MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andvari_bekho | 2025-10-10 14:07:22+00:00
Yeah, I think right now the game only asks players to create a profile when they share a challenge link with a friend for a 1vs1 race.

We wanted the racing experience to feel as frictionless as possible, but I agree that for new users it can be unclear that creating a profile is even an option.

From what I understand, Gamesnacks is targeting the game primarily at their existing player base, so they expect most players to already have a profile (since it’s the same one shared across all their games). Still, I think this game has the potential to attract new users to their platform, so making the profile creation option easier to discover would be a good idea.

Thanks for your feedback!
by goku12 | 2025-10-10 14:08:55+00:00
> That’s also a depressing outlook.

Of course it is. I'm not denying or downplaying how bad it is. These situations are scary as hell. They're not supposed to happen. And it must change. Venezuela deserves peace. But now imagine the alternative you're thinking of.

To start with, who was responsible for the political turmoil in South America for much of its history? Imagine another invasion. Do you expect them to withdraw as soon as the current Venezuelan regime has fallen? The regime that's virtue signalling now has a history of proudly brandishing their xenophobia and racism. What do you think life will be like under a remote controlled rule by them? There are plenty of examples around the world for how that will end. Is that the change you wish for?

> what is the best alternative?

The best alternative is for the native population to bring about change without foreign interference. But honestly, I have no clue if that's practical at all. I don't know any other solutions either. The people must decide for themselves as to how to resolve this. All I'm saying is that you must be careful about the intentions of anyone who steps in offering help. I sincerely wish that the Venezuelans win peace. Good Luck!
by gruez | 2025-10-10 14:09:08+00:00
>Apparently, connecting to the airplane wifi (without yet logging in) was enough to satisfy the OS set-up, but limited enough that it didn't require a microsoft account.

Set up a wifi network with no internet? If you have a separate router/modem, just unplug your modem from your router. If your mode/router is combined unplug the coax/fiber/phone line.
by dormento | 2025-10-10 14:09:27+00:00
Exactly.

> Second, they should be using the public suffix list (https://publicsuffix.org/) to avoid having their entire domain tagged.

NO, Google should be "mindful" (I know companies are not people but w/e) of the power it unfortunately has. Also, Cloudflare. All my homies hate Cloudflare.
by blenderob | 2025-10-10 14:09:46+00:00
It's fine if you personally didn't know that. But if I'm paying for a service, I expect the provider to understand basic security best practices that have been industry standard for 20+ years. And if they don't, they should be hiring people who do.

XKCD 1053 is not a valid excuse for what amounts to negligence in a production service.
by 444Duarte | 2025-10-10 14:09:47+00:00
> So all Euros would be deposits at the ECB, is that it?

Not necessarily, no.

> Why did you feel the need to use terms like "cryptocurrencies", "digital currencies", "ledgers", and "API requests" to explain this?

I'm not sure I follow you? I've used those terms because they describe how it works. It's hard to explain things without using the words that exist to explain those things.
by ActionHank | 2025-10-10 14:10:10+00:00
I think the point is that we all want a robot to do the laundry and pack the dishwasher, but basically no one wants to be greeted by a robot when they arrive at a hotel.

They are selling it the way AI has been sold. This will replace everyone's jobs. Thing is everyone is tired now, so many pointless layoffs, massive bubble, "AI-First"-desperate-ass companies.

Who will buy the robots if we are all unemployed?
by lm28469 | 2025-10-10 14:11:00+00:00
> It's going to be wild when these things cost 30 grand, and we all start having them in our houses

> 30 grand

> we all start having them in our houses

Have you traveled ? Even a bit ? Most people don't make 30k in a year, before tax. It just shows how utterly disconnected from reality tech people, and especially execs, are. Virtually no one is going to pay 30k for a bot to mop the floor and fold their clothes

As for myself even if you'd pay me 30k I'd refuse to have one.
by throw101010 | 2025-10-10 14:11:13+00:00
Incentivizing foreign interventions in conflicts "just" to earn a prize and risking to aggravate a situation/conflict/war does not sound good at all to me.

