MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abustamam | 2025-09-18 23:06:14+00:00
Maybe I'm a dinosaur but I like late night TV. I don't have cable so I just caught Colbert and The Daily Show on YouTube the next day but for some reason podcasts just don't jive with me. I can't exactly say why. There are some podcasts I'll tune into sometimes (like Ramit Seth's money for couples, or Strike Force Five which had the Jimmy's and Colbert) but other than that, nada. Rather listen to an audio book.
by abxyz | 2025-09-18 23:06:20+00:00
isn’t this self-inflicted in that you’re making the purchase process a sales process for everyone, instead of being self-serve for the little guys? e.g: for teams under 10 people, let them sign up monthly with a per-team member fee. $50/month per team member feels like nothing compared to $6,000/year. I read $6,000/year as “we don’t want your business” because what startup is paying 1 year upfront for anything? They’ll probably be dead in 6 months.

There is a big difference between how startups buy and how enterprises buy, but it seems you’re treating them as equal in everything except budget.

Anyway, easy for me to say that, I have no stake. You know your customers… but as sales-aware observer, it seems very counterintuitive to make low budget people go through a sales process.
by stopachka | 2025-09-18 23:07:11+00:00
It does seem to be having trouble. I tried asking Codex with more context to identify the problem, and help update the initial message to guide the model more. But alas it still borks a bit.

https://www.manyminiapps.com/?c=0a043d67-9737-4295-98d5-07d6...
by gnabgib | 2025-09-18 23:07:14+00:00
Discussion (91 points, 3 hours ago, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294199

Related Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses–the 1A might stop him (9 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451557

Few heeded Trump's call to challenge TV licenses (2017) https://web.archive.org/web/20171019082700/http://www.washin... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507866)
by gnabgib | 2025-09-18 23:07:21+00:00
Discussion (91 points, 3 hours ago, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294199

Related Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses–the 1A might stop him (9 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451557

Few heeded Trump's call to challenge TV licenses (2017) https://web.archive.org/web/20171019082700/http://www.washin... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507866)
by gnabgib | 2025-09-18 23:07:33+00:00
Discussion (91 points, 3 hours ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294199

Related Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses–the 1A might stop him (9 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451557

Few heeded Trump's call to challenge TV licenses (2017) https://web.archive.org/web/20171019082700/http://www.washin... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507866)
by mnky9800n | 2025-09-18 23:07:40+00:00
Americans, and I am speaking in stereotypes and not about a particular person, don't respect personal boundaries on topics that other cultures would not discuss openly with someone they don't know well. Like for example, you tell me, a stranger on the internet, that your wife has borderline personality disorder. That would be oversharing if we had just met in a social setting and were discussing this topic together.
by godelski | 2025-09-18 23:08:48+00:00
You're correct, I also added some info in a sibling comment that might interest you. But you might also be interested in reading the DenseNet paper[0]. While it's convs, the ideas still apply. There's actually a lot of research in this topic though they'll be in more "theory" papers and the ideas are slow to propagate into the mainstream works.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06993
by reenorap | 2025-09-18 23:11:11+00:00
It wasn't that they were fighting each other, they were working in concert with each other, like a dance. If the Dems say one thing, the Republicans say the opposite and vice versa, because they knew it would keep both of them in power. Now we have a true Agent of Chaos in charge that doesn't heed any of the previous rules and us peons will have to deal with the fallout from that. The biggest negative repercussions is that both the Republicans and the Democrats will be completely emboldened to do whatever they want now and we are going to suffer because neither party gives a fuck about us, they only care about maintaining their own power.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-18 23:11:30+00:00
As for the shell casing I think the best commentary so far has been

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/notes-on-the-heavenly-a...

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/constituent-parts-of-a-...

