MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by parhamn | 2025-10-16 17:18:26+00:00
I'm surprised that's not illegal, and I think states will pass laws to fix this.

In my area, an &Pizza is $12 on their App, $19 on Doordash (delivery or pickup). A Chipotle burrito is $9.50 vs $12.35 on doordash delivery (plus every addon is a $1 more expensive).

You can easily pay an extra $4/$5 (30%) per item you order on there.
by walkabout | 2025-10-16 17:18:34+00:00
The press corps is already 50% right wing podcasters and 5th-tier far right / conspiracy outlets. And any time one of the remaining actual reporters asks even a mundane and non-confrontational question they just get called names, told their network/paper is failing, told their question is “nasty”, and don’t get an answer. The access they have is even more pointless than it usually is, they may as well not show up.
by buzzovich | 2025-10-16 17:18:50+00:00
You keep reinforcing my point. Absolutely true that folk psychology impregnates CS. I mean, look at Churchland. Totally spot on with stuff being flawed.

I am not disputing that. It is flawed. I agree. But what if those flaws impregnate a system to the point they produce functional utility? Because when a system is trained on that same folk psychology, it can yield measurable results.

This isn't about "does cognition exist", or even "is cognition correct". It's about "what happens when you stop listening to theory and start looking at empirical evidence that seems to show that these structured relational patterns are producing measurable differences." If its distinguishable empirically, does it matter if it's "folk science", "vague" or "an illusion".

If I add 10 words to a prompt, regardless of what any expert says, and it actually produces better quality, isn't that worth exploring?

Anyway, let's see what independent testing shows. We might be hitting a philosophical impasse.
by Spoom | 2025-10-16 17:19:17+00:00
> Receiving government assistance? Some kinds are taxable, some aren’t.

One would think that the government should know what government assistance you're getting. In any case, taxable benefits get reported to the IRS automatically on form 1099-G.

> Moved states? You have multiple state filings now.

Arguably irrelevant. You can change how filings work federally without changing how state filings work. Perfect is the enemy of good, etc.

> Got married? divorced? Splitting custody or property? Special tax forms to fill.

Sure. Sometimes you have life events that happen where you'll need to make adjustments. Such possible events can be mentioned in the letter / email you get from the IRS, with details as to how to adjust the filing. This is typically how it's been done in other countries with automatic filing.

> Native American? Veteran with disability? Senior? Student with loans? Bankruptcy? Freelance income? Etc.

Income typically gets reported to the IRS on a 1099 or a W-2.

Loan interest gets reported to the IRS on 1098-E, so the deduction could be automatically calculated.

Presumably the IRS would know if you previously filed a tax exemption and could assume that hasn't changed if it's based on things like having registered membership in a federally recognized tribe. Even if you haven't filed that exemption before, presumably the government would know that you registered the membership.

The government knows your birth date so presumably they'd be able to calculate when you become a senior, where that's relevant.

Bankruptcy is one of those special cases that I'd expect would be an exception case where you'd need to adjust the filing (and your trustee would probably help with that).

Most people don't have special cases that require changes. The IRS already has a shockingly large amount of data on people. I encourage you to try getting your tax transcript some time[1], it should be illuminating.

1. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript
by larodi | 2025-10-16 17:19:26+00:00
Many people don't even know the Syrian ancestry of Jobs, as per WikiPedia.

Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (Arabic: عبد الفتاح الجندلي)

...

His cousin Bassma Al Jandaly has claimed that Jobs' birth name (prior to adoption) was Abdul Lateef Jandali (Arabic: عبد اللطيف الجندلي).

Perhaps also a good moment to remember this Banksy art

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/dec/11/banksy-...

(...from where we read..)

