MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davecyen | 2025-11-07 20:28:42+00:00
> if a VC investor is doing their job well, they will make sure to keep investing in your company until they have a good amount of ownership. This means it is against their incentives to introduce you to other investors or do anything else that interferes with their ability to buy more shares in your company for a good price.

this is only true for larger multi-stage funds who compete with each other, not for Seed or Series A-only funds
by physarum_salad | 2025-11-07 20:29:12+00:00
Yes, that's vague. I specifically mean a creative monopoly. Compare the writing and dialogue of a Paul Thomas Anderson or Tarantino movie to Rockstar. Most of their games don't come close. Because it's a game the standard for storyline and dialogue is slightly lower because you are like "wow I am almost literally a cowboy/Nico". I wonder if we will see a mix of games with genuinely Tarantino style writing and narrative + technical / design implementation. Small studios doing this faster and more ethically would be better. People who quit Rockstar are very talented with something to prove too.

I genuinely cringed at the end of RDII due to the dialogue just feel the need to mention that again...
by Noumenon72 | 2025-11-07 20:29:15+00:00
There are lots of good experiences from ads in maps:

- I search for "restaurants" and someone is having a special

- A trampoline park opens near me, I'd like it to catch my eye

- I've been googling chocolates recently, so populate the map with chocolate shops

- Maybe I'm bored as a car passenger and watching the map screen so my attention is free anyway
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-07 20:29:30+00:00
Fraud messages are all over most social platforms that have DMs. I post photos and news links to: Tumblr, Bluesky, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Threads and Nextdoor —- in order of worst to best. I get plenty of people who say they want to buy NFTs of my photos or who are attractive women who hold out the promise of romance, etc.

A friend of mine came across money for the first time in his life because he got evicted illegally from a homeless shelter and he has a person who sends texts like ‘I am at your local airport and need money for a cab to come see you’. Fortunately he had a friend who convinced him to go the airport in a cab himself where he found no sign of this person. We are all trying to wake this person up to the fact that they’re being targeted but it’s very hard to convince a person who is infatuated that their infatuation is wrong.

It starts out with something really innocent like ‘hey!’ but they will soon ask you question to qualify you like ‘how old are you!’ And ‘where do you live?’

See https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scam-inc-from-the-econ...

(Note I get a lot of crude promotional stuff that somebody drew with a crayon in LinkedIn but no scams, same with NextDoor)
by havaloc | 2025-11-07 20:29:52+00:00
One of my tech clients emailed me about a Roku problem and one of the AI suggestions in Gmail was to tell the customer to try unplugging a Roku for a minute and plugging it back in. I pressed that button, proofread the suggested text, and hit send.

In truth it felt both amazing and made me uneasy, for AI was encroaching on my career of telling people to reboot their errant device.
by vablings | 2025-11-07 20:30:01+00:00
There is some argument to be made that the cost benefit analysis for your average user doesn't make sense unless the platform is a significant improvement over steam. Having two fragmented systems is a huge inconvenience to users now almost to the point that I will outright refuse to play games that are not on Steam.

And for companies that shoehorn really bad launchers as an extra layer on steam like EA, you are doing the work of the devil himself
by gregsadetsky | 2025-11-07 20:30:22+00:00
Redirects going anywhere is super flexible, but is also the unfortunate business model of so many "free qr code generator" sites which end up taking your destination link hostage...! (this just reminds me of that, obv the parent post isn't doing that)

My friend's partner once printed a qr code like that and then had to pay a monthly fee to keep the qr code working. Pure predator behavior.
by bsimpson | 2025-11-07 20:30:26+00:00
This might be the worst take I've ever read on this website.

I'm a lifetime Mac user who has bought exactly one iPhone (the 3G S) before switching to Android. I'm definitely not in the Jobs reality distortion field.

But I do remember how the iPod was better than every similar thing at the time, and how people spent _years_ clamoring for Apple to harness that same focus to make a phone. Apple had to go out and buy the iPhone name because that's what it had been colloquially called for years before it was announced.

There are plenty of things Apple has done wrong, many by Steve personally, but you can't seriously claim that his taste was only applicable to him.

Don't denigrate the meaning of the word "abuse" to make your hot take spicier.
by johnea | 2025-11-07 20:30:30+00:00
Just another click bait title.

The game doesn't affect reality, it affects the user's _perception_ of reality.

Understanding the difference means a major change for some people: accepting that what's inside your head is not "reality".

