MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by garrettwolfe | 2025-09-01 23:27:36+00:00
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by rchaud | 2025-09-01 23:27:48+00:00
> but isn't part of the appeal of Substack discoverability?

Discoverability should be happening on non-paid platforms like social media, message boards or channels independent of Substack itself. If customer acquisition is based on your presence on Substack, you will have to stay on it forever, paying whatever they charge, because migrating to a different platform will damage acquisition. Which of course is exactly what Substack's strategy is.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-01 23:27:57+00:00
I find it quite presumptious to assume, that backend developers do not care about this or that, or that they "drag ass about it".

To me it rather sounds like what you describe are code monkeys that give zero pushback on back engineering decisions, and will jump at anything that marketing throws in front of them. We have way too many of that kind already, making the web a dystopian version of what it should be.

And let me tell you, I am mostly doing backend things, as all the hype in the frontend world is offputting, but when I do frontend things, I don't do half-assed things. I make websites more responsive than 95% of "responsive" websites that we find these days as passing for that, most of which are developed by frontend developers, unsurprisingly. This is because I don't subscribe to the hype and solve responsiveness issues using web standards and CSS.

Just the other day I enhanced a couple of pages in a platform I am building, so that they can be used entirely without JS, while they are polling the backend API. Nothing too complicated, simply taking precautions on the backend side for enabling those pages to be reloaded and rendering updated state, and avoiding reloading them triggering new unwanted duplicate actions in the backend. How rare it is, that I see frontends going to that length of putting in some minimal effort, to make their websites more accessible and privacy friendly. Where are all those great web developers?

As I see it, a good developer with good knowledge about the basics of web development, most importantly HTML and CSS, only secondarily JS, can build better sites than most of what we see on the web today. The current mainstream is clearly not working all that well.

Why one would go for SSR? Because it doesn't require ones users to run untrusted JS. Because it doesn't require every single client to rerender the same things over and over again. Because it is lighter on the client. Because often it needs less data transferred, because there is no frontend framework whose code needs to be sent. Because it does not require repairing browser functionality after breaking it. There are many reasons to choose SSR. Also I will note, that you can do SSR and separate the logic for rendering your pages from your other code, so that the SSR accesses only API routes. Then others can build alternative frontends for that API.
by monkeydreams | 2025-09-01 23:28:13+00:00
> perhaps Amazon shouldn't require them in their recruitment and performance review processes

They are selecting for people who will "play the game" or, even better, will believe proactively.

No one with a lick of sense would believe that Amazon strive to be the best employer in the world. But someone who is capable of doing, for e.g., a highly skilled coding job and who believes that Amazon actually strives to be the best employer, is a rare beast who will likely not unionize at the drop of a hat.
by disregardless92 | 2025-09-01 23:28:38+00:00
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by hereme888 | 2025-09-01 23:30:55+00:00
Exactly. Incremental reading was touted as some ultimate productivity/pleasure hack but it's impractical for the real world were humans have to synchronize with each other's calendar. It may work for Piotr because he doesn't have a schedule to follow, at all.

When I need to read and learn, it needs to happen within a timeframe. Not "some day" when it shows up in my queue again.
by wibbily | 2025-09-01 23:31:19+00:00
> One other possibility is to drop high memory, but allow the extra physical memory to be used as a zram swap device. That would not be as efficient as accessing the memory directly, but it is relatively simple and would make it possible to drop the complexity of high memory.

Wild, like some kind of virtual cache. Reminds me a bit of the old Macintosh 68k accelerators; sometimes they included their own (faster) memory and you could use the existing sticks as a RAM disk.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-01 23:32:30+00:00
I think transit would serve these people much better too. Driving independently is for people who are fit enough with reflexes, judgement, and eyesight. Level boarding means you can get your wheelchair into a train much more easily than having your grandchildren lift you into a car passenger seat. Having a bus driver drive for you means you can get around even when you no longer pass your eye exam. Being able to access restrooms at stations is much better for the elderly than having to hold it through a traffic jam. At some point you may not be able to safely drive yourself, and it will be much better if your other options are safe, comfortable, quick, and convenient, and don't leave you dependent on your children or spouse to drive you around.

One could certainly argue "but it's not convenient in my area; the train doesn't have level boarding, the bus comes too infrequently and gets stuck in the same traffic jams, the stations don't have bathrooms". That's a symptom of low investment, which is a symptom of low ridership, which is a symptom of car dependency, and so on.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-01 23:32:48+00:00
Oh yeah, and if you tried to do one now it'd be a bad idea because I'm almost done :)

The agentic revolution is very different from the chatbot/model revolution because agents aren't a model problem, they're a tools/systems/process problem. Honestly the models we have now are very close to good enough for autonomous engineering, but people aren't giving them the right tools, the right processes, we aren't orchestrating them correctly, most people have no idea how to benchmark them to tune them, etc. It's a new discipline and it's very much in its infancy.
by roncesvalles | 2025-09-01 23:32:55+00:00
None of the limitations of open-source licenses apply to the authors themselves. (author = the person or organization whose name appears in the copyright notice). I.e., you can have a MIT/GPL/AGPL licensed project, but have a "premium" fork/derivation/later-version of it that's completely closed source.

