MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verdverm | 2025-11-22 21:11:56+00:00
I'm curious what people are doing. We're still very much in the experimentation phase

> Sounds risky!

One of first attempts at building file system tools for my custom agent called `tree` and caught a few node_models. Blew up my context and cost me $5 in 60s. Fortunately I triggered the TPM rate-limit and the thing stopped
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-22 21:12:25+00:00
Sam does not look gay to me. He is awkward around girls, but seems to be attracted to them.

Both Bilbo and Frodo are a bit gay-ish indeed, or possibly asexual (neither ever marries or even has any romantic interest, both seem to be artsy), but Tolkien was born in pre-war England where lifetime bachelors who weren't gay were a part of the usual society.
by Retric | 2025-11-22 21:12:35+00:00
What I am describing is you literally saving money.

If a government can convert a 1k outlay into 1.1k of tax revenue that same month you aren’t actually paying for those benefits you are getting a little revenue instead of zero revenue. Due to their debts operating across such long timescales people make the same basic argument for things that take longer to see positive returns, but daycare is a very short loop.
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-22 21:12:40+00:00
I'm sorry, America hasn't been Mayberry since the 1950s, and it never will be again. Most of us live in towns with more than just a post office, so this Norman Rockwell-esque fantasy of just dropping your kid off with the nice housewife next door is not just dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
by gosub100 | 2025-11-22 21:13:09+00:00
its a breakdown of community, with capitalism largely to blame. In small towns, this type of behavior is less likely when you know the sheriff or judge and feel like they are a part of your social sphere. In a large city, any red-light-flashing cop is just an NPC that spawed and will take your in-game credits. I think this is the result - for many of us - when each person we see every day is likely someone we'll never see again. The megacity is just a huge machine with sharp gears and lurking dangers you have to evade.
by throwaway6977 | 2025-11-22 21:13:10+00:00
There is mention of desktop applications in their getting-started docs; it seems well within the intention of the maintainers to me.

https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/introduction.html

> Yeah, why in the world would I use a web API to develop a desktop application?

> Glad you asked, the short answer is:

Reasonable level of abstraction Good performance Cross-platform Standard enough Future-proof
by ozim | 2025-11-22 21:14:08+00:00
Just look how it goes with GitHub everyone has some BS repos and then also they spam projects to get contributions for CVs.

Hacktober was the worst but I think it went away because of BS spam contributions.

CVE and in general security issues reporting has this issue nowadays where everyone wants to get CVE on their name to have it for CV. It is worst stuff ever.
by dimal | 2025-11-22 21:14:38+00:00
Were they a coop when they went bankrupt? According to the article, they only became a coop recently, so having a CEO capable of firing everyone didn’t work out for them.

They took investors, who agreed to the rate of return on their investment. That doesn’t sound like charity.

Now, your example of a CEO that wants to fire everyone assumes that that’s the right decision. How well has that kind of thinking worked for other firms like Boeing? That type of authority structure introduces its own set of distortions, which usually skew towards shareholders, and often not towards long term sustainability.

As a worker, I would be against that decision for selfish reasons as well as for rational reasons. It sounds like a bad idea. If they want to sell commodity glassware, then that’s a race to the bottom. But they’re selling quality, which requires humans with skill.

> In general coops are not good at tough decisions and innovation.

This needs to be backed up. Mondragon in Spain has thrived for decades. In America, mutual aid societies used to provide health care, unemployment insurance and other benefits before being squeezed out by other groups who were better at things like regulatory capture.

