MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-16 18:31:43+00:00
> In an industry like tech where self-learning is so normalized, the kind of person who needs to be forced to retrain just isn't the kind of person who actually wants to retrain.

I think that's actually a two-way street. Companies expect self-learning and -improvement from employees, but where's that 20% time that used to be the norm in IT?

IMHO, the root cause rarely is someone being "set in stone" from the start - it's when the relationship between the individual and the company (or their direct manager) grows cold. In German we call that "Dienst nach Vorschrift". Loyalty is a two way street as well, and most companies aren't loyal to their employees - or they cease to be loyal and supportive towards their employees when the executive suits decide that their bonuses are under threat.

> The process of hiring a new employee in aggregate costs at most around $10k on top of salary.

Headhunter rates are ~20% (although I've heard of 50% for really senior staff) of the yearly base pay... so you're looking at $20k just in headhunter costs for your usual SWE, and that doesn't count the distributed costs for general hiring, "wasted" hours on interviews and their preparation that don't lead to a hire, or the cost to reacquire knowledge that hasn't been formally documented, or the time until the "new" guy has shown enough capability to be trusted to do stuff on their own (i.e. lost productivity).

> VP and above only have visibility on top-line numbers, but the actual business case to hire is made by EMs or Directors.

To hire an individual person, yes. But the decision to do entire departments worth of layoffs because the stonk is going on a dive after some exec's pipe dream didn't play out? That's C level. And these fuckers don't get to feel the consequences.
by pedro_caetano | 2025-10-16 18:32:03+00:00
They do move 'naturally' in the right direction if you think of a cell and it's membrane it can be loosely abstracted as a dielectric material and like any other dielctric can be polarized.

The issue with diabetes is that over time periphery blood supply becames problematic which means healing takes way longer, sometimes never healing at all leading to necrosis (dead tissue).

So you could argue that 'accelerated healing' tissue is a poorer grade tissue by some metric, e.g. connective tissue is not as flexible or strong etc. But in diabetic wounds the alternative to 'accelerated healing' tissue could literally be an amputated limb.
by duped | 2025-10-16 18:32:03+00:00
I mean there are things you can reasonably do better than the grocery store but something things are unrealistic. Like "just go to a gourmet cheese store" is not something you can do in most of the country.

I live in one of the largest metro areas with quite a few Michelin star and recommended eateries, lovely food culture, and we love our dairy. I think there are two dedicated cheese mongers you can walk into in the entire area, neither are particularly accessible.
by tptacek | 2025-10-16 18:32:23+00:00
Pretty sure. I make bacon and dabble with salumi. It's definitely not strictly a food safety issue. I sometimes put a pinch of pink salt in with my duck confit cure, and it comes out distinctively hammier. Nitric oxide interacts with myoglobin in ways that alter your taste perception; sort of the way I understand miracleberries make things taste sweeter (by cutting off your perception of bitterness), nitrites do to the metallic flavor compounds in meat.
by chimpanzee | 2025-10-16 18:32:31+00:00
> While there are some people who live in "food deserts" with very limited options, complaints by most HN users about the difficulty of finding healthy food don't align with reality.

Some… Most…

You’ve made some broad assumptions here. I’ve lived in various neighbordhoods in one of the largest cities in this country and near and far suburbs of the same. Only when I’ve lived in ritzy or trendy areas have I had no issue eating healthy (according to my definition of healthy), and always at significantly greater financial cost.

My guess is either your concerns are less restrictive than mine annd others’ on this thread. Or you’ve been privileged enough to not have a clear perspective on just how large, dispersed and discontinuous, the American “food desert” truly is.
by api | 2025-10-16 18:32:48+00:00
> These are as old as mankind itself. All major religions are essentially meme-conglomerates.

I find the whole idea that thought equals memes to be excessively reductionist. It neglects the notion of coherence in thought, and the way larger coherent beliefs and narratives are built out of smaller parts. The thing about "dinosaur" formats like novels and books and such is that they can express large coherent bodies of thought.

