MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-25 01:49:32+00:00
I wouldn't change a thing now, but when I was young I could have gotten a lot better pay if I had a PhD which I never got.

Instead I guess I went straight to working professionally with equipment they wished they had, got a head start by comparison and had more time to work with it because as a PhD I would have had to spend too much more time on wasteful bureaucracy, and that would have really added up over a lifetime.

The pay and opportunity discrepancy were noticeable when I was employed but I was always going to be an entrepreneur anyway, and it really helped owning everything I ever invented on my own plus leveraging all my other progress like I would not have been able to do otherwise.
by MBCook | 2025-09-25 01:49:58+00:00
They’ve never successfully built up a non-x86 userbase on Windows.

An architecture switch where a lot of software won’t run well (or at all) is a big risk for them that people could start to go elsewhere in non-trivial numbers.

Apple, Linux, Chromebook.

Yes they have a compatibility layer for running x86 on ARM. They could make it for other archs. But that’s still a big effort and consumers may not trust.
by treyd | 2025-09-25 01:49:59+00:00
Rumble and Odysee and populated with crazy ragebaiting rightwingers, conspiracy theorists, and pseudo-libertarians.

Twitch has the issues the other commenter described, and both Twitch and Facebook are owned by billionaires who are actively collaborating with the current authoritarian regime. Facebook in particular is a risk space for actually exercising free speech and giving coherent critiques of authority.

Dailymotion is... maybe okay? As a company it seems like it's on life support. There's a "missing middle" between the corporate highly produced content that's distributed across all platforms and being a long tail dumping ground. I did find things like university lectures there, but there isn't creators actually trying to produce content for Dailymotion like there is on YouTube.
by Gigachad | 2025-09-25 01:50:15+00:00
Small scale usage at the same level as a normal person would probably go under the radar, but if you try scraping, running multiple accounts or posting any more than you would a normal user it’ll be picked up once they can link all actions to a real person.

If you are just asking Siri to load a page for you, that probably gets tolerated. Maybe very sensitive sites will go verified mobile platform only and Apple/Google will provide some kind of AI free compute environment like how they can block screen recording or custom roms today.

Yes it is 100% the death of the free and open computing environment. But captchas are no longer going to be sufficient. It seems realistic to block bots if you are willing to fully lock down everything.
by decimalenough | 2025-09-25 01:50:29+00:00
Australia is trying to make tobacco illegal by taxing it to death (a legal single pack is on the order of $40). It's not going very well.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/illegal-tobacco-is-a-...

On the other hand, sports betting and advertising for it are absolutely rampant.
by raspasov | 2025-09-25 01:52:06+00:00
I have a problem with the analogy “lottery ticket”. I think analogies are helpful as long as we are talking perhaps a singe order of magnitude difference between the two things.

The chance of winning most popular US lotteries is approximately 1 in 300,000,000. In comparison, the chance of IPO-ing a YC company is approximately 1 in 300. You can count how many orders of magnitude of difference that is.
by cloudmanager | 2025-09-25 01:52:48+00:00
We're avoiding any reservation or lock mechanisms entirely. Starting November 1, the site will display 'Most recent fulfillment: Rock #000047' to show systematic progress, but this creates no guarantee for future purchases.

Sequential assignment follows strict order of payment completion only. No race conditions, no held inventory, no time windows. You either complete the transaction and receive the next sequential number, or you don't.

The constraint is designed to eliminate the entire apparatus of purchase optimization, including queue management systems.
by Marsymars | 2025-09-25 01:53:12+00:00
> I recall a Googler once suggesting to me that Googlers seeing ads might look like ad fraud to advertisers, so I'm not positive Googlers dogfood how bad this is either.

I wonder what Google execs do - like I really have a hard time imagining them using Google search as it currently exists. Is there some kind of special internal flag that just gets rid of ads for their accounts?
by bigyabai | 2025-09-25 01:53:13+00:00
Kinda? Apple was known to tune their ACPI tables pretty hard, it wasn't impossible for them to put a hard-limit of 70c like the other Wintel machines at the time. Instead they seemed to push the Turbo mode until you approached junction temp, which didn't seem like a smart idea for a mobile device. Especially those embarrassingly thin i9 workstations Apple tried shipping.

The behavior persists on Apple Silicon, it just gets there slower. Someone internally at Apple must have a vendetta against CPU throttling, I guess.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-09-25 01:53:16+00:00
I remember 37signals paying for an ad saying "We dont want to pay for this ad" or something to combat this for their keywords.

I think it was DHH or Jason who shared this somewhere in social media.

