplistic view is not useful to analyze what's happening in the real world.

The assumption behind electing representatives is precisely that they will advocate and advance agendas on behalf of the majority - no matter their social status. However, for this to work it requires a populace that is sufficiently informed, educated, and intelligent to understand what sensible solutions look like.

Unfortunately, Rousseau, Voltaire, Kant and many others were wrong and even after 300 years of putting young homo sapiens through 10 years of public education and teaching them rational thinking this assumption turns out to be false.
by aranw | 2025-09-24 22:13:32+00:00
This gave me one of those surreal "huh" moments I've had in awhile. I've seen loads of apps boasting about being "#1 on Product Hunt" or whatever and I just realised that I've never actually gone to Product Hunt looking for a product to use. Does make you wonder who Product Hunts audience really is and who is doing all the upvoting?
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-24 22:13:47+00:00
If you read between the lines of what Terence Tao is saying - which, by the way, the most charitable summary is, "Isn't Dunbar's number interesting?" - he is really saying, "It is hard to make friends as an adult." Extra so if your day to day is something esoteric like academic theoretical math (read between the lines: really boring to most people), and if you are right leaning or libertarian (read between the lines: unfriendly as a matter of policy).
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-24 22:14:19+00:00
> But it also frees memory immediately, meaning that many processes will appear to use less memory (unless fragmentation is an issue.)

I think where we disagree is I that I of course do assume fragmentation is an issue, and also maybe what "immediately" means in this case. The type of total memory consumption that matters when you look in say Task Manager is when entire pages of memory are returned to the OS, not when individual objects are marked unused/free. In practical concerns, fragmentation will always delay entire pages returning to the OS. Reference counted languages build a lot of tricks to avoid fragmentation sure, but then if you are also trying to use a "mark-and-sweep" heap you lost most of those optimizations in part because you are then already assuming fragmentation is a problem to solve.

> Don't forget that GC often adds memory overhead too: IE, mark and sweep sets a generation counter in each object that it can reach

I did mention it, but also that GCs have advanced from "include a generation counter in each object" to things like generation bitmaps where that data is stored outside of the objects themselves and then from there further optimized into even more "compressed" forms ala Bloom filters (they maybe don't track every object, but every cluster of objects, or just objects crossing generation boundaries, or they use hash buckets and probability analysis, and many of these structures don't need to be permanent but are transient only during specific types of garbage collections; there has been a lot of work in the space and many decades of efficiencies studied and built). It's still overhead, but it is now a very different class of overhead from reference counts.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-24 22:15:32+00:00
It's not? Just checked a Chrome instance I had handy, it has all three options in the context menu - "Copy", "Copy link address" and "Copy link to highlight". First one copies text in between <a> ... </a>, second one copies the href attribute, and third one copies the link to page you're on with that weird URL framgment-based arbitrary text anchor/highlight scheme.

All three work on Google search results for me.
by Awesomedonut | 2025-09-24 22:15:34+00:00
This is gonna sound super pretentious, but I genuinely don't remember a time in which I wasn't into creative writing, haha! I still have little scribbled pages from toddler-me's stories. Writing is just something I can't stop doing, and my brain will leak out of my ears if I don't get the ideas out of my head and onto (metaphorical) paper somehow

I have no formal training, but I've watched a lot of writing-related YouTube videos and read books on writing. For you, I recommend just opening a blank doc (digital or just normal paper) without thinking about all that. I think consuming a lot of writing instructional resources up front is pretty paralyzing and demotivating, because it's easy to overthink. A trap a lot of writers (including me! Been there, done that) fall into is thinking about writing instead of actually writing.

If you have any ideas at all you wanna explore, just don't overthink it and get some words out (without worrying about stuff like prose or characterization or anything else). When I was younger, I'd browse https://www.tumblr.com/writing-prompt-s a lot as they have really interesting ideas.

Hope this is helpful! Let me know if you have any other questions; I could write about writing all day.
by Katjayakov | 2025-09-24 22:15:45+00:00
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by daemonologist | 2025-09-24 22:16:04+00:00
I suspect Waymo has purchased all available Jaguar i-Paces (~= every Jaguar i-Pace?), which are no longer in production, and was planning on rolling out their purpose-built Zeekr vehicles to scale further. The 100% tariff on Chinese EVs introduced in 2024 probably made this plan financially questionable, leaving them without a supply of new vehicles. Late last year Waymo announced a partnership with Hyundai to buy a version of the Ioniq 5 assembled in the US which might've been motivated by this problem.

The Zeekr vehicle was announced in 2021: https://waymo.com/blog/2021/12/expanding-our-waymo-one-fleet...

100% tariff in 2024: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/joe... ; https://www.reuters.com/business/us-locks-steep-china-tariff...

Hyundai partnership announced a few months later: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/10/waymo-and-hyundai-enter-partn...

