MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scoot | 2025-11-12 12:19:21+00:00
I developed it later in life. The tinnitus came earlier (and isn't as a result of excessive sound exposure as far as I know), but in my (unscientific) opinion they are different manifestations (symptoms) of the same underlying issue – a missing or faulty noise filter on sensory inputs to the brain.

Thankfully I don't get comorbid headaches – in fact I seldom get headaches at all. And even on the odd occasion that I do, they're mild and short-lived (like minutes). I don't recall ever having a headache that was severe, or that lasted any length of time.

Yours does sound much more extreme than mine, in that mine is in no way debilitating. It's more just frustrating that it exists at all, and that it isn't more widely recognised and researched. I have yet to meet an optician that seems entirely convinced that it's even a real phenomenon.
by re-thc | 2025-11-12 12:19:30+00:00
> 2 Trillion dollars in Capex to get code generators with hallucinations

You assume that's the only use of it.

And are people not using these code generators?

Is this an issue with a lost generation that forgot what Capex is? We've moved from Capex to Opex and now the notion is lost, is it? You can hire an army of software developers but can't build hardware.

Is it better when everyone buys DeepSeek or a non-US version? Well then you don't need to spend Capex but you won't have revenue either.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-11-12 12:20:00+00:00
I don't know.

The pattern I have seen is that if you want to contribute a fix into a project, you are expected to "engage with the community", wear their badge, invest into the whole thing. I don't want to be in your community, I want to fix a bug in a thing I'm using and go on with my life.

Given the usual dynamics of online communities which are getting somehow increasingly more prone to dramas, toxicity, tribalism, and polarization, I just as increasingly want to have no part in them most of the time.

I think many projects would be better for having a lane for drive-by contributors who could work on fixing bugs that prevent their day-to-day from working without expectations of becoming full-time engaged. The project could set an expectation that "we will rewrite your patch as we see fit so we could integrate and maintain it, if we need/want to". I wouldn't care as long as the problem is taken care of in some way.
by piltdownman | 2025-11-12 12:21:33+00:00
I'm not sure you understand how large parts of the draft violate European Conventions, the Charter of Fundamental Rights or settled Court of Justice case-law - not to mention that almost all Member States that gave feedback say they want no change. Germany did not provide evidence for the need of said reforms - it is unclear where these demands originate from, making this use of fast-track reform procedures even more sinister.

More to the point, there is two decades of case law supporting a broad and nuanced understanding of what constitutes "personal data". This proposal runs rough-shod over this established precedent in its entirety and is in clear violation of both CJEU case law and Article 8(2) of the Charter as regards the right to informational self-determination.
by jcfrei | 2025-11-12 12:22:41+00:00
Browse TikTok and you already see AI generated videos popping up. Could well be that the platforms with the most captivating content will not be a "social" network but one consisting of some tailor made feed for you. That could undermine the business model of the existing social networks - unless they just fill it with AI generated content themselves. In other words: Facebook should really invest in good video generating models to keep their platforms ahead.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-12 12:23:16+00:00
> Do you also make everyone wear the same clothes, drive the same vehicle, order the same food

I don't think this is an valid comparison. There's a problem called technology sprawl, which is characterized by needlessly increasing maintenance needs and cognitive load and lower development speeds caused by the need to juggle multiple programming languages or frameworks. There is a fixed cost in maintaining each tech stack and even development environment, and you multiply that cost each time you think it's a good idea to introduce yet another programming language or framework.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-11-12 12:23:42+00:00
> Maybe the developer just doesn't care about your use case. If I have a project that works fine for what I do with it, why should I also care about some other use case you have for my work?

Then say you don't expect contributions at all. That's a fair game, I'm ok with it. I will then exercise my rights granted by your license in another way (forking and making my own fix most likely). My gripe is with projects that write prominently "PRs welcome", and then make enough red tape to signal that nah, not really.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-11-12 12:23:44+00:00
> It's just the amount of money spent on Windows/Microsoft for small companies is rather large, compared to other alternatives that are just as good.

This is a complete mis-perception about the modern ecosystem.

We have a full team using C# at a series-C, YC startup with every developer on Macs (some on Beelinks and Linux). The team is using a mix of VS Code, Cursor, and Rider. We deploy to Linux container instances in GKE on Google Cloud running Postgres.

There is no more tie in to Microsoft licensing than there is say for TypeScript. Yes, C# DevKit is licensed like VS, but if you don't need the features, then you can also use DotRush or just use the free C# Extension.
by Theodores | 2025-11-12 12:23:50+00:00
I would like to know which stickers they were. Maybe I would recreate a few for irony. There are plenty of candidates for irony, from Enron to crypto. There are also those companies that it is hard to be excited about - I mean a Microsoft sticker would mark you out as a rebel.