The failure to understand and accept this difference between reality and make believe (make believe is only in your mind) is the root of many millennial problems...
by kjs3 | 2025-11-07 20:31:14+00:00
Plenty of people remember, and used, them. Just not people who tend to hang out here. I knew several IBM VM dev types who had them as light dev/remote mainframe access machines, usually at home. They were popular enough there was a followon product: the PC/390 which was the same idea, more advanced processor, based on a PS/2 microchannel platform (and, AFAIK, OS/2).

You want really obscure? Unisys had the same idea with the "Micro-A", which was a PC running OS/2 with a coprocessor card with a single chip implementation of an A-series mainframe. I know of 2, possibly 3, still around.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-11-07 20:31:46+00:00
You are happy now and will probably be for as long as Gabe Newell is in charge of Valve. (He's 63, by the way; not quite elderly but not young either.) After he retires, well, Valve, as the dominant gatekeeper for PC gaming, has a lot of opportunities for cranking up monetization that investors would just love to get their hands on.
by skotobaza | 2025-11-07 20:32:07+00:00
> The games are less about defined goals and more about roleplaying, exploration and world-building.

And Skyrim lacks in each aspect, especially compared to previous Elder Scrolls games. You have even less skills than in Oblivion (which in turn had even less skills than Morrowind). The dungeons (caves, forts etc.) do not offer any meaningful rewards, so there is little incentive to just randomly explore the world. The guild questlines are much shorter which doesn't help roleplaying when you can become a grandmaster in one evening of playtime. Moreover, there are randomly generated quests thrown in to pad the time, which is even worse.
by m_gloeckl | 2025-11-07 20:32:31+00:00
My plan advertises "up to 50 Mbit/s" on a 4G connection. I was getting less than 1 Mbit/s a lot of the time. Websites and videos would not load properly.

I downloaded the app of the german ministry that allows you to take speed tests and file a complaint. After multiple weeks of measuring connection speeds on the cellular network, I was able to file a complaint.
by uplifter | 2025-11-07 20:32:41+00:00
That would be annoying and could well have pushed me off the platform. I guess I avoided that* because I downloaded the local mobile sdk for the hue lights early on, and coded up an app which met my peculiar needs, never looking back. I always figured the bulbs needed firmware updates to be pushed to them from the official app, so I just never initiated that, and so it never became an issue. I still regularly build the iOS app and use it to variously control the lights.

*Not to say that making ones own mobile clients is in anyway a for-everyone solution, but rather something only a picky mobile developer would do.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-11-07 20:32:47+00:00
Uber Eats opaquely inflates the base price of the food so that even when they advertise a low (or zero if you've paid for 'Uber One' to give you zero delivery fees on 'eligible' deliveries, whatever that means) delivery fee, you're still getting charged significantly more compared to picking up the food yourself. Call me crazy, but I would expect the delivery fee to be the difference between the cost to have something delivered and the cost to buy it outright.

Gacha games are famously deceptive and exploitative.

Airbnb has a good justification for keeping the location private, but it's typically pretty hard to get an idea of the value you're getting for your dollar until you actually arrive on site and discover just how functional the HVAC/kitchen actually are and how good the location actually is.

While you might not classify any of the three as "scams", they're certainly classic 'low-rent' advertisements for things that take advantage of information asymmetry to convince customers to pay more than they would be necessarily willing to if what their money got them was actually clear.
by jsheard | 2025-11-07 20:32:47+00:00
They tanked ultra-high-value items, which were primarily traded off-the-books because their value exceeded the official Steam marketplaces $1800 price cap. Bringing those prices down is good for Valve because it means more trading activity will happen on the official market, where Valve gets a cut of every transaction, rather than on third-party exchanges, where Valve gets nothing.

Simply raising the $1800 transaction limit and $2000 balance limit would have been far less disruptive, but that may have put Valve in financial regulators crosshairs. There's surely a reason why they chose those numbers in particular.
by vharuck | 2025-11-07 20:33:06+00:00
I haven't read that book, but I might now. It's refreshing to see such a realistic assessment of the problems. IMO, the most important line from that page:

>The problems of boys and men are structural in nature, rather than individual; but are rarely treated as such.

This is why shame does nothing productive, whether it's shaming boys for displaying "masculine" traits or displaying "feminine" traits. We can't address a social problem by asking every individual to change. That's just not feasible, even if there weren't a "man-o-sphere" and "radical feminism movement" working against it. Heck, even if the root problem was a personal one that each man could solve for himself, our options would still be a society-wide solution or tossing our hands up in resignation and hoping for the best.
by m463 | 2025-11-07 20:33:16+00:00
> "steve jobs wouldn't" and "apple dying" ... shrill

I think these are fans of apple who have lost something.

