MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by floren | 2025-09-04 21:51:08+00:00
I really want a display + camera + audio. Halo offers those, but the Brilliant Labs model of releasing a single run of a product and then immediately moving on to the next iteration kind of sucks -- and they're going to do it again with Halo, they've explicitly said so. If I want to build for an abandoned product, well, I've already got these Solos!
by jrm4 | 2025-09-04 21:51:16+00:00
You are wrong; if a smart contract is successfully deployed to the Ethereum blockchain, a thing that happens all the time -- it is not as if individual computers have the choice to run that code (or to make the app available). The action is objectively run, Blockchain-style.

In other words, I can unilaterally and without permission deploy code to the Ethereum chain, at the price of "writing the code" and "paying the Ethereum fees to do so." And when I do that, the ENTIRE CHAIN must follow.

That's closer to "a computer" that just "a listing of optional scripts."
by siddthesquid | 2025-09-04 21:51:36+00:00
My point is that blockchain is just a technology - nothing about the technology itself makes the concept of transferring money cheaper. I agree that it is another competitive avenue for transactions, but if it became a threat to payment processors, my theory is that they could lower their costs more than blockchains potentially can. This is because the software and infrastructure needed to build something that assigns numbers to accounts and allows transfers is obviously going to be cheaper off the blockchain.

If trust is an issue, the bank can provide cryptographically signed receipts that show they've confirmed the entire lineage of your account, in the same way a blockchain does, but they would be the only verifier. The question becomes about how the cost of the additional trust from the blockchain relates to the incentive of doing honest business. I imagine that trust cost is pretty high.

> can you have a blockchain with lower fees than payment processors currently have? And the answer appears to be yes

The transaction fee is not the only thing being paid. They are also getting mining rewards. If a blockchain has mining rewards, maybe in the form of Bitcoin Cash, then that will dilute the entire pool of Bitcoin Cash.
by merelysounds | 2025-09-04 21:52:13+00:00
> We constantly hear of spreadsheet errors making their way into critical projects.

Are there any examples, i.e. spreadsheet mistakes in engineering projects that wouldn’t have happened if a slide rule was used? This sounds interesting.

I only know about spreadsheet errors in general, e.g. gene symbols being converted to dates[1]. Unless you meant that?

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37176926.amp
by robotresearcher | 2025-09-04 21:52:16+00:00
Can the new host stop the 'as it were' thing?

The show has long and consistently had this weird tic where they must announce every analogy, or even non-analogy with 'as it were'.

"He was over the moon, as it were".

"He was very excited, as it were".

We know what analogies are! No disclaimer needed! And when it isn't one, even bloody more so!

Forgive my affectionate grumble. I've enjoyed the show for many years. Bragg is a unique talent, and will be hard to follow.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-09-04 21:52:43+00:00
This isn’t even the reason, because the reserve status can be immediately verified across institutions and is often backed by a sovereign in some way in case of a run and payment systems can circuit break, etc. There are legacy reasons depending on the bank network such as business hours and batching and liquidity optimization, but these are increasingly less meaningful and systems like FedNow and others offer instant and final transfer.

The real and continuing reason for the delay is to give time for repudiation and assessment of fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes risk. The risk of instant transfer is instant theft or otherwise absconding with money that shouldn’t be yours. In fact settlement delay makes reserve problems worse because you effectively “hold” money that could potentially not be properly secured during the hold and cause a default on a transaction that was otherwise taken out of balance and pending transfer. Instant clearing and settlement makes this unambiguous. But it also makes transactions as risky as a cash transaction - instant and irrevocable.

For some customers this is legitimately ok. But by and large most customers benefit from the delays more than they’re hurt by virtue of having a window to repudiate a transaction that is illegitimate. It’s just they don’t recognize that value until they need it. We all benefit from a system that disincentivizes criminality overall. It’s hard to recognize it because we exist day to day with that benefit and it’s hard to prove the negative, but there were times without the protections against financial crimes and financial oversight and they were NOT better times. They were objectively worse, so our ancestors built a set of guard rails to prevent the endemic badness around us.