Oddly, the only stickers I have on my computers are the Intel ones that come ready applied. Younger me would have gone in for stickers but younger me had pen and paper with no laptop. That said, back then it was school bags that got decorated, albeit with fabric patches and badges rather than stickers. Here was how you showed allegiance to music bands and football teams. I didn't do that though since I was not one of the cool kids.

One sticker set I would like consists of morally dubious companies such as defence corporations and failed companies from things such as crypto, mixed up with USAID psyops such as 'Free Tibet'. However I can't be bothered to put in the work. That is why stickers that are ready made succeed, it is minimal effort.

Younger me was surprised at how much stickers cost. When I was working in a bicycle shop we had Oakley sunglasses for sale, and the product was cool. In period people would buy Oakley stickers from us to put them in the back of their car. I expected these to be freebie promotional items but no, they cost a fortune and could not be just given away.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-12 12:26:21+00:00
No need for any industry push-back apparently - Trump seems to be in process of TACOing out of his H-1B changes, now saying that US doesn't have enough talented people.

Maybe more people would pursue tech careers and higher education if there were more and better paying jobs here ... but there appear to be plenty of people here already with the expertise and looking for jobs. 600 former Meta AI employees for a start, not to mention countless highly experienced people not able to find work due to age discrimination (incl. companies giving the job to a cheaper foreigner).
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 12:27:34+00:00
They are slowly removing branches in the UK. Opening hours are only a few hours a week in certain places. You have to use the app to verify online purchases in my case. There is no workaround.

I basically firewall stuff like the bank apps and other stuff on my phone. My PC for the most part is just Debian Linux and my car is an older vehicle that can be literally repaired indefinitely due to it being more utilitarian.
by slightwinder | 2025-11-12 12:27:56+00:00
That not really a surprise, the website and documentation is awful, not really selling the project well. I also get the impression there is not really customization possible, no integration of external stuff, just a monolithic blob, doing something. This kind of software can't succeed easily without an open architecture, or a proper selling documentation of how to utilize it for your own demand.

Kinda sad, as this looks interesting.
by p_l | 2025-11-12 12:28:13+00:00
Not to the same level. Crusoe was, in many ways, more classic CISC than x86 - except it's microcode was actually doing dynamic translation to internal ISA instead of operating like interpreter in old CISCs.

x86 ISA had the funny advantage of being way closer to RISC than "beloved" CISC architectures of old like m68k or VAX. Many common instructions translate to single "RISCy" instruction for the internal microarchitecture (something AMD noted IIRC in the original K5 with its AMD29050-derived core as "most instructions translate to 1 internal microinstruction, some between 2 to 4"). X86 prefixes are also way simpler than the complicated logic of decoding m68k or VAX. An instruction with multiple prefixes will quite probably decode to single microinstruction.

That said, there's funny thing in that Transmeta tech survived quite a long way to the point that there were Android tablets, in fact flagship Google ones like Nexus 9, whose CPU was based on it - because nvidia "Denver" architecture used same technology (AFAIK licensed from Transmeta, but don't cite me on this)
by ryukoposting | 2025-11-12 12:28:56+00:00
Strobing RGB LEDs is how Epson's professional flatbeds do color. That's one of the more plausible aspects of the design, I think. No mention of IR though, so I suppose that means no dust correction.

The custom software package is clearly in its foobar stage. Loving the word "TextLabel" surrounded by a bunch of padding.
by zinekeller | 2025-11-12 12:28:56+00:00
I really hope that the sole reason that michaelt concluded this is simply due on not having any experience how to manage credit card payments (on merchant's side).

For those who does not handle these things: I am not sure on what processor Network Time Foundation is using, but Stripe's $15 fee is actually on the low side of chargebacks (some processors even use the fixed fee + percentage model). Worse, this is unconditional: if you somehow won this, you won't get the chargeback fee.
by qwertox | 2025-11-12 12:30:15+00:00
It would have been just as interesting to read that he moved over to Google, where the real brains and resources are located at.

Meta is now just competing against giants like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, plus all the new Chinese companies; I see no real chance for them to offer a popular chat model, but rather to market their AI as a bundled product for companies which want to advertise, where the images and videos will be automatically generated by Meta.
by bargainbin | 2025-11-12 12:30:19+00:00
Such a bunch of negative folks in here. I personally stickerbomb every company laptop I get knowing full well some poor guy in IT is going to have to scrape it all off.

