MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by agambrahma | 2025-09-04 18:22:56+00:00
[I'm likely missing something, but]

"EVM-compatible, built on Reth" => they're essentially building a private Ethereum fork with a fancy validator selection process.

Couldn't they just get these benefits (predictable fees, fast settlement) by ... running a database between these financial institutions?

If Stripe controls the validator set (even indirectly), then ... just a distributed database with extra steps, no?
by Barrin92 | 2025-09-04 18:23:16+00:00
+1 for Nine Sols. Also the setting of the game which the studio dubbed "Taopunk" for its combination of Taoism and Cyberpunk is very unique artistically. Also it had a very endearing cast of characters. As good as Hollow Knight is, story and character-wise it was very hard to follow for me personally.
by Fluorescence | 2025-09-04 18:23:42+00:00
> they choose teaching professors because they would know how to explain subject clearly

Hmm! The majority of academics in the UK teach... most of them reluctantly and badly because it's mandatory for their research contract!

Those that revel in it are used to monologuing extemporanously for hours every day in the lecture hall and supervision without interuption. It's quite far from a snappy conversational media performer.
by jeremyjh | 2025-09-04 18:23:51+00:00
But you don't have a way to do that at scale, other than feed it to another LLM that is trained on that exact same limited corpus. There is no new information being added into the system in loops like that. New information means new measurements, new proofs, new signal or media streams from cameras, new curation/rating data, new books or papers etc.
by efreak | 2025-09-04 18:24:02+00:00
> I just process text information better. Videos are kind of overstimulating and often have unrelated content, and I hate having to rewind back to a part I need while I'm in the middle of something.

Rant:

I _hate_ video tutorials. With a passion. If you can't be bothered to show pictures of how to use your product with a labeled diagram/drawing/photo of the buttons or connections, then I either won't buy it or I'll return it. I hate video reviews. I hate video repair instructions. I hate spending 15 minutes jumping back and forth between two segments of a YouTube video, trying to find the exact correct frame each time so I can see what button the person is touching while listening to their blather so I don't miss the keyword I heard last time, just so I can see what two different sections when I could have had two pictures on screen at the same time (if I was on desktop, this would be a trivial fix, but not so much on mobile). I hate having VPNs and other products being advertised at me in ways that actively disrupt my chain of thought (vs static instead that I can ignore/scroll past). I hate not being able to just copy and paste a few simple instructions and an image for procedures that I'll have to repeat weekly. It would have taken you less effort to create, and I'd be more likely to pay you for your time.

YouTube videos are like flash-based banner ads, but worse. Avoid them like the plague.

End rant.
by cjenkins | 2025-09-04 18:24:34+00:00
I agree. Super excited to see what people are going to be able to make as the number of people/resources needed per piece of work keeps going down. Are we about to hit a printing press/word processor moment for TV/film? Going to be wild to see a feature level piece of media with one author/credit.

WAN 2.2 FFLF2V (first-frame last-frame to video) could get you close to the tweening between key-frames today.
by dolni | 2025-09-04 18:24:41+00:00
No, it wasn't always nebulous. Roguelike was a well-established genre for decades before it got hijacked and now means nothing.

Like all genres, games within the roguelike genre (or what some people call "traditional roguelikes") have some variance. But if you played two games in the "traditional roguelike" genre, you'd definitely feel the similarities.

These days if you pick two random games on Steam with the "roguelike" tag, you're going to get two experiences which are not even reminiscent of the other.
by lioeters | 2025-09-04 18:24:41+00:00
Or how do I blue thee, let me count the ways..

