MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by baobun | 2025-09-24 23:55:11+00:00
OotL: What's the angle on this acetaminophen/paraceamol/Tylenol drama in the media? It being one among many factors in autism does not discount other explanations so I can't see a "they're burying it" angle. We already know by now that acetaminophen is a dangerous shit drug that should be avoided by most and usually have other better options in the first place. The usual suspects for manufacturing opinions through these kinds of media plays (like J&J are prone to) would rather like to downplay it I presume.

Is there a lede?
by andrewmutz | 2025-09-24 23:55:40+00:00
You forgot the main source of pressure: you sell off equity in your company in exchange for cash. The buyers are buying the promise of future profits. At first, you still hold the vast majority of the voting rights, but over time you sell more and more and expectations rise and rise.

Eventually you are an organization whose purpose is to return cash to shareholders in the near term.

Hence a page full of ads, and no reason to think things will ever change.
by osigurdson | 2025-09-24 23:55:41+00:00
Thanks for the information. I think for some use cases this is perfectly fine but for others, a kind of one-stop-shopping approach is nice as well. For instance with podman (not desktop, just the cli), you only have to run: "winget install -e --id RedHat.Podman" and you are good to go. This is nice, particularly on bigger teams when you want to reduce friction to a bare minimum.
by godelski | 2025-09-24 23:56:28+00:00
> The idea that VCs or DAOs would give a penny for R&D is a sick joke.

Why? The funding required for more fundamental research is significantly lower. The rewards are also significantly higher. Let's be real, academic-like research is usually incredibly cheap.

And if we're looking at industry, it's laughable how much vaporware has received over the past few decades. Remember the Rabbit R1 that got over $30m in VC funding? Or the Humane pin which got over $200m and ended up being acquired for over $100m? How many billions has Magic Leap received? Did Theranos not raise well over a billion? Didn't Segway get over $100m back in 2001?! Or go look at any hype craze for VR, cryptocurrencies, or the current AI.

I'm sorry, you act like there isn't a massively high rate of failure in industry and that these VCs are making much more intelligent funding decisions. But we routinely see companies like Rabbit or Theranos get funded. Companies who no reasonable expert in their respective fields could conclude is anything short of obvious fraud.

I'm not saying there aren't companies and ideas that aren't worth the risks, but I think you don't realize how much your beliefs are based on survivorship bias. This type of investing is inherently high-risk high-reward. Investors, founders, and fanboys are routinely wrong about the level of impact and value something will have even if it is successful and not fraudulent.

The fact of the matter is that we tend to fund hype and charisma. Last I checked, these weren't the primary skills of technological innovators. Last I checked, the stereotype was in the exact opposite direction... Do you really think this is a more successful path?

> instead giving people the freedom to explore ideas and develop skills

This is essentially all you can fund at these stages. Truth is, no one knows the future.
by kuekacang | 2025-09-24 23:56:31+00:00
Surely. First time I used clipboard management was long time ago somewhen in windows xp era. But growing older make me not really incentivized on trying myself to relearn clipboard history gestures. I might do that someday though.

The difference is now I know git and text editor with hot-save support; with mostly textual clipboard, the texts usually just land in either git/editor.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-24 23:56:34+00:00
Based on public exit and liquidity event information, startups still remain a lottery ticket for most. 90% of startups fail entirely, for example (CB Insights). YC startups have more longevity, and more get to a Series A then non YC startups, but the best batches based on performance have been between 2009 and 2013. 10% achieve an exit, 4.5% became unicorns. Only 17 companies backed by YC (out of almost 5k) have gone public, and all except Airbnb, Instacart, and Reddit have underperformed post IPO.

Have fun, learn, develop and grow your skills and network, take the investment, but it’s important to be honest with one’s self about odds of success and outcome. If you win, respect and appreciate the lottery ticket for what it was. Hard work and years of grinding is table stakes, but you can still fail (and most do).

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/pulling-back-the-curtain-...

https://www.marketsentiment.co/p/the-yc-report
by dwaite | 2025-09-24 23:56:34+00:00
I agree with the strategy that Liquid Glass is part of.

They are making the iPadOS the mother platform for developing most things - scale down to iOS, or add a few extra changes for visionOS/macOS. iPadOS is gaining features to bring it closer to parity to macOS to make this delta smaller, and macOS is gradually becoming styled more to match iPadOS so apps look at home if the layout and graphic assets were mostly kept the same.

This started around macOS 11, with some major design changes along with Catalyst and SwiftUI to help developers.
by leakycap | 2025-09-24 23:56:51+00:00
Peter, I can see from your "about me" that you've been going through a hard time. All I can say is this is the point where you need to reach out to every person in your real, face-to-face life that cares about you and start reconnecting. Please. Human to human, you're lost right now and you need someone else to help you find your way back, I think.