I actually see this as a valuable incentive to open-sourcing under MIT -- if a commercial provider of your software emerges, it will help you test/prove that a commercial market for your software exists, after which point you can completely close-source it and pivot to purely commercial competition.

Open-sourcing, then, is basically baiting the waters to see if anyone sees commercial potential in your work. And the minute that's validated, you get funding and start your company.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-01 23:33:28+00:00
I think it is the same in France as it in in the UK.

In French law, truth is not required for a statement to be defamatory, but intent is. Intent is usually obvious, for example, if I am saying a restaurant owner poisons his clients, there is no way I am not intentionally hurting his business, it is defamation.

However, if I say that Benn Jordan supports Israel's occupation of Gaza in a neutral tone, like Gemini does here, then it shows no intention to hurt. It may even be seen positively, I mean, for a Palestine supporter to go to Israel to understand the conflict from the opponent side shows an open mind and it is something I respect. Benn Jordan sees it as defamatory because it grossly misrepresent his opinion, but from an outside perspective, is is way less clear, especially if the author of the article has no motive to do harm.

If instead the article had been something along the lines of "Benn Jordan showed support for the genocide in Gaza by visiting Israel", then intent becomes clear again.

As for truth, it is a defense and it is probably the case in the UK too. The word "defense" is really important here, because the burden of proof is reversed. The accused has to prove that everything written is true, and you really have to be prepared to pull that off. In addition, you can't use anything private.

So yeah, you can be convicted for hurting a quack doctor using factual evidence, if you are not careful. You should probably talk to a lawyer before writing such an article.
by carbonguy | 2025-09-01 23:33:28+00:00
The article details the seller-push (i.e. bad) theory, but doesn't go very far with the buyer-pull - presumably this is where one would get value out of the coaching sessions offered at the bottom of the piece?

The dichotomy seems real but hard to actually do anything with if you're in sales. I've done some penny-ante sales work in my past life in what I would call buyer-pull situations. It's great! People find you and they want to spend money, so all you have to do is not discourage them.

But once you get past "I'm selling something so manifestly useful that people find me to pay me for it", it sure seems like the things you, the sales rep, have to do to get their dollars skew rapidly toward the "seller-push" side of things. What else works? Folks gotta know about you and they gotta know you can solve their problems, right?
by tonko | 2025-09-01 23:33:29+00:00
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by hereme888 | 2025-09-01 23:35:16+00:00
> "the only reason I still keep a Windows VM."

Another key point: its dependencies on native but very outdated Windows libraries.

No plugins, no way to modify or improve anything. Fully closed source. Feature request? Wait months until your email shows up in Dr. Wozniak's queue for incremental-reading of his emails. And one year until maybe the next version of SuperMemo. Or write the request on his wiki, to be debated by community members. It's so impractical.
by 360MustangScope | 2025-09-01 23:35:32+00:00
How would GPL change the outcome?

A lot of people say that it can prevent these situations but from working for large enterprises, a lot of the offerings that are created literally don’t even change the code. Thus they have nothing to contribute and have no obligation to release any source code.

GPL also does not prevent the corporation from building software in front of whatever GPL service it is. Kind of like the Linux kernel, why bother changing the kernel when you can build software in front of it and not change anything and thus have nothing to release.
by chrsw | 2025-09-01 23:36:12+00:00
Making drugs isn't about understanding. It's about educated guesses and lots of trial and error. Biotech funding has no patience for deep understanding.

Most drug research ends up as a money sink because investors lose patience watching scientists play whack-a-molecule.

Some drugs end up making a lot of their money for intended uses that aren't directly related to the initial research. It's easier (and cheaper) to repurpose known drugs for new indications.

Rethinking biology is a terrible pitch but it's probably the only way we will get true breakthroughs that go beyond symptom cover up.
by volkadav | 2025-09-01 23:36:34+00:00
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by martin-t | 2025-09-01 23:37:01+00:00
One man's evil is another man's law.[0][1]

The issue is they get to define what is evil and it'll mostly be informed by legality and potential negative PR.

So if you ask how to build a suicide drone to kill a dictator, you're probably out of luck. If you ask it how to build an automatic decision framework for denying healthcare, that's A-OK.

[0]: My favorite "fun" fact is that the Holocaust was legal. You can kill a couple million people if you write a law that says killing those people is legal.

[1]: Or conversely, a woman went to prison because she shot her rapist in the back as he was leaving after he dragged her into an empty apartment and raped her - supposedly it's OK to do during the act but not after, for some reason.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-01 23:38:00+00:00
> People correlate to usage of services, not buildings. An empty apartment building is no more likely to catch fire than an empty house.