It appears though as they die off, and as we become less attuned to history, we are very busy ripping apart the guard rails our ancestors very carefully and thoughtfully built into our societies like some junior engineer who assumes every line of code written before them was written by an idiot. Take the American CDC as a case in point - the modern public health system was a very hard won victory against endemic diseases by generations - and as the generation who established it expires, we rip their legacy to tatters.
by coldcode | 2025-09-04 21:52:45+00:00
The site is slow so I can't see it. I'm 68, eat well, lost 20 pounds, work out twice a week. Everything is working fine. But I live in a place surrounded by people in walkers, wheelchairs, or using canes. Some of them have had strokes or accidents making improvement hard, but many simply chose to not do anything to avoid the aging. You don't ordinarily wind up with a walker at a single point; it often starts many years or even decades earlier when you failed to keep in decent physical shape. I almost started too late (last couple of years), I can see how easy it is to not notice your physical being slowly going down. But assuming no major injury or disease, you can improve your body at almost any age, a little at a time, and avoid or at least postpone physical aging for quite a while.

I also write code daily, read the same things I read when I worked, thus keep my brain going too. You can't ignore body or mind, you have to keep both in tune.

I am still getting older, but I am in better shape than I was before I retired. The last time I felt as fit was when I was still playing basketball 30+ years ago.

Don't wait, it's easier to do a little for decades than wait until it's almost too late.
by Lammy | 2025-09-04 21:52:59+00:00
Tailscale spy on all of your traffic/behavior by default, so this isn't a great recommendation to people who used NordVPN for privacy reasons without the disclaimer that they will need to opt out of Tailscale's spying by setting a special environment variable on every single machine in their Tailnet: https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic

“Each Tailscale agent in your distributed network streams its logs to a central log server (at `log.tailscale.io`). This includes real-time events for open and close events for every inter-machine connection (TCP or UDP) on your network.”
by ketozhang | 2025-09-04 21:53:06+00:00
We need long running averages and 2023-2025 is still too early to determine it's not effective. The barriers of entry for 2023 and 2024, I'd argue is too high for inexperienced developers to start churning software. For seasoned developers, the skepticism and company adoption wasn't there yet (and still isn't).
by jimbob45 | 2025-09-04 21:53:25+00:00
His change of direction, elusiveness, and vision are all generational. His durability is not or at least he has not displayed it yet. I don't think anyone would put his durability up against AD, Frank Gore, or even Derrick Henry and come out on top.

Bold statement two hours before kickoff but I'm expecting a significant regression this year and for him to be out of the league in two years.
by paperpunk | 2025-09-04 21:53:38+00:00
I think this may be an insightful comment.

It's not for lack of trying that traditional, "database driven" cross-border payments are costly and unreliable. SWIFT have thrown technology at this problem: GPI, Swift Go, ISO20022, etc.

Unfortunately the ecosystem has an extremely weak technical culture. Banks rarely follow the standards as written – your perfectly crafted API payment may be re-keyed by a low-paid human operator on a slow, buggy UI written a decade ago.

I could believe that the developer experience and technical standards of the participants is where the value lies right now.

The one thing I'm not sure on is to what extent those ecosystems depend on reduced regulatory scrutiny compared to banks.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-04 21:53:43+00:00
> Please provide a link to this dictionary.

$ apt show dict-freedict-deu-eng Package: dict-freedict-deu-eng Version: 2021.01.05-3 Priority: optional Section: text Source: freedict Maintainer: Sebastian Humenda <shumenda@gmx.de> Installed-Size: 25.3 MB Provides: dictd-dictionary Suggests: dictd | dicod, dict | kdict | gnome-dictionary | goldendict Homepage: https://freedict.org/ Tag: culture::TODO, culture::german, made-of::dictionary, role::app-data, role::program, use::converting Download-Size: 17.7 MB APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages Description: German-English dictionary for the dict server/client This is the German-English dictionary from the FreeDict project. It contains 463244 headwords (FreeDict status: stable). It can be either used with the dictd server and a dict client or with GoldenDict.