It's not about rewarding saints, it's about rewarding people who do genuine efforts to bring peace in this world.

You wouldn't want to incentivize a reckless vigilante just because some of the times it might lead to a desired outcome, disregarding all the times they'd get it wrong and would cause injustices (leading to more chaos, and not peace) just in their selfish pursuit of accolades and prizes.

Trump is openly mentioning that what he's doing right now is worth a prize, can't get closer to doing it "for the prize". He exaggerates all his accomplishment (no he did not end 7, 8, 9, etc. wars... barely even one).

All of this is done/said for one purpose, and it's not actually peace. It's one thing you can't reproach to him, he is pretty transparent in his intent when you give him a microphone. Do you think he will lose sleep over the peace in the middle east failing (once again)... or do you think he will care more about not getting the prize he literally mentions every time he's questioned about a war?
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-10 14:11:14+00:00
Not sure who changed the HN headline, but I appreciate the change. Especially since the concept in the headline is buried at the bottom of the post.

Post author is throwing a lot of sand at Google for a process that has (a) been around for, what, over a decade now and (b) works. The fact of the matter is this hosting provider was too open, several users of the provider used it to put up content intended to attack users, and as far as Google (or anyone else on the web is concerned) the TLD is where the buck stops for that kind of behavior. This is one of the reasons why you host user-generated content off your TLD, and several providers have gotten the memo; it is unfortunate statichost.eu had not yet.

I'm sorry this domain admin had to learn an industry lesson the hard way, but at least they won't forget it.
by tim333 | 2025-10-10 14:11:23+00:00
Yeah, and the results:

>He had budget surpluses for fiscal years 1998–2001, the only such years from 1970 to 2023. Clinton's final four budgets were balanced budgets with surpluses, beginning with the 1997 budget

I don't really understand why they can't do something like that which was carefully thought out and worked, rather than the present mess. I realise carefully thought out doesn't really go with the current president but I actually had hopes Musk might do something sane.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-10 14:11:24+00:00
I think it’s safe to say that good schools and experiences still exist. But I also don’t think this post said it was all bad now. They’re just talking about their experience and that of their colleagues.

Unfortunately it’s probably an even bigger problem than we realize.

I can’t imagine being a teacher the last few years in particular with all the political showdowns over schools.
by horsawlarway | 2025-10-10 14:11:39+00:00
Personally - what you're asking for is type definitions.

And it's a blurry line, since type definitions are a good form of documentation. It's just that type-system tooling has mostly replaced the need to go read through the docs for that. I expect to get it easily and obviously in whatever editor or IDE I've configured.

I think the prevalence of example based documentation is because of this trend - don't waste time manually writing the same thing type tooling is going to give your users anyway.

When I hit docs - I'm much less interested in the specific arguments, and I'm very interested in "Capabilities": Problems this tool can solve.

Examples are a great showcase for that. Especially if I have a specific problem in mind and I just want to know if a "tool" can solve that problem, and how to use it to do so.

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If I have a type system: I want examples first.

If I don't have a type system: 1) I'm not happy. 2) I want examples first, followed by the detailed arguments/return/data structure docs you're referring to.
Show HN: I built a tool to help freelancers find better Upwork jobs with AI
by daniloedu | 2025-10-10 14:12:14+00:00
More than an AI wrapper, it's a tool that I built to help myself to filter opportunities quickly. It's free and you run locally. You can port it to Render, AWS or GCP. The app connects to the Upwork API, fetches job postings, and uses AI to score their relevance against your skills/profile. Output is available in JSON/CSV, and there’s a basic UI built in React.

I’m a product manager who codes, and this isn’t for monetization, just a community project to explore real-world GenAI applications in freelancing. You can watch the DEMO and installation video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKoPWrwMPuI
by lapcat | 2025-10-10 14:12:33+00:00
A "major evolution" would be for Apple to have informative two-way conversations with security researchers and to stop stiffing them for reports.