Periwinkle

Neon blue

Bluebonnet

Twin blue

Smalt

Savoy blue

Medium blue

Process blue

Liberty

Egyptian blue

International Klein Blue

Ultramarine

Dark blue

Picotee blue

Navy blue

Midnight blue

Independence

Cool black

Robin Egg Blue

Space cadet

Baby blue

Light blue

Powder blue

Uranian blue

Argentinian blue

Ruddy blue

Celtic blue

Spanish blue

Bleu de France

Delft blue

Duck blue

Resolution blue

Polynesian blue

Moroccan blue

Sapphire

Fluorescent blue

Teal blue
by er0k | 2025-09-04 18:24:51+00:00
This is nothing new. Wifi signals have been used to detect objects, people and animals, gait analysis[1], read keystrokes[2], monitor breathing and heart rates[3], "hear" conversations[4], etc for at least a decade now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12353605

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/wi-fi...

https://archive.is/XnHUV

1: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7457075

2: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2789168.2790109

3: https://archive.is/mFSDq

4: https://archive.is/sNVcM
by lenerdenator | 2025-09-04 18:25:39+00:00
This is because of the lack of a profit motive and sane expectations on salary from the people running the Wikimedia project.

I think that starting in the 1980s, people started to expect anything involving information technology created immediately-accountable monetary value on a massive scale after seeing the fortunes of people like Gates, Wozniak, Jobs, et al. This was further boosted by the Dotcom bubble.

The fact is, a significant fraction of IT is indeed profitable, but applying the model of perpetual growth is not appropriate for all of that significant fraction, and there's the other fraction of the IT world that isn't directly profitable. More people need to realize that their work falls in the latter two fractions instead of the first.
by popularonion | 2025-09-04 18:25:56+00:00
The participants in the train study were essentially given a "job" to talk to strangers, which completely changes the mental framing.

People generally try to follow through on a job they promised to do. They'll try to make the best of it so they feel like they made a good decision accepting the job.

If the conversations go badly, they can easily rationalize it away with "I didn't want to talk to them anyway, but I didn't have a choice".

Many shy and socially anxious people do basically fine in public-facing jobs because of this phenomenon.
by jfengel | 2025-09-04 18:26:01+00:00
Everybody I know who had LASIK is thrilled with the results. Even the ones with complaints consider them minor compared to being able to see from the moment they wake up in the morning.

I'm still not gonna let somebody shoot my eyes with lasers. I'm just terrified that something will go wrong, and it won't be fixable. But that terror isn't justified by either anecdotal experience or the overall statistics.
by visarga | 2025-09-04 18:26:50+00:00
> In fact it’s the same values that “science” stands on: do our best everyday and continue to try improving.

Scientists realized there is no "Truth", only a series of better and better models approximating it. But philosophers still talk about Truth, they didn't get the message. As long as we are using leaky abstractions - which means all the time - we can't capture Truth. There is no view from nowhere.
by mrkramer | 2025-09-04 18:26:52+00:00
>- no company generates revenue in its first second. Even if you start a lemonade stand tomorrow, you'll have to buy some lemons first. The time-to-revenue might be very short, but it's never zero. Therefore, making no revenue for 1 day or for 10 years is not a step change, but simply a point on a curve.

Yea, it's called investment. If you want to get rich overnight play lottery or start gambling.
by darth_avocado | 2025-09-04 18:27:06+00:00
It also always help to have generational wealth before ZIRP pumped up all asset prices to the moon. If I was an average Joe with $100k to invest in 2017, I’d be a multimillionaire right now. This is based purely on the public investments I made with the little money I had. If I had access to private markets like startups, it would be worth even more.
by jchw | 2025-09-04 18:27:10+00:00
A lot of us are not really deep into the finance space. Maybe there's a good reason it's left unsaid, but the question I came away with after reading that page and this comment is, why are businesses finding crypto easier/faster/better? To me, it's not 100% clear exactly who Tempo is for and not for, and why blockchain is more suitable than traditional centralized database technology here.

And it sounds like this system targets global payments. Does that imply that some day users would be able to pay using Tempo? Where would we see Tempo?

Very genuinely curious.
by greysphere | 2025-09-04 18:27:19+00:00
Seems like it'd be relatively easy to allow one to 'smooth' their income over multiple years. Imagine paying 100 income at 40% tax year 1 and 0 income year 2. A scheme where you could retcon things to be 50, 50, each at say 30% for a 10k refund (or at least credit) seems very doable.
by wrs | 2025-09-04 18:27:44+00:00
I’ve been producing music as a side interest for a long time, and I learned early on that to really hear what’s going on during a mix I have to close my eyes and wait about 30 seconds for my ears to “open up”. My visual sense overrides the soundstage — I can make some technical choices about frequency masking and so forth, but I can’t fully hear with eyes open.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-04 18:27:57+00:00
NFLPA has to fight tooth and nail to get 48% of the league revenue.

