MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JohnMakin | 2025-10-16 20:11:21+00:00
I like more competitive environments too, but when life hits you out of nowhere, as it surely will, you may come to regret working in one of these environments when it happens. It happened to me - a close family member died and they wouldn't approve any time off to attend to it, then I had a major surgery, barely got approved for the day of the event and no recovery time, so I was forced to take over a month of unpaid leave. I was basically forced out after that point, for things that are pretty normal for someone to be dealing with. You're not going to be young forever.
by meeech | 2025-10-16 20:11:41+00:00
something requiring navigating stairs while holding something full like a laundry basket. bronze - straight stairs, silver - one 90deg turn. gold - spiral.

something requiring co-ordination between 2 robots. think relay race which the olympics has. So say, moving a couch together.

btw love the idea and the silver body suit. good stuff.
by jopsen | 2025-10-16 20:12:24+00:00
But when stuck inside the porous surfaces isn't the problem mostly when they become airborne again?

Most of us don't eat wooden furniture -- granted my toddler didn't get the memo :)

Thus, continuous ventilation (while not perfect) is hopefully still a decent alternative. Probably better than active charcoal filter.

Granted I should probably out a charcoal filter on the ventilation intake to reduce pollutants coming in from nearby traffic. (All depending on your level of paranoia)
by arscan | 2025-10-16 20:12:55+00:00
Netscape 4 was the bane of my existence, moreso than IE6 ever was, as an important client standardized internally on that forever so our entire platform had to be completely compatible with it. At least with IE you could do things in a user friendly way (perhaps at 2x the development and maintenance cost). Netscape 4 simply didn’t have the capability to do things we wanted to do experience-wise (like getting pushed content, I think?) without doing some extremely crazy and brittle workarounds at best (making it feel more like 5x the cost).

Also, IE4 was such a magnificent leap forward in the web that effectively enabled support for modern apps, which bought IE a ton of goodwill from me that didn’t wear off for a decade or so.
by pjb88 | 2025-10-16 20:13:07+00:00
I saw this plane out my window when it was landing at Prestwick. It was dark and windy about 60mph and I said to my wife "what's that in the sky". The airport is about 5 miles away, for some reason this one caught my eye - in the hundreds/thousands of planes that go by I've never said that before, don't know if it was pointed an odd direction but it appeared stationary. We thought it was like a star, but too bright. We looked it up on flight radar to see if it was a plane and it was the one that later came out.

I know this will not be relevant to anything but I thought it was a strange coincidence then I saw it on my hn feed.
by caycep | 2025-10-16 20:13:08+00:00
I also wonder if there's a good way to monitor the "social health" of a lot of these projects. Debian seems to be relatively stable, at least from the outside, but how to tell if something is relatively healthy, i.e. say the Linux kernal, Debian or python vs if its fate is headed to something like the old OpenSSL where it was one guy plugging holes by himself like the Dharma Initiative guy on Lost...
by epiccoleman | 2025-10-16 20:14:01+00:00
The first thing that came to mind the first time I saw Skibidi Toilet was this kind of TF2 SFM memery, which I love. The expressions in the second verse and the Spy's slow turn to look to heaven still really amuse me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUH_wRrZZo
by kstrauser | 2025-10-16 20:14:07+00:00
From the depths of my heart: thank you. Whatever you did to kill it, I claim it was justified self-defense. I have my scars from the Browser Wars, and the string "IE6" fills me with loathing to this day.

For my own part, I made sure my employer had plans to remove IE6 from our support list the day Google officially did the same in March 2010. The very next day, I started adding code to our site that complied with official standards and worked perfectly on every other browser, and removing all the compatibility hacks we'd deployed to make that pig render a screen correctly. It was incredibly liberating.
by dangus | 2025-10-16 20:14:17+00:00
Not everyone wants to be required to purchase and operate a 5-figure transportation device where you must be abled to operate it, it depreciates to dust and might kill you in a crash, etc. Why is that the standard of “freedom” but “living on top of each other” is a bad thing?