I thought "taxes" is the English equivalent to the German "Steuern". A "Steuer" is definitely a thing to regulate inefficiencies due to external costs.

> People generally don't pay the government to regulate the market directly.

Huh, that's basic government behaviour. How do you call the mechanism of the government imposing money to pay to the state in order to internalize external costs?

Alcohol causes sickness -> tax on Alcohol, cigarettes -> tax on cigarettes, car usage wears roads down -> tax on fuel, car usage causes congestion -> fees for car usage, CO2 causes climate change -> tax on CO2, income causes wealth imbalance -> tax on income, land ownership causes inefficient land usage -> tax on land ownership, high frequency trading causes energy waste -> tax on high frequency trade, foreign products cause local unemployment -> tariffs, ... . The list is endless, because it includes every "tax".

At least that's what they told me in basic economics class. But then again I'm maybe mistranslating "Steuern". The German term for b) is called "Abgaben" which I thought would mean "duties".
by brewdad | 2025-09-04 21:53:56+00:00
Not sure if "meat only" can be a cure-all but anecdotally, I feel better when I reduce my gluten intake. I've never been diagnosed with a wheat sensitivity but my son has been forced to go gluten free because of one. When he is home on school breaks, we eat gluten free and I do notice a difference in how I feel.

I'm not giving up beer or the once a month pizza anytime soon but I have made conscious decisions to reduce my overall gluten intake.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-04 21:54:18+00:00
"I found it endearing that to end an IF block you used FI (IF spelled backwards) and to end a DO block you used OD. That is some interesting symmetry although I’m not really sure it helps readability."

This comes straight from Algol if I'm not mistaken. It seems weird to us now (tho bourne shell / bash kinda has this in spots) but it was in the air in the 60s/70s.

When I've looked at it in the past I definitely got the sense that Action was very much inspired by Algol-68, but with some accomodations for the niche of 6502.

6502 is a terrible target for C (and even Pascal) compilation, I have often wondered if it made sense for someone to try and revive Action for the 21st century as a general purpose 6502 high level PL.
by stale2002 | 2025-09-04 21:54:38+00:00
> ADDS slow clunky overhead; that's the price of decentralization.

Actually, you can just use a federated blockchain.

> Everything you're imagining is ALL done much easier with good ol' databases

There is an ecosystem of 10s of thousands of developers that can run specifically ethereum contracts on a database, while being compatible with all existing stable coin onramps?

You have to show me the 10s of thousands of developers is the point. Thats an ecosystem. It means that you can connect to all of these existing apps and on ramps, and smart contracts and more. There isn't a database version of that.
by silenced_trope | 2025-09-04 21:55:05+00:00
I don't think it's just that.

- Amazon's back-loaded vesting costs them top talent.

- Amazon's pip culture is notorious. When Amazon managers get hired at other companies people immediately consider it a turning point for the company turning to crap.

- Commuting is a killer for a lot of people. You either live somewhere expensive and have a short commute, or live somewhere less desirable but have a longer commute.
by palata | 2025-09-04 21:56:31+00:00
Hmm... why don't they already implement their own authenticator apps, if it's just risk aversion and cargo culting? Again it's totally possible and it already exists.

I currently, exclusively use my Yubikeys as passkeys, and it works everywhere where passkeys are available. So I don't personally see a problem.

What I see is that people complain because of some kind of disagreement that happened between some people on the Internet about the passkey implementation in KeepassXC. And nothing about that materialised.
by siddthesquid | 2025-09-04 21:56:34+00:00
If I'm bank of america, and i publicize a public key, and then everytime everyone does a transaction, i sign a receipt using my public key such that my customers can prove that transaction happened, then that would be the cryptography.

if bank of america does something malicious, i can prove in court very trivially through those signed receipts that they did so.