Owners don't have to give up anything. Thanks to media deals and taking advantage of city-owned stadiums (with ridiculous parking fees and nacho prices, etc.), the teams print money no matter how good or bad they are, even if they let a beloved player go.
by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe | 2025-09-04 18:28:05+00:00
BTW I made and used my own reformulator script for anki cards. Every night the script would just find the failed cards of the day and reformulate them.

It's part of my AnkiAiUtils: https://github.com/thiswillbeyourgithub/AnkiAIUtils
by aetherson | 2025-09-04 18:28:18+00:00
Those strike me as problematic. It strikes me as a big problem if I've got to navigate some fuzzy line about how much I am perceived to focus on someone every time I take a photo in public. Who decides too much focus is too much? How do they decide? How do I defend my artistic intent for every photo in public?

I understand how if you wave away all concepts of fallibility or enforceability, you can say to people, "It's cool that all this data exists, just don't be creepy," but you can't wave those concepts away.
by LeFantome | 2025-09-04 18:28:33+00:00
Very interesting. Thank you. I run Chimera Linux which is also MUSL based, so I have the same issue raised in this article.

I mostly consider it a non-issue because I use Distrobox. An Arch Distrobox gives me access to all the Arch software including the AUR. Graphical apps can even be exported to my desktop launcher. They are technically running on a container but I just click on them like anything else and they show up in their own Wayland window just like everything else. Or, I can run from the command line, including compiling on top of Glibc if I want/need to. And keeping everything up to day just means running yay or pacman.

I can see the advantage of Zapps in some cases though, especially for CLI stuff. Very cool.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-09-04 18:28:43+00:00
People who play professional sports basically sacrifice the first 20 years of their life for a lotto ticket to get, on average, 2-4 years of playing time. There's a high risk of debilitating injury even if they're successful. As other people have pointed out that salary is before you consider any professional fees for agents, etc.

I do also have to remark on the irony of someone on the "250k a year to type prompts into a AI to get the wrong answer" website complaining that athletes are overpaid and don't contribute anything to society
by apinstein | 2025-09-04 18:28:49+00:00
Here's the play. It's very simple, and it's quite good.

Stripe processes a LOT of money. The customers that get that money need to move it around. Often to banks. Stripe makes no money on that.

Over the last few years, stablecoins have become a preferred means to hold and move money (for convenience, etc).

Stablecoin providers make money on their float -- selling stablecoins means you get free deposits, and risk-free rates are presently around 4%. For every $1M in stablecoins your customers hold, you can make $40k/year. Stablecoin providers like Circle pay about half of that back out to partners that sell the tokens.

Stripe is huge, and well-trusted by customers for handling payments. By adoption stablecoin infrastructure to control financial flows into stablecoins, they can amass huge amounts of stablecoin sales.

If even ~3% of their transaction volume gets held in Stablecoins, and they make 1% a year on that, it's about $1B a year in bottom line.

~$10e9 (daily avg vol) * 365 * 3% (converted to stablecoins) * 1% (net income) = ~$1B
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-04 18:29:09+00:00
That's some of it, but certainly Wikipedia's editorial discussions differ from most forums in that its objective remains neutral, with worldwide access.

If the number of editors were limited, it could easily develop bias (see your own Facebook page for examples).

If the subject matters were limited, it could develop bias (WikiSolarEnergy wouldn't tend to attract anti-solar-energy types).
by munk-a | 2025-09-04 18:29:47+00:00
I more meant - you might need to help elderly relatively set it up. There are plenty of wifi routers you can order that basically just plug in out of the box - the bigger issue is educating people that they need the tech and then making sure they can handle the cable connections. I tend to work with some very non-technically minded people so my bar is so so low.
by tptacek | 2025-09-04 18:30:19+00:00
No, CSPRNG vs. RNG isn't a loaded question. Every RNG that says "this isn't an according-to-Hoyle cryptographically random number generator, but..." isn't one. Most modern CSPRNGs are designed with well-understood cryptographic primitives, so they draft off those security properties. Establishing those properties for a novel set of primitives is a major undertaking.

