MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-08 16:24:52+00:00
I never said that.

Restaurants, bakeries, hair and nail salons are not startups and do not do product development. Their market is known before the business is opened. Running one of those businesses is extremely different than a tech startup, where the risk is from not knowing what the market will be for the product in development.

(And you should know that, given that this message board you caters to the startup crowd, and is sponsored by a company that educates people on how to run a startup.)

I encourage you to read through YCombinator's "startup school" materials to understand the fundamental difference.
by hn_throw_bs | 2025-10-08 16:24:55+00:00
I have been banned from so many online forums/discussion boards for having a contrarian viewpoint that I’m practically stripped from the internet to begin with. Things like these will just force people to be passive consumers who can’t voice their opinions, so from my perspective nothing changes.

Special thanks to dang for banning me about ~30 times and shadow banning me another 50. Doing the good Lord’s work.
by aaronbrethorst | 2025-10-08 16:25:11+00:00
While GitHub had previously started work on migrating parts of its service to Azure, our understanding is that these migrations have been halting and sometimes failed

And there's no reason to suspect this next batch of migrations will be any different. Telling your engineers, 'good luck, you get to spend the next 18 months treading water,' is a terrible way to get them to give their best or even stick around.
by iamleppert | 2025-10-08 16:25:29+00:00
This post feels like it was lifted straight from a corporate HR Layoffs FAQ section.

Most people don't want to hear from old co-workers, from a job they just got laid off from, especially those that are there to offer fake, self-serving sentiment with a bunch of rules attached. Unless you already have a relationship with the person, you would probably have already talked anyway and it would be natural without all these weird rules of engagement.

People who do this are fake and its amazing to me they think this kind of thing isn't perceived as anything other than fake. There is a time and place for everything, networking with recently laid off co-workers is not one of them.
by pdimitar | 2025-10-08 16:25:32+00:00
Valid, thanks. But to what degree? The light bulb that runs 18h a day in the kitchen likely draws the same power that my mini form factor Optiplex 3060 does.

To me arguments like "2W vs 10W" are fairly meaningless.

I am much more concerned about data center power usages, especially in the age of LLMs.

Like that ancient German teacher I had that kept preaching we should stop using electric kettles because it's bad for the planet. While the 3 plants in her hometown amounted to ~83% of all power usage and ~92% or all pollution. Boy, was she unhappy when I did that research and pointed it out to her.

Pi-s / SBCs are I suppose very good for computing out there in the meatspace, where you might need a battery because sometimes power stops for 6 hours? Could be that.
by deaux | 2025-10-08 16:26:13+00:00
> This is because of inefficiency, an aging demographic and regulation, not because of capitalism.

The Korean healthcare system has a much worse aging demographic as well tons of regulations, being nothing like e.g. the US.

Yet in terms of "system for the poor" the difference with Germany could hardly be bigger.

To blame it on those is straight up wrong, in that it's an oversimplification of a complex topic to such a degree that it no longer makes sense.

This goes for nearly all of the discussion in this thread, for what it's worth. On these topics sociocultural and historical factors that aren't simply represented by "regulations" or "current tax burden" or "demographics" have an enormous impact.

It's the classic STEM, and especially CS, mistake, so it's no wonder HN is full of it on any governance-related topic. And I say this as a CS guy myself. As a group, we are predisposed to the idea that a set of rules, regulations and statistics leads to a certain set of real-world outcomes. The reality could hardly be less true.
by TMWNN | 2025-10-08 16:26:27+00:00
More information from The Chosun Daily <https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFS...>:

>The Ministry of Personnel Management, where all affiliated officials use the G-Drive, is particularly affected. A source from the Ministry of Personnel Management said, “It’s daunting as eight years’ worth of work materials have completely disappeared.”

[...]