Comfortable suburbs do not have to be wasteful of land, purposefully difficult to walk around, and built so that you must own a car to get around. You can live in a single family home without consuming an excessive amount of land. There are many examples of single family homes suburbs and neighborhoods within city limits where land isn’t wasted like crazy and residents are confined to living life in their vehicles.

Americans literally spend thousands of dollars on vacations to the great cities of the world (and Disney World) where people gladly “live on top of each other” in order to enjoy the benefits of walkable urban fabric.

I will also point out that sprawl is horrendous for the natural environment. Dense cities are better for the planet and our long-term survival. Replacing fertile farmland and natural habitats with development has negative consequences. Your preferences to live in sprawl don’t outweigh humanity’s collective needs.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-16 20:14:24+00:00
> Given that AI couldn't even speak English 6 years ago, do you really think it's going to struggle with unit tests for the next 20 years?

Yes.

LLM is a very interesting technology for machines to understand and generate natural language. It is a difficult problem that it sort of solves.

It does not understand things beyond that. Developing software is not simply a natural language problem.
by jraph | 2025-10-16 20:15:20+00:00
Again, that's a terrible presentation of the situation. It makes me look like I defend AWS.

That's like saying that although I could, I won't vote for candidate C who is against the freedom of the press when candidate C would prevent awful newspaper N from publishing its horrible bullshit.

I'd prefer newspaper N not to publish bullshit, or even to not exist at all, but I wouldn't want this to cost the freedom of the press.

AWS doing terrible things shouldn't cost us user software freedom.

Yes, indeed, there's stuff that I will do or won't do out of principles, of course! Even if it would be convenient to do otherwise! Is this an alien concept?

How is this difficult to understand that someone doesn't want compromises on rights that ought to be fundamental?
by francislavoie | 2025-10-16 20:15:36+00:00
You can easily customize Caddy's browse template to your liking. It's just a text file, you can take the default and modify it, or write your own from scratch if you like. See https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/file_serve... Some users have posted theirs on the forums as well if you need more inspiration.
by Nathanngai | 2025-10-16 20:16:12+00:00
The problem with building a community is having people with similar mindset show up. For our community, we're looking for product builders who are curious about new ways in building products.

But how do you test people for curiosity?

We built a website that is seemingly broken but the invitation is in the code.

How this works is that I would invite ppl through social and I'll send them this invitation link. If the first reaction is "whatever, its broken" and they close the window, then they might not be a good fit. If their reaction is, something is broken, I'll check out the code, then those are the people who will get the invite.

I’ve been running this for the last few months with roughly 10ish ppl showing up to each session.

If you’re building a community, this might be a fun way to get the right people to come out
by Balgair | 2025-10-16 20:16:28+00:00
Flip the script!

Why have installations or stores at all? Just have a self driving and self making burrito trucks. You order one up, and on the way to you, it's being made in the back. Little hatch on the side, shoots out onto your doorstep or through your window.

Then, of course, you've now got an arms race of self making burrito trucks roaming about. Chipotle has one, Taco bell too. And, of course, if a Taco Bell truck knows that a Chipotle truck is next to it on the freeway, well, I mean, there's no one inside it of course. How could you prove that those nails came out of the bottom of the truck anyways?

Pretty soon, we've got burrito trucks duking it out, battle bots style, on the freeways and streets. And then you gotta deploy countermeasures, armor, etc. Just to get your burrito to you. Order up two from different companies and you've got dinner and a show.

And, honestly, is this not the future we all really want? Giant junk food filled mech-cars blasting each other at high speeds from the comfort of our couches.
by syncsynchalt | 2025-10-16 20:16:46+00:00
It was worse than IE not adopting standards. It was a capricious browser, would crash and misbehave for arbitrary reasons, and had an almost perverse implementation of web rendering.

People try to equate it to Safari now but that's just not comparable. Safari will render something badly or not support a CSS decorator that you'd really like to use, but it will rarely crash, go into an infinite URL-fetching loop, or arbitrarily fail to recognize random HTML tags.
by ho_schi | 2025-10-16 20:16:51+00:00
That would be awesome. Or Catia?

