MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brandall10 | 2025-09-04 21:58:18+00:00
It’s a wild argument that entertainment does not provide practical value for society. It absolutely, unequivocally does. It’s an overwhelming driver of capitalism and consumer behavior, and it also provides real social and cultural cohesion.

As to the 850k median salary, you also have to consider that the vast majority of players don’t last more than a few years in the league. The lifetime value of a typical NFL career is far less - and far more rare - than a big tech career. Additionally, NFL players subject their body to stress that can lead to lifetime medical issues.

And on top of that, the advertising you dismiss is what funds much of big tech, and is integral to how capitalist society functions as a whole.
by input_sh | 2025-09-04 21:58:20+00:00
To be fair, European Central Bank also wants to introduce its own official Euro-backed "stablecoin" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_euro), mostly because they are scared of the posibility that Dollar-backed stablecoins could make Euros less relevant in the future (https://www.politico.eu/article/lagardes-euro-moment-busted-...).
by randycupertino | 2025-09-04 22:00:30+00:00
5 days a week RTO is just beyond the pale. 3 days, sure. 4 days, maybe. But 5 days in office is harsh. Top talent sees this as rude, lack of trust, unnecessary babysitting and middle managing. 3-4 days sure, good for networking, collaboration, etc. But give people 1 day a week flex at least to be trusted adults who can responsibly wfh.
by mondrian | 2025-09-04 22:00:31+00:00
Yeah. Stablecoins create demand for Treasuries which drives the price of Treasuries up and interest rate down. So this pressure lowers debt servicing cost for the US government, and Stripe is the holder of those Treasuries and gets paid interest.

This would also serve to counter the drop in global Treasury demand due to recent tariff stuff where presumably our traditional debt holders are losing appetite for US debt...

It also creates a kind of strange situation where stablecoins are basically spendable "Treasury tokens". So you give 1 USD to Uncle Sam (via a middle man like Stripe), get back 1 stablecoin. Then you go and spend the stablecoin, and Uncle Sam goes and spends the USD. It's like a weird double spend situation. Prior to stablecoins, you buy a treasury bill with USD, you hold this unspendable treasury bill while Uncle Sam gets USD to spend.
by PathOfEclipse | 2025-09-04 22:01:05+00:00
It sounds to me like you're just nitpicking his words. I can't find this quote anywhere, but he's probably saying Wikipedia is taking "stances", to use your word, on subjects where it should instead be trying harder to be neutral and provide multiple perspectives in a balanced manner. Sincerely trying to understand and convey the perspectives of two opposing sides looks vastly different from taking one side, amplifying their talking points, and suppressing or refuting those of the other side.

The counter-arguments to all this all tend to boil down to some form of condescending tone or moralizing:

* left-leaning is just reality-leaning. LoLoLoL right-wingers are sooo stupid!

* Wikipedia should take the left-leaning stance because it is good, moral, noble, and righteous, while the right-leaning stance is vile, evil, unconscionable, and despicable.

If either of those thoughts cross your mind, then, congratulations, you are left-biased. You should try your hand at Wikipedia article editing. I'm sure they'll love you.
by PhantomHour | 2025-09-04 22:01:10+00:00
One particular datapoint to watch is auction prices for production capacity as these are the most immediate market. Those have jumped, with PJM's +800% in 2024 and +22% (22% from 2024->2025, $28.92 -> $329.17 or +1038% total over 2023 -> 2025) https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/biggest-us-power-gri...

We (Well, the article does it for us as well) can identify that this market jump is driven primarily by increased demand rather than lower capacity, as the amount of capacity sold has increased. (Covering ~50% of the new demand)

These prices do not immediately translate into residential fees, there's a lot of financial engineering in between the auction and customer contracts (F in chat for the counterparty of the hedge), but at the end of the day you can't sell $500 of power for $5 so the increased cost will worm their way through to residential consumers eventually. One particularly annoying thing is that this isn't a consistent amount of time by region; Some people are seeing 3x electricity bills already, for others their power company may have more strongly hedged against price increases.
by wubrr | 2025-09-04 22:01:23+00:00
Sports like NFL, Hockey, etc. are completely arbitrary and artificial. The only reason most people that watch these sports is because of marketing and being pushed to do so by society. Remove NFL and replace it with another arbitrary made up ball-game and nothing would change.