It isn't going to be someone on the screen explaining these things you're asking about, it is going to be someone who knew you pre-2018. Please don't give up on reconnecting.
by mc3301 | 2025-09-24 23:57:21+00:00
There are often button which do important things, I want to double check the meaning of before clicking them. Selecting the text to copy/paste into a translator is absolutely beneficial.

And in Japan, the general layout of the "Go back to previous screen" and "confirm and continue" (left and right, respectively), is reversed from what English readers might be used to.

So if I can't select the text... I open up a hand-drawing-chinese-characters app and slowly draw out each character? I'd rather be able to select the text.

Note: unfortunately, so many button in Japanese UIs are actually .png files. I know this from experience of using and building apps and websites here.
by MountDoom | 2025-09-24 23:57:55+00:00
The founders of the company still have a controlling stake in the business. External shareholders have little leverage.

Going public gave Google a lot of nearly-free money to grow, and it's how you've gotten both Gmail and Google+. But more importantly, it allowed them to offer much higher total comp packages by issuing more stock on the go. I think they're prisoners of the stock market only insofar that if the stock stops going up, they're gonna have a harder time hiring and retaining talent.

In a way, it's the employees holding the company hostage. They're simultaneously complaining about innocence lost and stating their implicit preference for this outcome by demanding top-of-the-line comp.

If you want to be paid the same as at Microsoft or Facebook, you become Microsoft or Facebook.
by riemannzeta | 2025-09-24 23:58:01+00:00
I agree that global communication technology has been part of what has shifted the balance from small to large. But there's still a fundamental tension between where people live and who they can communicate with. I may form a startup with coworkers all over the world, but we cannot get in a room together unless we get on planes, get visas, etc.

In fact, I would say this is a key source of the tension between large and small that Terry has identified. Yes, large organizations are more efficient at most of what we need as humans. But our ape brains still benefit from being close enough to smell the people we're working with. Until we evolve biologically, it's going to be a problem that it's so much easier to work remotely than it is to work together in person. And the world is only making it harder to do the latter right now.
by cramsession | 2025-09-24 23:58:22+00:00
Valuations are at record highs though. For instance Microsoft stock is at an all time high yet they're instituting RTO (which was clearly not needed to get the stock to the ATH) and an aggressive, anti-employee culture. You can see a lot of this coming from people like Musk who have astronomical valuations, not tied in any way to reality.
by jbmchuck | 2025-09-24 23:58:55+00:00
My guess/experience - because there are probably layers of management and executives who have an uptime # in their OKRs or whatever is fashionable these days.

The decision to post anything about outages comes from the executive chain in many orgs lest they miss out on bonus compensation for the year.

This is the same reason services like docker and aws will very rarely call an outage an 'outage' - it's always 'service degradation', even when dockerhub is completely useless as it is right now.
by pembrook | 2025-09-24 23:59:15+00:00
You don't fall into any desirable demographic for targeting apparently, or you've never leaked enough info about you that would signify you as desirable.

In other words, nobody is bidding to reach your eyeballs specifically.

This could be a market inefficiency. OR, it could be you're actually a terrible lead for midjourney-type products, and the market is working correctly.
by krapp | 2025-09-24 23:59:34+00:00
This article appears to be about another person, I was asking about the person who shot Charlie Kirk. I know you only see an undifferentiated mass of "radical violent leftists" in your head but people actually are individuals and can have individual motives even when performing similar actions. Kirk's shooter did actually use memes, 'ANTI-ICE' as far as I know isn't a meme.

Also I thought you were leaving the thread. Here, let me show you how to actually do that.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-25 00:00:07+00:00
How is it that in todays day and age websites can be broken on desktops and favours smartphones? They are at best a compromised ux. Small screens and they are awkward to type on. Those are inherent limitations which are unlikely to change anytime soon. folding phones are a niche item and are likely to stay that way for the forseeable future. Tactile touchscreens will only mitigate the inherent drawbacks not solve them. The other solution is of course wearables like ar but not surprisingly people are stubbornly resisting buying them. I'm not sure what Apple and Meta were even thinking. What else is there? Projected holograms in 3d like in movies? I'm not yet ready for my entire world to turn blue.
by delfinom | 2025-09-25 00:00:09+00:00
I have a Yoga Slim 7x, which has the ARM. Screen quality is fantastic along with build quality, touchpad and keyboard feel :shrug:

It really depends on what Laptop line you buy. Dells have overwhelmingly become garbage, right next to HP.

Speaker quality on a laptop oth? Couldn't care less, I use headphones/earbuds 99% of the time because If I'm going portable computer, I'm traveling and I don't want to be an inconsiderate arse.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-09-25 00:00:11+00:00
> given that they already had it working via Proton for years

That's irrelevant, because Proton is literally a Windows emulation layer, (the product of decades of cumulative work). "they" (Larian) didn't have to do anything for that.

