MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rtkwe | 2025-09-19 18:55:18+00:00
They have no idea who Rick even is it's all automated. It's the biggest issue with the paper thin protection of Fair Use and the DMCA system where fair use is a proactive defense required to be adjudicated in court and the companies are not even required to review their claims for the possibility that it falls under fair use. It's exacerbated by the fact the Google's system isn't even properly DMCA, it's their own system with no legal consequences for false reports all based on minute audio matches.
by xp84 | 2025-09-19 18:55:19+00:00
There's nothing supernatural about Apple that meant only they could do something better than that shitty generation of devices. Remember, the portable consumer electronics market would certainly have other huge players if Apple hadn't existed to make the iPod. BlackBerry, Microsoft, and Sony come to mind. iPhone, based mainly on Apple's popularity from the iPod era, got a huge jump from that, and then the rush for native apps, which encourages consolidation, smothered every other company's competing devices (such as WebOS, BlackBerry 10, Windows Mobile) before they had a chance to compete.

To be honest, Android may have met a similar fate if Apple had been able to negotiate a non-exclusive contract with Cingular/AT&T. My understanding though was that they had to give exclusivity as a bargaining chip to get all the then-unthinkable concessions, as yeah, every phone was full of garbage bloatware and festooned with logos.
by alphazard | 2025-09-19 18:55:25+00:00
> Product manager is an extremely important role.

> just because somebody as a job title it doesn't mean they fill the role that title implies.

This is the exact problem. When more people subscribing to the title "product manager" are incompetent than competent, then it's not really a legitimate role.

It might be true that there are talented people out there, who when given creative control over a product, add value which pays for their salary many times over. The grift is the widespread belief that they can be found and hired with a job listing. It's difficult to tell who these people are, unless you know one through your network you are more likely to be conned by hiring a product manager from the market than not.

A good comparison is to hedge fund managers. There are some people who can consistently perform better than the market, they exist. But it costs a lot to invest with them, and unless you know of one specifically, just searching for people willing to invest your money for you will not turn out well.

Most companies are better off just listening to their engineers and users, some of them will have a knack for product direction, and leadership can weight their decision that way.
by atombender | 2025-09-19 18:55:40+00:00
This is nonsense. Norway is a full democracy according to the Economist Democracy Index, where it has ranked #1 the last couple of decades.

Norway's government is elected through open, free elections. While the king is nominally the head of state, this is a symbolic position with extremely limited powers, and the king has not played a meaningful role in politics since World War 2. The royal family has no power over the government.
by braebo | 2025-09-19 18:56:02+00:00
I was once in an argument with Claude over a bug we were trying to identify in my code, and it refused to concede my argument for almost 20 minutes. It turned out to be correct, and boy was I glad it didn’t capitulate (as it often does). I came up with a prompt that actually reproduces this behavior more reliably than any other I’ve tried:

”When presented with questions or choices, treat them as genuine requests for analysis. Always evaluate trade-offs on their merits, never try to guess what answer the user wants.

Focus on: What does the evidence suggest? What are the trade-offs? What is truly optimal in this context given the user's ultimate goals?

Avoid: Pattern matching question phrasing to assumed preferences, reflexive agreement, reflexive disagreement, or hedging that avoids taking a position when one is warranted by the evidence.”
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-19 18:56:02+00:00
This correctly points out that single-core energy efficiency on the CPU is mostly just a “race to idle”. Whichever combination of programming language and algorithm gets done first is going to consume less energy.

Where things get more interesting is when you start to do multi-core and/or use the GPU and/or specialized components such as SIMD or neural engines or whatever. This kind of stuff can result in huge energy savings. Sometimes you might need a specific programming language to take advantage, sometimes not.
by onraglanroad | 2025-09-19 18:56:11+00:00
That calculation doesn't make any sense. I mean you both multiply and divide by 10kWh, so those cancel out and you end up with just $ (not "per" anything).

What's that supposed to be the price of?