There is a long history of cooperative ownership that goes beyond the stereotypical hippie grocery store. I think it’s too quick to dismiss Duralex.
by woopwoop | 2025-11-22 21:14:38+00:00
Matrix multiplication is not ugly, but matrices themselves are ugly, mainly because they encode the arbitrary operation of choosing a basis. There's nothing especially nice about the pixel basis for images, or about the token basis for language. But of all the things that make up modern deep learning, matrix multiplication is surely the _least_ ugly. Relu/gelu is not pretty! Batch normalization is vomit-inducing!! Imagenet normalization? JFC!!!
by jorvi | 2025-11-22 21:15:21+00:00
> Orion is the only browser on the market that comes with full first-party and third-party ad and tracking script blocking

I love Kagi, but that is a laughable statement. Brave has been offering ad and fingerprint blocking for years now. The reason why they don't have full first party blocking ("aggressive" mode blocking) on by default is because it tends to break things.
by charlie-83 | 2025-11-22 21:16:45+00:00
There are always situations where an advert is useful and we remember those. However, when an advert causes you to spend more than you would, you have no idea it has happened.

Maybe you truly are above the influence of advertising. However, almost no one believes that they are affected by advertising yet clearly almost all of those people are wrong.

I find it safer to assume I am part of the vast majority of people who would be influenced by personalised advertising. Given that online advertising is basically the biggest business in the world, I assume that it would find a way to get money from me.
by xandrius | 2025-11-22 21:17:16+00:00
Kind of proves the point. They show absolutely nothing that would make them gay, it's just, as the OP said, our society has rejected any male-male physical interaction which isn't a fistbump, a high-five and maybe a short hug.

Look at older military photos from 1800s-1900s and you see comrades holding hands for instance.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-22 21:17:18+00:00
It doesn't. You still need someone to commute to where the daycare is because they don't live there, transaction costs related to payment processing, and that's often illegal if you do it for money because of zoning ordinances etc.

Those facilities also often don't qualify for subsidies like this because it allows all the people doing it themselves to claim the subsidy. Either you take care of your own kids as before but sign up as a daycare that only your own kids attend to get the subsidy yourself, or you find someone else who takes care of their own kids and then each sign up to watch the other's kids when you each actually watch your own. And you rightfully should be able to get the subsidy if you're doing it yourself, except that then it gets a lot more attractive to actually stay at home, which the government doesn't like because it makes the program more expensive and corporations hate because it reduces supply in the labor market.
by Animats | 2025-11-22 21:17:26+00:00
Wasn't this on HN recently?

Salicylic acid from willow bark has been known for millennia. But the side effects to the stomach are not good. Aspirin came along when enough was known about the chemistry to try to deal with the side effects. Aspirin is salicylic acid with an acetyl group hung on to reduce the side effects.

Tweaking small molecule drugs to work better or have fewer side effects is common today. Aspirin was one of the first early successes.
by beeflet | 2025-11-22 21:17:32+00:00
I think it is a technical problem. If you could integrate payment channels on top of private cryptocurrencies that would be enough. Even without the lightning network and just direct 1-to-1 payment channels, it would work.

The article you lists assumes a "conventional" credit card system with chargebacks, massive fees, etc. which makes micropayments ecosystem impractical in the first place. Proposals for micro-payment systems usually describe a way top enable low-fee payments.

The author doesn't take into account modern cryptocurrency tech like payment channels. I really doubt that payments have a natural fixed floor of 10s of cents - Payment providers charge these fees simply because they are in a natural monopoly position, thanks to lock-in and regulation. The need to control fraud is caused by regulatory requirements, which are in turn caused by monopolization.

Despite being technologically less efficient, even traditional cryptocurrency payments are cheaper than bank transfer fees due to competition and low regulation.

Secondly, you assume that no one wants to do micropayments. The infrastructure doesn't exist for it yet. If you don't build it, they will not come.

As for browser fingerprinting, it can be solved on the client side with enough effort. Look at tor browser. Just have a system where cookies, WebGL, etc. are opt in on a browser level in the same way that WebUSB is. Artificially limit the performance of javascript to prevent bench-marking. I think it is possible to solve this architecturally.

Check it out!