Valves native Linux ports changed the situation at home. But when these get native ports Microsoft loses ground in the industry.

Not in the companies which buy everything a “Microsoft Sales Droid” offers. But many (young and old) Admins would cheer, and escape path out of hell. The short sighted MBAs are the biggest internal enemy?
by illiac786 | 2025-10-16 20:16:51+00:00
Well it’s on the way there but it’s not yet. American democracy still has some spine left I hope. But we are closer than we have ever been I think.

As an example, I don’t think Trump can make Sundar Pichai or Tim Cook disappear and then retreat from public life, like what happened with Jack Ma. To be clear I do not hold any of these individuals in high esteem, I am just illustrating the power of Xi Jinping, compared to Trump’s.
by TomasBM | 2025-10-16 20:17:12+00:00
You might want to look into knowledge graphs (KGs), graph databases, ontologies, and similar.

I personally and professionally used these to do some cool things, like run audits across different systems simultaneously. Common stack would include Protege for creating the ontologies (i.e., a schema of how the things you're interested in link to each other), Ontotext Refine or py scripts to populate the graphs, and Ontotext GraphDB or Neo4j AuraDB for storing them.

It's relatively easy to then connect this knowledge base to an LLM, and get more flexibility out of it.

That said, there aren't that many user-friendly tools that get the most out of KGs. Most people I worked with weren't interested in KGs or knowledge bases themselves, they just wanted their particular problem solved. And often, it was easier to justify purchasing a subscription to managed tools that (claim to) solve the problem.

So, unless you're OK with building some middleware to combine user apps with KGs, it won't stick with others, in my experience.
by linguae | 2025-10-16 20:17:37+00:00
I think what did IE in was the security issues that IE, ActiveX, and Windows had in the mid-2000s. This, combined with IE 6's stagnation, gave Firefox an opening to compete and to challenge the IE 6 monopoly.

There was a sweet spot between roughly 2007 and sometime in the mid 2010s when web developers coded to standards instead of just the dominant browser, and where there was browser diversity: Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and IE 7+. It was a good time for the Web.

Chrome then became dominant, and unfortunately now we're in a "Best viewed in Chrome" era, and we're back in an era where some developers only code for the dominant browser.
by spankalee | 2025-10-16 20:18:02+00:00
Ironically, YouTube is now forced to support a browser that has terrible standards support, entirely of their own making: Cobalt[1].

YouTube on TVs is actually a web app that loads into a stripped down, custom webview. The YouTube team doesn't have the resources to implement many web APIs, so they implemented just what they needed.

The problem is that they can't reliably update Cobalt versions on TVs, they can't ask users to update, and they can't just break older TVs in the wild. So the YouTube on TV frontend (not YouTube TV the service) has to only use APIs they shipped like 10 years ago.

And because it takes so long for an old Cobalt version to go out of support, they don't invest in implementing new features because they wouldn't be usable anytime soon. 10 years ago I was in a meeting with them where they said they couldn't implement something because they wouldn't be able to use it for 5 years... They still haven't implemented it.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/youtube/cobalt
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-16 20:18:17+00:00
> Weird you brought it up as something that should be ignored?

They didn't say it should be ignored but instead that it's not relevant to any point that was made by the person it's in reply to.

They are pointing out that something is true and then someone else points out how that thing became true, seemingly as a refutation of the initial point. The first point wasn't about how, so the second point is changing the topic.
by realityfactchex | 2025-10-16 20:19:06+00:00
Not really, though?

That's what I thought at first, after trying one inflation calculator: $30 for a decent meal, sure, and double that maybe for a pretty tasty meal, is pretty available. (Even then, I think ingredient purity and true preparation aptitude could be pretty suspect, especially at the lower end.)

BUT, TRYING AGAIN: Some inflation calculators do not go back to 1900. But looking further, $0.15 to $1.00 in 1900 would be $5.67 to $38.57 in 2025 dollars, according to https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/

I do wonder if there are discontinuities in inflation calculators for the times before the great fires in each city. Setting that aside, and assuming https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1900?amount=0.15 is accurate, 15 cents in 1900 would be $5.64 in 2025 AFAICT at the moment.