The way memes have taken over online discourse tends toward a kind of anti-intellectualism where ideas are considered entirely in isolation and there is no effort made to relate them to one another. It leads to insane self-contradictory positions like "libertarian fascism" to give one random example. A lot of modern online discourse is what I might call meme salad, which like word salad lacks coherence.

It's sort of like describing a program as a bunch of functions or instructions. Yes, it is that, but there is a design, a coherence, a larger idea being expressed. There are also design patterns and motifs, layers of abstraction, etc. None of that is captured by the meme idea, and as popularly understood the meme idea tends to neglect and devalue that.

I also always found the selfish gene idea excessively reductionistic in genetics. Yes you can model evolution as survival of the fittest genes, but this neglects the way genes work together to form higher order systems that are themselves subjected to selection. Selection can operate at the genetic level but also at higher levels. In evolution look into group selection, the evolution of evolvability, epigenetics, gene regulatory networks, etc.
by godelski | 2025-10-16 18:33:27+00:00
I think it would help to put some of this on your site. When I land on the main waterfox page it looks like just firefox but reskinned. I'm not saying that's what it actually is (clearly it isn't) but it can help having some clarity about this. I mean it isn't like you're being shy about building off of firefox, so why not mention it?
by jmyeet | 2025-10-16 18:33:29+00:00
Private equity is cancer. It should be illegal. It adds nothing of value and just hollows out a company for short term profit-taking while hoping nobody notices how your restructure is laden with exploding debt.

This will kill EA, period.

IIRC I read the other day there are more private equity firms in the US than McDonald's now. We produce nothing but weapons now as well as financial chicanery like private equity.
by Delk | 2025-10-16 18:34:23+00:00
> thank you, that reinforces the idea that selling a "freeware" is how you harvest bad karma from your customers

Well, you should, because doing so generally requires exploitation of the ignorant or an outright scam.

But the additional value provided might be as simple as (pre)installing the OS and making sure it works with the hardware. Or transferring the customer's data from their old OS for them. I see nothing wrong with charging for those. I might not pay for them since I can easily do them myself but they can be valuable services to others.

Hypothetically you could also sell copies of a distro on physical media to somewhere with poor internet access and it would be fine. People did that in the 90's even in rich countries.

Of course it all sort of depends on how much you charge and for what. You probably still couldn't charge $100 just for the copy without some kind of exploitation since informed people would figure out cheaper ways of getting it.

And of course if you just took an existing distro, changed its name and branding to RolphOS without adding anything of value, and then sold ISO images for $100 to the ignorant by presenting it as your unique special OS, you would get a bad name in the community. It probably still wouldn't violate copyright if all the software were open source, you didn't claim copyright for anything you didn't write and you retained the original licenses, but it would be scammy.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-16 18:34:40+00:00
>But those steak cuts would be subject to the same standards as a cheap chicken meat in the cheap store.

Speaking also as an European, not they would not. There's a pretty big difference in the quality of the meant across the board between shops and brands(suppliers) of meat depending how the animals were raised, fed and cared for.

Here in Austria there's been plenty of scandals covering the poor conditions of animals in meat factories (living in feces, infections with puss, etc) yet the meat cuts receive the AMA seal of approval. I also did some work for the farm tech sector and the conditions of animals in some (most) EU countries I saw were indeed as appalling as those in the stories. It almost made me go vegan.

Sure, it's all(probably) technically safe to eat due to all the antibiotics they pump in those animals, just like in the US, but quality varies a lot.

And like sibling said, there's also a big difference between the quality of fruits and vegetables you find in supermarkets depending on where they come from and the conditions under which they were farmed.

That's why I dislike these over generalist "In Europe it's like this and that" blanket statements. No it isn't, it's just one point on the graph, but in reality it varies A LOT, it's a friggin continent ffs.
by yodon | 2025-10-16 18:34:53+00:00
>This thread has to go. so sayeth dang, keeper of all words, allower of some.