I guess if you have 10,000 cycles and one kWh costs $0.014, then that's just the cost of 10,000 kWh.
by xp84 | 2025-09-19 18:57:36+00:00
Oh for sure. Arc is in jeopardy. Though tbh it was already, wasn't it? Can't you see an alternate universe where this story never happened, but Intel announced today "Sorry, because our business is dying in general and since Arc hasn't made us a ton of money yet anyway, we need to cut Arc to focus on our core blah blah blah".

I just meant their integrated GPUs are what's completely safe here.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 18:58:18+00:00
I understand not wanting to deal with payments if it is a subscription - ongoing payments, especially small amounts, are not cost- or time-effective to collect.

I don't mind paying a distribution fee for things that help me, but as a somewhat-informed techy I don't have great feelings about buying from Gumroad (based on past experiences where the items I bought were substandard quality).

My question wasn't why not the App Store (I get that) so much as why play in anyone's sandbox if you don't have to? I'm glad you found something that works.
by gaoshan | 2025-09-19 18:58:29+00:00
This is exactly my situation (cooktop in an island with nothing above it). Our solution (because we cook a lot and often it's Chinese food with the attendant oil) was to just stick an existing rolling island in the garage with an induction hotplate on it and do our messiest cooking out there. Not ideal but it keeps the house cleaner and we didn't have to spend much.

Personally I would prefer a Chinese style kitchen with a fully enclosed cooking space (sliding glass doors to leave open if desired) and exterior ventilation. It keeps the worst of the aerosolized oil contained and away from the rest of the home.
by mrandish | 2025-09-19 18:58:44+00:00
> but not super popular.

Having been a sleight of hand close-up magician for most of my life (and even made my living performing for several years a very long time ago), you'll be happy to know that in the past decade close-up magic has become orders of magnitude more popular than it ever was - thanks to YouTube and video streaming. The perception stage magic is more popular is simply because performing for large live audiences is the main way to build a sustainable business able to support the high costs of big props, assistants, travel, advertising, etc which that style of magic requires.

There are only a few hundred magicians consistently making a full-time living performing stage magic and only a couple dozen consistently making a really good living. Whereas there are hundreds of thousands of hobbyists who've discovered learning and performing magic can be really fun.
by mc32 | 2025-09-19 18:58:47+00:00
Good governance helps a lot even if you had previously suffered invasion, we’re occupied or were a colony: see Taiwan (invaded, occupied), Panama (invaded), USA (colony and invaded subsequently).

It’s doable but people will have to want it. It doesn’t come free and it doesn’t come by listening to charlatans like Marx and his peddlers who promise utopia at no cost but the overthrow of the bourgeoisie. From then on it should be all roses in a land of milk and honey. No, sorry, it takes lots of work, delayed gratification and multi-generational effort to get to a good place like Singapore did or even Chile relatively speaking. You need someone with strong singular vision a a populace willing to follow it through. Why even Salvador after decades of civil war is able to overcome its difficulties and now enjoy great personal safety -the best in the western hemisphere. A country doesn’t have to stay stuck in a bad place.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-19 18:59:14+00:00
> Cutting products that don't have 50 percent margins seems like a bad choice when their goal should be filling their advanced fabs.

It seems like a bad choice at all times. A product with a 45% margin -- or a 5% margin -- is profitable. It's only the products with negative (net) margins that should be cut.

And meanwhile products with lower margins are often critical to achieving economies of scale and network effects. It's essentially the thing that put Intel in its current straits -- they didn't want to sell low-margin chips for phones and embedded devices which gave that market to ARM and TSMC and funded the competition.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-09-19 18:59:33+00:00
The reason the US will never go against Israel is the enormous leverage Israel has over the US administration: through the AIPAC, a money laundering operation disguised as political lobbying, a steady flow of money is ensured from the US Treasury to Israel govt. and right back to the Congress. Check the amount your Senator receives from AIPAC here: https://www.trackaipac.com/congress

From AIPAC themselves: (https://www.aipacpac.org/)

> Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics.