It's a little frustrating, because there are definitely fast RNGs that have tried to blur this line. A reasonable first approximation of the current situation is that a CSPRNG should have somewhere in its core a mixing function based on an actual cryptographic hash or permutation function; if the design has to explain what that function is and how it works (as opposed to just saying "this is ChaCha20"), it's not secure. These fast RNGs, like Xorshiro and PCG, all get there by not having cryptographically strong mixing functions at their core.

For what it's worth, I think the "GetBytes() means secure, IntN() means it's not secure" is a clever misfeature. Just make all the standard library random interfaces back onto a real CSPRNG, and let people pull in PCG or whatever if they have specialized needs for fast insecure RNGs.
by zhemao | 2025-09-04 18:30:27+00:00
I had a similar starting point to the author but ended up in totally the opposite direction, haha. Took computer engineering in undergrad and did well in both CS and EE courses. My first job was as an SDE at AWS but I hated it. Went back to school for EE, got a PhD, and started working as an ASIC designer, which I'm still doing today.

It's definitely the case that there's a bigger jump from school project to actually useful product for EE than for CS. But now that we have affordable but decently featured FPGA boards, the barrier is much lower than before, at least for digital design.
by jfengel | 2025-09-04 18:30:35+00:00
Hamas is carrying on the activities of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The PLO renounced those tactics and is now (more or less) successfully running the West Bank as the Palestinian Authority.

Which Israel is screwing up by building more and more settlements, making a two-state solution impossible. It isn't ethnic cleansing, but it is certainly a bad idea and probably a crime.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-04 18:30:58+00:00
At the very bottom yeah. There's some level of abuse of employment rules and such for low paid work, particularly at larger outfits. Sometimes it's outright criminal and these people are least able to advocate for their own rights.

Persuading the tax man that the cleaners who in effect are your direct employees are "freelance" somehow and so you shouldn't have to pay the tax. Or claiming that the labourers you hired don't get paid from 0830 because they aren't "really" working until 0900 even though they're in a company minibus being driven to the worksite and this is the only way they could get there.

Neither of those things is legal here but both of them might happen and will only sometimes get reported and those responsible will get at worst a fine. If you tried anything like this shit with Sam who has a penthouse office in the City he'll summon a swarm of employment lawyers and ruin your life, but because Mateusz who cleans the toilets has dubious immigration status and he's behind on his rent he's probably not going to make a fuss when you steal from him this way. This sucks.

The problems are always at the very bottom. People who are closest to the poverty line, most easily replaceable, least easily able to organize and demand better and also most separated from those who have more freedom to demand change. One important angle unions think about is schemes to separate these low wages workers from colleagues who would be able to advocate for improvements. If the guy cleaning the toilets doesn't legally work for the same company as the guy who uses them, suddenly the question of whether "cleaning toilets" pays a living wage isn't a matter of employee solidarity...

Edited: Swapped Manhattan for the City (of London) because the topic is specifically UK employment
by Rebelgecko | 2025-09-04 18:31:05+00:00
Seattle is fine on power, you can pave the parts of the Mojave in California to power California instead (although tbh I think what we need most in CA is storage for when the sun goes down).

I think you can also reduce heat loss by cranking the voltage up, right? I imagine that's how current interstate/cross-country power deals work
by gnyman | 2025-09-04 18:31:05+00:00
tld's mean nothing anymore, but they still signal something, and to me .xyz is not a trust-inspiring tld

According to this Krebs article https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/why-phishers-love-new-tl... 13% of the xyz domains was related to phishing, not as bad as .top which ahd 30% but still bad.
by jimmyshoes | 2025-09-04 18:31:09+00:00
Yeah, this is the unfortunate part about products kept alive in maintenance mode in a rapidly evolving space.