Edit: Yep! It was Jason - https://x.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016
by huem0n | 2025-09-25 01:54:00+00:00
Agreed. Why ask the local carpenter, or librarian how to do something when it can be Googled or find a YouTube video of it? Communities gathered to solve problems they couldn't solve alone.

We still can't solve them alone (we need big tech), and big tech is preferred because its lower friction. Ex: calling an Uber is often lower friction than asking a friend to pickup your groceries when your car is broken.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-09-25 01:55:49+00:00
I was using my steam deck for 100% of gaming since I got it, with my PC collecting dust. But I recently tried out Bazzite on my desktop. It's actually incredible. I had tried using my PC with my TV but having to drag down a keyboard and mouse to log in and open steam was a pain. Bazite makes the entire OS controller friendly, essentially the same as SteamOS. Now I'm able to make use of the much improved compute with the same UX.
by k310 | 2025-09-25 01:56:12+00:00
Even if you are ardently against ad hominem or fundamental attribution error, nazi is as nazi does, and I can fully appreciate people as fellow humans while disapproving of their behavior. One is fundamental and the other is choice.

For what I don't like, see these articles.

10 Small Steps: Executing the Fascist Playbook[0]

The Fascists’ Playbook[1]

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-small-steps-executing-the-...

[1] https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/08/the-fascists-playboo...

I conflate nazi and fascist. IRL, the behavior is close enough.
by snowwrestler | 2025-09-25 01:56:33+00:00
I find this really irritating, it’s not just that sports gambling is legal, it’s also legal for sports gambling companies to limit their customer base to only the people who are bad at it.

It seems totally unbalanced, predatory, like an overt scam.

I would feel a lot better about the law permitting sports gambling if it also required companies to accept bets from all gamblers. It likely would reduce margins and feel a lot riskier to the companies. Like with poker… you can’t sit down at the table hoping to win big without also risking to lose big.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-25 01:57:02+00:00
> social agency

I never heard this term before. Google tells me:

> "Social agency" has two primary meanings: first, a governmental or private organization providing community-focused health, welfare, and rehabilitation services to improve quality of life. Second, it refers to the human capacity for individuals and groups to act independently, make choices, and effect change in their social environment.
by yojo | 2025-09-25 01:57:27+00:00
Even when they first turned on ads, it was arguably a net win. I worked AdWords tech-support 2005-2008, and sat in on the “Ads Quality” core team meeting.

They basically had this big money dial, and rather than crank it to 11, they were fiercely protective of the core user experience.

They kept ads mostly to the side (unobtrusive), only served them on queries where there was a high probability of commercial intent, and only promoted ads above organic results if the predicted CTR was extremely high.

I remember being delighted more than once when the ad system surfaced the product I wanted when organic results did not.

Now…? You get all spam above the fold.

The Ads Quality PM back then was Nick Fox, who I just learned became SVP for ads and search last year. Which means he is at least indirectly responsible for the OP. Not entirely sure what to make of that.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-25 01:57:33+00:00
If I may offer a devil's advocate perspective.

I just googled Toyota Highlander (my car) and the ad in the search results is "please consider the Honda Pilot."

Now it's unlikely that I am shopping for a midsized SUV and am not aware of the major competitors, but squinting that away for a second - if I am searching for a car I think I want and Google informs me of a perfectly viable alternative that might be cheaper or better in some other way that can have a huge positive impact on my life. So in this case I am obviously aware of Honda but an ad for one of the Korean or domestic makers I hadn't considered could be useful.

Similarly if I am Google midjourney as in the article because I heard that somewhere and Google positions for me potential cheaper/better alternatives as ads - that's not a terrible thing and you could say hits at the best usecase of an ad - making me aware of an alternative solution to a problem I have that's driving my search to begin with.

I obviously don't feel this way about the majority of ads I see but when it "hits right" it's really useful
by ibfreeekout | 2025-09-25 01:57:54+00:00
I recently signed up for an annual subscription to Kagi on their Starter plan and I couldn't agree more. Search quality with them has been great so far, and I realize their small web search and exploration features too.