So I don't need to trust bank of america - i just need to trust the courts to charge financial institutions that provably are breaking the law.
by wubrr | 2025-09-04 21:56:48+00:00
Your logic/math doesn't make any sense.

Almost every student studies math, almost none of those ever become a mathematician - who are compensated much less than NFL players.

> There are about a million doctors in the US

Comparing # of doctors to # of NFL players is a very false equivalence. Try comparing # of athletes in all sports combined to number of doctors - that would be more reasonable. Or compare the number of brain surgeons to the number of NFL players - and the difficulty/time in becoming either.

Being a doctor is a much more stressful and difficult job, which requires more years of training/education and provides far more real value for society.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-04 21:57:10+00:00
I live near a helicopter factory and when the spinning towers are in use, you hear all sorts of auditory patterns as you move around the town. When they are test flying - similar and the Police have one and there is an air ambulance too. My Dad's other staff car in the '80s was a Gazelle and in the '70s he whizzed around in a Sioux. I've seen and heard a lot of helos!

I have absolutely no doubt that with some funky signal processing you can do all sorts of things.
by stale2002 | 2025-09-04 21:57:45+00:00
> Are you claiming here that things like banks and stock markets don't exist?

No, I am claiming that I couldn't spin up a bank or a stock market on my laptop, that is compatible with all the other stock markets, by forking a git repo.

> that have no non-crypto counterparts, are you referring to?

The git repo fork button, that slots right into a whole ecosystem that has 10s of thousands of contributors to it.

Ease of use, and developer experience and existing markets and existing integrations with all of these businesses is a big deal. It doesn't matter if someone could hypothetically spend 1 billion dollars recreating all of that, using a database. Because that would require 1 billion dollars.
by kkfx | 2025-09-04 21:57:51+00:00
Stablecoins are generally used:

- by USA government (indirectly) to re-dollarize the world without generating too much USA inflation, another IMF SDR mimicking China usage of foreign currencies to avoid hyperinflation;

- by many migrants in the I world to send money home, something in the III world could be converted to USD at a much cheaper rates and with much simplicity than classic banking/money transfer solutions;

- as a hedge against local currencies, considering dollar or some other currencies much more stable (see for instance the Argentina forcibly conversion overnight of USD accounts to ARS with enormous loss in 2002;

- as a decorrelated asset for DeFi trading on non-stablecoin cryptos (meaning market timing, buying BTC, ETH, SOL, ... when they dip, swapping then to some stablecoins when they top, waiting with the stablecoin for the next dip to buy).

In that regard the (unlikely) real existence of the collateral they claim is not much relevant: as long as most trade on stablecoins come from DeFi the Venezuelans, Bolivians, ... who choose them to bring USD home, the few company using them to pay B2B stakeholders in various countries are still happy anyway, as long as the stablecoin remain de-correlated to other crypto traders are happy anyway.

Tokenised stocks are more likely used to circumvent regulations since you can buy them swapping non-KYC coins against them avoiding capital gains taxes, at least partially.
by burntoutgray | 2025-09-04 21:57:53+00:00
Everybody is different, so it's hard to give advice when you don't know a person's priorities.

If you have the means to focus on getting a masters in a speciality field that you have a strong inclination for, then just do it.

Earning good money doing something you dislike is a golden trap. For most people, a high income leads to an expensive lifestyle. Once you get used to that lifestyle it is near impossible to cut back and follow your passion later.

When you were looking for internships, did you not find any ML/robotics ops? I would have thought that a startup and doing a masters part-time would be a good option. Just need to hustle a bit more. Research potential startups, etc.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-09-04 21:57:56+00:00
I came across a similar thing when I first read the Wikipedia page on 5G was it was in development. I read it after learning an early phones 5G power consumption was through the roof, and I was trying to figure out what benefits 5G had. I was accepting everything I read at face value, until I came across the section waxing lyrical about 30GHz. I knew 30GHz was stopped by glass, or a human hand, and so was more or less useless in a mobile phone.