>The actual number of users is about 17% of all central government officials. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, as of last August, 125,000 public officials from 74 ministries are using it.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-08 16:27:11+00:00
Because the powers that be in Texas will siphon off funding to make things work better to fund their own projects. "Should we winterize our power grid" Nah, it's Texas where it doesn't get that cold for that long. Should we implement a warning system in an area that is historically known for being prone to flash flooding? Nah, it doesn't happen that often and we have other things to spend money on instead.
by landl0rd | 2025-10-08 16:27:11+00:00
We also have a lot more growth in the past few years than most other places, both in relative terms, and in absolute (big state + high growth introduces more absolute friction than small state). Demand is forecast to rise over 20% from 2024 levels vs. an American average under 5%: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2025.07.31/main.svg

We have high power demand in both winter and summer: in the latter, air conditioners use a lot; in the former, about half of Texans heat with electricity because we have less cold and so less usage of cost-effective, grid-preserving furnaces.

Texas has been building a ton of wind and solar to supplement generation capacity and is taking some leadership in the next-gen nuclear stuff for a reliable base load, but in the mean time the shortage of CCGTs is going to bite in a state where demand goes up this much, this fast. SB6 passed this summer also should help with reasonable control and oversight.
by theodric | 2025-10-08 16:27:23+00:00
Well, I'm American, although I've been in W. Europe longer than I lived in the USA at this point. Regardless, I don't see the value in lying about your intentions while framing it as performing a social good. Deceive someone into thinking you might be a friend, or friendly, but then ghost them if they attempt to engage. For whose benefit? In that case, just leave me alone. I will figure out the next steps on my own without having to take on the burden of trying to decide if the person messaging me is worth caring about.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-08 16:27:47+00:00
The reason HTMX lacks the concept of components is because you already have components.

Components are backend logic in an SSR application. If we have some component and the associated HTML BS JS, we're good to go. Virtually all backend frameworks have components.

Whats the advantage of this? We have one component. When we use react or vue, we now have two. The backend one and the frontend one, and they're not the same component. We can kind of force them to talk together over JSON and an API.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-08 16:27:56+00:00
No, I'm sorry but this is just pointless, arguing about some technicality like "you can't call that income". That doesn't matter, these are just words.

What matters in real life is the size of the cut the government gets from the employee-employer transaction. That cut definitely includes all the "employer contributions". The bigger it is, the less the employee gets.

And no, it's not the same as the cost of buying the desk. If would be the same if the state prohibited remote work making a desk a necessity and then forced everyone to buy desks from state-owned providers at the price set by the state. In this case -- yes, absolutely, this becomes a "desk tax" which is eating into your income.

UPD Since you insist, I'll address this part too:

> I will say it again - if those costs dropped down to zero, you wouldn't say your income is now smaller, would you?

I'll go to my boss directly and say that "my income is now smaller than it should be" and ask for increase in gross. If this doesn't work out, I'll go and get an offer elsewhere. Knowing how hiring and budgeting works, this is the only sane course of action. Companies suddenly find them with money they've already budgeted but aren't spending, expect the arms race for professions with high demand.

In parallel to that I'll make sure to distribute raises to key members of my team anticipating them doing the same. I'll lose a few less valuable members of the team in the process because they'll receive offers that I won't be willing to counter.

In general, I pay more attention to what people do, not what they say. This is why I didn't reply to the question "you wouldn't say your income is now smaller, would you?" the first time -- it's inconsequential, but we can consider it if you like.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-08 16:28:10+00:00
Not if you want cars to be able to do more than a home charge in the US. Fast chargers require a LOT of power generation and delivery... more than a lot of homes. With combustibles, you drive a large tank to the site, park it, sell the fuel assuming there isn't a permanent tank in place. You can't just drive a large power plant into position, drop it off and all the power lines themselves magically appear along with it.
by justlikereddit | 2025-10-08 16:28:13+00:00
>I think people's claims that they will stop working are generally more bark than bite

They stop paying taxes and work off the books instead but you don't announce that publicly for obvious reasons.