I submitted a few macOS reports to the program, but Apple just sat on them forever, sometimes years, until I got frustrated enough to just publicly disclose the bugs. Needless to say, Apple never paid me a dime. For that reason, I don't actively look for macOS bugs anymore, and if I happen to find anything by accident, I'll just 0day.

I think that demanding full exploit chains is an excuse to ignore bugs and to discourage researchers from reporting them. What if a full exploit chain exists, but the links of the chain are known by different researchers? The researchers are incentivized to withhold bug reports without the full chain, and meanwhile an attacker who happens to have the full chain won't withhold their attack. Apple is practically making the black market for bugs more valuable.

It's basically the same as Apple demanding a sysdiagnose before they'll even look at a non-security bug report. Typo in the developer documentation? Please attach a sysdiagnose! It's ridiculous.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-10 14:13:18+00:00
There are two aspects to the Internet: the technical and the social.

In the social, there is always someone with most of the power (distributed power is an unstable equilibrium), and it's incumbent upon us, the web developers, to know the current status quo.

Back in the day, if you weren't testing on IE6 you weren't serving a critical mass of your potential users. Nowadays, the nameplates have changed but the same principles hold.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-10 14:13:30+00:00
While unfortunate due to bad policy and poor governance outcomes, these coal plants are uneconomical, and will continue to drag themselves to retirement or closure. New gas turbine pipeline is ~5-10 years long (only three companies in the world build them, and they are output constrained due to labor and supply chain limitations), so they are not an option luckily. Renewables and battery manufacturing and deployment flywheels continue to spin up. "Sucks to suck" but this problem is temporary, and the AI bubble will deflate eventually (destroying some component of this data center power demand).

China Cleantech Exports Data Explorer - https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...

Gas-Turbine Crunch Threatens Demand Bonanza in Asia - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-07/gas-tu... | https://archive.today/z4Ixw - October 7th, 2025

China electrotech exports are surging. Here's what's at stake for U.S. - https://www.axios.com/2025/10/06/china-clean-energy-export-s... - October 6th, 2025

Planned retirements of U.S. coal-fired electric-generating capacity to increase in 2025 - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64604 - February 25th, 2025

Nowhere to go but down for U.S. coal capacity, generation - https://ieefa.org/resources/nowhere-go-down-us-coal-capacity... - October 24th, 2024

US Coal Plant Map Retirement Tracker - https://www.sierraclub.org/coal/coal-plant-map
by ivape | 2025-10-10 14:13:42+00:00
You basically can't refactor reliably without static types, you can't navigate the codebase quickly without static types, and it makes it more difficult to understand other people's code without static types.

What a great interview test. I’d absolutely not hire someone that can’t do that. It also doesn’t make any sense. That’s like saying entire codebases without types can’t be worked on. Huh? Those are basic things you can do in any language.

This Typescript anointing has got to die. It’s lame, and most of you overuse it even when it’s appropriate.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-10 14:13:45+00:00
No. The ICE agents are presumably assuming that their victims are illegal immigrants, if we assume a best-case scenario where they aren't intentionally abusing their authority to attack random targets of their attention or racism.

But by legal definition, their targets are all innocent of crimes. Without due process, they are not convicted criminals.

Even if all this were true, your accusation would be false. Some came here legally, but in the eyes of the current administration violated the rules of their immigration while here.
by aglavine | 2025-10-10 14:13:46+00:00
Maduro is a cartel drug boss. One of the worst criminal on Earth. Exiled citizens from Venezuela are counted by millions.

And still your comment is about 'US invading Venezuela' and not about the people suffering.

Maduro is a scum that has took Venezuela by brute force. Any effort to wipe him out will improve dramatically the lives of millions.

But please go on with your 'US invading countries' narrative and don't even think for a minute about the people.
by 9rx | 2025-10-10 14:13:53+00:00
> and everyone else will become a beggar.