I once had a loaner thinkpad for two days whilst my MacBook was bricked by Jamf - best believe they got that thing back covered.

His face when I handed it back to him, priceless.

Side note: What is that massive yellow CYBER sticker that seems to be on 80% of them? Feel like I’ve missed some kind of political movement.
by everyone | 2025-11-12 12:30:20+00:00
If u dont wanna do it, then why are you doing it?

I mean we all know those things are stupid and an employer who puts stock in them is defo not someone you'd wanna work for, cus they are building teams on stupid principles and clearly dont have a clue about making software.

I'd say spend your time building something you always wanted to. That will really show off your skills.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-12 12:30:50+00:00
While that keeps being given as example, Go is not C, C++, Objective-C levels of memory corruption opportunities.

Lets not let the perfect be the enemy from good.

Even with all my criticism of many Go's design decisions, I rather have more infrastructure code being written in Go than C, and derived languages.

Or any of the supposed better C alternatives, with manual memory management and use after free.
by nis0s | 2025-11-12 12:30:59+00:00
Investors are the worst plague on mankind, truly unbelievably irrational, and bad at knowing things that they should, but have way too much power and money to influence things. AI spend is justified if it’s increasing productivity or marketshare. AI spend is not justified if all it does is reduce headcount. The technology cannot replace people without needing quality control and assurance. The fact that most leadership is clownish and doesn’t know how to invest in AI is not the technology’s fault, maybe that’s what JPM means.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-12 12:30:59+00:00
> But different tasks require cars, other tasks require trucks, vans, bicycles, motorcycles..

No, they don't. You may believe that some frameworks or programming language are ideally suited for some particular tasks, but that is mainly dictated by your prior experience (or lack thereof). The truth of the matter is that a van can very well do the tasks you conceive for a car, trucks, bicycles, motorcycles, etc. If you go with a van, you avoid the problems of having to maintain car, trucks, bicycles, motorcycles, etc. This is called software engineering.
by boudin | 2025-11-12 12:31:07+00:00
Not really. With vaccines you can have controlled groups (vaccinated or not) and study the benefits versus risks. This is done before any vaccine is introduced to the public, any vaccine showing not enough benefits versus risks is discarded.

We do not have this luxuary with plastic. Controlled groups are not possible, asking that risks inherent to micro-plastics in human body are proven is therefore impossible.

To compare back to vaccines, it would be like vaccinating very single human, with a vaccine which is not tested and which purpose is unknown. Then asking someone to scientifically prove that this vaccine causes health problems as a condition to stop systematically vaccinating every single human.
by keyringlight | 2025-11-12 12:31:13+00:00
Another aspect I'd wonder about is the cost for whatever organization is responsible for maintaining lamps in a district, presumably a slower charger is a lower specification and would be cheaper and more likely to be widely fitted or for the project to be approved in the first place, and limits the demands on the local electrical infrastructure. Once the initial install is done in a lamp it would seem that upgrading in future would be a smaller hurdle.
by codeptualize | 2025-11-12 12:31:33+00:00
I think the glaring issue underlying this is that the big companies are not investing enough in the tools they rely on.

I agree with some of the arguments that patching up vulnerabilities is important, but it's crazy to put that expectation on unpaid volunteers when you flood them with CVE's some completely irrelevant.

Also the solution is fairly simple: Either, you submit a PR instead of an issue. Or, you send a generous donation with the issue to reward and motivate the people who do the work.

The amount of revenue they generate using these packages will easily offset the cost of funding the projects, so I really think it's a fair expectation for companies to contribute either by delivering work or funds.
by simoncion | 2025-11-12 12:32:06+00:00
> a) Ubiquity — everything understands HTTP. Erlang nodes only talk to Erlang (or a compatible runtime)

You're sort of confusing the purpose of Erlang distribution, so I would turn this on its head with the following questions:

Do the Python, Ruby, FORTRAN, Lua, etc, etc, runtimes provide built-in, standardized, network-transparent RPC, [0] or do you have to roll your own using some serialization library and network transport library that might not be The Thing that everyone else who decided to solve the problem uses? Do note that rolling your own thing that is the "obvious" thing to do is still rolling your own thing! Someone else might make a totally reasonable choice that makes their hand-rolled thing incompatible with yours!

I think this confusion influences the rest of your list. Erlang has several HTTP servers written for it [1], but it is not -itself- an HTTP server, nor does it use HTTP for its network-transparent RPC, service discovery, and monitoring protocol.

> The author's insight "No HTTP. No REST API", reframes the reality...