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_channels

https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

Also, there are GNU Taler/Chaumian cash type systems that inherit the efficiency of centralized systems with an added privacy benefit.
by hilbert42 | 2025-11-22 21:17:49+00:00
"This will break a lot of websites, but automatically rules out most forms of tracking…"

Whether one breaks a lot of websites or not depends on the type of user one is. People who regularly use the Google ecosystem, Amazon and Social Media etc. cannot afford to break sites for obvious reasons, they too are those that websites are most interested in tracking and fingerprinting.

Those who use the web in the way advertisers and Big Tech intend users to use it are the most vulnerable, they're the ones who most need protection.

I break websites regularly but it doesn't worry me, I browse with the premise that there are more websites on the internet than I'll ever be able to visit and if I break sites or are blocked by paywalls then there are usually alternatives and workarounds.

But then I'm not a typical user, I block ads, I usually browse with JS off, kill cookies, use block lists, use multiple browsers (there are six on this deGoogled, rooted phone), browse from multiple machines—Windows, Linux and use multiple ISPs. Also, I've no Social media or Google accounts and rarely ever purchase stuff online. Internet access is via dynamic IP addresses and routers are rebooted often. There's more but you get the picture.

I assume browsing sans JS makes me a first-class target for fingerprinting and that websites know about me but it doesn't matter. Whatever I'm doing seems to work, over the years I've had very little trouble doing everything on the web that I want to do. Clearly I'm of little interest to advertisers and I never see ads let alone targeted ones. I used to use uBlock Origin but I don't bother now as browsing sans JS is just so effective at blocking ads.

I'm lucky in the fact that I use no service that would benefit from fingerprinting me. Whilst my web browsing is atypical of most users I reckon many could benefit by being more proactive—using multiple machines, browsers, ISPs etc.—to disrupt the outflow of personal data. For example, this is being written on a rooted Android using Privacy Browser from F-Droid sans JS and with block lists. If I really need to go to a site where JS is required, I can simply hit a toggle and turn on JS or alternatively use another browser.
by arcticbull | 2025-11-22 21:17:57+00:00
The cost of nuclear power is almost entirely capex and financing, not opex. Uranium input cost for nuclear power plants is 0.5c/kWh. With breeders you can divide that by about 100.

At least as of a couple years ago nuclear costs just a little more than solar plus storage and that’s not stopping anyone heh.
by Nition | 2025-11-22 21:17:58+00:00
That thread is a fun (though frustrating for them!) conversation to read through.

After about a hundred back-and-forths getting the guy with the actual hardware to try different commands, I was thinking to myself man, maybe he should just give him remote access to work on the target PC, this is torture for both of them. And then I see him comment:

> Honestly I'm thinking of this and maybe something insane like organizing ssh access or something to quit torturing Nadim with building and rebooting all the time

And Nadim replies:

> Haha, sorry, but there's no way I'm giving you SSH access!

> I’m fine with continuing with tests!

Which is fair enough! But was funny to see right when I was thinking the same thing. Great perseverance from both of them.

Was slightly disappointing they they moved off GitHub to Discord eventually so after all that, we miss the moment of them actually getting it working!
by Neikius | 2025-11-22 21:18:16+00:00
Do you see how the discourse has been shifted here? Some of us have nothing against ads per-se. We care about tracking.

How does tracking me and invading my privacy make ads perform better? In my case it does not. As the tracked ads are usually worse as they will keep advertising me things I don't need anymore. Context based ads worked fine in the past and I don't really see why they cannot.

Also why does every web store need to show me ads? Don't they make money out of selling things? If they really have to, do they have to invade privacy? This is like walking into a physical store and them doing facial recognition, then showing you tailored ads/inventory. That feels creepy to me.
by epolanski | 2025-11-22 21:19:01+00:00
I never understood how can eating at McDonald's be cheaper than cooking your own meals.

I'm not from US, but checking US grocery shops, you can eat meals made of chicken breast, bread and vegetables well below 5$ per person, well below 20$ in total for a family of 4.