In a rare statement accompanying the work, Banksy said: “We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant. Apple ... only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs.”
by asa400 | 2025-10-16 17:19:31+00:00
Just a data point on the deps compilation, on a small Phoenix app with mostly stock Phoenix deps:

MIX_OS_DEPS_COMPILE_PARTITION_COUNT=1 mix deps.compile 32.30s user 7.23s system 320% cpu 12.336 total MIX_OS_DEPS_COMPILE_PARTITION_COUNT=5 mix deps.compile 0.37s user 0.49s system 12% cpu 6.970 total MIX_OS_DEPS_COMPILE_PARTITION_COUNT=10 mix deps.compile 0.38s user 0.50s system 12% cpu 7.236 total

Machine is a Mac M1 Max, `rm -rf _build` in between each run.
by j45 | 2025-10-16 17:20:09+00:00
LLMs are a probability based calculation, so it will always skim to some degree, and always guess to some degree, and often pick the best choice available to it even though it might not be the best.

For folks who this seems elusive for, it's worth learning how the internals actually work, helps a great deal in how to structure things in general, and then over time as the parent comment said, specifically for individual cases.
by like_any_other | 2025-10-16 17:20:40+00:00
> but then, time-after-time, they don't do it.

But they do vote for it. They vote for environmental laws that make products and food more expensive, they vote for animal cruelty laws that make food more expensive, they vote for tariffs to keep/re-shore industries that make products more expensive. Time and time again, they choose the more expensive options.

They only don't if the only "choice" you recognize is that of a consumer (and probably an uninformed consumer at that), not that of a citizen. Bot of course corporations would love it if the only action their opposition could take is in which products they consume.
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-16 17:20:44+00:00
It's standard http so you don't have to build your own bad version of http on top of it. It's handles disconnects for you. You can use the browsers built in compression over the life of the connection. You have access to brotli/zstd without having to ship it to the browser first (and it's the C++ version).

In short it means you don't have to do any manual diffing, just let the compression do it for you, and have something on the client like morph to merge it in to the dom. It's way more bandwidth efficient as compression is at the byte/char level not at the semantic html level (and not per message but over the whole stream).
by zobzu | 2025-10-16 17:20:59+00:00
IMO this is a context window issue. Humans are pretty good are memorizing super broad context without great accuracy. Sometimes our "recall" function doesn't even work right ("How do you say 'blah' in German again?"), so the more you specialize (say, 10k hours / mastery), the better you are at recalling a specific set of "skills", but perhaps not other skills.

On the other hand, LLMs have a programatic context with consistent storage and the ability to have perfect recall, they just don't always generate the expected output in practice as the cost to go through ALL context is prohibitive in terms of power and time.

Skills.. or really just context insertion is simply a way to prioritize their output generation manually. LLM "thinking mode" is the same, for what it's worth - it really is just reprioritizing context - so not "starting from scratch" per se.

When you start thinking about it that way, it makes sense - and it helps using these tools more effectively too.
by lxgr | 2025-10-16 17:21:14+00:00
Absorption is usually not a one-way street, though: Surfaces absorb gasses when the concentration in the air is higher than that on the surface boundary, but often also release them back into the air otherwise (which is why you can e.g. smell cigarette smoke in clothes – if they only captured it, there would be nothing for you to smell).

The only difference are some materials like charcoal, which does permanently bind many substances (but as a result can also saturate).

No idea which kind lime and clay are (i.e. "absorb and permanently bind with limited capacity" or "act as a buffer both ways").

> Combined with a HEPA filter in the air circulation system

HEPA filters are not effective against VOCs.
by fair_enough | 2025-10-16 17:21:30+00:00
Not to be pedantic, but I think you mean "shareholders".

In the context of software, the term "stakeholder" means anyone who will use the project being worked on.

In the context of business, "stakeholder" is an intentionally nebulous term designed to obfuscate who is supposed to be enriched by the actions of the company. Usually that term is a way of deceiving people into thinking the company's goal is to serve "the community", when in reality it's serving the shareholders at the expense of the well-being of the community.

Sometimes, it's a way of deceiving the shareholder for the benefit of the executives, e.g. some "DEI" bullshit that hurts the community, the shareholders, and most of the employees just to feed the HR department and the C-suite's insatiable lust for power.

EDIT - I'd like to add a comment about "shareholder" and "stakeholder" sounding so similar, but in practice meaning two mutually-incompatible things:

This is by design. You're not supposed to be conscientious of the difference in meaning.

