MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maerF0x0 | 2025-09-19 16:58:59+00:00
This feels like a careful what you wish for scenario.

The industry has flooded with money motivated people, rising the income of the curious (but not exactly marketable) engineer. Yes those people who flooded in might be uninspired, loathsome, buffoons (in the eyes of elite nerds). But also it's the opportunity for your hobby to be mainstream, encountered by those who likely never would have, to not be denigrated for your skill with technology etc.

I'm grateful for how software has progressed from IQ 160, to 140, to 100, to 95 segments of the populace. It means we're winning culture over. It means we're solving problems (including how difficult it used to be to engage with). We've made previously wildly difficult things be table stakes for todays app. (one trite example: long polling became websocket pushes)

We should be celebrating how mainstream we've become.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-09-19 16:59:10+00:00
>My primary fustration today is how many of my software peers are satisfied with updating a Jira status and not seeking to build excellent software. Truth be told, the phenomenon of appearing productive without being productive is an epidemic across multiple industries.

This is hardly a new phenomenon. Dilbert and its ilk have been lampooning this since the 80s.
by ttruett | 2025-09-19 17:00:16+00:00
I co-founded Ambition (YC W14) and have spent the last 10 years serving as CEO before stepping down in December.

Upon hitting ~50 employees, started to think more about the push/pull between alignment and velocity. How can we maintain effective "founder mode" as we scale?

One of the first things to slow down was decision-making. Who should be involved? In what capacity? Is this worth a meeting? Turns out it's a painful process getting a start-up to even consider, let alone adopt, something like RASCI... even with growing frustration that things are taking too long.

So I decided to try and build decision-making software that might have helped, something that would have introduced incremental process in a more palatable way.

While there's certainly overlap with Slack, Notion, etc... in my head there's still a real need for something like this but I'm curious what you (and the market) think.

Thank you in advance for any thoughts, feedback, tough love.

Travis
by gkoberger | 2025-09-19 17:00:24+00:00
Sure, things existed. mySQL is a great database, but so is Mongo and so is Clickhouse and so is Firebase, etc. Those alternatives all filled a gap MySQL couldn't, and now the bar for creating a new type of database is significantly higher because there's fewer gaps (schema-less, good for logs, good for fulltext search, realtime, etc).

JavaScript has been around for decades. But jQuery made it so much easier, and then React built on top of that even more. And jQuery wasn't the first DOM library, nor was React the first framework – but both were where it seemingly clicked between ideas, usability and whatever else made them successful.

(I will agree that Microsoft had a run of things where anyone who bought in to their ecosystem had a lot of things that worked well together.)
by radicalbyte | 2025-09-19 17:00:37+00:00
We are (I mean I'm CTO & know C# better than most) but the only real downside is that there are a lot of people around Microsoft tech who are antithetical to startups.

You have to be absolutely insane and/or highly inexperienced to even consider Javascript/Typescript on the back-end. Not only is the language a terrible match but the deep architectural failings of NPM have been clear for at least a decade.
by godelski | 2025-09-19 17:00:38+00:00
> Practically, this might not matter much: If the model can predict the evolution of the system to a certain accuracyI'm

It sounds like you didn't actually read what I wrote then

> the user won't care about the underlying knowledge.

I hear this argument a lot and it's tiresome. No one here is not concerned with results. Why imply that's not my main concern?

Read my example. People will care if you have a more complicated geocentric model. Geocentric was quite useful, but also quite wrong, distracting, and made many bad predictions as well as good ones.

The point is that it is wrong and this always bounds your model to being wrong. The big difference is if you don't extract the rules your model derived then you won't know when or how your model is wrong.

So yes, the user cares. Because the user cares about the results. This is all about the results...

> we cannot prove that LLMs actually know language

We or you? Those are very different things. Is it a black box because you can't look inside out because you didn't look inside? Because I think you'll find some works that do exactly what we're talking about here. And if you're going to make big talk about PINNs then you need to know their actual purpose. Like come on man, you're claiming a physics model. How can you claim a physics model without the physics?
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-19 17:00:55+00:00
>Given the kinds of things that could make an airbag go off, I wouldn't bet on that feature working when needed.

As 3D30497420 said, this is part of Euro NCAP. They test for exactly this [1]. Why would you assume a safety system wouldn’t work?