It would be very hard to find a decent sandwich for $5.67 just about anywhere in the USA, much less a multi-course, local, fresh, gourmet meal.

I think it's the general availability of these kinds of pure foods, and their accessibility all about town, prepared to near perfection, even accessible to the poor, that stands out in the Old San Francisco description. To wit:

> ...Hotel de France. This restaurant stood on California street...a big ramshackle house, which had been a mansion of the gold days. Louis, the proprietor, was a Frenchman...his accent was as thick as his peasant soups. The patrons were Frenchmen of the poorer class, or young and poor clerks and journalists who had discovered the delights... > First ...was the soup mentioned before—thick and clean and good. Next, ...a course of fish—sole, rock cod, flounders or smelt—with a good French sauce. The third course was meat. This came on en bloc; the waiter dropped in the centre of each table a big roast or boiled joint together with a mustard pot and two big dishes of vegetables. Each guest manned the carving knife in turn and helped himself to his satisfaction. After that, ...a big bowl of excellent salad.... For beverage, there stood by each plate a perfectly cylindrical pint glass filled with new, watered claret. The meal closed with "fruit in season"—all that the guest cared to eat....the price was fifteen cents! > If one wanted black coffee he paid five cents extra...a beer glass full of it. ...he threw in wine and charged extra for after-dinner coffee... > Adulterated food at that price? Not a bit of it! The olive oil in the salad was pure, California product—why adulterate when he could get it so cheaply? The wine, too, was above reproach.... Every autumn, he brought tons and tons of cheap Mission grapes, ...The fruit was small, and inferior, but fresh...wished his guests would eat nothing but fruit, it came so cheap...
by screye | 2025-10-16 20:19:12+00:00
On the contrary.

Increasing density within the core allows people to switch to walking, cycling and transit. It reduces road traffic and those who want to commute from the burbs gain a faster commute. New housing isn't zero sum. Increasing housing in the core doesn't reduce housing in the outskirts.

The new Caltrains are a good model for transit as a valid mode for suburban commuting. A table, chair and wifi allows commuting to be a productive period to get work done. Boston's commuter rail & NYC's LIRR routes are also excellent, though they could use technological (wifi, charging, tables) upgrades. It doesn't make the commute shorter, but allows you to leave early and continue work on the train.
by xp84 | 2025-10-16 20:19:13+00:00
Yes! And the closer you look, the more you notice that "both sides" have their pet things that are obviously worth complicating the tax code to do. What most of us want is just for the other half of the people to give up all their favorite complications, so that our "worth it" half would be manageable. Which is why the complexity only grows.
by tptacek | 2025-10-16 20:19:27+00:00
I don't know that it does, but I do know that carrageenan does, and they're both just seaweed extracts.

Later

This video is really frustrating. The first half of it is making relatively banal arguments about the importance of food to health. He's setting up an argument that I think basically everybody agrees with (hyperpalatable packaged food are a major driver of illness). But then he gets to UPFs, says the definition is totally agreed on, and then says they're all made by investor-driven large corporations.

That's just straightforwardly false. I made a mac & cheese out of some stored roasted cauliflower (never put a raw cauliflower in your fridge). To melt the aged cheddar I used, I added a half teaspoon of sodium citrate (a miracle ingredient). My cauli-mac is now a UPF. No giant corporation made it.

My argument isn't that packaged food isn't exactly as much of a problem as the UPF people say it is. My argument is that "UPF" is not the right axis on which to determine which foods are and aren't healthy.
by rconti | 2025-10-16 20:20:03+00:00
A major factor in my choice of house location here in the silicon valley 'burbs was to be near "stuff".