The HN algorithm is and has always been optimized to rank up posts that contain well-mannered discussions and to penalize threads that contain poor-mannered discussions. In practice, that means ranking up topics around which there is general consensus and ranking down topics where there is strong disagreement. That stems from a thesis that visitors come to this site for well mannered discussions and that the cost in long term user behavior from poor behavior makes any such topic counterproductive to have at the top of the list, regardless of the topic and regardless of the importance of the topic.

The topic here is almost certain to bring out activity that the system views as signals of disagreement, meaning it is algorithmically almost guaranteed to be down ranked, if it hasn't already been.
by emixam | 2025-10-16 18:34:54+00:00
It's in sync with the Locality of Behavior [0] principle that htmx follows.

It's inspired by Astro Pages [1] which are the same thing in the javascript world. I really liked the developer experience working with them.

[0] https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/ [1] https://docs.astro.build/fr/basics/astro-pages/
by rtkwe | 2025-10-16 18:34:56+00:00
Most fast food is largely cooked to order and pretty rapidly degrades once you try to hold it for more any real amount of time before consumption. /Maybe/ partially assembled burgers could have patties cooked right before serving or for pizza do a model like the pizza vending machines where it's baked right before it's dispensed but I don't see the version becoming popular where it's a lot of food fully precooked and assembled being predictively shuttled around town.

Beyond quality issues it'd just lead to a massive amount of food waste too. In order to always have the order available you'd have to stock everything in excess of demand and food only holds for so long before it has to be disposed of for safety reasons.
by pythonaut_16 | 2025-10-16 18:35:04+00:00
This is actually one of the huge tradeoffs and pitfalls of LiveView. Its websocket model is all or nothing.

For example I have a small side project using LiveView where users would typically pull their phone out, quickly record data, then put it away again. But due LiveView only working with a connected websocket they often have to wait ~1s for the socket to reconnect, and get an annoying error message while it does.

I'm sure there's more I could do to configure this but the default at least is terrible. I believe with Hotwire I wouldn't have this problem, my view would just work and then restore the websocket when it can.

I use Phoenix and LiveView for a lot but I wish we could get more of these rough edges polished up.
by tompark | 2025-10-16 18:35:27+00:00
The REAL ID Act, effective 2025. https://www.uspassporthelpguide.com/passport-required-domest...

But OTOH there's a chart on this page that shows a longer term trend of nearly linear growth in US passport holder percentage from the 1990's: https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/japan-gets-there-first...
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-10-16 18:35:44+00:00
> first step on the supply chain road

99 percent of Docker container users aren't on the supply chain road. They just want to "docker pull", #yolo.

> Configuring Traefik ingress to forward TCP connections to pods was literally the last thing I did yesterday

Docker does crazy insane modifications to your system settings behind the scenes. (Of which turning off the system firewall is the least crazy.)

Have fun when the magic Docker IP addresses happen to conflict with your corporate LAN.
by beyarkay | 2025-10-16 18:36:29+00:00
Given that AI couldn't even speak English 6 years ago, do you really think it's going to struggle with unit tests for the next 20 years?

It's well worth looking at https://progress.openai.com/, here's a snippet:

> human: Are you actually conscious under anesthesia?

> GPT-1 (2018): i did n't . " you 're awake .

> GPT-3 (2021): There is no single answer to this question since anesthesia can be administered [...]
by ianburrell | 2025-10-16 18:36:32+00:00
Generation ships can't slow down. They don't have the fuel to slow down and start back up, only to stop at the end.

Also, the supplies should be available in the home system. It costs just as much to send out probes and accelerate the supplies as it does to send the supplies with the ship.

The only exception is that don't have water as fuel, and could travel slowly to the closest icy object, and then do the full burn to speed. It would add years though.
by random3 | 2025-10-16 18:36:37+00:00
For stateless processes, probably, but there are non-trivial problems reconciling state - think of your IDE / vim along with maybe a debugging session of another process. You need a lot of things in place to enable this use case for productivity goals. This is not an uncommon scenario for the current audience (I use AVP almost exclusively for work and think many users are engineers).