[1] “If ADL is fitted as standard and by default always on then the doors will be locked by the lab personnel prior to ALL full-scale tests… Post-test the lab personnel will immediately check if any of the side doors inthe front crash tests and any of the non-struck side doors in the side crash tests has remained locked/has not automatically unlocked.” https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/43396/euro-ncap-rescue-extric...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-19 17:00:58+00:00
Evolution in general works at the level of sub-populations rather than individuals. Genetic variation builds up over time in entire intra-breeding sub-populations of a species (mostly isolated for whatever reason - e.g. forest elephants vs plains elephants), then once in a while there will be a big environmental change (famine, disease, new competition, etc) that may suddenly make these accumulated changes in one sub-population (different from the accumulated changes in the other sub-population) critical to survival rather than benign.

The high-school version of evolution, playing out on an individual level, generation by generation (one baby giraffe, with a longer neck than another, reaches higher leaves and does better) gets the idea across, but evolution is about entire species not individuals, and for the most part any single genetic variation isn't going to have much impact, unless it's fatal.
by munificent | 2025-09-19 17:01:24+00:00
I know with trademarks, the law puts a perverse incentive on businesses to ruthlessly attack uses of their trademark. If they allow even innocuous uses of it, then they risk the trademark becoming generic and losing all rights over it [1].

I wonder if a similar perverse incentive and emergent behavior is in play here where record labels worry that any encroachment on fair use could set a precedent that will come back to bite them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
by mullingitover | 2025-09-19 17:01:28+00:00
That might be the case, but as far as the political party with a complete, iron-clad grip on the neck of the government is concerned, every other industry is an afterthought. For example, solar and wind are essential parts of an energy portfolio for domestic industry. These are being taken out back and kneecapped with billy clubs to prop up oil/gas/coal.

If the country isn't a petrostate it's certainly cosplaying one to a psychotic degree.
by lucyjojo | 2025-09-19 17:01:39+00:00
1. generally family first

2. how long since i interacted with my friends? priority rise with time

3. if i'm really tired, prioritize sleep high (garmin smartwatch helps for that)

4. for work related thing, how robust/long-lasting the knowledge is? honestly it's a bet, that's while it's only #4, #1-3 is what you need to run that marathon

5. if i'm doom scrolling, try to read a book, or sleep, or watch a show, or play some instrument instead. whichever i have the mental strenght to do. still, i doom scroll some time, but way less than i used to, i consider it to be in acceptable range.

+ habits i try to keep (walking and cycling), pretty high priority since my health is important for my family

relatively simple things...

globally i'm really happy, it's mostly due to luck but i think my little rules play a significant part. i probably won't ever get rich, but i'll probably never be destitute either. because of a mix of skills, and friends/family support. + i should be able to work til ~70 because of relative good health. and my kids should be able to handle themselves when they grow up. that's what i am optimizing for.
by JadeNB | 2025-09-19 17:03:16+00:00
> > Assuming they own the house outright, that absolutely does qualify as wealthy.

> I didn't say it wouldn't. I said it didn't qualify as ready cash.

I think you did say it didn't qualify as wealthy (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301176):

> What people normally mean by wealth is easy access to cash. Someone that owns a $15M house and has very little other liquid assets is not poor, but they definitely don't qualify as wealthy.

Anyway, whatever it is, I think litigating Lynch's level of wealth on HN is probably not the most useful direction for this comment thread.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-19 17:04:12+00:00
> goes round-robin style asking each node to perform its prompt processing, then token generation.

Yeah, this is a now-long-wide-known issue with LLM processing. This can be remediated so that all nodes split computation, but then you'll come back to classical supercomputing problem of node interconnect latency/bandwidth bottlenecks.

It looks to me that many such interconnect simulate Ethernet cards. I wonder if it can be recreated using the M.2 slot rather than using that slot for node-local data, and cost effectively so(like cheaper than bunch of 10GE cards and short DACs).
by TZubiri | 2025-09-19 17:04:51+00:00
What do you mean by Cooler? Raspberry pi doesn't need a fan.

Also the other peripherals you consider are irrelevant, since you would need them (or not), in other setups. You can use a pi without a PSU for example. And if you use an SSD, you have to consider that cost in whatever you compare it to.