Certainly Larian's effort for making a Steam Deck native version is commendable (I hear it was the result of one single employee's effort). Larian is a rare beacon in the video games industry biz for the amount of post-launch support and content they provide.

But my point remains: supporting Linux broadly is a far larger, and ultimately unreasonable, ask, than just supporting the Steam Deck.
by xp84 | 2025-09-25 00:00:15+00:00
I feel like you'd need a new corporate structure or something, like the way an S-corp is different, but on steroids.

Because I agree, the forced obsession with "growth" at all costs, which seems necessary to operate a public company (at least in this century[1]), is imho the #1 reason why enshittification is unavoidable.

[1] I'd describe nearly all present-day corporations as fixated on quarterly results even at the expense of business viability. Something I truly don't understand is why big companies say, 75 years ago seem to have been so much less that way. If anyone has any theories I'd love to hear them.
by mercurialsolo | 2025-09-25 00:02:06+00:00
Product Hunt died a few years back. Can't say it was good when it lasted.

I also wonder whether software products can be discovered through a launch any longer. Just too much noise and high throughput at which they are being released - once u get past the page all products look like they were baked by clones or a completely divergent one that needs investment.

The launch model is broken.
by kentonv | 2025-09-25 00:02:08+00:00
> The WWW would like a quick word with you regarding function calls having won.

Nope, HTTP got it wrong. HTTP was designed to fetch files -- GET and PUT. It's fine at that. REST was invented as a way to shoehorn APIs into the model of HTTP. It's a weird model that's very different from regular programming, and people have a really hard time thinking about it. But some people argued that REST is the "right way" because it fits into this HTTP model that was never designed to support APIs in the first place. And other people said "yeah that makes sense" and went along with it.

Enormous amounts of effort are spent implementing REST APIs that wrap underlying programming language APIs, and then writing client libraries that implement the programming language APIs again on top of REST primitives.

It's all a waste. If the industry had taken a different path and focused on network protocols that model programming language APIs all along, I think we'd be in a much better place. Better late than never, though.

> 3. Procedure calls are not particularly composable > > See CORBA vs. REST.

I never personally used CORBA, but I have a lot of experience building big distributed systems on Cap'n Proto and I've found it far more composable than REST.
by riemannzeta | 2025-09-25 00:02:45+00:00
This is my hope too. But we need government to improve in its efficiency along with the small groups that can leverage AI into providing more of what government wants. I have some personal experience here. Local political action has never been easier in terms of producing the artifacts required by government to take formal action (petitions, resolutions, etc.). But the clerks, mayors, and council members who are responsible for making decisions can't read any faster!
by Aurornis | 2025-09-25 00:02:45+00:00
> Their top model still only has "Up to 228 GB/s" bandwdith which places it in the low end category for anything AI related, for comparison Apple Silicon is up to 800GB/s

Most Apple Silicon is much less than 800 GB/s.

The base M4 is only 120GB/s and the next step up M4 Pro is 273GB/s. That’s in the same range as this part.

It’s not until you step up to the high end M4 Max parts that Apple’s memory bandwidth starts to diverge.

For the target market with long battery life as a high priority target, this memory bandwidth is reasonable. Buying one of these as a local LLM machine isn’t a good idea.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-25 00:03:02+00:00
You can try with https://www.google.com/search?q=midjurny

My superpower is mispealing even trivial words, Google autocorrect them, but most of the time there are no ads :)

The problem in the post is even worst with YouTube, because Google adds allow to show http://example.com/sale?utm=123456789&crap=987654321 as http://example.com This is not a problem in most business sites, but in YouTube it allows any user to impersonate the main page.
by popalchemist | 2025-09-25 00:03:20+00:00
Yes, agreed to both points; but generally speaking the consensus is that physics, dealing with immutable laws, pertains to and operates within an assumed context of determinism until proven otherwise.

I happen not to believe in this, personally. It seems to me that the non-dual metaphysical teachings of the East show us that determinism happens within a sphere that is subject to free-will. The realm of phenomenology is a subset of something greater, where nothing is bound by conditions. This is the way things necessarily must be for free will to exist, by the way.
by nmstoker | 2025-09-25 00:03:26+00:00
I find Kagi pretty good - I'm UK based.

I upgraded my phone a few days back and when search defaulted back to Google I realised how worthwhile my subscription is.

It's not all perfect, for instance I would love to figure out how to stop all map searches sticking with them: sorry Google is just lightyears ahead there so I'd always prefer that. But generally they're about the right amount of customisability.

The killer feature for me is being able to bury sites so you never ever get results from them ever again and to slightly bump up/down results for particular reasons (your own, not due to someone else paying an ad placement fee!)
by array_key_first | 2025-09-25 00:04:24+00:00
You don't have to optimize anything, in fact you do the opposite of optimization.