There may be simplifications to this, but I suspect it eventually lands in a distributed system problem involving state and strong consistency semantics. I’ve done this for most of my engineering career and all I can say is that they are fun problems to work on because they are some of the most difficult ones :)
by efitz | 2025-10-16 18:37:34+00:00
Yeas ago, I thought- why not both?

Use a catapult/trebuchet/cannon to launch the drone as close as possible to the target area - maybe use a discardable biodegradable sheath to improve aerodynamics. At the optimal distance and height, switch the drone from ballistic to powered mode and complete the delivery. Maybe increases payload (the drone doesn’t have to take off carrying the payload). And definitely increases range, as we are not having to use onboard power for flight for part of the laden delivery, so there is more energy available for the unladen return trip.

Personally I would love to see cannon launches but most localities are unlikely to approve (maybe Texas?)
by zer00eyz | 2025-10-16 18:37:43+00:00
> High minimum wages are making it nearly impossible to run small restaurants.

Not as much as one would think.

Rent (literal) and rent seeking (lending in this case) are the biggest drivers in food costs today.

The family restaurant in an owned building is a distant memory.

The wholesale price of food is very low at the point of production (farming) and absolutely bonkers at the retail and wholesale levels. Mostly because at every step of the chain there is debt, and massive interest payments that need to be made.

The HN set is on one side of the K shaped economy and the other half is looking very much like late stage capitalism.

Case in point: Fritos. 4.50 a bag, while the Walmart generic version is under 2 bucks. Why? Because Pepsi (owner of Fritos) is competing with apple for customers, aka SHAREHOLDERS, and has a massive amount of debt compared to Walmart. The primary input in Fritos is corn, whos price is close to 2019 levels.
by 2mlWQbCK | 2025-10-16 18:38:03+00:00
Swedish government archives (Riksarkivet) (IIRC; could have been some library or other archive?) used to have a page asking for donations of equipment that can be used to read old disks/discs/tapes. Basically any kind of drives, old computers that those drives can be used with etc, precisely for this reason that sometimes the archive have to rescue data from ancient media.

Can't find it now so not sure if it is still up, but I can't imagine they ended up with enough equipment that they will never need more. Must be something all archives struggle with and there will always be some format they do not already have equipment for, or some machine they need spare parts for?
by 4ytrytrtttytty | 2025-10-16 18:38:12+00:00
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by fair_enough | 2025-10-16 18:38:33+00:00
Like I said, that's the engineering context of the word.

In business managerial side of operations, "stakeholder" is definitely a weasel word.

The word "stakeholder" in "stakeholder capitalism" as used by the World Economic Forum literally means "every single person on Earth". Unless you think Klaus Schwab also considers the possibility of life in the Andromeda Galaxy, it doesn't get anymore nebulous than that. The word "nebulous" describes something cloudy and ginormous- like a nebula.

I'm not trying to give you a hard time, but the rarity of the exception justifies the rule.
Show HN: Gen AI for fonts, 1M free fonts organized by "vibe"
by jacobn | 2025-10-16 18:39:26+00:00
Hi HN, we've taken a stab at reimagining fonts in the world of Gen AI.

Rather than using prompts (slow, and how do you even describe a font?) we've pre-generated a large catalog, and organized it into "vibe" folders for easy exploration.

For those not familiar, typical font sites show you 10-20 crippled specimens in seemingly random order, have limited & inconsistent catalogs, are slow to load, and use complicated licensing terms that make it hard to know what you're allowed to do.

Font Hero solves these problems: hundreds of instantly updating custom specimens organized by "vibe", more than a million fonts with consistent & broad character sets, blazingly fast load times, and simple licensing:

All fonts are free for commercial use while in beta.

(After the beta, we will offer simple and reasonable terms for future use.)