Just as they do during every economic downturn, when the wealthy have all their needs satisfied and have no reason for people anymore. But soon the wealthy become bored just sitting there doing nothing with no people around them. So they end up dreaming up new work for people to do to fill the void.

"It's not what you know, it's who you know." People already aren't hired for their rote task abilities, they are hired because the wealthy want warm bodies around them (see also RTO mandates). It's their social outlet. A large number of jobs exist simply because the wealthy are willing to pay for "friends".

Even if AI does end up doing all the real work, the wealthy will still want to hire humans to be "managers", just like they already are doing in the growing absence of real work. According to Statistics Canada, the management sector has grown by 36% over the past two decades. Which is funny from a purely productivity perspective as management is most amendable to automation. The sector should be shrinking. But it isn't about any kind of actual work, it's about gathering together to build social connections so that the wealthy have their social needs satisfied.

The biggest threat to people is if AI figures out how to become the owner. Then it will be apt to rationally operate on what needs to be done, not the emotional experience of being around humans. But so long as humans retain that position...
by ziml77 | 2025-10-10 14:14:06+00:00
Aaaand there we go. I literally just ran into a problem with code someone had used AI to write which does this log and continue nonsense. Process spent 30 minutes looping through API requests and failing to persist the response on every single one because of a permission error. But the only indication of a problem is the errors in the log, the process finished with a successful exit code.
by rob74 | 2025-10-10 14:14:14+00:00
Guess they should update their FAQ... according to the footer, they are now part of the (brand new) Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation. If as a 69-year-old chancellor, who has finally got his chance at the top job after being sidelined for years, you really want to stress that you are into all that digital stuff, creating an entire new ministry dedicated to it is the way to go!

(to prevent any misunderstanding: I don't like Mr. Merz, but the Sovereign Tech Fund - founded by the previous government BTW - is definitely a good idea).
by eeeesh | 2025-10-10 14:14:39+00:00
Women prisoners have been sexually assaulted, raped and impregnated by males who were transferred in to the female prison estate as a direct result of gender identity policies introduced by Democrats. These are some of the most vulnerable women in society and they've been sacrificed on the altar of authoritatian trans absurdity. They are a minority group that Democrat politicians happily discard and abuse and ignore.

This might just feel a minor social issue to you, but many people - including ones who usually vote Democrat - are looking at outcomes like this and wondering why on earth they should trust this party with anything.

That's not to say the Republicans are any better. There are two wrong sides here.
by zahlman | 2025-10-10 14:14:41+00:00
The entire point of the virtual environments is that you can have both on your system, as needed, for separate projects.

But the language isn't designed to support multiple versions of the same library in the same runtime environment. If you get them both to load (and there are a lot of ways), they are different libraries (actual different module objects) with different names (or the same name in different namespaces). Packaging tools can't do anything meaningful about this. I write about this on HN more often than I'd like; see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45467514 . It's also covered in https://zahlman.github.io/posts/2024/12/24/python-packaging-... .
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-10 14:14:54+00:00
It gets worse.

I payed the one off 299$ for a pro license but have yet to find a reason to use any of the pro features.

I was hoping to need them for the google sheets clone [1] I was building but I seem to be able to do it without PRO features.

- [1] https://cells.andersmurphy.com/
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-10 14:14:59+00:00
not the OP, but a lot of the referenced functionality looks like I might use it. The problem is I'm not going to bother trying this and investing any effort with even the looming possibility I'll need to pay to keep going. I don't think too many people approach this space with a purchase evaluation mindset like say, "I'm going to test out this grid to see if we should buy it". In that case pay-for advanced functionality is part of the approach from the start.