The incentive to do this increases with tax pressure. The willingness of people to pay for tax-free work equally increases because you'll pay less.

There's also an increasing asymmetry of what the government gains from a tax hike versus how oppressive it becomes that becomes unfavorable as tax rates go up.
by giobox | 2025-10-08 16:28:38+00:00
Ironically it's the prevalence of this chair in student residences that makes me never want to see one again. It's practically standard issue student furniture in many parts of Europe, I promised myself once I had a job that paid a reasonable salary I would never have one again, having sat in hundreds of the things during my education.

When I look back through photos of my student years, Poängs are in so, so many of the pictures. The chair itself is arguably relatively unoffensive; I just find its prevalence deeply boring.
by ddtaylor | 2025-10-08 16:28:56+00:00
Pis are actually pretty terrible at running a NAS. Sure there are people who do it and create content about it (Jeff Geerling) and that's kind of the schtick - it's quirky and weird and has some sharp edges. Great for making content or going down rabbit holes, not so great for actually running a high availability system that just works with minimal fussing.

There are a ton of very capable x86 systems that are small and accomplish the task at great power and noise levels.
by debazel | 2025-10-08 16:29:12+00:00
Ha, I've had the exact same thought before as well, but due to lack of experience and time constraints I ended up using mitmproxy with a small Python script instead. It was slow and buggy, but it served it purpose...

While searching for a tool I found several others asking for something similar, so I'm sure there are quite a few who would be interested in the project if you ever do decide to pick it up.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-08 16:29:51+00:00
So in other words, healthy competition, and may the best man win. Contrary to many comments this is more than political reaction/posturing.

The state of Texas is the world's 8th largest GDP and a diverse one, with no one sector exceeding 9%. Texas is well-positioned relative to NYC for attention around AI, as it is not geographically constrained and has an energy advantage. There is financial credibility built in as 10% of NYSE listings are already HQ'd in Texas. And Texas has a pro-business regulatory environment.

This isn’t a zero-sum game where Texas grows at New York’s expense. The hope is it creates a larger, more dynamic market.
by j45 | 2025-10-08 16:29:52+00:00
Android should have a Kiosk mode that's available sometimes that locks it to one app full screen.

Android may have alternate launchers you can install (they are just apps) which you can customize how you need. One of the best features of Android imho.

I tried helping a friend with their kids Amazon tablet and left the experience wanting to wipe it clean and just define what 4 buttons parents can put on the screen.

Other tech:

Apple has a guided access feature which locks it to one app (except it's handed to them).

We're holding off on personal screens for now until the information diet can be tamed and managed. Looking for a smartwatch with a phone with physical buttons and no screen. Seem to be some options.
by Bjorkbat | 2025-10-08 16:29:58+00:00
I definitely agree with you there. I contracted with a company that had some older engineers who were in largely managerial roles who really liked using AI for personal projects, and honestly, I kind of get it. Their work flow was basically prompt, get results, prompt again with modifications, rinse and repeat, it's low effort and has a nice REPL-like loop. Paraphrasing a bit, but it basically re-kindled the joy of programming for them.

Haven't gotten the chance to ask, but I imagine managing a team of AI agents would feel a little too much like their day job, and consequently, suck the fun out of it.

That said, looking back, I think the reason why generative AI is so fun for so many coders is because programming has become unnecessarily complex. I have to admit, programming nowadays for me feels like a bit of a slog at times because of the sheer effort it can sometimes take to implement the simplest things. Doesn't have to be that way, but I think LLM copy-paste machines are probably the wrong direction.
by mooreds | 2025-10-08 16:30:28+00:00
Author here. Appreciate the feedback.

I will ask: have you ever been laid off?

I have, and I'll tell you, being seen and thanked, even in a perfunctory manner, helped me be less hurt and angry.

N of 1 and all that, but that was my experience.