You're supposed to hear "shareholder capitalism's kinder, gentler successor", not "corporate-owned feudalism".
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-16 17:21:34+00:00
> Stateful Metaprogeamming

Bit of a fun fact, but as one of the linked articles states the C++ committee doesn't seem to be a fan of stateful metaprogramming so its status is somewhat unclear. From Core Working Group issue 2118:

> Defining a friend function in a template, then referencing that function later provides a means of capturing and retrieving metaprogramming state. This technique is arcane and should be made ill-formed.

> Notes from the May, 2015 meeting:

> CWG agreed that such techniques should be ill-formed, although the mechanism for prohibiting them is as yet undetermined.

[0]: https://cplusplus.github.io/CWG/issues/2118.html
by wenc | 2025-10-16 17:21:36+00:00
As a Canadian living in the US, I’d say your sentiment depends on where you live and what you’re willing to pay.

In the Seattle area there are overpriced grocery stores like PCC and Met Market that sell healthy food at a premium.

There is also Whole Foods.

Even normal grocery stores like Safeway and Kroger have a ton of healthy foods — you just have to read the label.

The one thing you have to know if that American grocery stores are giant — they carry way more SKUs than the average European grocery store. It’s on the shopper to find what they want. It’s usually there.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-16 17:21:59+00:00
No idea what it is really or how it'd benefit me.

Every other time I've interacted with AI as a user I've been unimpressed with the results, I've programmed for nearly 40 years without AI so I can give it a year or two to see what's still standing and then adopt that then.

Life is too short to jump on every bandwagon that drives past.

Also I don't like delegating my thinking to a machine that can't think - that feels like weaponised learned helplessness or DunningKrugerAsAService so something would have to be very obviously very good so good that I wouldn't be able to avoid seeing how good it is - I'll look at it then.
by screye | 2025-10-16 17:22:23+00:00
I have changed my opinion on professional warmth.

In demanding industries, people spend 2/3rds of their waking hours around their coworkers. That's practically their whole life. It's cruel to encourage coldness in such an environment. You aren't family. But, you can be comrades. Your friendships can be forged through shared struggles, shared spaces and convenience.

It's a unique trait of tech companies to encourage cold but polite relations with your coworkers. Other industries have layoffs, politics and capitalistic competition. That doesn't stop coworkers from becoming friends.

The new generation is more isolated than ever before. The workplace is one of the few remaining mandatory social spaces. We should encourage the organic warmth that builds up between coworkers. It's cliche. But we're social animals.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-16 17:22:36+00:00
At a fundamental level, I agree with you.

I also believe that the fact 1,000 employees can be laid off at once, and then flood the market with applications, is not something we should prevent. Rather, it's a sign we need to make more small independent companies. This is a concentration problem.

That would of course require that maybe we shouldn't have the Magnificent 7, but the Magnificent 100. Maybe instead of the Fortune 500, we need the Fortune 5000, with each one much smaller. Not happening anytime soon with current incentives, but I think it would be better for everyone. We shouldn't split Google into two, but into thirty.

It would be radical... but imagine if we set an aggressive, aggressive cap on employees and contractors. Like, limit 100, with a 1% corporate income tax on every additional person. Projects at scale - 50 companies cooperating; maybe with some sort of new corporation cooperation legal structure (call it the D-Corp, it manages a collection of C-Corps working together, and cannot collect profits for itself or own property, a nonprofit that manages for-profit companies who voluntarily join in a singular direction).
by 0x457 | 2025-10-16 17:22:37+00:00
> I'm going to have to look into home-manager

It's amazing, I have the same terminal environment in WLS2, macOS and linux. NeoVim with all of its native dependencies, all k8s tools, etc. Sometimes I run it issues something not working on macos, but usually easy to resolve, if not, I use homebrew via home-manager.
by nozzlegear | 2025-10-16 17:22:54+00:00
I was addressing your point about Steve Jobs being a globalist, which you made out to be a bad thing. Globalism is a rising tide that lifts all boats.

> Arguably, affordable antibiotics and underwear have made a vastly bigger positive impact on standard of living than iPhones.