I can't approve completely of his appropriate of dynamical systems theory but the idea that Kirk was "killed by memes" appeals to me as does Fred's description of these as "brainrot". People on the right are likely to see some transfurry in there [1] whereas left-leaning women are going to see anything coded young male as right wing. The FBI profile of the postmodern shooter is that he had a copy of The Communist Manifesto but he kept up his neighbors listening to Rush (the Canadian band) and people will make what they want of it.

As for Klein and due process I can say I am very frustrated not least because due process is frustrating but because we're in a dilemma because the alternatives are worse. (I can see how Curtis Yarvin's crypto-degrowth philosophy of "just wait until the dieoff and we can go back to solar-economy feudalism" could appeal to some) Of course that frustration with due process is the subject of his recent book Abundance which I have ambiguous feelings about: part of me wants to believe it, but I think it is a tough sell to many people who see it as warmed over neoliberalism [3] who think rent control is a good idea, like the populism of Matt Stoller, never mind this sort of usually unstated issue

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/good-cities-cant-exist-without...

as it is people will complain that somebody else complains about not being safe downtown while they (1) live a hikkiomori lifestyle or (2) live in the suburbs and/or order a private taxi for their burrito instead of going to a restaurant.

[1] my take though is furries are even-headed, as a committed kemonomimi [2] I always trying to bait them based on their bad taste in art

[2] https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/3773068

[3] "but wait... we're not talking liberating the private sector from the government, we're talking about liberating the government from the government!"
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-18 23:11:53+00:00
>"The American Dream" was made possible by government spending to subsidize home purchases. The 1950s housing act.

No, it wasn't. The american dream was the reality of huge swaths of the middle class. Who do you think all those pre-1950 single family homes were built for? And of those that didn't live in a single family dwelling, the other inhabitants of a multi-family was often related to them.

The subsidy just made it a little more accessible down-market.

>What made america great was taxing the hell out of the rich

Um, what? Look at tax receipts relative to GDP. We've never taxed harder than we do now. Even if you assume we took it all from the rich back then it was still less.

The only way this comment only holds if you look at fed income tax only and you look at the nominal rate, which is farcical.
by eichin | 2025-09-18 23:13:46+00:00
A south-up map article that doesn't mention the classic (pre-internet even) Theory of Continental Drip? (basically that you can overlay "teardrop" shapes on south america, africa, mexico, and a bunch of other places depending on how artistic you get about it; though there were apparently later attempts to tie it to actual plate tectonics, it was originally a simple visual pun...)
by soraminazuki | 2025-09-18 23:14:00+00:00
It's poor security practice that shouldn't be overlooked. Mounting the Docker socket effectively allows the entire application to run with root privileges on the host. Given that this seems to be a multi-tenant application, the implications are even more concerning. The component responsible for spinning up CI/CD containers shouldn't operate within the security boundary of the rest of the application.

On a related note, I believe Docker's design contributes to this issue. Its inflexible sandboxing model encourages such risky practices.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-18 23:14:46+00:00
The 90s were easy mode for semiconductor manufacturers because of Moore's law, and because cranking the clocks was relatively easy. After 2000 was when the really advanced microarchitectures started coming out.

>a company that's struggling, but to a healthy market where the consumer benefits

I would argue that the market is only marginally healthier than, say, 2018. Intel is absolutely struggling. The 13th and 14th generation were marred by degradation issues and the 15th generation is just "eh", with no real reason to pick it over Zen. The tables have simply flipped compared to seven years ago; AMD at least is not forcing consumers to change motherboards every two years.

And Intel doesn't even seem to care too much that they're losing relevance. One thing they could do is enable ECC on consumer chips like AMD did for the entire Ryzen lineup, but instead they prefer to keep their shitty market segmentation. Granted, I don't think it would move too many units, but it would at least be a sign of good will to enthusiasts.
by autoexec | 2025-09-18 23:14:53+00:00
That's even worse because it would mean that it wasn't the scripted recording that failed, it means the AI itself sucks and can't tell that the bowl is empty and nothing was combined. Either this was the failure of a recorded demo that was faked to hide how bad the AI is, or it accurately demonstrated that the AI itself is a failure. Either way it's not a good look.
by chrisweekly | 2025-09-18 23:15:53+00:00
Tangent: if you like cringey social awkwardness comedy (not my usual cup of tea, but in this case it's extraordinary, and hilarious), try "I Think You Should Leave".