> %98 of AIPAC-backed candidates won their general elections.

> $70M contributed through AIPAC to support pro-Israel candidates.

> We helped defeat 24 candidates who would have undermined the US-Israel relationship.

Democracy anybody?

Now imagine Russia had a similar organization, what would the reaction be? Yet when it's Israel, it's somehow fine.

From Wikipedia: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC)

> AIPAC was founded in 1954 by Isaiah L. Kenen, a lobbyist for the Israeli government, partly to counter negative international reactions to Israel's Qibya massacre of Palestinian villagers that year.
by ulan_kg | 2025-09-19 18:59:47+00:00
most TTS models are either small and too robotic or big and slow. We try to hit the sweet spot: near-human quality (MOS 4.3/5) while running fast on consumer GPUs like an RTX 5080.

For voice cloning, it's better to fine-tune the base model, if you are chasing top quality. What’s your use case?
by einpoklum | 2025-09-19 18:59:48+00:00
> It's not so much double the design work, it's double the code maintenance.

Well, of course it is: Different UI, different UI code. If that's problem, the developers should not have both a mobile and a desktop app in the first place.

> has tended to reduce the pleasantness of the Desktop

understatement of the year :-) ... it often hampers functionality, significantly, and makes the experience rather painful.
by Blackstrat | 2025-09-19 19:00:09+00:00
Of course they do. It’s a necessary evil. For most of us, it wasn’t fun to do, nor was it fun to be on the receiving end. I’ve been on both sides. In my experience, layoffs have usually occurred for good reasons, occasionally existential reasons. As for employees finding better jobs? Best of luck to them. Economic conditions and opportunities change. Take advantage of it.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 19:00:46+00:00
I like that Apple has made this available to developers but am not holding my breath... if Apple's own teams haven't been able to squeeze anything impressive out of their own AI models, it seems like an uphill battle for devs.

The idea of a money management app using the local AI makes much more sense to me than local image generation, out of the samples given.
by palmotea | 2025-09-19 19:01:29+00:00
> But I'm really not sure what to make of the ending.

>> "Oh," he said, "she wants to become like God."

>> "Go home. She is sitting in her filthy shack again."

Jesus was poor and humble and God. Like, remember which cup the Holy Grail was in the test at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?

She exactly got her wish, it just wasn't what she expected because she was a greedy fool.

Edit: and this take is interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303908. It might even be a happy ending for her.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-19 19:01:42+00:00
Look at the leveling guidelines of every major tech company. You don’t get promoted based on “knowing more”. You get promoted based on your ability to handle a larger scope of work, your “impact” and “dealing with ambiguity”. Different companies state it differently. But it all boils down to this.

As far as knowing more, the best way to get promotions raises and job opportunities is via networking, the ability to market yourself inside and outside of the company and soft skills.

Well the best way to make more money is to work for companies that pay more money - ie BigTech and adjacent [1] - and then learn the politics of promotions.

[1] Yes “grind leetCode and work for a FAANG” (tm r/cscareerquestions)
by creddit | 2025-09-19 19:02:10+00:00
You asked why it was upvoted and I gave you the reason. That the referenced post has quality content and some quality discussion is not a rejection of that. I referenced that post not because it is analogous to this post but that the discussion on it is revelatory (which is clear by what I said).

Hacker News truly has a large number of topics for which the reactions and responses are reflexively negative and large in magnitude (there are similar positive reactions as well!). This isn't "reductive" analysis and you didn't understand what I said if your point is "your analysis is reductive because liquid glass has some serious usability regressions". You can even look in my own post history to see that I agree with that just fine.

Still, look through the discussion! Much of it is clearly reflexive negativity and based on zero user experience.
Fireworks AI – Charging $192 for less than $0.20 of Training Cost
by mountainriver | 2025-09-19 19:02:22+00:00
Fireworks AI is one of the most overpriced model hosting companies in the ecosystem. I tried their fine-tuning service with a very small dataset of 10k records using SFT with gpt-oss-20b.