What is materially produced by the NFL? What societal problems does it solve?

It's as practically useful as scrolling through a tiktok feed, and the 'value' is basically the same - pushing advertising (which I don't consider to be a net benefit to society).
by yndoendo | 2025-09-04 22:01:49+00:00
"Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet" by Varun Sivaram [0] is a good source on ways to improve renewable energy from infrastructure design changes. He talks about the HVDC longitude runs that would improve transfer of electricity to areas that may be cloudy where it is sunny during peak.

My point of view with Tesla vs Edison is that they were both right and wrong under select circumstances.

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537070/taming-the-sun/
by kragen | 2025-09-04 22:01:54+00:00
Sorry, that's Texas farmland "acres". An "acre" is a medieval unit of measure defined as one "chain" by one "furlong", the area a single man can plow in a day with a team of oxen. Although people have been plowing with horses since the 12th century, the "acre" is still in use in Texas, where it is roughly equivalent to 0.405 hectares (4050m² in SI units). In Texas, latitude ≈30°, it amounts to roughly a megawatt of solar energy (3 megawatts peak) before accounting for panel inefficiency.

Also when I said "US$0.10/Wp" I was wrong. I'm in the lazy habit of rounding US$1 = €1, but that's a significant error now. The correct price of €0.100/Wp for mainstream solar modules is more accurately US$0.117/Wp.
by dev_l1x_be | 2025-09-04 22:02:02+00:00
Not sure what you mean by this. The table concept is the same age as computers. Here is a table, do something with it -> this is the high level df api. All the functions make sense, what is hard to read, write or debug here?

I have used Polars to process 600M of xml files (with a bit of a hack) and the polars part of the code is readable with minimal comments.

Polars has a better api than pandas, at least the intent is easier to understand. (lazyness, yay)
by cycomanic | 2025-09-04 22:02:43+00:00
The question is why did you use cheques? I don't know anyone who is not American who has used cheques in the last 20 years or so. I have not been living in Germany in a long time so I can't talk much about the banking system, but I have had transfers with German friends and family which never took more than maybe a day or 2 within Europe.
by 0x457 | 2025-09-04 22:02:48+00:00
I think every abandoned TUI framework started with: "why is ratutui does things this way" and ended with "Oh, I get it now".

Problem is when we think UI frameworks we usually run in something that handles a lot of things for us: browser, xorg, wayland etc. You don't get in terminal, so a lot of times TUI frameworks result being a thin abstraction on top of a render-loop.

Then you can't slap something like MVC pattern on it because that isn't how terminal app works. The event handler pretty much has to be global, even if the framework provides some focus management capabilities.

I've tried using different languages and frameworks for thing that I'm working on and pretty much ready to comeback to ratatui.
by toast0 | 2025-09-04 22:03:15+00:00
According to some random site [1], rookie draft contracts are 4 years, with an option for a 5th, and undrafted rookies usually have a 3 year contract. Average career length is 3.3 years [2], so a lot of players only have one contract.

[1] https://collegefootballnetwork.com/how-rookie-contracts-work...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/240102/average-player-ca...
by conor- | 2025-09-04 22:03:18+00:00
"dead simple" really depends on what you're targeting and how. If you're targeting a cloud deployment on hardware you don't control or that's running with multiple instances/replicas, OTEL makes that pretty simple because you get a lot for free in the way of tracking instances/correlation ids, etc.