"Brian's Hat" is the 1st one I saw and maybe the best: https://youtu.be/LO2k-BNySLI?si=qEX7STkSOeCVZtK-

Also "Hot Dog Car" https://youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo?si=jz5EKwjJZm1UMZau
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-18 23:16:11+00:00
The article isn't "facing off against scientific fact": my main objection to the article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294489) is that it's mostly explaining long-established, uncontroversial academic consensus (which forms the background of this paper), rather than the paper's contributions. That's like attributing "the inverse square law is a low-order approximation to the behaviour of gravity, rather accurate for relatively slow and light" to Albert Einstein's hit new paper "Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation" (which in fact barely mentions that fact, because all readers are expected to already know it).

> The culture war topic of gay and trans rights is saturated with articles on topics just like this one.

That would be because "biological reality" is among the most popular talking points of anti-gay and anti-trans folk, but a fairly-obscure feature of reality aligns well with the main gay / trans rights ideological narratives, and people who discover this for the first time get all excited and decide to write a blog post about it.

If reality were a different way – if mammalian sexual dimorphism were as rigid and neat as is popularly asserted –, then I'm sure there'd be academics talking about how "ascribing magical significance to biological trivia, demanding that people constrain their behaviour based on something you need a microscope to identify, is fundamentally at odds with the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity" (or some such), and populists yelling about how science "proves" that clothing choices are constrained by "biological reality" (though we have that anyway), and the LGBT bloggers would blog about something else. In other words, appeals to biological reality are not why supporters of gay and trans rights believe in their causes: pointing out "hey, biological sex doesn't work like human genders anyway" is to them just a tool for telling narratives, which is why (even though I get why they're written) I get vaguely annoyed by those articles you complained about.

Given this, your assertions in this comment thread significantly annoy me. The only reason this kind of research has to do with "the culture wars" is because the culture wars have attempted to appropriate the topic, and have successfully constructed an association between the things in your mind. That association doesn't exist in the article, it doesn't exist in the paper, and perhaps it doesn't even exist in reality (the science is currently inconclusive). You're the one making this about "the culture wars". I would rather discuss the far more interesting science.
by hirvi74 | 2025-09-18 23:16:15+00:00
I enjoy language features like this too. In fact, I love how languages like C# have handled nullability over the more recent years. No telling how many bugs I have prevented.

The only gripe I have though, is that I have to be remember which version does and does not support such syntax changes. It's not a major issue by any means, but when dealing with legacy applications, I tend to often forget what is and is not syntactically allowed.
by g-mork | 2025-09-18 23:16:33+00:00
1) steal computer,

2) copy unencrypted SSH host key from it to a new computer (which necessarily must not be stored in the data volume), configured with the network identity of original computer

3) leave new computer in place of original to capture remote SSH-to-unlock attempt

4) use knowledge of password to unlock original's filevault at your leisure somewhere offsite
by groby_b | 2025-09-18 23:16:41+00:00
> i.e. we've been educating people for 1,000s of years even without textbooks.

And we've been doing a pretty crappy job educating people without written texts. The written word led to a tremendous acceleration of knowledge transmission. The printing press enabled that transmission at a larger, but unified, scale.

Anything we even remotely recognize as science has only ever been practiced by literate cultures.

Discarding technology for education because it's not a panacea is an absolute failure as educator.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-18 23:16:57+00:00
>DOGE never seriously tried, or even discussed, tackling that problem.