Yet every time I see those discussions, fast food is always presented as a cheaper option?
by culi | 2025-11-22 21:19:05+00:00
I mean we're already doing that in many avenues. Solar being the most obvious. The only functioning solar manufacturing plants in the US are Chinese-owned and are only here to take advantage of subsidies.

Plenty has been learned by the US/West from copying their approach to agriculture, robotics in factories, mining, drones, etc. Have you seen their electromagnetic catapult technology?? That stuff seems like its from the space-age! There's even plenty of tech that we can't really explain like the all-moving wingtips on the new J-50s. (and yes, I'm avoiding talking about their supersonic cruise missiles)
by op00to | 2025-11-22 21:20:13+00:00
You remember incorrectly.

Norway and Sweden took opposite approaches in 2020—Norway used strict lockdowns, tight border controls, and intensive outbreak tracking, while Sweden kept society largely open. The results weren’t subtle. As the Juul paper puts it: “That resulted in 477 COVID-19 deaths (Norway) and 9,737 (Sweden) in 2020, respectively.” Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8807990/
by ameixaseca | 2025-11-22 21:21:22+00:00
This wasn't clear for me from the question, though I understand where you are coming from.

Investing is certainly not as risky as people from outside of Brazil generally think it is, since the banking system is well regulated and the legal framework is solid.

My two cents: if someone that is a foreigner in both Brazil and the US asked me what I think, I would say investing is Brazil is likely less risky than the US at the moment.
by CPLX | 2025-11-22 21:21:39+00:00
Genuine question. What do you think the alternative is?

Let's say for argument's sake, that it was relatively well known that you could just drive away rapidly from a police encounter and successfully escape. Do you think that would affect the number of people who made that decision to do that?

I can see both sides of this, but I'm curious what yours is.
by dang | 2025-11-22 21:21:41+00:00
Ok! I take your point that your comment was more related to the topic of this thread than I assumed it was.

Probably if you had phrased it in a slightly more informative way, that pattern-matched slightly less to internet-dismissal-trope, I'd have understood that better the first time.

(By internet-dismissal-trope in this case I mean something of the form "After X, I am no longer interested in person Y".)
by vee-kay | 2025-11-22 21:22:15+00:00
> The firms can coordinate by agreeing on a strategy they deem necessary for the future of the industry.. Then, after the strategy succeeds, they have gotten addicted to the higher revenues, they do not allow prices to fall as fast as they should, their coordination becomes blatantly illegal..

So said and did the infamous Phoebus cartel, to unnaturally "fix" the prices and quality of light bulbs.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

For more than a century, one strange mystery has puzzled the world: why do old light bulbs last for decades while modern bulbs barely survive a couple of years?

The answer lies in a secret meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland in 1924, where the world’s biggest light bulb companies formed the notorious Phoebus Cartel.

Their mission was simple but shocking: control the global market, set fixed prices, and most importantly… reduce bulb lifespan.

Before this cartel, bulbs could easily run for 2500+ hours. But after the Phoebus Cartel pact and actions, all companies were forced to limit lifespan to just 1000 hours. More failure meant more purchases. More purchases meant more profit. Any company who refused faced heavy financial penalties.

The most unbelievable proof is the world-famous Livermore Fire Station bulb in California, glowing since 1901. More than 120 years old. Still alive. While our new incandescent bulbs die in 1–2 years.

Though the Phoebus cartel was dissolved in the 1930s due to government pressure, its impact still shadows modern manufacturing. Planned obsolescence didn’t just begin here… but Phoebus made it industrial.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0U5uU6nzgO8
by mfuzzey | 2025-11-22 21:22:36+00:00
Well the initial financial problems were under a traditional profit driven scheme. Almost certainy they wouldn't have got the donations they are getting today if they had remained in that model so the employee-owned scheme is at least somewhat better. It is also likely that, in addiiton to donations, they are getting extra sales by being employee-owened, at least in France.