I've been slowly working to find other paid services as alternatives to the free ones that I'm currently using (next big one was shifting away from Gmail and onto a personal domain for mail using Fastmail). Migrated away from Notion and using Obsidian with Syncthing running on my unRAID server at home. Generally just trying to find alternatives that aren't in the data mining and user lock in sphere and more about maintaining a positive user experience without taking advantage of their users and their data.
by fullofideas | 2025-09-25 02:01:33+00:00
This. There is a huge opportunity cost, even more so for the “best and brightest” (by whatever definition). The odds of striking it rich are really not in your favor. You may be better off working at big tech for a few years, save up, let the money work for you while you explore your entrepreneurial urge. You have a cushion and maybe that will let you take on bigger and bolder bets than what you could when you come out of college, and you maybe forced to take a “relatively safer” bet because you also have to make money soonish
by raspasov | 2025-09-25 02:01:55+00:00
It’s a garage where regular cars and self-driving cars “coexist”. The self-driving cars have human minions walking 24 hours in the garage, employed by Waymo/Google, to make sure the self-driving geniuses are able to successfully park without blocking other cars or the street permanently. If a self-driving car gets stuck, a human walks up to it, unlocks it via a phone and parks it like any other car.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-25 02:02:16+00:00
I buy a lottery ticket for $1, in a moment, with no further effort. A YC startup founder grinds for years, if not a decade, to reach IPO with unknown opportunity costs. They are not the same. How many lottery tickets over how many lottery draws to equalize the odds is a fun thought experiment to quantify a dollar value for the option premium.

17 YC IPOs over how many total YC founder years (Lifetime YC companies * # of founders * years YC company active, roughly)?

(I’ve put a lot of thought into being a founder, from an aggressively data driven perspective about how to spend time, which is non renewable)
by avmich | 2025-09-25 02:03:43+00:00
"Socialist planning system" can also be - approximately, of course - compared to modern, 2020-s Russia, and modern China (PRC, not Taiwan). The renaissance of economy by the end of 1990-s was significantly assisted by moving towards "free market economy".

I would argue that "socialist planning system" had its successes, but in the long run didn't survive the competition, at least in the case of the USSR.
by laurieg | 2025-09-25 02:03:57+00:00
Really nice! I currently use ActivityWatch for tracking tasks on PC.

Some things I would like to be able to do with software like this:

- Identify the 'spark' of a distraction. For example, opening my email inbox to read a specific email also shows me many unrelated emails. These can easily be the cause of a 5-15 minute distraction. This information is often actionable. I installed browser plugins to hide my youtube suggested videos and my distractions went down. I made sure to close all unused windows to avoid catching a glimpse of unrelated work.

- Identify repeated tasks, and the cadence of those tasks. Do I manually make an invoice once a week for a particular edge case? Is the process basically identical every time. Could this be automated?

- How was I feeling before, during and after a task. (This is a very broad and intentionally not well-defined question, but I think it has the most promise for improving procrastination and task initiation).
by decafninja | 2025-09-25 02:04:23+00:00
Before I married, I played a decent amount of games, but found that I was growing less and less interested. I’ve since stopped entirely.

Nowadays the closest thing to a traditional hobby I have is discovering and reading books off Amazon Kindle Unlimited.

With my wife, we love to travel and spend time looking for new destinations (or rediscovering old ones!) and planning trips. We usually take two international trips a year (Europe and/or Asia) and a few domestic trips (usually to the West coast) as well.
by Nick-Abbott | 2025-09-25 02:04:47+00:00
I think the disconnect we’re having here is what you’re looking for in a framework. Mosaic doesn’t help you accept incoming traffic or make your upstream requests, it just helps manage your business logic in between.

For an application with just one upstream data source, you’re right it probably doesn’t make sense to use this framework. My background is in fintech where we deal with dozens of data sources at the same time in large orchestration APIs and that’s where this system shines. It allows you to run all of these upstream requests in parallel without writing any coroutine boilerplate and access their results anywhere in your logic without needing to pass around the various responses.

As for how it works, it really isn’t doing anything too surprising. There is no actual graph being created, the behavior just acts like one exists. Mosaic inserts stubs into short-lived caches which causes tiles to wait on eachother at runtime. Once the tile is completed, the stub receives the result and all the waiting tiles get it too. It eagerly runs every piece of logic you give it while guaranteeing that it will never run twice for a request.
by ratmice | 2025-09-25 02:06:13+00:00
I doubt this hypothesis, because duckdb written in c++ should be able to tolerate memory failure, while this written in rust has to deal with rusts memory allocation failures are panic's behavior.

That is to say that if the issue is duckdb running out of memory, it is most likely because the rust implementation is using memory more efficiently for whatever query is crashing duckdb, rather than graceful handling of memory allocation failure.

Where it is possible in c++ to gracefully handle memory allocation failure, it is not really a thing in rust I'm not even sure whether it is possible to catch_unwind it. I say this as a rust person who doesn't fancy c++ in the slightest...
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-09-25 02:06:59+00:00
> If I may offer a devil's advocate perspective.

The devil doesn't need advocates. https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3145446/the-devil-doesnt-ne...

There are clear and obvious ways to show advertisements without making those advertisements look like top search results. You know this. Google knows this. There's no reason for anyone to pretend otherwise.
by jashmota | 2025-09-25 02:07:26+00:00
Mining has had autonomous haulage (and to some extent excavation) for some years. They have been very tightly coupled to the individual machines, models and the quarry site.

