MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by solatic | 2025-09-24 18:56:00+00:00
Who said a belief in property rights and free markets made you an anarchist? Strong governments are required to protect property rights and free markets; still, the government is supposed to have a system of checks and balances that helps to keep its power from being abused. There is a tension, but one that was supposed to be guided by the north star of protecting American values.

Sadly, in the modern American government, legislation is too slow, justice is sold, and the executive runs amok unchecked. None of them are able to effectively attack the zoning and permitting processes that prevent developers from exercising their property rights to develop additional housing; markets have been captured by oligarchs who actively undermine the competition necessary for a free market, again with complicit legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
by sharperguy | 2025-09-24 18:56:27+00:00
This is why for learning Chinese I use Pleco, which is a dictionary that allow has a button to instantly add any word to your flashcard list. So when I encounter a new word I just look it up and then add it to flashcards which I review each morning.

I don't know what similar tools exist for learning other languages but it does help a lot for Chinese.
by thomasmg | 2025-09-24 18:56:41+00:00
I agree, IKEA instructions are great. A bit related are railroad diagrams, like the one of the JSON syntax [2].

I worked on Rubik's cube solving instructions for beginners [1] (for my children initially), but then I found it would be so much better if the instructions are IKEA style. (Then I vibe-coded a Rubik's cube 2D and 3D model, and now I stopped working on this. Something for later.) For the cube, I want to implement the algorithm, and then from the program create IKEA instruction (or a mix of IKEA and railroad diagram). That way I can be sure I didn't skip any steps in the instructions.

[1] https://github.com/thomasmueller/rubiks/blob/main/README.md

[2] https://www.json.org/json-en.html
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-24 18:56:48+00:00
Greater Good of All is a bit nebulous, and quite often translates into rather concentrated good of a few well-connected players.

When you mention the space race, you should also add that once the Moon landing was over, the government-supported part of space activity got mostly bogged down in cost-plus boondoggles (see: Space Launch System, also called Senate Launch System), and without a vibrant private sector with deep pockets, the US would be launching maybe some twenty rockets a year now, more likely twelve, each at an extreme cost and without much technological progress. And American capability of supporting human spaceflight would be tenuous at best, or possibly nonexistent.

(NASA is not at fault here. The politicians which command it, though... they seem to love giving Boeing et al. expensive projects.)
by talbo888 | 2025-09-24 18:56:56+00:00
It’s almost certainly more profitable to make to make 1,000 $100k loans from a banks point of view as the single loan will be much riskier (effectively not benefiting from the law of large numbers). Not to say there are benefits of dealing large loans such as cross selling other financial products to the large business.

Your second point is totally correct, but it is exacerbated as a result of (broadly good) government policy. A bank wouldn’t mind making uncollateralised loans any more than a mortgage, although it might charge more interest for the risk. However the government penalises banks based on (approximately) the sum of their risk weighted assets [0]. Here mortgages, as collateralised loans, are greatly incentivised over uncollateralised loans to business.

It’s hard to say if the situation would be worse without it, it’s possible we might have more risky business loans leading to growth, but also more likely we could see a serious global financial crisis.

[0] I am simplifying here slightly but you can see how the US ranks major banks here, higher is worse from the banks point of view https://www.fsb.org/uploads/P261124.pdf
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-24 18:57:07+00:00
Isn't that more of an implementation detail?

I'd guess if you care more about speed than memory it might be faster to just move elements into new array - sequence through old array appending to start/end of new array according to pivot comparison. You'd be moving every element vs leaving some in place with a swap approach, but the simplicity of the code & branch prediction might win out.
by cjs_ac | 2025-09-24 18:57:15+00:00
If I have a problem and want to buy a solution to that problem, I'll use a search engine to find what solutions are available. I won't check a list of new solutions to problems on a daily basis in the hope that one day a solution to my problem will be on there.

Product Hunt is the tech founder equivalent of refreshing your social media profile, watching the like count increase on your latest selfie.
by thimabi | 2025-09-24 18:58:08+00:00
Besides disabling copying, another annoying practice is when websites hijack the clipboard to add copyright info to copied text fragments.

I can barely understand showing a pop-up to request source attribution when copying content online.

However, actively interfering with things people copy is a big no-no to me. It creates a usability problem where there was none, and probably does little to discourage plagiarism.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-24 18:58:12+00:00
See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nisbet

and

https://joinordiefilm.com/

One thing I find annoying about that movie is that it doesn't mention Nisbet one of whose major ideas is that a panopoly of organizations of all shapes and sizes mediates the relationship of individuals with the state and other megaorganizations.
by MostlyStable | 2025-09-24 18:58:13+00:00
People have tried making original OKCupid style apps, and they fail. Tinder et al are almost definitely worse, but they are also easier. It is always going to be hard for the better-but-harder option to win against the worse-but-easier option. This is exacerbated by the fact that dating apps are perhaps the service that is more reliant on network effects than any other thing. Even if one individual decides that they are willing to do the work for the better-but-harder thing, if not enough other people make the same decision, it will fail.
by bko | 2025-09-24 18:59:05+00:00
> What Match Group is doing probably isn’t illegal, but I think it probably should be.