If you wanted "dead simple" text-based logging in a situation where a service is deployed in multiple places you'd end up writing a lot of fluff to get the same log correlation abilities that most OTEL drivers provide (if you can even ship your logs off the compute to begin with)

Which again comes back to the "maybe the framework isn't for you" if you're building an application that's a monolith deployed on a single VPC somewhere. But situations where you're working on something distributed or replicated, OTEL is pretty simple to use compared to past vendor-specific alternatives
by onenite | 2025-09-04 22:03:23+00:00
Thanks, i was about to share the first pair of verses of the Dhammapada (words of the Buddha. … allegedly), which perhaps would have been better than the misattributed quote in my initial comment:

Mind precedes all mental states.

Mind is their chief; they are mind-made.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts, suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

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Mind precedes all mental states.

Mind is their chief; they are mind-made.

If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

Source: https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/dp01/
by belorn | 2025-09-04 22:03:50+00:00
From the research I have heard and seen on the subject, when people communicate with people different than themselves it can both help and hurt trust. The primary factor that I took from the research is that it depend on ethical values. If the two people are different but share ethical values, especially symbolic ones, then relationships tend to improve. If however people have different ethical values, then the results of such meeting tend to create more hostility and distrust. People can generally accept that people have different ethical values only if they don't need to actually see it.
Ask HN: What do you think of this idea?
by piratesAndSons | 2025-09-04 22:04:05+00:00
A new budget airline promises the cheapest domestic travel, with one catch: no luggage. Luggage-free travel. Additionally, this airline will operate only from low-cost airports, not high-cost ones. In exchange, as a business we benefit from cheaper fuel (less weight), more trips because we save time on loading and unloading luggage, and lower employee costs. We then use those savings to subsidize tickets.

Would YC take a break from funding GPT-wrappers to fund this, or would I need to find a way to attach “powered by AI” somewhere to make them care? If this model succeeds, major airlines might invest in us, and we could go to Boeing to manufacture planes designed entirely for luggage-free travel.

People might ask, “What about those with luggage?” Simple: we will partner with luggage delivery companies.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-04 22:04:27+00:00
You can have the same feelings toward pain from physical activity. "Did I strain my shoulder in my workout or did I tear a ligament??" or "Are the ligaments in my foot sore from snowboarding or did I tear my ACL??" I used to be afraid of this kind of thing all the time when I first started being active. My general point is that regular physical activity gives you psychological faith in the resilience of the human body. Having done loads of activities and sports for over a decade now I am much more confident in my body's ability to bounce back from injury than I did when I was more sedentary and every ache and pain filled me with fear.

I think folks are really focusing on the "psychological" part of my comment in isolation and not the "problems of leading a fairly sedentary lifestyle" which is probably my fault because I don't think I structured my post well.

I think a lot of the problems that are associated with aging, such as minor aches and pains, are consequences of leading mostly sedentary lifestyles. Part of being fairly active (meaning well above most state-recommended guidelines) is the psychological resilience to pain that I mentioned. But also part of it is that because you are constantly pushing your physical abilities, the strain that comes from occasional bad movement as part of everyday life (sleeping badly, holding the faucet tap the wrong way, hitting your wrist on the corner of a table, etc) is usually well within the envelope of pushing yourself compared to your actual sport.

My greater point is that leading a sedentary lifestyle is a whole package of things. This includes the physiological consequences of not developing strength, flexibility, and joint elasticity; this also includes the psychological resistance to risk and pain that comes from being sedentary.
by onesociety2022 | 2025-09-04 22:05:15+00:00
Uber isn't just taxis - if a bunch of taxi companies just got together and developed a taxi ordering app that looks just like Uber, it still won't be Uber.

Uber is a whole bunch of things combined:

- very intuitive taxi ordering UX (for riders) and dispatching UX (for drivers).

- circumventing regulation so there are no more artificial limits on taxi supply in a given city.

- enabling gig economy: because you can use your own personal vehicle, you can work anytime you want for however long you want. You don't need to lease a taxi for an entire week or an entire month. You can choose to work for 4 hours on a weekend only during surge times if you wanted to. So it allows supply to be elastic to meet demand while also offering flexible work arrangements for part-time drivers.
by jltsiren | 2025-09-04 22:05:34+00:00
You can pay the market price for power or agree on a fixed-term fixed-price contract. In the latter case, the power company carries the risks. The market is cheaper on the average, especially if you can adjust your demand down when the prices are high. Back then, the prices were relatively stable, but today they fluctuate wildly due to the prevalence of wind power.