Ultimately though it's probably the whole market theey are in (relatively cheap household goods) that is difficult for a company based in a rich country, whatever their ownership model.
by rolph | 2025-11-22 21:22:43+00:00
you may not have a lot of money, but if you have a large network of people willing to do legwork in fidelity, at the direction of a lawyer, you have a chance to gather supporting documents, affidavit, etc. in time to counter well with motion to dismiss based on meritless claims.

so dont drag your feet, approach a lawyer[s] and find one prepared to make a good effort.

it sounds like you are in a position that begs some legal assistance as part of regular operations, you should have one in your "rolodex"
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-22 21:22:52+00:00
Fussing with language to make rightwing political points (i.e. lying) is the bread and butter of rightwing ideology. You don't say "I don't think governments should spend any money on social services or helping their citizens", because that makes you sound like a terrible person. So you look down your nose and say "Well, it's not really FREE, akshually! I am very smart." And then you prance around tooting your dog whistle.
by gcanyon | 2025-11-22 21:23:12+00:00
> When it comes to culture, I believe that things change rather than go up or down.

In the '80s movie Trancers, Jack Deth is a visitor from the future, and as he's slicking his hair back with water from a flower vase a woman from the present day asks something like, "People from the future put vase-water in their hair?!" and Jack Deth replies very seriously, "Dry hair is for squids."
by BunsanSpace | 2025-11-22 21:23:39+00:00
1. Just because a few commercial American events masquerade as raves or fedtivals, doesn't mean all events are like this. You just don't hear about the good events. We have to calculate generator loads because we're running 500-1000 person festivals with permits &c, but it's still an underground party operating by rave rules. No high vis security or police around. Also we're not doing this in the US, please don't project your shitty culture onto the whole world. 2. Aerial circus it's extremely important to inspect the rigging points and the hardware being used due to the sheer amount of force being generated by drops. You absolutely need to know the load of carabiniers, regular rock climbing ones are often not sufficient. 3. Blender could be a fun idea but you often are limited by the room and where the rigging points are, than what you can dream up.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-11-22 21:23:57+00:00
You are not always the target, but leaking data like this empowers those that may use it against someone else. I mean to say, you are providing training data. People who move-like-this-at-these-times also have these other tendencies... It's like fusion sensing.

Same with secure messaging. You might not care that [insert boogeyman here] know what you're doing all day, but people you interact with may be harmed by you being leaky.

Anyway, the whole point is your lack of imagination is not a good reason to embrace surveillance. Rejecting surveillance on principal slows down our descent into a panopticonical hellscape.
by Neikius | 2025-11-22 21:24:01+00:00
I guess you have a point there.

I am trying to imagine a scenario where you just track the actual conversions (sales) and the only datapoint is where your customer originated from, something akin to podcasts/youtube giving affiliate links. That could work right? Or maybe I am missing something. If I am not it feels like the current model only benefits the middle man and is detrimental to everybody else.
by cheriot | 2025-11-22 21:24:02+00:00
It's a library design flaw. The agent SDKs focus on an "easy" high level API and hard code all its assumptions (AI SDK, LangGraph, etc). There's no lower level primitives to recompose when you discover your requirements are different than what the library author thought of.

So for now the choice is, "all in one for great prototypes and better hope it has everything you need" or roll your own.

If someone knows of a library that's good for quick prototypes and malleable for power users please share.
by gigatexal | 2025-11-22 21:24:39+00:00
I don't understand this at all.

"Tokens represent digital land, not ownership."

'"Not a securities platform

Not selling tokens

Not accepting public funds

Not fractional ownership

Think of us as “Stripe for property tokenization.”'

what is it then? why would I buy tokens in some property then? It doesn't sound like I derive any yield from ownership, I participate none in any upside in the sale of real estate... I don't get it.

I have a rental property why the f would I ask this:

We built RealDeed because property owners kept asking us the same question:

“Can I put my real estate on blockchain as a digital twin without selling ownership or offering securities?”

who are these property owners asking this? what do to they do with their property once on the blockchain?