I guess you could argue (as TBC did) it’s actually not rapidly evolving, and that gives it staying power. But eventually someone will reach parity and eventually eclipse the original product.

Hopefully Zen does that. I’m just tired of moving the same data to the effectively the same product run by a different team for no good reason.
by Gormo | 2025-09-04 18:31:16+00:00
There's definitely a lot of muddled up terminology here. What they're calling "mesh networking" here is really just VPN in the conventional sense, and what they're calling "VPN" is only a single feature of VPN, namely securely forwarding traffic through an intermediary server. Mesh networking is something else entirely; the "mesh networking" provider they link to as an alternative option doesn't even have the word "mesh" on their site.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-09-04 18:31:25+00:00
It's funny - I watched the Shawshank Redemption for the first time a couple years ago, after hearing forever about what a great film it is, and thought it was so lackluster I wasn't sure if I was missing something.

"Did he die in the end? Was it a dream sequence?" But no, both the intention of the creators, and by far the most common interpretation from viewers, is that it's all literal.

I tried watching Groundhog Day just once, and couldn't make it though it because (I assumed) it had aged so terribly.

Your comment made me reevaluate this though. I assumed the main appeal of these gonna was just nostalgia, and I've missed a key window, but perhaps it's the repeat viewings and predictability that make these films comfort food.
by jjcm | 2025-09-04 18:31:27+00:00
A fun game we used to play as kids was a similar variety, but with a home made "ball". The ball would be a balloon that was tension wrapped in duct tape. They'd last about a single game, but were incredibly light.

It still had enough mass to be thrown, but it also had so little mass that spin would drastically change the trajectory. It made for more interesting pitching and strategy.
by kfreds | 2025-09-04 18:31:38+00:00
> it would be nice if you addressed the specific objection

I'm pretty sure I did. I'll happily answer yours as well.

> Do you think they appeal more to consumers who are seeking "it keeps me vaguely secure", or it helps me watch Venezuelan Netflix and avoid some kinds of targeted advertising personalisation?

Between those two options, definitely "it keeps me vaguely secure". None of the ads you link to are intended for customers that want to circumvent geographical restrictions. We don't market to that customer segment.
by stale2002 | 2025-09-04 18:32:00+00:00
> signing every block, to create a collaborative system that is perfectly suited for the same task.

Indeed you can! We even have a name for that! Its called a blockchain.

> This maintains many benefits of the blockchain and lacks many issues (fast, simple, near zero cost, controllable to a given extent -- no takeover possible, ...).

Blockchains can do all of these things.

Perhaps you are thinking of "bitcoin", instead of "blockchains"? Bitcoin, something that was created a whole 17 years ago, indeed has many drawbacks compared to modern blockchains.
by LeFantome | 2025-09-04 18:32:32+00:00
Agreed. I find it quite rare to find something that does not build on MUSL. When I do, it is software that goes out of its way to abuse GNU specific stuff.

The most common problem for me is software distributed as binary that links to Glibc. That shows up on surprise places. For example, building the Ladybird browser uses vcpkg which needs Glibc. In these cases, I reach for Distrobox.

Pretty sure the DNs behaviour in MUSL was changed and is no longer an issue.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-09-04 18:32:37+00:00
I have a Frame and it’s not so great, the prism interferes too much with your vision. You can do images on the Frame. I’m optimistic that Brilliant Labs latest iteration might be better - Halo. They are great at being open source and open design.

Probably the leading current product if you want HUD Bluetooth glasses are Even Realities G1s but those aren’t going to do images however they have very crisp and useable monochrome displays for text.
by itqwertz | 2025-09-04 18:32:54+00:00
The AI hype seems to be a smokescreen for mass layoffs from the CoVid era. The increased attention on the H-1B visa’s hiring process and labor market impact reveals a far more underreported and significant contributor to job shortages. Also, a lot of these companies have existed way longer than they should have.

Be happy you’re not employed in tech course content creation or something that is directly replaceable TODAY, like language translation or low-level graphic design.