>I went this route myself and have figuratively and literally shelved a bunch of Pis

>and I have dozens of them,

Reread my post? I meant specifically that Pis are great for the 1 to 2 range. with 3 pis you should change to something else. So I'm saying they are good at the 100$-200$ budget, but bad anywhere above that.
by schoen | 2025-09-19 17:04:54+00:00
I don't remember the context in the book very well, but I remember thinking that the premise was that the speaker here (Lia) was somehow well-grounded in concrete reality, by contrast to the other super-mystical characters in the book -- that she could relate ideas to concrete human experience, while other characters were off in the proverbial cloud-cuckoo land.

Your point about Aristotle is well-taken.
by davorak | 2025-09-19 17:05:03+00:00
If they are not using the trademark for anything, at least by US law, I think they do not get to keep it. The point of trademarks is to promote the production of public good, and if they are not in use they are not producing public good, but will consume public resources, like people dealing with C&D letter or the current time and effort from the government on deno's filings.
by supportengineer | 2025-09-19 17:05:23+00:00
I've been in that situation where I was coding by day and didn't have a computer at home. Or at least, I didn't have one that was the same platform as the one I was using at work. Growing up there was at one point a Commodore 64, some kind of Tandy, and a UNIX workstation, but at work I was developing on Windows NT, Solarix, and HP/UX.

In another case, I had recently moved to a new city and we were targeting an internal proprietary platform (again with Windows NT) and also targeting Solaris.

There was a time when you would go to work and you would be working with header files and libraries that were proprietary and for which your company was paying an exorbitant per-head license fee.
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by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-19 17:05:58+00:00
Not to call you out for your post but I think this is a result of the 'just asking questions' culture we live in where asking questions online has been weaponized/agenda driven. Even the person asking the question admits their question could be interpreted this way first thing: "and I don't mean this combatively)" and even their caveat these days is sadly easily interpreted as 'I'm just asking questions'. Just look at how the start of my first sentence changes the tone.

The question asker doesn't know the work, doesn't respond to what OP said, but instead challenges OP about methodology, and leads with 'I know this question can seem combative'. Then falls to 'do you think, in your heart of hearts'... how does that question and asking for assessment align with the 'I'm all about methodology' stance of the question asker? It sounds a like a 'core values' assessment/assignment not a 'the room for error in this study' assessment is being asked for. The question on the whole:

'I know this can sound combative but I'm just asking questions. Given other things have been bad and knowing nothing of this being talked about, but pointing out it's probably completely wrong (based on nothing but X other thing is wrong).... really, in your heart, do you believe you are coming from integrity?'

That sounds toxic AF.

Personally as a relative newcomer here it seems like there is a lot of this 'just asking questions' on HN.

Edit: Throttled. I pointed out how I saw the post could be (mis)interpreted. Yeah, that necessitates me replaying it back how it could be (mis)interpreted. That is valid when my point is about... how posts could be (mis)interpreted resulting in a poorer quality of discussion. Sorry if you didn't understand the point I was trying to get across. I didn't say the interpretation was valid, I said here is how posts like the one the person I responded to referenced can derail discussion in an era of 'just asking questions'. Zero disingenuousness nor unconstructive on my part and it's wild you can't see that. My post was about better quality discussion using the message the person I responded to used. Yours is about calling me specifically out. Which is more 'constructive'?
by nonameiguess | 2025-09-19 17:06:15+00:00
That is ridiculously unfair. We're talking totals in the tens of millions for these procedures. You can make a very good argument it should be paid for by some other public means and I would not necessarily disagree with you, but given that doesn't currently happen, insurance did a lot more than just skim off the top. They paid for the work. And I'm not aware of any society out there right now that publicly provides free to the consumer home and auto repair.

I agree that the providers themselves, along with the basic science and engineering that made their work possible in the first place, deserves the bulk of the credit, but nobody was attacking physicians and scientists here.

For what it's worth, in plenty of other Reddit-style "everthing sucks and I'm pessimistic about technology" threads, I'm out there touting these same stories as examples of science and technology making the world better, as many of these procedures either weren't possible or had far worse success rates as recently as 20 years ago. This just wasn't one of those threads.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-19 17:06:26+00:00
I think it's more about the visual style overall with or without text. It's not just DK book but Designs for American Museum of Natural History and other example. Software packaging, especially from Microsoft had it.