The rules of engagement I outline are, as I mentioned elsewhere, to take some of the stress off of folks who might otherwise not undertake this simple, humane gesture.
by metalman | 2025-10-08 16:30:37+00:00
There will always be a realy fucking bad failure mode attached to any energy dense storage medium. This is basic physics. The diffrence between a roaring fire in the wood stove, your car engine, an ultra high tech rocket motor and a bomb, is only the speed of the "flame front" A battery has the same issues, in that the higher the energy density and the greater the expected rate of energy transfer, the greater the chance of finding a way to detonate all the energy at once, which is actualy possible ,with a wood stove, if things go exactly wrong.Exceptionaly large explosions have happened with nothing more than dust, or flour. 4 things, you can pick 3. fast, powerfull, cheap, safe.
by 827a | 2025-10-08 16:30:47+00:00
> The plan, he writes, is for GitHub to completely move out of its own data centers in 24 months.

I find it interesting to compare timelines like this (which is very reasonable and expected for an organization of Github's size) with, for example, how AI 2027 describes the world will look like in October 2027.

In the next 24 months, if all these timeslines are to be believed, AI will have cured cancer, agent-5 will be plotting to kill all humans, leveraging all the data in a Global Central Memory Bank to subvert the internal corporate politics of all companies, governments, and militaries toward this goal (These are all real predictions AI 2027 makes); and Github will still be migrating workloads to Azure.

Maybe they should get agent-4 to help them.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-08 16:31:33+00:00
When the EV is significantly more expensive than a fossil fuel vehicle it makes perfect sense. Most people can't handle the cost of a battery replacement out of pocket for an EV when it will eventually need one.

Not to mention, there are plenty of routes in the US where an EV really isn't a good option... hell, going from Reno to Portland, I run low on fuel in a gas powered car during one particular stretch. I can make that drive within a day pretty comfortably... with an EV, that's a multi-day trip with additional expenses and stops on a much longer, less scenic route.
by oulipo2 | 2025-10-08 16:32:07+00:00
The main risk factor is cells, you have to source them from reputable manufacturers. After having monitored a few battery fires, we went on to design a casing with multiple features to contain fires, you can check it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NXXfCA2CY

If you're interested, you can order them here https://infinite-battery.com
by dingnuts | 2025-10-08 16:32:22+00:00
I opened your page. 5 posts by Simon Willison and 8 by other authors. A comment by Simon Willison underneath this comment as well (now the top comment on the thread).

Simon's spam game is CRAZY. There's a million blogs out there but over half of the posts on your reader are him. Why bother? You can't get away from him here or on lobsters even if you want to -- why further flood your subscriptions with his slop?

I don't understand how he has such a grip on you people. The Andrew Tate of AI bros.
by landl0rd | 2025-10-08 16:32:29+00:00
It's a perfect apples-to-apples comparison if you level accusations of grid incompetence at Texas. Should all those EU homes suddenly go out and buy AC, EU power grids would have to enact massive load shedding during heat waves. Such waves already push demand up, causing local blackouts and price spikes: https://www.ft.com/content/23b3dc59-b40f-48e2-ad93-e301de7ac...
by ofrzeta | 2025-10-08 16:33:12+00:00
You have to work around TLS, though. Although it is possible with Wireshark, extracting the shared keys through from the browser, I never could get it to work. With mitmproxy I was more successful and could even get iOS Safari to accept my self-issued certificate and read HTTP traffic from a third-party app that I re-routed through my own proxy.
by johnbcoughlin | 2025-10-08 16:33:14+00:00
> Imagine if you brain had to be consciously aware of every breath you take, every time you move a finger, etc... you'd get nothing done. Same deal if a CEO has to be aware of and approve accelerating your unit tests with parallelism or whatever.