In any case, carbon-free power from the grid is mostly a legal/financial construct with limited real-world impact. When the grid is dirtiest, market prices are set by fossil fuels with high marginal costs, and clean sources get the same price without any tricks.
by knorker | 2025-09-04 22:05:39+00:00
That just sounds like "one clever trick" to not pay taxes, import duties, or follow laws.

Or can you explain how these bike importers are being hampered in fiat not by laws, but by technology?

Every time I look at this, the "clever trick" is actually law evasion / law avoidance, to borrow a tax term.

It's about as "clever" as lying to the IRS to save money on taxes. That was never a loophole.
by wazdra | 2025-09-04 22:05:51+00:00
Well, doesn't that specific meaning apply here? I mean, the lack of protection for end-users is at first compensated by investment money (low prices and huge effort on support). Once network effect is reached, the unregulated nature of the platform shows, end-users are wronged, only providers profit from the lack of regulation ...

Or maybe I don't understand the meaning of enshittification?
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-04 22:06:10+00:00
…and Linux, Android, WebOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, GNU Hurd, Minix, QNX, Inferno, L4, FreeDOS, OpenSolaris forks like Illumos, OpenIndina and SmartOS, the various embedded real time OSs, the various Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Switch system softwares, various different bootloaders and UEFI interfaces, networking firmware like Draytek firmware, Cisco IOS, etc.

And that’s not even covering the numerous hobby OSs out there like Haiku, SerenityOS, ReactOS, TempleOS, SkyOS.

Then you have experimental OSs like Singularity too. There’s numerous examples of them alone but I think you get my point. :)
by fnordpiglet | 2025-09-04 22:06:19+00:00
The issue is that for Steak ‘n Shake it’s fine because in the card network scheme they’re generally on the hook for repudiated transactions. So they pay fees and on top of that have charge backs from fraud. For you as a Visa card holder you benefit from that situation though because if your card is stolen you can claim fraud or theft and the merchant is often loss liable.

In your world you would be the one holding the loss if your card is compromised in some way. This is of course beneficial to merchants. But as a customer I would always prefer a card network backed transaction all things being equal as my personal loss liability risk is considerably lower - almost non existent. This is why credit cards are generally better for the payer. I have no incentive other than ideological to use any crypto payment method.

PayPal, Venmo, Cash App tend to not be merchant based transactions but cash like transactions by either people that are unbanked for whatever reason, or doing business person to person, or transacting with a merchant who doesn’t accept credit cards. Stripe (and square) make the logistical side of that less an issue than it was, and today it’s mostly about fees and loss liability transfer back to the originator of the money (as in a theft scenario it’s not the payer whose money is at risk).
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-04 22:06:55+00:00
A huge distinguishing characteristic is that some of these things come to you, or are found passively, and some of them you seek out. I think that when the ad comes to you, there is a very good chance it has little or no value.

Job listings are useful, but I have to seek them out.

An event calendar is something I seek out.

Product descriptions are only shown to me when I seek details about the product.

An ad on the street is somewhere in the middle. For most people the acceptability of it is about setting (not in a nature park, please), and ignorability (LCD billboard vs. telephone pole flyer).

I think that is the distinction that people are making between marketing and what is being called ads.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-09-04 22:07:10+00:00
The idea of giving an LLM with a tool any kind of control over an actual user's account remains (though you put this more elegantly) batshit insane to me.

Even assuming you've correctly auth'd the user contacting you (big assumption!), allowing that user to very literally prompt a 'semi-confident thing with tools' - however many layers of abstraction away the tool is - feels very, very far away from a real-world, sensible implementation right now.

Just shoot the tool prompts over to a human operator, if it's so necessary! Sense-check!
by api | 2025-09-04 22:07:15+00:00
Any days defeats much of the purpose IMHO, which is to allow people to escape the real estate cost trap cities and actually build wealth.