I have a small strip mall type shopping center with a grocery store a 2 block walk away. Brewpub, taqueria, pizza joint, grocery store, starbucks, UPS store, wine bar, fitness studio, yoga place, etc. Plus there's a post office another block away. Hell, yesterday I walked the 2mi roundtrip to the local Stanford medical outpost to have my blood draw done.
by masonkim25 | 2025-10-16 20:20:06+00:00
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by crote | 2025-10-16 20:20:13+00:00
Considering there are no meaningful patent-free x86 CPUs in the wild, why should they?

It's just the default optimization level for those distros. If patent-free x86 CPUs become relevant, compiling another set of binaries would be trivial. Until then it doesn't make any sense to kneecap the >99% of x86 deployments by deliberately refusing to use faster and more efficient instructions.
by helentoomik | 2025-10-16 20:20:20+00:00
In these cases, where the term is made up of a combination of a simple verb (set, break, shut, log) plus a preposition (in, up, down, out, off, etc): if it's a verb, it's two words. If it's a noun, it's one word.

Another way to look at it: the verb doesn't magically grow together and apart if you use it in different tenses (past, present, future). "I am setting up" (present) is two words - therefore the "set up" in "I set up a script yesterday" and "I did not set up" also needs to be two words.
by dogma1138 | 2025-10-16 20:20:58+00:00
In theory yes, the problem is that even x86 emulation in hardware in order to run x86 code natively without recompiling can drag you into a legal mess which any western company will avoid.

NVIDIA got pinched for this over a decade ago.

I’m not entirely sure how Qualcomm and Apple didn’t.

But overall the more you try to make an x86 enabled alternative viable the more likely you’ll get served with papers and even if you’ll win it would take a decade and cost 100’s of millions to fight.
by Tangurena2 | 2025-10-16 20:20:59+00:00
Which one?

During the Cold War, one criticism of socialists/communists was that they were taking orders from Moscow. Likewise, Catholics were presumed to be taking orders from Rome.

> Supporters of the Know Nothing movement believed that an alleged "Romanist" conspiracy to subvert civil and religious liberty in the United States was being hatched by Catholics. Therefore, they sought to politically organize native-born Protestants in defense of their traditional religious and political values.

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

During the later 1800s, many "charity hospitals" would abduct children of Catholic women and then sell them as orphans that other people could adopt. The Klu Klux Klan would also attack Catholics - not just burning crosses and lynching black people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Train https://orphantraindepot.org/history/opposition-to-the-orpha...

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

> Not only were Irish immigrants viewed as interlopers by many white Americans (an irony, considering the historical treatment of Native Americans), but these immigrants were Catholics in a primarily Protestant land. It was a religious difference that widened the divide, as did the fact that many Irish immigrants didn't speak English. As strange as may it may sound today, Irish immigrants were not considered "white" and were sometimes referred to "negroes turned inside out."

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/when-iri...

The history site covers how people perceive the value of work has changed over the centuries.

Index of the history of the ethics of work/labor: http://workethic.coe.uga.edu/history.htm

Home page of this mini-site: http://workethic.coe.uga.edu/index.html

The Wikipedia page has lots of links and references about PWE.

> In 1998, the International Sociological Association listed this work as the fourth most important sociological book of the 20th century, after Weber's Economy and Society, C. Wright Mills' The Sociological Imagination, and Robert K. Merton's Social Theory and Social Structure.[3] It is the eighth most cited book in the social sciences published before 1950.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...
by vipshek | 2025-10-16 20:21:18+00:00
I don't have much to say about this post other than to vigorously agree!

As an engineer who's full-stack and has frequently ended up doing product management, I think the main value I provide organizations is the ability to think holistically, from a product's core abstractions (the literal database schema), to how those are surfaced and interacted with by users, to how those are talked about by sales or marketing.

Clear and consistent thinking across these dimensions is what makes some products "mysteriously" outperform others in the long run.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-16 20:21:25+00:00
Worth keeping in mind this is made by a "AI investor", so obviously comes with a lot of bias. It's also a relatively tiny survey, seems only 1.2K people answered.

An example of the bias:

> shows that 95% of professionals now use AI at work or home

Obviously 95% of professionals don't use AI at work or home, and these results are heavily skewed.