It ran for 8 mins, and I got a bill for $192 !!!

You can get A100s for $1.29/hr on Lambda, for 8 minutes of time that’s $0.17

This is maybe the biggest markup I’ve ever seen in the industry. Anyone can just spin up a runpod or modal instance and do it for a small fraction of the cost.

Anyway, buyer beware, this is money I won’t get back. Not to mention the service is overall just mediocre.
by microtonal | 2025-09-19 19:02:48+00:00
I feel sorry for you. I have experienced their support in both Germany and The Netherlands and it's stellar. You can call them, get someone on the line in a few minutes and they will genuinely try to help you. One time there was an issue with a transaction (amount subtracted twice), within a few minutes of calling I was in contact with someone from their finance department who not only solved the issue, they also called back a few days later to verify that I got the refund and to check if I was happy with their help.

Another time my wife wanted Apple Care, but decided on the last day and the website didn't offer the option anymore. She called, they were really helpful and again called back a few days later to check everything is good on our end.

They are a big-tech company, but actually being able to call someone and getting swift help is refreshing.

Edit: I only now realize the accidental pun: you probably won't be getting 'Swift' help. :p
by atombender | 2025-09-19 19:03:37+00:00
I don't know about "they". The billboards and the attempt to resurrect Theranos seems like a bizarro self-promotion stunt by a single guy named Ryan El-Hosseiny, who's been photoshopping himself into photos of Elizabeth Holmes, claiming the title of "CEO and Inventor", and insisting that he's known as "the Steve Jobs of medical labs" despite having no history in the medical industry.
by taurath | 2025-09-19 19:03:42+00:00
> I feel like I’m a failure

You are being failed, you are not a failure. This is not a privileged career, it is a (relative to other careers) lucrative one - some within it are privileged, they make bay area housing money, have ownership and stock. FAANG roles, where the most privileged or most prepared to succeed often land, are remarkably stable compared to your experience - such that a layoff is huge news and not just another tuesday like elsewhere in the industry. Many who speak about software development are in this position, and they know nothing else.

The contract game is not a privileged game - it is a working class job, where often people live near paycheck to paycheck renting in HCOL areas. For folks on contracts or at low or mid tier companies with mid tier pay, the work is more often than not tightly managed, low trust environments. You get "butts-in-seats" managers, you get "kiss-the-ring" leadership, you get micromanaged, you get no agency, and you don't get basic human respect. You are your output, and your output needs to meet near-arbitrary expectations regardless of your capacity. If you are sick because of the stress working at a place, they will move onto the next person.

This is not the reality for most of the optimistic high risk tolerance (IE: safe and privileged) people on Hacker News, but it is the reality for a huge amount of SWEs. Privilege is relative in this industry and it broadly follows the same lines. Those who already have a lot will be safe, and those with little have to work 3x as hard to have a chance at parity.

That isn't to say that one can't rock out, become extremely well respected, make a lot of money, do a startup, or get recognized from skills - the industry does an okay job at not being entirely credential focused, though its gotten far more so in the last 5 years.
by Tangurena2 | 2025-09-19 19:03:46+00:00
Part of the trouble with refining "rare earths" [1] is that the undesired residue (commonly called "slag") is radioactive and toxic. Smokestack emissions are also toxic enough that countries with pollution controls don't want them inside their borders. In the US, that means that every rare earth refinery becomes a SuperFund site [2].

China doesn't want to keep refining the metals - they want to move up the value chain by making things out of these metals. Instead of selling the refined neodymium & dysprosium for $50, they want to sell the electric motors that sell for $1,000.

Notes:

1 - They aren't rare at all, they're the bottom 2 strips/rows of the periodic table (of how it is most commonly displayed). Chemically, they're rather similar so the separation process is more complicated and annoying than, say, refining iron ore. Many people like to specifically exclude the actinides (the bottom row which includes uranium & plutonium) from the category "rare earth" because scary! radioactive! nuke! stuff! tends to divert discussion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element

2 - A major problem with SuperFund sites is that every person/corporation who owned that land at any time is responsible for cleaning up the toxic waste. Just like asbestos waste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund
by michaelt | 2025-09-19 19:04:00+00:00
Then you should take a good hard look at older, much cheaper Raspberry Pis.