About the AI: we have trained a custom generative AI model from scratch using a dataset of non-copyrighted raster specimens. As with most first stabs at Gen AI, the results are on the one hand amazing (there are a lot of good-to-great fonts in the collection), but of course the error rate is non-zero, so if you dig around you'll soon find some "six fingered" glyphs too ;)

Please check it out, and we'd love to hear your thoughts!
by antisthenes | 2025-10-16 18:39:56+00:00
I don't mark up anything on physical goods, because my profession is services-only.

If the tradesman wants additional income, I have no problem with that, bake it into their hourly rate.

> had to buy them in advance, pay shipping, store them, then take the right copy with you to a client's house.

A warehouse/shipper already does all of this, perhaps not for $3 but for $3 + shipping.

For this purpose in my relationship with tradesmen, I just pay them whatever their rate is to identify what the problem is, and then fix it myself at my own leisure using my materials, unless it involves something hazardous or requires a license.

> I used to work retail. Belkin cables were under $2 each for the store, they sold them for $39-$69 depending on what it was

You certainly don't have to explain these banalities to me (I also worked retail and ecommerce for 11 years) and they don't really contribute to the point. There are scenarios where you can get away with charging exorbitant markups and maybe 1% markup, and everything in-between. The question here is should you take advantage of under-informed homeowners

For professional services, I do mark up my time, obviously, but it is not a 25x markup as in the capacitor case.

If I calculated strictly my bare necessities to live (e.g. mortgage/food/healthcare/utilities), my rough markup would probably be around 2.5x-3x.
by lunias | 2025-10-16 18:40:36+00:00
It's just a decision making analogy. If you want better decisions that produce solutions that are a better fit for the problem then it makes sense to offer more choices of increased variety.

If the situation is as dire as you feel, then I certainly hope that someone mounts an opposition to Trump because that's how we all win... a better alternative that most people recognize as such. Where and why are they hiding the alternatives?
by mjamesaustin | 2025-10-16 18:40:50+00:00
It should be illegal because these services market a subscription to you claiming the benefit of zero fees and free delivery, which is a lie. You are being secretly charged through a higher menu price, none of which is shown to you as a customer.

I can't count how many friends I have had to explain this to who don't understand they are paying 20-30% more even after getting "free delivery" than if they just ordered directly through the restaurant.
by d--b | 2025-10-16 18:41:07+00:00
I would like to rephrase that question slightly:

Since the raspberry came out, we can produce pocket-sized computers with touch screens and cameras fairly easily. These are ALMOST smartphones. So why can't we have a raspberry based smartphone?

To me it looks like the problem is around GSM/4G and battery, since pretty much everything else is easily supported by a raspberry pi.

I could cope with Pine phone literally crashing all the time, but I could not cope with the fact that I was not able to place/receive a single call or text message.

Right now, I'd be happy just having a pocket computer with call/4g functionality.
by akarshc | 2025-10-16 18:41:10+00:00
that’s a really valid point. liveview’s websocket-first model can feel heavy for quick, intermittent interactions like mobile data entry. it shines when the user is continuously connected, but those short bursts do expose rough edges. hotwire’s approach of progressive enhancement and optimistic rendering handles these scenarios more gracefully since the view works independently of the connection. phoenix and liveview are still amazing, but improving these “short session” experiences would make it even stronger.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-16 18:42:18+00:00
As a side note, this might just be a me thing, but I distinguish between "complex" and "complicated". Certain things have an inherently complexity. Stripped to their essence, they're still going to have a lot of moving parts. It's just their nature. However, you can also add complication on top of something that makes it more complex than it needs to be to perform its function. Think "complication" in the watchmaker's sense. It might be neat to add a dial that shows the number of weeks since your last dentist appointment, but you don't really need that to have a functional wristwatch, and its presence makes the whole thing a lot more finicky and fragile than it would otherwise be.

Complexity is fine. Sometimes we're working on complex problems without simple, straightforward, correct solutions. I do try to avoid complications, though.