Construction excavation workflows tend to be different and more varied (hence you would see more variations in the machines/attachments available for this industry). And so far there's no solution which just works or is plug and play. This is an attempt to solve that.

And we believe this is great time to do so due to market demands too. No way Gen Z is going to do these jobs when you can make money being delivery partner/influencer, etc. The high-certified, high-skilled workforce is going to shockingly shrink in some years.
by estearum | 2025-09-25 02:07:34+00:00
None of it de facto prevents anything, but if a corporation feels they're being bullied in this way they can sue.

In the Biden admin, multiple lawsuits (interestingly none launched by the allegedly coerced parties) revealed no evidence of such mechanics at play.

In the Trump admin, the FCC Commissioner and POTUS have pretty much explicitly tied content moderation decisions to unrelated enforcement decisions.

Definitely there's possibility for an admin to land in the middle (actually coercive, but not stupid enough to do it on Truth Social), and in those scenarios we rely on the companies to defend themselves.

The idea that government should be categorically disallowed from communicating and expressing preferences is functionally absurd.
by nis0s | 2025-09-25 02:08:11+00:00
Here’s a comment I made in a different thread—

> It occurs to me that pain killers can cross the placenta and also affect gut microbes, and that since sometimes autism isn’t inherited, there’s a gut microbe imbalance component to autism that needs more attention, especially related to how gut microbes differ in those born with and without Caesarians [because being exposed to birth canal microbes contributes to newborn health]. Secondly, how are genes related to autism also linked to the gut-brain axis.

Regardless of any connections to acetaminophen, it would be interesting to take measurements of vaginal microbe titres and then compare the incidence of autism for growing babies.

> I believe acetaminophen is prescribed routinely during pregnancy because it’s considered safe to use, but it’s indicated that there may be a link between its use and outcomes, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9385573/

> Here’s some additional information from another paper

>> The gut microbiome has been implicated in the pathophysiological mechanisms of ADHD through the MGBA. Alterations in the MGBA contribute to neuroinflammation and oxidative stress, leading to ADHD core symptoms and associated comorbidities such as sleep disturbances. There is some evidence indicating maternal stress and the use of acetaminophen, which is a common pain reliever and fever reducer, may increase the risk of ADHD in offspring during pregnancy https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/10/1234

All that said, I’d just like to see some openminded science on this instead of social media blasts and Internet forum discussions.
by billforsternz | 2025-09-25 02:10:01+00:00
Thanks, so application comes down to plugging in values, I got as far as "plugging in values" in the subject document (except that I didn't realise that's what application meant).

Then I kind of recoiled from reforming, say f(x) = x^2 + 1 so f(1) = 1^2 + 1 = 2 into something seemingly more complicated for reasons that are difficult to discern for me as a reader and no doubt difficult to describe as an expert writer. I have the same difficulty with your last paragraph.
by dhosek | 2025-09-25 02:10:12+00:00
It’s based at least in part on delivery routes.

There’s a less-known 11-digit zip code which is unique for every delivery point (so down to the individual residence). I’m not sure if multiple apartments in the same building have distinct 11-digit zip codes, but this does imply that a zip+4 cannot have more than 100 delivery points within its bounds.
by Denzel | 2025-09-25 02:10:50+00:00
Google SERPs are personalized. Likely OP is a Midjourney user which is recorded in his targeting profile.

When OP searches for Midjourney as a Midjourney user, Google’s algorithm infers he might want to consider an alternative because why would an existing user search for the product they’re already using.

We see evidence supporting this given no Midjourney ad showed up for a direct keyword match query; and only alternatives triggered.

This is kinda like Amazon retargeting you with alternative toasters after you just bought a new toaster. Most people think this is stupid. Well, the most likely cohort to buy a new toaster is a person that just bought one because they’re not satisfied with their purchase.
by stickfigure | 2025-09-25 02:10:51+00:00
Something like 3-5% of the gambling population are "problem gamblers". This is a much lower percentage than problem drinkers or smoking addicts.

I'm really not comfortable with the idea that we should only permit activities that are purely harmless. 30-50 people die each year in skiing accidents in the US alone. Those people have families too. Where do you want to draw the line?
by cycomanic | 2025-09-25 02:11:39+00:00
> Most banks in Germany, Austria and Portugal default to Play Store or App Store apps with OS integrity checks. It seems like the Nordic countries have it a bit better with the ID reader apps. There are sometimes alternatives and some of them require paid subscription.

Most banks? Do you have evidence? AFAIK many (and certainly the most used) German banks (Sparkasse, Commerzbank, Hypovereinsbank) allow chiptan which does not require a smartphone.