What should be illegal? Withholding matches when you're paid to keep you single but showing you more attractive matches after you unsubscribe? Listen to yourself. Your idea of what they're doing is so highly engineered and specific.

It's so convoluted but it comes down to its a shitty product and people don't want to use shitty products. They may for some time but making a product purposely bad and hostile to your user base doesn't lead to long term growth and people will abandon the product for alternatives.

Not everything "bad" needs to be illegal.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-24 18:59:15+00:00
Can't go to previous track when "autoplay" is enabled in Apple Music. Clearly an intentional choice. Works on iPhone. But on Mac it doesn't "just work". Syncing my music library with Apple Music doesn't "just work" anymore either. Some albums are visible, but are greyed out and can't be played. Time Machine hasn't "just worked" in several years - would corrupt my backups and have to re-create from scratch every week or so, I've switched to Carbon Copy Cloner. Non high-DPI displays don't "just work" anymore. The forward button in Finder, the icons in Music settings, all squished horizontally like it's someone's first time adding clipart to a Power Point. Safari stopped "just working" with 26.0, now opening a new tab or typing into the search bar randomly presents me with a 1-5s delay - or sometimes the whole thing hangs. I could go on, I don't dare upgrade to Tahoe - it's death by a thousand cuts.

Edit: LOL, how could I forget Siri. I don't use it often - generally only in the car to switch music - but it's terrible at understanding what song/album I'm asking for. Tried repeatedly to get it to play the "Mob Song" from Beauty and the Beast and I got some death metal instead. Completely useless.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-24 18:59:21+00:00
You're basically talking about the shift system. A works for 20hrs a week, B works for 20hrs a week. A spends more time with spouse(A), who does the same at their workplace, and B spends more time with spouse(B), who does the same at their workplace. Sounds great.

But, it falls apart to the same logic GP proposed, that the reason you have dual income households is that they are richer than single income ones. Households where people both work 40hrs = 80hrs will be ahead of those that work only 40hrs total. So everyone will descend to working 80hrs too.

Of course, taking mine and GPs logic to it's conclusion is silly - people will have a point where they stop comparing with others and tradeoff less money for less hours. But looking at reality, it seems like that limit is very high! And it only happens at an already very high salary. A 40hrs/week SWE might not go to a high finance 70hrs/week job, because they're already comfortably paid. However these two are top 1% jobs in the world, and the quality of life is probably not too different. But if you go down to the lower rungs, people are more inclined to compare themselves with peers and tradeoff double hours for the next rung, which entails a much better quality of life (as a % increase)
by toast0 | 2025-09-24 18:59:45+00:00
If you can afford it, mirroring in some form is going to give you way better read perf than RAIDz. Using zfs mirrors is probably easiest but least flexible, zfs copies=2 with all devices as top level vdevs in a single zpool is not very unsafe, and something custom would be a lot of work but could get safety and flexibility if done right.

You're basically seek limited, and a read on a mirror is one seek, whereas a read on a RAIDz is one seek per device in the stripe. (Although if most of your objects are under the chunk size, you end up with more of mirroring than striping)

You lose on capacity though.
by Fripplebubby | 2025-09-24 18:59:50+00:00
The way I read the paper, "diffusion" was more of a metaphor - you start with the output of the LLM as the overview (very much _not_ random noise), and then refine it over many steps. However, seeing this, I wonder myself whether or not in-house they actually mean it more literally or have actually tried using it more literally.
by andriesm | 2025-09-24 19:00:06+00:00
"Do you really think he's complaining about the white Aussie bartender who comes over here?"

-> Theres little complaint about the "white" Ausie bartender, BECAUSE he probably speaks great English, came there legally, isn't consuming wellfare resources, isn't advocating for Sharia law, and might even end up going back to Ausie land.

It's not about *skin color*, it is about culture/crime/wellfare resources and legal double standards.

If an Ausie entered the UK illegally, he would be deported. If an Ausie committed a crime, he goes to jail and/or deported. With these other people, they enter illegally but then get placed in tax payer funded hotels and politicians conspire with police to cover up their crimes (see the rape gang scandals) and they literaly arrested the victims.

At one point there were plenty of complaints when *too many Polish white dudes* rocked up in the UK and competed for jobs and didn't always speak good English.

Not about race - it is about Language, culture, job competition, crime rates, wellfare resources, values (sharia-law / treatment of women), social integration vs enclaves.