Not making text selectable is extra work. You have to go out of your way to do that. That's the optimization, not the other way around.

If you just do things the way the web expects you will be shocked how much stuff magically works.

The back button too? Yeah, you don't need logic for that. That should just work right off the rip.
by dwaite | 2025-09-25 00:05:20+00:00
IMHO that is because Intel wasn't delivering chips meeting the specs they promised. Once you dropped it into a system and put a thermal/cooling profile in, the new chip didn't really perform better than the old one.

On the lower end, Apple just stopped releasing updates because there was no useful advantage to new chips.

On the high end, Apple was fighting between their desire to have a machine pleasant to use, and one that would fire the fans full speed at boot to keep up maximum performance without thermal throttling.
by SilverbeardUnix | 2025-09-25 00:05:44+00:00
You pay tax based on unimproved land value so what your neighbor builds doesn't matter. In your scenario, for what you're talking about to happen, everyone in the neighborhood needs to be building fourplexes and opening local businesses which would change the makeup of the entire neighborhood and taxes would adjust accordingly. So no, your neighbor building a duplex doesn't spike grandmas taxes. Under the current system, grandmas neighbor building a fourplex can increase her property value and have her paying a higher property tax anyway.
by singleshot_ | 2025-09-25 00:06:20+00:00
> a big tech company shouldn't decide what people are "allowed" to say

On their platform, that’s exactly what they are entitled to do. When you type into the box in the Facebook app, that’s your speech. But unless the platform wants to add your contribution to their coherent speech product, they have every right to reject it.

Otherwise, the government is deciding what people can say, and you’d be against that, right?

Further, if I wanted to start a social media platform called thinkingtylenolcausesautismisstupid.com, wouldn’t restricting my right to craft my product defeat the whole point of my business?

Giving platforms the ability to moderate their output to craft a coherent speech product is the only reason we have multiple social networks with different rules, instead of one first-mover social network with no rules where everyone is locked in by network effects.
by klaussilveira | 2025-09-25 00:06:30+00:00
It's not just on Mac. Zed's font rendering on Linux is also buggy and ugly. And they don't seem to care much:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11676

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4334

Font rendering should be the most important feature of a text editor.
by snowmaker | 2025-09-25 00:06:39+00:00
We might, and I'm sure you're right that there are many great founders not applying to do YC because they don't want to move here.

But I think it would be a better analogy to compare YC to a university, rather than to a company. It's true that many companies operate remotely very effectively. But essentially zero universities have stayed remote since the early days of the pandemic.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-25 00:06:40+00:00
For all of those app stores, the current approach prints them money and lets them claim impartiality, while still allowing some control through acceptance rules, ToSes and automated security measures. All those things scale well. Any other approach I can think of ends up having corner cases that involve human support or interfacing with regulatory systems - and these things do not scale well.
by indiebat | 2025-09-25 00:07:31+00:00
I know this is unfair to firefox, majority of enterprise software now (including and starting with Microsoft teams) outright say do not support firefox or have ‘limited’ support whatever that means.

For anyone working remotely like me, teams is a crucial piece of software (however bad it is). So as much as I like Firefox and legends that started it and religiously developed it over the years, bottom line, I can’t use it now.

Some maybe majority of blame falls on Mozilla, they let it stagnate and focus on cosmetic changes in last few years instead of focusing on improving core technology.
by layoric | 2025-09-25 00:07:32+00:00
Same with every other aspect of their offerings. Look at EC2 even with instances like m7a.medium, 1 vCPU (not core) and 4GB memory for ~$50 USD/month on demand or ~$35/month reserve 1 year. It isn't even close to be competitive outside other big cloud providers.

EDIT: clarity on monthly pricing.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-25 00:08:14+00:00
Maybe. That’s not an obvious conclusion in the strong sense that you mean it here. If you train a LLM on transcripts of multiplying very large numbers, machine generated and perfectly accurate transcripts, the LLM still exhibits the same sorts of mental math errors that people make.

Math, logical reasoning, etc. are cultural knowledge, not architecturally built-in. These biases and fallacies arise because of how we process higher order concepts via language-like mechanisms. It should not be surprising that LLMs, which mimic human-like natural language abilities (at the culture/learned level of abstraction, if not computation substrate) exhibit the same sorts of errors.
by xp84 | 2025-09-25 00:08:42+00:00
Yeah, I remember the long slow fade-out of the colored boxes the ads occupied. They went from like, pastel orange and green boxes, to lighter boxes, to even lighter boxes, to no boxes at all with the word Ad in a little symbol, to the way it is today where you have "Sponsored" on a different line than the ad, and you have to scroll below the fold to even see the first organic result, if there even is one, and only 2-5 organic results are even shown by default. And also of course in the mix, the AI Overview made up from I assume a handful of the spammy results being thrown through the cheapest, smallest model possible and summarized.