Maybe so, but "positive impact on standard of living" isn't the theme of this US Mint collection. The theme is "American Innovation."
by gcanyon | 2025-10-16 17:22:54+00:00
You might enjoy Kurzgesagt's video on moving the Sun (and with it the whole solar system) they propose a method that would theoretically let us colonize the galaxy in a reasonable (but not trivial) time frame.

To your exact point though, since we're moving the whole solar system, everyone would be living their whole lives on the/a ship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3y8AIEX_dU
by gruez | 2025-10-16 17:24:18+00:00
>These layoffs occur at such scale that it's unreasonable to assume any individual employee being "let go" has even been evaluated as an individual.

Isn't that most layoffs? Think of the layoffs post GFC. Did the subprime mortgage crisis suddenly make everyone incompetent, or are companies simply trying to trim budgets and need to hit some number? If it's actually due to poor performance, it would be through a PIP or similar.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-16 17:24:47+00:00
What could "the curve will not be consumer-friendly" mean in this context?

The whole point of creating a robot taxi service is to sell to consumers. If it's not consumer-friendly, then consumers won't buy it, which defeats the point?

Robot taxis are hardly a staple one needs to exist, people have been easily living without robot taxis, and if the price is consumer-unfriendly, they will simply not use them.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-16 17:24:54+00:00
I've also been in a (albeit much smaller) civil lawsuit, as the pro se plaintiff, for about six months, in a small claims court.

Last week, I finally got an attorney to review a bunch of my LLM conversations / court filings, and it's been a good way to have saved a few thousand dollars (not having to fumble through explaining my legal theory to him — he can just follow along with my selected GPTs).

This was only because I got served a countersuit, and figured it was worth a few thousand dollars to not owe somebody on account of not entirely understanding civil procedure. Probably'll end up in Circuit Court, where being pro se is a terrible idea IMHO.
by doomrobo | 2025-10-16 17:25:05+00:00
You're right that, when your own server is trustworthy, fully self-hosting removes the need for SRI and integrity manifests. But in the case that your server is compromised, you lose all guarantees.

Transparency adds a mechanism to detect when your server has been compromised. Basically you just run a monitor on your own device occasionally (or use a third party service if you like), and you get an email notif whenever the site's manifest changes.

I agree it's far more work than just not doing transparency. But the guarantees are real and not something you get from any existing technology afaict.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-10-16 17:25:12+00:00
the industry is vast and there are many experiences. It's certainly not hellish for the 3 guys + contractors who made Silksong, or for Lucas Pope, or for many of the people working at huge mobile game studios.

EA makes games with numbers in their names. They do not take on a lot of risk, which means "anyone" could do it. So they have to work very, very hard. This is NOT a complicated idea.
by ineedaj0b | 2025-10-16 17:25:18+00:00
fine fine. Let me speak to you like you're a colleague and not a hn commenter that you can be upfront with:

As a practicing clinician, I must express significant reservations regarding therapeutic agents emerging from China, particularly those rooted in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In the absence of rigorous, peer-reviewed validation through randomized controlled trials (RCTs) conducted under Western regulatory standards, such interventions are frequently met with skepticism within the medical community. The prevailing perception among Western practitioners is that TCM-based therapies often lack robust empirical evidence, bearing a conceptual resemblance to homeopathic modalities, which are similarly contentious due to limited mechanistic clarity and inconsistent clinical outcomes. When considering novel pharmacotherapies developed in China, especially those in early-phase clinical trials or lacking approval from regulatory bodies such as the FDA or EMA, the Western medical establishment tends to approach them with caution. For instance, a colleague proposing a TCM-derived treatment would likely feel compelled to provide substantial reassurances to counter the inherent skepticism surrounding its efficacy and safety profile. This is not to dismiss the potential of such innovations outright, but rather to underscore the critical need for transparent, reproducible data to substantiate claims of therapeutic breakthroughs, particularly when these agents remain confined to regional use without broader dissemination in Western markets.