Plus what others have said about sheer number of vehicles not being the only obstacle to scaling.
by andrepd | 2025-09-24 22:16:05+00:00
> My tentative theory is that the systems, incentives, and technologies in modern world have managed to slightly empower the individual, and massively empower large organizations, but at the significant expense of small organizations, whose role in the human societal ecosystem has thus shrunk significantly, with many small organizations either weakening in influence or transitioning to (or absorbed by) large organizations. While this imbalanced system does provide significant material comforts (albeit distributed rather unequally) and some limited feeling of agency, it has led at the level of the individual to feelings of disconnection, alienation, loneliness, and cynicism or pessimism about the ability to influence future events or meet major challenges.

I call your attention to an earlier, 19th century German philosopher...

> The theoretical basis of alienation is that a worker invariably loses the ability to determine life and destiny when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of themselves as the director of their own actions; to determine the character of these actions; to define relationships with other people; and to own those items of value from goods and services, produced by their own labour.
by stevage | 2025-09-24 22:16:16+00:00
> Repeatedly, we found that users, soon after being banned, could create new Tinder accounts with the exact same name, birthday, and profile photos used on their banned accounts. Users banned from Tinder were also able to sign up for Hinge, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish without changing those personal details.

It is really good to see actual investigative journalism still happening out there.
by jashmota | 2025-09-24 22:16:38+00:00
That's indeed what we're trying to test to the extreme - to see how far we could go with just vision. We haven't done heavy excavation workflows yet, but we have some early success with some excavation workflows with just vision input and joystick action output (even without joint angle feedback!). We're betting on having really huge data with compact observation input and experiment to see if it holds water. If not we can always dial it down and add more sensors/feedback.
Ask HN: Exploring the Energy Sector – Looking for Guidance
by tminima | 2025-09-24 22:17:10+00:00
Hi HN,

I come from a tech background but want to explore the energy industry (especially renewables) with the goal of eventually starting something of my own.

From my initial exposure, I’ve realized there are many opportunities to make life easier for companies in this sector. My usual approach has been to study extensively first and then reach out to people to fill the gaps. However, based on advice from 2 founders I recently met, I’d like to flip this approach: starting with conversations with experienced leaders and professionals to understand the practical realities of the industry.

My request: if you are currently working, have worked, know someone in this field, or simply have deep knowledge of it -- and are willing to share 30-60 minutes of your time -- I’d be truly grateful.

Best regards, Shivam
by dredmorbius | 2025-09-24 22:17:11+00:00
It's not the 95% you're concerned about, it's the 1%, or 0.0001%, who are top content creators, who both archive their own production and use YT as a research tool themselves (whether simple "reply videos" or something more substantive). Ultimately Google will kill the goose and lose the eggs.

Those creators are what drive the the bulk of viewers to the platform.

Though, come to think of it, as YT's become increasingly obnoxious to use (the native Web client is utterly intolerable, front-ends such as Invidious are increasingly fragile/broken, yt-dlp is as TFA notes becoming bogged down in greater dependencies) I simply find myself watching (or as my preference generally is, listening) to far less from the platform.

I may be well ahead of the pack, but others may reach similar conclusions in 5--10 years. Or when a less-annoying alternative clearly presents itself.
by heylook | 2025-09-24 22:17:33+00:00
This is exactly the main lesson of Finite and Infinite Games. There are finite games, in which the goal is to win, and there are infinite games, in which the goal is to continue playing the game. Using this framing, one can account for quite a large amount of long-term, large-scale problems as breakdowns wherein some participants choose to play formerly infinite games as finite ones, thus crushing their competition but destroying the game itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games
by roughly | 2025-09-24 22:18:29+00:00
I think the roadmap to the anarchist view is simple enough in theory - break up large companies, redistribute large piles of wealth, establish laws enforcing size limits, and, following that, scale government back and delegate decision-making to the affected individuals wherever practical. Ignoring the practical questions of how one breaks up, say, Amazon, the state has the guns, so if the state says Bezos loses his yacht, it is so.

The practical side is substantially harder - the anarchist-communal version of the world requires a citizenry committed to their community, phobic to bigness, and willing to assert that something that is not in the interest of the commons is not allowed to happen. Again, this ignores the practical question - balances of innovation vs unknown potential costs, etc - but the bigger practical concern is building an actual durable social contract that people will uphold and enforce over time, even when that means giving up personal glory.

This was basically the state of most societal groups in the pre-modern era - by and large, most people's day-to-day existence was within local community groups that had a lot of say over what they allowed within their sphere of influence - but the modern world creates the ability to concentrate power in ways which are harder for a smaller group of individuals to combat. A teenager with an AK-47 would've mowed through a squadron of Roman soldiers like they weren't there, and the mechanization of industry allows for more rapid consolidation of wealth than prior means, which renders the whole affair much harder to keep in hand.
by pseudalopex | 2025-09-24 22:19:02+00:00
He didn't say all prohibitions rooted in racial animus targeted multi generational households. I knew a city where people said they supported unrelated tenant restrictions because they didn't want migrant workers living in their neighborhoods.

Secondary suites are desirable for multi generational households. They are or were banned in many places.

The cities where you lived allowed any number of related people in a 1 bedroom apartment? A 2 person per bedroom limit seems common. Related or not. And prohibition of a child sharing the bedroom of an adult or a different sex child or a different gender child.
by turnsout | 2025-09-24 22:19:35+00:00
The audience is almost literally no one, the people doing the upvoting are doing it for subhuman wages in developing countries, and the only scrap of value created is a "#1 on Product Hunt" badge that doesn't even impress developers anymore, let alone your users.