This is a strawman. No competent CEO thinks they need to be on top of your unit testing practices. The levels of legibility that companies actually aim for are much more defensible.
by askl | 2025-10-08 16:33:47+00:00
I was wondering why Tiny Tiny RSS was missing as that's what I've been using for the last 10+ years. At the bottom of the article there's the explanation:

> On October 3rd the maintainer announced that he's going to stop working on it, and will remove all infrastructure on November 1st. Forks of the project with other maintainers may pop up, but at the moment it's too soon to tell what the future of Tiny Tiny RSS will be.
by breuleux | 2025-10-08 16:34:42+00:00
> If a being could fully comprehend the underlying rules of the universe, it might not need to perform physical experiments at all, it could simply simulate outcomes internally.

It likely couldn't, though, that's the problem.

At a basic level, whatever abstract system you can think of, there must be an optimal physical implementation of that system, the fastest physically realizable implementation of it. If that physical implement was to exist in reality, no intelligence could reliably predict its behavior, because that would imply that they have access to a faster implementation, which cannot exist.

The issue is that most physical systems are arguably the optimal implementation of whatever it is that they do. They aren't implementations of simple abstract ideas like adders or matrix multipliers, they're chaotic systems that follow no specifications. They just do what they do. How do you approximate chaotic systems which, for all you know, may depend on any minute details? On what basis do we think it is likely that there exists a computer circuit that can simulate their outcomes before they happen? It's magical thinking.

Note that intelligence has to simulate outcomes, because it has to control them. It has to prove to itself that its actions will help achieve its goals. Evolution doesn't have this limitation: it's not an agent, it doesn't have goals, it doesn't simulate outcomes, stuff just happens. In that sense it's likely that certain things can evolve that cannot be intelligently designed (as in designed, constructed and then controlled). It's quite possible intelligence itself falls in that category and we can't create and control AGI, and AGI can't improve itself and control the outcome either, and so on.
by bccdee | 2025-10-08 16:34:57+00:00
heritable /'hɛrɪtəbəl/ adjective capable of being inherited

But if you want to use your definition, that's fine too. I can tell you right now that whether a person has performed in a violin concert can be attributed far more to environmental factors than genetic factors—for instance, whether their school had a music program where they were compelled to perform in a recital.

Of course, heritability is a population statistic. In order to talk about whether having performed a violin recital is heritable, we'd need to select a sample population. Even then, it might not tell us much. Whether a person wears earrings can be attributed primarily to genetic factors (XX vs XY), but it's still ultimately cultural.

> It's a good thing heritability does not require causation then.

And? What point are you making? Again, you're not really reading my posts—just finding details to nitpick, and wasting my time in doing so.
by creshal | 2025-10-08 16:35:00+00:00
Okay, that's cool for Java, but have you ever tried the absolute crap pyramid that is arduino's IDE? 2005 Eclipse would be a vast improvement in comparison. And Qualcomm never cares about anything that doesn't directly increase pforit margin, so "more money for better IDEs" with qualcomm in charge is just delusional.
by 6510 | 2025-10-08 16:35:06+00:00
Let me write up the professional version the way only I can.

Start with the formula described in the article but call rather than send an email.

Call them again 12 or 24 months later.

The script should be in your own words: Some people you need to talk to or see every day, some every week, some every month and some people every few years. Don't worry about it, I'm not going to stalk you. I will call you again in two or three years.

Then talk like coworkers about new jobs, earnings, the good the bad and the ugly, learn they got married/divorced, had kids, left the country for a while. etc etc

Keep the call under 4 minutes. Some people don't know how to terminate a phone call.

After each phone call send them an email summarizing the things you've talked about. Include the previous email.

You will find that, provided there is no obligation to stay in touch, people don't mind telling what they did over the last two years. Even if they don't like you. The fact that you've asked puts you well ahead of most people they know.

The 3rd call after 3-6 years is simply hilarious. They know the drill, the conversation can be as short as two minutes. Thanks for your time, we should do this again in two years!

You methodically hammer out the email again and go on with life.