MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pedalpete | 2025-10-03 22:54:13+00:00
This time is always different, until it isn't.

However, it is different from the internet bubble partially for the reason you describe.

There have been a few IPOs, but they perhaps happened earlier in the cycle, or companies are pivoting into AI. I'm thinking companies like Palantir, which was always AI, or Salesforce which is making a big AI pivot.

Most of the funding is not coming from public sectors. There is so much private capital available that it isn't necessary. I believe the bubble is in VC, which some would think is find because it protects public markets from the crash, but I'm not sure that is correct.

When the VC money stops flowing into AI, I think it will send a shockwave through the public markets. The huge valuations of companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, etc will be repriced, which will probably force a re-pricing of public darlings like Palantir, Microsoft, NVIDIA.

If VC funds aren't buying NVIDIA chips and building data centers, everyone will feel the need to re-price.

It's emotional, not logical.
by NedF | 2025-10-03 22:54:16+00:00
> Careful, Icarus.

What does that even mean?

pets.com was a fat loser only telling telling people that were going to fly.

Amazon was Icarus, they did something.

Vs weak commentators going on about the wax melting from their parents root cellar while Icarus was soaring.

Most of Y Combinator are not using AI they just say that and you're worried about the people who do things?
by lotsoweiners | 2025-10-03 22:56:08+00:00
Love this. I am also 45 and been a beer loving “alcoholic” since me mid 20s. I was rail thin until maybe 22-23 and then gained around 40 pounds over the next several years. I’ve lost maybe 20 of those pounds once and looked and felt great but couldn’t keep it off. I’ve currently lost 15ish pounds in the last 2 months and am determined to get to my high school weight. I now only drink on weekends. I eat ok but not great (but certainly not horribly). My biggest new thing is running 5 days a week. I start my morning every day with a 4-6 mile run and don’t let myself make excuses for why I can’t run. If I have an early meeting, then I run in the evening. This has helped me so much.
by daneel_w | 2025-10-03 22:56:13+00:00
>"people under 60 that uses cash are considered, if not criminal, at least suspicious, like they have something to hide. Or simply wackos."

I have barely used cash in 25 years. This doesn't mean anything at all. You're probably putting this solely in the context of using cash for significantly large purchases, e.g. higher 4 digit sum or above, or as in your example a craftsman who want to exempt it from his or her accounting. Nobody bats an eye at a person buying groceries, or some gadget for a couple of hundred, with cash.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-03 22:56:16+00:00
Two spaces before each line in the code block. HN doesn't use markdown, it's easy to do even on mobile, a demonstration:

function example(measurement) { console.log(calculation); // undefined - accessible! calculation leaked out console.log(i); // undefined - accessible! i leaked out <snip>

It's "leaking" because the variable is in scope, it's associated value is "undefined". This is different than with let/const where the variable would not be in scope at that point in the function. An undefined value bound to a variable is not the same as "I have no idea what this thing is". That would be the reference errors seen with let/const.
by nilslindemann | 2025-10-03 22:56:42+00:00
This is the wrong syntax, comparable to how "u" strings were the wrong syntax and "b" strings are the right syntax.

They make that, what should be the default, a special case. Soon, every new code will use "lazy". The long term effect of such changes is a verbose language syntax.

They should have had a period where one, if they want lazy imports, has to do "from __future__ import lazy_import". After that period, lazy imports become the default. For old-style immediate imports, introduce a syntax: "import now foo" and "from foo import now bar".

All which authors of old code would have to do is run a provided fix script in the root directory of their code.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-03 22:56:54+00:00
I mean, in that case it sounds like you have enough understanding of business needs then to be a valuable Staff or Principal Engineer, and enough engineering experience to back your decisions up.

Assuming you are located in a major tech hub, I don't see a reason that you should be too worried about chronic underemployment - especially in an AI-driven world which has made domain experience even more critical.

Honestly, just working on your side projects like you mentioned, and finding companies that are aligned with what your side projects aim to do puts you ahead of 95-97% of candidates.