No, it's both.

People correlate to things like schools. Buildings correlate to things like the fire department, precisely because -- as you put it -- an empty apartment building will catch fire too. And construction regulation, and the courts, and all sorts of stuff. There are a lot of government services that really are building-oriented as opposed to person-oriented.

IMHO schooling ought to be funded entirely at the state/federal level, not the local level, just for greater economic equality and opportunity. But since it is funded at the local level, and people don't like high sales taxes (and taxing visitors buying stuff to pay for local schools is weird), and local income taxes often don't exist, it ends up being property taxes. Still, there are some states that do have local income taxes, which is generally a much better solution.
by DoesntMatter22 | 2025-09-01 23:38:05+00:00
Also I think that they realize this is just a money losing proposition right now for the most part. And they're not going to have a problem getting in later when there's a clear solution. Why fight it out? I don't think they're going to miss much because they can use any models they need and as you said some of that stuff may be run on their servers
by noahjk | 2025-09-01 23:38:12+00:00
> But it's annoying to see every bicycle that I encounter at an intersection, breaking the law. I always wait instead of assuming they are going to stop, because I don't want them crashing into my vehicle.

This is a great example of an internal narrative which you could reframe (if you chose to).

Instead of framing the interaction as "breaking the law" and you protecting your property from the adversarial cyclist, you could instead see each of these as an opportunity for a friendly community gesture of allowing a cyclist to continue on without expending extra energy stopping and starting, plus helping them stay safer through movement (since most cyclists don't have a brake light to signal they are slowing or stopping and can't always use hand signals when navigating situations, and being rear ended is a real concern for bikes).

Either way you're doing the same thing, right? So you can internally decide to view it through a negative or a positive lens. But either way, I'm sure the cyclists you stop and wait for are grateful!
by stinkbeetle | 2025-09-01 23:39:10+00:00
Attitude to Linux and open source was not really a problem for Ballmer IMO. Microsoft had vast revenues locked in to their software in PC and business servers. In the regulatory environment in which they were permitted to operate, it made a lot of sense to try to keep competitors out. A cohort of geeks hated Microsoft's attitude, but I'd be surprised if it did much to their bottom line. But Linux and OSS are just a tools, easily adopted when the winds change.

Microsoft under Ballmer completely missed the boat on a bunch of things which should have been pretty close to Microsoft's wheelhouse -- search, social media, mobile/smartphone, and cloud, to name some of the big ones (each one of these spawned a big 10 corporation). It's not that they should be expected to cover all these things or that no other tech company should have become successful, it's just that they had little response to any big developments in the industry for many years.

I think it's less that he wasn't willing to let go of Windows, more that the myopic focus on it blinded them to other issues, or deluded them into believing they could continue using Windows to gatekeep and buy or crush competition. They missed the boat on the internet before Ballmer too, but eventually managed to use the money and power that Windows provided them to grind down the competition.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-01 23:39:13+00:00
>> Furthermore, I am unaware of any credible research claiming there exists amnesia such that all memory is blocked.

> But others are aware of same.

Hence my clear declaration of "I am unaware".

>> It is apparent to me you have a firm belief in your position regarding consciousness.

> ad hominem.

My statement in no way qualifies as an ad hominem. It is simply a recognition of what I understand the person to whom I replied has expressed, without judgement.

> One can easily say things that aren't true.

Now this could reasonably be interpreted as an ad hominem, as you wrote the above in direct reply to my post.
by SillyUsername | 2025-09-01 23:40:05+00:00
Amazon also didn't read the room when it fired most of its Alexa staff just as GenAI was taking off.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/17/amazon-cuts-several-hundred-...

Of course not being able to monetise Alexa has always been a problem, but these and the article's issues are all to do with poor planning and top tier business direction.
by jd007 | 2025-09-01 23:40:19+00:00
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by alistairSH | 2025-09-01 23:40:19+00:00
Good interviews with those two leaders. “High Performance” has other interviews with drivers, trainers, etc. But I’d agree that Wolff and Vowles are two of the best in the industry and also at talking about it/interviewing.

Toto Wolff: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Yxk6s971E

Wolff with Daks Shepherd (bit less geeky, probably watch this first): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D-LrZc193uU

James Vowles: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nYzwvTSffiY&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5t...
by jaredklewis | 2025-09-01 23:40:27+00:00
Sure, but you're skipping the first part where if you make your project AGPLv3 most users will just choose a different project doing the same thing but with an MIT license.

I agree that if you can somehow achieve widespread adoption with a copy left license (like Linux or Wordpress), then that will be better for you. But IME copyleft licenses are a major hurdle to widespread adoption, so such projects remain obscure.

I'm not saying it is a good thing, but I've never worked at a company where we were allowed to bring in copyleft dependencies (even though everything invariably runs on Linux, which is GPLv2).