I used to wonder why drs never comment on this site and I'm starting to understand why
by fujigawa | 2025-10-16 17:25:19+00:00
> For-profit companies cannot be in control of these mechanisms.

But they are not in control of Secure Boot.

Microsoft runs a root CA that is pre-installed on most PCs. It could have been Verisign or someone else, but MS made sense at the time, likely because they had additional code signing expertise.

You are free to delete these keys and/or install your own. If there wasn't preexisting infrastructure, Secure Boot would be DOA for most people.
by topspin | 2025-10-16 17:25:26+00:00
> but nobody actually does that

They do. I assure you.

> they're pulling in some random "latest image"

Hardly random. Vendoring validated images from designated publishers into secured private repos is the first step on the supply chain road.

> Clearly you've never debugged container network problems before.

Configuring Traefik ingress to forward TCP connections to pods was literally the last thing I did yesterday. At one time or another I've debugged all the container network problems for every widely used protocol in existence, and a number of not so common ones.
by sergiotapia | 2025-10-16 17:25:31+00:00
Take it from someone that uses both systems in production, they are not equivalent. Oban is leagues easier to use and obvious than Solid Queue. Solid Queue has no easy way to rerun a successful job, in Oban you can just update some dumb table columns and done, the Oban supervisor will sniff it out and workworkwork.

Solid Queue has a ton of database tables. Oban has `oban_jobs` and `oban_peers`. Oban just runs, simple on the same app. Solid Queue you can do that but it requires reading a lot of obscure blog posts and changing the settings. No sane defaults.

Just as a whole the Erlang and Elixir primitives allow oban to be built truly in the most retarded, obvious way and get away with it. It's wonderful to use as a dev.

Solid Queue I'm bearing because I get other stuff I need from Rails.
by Topfi | 2025-10-16 17:25:33+00:00
Has been ongoing for roughly a month now, with a variety of checkpoints along the usual speculation. As it stands, I'd just wait for the official announcement, prior to making any judgement. What their release plans are, whether a checkpoint is a possible replacement for Pro, Flash, Flash Lite, a new category of model, won't be released at all, etc. we cannot know.

More importantly, because of the way AIStudio does A/B testing, the only output we can get is for a single prompt and I personally maintain that outside of getting some basic understanding on speed, latency and prompt adherence, output from one single prompt is not a good measure for performance in the day-to-day. It also, naturally, cannot tell us a thing about handling multi file ingest and tool calls, but hype will be hype.

That there are people who are ranking alleged performance solely by one-prompt A/B testing output says a lot about how unprofessionally some evaluate model performance.

Not saying the Gemini 3.0 models couldn't be competitive, I just want to caution against getting caught up in over-excitement and possible disappointment. Same reason I dislike speculative content in general, it rarely is put into the proper context cause that isn't as eyecatching.
Ask HN: Do Bexio users struggle with time tracking integration?
by Original-Tech | 2025-10-16 17:25:37+00:00
I'm exploring building a tool for Swiss SMBs/freelancers.

The problem I've identified: Many use Bexio (popular Swiss accounting software) plus separate time tracking tools (Toggl, Clockify, etc.). Every month they manually export hours and create invoices in Bexio. Takes 3-5 hours per month.

Solution idea: Simple integration that auto-generates Bexio invoices from tracked time. One click instead of hours of work.

Questions for the HN community: 1. Anyone here use Bexio? Is this actually a pain point? 2. For those who've built integrations: What am I underestimating? 3. Fair pricing for Swiss market? (CHF 29/month = ~$32)

Not selling anything yet - just validating if this is worth building.

Landing page (feedback welcome): https://deft-brioche-4a15da.netlify.app/
by scoofy | 2025-10-16 17:25:42+00:00
This is one reason I support not putting humans on money. We used to put mythological figures on our coinage (liberty, justice, etc), because the are symbols and are uncomplicated by substance.

Humans are flawed. Putting humans on money -- as symbols -- is going to make us go in circles about their imperfection. From Washington as a slave owner to Steve Jobs suppressing wages.

This is not an issue if we just put the symbols on the money instead of using people as proxies. If we want a coin for innovators, but Providentia on the coin.