The job hunt has been hard for people, but most candidates (especially the noisiest ones) don't really have your profile or background, but demand principal or staff level salaries and roles.

> thinking of something that combines left/right brain

Staff/Sr Staff/Principal Engineer or Architect type roles might fit the bill for you. And with your YoE, I think if you were to job hunt you could leverage your network to land that kind of role with ease.

Honestly, you are not the type of persona that has difficulty landing jobs (holding for geography ofc).

An AI/Vibe Coding market only makes domain experience more critical because hallucinations can cause significant monetary damage, so people who can act as the voice of reason for both the technical and business needs are extremely valuable.
by int_19h | 2025-10-03 22:57:08+00:00
I don't actually perceive a difference. For that matter, my native language doesn't have [ŋ] at all (not even before velars), so it's actually tricky for me to distinguish it in English as well.

But, as far as I know, the different nasals are phonemic in some languages of India. Which ones depends on which languages, but I do remember seeing at least one in which all four of these were distinct.
by eszed | 2025-10-03 22:59:03+00:00
I asked the same question of the Apple Tier 3 Support person with whom I eventually spoke. Tier 1 and 2 were sympathetic, and as surprised as I was by this behavior, and ran me through various series of convoluted setting changes, none of which worked.

[Edit: If I recall correctly, we even set it up again from scratch, to try out an idea the Tier 2 guy had. Tier 1 and 2 really were excellent to work with, despite their inability to solve the problem. Both knew the system well, weren't following scripts, and were able to think outside the box and try creative solutions. It was my first experience with Apple Support, and Gold Stars: would call again.]

Tier 3 was brusque, and acted like I was the first person who'd ever raised the topic (which, given the previous surprise, maybe I was). I explained that my dad was bedridden, and wanted to watch YouTube videos without the damn screen spinning around on him, and recall a palpable lack of sympathy. I didn't get an answer as to whether it's a bug or not, and I'm pretty sure the ticket died at Tier 3, so I doubt anyone knowledgeable will ever know about it.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-10-03 22:59:37+00:00
Yeah, I think there is a legitimate discussion here about walled gardens, tech, and the role it will play it will play in troubled times.

Legal is not always moral, and Apple has shown they will side with those in power, _not_ with those who own the tech.

If Apple is prepared to do this, what else are they prepared to snitch on your for.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-03 23:00:01+00:00
The article doesn't really give helpful advice here, but please don't vibe this.

Create evals from previous issues and current tests. Use DSPy on prompts. Create hypotheses for the value of different context packs, and run an eval matrix to see what actually works and what doesn't. Instrument your agents with Otel and stratify failure cases to understand where your agents are breaking.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-03 23:00:03+00:00
This article is a far right tone poem; that it mentions Tommy Robinson at all without any qualification, and links to the "FreedomMarch" hash tag is enough to qualify.

Shame on DHH for eliding who Tommy Robinson really is -- a football hooligan and violent thug:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson#Criminal_offenc...

DHH knows nothing of London, and the hugely-ironic idea that it's too full of "non-native" British people for him -- a white foreigner -- to feel comfortable moving there is the purest sign of who he is.
by Shebanator | 2025-10-03 23:00:40+00:00
I don't think its for everyone, the paper metaphor either works for you or it doesn't.

That said, the other big benefit for me is it breaks a lot less often than hyprland and its ecosystem seems to (and I don't just mean bugs here, I also mean things like config file format changes). And this isn't a slam on hyprland - I was only ever mildly annoyed by its breakage.
by nikkwong | 2025-10-03 23:01:35+00:00
Again, the wikipedia article that you linked points to a preposterous insufficiency in our ability to maintain infrastructure:

"[...] On February 26, 2014, in the wake of another suicide from the bridge, independent Rep. Joe Brooks of Winterport proposed emergency legislation to the Maine Legislature to require the installation of a suicide barrier on the bridge.[22] This proposal was rejected due to cost, as a barrier was estimated to cost between $500,000 and $1 million, plus additional costs for regular inspections. As an alternative, two solar-powered phones were installed on each end of the bridge in May 2015 which connect users to a suicide hotline. The phones cost $30,000. State officials were aware of instances the phones were not functional, and increased inspections of them to weekly from the previous monthly. They could not determine if the phones were functional when a March 5, 2017 suicide, the first since the phones were installed, occurred. The phones were found to be out of order on June 23, 2017, when an abandoned car on the bridge resulted in a search of the Penobscot River by authorities looking for its driver.[7] The emergency phones on the Penobscot Narrows Bridge were reported out of order following another suicide in 2021.[9][23] They were subsequently replaced.[24] In May 2022, the Maine legislature was reportedly planning to "pull together a study group on suicides by bridge."[25] Funding was subsequently approved for a barrier, but the installation slated for 2024 was delayed for further testing..."

Why are our systems like this? There is no culture of accountability, for one. There is also no desire to dream big, anymore, it seems.
by louwrentius | 2025-10-03 23:02:24+00:00
In addition to this article:

Just today I noticed a Cadillac SUV in a Dutch parking space (multilevel parking garage). The car didn't fit (not even close) and protruded well into the driveway.

'USA-size cars' have absolutely no reason to exist in Europe. Our infrastructure isn't built for them and that's a good thing.
by o11c | 2025-10-03 23:02:55+00:00
They kind of aren't. If you actually look at "how many dollars am I spending per month on electricity", there's a good chance it's not worth upgrading even if your computer is 10 years old.

Of course this does make some moderate assumptions that it was a solid build in the first place, not a flimsy laptop, not artificially made obsolete/slow, etc. Even then, "install an SSD" and "install more RAM" is most of everything.

Of course, if you are a developer you should avoid doing these things so you won't get encouraged to write crappy programs.
by pryelluw | 2025-10-03 23:02:58+00:00
The point about people standing out doesn’t make much sense when you consider the following. If a service member brings over their Dodge Challenger, a car that is not common in Germany due to its ridiculous fuel consumption, they too will also stand out. What about a Ford Mustang GT? Or maybe a dual cab F150 in any of the millions of trims available?

Safety? Yes, agree.
by e40 | 2025-10-03 23:03:10+00:00
That's not really true, in my experience, but for this issue, I suspect they will be mostly useless. Account closures via algorithm are rarely reversible via customer support.

Citibank closed a 22 year account recently, via an algorithm, and I had to write an actual letter to get it reopened. And even then, the people on the other end were mostly useless, though they did reopen the account.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-03 23:05:33+00:00
"For Signal, Chat Control is also an existential threat."

Perhaps it would not be if users could write their own clients and run their oown servers

Perhaps the commercial third party intermediary model of "private" and "secure" communication over the internet (cf. the free, open source, peer-to-peer model) is fundamentally-flawed. This is the model where a third party like Meta or Signal controls the software and requires connections be made to its servers in order to communicate over the internet. It is not an internet service provider, it's just a middleman trying to attract internet subscribers to use its software and connect to its remote servers

Perhaps this proposed legislation is simply leveraging that fundamental flaw

Acording to the latest draft I have seen, "Chat Control" does not attempt to regulate peer-to-peer communication, it does aim to stop internet subscribers from encrypting messages and sending them across the internet. It aims to regulate third party intermediaries providing "messaging services" to the public

The proposed legislation leverages the "centralisation" or "intermediation" of "private" messaging (the opposite of peer-to-peer) in Silicon Valley companies
by donmcronald | 2025-10-03 23:06:42+00:00
And a lot of the gains from the Dotcom boom are being paid back in negative value for the average person at this point. We have automated systems that waste our time when we need support, product features that should have a one-time-cost being turned into subscriptions, a complete usurping of the ability to distribute software or build compatible replacements, etc..