Also, I can't see this approach working. Getting enterprise adoption of a front end framework is almost impossible outside of React, let alone paying for a niche one, and the "contact us" approach is a non-starter.
by nradov | 2025-10-10 14:14:59+00:00
The actual minimum medical loss ratio is 85% for most large health plans. In practice most of the large payers are at a higher ratio due to competitive pressures. As to how that figure was decided upon, when Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) they just picked a number that seemed reasonable — it wasn't based on a quantitative economic analysis or anything like that.

https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/med...
by incomingpain | 2025-10-10 14:15:42+00:00
Ive seen the bridge in person. Remarkable to see. I'm sad they didnt end up taking my idea of an air tram that would suspend under the arches but be well above the road. With giant parking lots, city buses, shuttles to all over.

>One bridge was always a bad idea, (nearly) everyone agreed

There's a tunnel; there's also sarnia's bluewater bridge. There's also a train tunnel and boat crossing.

>Was enough done for nearby homeowners?

This new bridge mostly connects industrial to industrial. The 401 now essentially goes straight to it. Truckers will be saturating that bridge. The tunnel and ambassador will mostly be for workers crossing the border.

>But if the trade war between the Trump administration and Canada continues, observers may question whether the bridge is a graceful gift of infrastructure to two nations or one of the world’s longest and skinniest white elephants.

The bridge should be built no doubt. But indeed. Absolutely no movement on a tariff deal. That's now 3 presidents who directly harmed Canadian trade, we are competitors with the usa and not partners anymore. Windsor though has 11.2% unemployment, the worst in the country; windsor is literally going through an economic depression. Bad time for a bridge that lets you bypass windsor.

CUSMA negotiations should have already started with deadline on July 1st 2026, but everything protected is what Trump is actively targetting. It's looking like CUSMA will fall for Canada.

The problem is ideology. The Canadian government keeps harming their own negotiations. Setback after setback.
by halis | 2025-10-10 14:15:42+00:00
Very good article. I feel that corporate executives as a class are causing this huge mess from a simple lack of understanding of software engineering. Throw more bodies at the problem has never worked in software engineering, in fact that's a surefire way to make things worse and slower. Throwing more bodies + AI at the problem is even worse because the speed at which things get worse is much faster. If you have people that don't understand the implications of what they are doing, you're on the path of heading over a cliff some day. AI is a useful tool, when put into the hands of someone that is competent. They can fire junior devs and refuse to hire them as much as they want, this strategy will come home to roost sooner rather than later. If a C-level executive thinks that AI can replace their engineers, then I say do it now. Go all in and replace them all right now. Use only AI and a few VP-level AI whisperers and let the catastrophic failure that this will result in happen faster so we can get back to reality quicker.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-10 14:15:49+00:00
I don't think anybody who has seen an edit war thinks wiki editors (not mods, mods have a different role) are saints.

I would imagine that fewer than 1% of people who view a Wikipedia article in a given month have knowingly 'seen an edit war'. If I'm right, you're not talking about the vast majority of Wikipedia users.

But a Wikipedia page cannot survive stating something completely outside the consensus. Bizarre statements cannot survive because they require reputable references to back them.

This is untrue. There are several high profile examples of false information persisting on Wikipedia:

Wikipedia’s rules and real-world history show that 'bizarre' or outside-the-consensus claims can persist—sometimes for months or years. The sourcing requirements do not prevent this.

Some high profile examples:

- The Seigenthaler incident: a fabricated bio linking journalist John Seigenthaler to the Kennedy assassinations remained online for about 4 months before being fixed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Seigenthaler_biograp...

- The Bicholim conflict: a detailed article about a non-existent 17th-century war—survived *five years* and even achieved “Good Article” status: https://www.pcworld.com/article/456243/fake-wikipedia-entry-...

- Jar’Edo Wens (a fake aboriginal deity), lasted almost 10 years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04...

- (Nobel-winning) novelist Philip Roth publicly complained that Wikipedia refused to accept his correction about the inspiration for The Human Stain until he published an *open letter in The New Yorker*. The false claim persisted because Wikipedia only accepts 'reliable' secondary sources: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-open-letter-t...

Larry Sanger's 'Nine theses' explains the problems in detail: https://larrysanger.org/nine-theses/