And only when it involves so many millions of people comming in that it rapidly alters the local culture. (or shifts votes! or whatever other thing people care about - overwhelming of infrastructure / housing availability)

Why is DHH a racist for sympathising with some Britts whom are unhappy with the 60% cultural transformation that is occuring in London?

You are reading between the lines to hastily conclude that DHH is a racist. You need more than just "he wasn't complaining about white Ausie bartenders".

Quote me an actual paragraph or sentence where DHH says he dislikes anyone because of their race ? Or stop calling people racists without hard proof. The tone of that DDH London article seems quite radical. But tone is not enough to indict.
by wat10000 | 2025-09-24 19:00:59+00:00
Compare with this statement from July about a counterintelligence operation: https://xcancel.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1940116391262118089

You get specific numbers (two arrests and eight search warrants), more specific locations (names of big cities aren't very specific, but they're more specific than a circle 70 miles wide), a specific country running the agents (China), and a specific goal (recruit spies in the US military).

The vague statement about the SIM farms is pretty clearly an attempt to puff up an operation that didn't accomplish much.
by NoiseBert69 | 2025-09-24 19:01:31+00:00
> They say simply "5G", I don't think it matters whether it is SA or NSA, the end user doesn't know the difference, the important thing is to see if there is an improvement.

5G NSA dramatically reduces the battery runtime. That's something users will see.

I recently was able to activate 5G NR with my provider and also my phone is compatible. The battery runtime is more that stellar now.
by namanyayg | 2025-09-24 19:01:31+00:00
A way I've been developing and is working really well is to identify high level "goals" of the day or week by analyzing their AI chats first.

Then, measure time taken, AI usage, and sentiment of AI usage.

With this, we find out how quickly was the task done, how much AI was used, and whether the individual was frustrated at any point and if the process went smoothly etc.

My system already hooks into top AI providers and measures these outcomes for engineers. Working on measuring other use cases. Email in profile if anyone wants to chat.

Now of course we can't do a blind comparison with the exact same task, but this at least gives insights into usage, outcomes, and ease-of-use.
by neilv | 2025-09-24 19:01:46+00:00
> The right thing to do in this situation is to acknowledge that you see the situation the same way they do, but do it privately, within your immediate team only or in 1-1s. "Yeah, this new policy sucks, [...]

If you're a manager in a company that does sucky things, does (inevitably) being quoted saying a policy 'sucks' risk you losing your manager job there?

I'm an OG techie, who ends up doing some manager-y things, and I'm going to be very straightforward with everyone. But on something like sucky policy, I might not say "sucks".

Instead, maybe acknowledge they're concerned/upset, ask questions about how it affects, ask/discuss how that can be fixed/improved, and honestly say some of what I will try to do about it.

Example of last part: "Thank you, I'm going to escalate this, and I plan to get back to you within the next 2 days. If anything comes up before then, let me know."
by shermantanktop | 2025-09-24 19:01:53+00:00
I won't trash it, but for me, anything that means i'm using a screen/app means my retention is lower than if i just pick up a pencil and write on a flashcard.

The flexibility of being able to dynamically generate a ton of Anki cards using a script is trumped by just using ChatGPT to generate and grade answers. This will not work well for advanced language learners but for German it works really well - as much repetition as you need to master specific skills - up through intermediate level.
by BizarroLand | 2025-09-24 19:01:55+00:00
When I say culture, I mean the local culture, which is often defined by the demographics of the area.

I can see how that is confusing, but there is more than one interpretation of the word.

Also, wouldn't the Slav who grew up in China be culturally Chinese?

They would probably also experience racism as defined by being treated differently because of their race. Their experience of what would most likely be a small pocket of people who have integrated them surrounded by a larger pocket that would automatically treat them as a westerner would mean that their cultural experience would be inversely analogous to a Chinese person who grew up in Poland.
by throwaway0123_5 | 2025-09-24 19:02:08+00:00
There doesn't seem to be much consensus on defining what intelligence is. For the definitions of at least some reasonable people of sound mind, I think it is defensible to call them intelligent, even if I don't necessarily agree. I sometimes call them "intelligent" because many of the things they do seem to me like they should require intelligence.

That said, to whatever extent they're intelligent or not, by almost any definition of intelligence, I don't think they're achieving it through the same mechanism that humans do. That is my main argument. I thing confident arguments that "LLMs think just like humans" are very bad, given that we clearly don't understand how humans achieve intelligence and the vastly different substrates and constraints that humans and LLMs are working with.
by bitwize | 2025-09-24 19:02:36+00:00
OKStupid suffered from the "less space than a Nomad, lame" levels of cluelessness because it tried all this math stuff matching on statistical models of personality, rather than the one criterion actual humans use to select a partner: are they hot?