The text is often a serif font, there is often a white background, and a heavy reliance of clip art. At least for me, it immediately clicked and I recognized it. I just had no idea it had a name and it's identified as a unified "style".
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-19 17:06:41+00:00
Time means nothing - species can stay stable for very long periods of time (e.g. coleocanth), and more to the point it makes no sense to call two animals different species if they can still successfully interbreed, since there then still remains the possibility that they could recombine. NOT being able to interbreed successfully (donkey & horse) marks the point of no return where they are now bound to genetically drift further apart over time.
by dmitrygr | 2025-09-19 17:08:46+00:00
+1

People do not multitask well. The median driver can barely keep a car on the road in perfect weather on a good day. Please stop helping distract them!

Luckily, most states lave laws about this, and drivers will get fined. Sadly, manufacturers rarely get fined. The people who made the original "hands on wheel" defeat device for Teslas got away with it, IIRC
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-19 17:09:13+00:00
Um, this seems ass-backwards to me. If some grant is denied when it should've been approved, the only harm that should be considered is "was this money allocated to the research?"... not "was this researcher's career harmed?". We do not allocate grant money to further the career goals of academics. The public and the government that represents it have zero interest in furthering anyone's careers.
by mmcclure | 2025-09-19 17:09:15+00:00
I agree that Oracle has been a perfectly fine trademark holder in all of these regards in that they are entirely irrelevant to JavaScript and have been for as long as I can remember.

The point here is that them not doing those things would be codified. Deno's not trying to take the trademark from them for themselves, they're trying to get the USPTO to agree that JavaScript is a generic term at this point and unable to be trademarked or owned by any one entity.

I'm not sure how that changes any of the bullet points you've got above. It's nice that points 4 and 5 would become completely impossible and not just improbable because the trademark owner currently doesn't care enough to do it.
by Lammy | 2025-09-19 17:09:27+00:00
The Netscape thing isn't that far-fetched, though. Sega Saturn had PlanetWeb in 1996: https://segaretro.org/NetLink_Custom_Web_Browser

And I 'member the LinksBoks web browser on XBOX in the 2000s that had workable input via analog stick. Point the stick at one of the clusters of letters and press one of four colored face buttons: https://web.archive.org/web/20050903121908/http://ysbox.onli...
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-19 17:09:28+00:00
> The huge amount of pirate content seems to largely fly under the radar,

That’s literally how copyright enforcement works in the United States, it’s not specific to IA. Every user-submitted content publishing site is rife with piracy.

> but the Library was advertising that they're not going to respect copyright

A gross misreading of their stated intentions.

> and it puts the website archives at risk.

The archives are probably also not fair use in the present legal environment. They just happen to not to contain anything valuable enough for a big media company to get litigious. Yet.
by mikeyouse | 2025-09-19 17:09:29+00:00
Insanely unethical worldview. My actual ‘take’ is that people should pay for the crimes they commit and bribing officeholders to avoid repercussions for criminal behavior is very bad and extraordinarily corrosive to democratic rule.

It’s a common parlor trick to talk in the abstract about things like this to avoid the magnitude of the corruption.

But to be clear, the actual comparison here is a multimillion dollar bribe to save almost $200M in penalties from a convicted fraud - and someone who had served 13 years in Federal prison having the last 4 years of their imprisonment commuted, but having all of their other post-sentence restrictions and fines remain in place - with absolutely no benefit to the President who commuted that sentence.

So, no, I reject that these two are remotely comparable cases. Regardless the propriety of pardon power in general.
by bilater | 2025-09-19 17:10:01+00:00
The problem with these companies is that they suffer from the equivalent of golden handcuffs. They already have customers paying through the nose for overpriced products. It is very hard, psychologically, to admit you cannot charge the same amount anymore. And if you make a change you have to reduce the price for existing customers as well.

Most companies with these models will die simply because they won't have the courage and long term thinking to do this.
by paulbjensen | 2025-09-19 17:10:04+00:00
I used to work at a Ruby on Rails shop many years ago (New Bamboo, now part of ThoughtBot) which is in London.

I got pointed to the blog post, and it was such a strikingly-bad hot take that I had to write a response: http://paulbjensen.co.uk/2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-lo...

In my opinion, initially I thought "Oh David's been sucked into some kind of social media bubble (on X) or disinformation space", but then as I read the post, down to the bit where he started talking about "demographic replacement", I came to the view that this is who he is a person.

It's shocking and disappointing.