The Dotcom boom was probably good for everyone in some way, but it was much, much better for the extremely wealthy people that have gained control of everything.
by dejobaan | 2025-10-03 23:06:42+00:00
There's a neat demo of this in action here: https://jaxry.github.io/wave-function-collapse/

Another, where you can set cells and then have it solve: https://oskarstalberg.com/game/wave/wave.html

And an itch.io game where you are the wave function selector: https://bolddunkley.itch.io/wfc-mixed

I thought this concept would have found more traction in the world of procgen (in games), because it's pretty neat. But I found it difficult to work with, so perhaps others also did!
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-03 23:06:54+00:00
> tl;dr: reading tl;drs only is akin to chewing caffeine powder instead of drinking coffee. bland, uninspiring and non-rewarding. What we assume as useless is generally is the spirit of the matter.

Which is how I drink coffee.

Coffee is bitter, awful, and irritates bowel, wasting your time on extra toilet visits (of the longer kind). Adding milk makes things even worse (lactose ain't particularly light to deal with in adulthood). I wouldn't even touch this stuff, if not for it being the universally approved (socially and legally), ubiquitous wakefulness promoter (aka stimulant drug), and better alternatives are much harder to get (even prescribed, they're not meant to serve as coffee replacements). Caffeine powder (in tablets or otherwise) is how you get to "the spirit of the matter" while skipping all the misery and unpleasant side effects.

I suppose it really is a good analogy to most of long-form writing that isn't pure fiction or explicitly for entertainment.
by majewsky | 2025-10-03 23:10:04+00:00
That is not what GP was saying. They were saying that a foundation model company would say "$CURRENT_MODEL is so good that it is no use training $NEXT_MODEL right now", which I don't think is the current stance of any of those companies.

Given that they are all constantly spending money on R&D for the next model, it does not really matter how long they get to offer some of the older models. The massive R&D spend is still incurred all the time.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-03 23:10:28+00:00
Signal, like most services, block text verification services, free texting apps, etc.

e-SIM wise, depending on where you are, that might require identifying yourself, and depending on your threat model, having to purchase one in person or with payment info that can be traced back to you might be too risky. Same thing when it comes to using one in a device you own, or in a location that can help de-anonymize you.

In the end, Signal does this because they know the ban hammer would come down hard on them from the Justice Department and every state AG and legislature if Signal allowed bad actors to anonymously use their app and network to commit crimes.

The issue is that there are plenty of people who are not doing heinous things whose security and anonymity might be at risk because of the measure put in place to placate governments.
by jancsika | 2025-10-03 23:11:06+00:00
Also, "all of them"-- as in, when you pay multiple parties offline with the same exact crypto-dollar, all of them will get paid.

Even better, when you're back online the network will run a sanity check to protect against the evils of inflation.

(Note: inflation-check fees will vary between 0 and 100% per payee.)
by NicoJuicy | 2025-10-03 23:11:08+00:00
Yes it is.

Low Global Penetration: Only 361 million people had internet access worldwide in 2000, a small fraction of the global population. Specific Country Examples United States: The US had a significant portion of the world's internet users, making up 31.1% of all global users in 2000. Its penetration rate was 43.1%.
by DavidVoid | 2025-10-03 23:12:26+00:00
> Digital payments are very convenient and deeply integrated, so long as you have a local ID which allows you use the local payment system Swish etc.

Just to reiterate how ubiquitous Swish and BankID are here: 99.9% of Swedish residents age 18-67 have BankID (8.6M users), while Swish has 8.7M private users, and 93% of those users send or receive money via Swish at least once per month.
Ask HN: Anyone seeing GitHub action timeouts?
by maenbalja | 2025-10-03 23:12:34+00:00
My Github actions started failing today because the "Set up job" step that downloads action libraries was timing out.