If a company said I had to move back to a high cost city, I’d demand like double the salary. Not like I’d be keeping any of it. They should just skip the middleman and cut checks directly to existing homeowners and property speculators.

It helps on both sides too. If a bunch of devs can now vacate the high cost cities, it might make those cities less expensive for the people who actually need to be there or have family ties there.
by wouldbecouldbe | 2025-09-04 22:07:16+00:00
Airbnb was a bit more then a regulatory loophole, it at least started out as a new way for private homeowners to monetize one of their greatest asset. So it was much more an unused potential that was being tapped in.

The regulation that came after has in my personal experience privatized airbnb and now it's hard to find a private renter, when I started using it that was the standard.
by tkiolp4 | 2025-09-04 22:07:52+00:00
As a worker, I don’t care about squeezing the last drop of productivity that’s in me. I care about wasting time commuting, paying insane rents for tiny small apartments in the city, not having lunch with my loved ones.

I understand the topic of productivity if it’s brought up by some ceo, founder or investor (for them, we workers are less than working ants. They only care about how much money can they extract from us). So, either you are one of them, or you don’t have the priorities of life clear.
by addaon | 2025-09-04 22:08:14+00:00
> Your argument amounts to a meaningless tautology - 'everything that exists is good and valuable'.

It's unclear how this is related to what I said.

> 'Heroin addition is good and valuable to society - if you disagree it's because the addict's values just don't match yours'

What does it mean for something to be "good and valuable to society"? What is the "society" that is passing absolute judgement here? I think of society as a collection of people, and collections don't have values, individuals do.

Is it surprising the the values of someone choosing to take actions you consider repulsive are different than yours?
by specproc | 2025-09-04 22:08:19+00:00
The scene has really moved on. I had a modest amount of bitcoin that's just been sitting there since the Silkroad. I'm broke and finally decided to use it.

Asked a crypto friend how to manage it in 2025, he pointed me to a service that I could use with Google Pay. Mental. I was just walking into normie places and paying with my ill-gotten gains.

It's gone mainstream for sure.
by syphia | 2025-09-04 22:08:21+00:00
I have to agree with you. It seems that most measures to make school harder or more rigorous turn it into an aptitude test or boot camp, because so little development can occur in that environment. It breaks down individuals or, at best, filters them.

If that's what schools are supposed to be, so be it, but I'd like to see that outcome explicitly acknowledged (especially by other posters here) instead of implied.
by sandspar | 2025-09-04 22:09:25+00:00
The best interviewers are OK with irritating their guests. An interview guest generally has some conversational line or script that they plan to use. A good host has to break them out of that script - otherwise every interview with that guest will sound the same.

For example, take Demis Hassabis' recent interview with Lex Friedman. Friedman wanted to talk about cellular automata; Hassabis wanted to talk about Gemini AI. Friedman asked questions about cellular automata, Hassabis signalled that he wanted to use his prepared script about AI, Friedman ignored Habbis' signals and continued to ask about cellular automata. The end result is that Lex Friedman listeners get to hear Demis Hassabis talk about cellular automata for 10 minutes - a unique side of Demis Hassabis' mind that you couldn't hear anywhere else. Friedman eventually relented and let Hassabis talk about AI.

(I'm not saying that Friedman is the best interviewer, but he's good. All good interviewers do this: Howard Stern, David Letterman, Charlie Rose, Dick Cavett, etc.)

Basically you have to squeeze your guest to get juice out of them.
by narrator | 2025-09-04 22:09:27+00:00
Can you do fractional reserve banking with stablecoins where you lend out the underlying dollars to people and don't have full reserves? That's what makes banking tricky. When there are a surge of loan defaults across the banking system the money supply shrinks rapidly unless the government bails them out. Thus, the need for regulation.

One reason the U.S government has to like stablecoins is because Tether is one of the biggest buyers of U.S treasuries that they use to back their stablecoins.