That's why Tinder won. It's an easy way to filter out the unsexy.
by cmoments1 | 2025-09-24 19:02:44+00:00
For the past year, we’ve been quietly building something unusual: a full AI-powered film studio. Not a tool, not a plugin—but a pipeline that actually produces cinematic-quality films from concept to distribution.

Here’s the kicker: We’re launching the Free Film Project. If you’ve got a strong concept, we’ll:

Create your film (30 minutes).

Pay the composer + staff.

Handle cinematic-level editing.

Distribute it worldwide on our own platform, Cinematic Moments TV.

Why? Because distribution is the real bottleneck. Everyone is playing with prompts; we’re building the virality engine around the finished films. The bet is simple: if we can make creators famous, the ecosystem around it will sustain itself.

We’re family-owned (my wife and I run it), bootstrapped, and aiming to prove there’s a way to make AI film production not just a tool—but a new creative economy.

Here’s the LinkedIn post where we first announced it: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:73766889...

Curious what the HN crowd thinks:

Would you apply if you had a story?

Is this disruptive, or too idealistic?

What risks do you see if this model scales?
by ndiddy | 2025-09-24 19:03:33+00:00
This is a great example of how large companies are structured so that the organization as a whole is capable of making decisions that would be unthinkable and/or criminal if done by a single individual. As a whole, Match Group:

- Hid credible reports of users being sexually assaulted from the public

- Did not put up any sort of significant barrier for users reported for rape from making new accounts

- Underinvested in safety on their platforms for years, then laid off everyone in their safety org in favor of overseas contractors with little training

- Ignored members of Congress asking about how the company responds to reports of sexual violence

Despite this, I'm sure that everyone in Match Group's leadership who contributed to the organization making these decisions doesn't think they have any sort of responsibility here, and doesn't have any problem sleeping at night.
by mrandish | 2025-09-24 19:04:03+00:00
I'm willing to pay for consistently good content but ads of any kind are a deal breaker. For the moment I'll set aside that the quality and frequency of good content has fallen across the leading services and that current prices are no longer appropriate for the value received. My plan is to put together a dedicated media server with a high-end GPU and an input capable of recording HDMI 2.1 4k HDR10+ (at a 42Gbit data rate (FRL 48G)). I accept that this will be expensive and difficult but it's important to me. I've already acquired and tested a box capable of stripping HDCP copy protection from such an HDMI feed (because future availability is never certain).

My goal is not only skipping ads but also skipping around in program content with low latency and high responsiveness. This is because another result of the failing streaming media economic model is that content providers are "padding" the length of content they commission to cut their per-hour costs while retaining perceived value. So an 8 episode mini-series is really ~6 episodes of story stretched to fill 8 and now a two hour 'original' movie is just a bloated cut of a 95 minute tight story. Once you've paid for the actors, crew and sets, shooting longer scenes and using more coverage shots is cheap. Having a background in film and video production, it's surprisingly easy for me to spot content that's been padded and then self-edit it in real-time - although features like auto scene detection and variable speed playback (with audio pitch correction) would make it even better.

Even the better DVRs in cable/satellite boxes are too laggy and, of course, most don't provide much flexibility in skip increments and other necessary features. Media distributors are only providing DVR as a checkbox feature because they can up-charge for it but then hard-limiting its features because it hurts the other side of their business model. I don't expect the "almost acceptable" built-in DVR I have today to remain acceptable for long - because the DVR provider's incentives aren't aligned with mine. It's slowly going to keep getting nerfed, which is why a stand-alone DVR is the only viable option for the long-term. And thanks to HDCP DRM and the DMCA, the only DVRs which will give viewers what they want will be DIY hardware running open source components. My medium term plan is to train up an AI for auto-skipping commercials.
by philwelch | 2025-09-24 19:04:08+00:00
> Generally, the point people are getting fired for making is that the very circumstances of Charlie Kirk's murder are precisely the circumstances he advocated for.

He never advocated murdering people over political disagreements. He disagreed with banning guns, but even the people who advocate banning guns don’t usually openly advocate banning bolt action hunting rifles.

The sentiment here is to cheer and laugh at a premeditated murder. If you want to rationalize it, whatever. It’s no use trying to have a discussion with someone who cheers and laughs at a man getting murdered for having discussions.
by jacobgkau | 2025-09-24 19:04:24+00:00
> Do they actually store the original uploaded video somewhere, but reencode for the edge servers to save data/storage?

YouTube has always stored the original video indefinitely. When they added 60FPS support, videos going back years were suddenly available with 60FPS without having to re-upload them. Not many people bothered to upload in 60FPS before YouTube supported it, but those that did noticed. (I know from Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter, which did 60FPS before YouTube supported it possibly because they also had their own platform in parallel.)