With respect, you're confused. The authors insight can be reworded as

> I can do RPC with no hassle. With just three symbols, I say 'Send this data over there.' and the runtime handles it entirely automatically, regardless of whether 'over there' is running in the same Erlang VM as the calling code or on a computer on the other side of the globe. With equivalent ease, I can say 'When someone sends me data, call this function with the transmitted data.' and -again- the runtime handles the messy details.

When I was first introduced to Erlang's distribution system, it also took me quite a while to detangle it from what I knew about the Web World. Reading through the 'Distribunomicon' chapter of Learn You Some Erlang [2] helped to knock those erroneous associations out of my head.

[0] ...let's not even talk about the service discovery and process/node monitoring features...

[1] Some of which totally do support middleware gunk.

[2] If you've not read LYSE, do note that it was first published in 2010 (and got an update in 2014 to cover the then-very-new Map datatype). Because the folks who work on Erlang tend to think that keeping old code working is a very virtuous thing, the information in it is still very useful and relevant. However, it's possible that improvements to Erlang have made some of the warnings contained within irrelevant in the intervening years.
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-12 12:32:08+00:00
It doesn't explain why they need the money "we need the money to continue doing what we are doing" means nothing unless they also explain what they are doing and why it matters.

Thankfully, that's also on the front page:

What they are doing:

> The NTP Project produces an open source Reference Implementation of the NTP standard, maintains the implementation Documentation, and develops the protocol and algorithmic standard that is used to communicate time between systems

And why it matters:

> NTP is what ensures the reliability of billions of devices around the world, under the sea, and even in space

Now, it doesn't explain why a reference implementation is a good thing, but I think that at this point, you have a good enough idea to decide if you want to donate or not.

Edit: However, $1000 seems too low to matter. It may not even pay for the expense of the fundraising itself. I think it is more of an awareness campaign: "look at the protocol we all use, you would think we are talking many millions of dollars, but the truth is, you are off by orders of magnitude"
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-12 12:32:27+00:00
You don't even need insider info - it lines up with external estimates.

We have estimates that range from 30% to 70% gross margin on API LLM inference prices at major labs, 50% middle road. 10% to 80% gross margin on user-facing subscription services, error bars inflated massively. We also have many reports that inference compute has come to outmatch training run compute for frontier models by a factor of x10 or more over the lifetime of a model.

The only source of uncertainty is: how much inference do the free tier users consume? Which is something that the AI companies themselves control: they are in charge of which models they make available to the free users, and what the exact usage caps for free users are.

Adding that up? Frontier models are profitable.

This goes against the popular opinion, which is where the disbelief is coming from.

Note that I'm talking LLMs rather than things like image or video generation models, which may have vastly different economics.
by mcalus3 | 2025-11-12 12:32:43+00:00
Vibe coding is cursed gold from the first 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie.

> "For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starving to death and haven't died. I feel nothing. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea. Nor the warmth of a woman's flesh." [steps into moonlight becoming a skeleton]
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by mutiny1907 | 2025-11-12 12:33:54+00:00
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by kllrnohj | 2025-11-12 12:34:25+00:00
"AI tools" and "spam" are knee jerk reactions, not an accurate picture of the bug filed: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/440183164?utm_source=...

whether or not AI found it, clearly a human refined it and produced a very high quality bug report. There's no AI slop here. No spam.
by mapt | 2025-11-12 12:34:39+00:00
I feel like a ~$10M/yr foundation to fund hundreds of the "Some Guy In Nebraska" people (https://xkcd.com/2347/) on a modest stipend would be easily worthwhile for any one of the tech giants, even understanding the free rider effect. Some of their thousands of engineers are being paid high six or seven figures, and every single minute of their time spent figuring out how some dependency has changed and broken compatibility adds up very quickly. Just paying them to sit on their hands and not let anything break by some kind of hostile takeover, like an intelligence agency quietly paying people to keep quiet.
by Y-bar | 2025-11-12 12:35:19+00:00
I'm not so sure, JD Vance created a company called Narya after Gandalf's ring and Viggo Mortensen has more than once had to call out far-right groups trying to co-opt the fandom or litterature:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-48187786

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1litq7h/viggo_mort...

https://www.brego.net/article/viggo-mortensen-interview-3/
by rhubarbtree | 2025-11-12 12:35:36+00:00
I think there’s something to be said for keeping up in the LLM space even if you don’t think it’s the path to AGI.

Skills may transfer to other research areas, lessons may be learnt, closing the feedback loop with usage provides more data and opportunities for learning. It also creates a culture where bullshit isn’t possible, as the thing has to actually work. Academic research often ends up serving no one but the researchers, because there is little or no incentive to produce real knowledge.