When I tried directly installing the library via curl from both my local machine and my vps, the download times were both very slow (relative to before). The internet speed on these machines are otherwise fine so I'm not sure what's going on.

curl -L https://api.github.com/repos/actions/setup-node/tarball/3235b876344d2a9aa001b8d1453c930bba69e610 -o test.tar.gz

Is anyone else experiencing anything like this? Maybe this is a regional/CDN issue? (I'm testing from us-west)
by NedF | 2025-10-03 23:12:50+00:00
> More than 99% of climate scientists attribute the increase in global temperature over the past 30-40 years to greenhouse gases that humans have been adding to the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s. The great majority of these scientists agree that if this warming continues, it presents significant risks to humankind and all life on Earth:

99% of computer scientists say Python is the most popular computer language and will take over most projects.

In any real science they shouldn't have the skill sets to know this. Climate scientists should have varying skills. This is religious fundamentalism, is science broken or universities like MIT or both?

Also blatantly incorrect, past we know sulfur a non greenhouse has probably been reflecting heat we know the earth changes and various other things.

Most of the rest is wrong including the nihilist tiny solutions section. The sooner MIT is de-funded the better, it seems they can't be fixed. Their culture is depression and citation harvesting not technology
by craftkiller | 2025-10-03 23:13:37+00:00
> maybe it somehow helped that the source was markdown instead of html?

That's probably it. Most of my issues were related to CSS, which markdown does not have[0]. The duplicated headline wasn't CSS though, that is by far the oddest issue. I'll probably file a bug report to pandoc after I replace all the text in this document with lorem ipsum (it is a document for work, so I can't share it publicly in its current form).

[0] unless you embedded your own CSS since markdown technically allows arbitrary HTML
Show HN: TorchSystem, Event driven systems with PyTorch
by eric-hermosis | 2025-10-03 23:13:39+00:00
While doing deep learning experiments, I noticed that it is very hard to write reusable code for training models. There are packages that help track metrics, logs, and checkpoints, but they often create more problems than they solve. As a result, training pipelines become bloated with infrastructure code that obscures the actual business logic.

That’s why I created this package, to build extensible training systems using domain driven design principles and replace ugly training scripts with clean and fully featured training services, with type annotations and modern python syntax.

Hope you find it useful.
by buzer | 2025-10-03 23:14:05+00:00
In Finland, and I imagine in most of Europe in general, people just make bank transfers for most of those things. Unlike in USA you cannot just pull cash from someone's account if you know their bank account number, you need to setup SEPA Direct Debit to do that and it requires explicit authorization from the account owner. It isn't even really used much in Finland, most companies just send electronic invoices that you can setup autopay for in your bank. They aren't free for companies but the cost is negligible (likely less than the postage stamp would cost).
by xorcist | 2025-10-03 23:14:35+00:00
More or less exactly so. There is another downside to it: When money is just a piece of plastic which you touch the cash register with and get what you want, how to you learn to appreciate money? Coins and paper money is also excellent for counting, as they naturally come in different valuations.

When counting money is just arithmetics and never cash, something is missing, and it's very clear in many young kids. Money is just points in a game, suddenly you're out, and then you can't get what you want anymore.
by schoen | 2025-10-03 23:14:46+00:00
In my research on tracking dots, we only ever saw them produced by laser printers (and some more obscure professional processes), not inkjet printers. It appears that the governments' pressure on printer manufacturers over this was focused on color laser printers and not color inkjets.

We have still not, as far as I know, learned what the governments threatened the manufacturers with or what they offered to them in order to get them to cooperate.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-03 23:15:10+00:00
I'm like GP too, I'm usually at my peak performance somewhere after dinner. Used to be a stereotypical night owl, but eventually life forced me to act like a morning person (small kids + partner who is a genuine, bona fide, textbook morning person slash productivity beast).

Close to a decade of that lifestyle, and my body didn't adjust. In my case, there's no insomnia - I indeed start feeling tired around 21:00 - 23:00. Just that my performance curve didn't shift accordingly; only thing that's changed is that I had to give up my most productive parts of day (afternoon, late night), because I'm too tired to do anything at that point.

I'm open to suggestions on how to fix that.