They got shut down and the Trump-Musk thing flared up more or less the nanosecond they looked at the DOD. Sad, but they never had the political capital to win that fight. They probably could've done some good slashing around in there.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-18 23:17:13+00:00
Personally I liked 8.

I thought a tablet + bluetooth mouse + bluetooth keyboard + cheap plastic clip - trackpad made a great laptop but I think I was the only one if you don't count Balmer and Sinofsky.

I don't know if synaptics had some patent they used to force everybody in the industry to make laptops with trackpads [1] or if the flight attendant's union got too confused about whether you can stow a 2-in-1 in the pocket in front of your seat, but it just didn't fly with most people.

[1] in cases where you couldn't use the mouse fall back to tablet mode
by bigyabai | 2025-09-18 23:18:29+00:00
I already have an Android phone. What does the iPad do that my Android phone can't? Seriously, I have $300, I'll go buy one right now if you make a solid argument.

There are plenty of things my Quest does that an iPad and phone both can't do. Yes it's a toy, but it's a toy I get great mileage out of flying the F/A-18 in Microsoft Flight Simulator on a world tour. For $400, that's a steal. I've got telemetry disabled and it all runs great on my Linux box.

I'm not going to go buy a tablet to play HD Plants Versus Zombies for the 400th time. Sorry.
by shirro | 2025-09-18 23:18:39+00:00
The thing I resent most is the terms Global North and Global South. It seems like an offensive classification no matter which side you are placed.

China is an incredibly rich, highly developed industrial economy with a history that goes back thousands of years with massive cultural influence. They are firmly in the northern hemisphere. They have high speed electric trains and their cities look like something out of Blade Runner. I live in a comparatively underdeveloped, de-industrialised Australia, way to the South where we get classified as part of the North because white people invaded 200 years ago? If we are ex-colonial doesn't that put us in the South?

As much as I love New Zealand its very clear visiting that they suffer massive under investment compared even to Australia though at least they have an orbital launch capacity but then so does India which is in the South. Is it because we speak a European language. Why is Argentina, the country with nuclear technology that build our research/medical reactor in the South when we don't have that technology?

It is completely arbitrary, political and divisive. It portrays countries like Australia and NZ as being in conflict with our neighbor when we have had really good relations with our neighbors. It puts China in with countries they have territorial disputes with. It puts Russia in with Ukraine. I don't get it.
by JuettnerDistrib | 2025-09-18 23:19:02+00:00
I kinda feel this way about variable names in physics. You could call the (x,y,z) components of the magnetic field (L,M,N), see [0]. There are so many people who call that utterly wrong, but really it's totally fine and merely a source of confusion.

[0] page 907: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/andp.190532...
by nitwit005 | 2025-09-18 23:21:15+00:00
The claim that companies won't just build everything in-house because of wanting to be able to sue over damages seems extremely weak. If AI tools could genuinely build a replacement for Box with trivial effort, everyone would drop them immediately.

There's some strangeness around AI where people will claim it will do amazing things, but somehow not so amazing that no one will need them.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-09-18 23:21:36+00:00
Don’t give up on TDD.

I’ve invested hundreds of hours in process and tooling, and can now ship major features with tests in record time with Claude Code.

You have to coach it in TDD - no matter how much you explain in CLAUDE.md. That’s part because “a test that fails because the code isn’t written yet” is conceptually very similar to “a test that passes without the code we’re about to write” and is also similar to “a test that asserts the code we’re about to write is not there”. You have to watch closely to make sure it produces the first thing.

Why does it keep getting confused? You can’t blame it really. When two things are conceptually similar, models need lots of examples to distinguish between them. If the set of samples is sparse the model is likely to jump the small distance from a concept to similar ones.

So, you have to accept this as how Claude 4 works, keep it on a short leash, keep reminding it that it must watch the test fail, ask it if the test failed for the right reason (not some setup issue), and THEN give it permission to write the code.

The result is two mirror copies of your feature or fix: code and tests.