So I re-read the entire page, this time looking for signs it was written by marketing rather as a factual document. Of course it was exactly that. Only the engineers deep in the bowels of the organisations developing 5G knew how it would perform at that stage, and evidently they weren't contributing to Wikipedia. Until the man on the street had experience with 5G, the marketing people were going to use the Wikipedia page on it as an advertising platform.

So I'm in agreement with the OP. From what what I can see a Wikipedia page that only has a few contributors it is no better than any other page about the same subject on the internet. The breath and depth of a Wikipedia page on a subject arises because of the wisdom of the crowds contributing to it. If there is no crowd, it's possible there is no wisdom.

Fortunately Wikipedia does have one other advantage over a random Internet page - you can tell when the have been lots of contributions. There is an audit trail of changes, and you can get a feel for the contentious points by reading the Talk page. That contrasts to getting the same information from an LLM, where you have no idea if you are being bullshitted.

As you might predict from all that, the Wikipedia page on 5G is very good now.
by duskwuff | 2025-09-04 21:58:01+00:00
It's a leaked copy of the System 7.1 source code - just the System itself; it doesn't include any applications, control panels, or extensions. (So code for things like the Finder or QuickTime aren't included.)

I'm not certain where it came from precisely; from what I understand, it's been circulating online for ages. Apple hasn't authorized its release, but, as far as I'm aware, they haven't made any attempt to suppress it either.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-09-04 21:58:15+00:00
I’m 43, and though I seem to get more injuries in the gym since I hit 40 (usually tendon overuse), I’ve noticed that proper nutrition and good sleep make a big difference in how my body feels. I also go to the gym at 5:30am and do an hour of free weight strength training 4 days per week.

If you guys are hurting all the time in your 40s, I would really advise you to do a full assessment of what you’re putting in your body and what kind of message you’re sending your body with your exercise routine. It might also be a good idea to get checked for markers of inflammation as well as testosterone levels. You should not have constant nagging pain at your age.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-09-04 21:58:16+00:00
I MVP'd one of these (a basic sequence of LLM customer support 'agents') at my last job, I guess spring 2024. So much has changed since then!

'Routing through increasingly specialised agents' was my approach, and the only thing that would've done the job (in MVP form) at the time. There weren't many models that would fit our (v good) CS & Product teams' dataset of "probable queries from customers" into a single context window.

I never personally got my MVP beyond sitting with it beside the customer support inbox, talking to customers. And AFAIK it never moved beyond that after I left.

Nor should it have been, probably - there are (wild, & mostly ineffable) trade-offs that you make the moment you stop actually talking to users at the very moment they get in touch. I don't remember ever making a trade-off like that where it was worthwhile.

I _do_ remember it as perhaps the most worthwhile time I ever spent doing product-y work.

I say that because: To consider a customer support query type that might be 0.005% of all queries received by the CS team, even my trash MVP had to walk a path down a pretty intricate tree of agents and possible query types.

So - if you believe that 'solving the problems users have with your product' = 'making a better product'. then talking to an LLM that was an advocate for a tiny subset of users, and knew very intimately the details of their issue with your product, that felt really good. It felt like it was a very pure version of what _I_ should be to devs, as any kind of interface between them and our users.

It was very hard to stay a believer in the idea of a 'PM' after seeing that, at least. As a person who preferred to just let people get on with things.

I enjoyed the linked post; it's really interesting to see how far things have come. I'm surprised nobody has built 'talk to your customers at scale', yet - this feels like a far more interesting problem than 'avoid talking to your customers at scale'.

I'm also not surprised, I guess, since it's an incredibly bespoke job to do properly, I imagine, for most products.