Then look at Apple’s ARM offerings, and AWS Graviton if you need ARM with raw power.

If you need embedded/GPIO you should consider an Arduino, or clone. If you need GPIOs and Internet connectivity, look at an ESP32. GPIOs, ARM and wired ethernet? Consdier the the STM32H.

Robotics/machine vision applications, needing IO and lots of compute power? Consider a regular PC with an embedded processor on serial or USB. Or nvidia jetson if you want to run CUDA stuff.

And take a good hard look at your assumptions, as mini PCs using the Intel N100 CPU are very competitive with modern Pis.
by ToDougie | 2025-09-19 19:04:05+00:00
> I also have bright rope LEDs surrounding a few of my room ceilings, hidden behind coving. That light reflects smoothly off the entirety of the white ceilings. A great combination of very high intensity lighting, that is also gentle, diffuse and calming. Summer days, indoors, all year round.

I am intrigued -- please can you share any publicly available image of this solution? I'm not sure what to google search, or what it would even look like. But I am interested in feeling better while stuck indoors all day.
Show HN: Devsyringe – automate injecting dynamic values into static files
by Alchemmist | 2025-09-19 19:04:11+00:00
Tired of manually copying tunnel URLs, API tokens, or other dynamic values into config files? Even small tasks like this break flow and are error-prone.

I built Devsyringe, a small Go CLI that automates this process. You define rules in a simple YAML file, run a command, and it updates multiple static files automatically.

It works for tunnels, API keys, documentation, CI/CD configs — anywhere dynamic values need injecting. I’d love to hear how others handle injecting dynamic values into static files in their workflows.

GitHub: https://github.com/alchemmist/devsyringe
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-19 19:04:33+00:00
> They did experiments by repairing cornea that way:

As a person w/ keratoconus I have read a fair bit about this treatment, corneal collagen crosslinking with riboflavin (C3R).

It does not repair the damage caused by keratoconus. It stabilizes the cornea and slows or halts progression. The collagen in the cornea naturally crosslinks (likely due to UV exposure) over our lives. My our late 30s our corneas are stable. For someone with keratoconus, where the cornea becomes progressively misshapen, stabilizing the tissue with UV (enhanced by riboflavin) slows or prevents further damage.

I was just a few years too early in my diagnosis to benefit from C3R. My eyes have been stable for the last 10 - 12 years. I wish I could have had C3R when my condition was first diagnosed back in my 20s.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-09-19 19:04:37+00:00
It's a more censorship resistant platform, of course it'll see some spam. If this happens, you'll see lots of outrage, people see it as a way to test out and improve WoT.

The content (images, videos) itself is often quickly removed by blossom/media relay runners, especially if people report it and once they're cleared the spam notes are basically worthless to anyone because they're just dead links and spammy/abusive hashtags. Due to the hashtags is still quite easy to purge them.

I run my own relay and self reported it whenever one of these notes or uploads hit my systems. I built a quick shell script using AI to take care of almost all of that.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-19 19:05:20+00:00
No, for two reasons.

First, I don't think there is any technology that could learn my tastes and personality to any degree of accuracy, and particularly not if the only training material was social media. Likewise, I don't think that I could tell compatibility by interacting with someone else's AI.

Second, dating is not just about testing compatibility. It's also fun in its own right, and offers practice in social interaction (amongst a host of other things). Even if AI were able to accurately determine compatibility, limiting your dating experience to just those people means you are losing out on exercising and developing important social skills and perhaps inhibiting personal growth. Without growth and experience, you'll never expand the range of who you are compatible with and your social experiences will remain fixed to a smaller world.

Bad dates, as unpleasant as they may be in the moment, bring their own value to you and offer opportunities for personal growth.