Reviewing code and tests together is pleasant because they mirror one another. The tests forever ensure your feature works as described, no manual testing needed, no regressions. And the model knows all the tricks to make your tests really beautiful.

TDD is the check and balance missing from most people’s agentic software dev process.
by schmichael | 2025-09-18 23:21:52+00:00
People with motor disabilities seems like a great use case! Cooking and watching TV are two activities that benefit from voice control (due to dirty hands and remotes going missing). Nursing mothers often literally have their hands full.

Lots of folks in safety critical situations rely on multitasking and voice commands: law enforcement, firefighters, pilots, heavy equipment operators, armed forces, etc. Many of them are in situations in which not multitasking isn't an option and receive special training to minimize risks. That being said now you're entering heavily regulated industries where the stakes couldn't be higher... not exactly an easy place for LLMs and startups to play.

On the other end of the spectrum there is a tried and true industry for tech innovations where the stakes couldn't be lower: adult entertainment. There's millions of adults wishing they could operate screens without needing a hand free. Might not be as glamorous as helping firefighters and people with motor disabilities, but we all need to make a living.

Best wishes!
by maxglute | 2025-09-18 23:21:56+00:00
>There is nothing rare about rare earth minerals

Many heavy rare earth, i.e. the strategic stuff, is actually rare in terms of economic extractable sources we know of, mostly ionic clays found in China and parts of south east Asia I think also Brazil. It's the same reason PRC is the largest oil importer even though on paper PRC has the largest shale reserve in the world (more than the US), their deposits are just very deep in the desert, technically extractable but not remotely economically to the point where it doesn't even make strategically (not for lack of trying). This without even mentioning behind behind in extraction tech.
by apsurd | 2025-09-18 23:22:02+00:00
Agree, it's unnecessarily limiting to say the well is entirely dried up re: improving status quo tools.

Charitable pov though, i'd say it's about leverage. Learning outcomes globally suffer steep steep cliffs and it's inevitably due to socioeconomic factors.

It's hard to argue that more chromebooks, spaced repetition, and catering to learning styles are the missing pieces johnny needs to get out of the hood.

as a person in tech i believed for a long time that if only we had better learning materials, people could orient and better self motivate around subjects. (learning needs to be hard. it's biology. brain takes notice and retains new and challenging stimuli. so "making learning easier" is a misnomer. the insight becomes how do we get people to self-motivate into hard things?)

I still think that's true, to your point, but all these takes are one of many many problems, and they aren't equal in leverage and i think that's where OP is coming from. there's outsized leverage in domain specific pedagogy.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-09-18 23:22:13+00:00
Let's be fair, adafruit is expensive.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004551394154.html this is 32eur

+ ~5eur for an esp32 board and some wires

+ http://docs.espgeiger.com/output/webportal

This gives you a measurement node, with mqtt support, online data export and a web interface.

For ~40eur all together, it's still very cheap.
by squigz | 2025-09-18 23:22:15+00:00
I don't disagree with anything you're saying, really; education has been broken by things like too strong an emphasis on test scores, credentials, etc. This not only produces students who don't know how to learn properly, but those students then go on to become teachers who can't learn how to teach properly.

That said, teaching is hard. I don't fully blame teachers who cannot effectively convey subjects to 30 kids, especially these days. Even in an ideal situation, there's so much variance in how people learn best, that it would be hard to blame it on incompetence if a teacher cannot reach every one of their students.

Considering how hard it's going to be to fix the bigger problems with society* - obsession with credentials, lack of funding, better paying, less stressful jobs means less teachers, etc, etc - shouldn't we embrace tools that help kids learn things in a more accessible way to them? As I said, I don't think TFA is it, and we should obviously be aware of the issues, but surely people on HN of all places can see the value in tailoring subjects and lessons to a student's preferred method of learning?

* This is not to say we shouldn't also try to solve those problems