I launched on PH last year and came to the same conclusion as the author of the post. The platform is dead, and deserves to stay dead.
by elevation | 2025-09-24 22:19:52+00:00
> The reason that governments have such a restrictive budget in the first place is people are individually profit-motivated

You've got the cart before the horse; the government would not have a budget at all if people were not individually motivated to generate taxable events.

Profit is the practice of accumulating more resources than you immediately need in the anticipation of their future use and enjoyment. Without a government, a profit makes the bearer a target for anyone who can overpower you. So the essential purpose of a government is the preservation of profit by opposing the forces that would destroy or carry it off: criminals, scammers, foreign militaries.

Governments did not command the invention of penicillin, powered flight, electric light, transistors, the blue LED, or the majority of software products that are essential to society today. But it protected individuals to invent with the knowledge that their work could be rewarded on some timeframe rather than being immediately destroyed by an interloper.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-24 22:20:10+00:00
> I’m not sure if you are already aware and did it intentionally or if it was a happy accident, but FEJKA really is named that because it’s a real word in Swedish that comes from English with meaning very near to how you used it there.

I guessed as much; I'm Polish but know enough English that I burst into laughter when I first saw a fake plant labeled FEJKA in a local IKEA store. In fact, I couldn't believe they'd be this direct with naming. But then I don't know enough Swedish to translate the other names.

(Still wonder what kind of geopolitical order they meant when they named their wardrobe system PAX. Or is it just because you can pack absurd amount of things into it?)

> If they are to really look real without being real, they should be named in a way that would make even swedes second guess whether they might be real manuals. (When seen in a context where it was not immediately stated that they are imitations.)

Fair enough. I was just making an unsophisticated joke about the FEJKA line :).
by r3trohack3r | 2025-09-24 22:20:25+00:00
I suspect the economics of investigative journalism work out better for an individual who is personally invested in their work.

Your scenario is the same for a news company. Investigative journalism takes time. And, in the meantime, you have HR departments, corporate rent, etc., you’re trying to build a media empire and your ROI is being compared against just investing in the S&P 500.

And I don’t think the economics of corporate news make sense. I suspect people buy these news rooms because their ROI comes from manufacturing consent (power and influence) - not monetizing investigative journalism.
by ThunderSizzle | 2025-09-24 22:20:31+00:00
Fiber optics is getting multiple providers in several markets, if not many. They do bury/lift multiple lines, even in more rural areas.

I think the biggest issue with airlines is they act as only an airline. The first company to realize they are a transportation company and can get you door to door will be great.

E.g. an airline that can seamlessly get you to/from the airport via a local premium/private transit line that can get you to your home or destination.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-09-24 22:20:40+00:00
Real objects are basically always either psuedo-radix because you have a good idea of the distribution and aren't limited to pairwise comparison, or psuedo-selection because the objects are big and heavy so you don't want to move them more than necessary. For people self-sorting psuedo-radix is definitely the way because they can self-parallelize easily.

I say psuedo because real objects have lots of properties both on the rearranging and comparison sides that are not quite the same as digital ones. For eg it's faster to compare numbers that have a large difference in magnitude, and it's easier to swap objects that are physically close to each other. So following a CS algorithm to the letter is usually slower than adapting a little.
by Lammy | 2025-09-24 22:21:14+00:00
XBOX has outlived its usefulness now that all the anti-General-Purpose-Computing “““Security””” bullshit has metastasized fully-formed over to regular PCs after incubating for twenty years in console-land. They knew people would protest that stuff if they tried to develop it natively on PC, but nobody bats an eye when they lock down some appliance machine whose exclusive software “needs” to be protected.
by Svoka | 2025-09-24 22:21:48+00:00
If you can afford PC, both in effort, time and money - it is obviously better choice.

Two years ago I saw a cool game, Helldivers 2. It looked like a lot of fun but my old PC was not up to the task. I went to the store, got PS5 and in couple hours I was enjoying the game. It is so much fun, and so little hustle that I honestly can't imagine going back.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-24 22:21:53+00:00
Could you try to substantiate these claims about the US extorting Iran for oil?

The only part of your claims that I've found information about is the CIA/MI6 orchestrating a coup in 1953, over 70 years ago. Iran was an ally for a long time after that, the Iranian revolution happened two decades later.

So unless you can point to something more recent I really don't think your blaming the US makes a lot of sense. Iran was an ally of the west and Israel for a long time, then religious extremists took over and pissed all over those alliances. Here's an AI-generated summary:

> Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran experienced significant economic growth and secular, Western-oriented modernization under the Shah, with expanded education and some cultural freedoms. After the revolution, however, the economy stagnated, inflation and unemployment rose, and per capita income declined significantly

The revolution was not the fault of the west. Iran was doing well, then the revolution happened and it went to shit. I'm sure the west would be happy to support Iran again if it got its shit together. I honestly don't believe these claims that the US is pressuring Iran for oil. Maybe they were 70 years ago, but that's really not very relevant any more.