Personally I think steve jobs was a good integrator - he got people together. Sometimes the people were apple <-> customers, sometimes music industry <-> computers, etc

If there was controversy, he stepped in and lead - and stepped into the spotlight and explained.

I don't see the same sort of leadership nowadays. Controversies like the app store woes, pricing, monopoly behavior, bad service to developers, even tariff stuff.

Also he was good at creating/choosing new next products and killing not-quite-there products.

yeah, but that ship has sailed.
by npteljes | 2025-11-07 20:33:35+00:00
I agree, this is nothing unlike a bad human relationship. The problem with ChatGPT is the same as with the larger Internet itself: it doesn't belong unrestricted into a mentally underdeveloped person's pocket. Forums also egg or bully others into suicide. In the real life, we also got a lot of bad actors, who are actively making other people's lives worse, by amplifying their destructive qualities, for one. Or spreading misinformation, reinforcing bad habits and ideas, and the list is basically endless.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-07 20:34:04+00:00
> What would Steve Jobs do?

> ... I was in the room when Steve was presented with an eerily similar “opportunity.” ... 1999-ish ... Lee Clow and I were invited to a hastily scheduled meeting with Steve and his top lieutenants. The topic was building advertising into the Mac system software. ...

Not that I like ads, but - Late 90's Apple, fresh out of a near-death experience, is an extremely different context from today's Apple, with it's 12-digit annual profits and #4 spot on the Fortune 500 list.
by mekoka | 2025-11-07 20:34:27+00:00
This is a common gripe among former Java programmers who still believe that the point of interfaces is the type hierarchy (and as a result misunderstand Interface Segregation). They hang on to interfaces like they're these precious things that must be given precious names.

Interfaces are not precious. Why would anyone care what their name is? Their actual purpose is to wrap a set of behaviors under a single umbrella. Who cares what the color of the umbrella is? It's locally defined (near the function where the behaviors are used). Before passing an object, just make sure that it has the required methods and you're done. You don't have to be creative about what you name an interface. It does a thing? Call it "ThingDoer".

Also, why would you care to know which code implements a particular interface? It's equivalent to asking give me a list of all types that have this exact set of behavior? I'm possibly being myopic, but I've never considered this of particular importance, at least not as important as being conservative about the behavior you require from dependencies. Having types enumerate all the interfaces they implement is the old school approach (e.g. Java). Go's approach is closer to true Interface Segration. It's done downstream. Just patch the dependency with missing methods. No need to patch the type signature up with needless "implements this, that, other" declarations, which can only create the side-effect that to patch a type from some distant library, you'd have to inherit just so that you can locally declare that you also implement an additional interface. I don't know about you, but to the idea of never having to deal with inheritance in my code ever again I say "good riddance".

Again, interface segregation is about the behavior, not the name. The exact same combination of methods could be defined under a hundred different umbrellas, it would still not matter. If a dependency has the methods, it's good to go.
by gruez | 2025-11-07 20:34:42+00:00
>In 2025 I expect an online store to have at least some cataloging option (like Steam's tags)

To be fair most online storefronts don't have that. Amazon/walmart at best have "categories", which epic also has. Even online content portals like spotify don't have tags, preferring something like "more like this".

> but it's baffling that no other store gives at least the same amount of those features to you. Even though they could.

The better question is why storefronts don't directly compete on price. We see with airlines that consumers are willing to put up with hellish conditions to save a few percent on airfare. Those features are definitely nice, it's just unclear how they can avoid the free-rider problem if there are competing storefronts.
by echelon | 2025-11-07 20:34:44+00:00
That's reframing things too much.

There's the experimental data, and then there's the theoretical model.

Watson and Crick were already working on a theoretical double helix model prior to discovering Franklin's x-ray crystallography data, but at the time their model was wrong.

Franklin produced the x-ray crystallographic data that completed the picture and produced the correct working model. Franklin could have also figured out the double helix model herself using her own data and extensive crystallography background, but Watson and Crick were laser focused on only this one problem and beat her to it.

Franklin was robbed of the recognition she deserved, and Watson and Crick should have co-credited her at minimum. But it's incorrect to say that Watson and Crick weren't about to figure it out themselves.

Franklin tragically died of cancer a few years after the discovery and was ineligible to receive a posthumous Nobel Prize. She was only 37.
by pkokhano | 2025-11-07 20:34:51+00:00
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by jongjong | 2025-11-07 20:34:56+00:00
Probably. My parents are relatively well-off and their experience of reality is very different from mine and keeps diverging more. It's getting to the point that I can't explain my situation because of how bad it is. What happens to me, my bad luck, sounds far-fetched to them and they think I must be doing something wrong... But I work 24/7, day, nights and weekend and everyone around me tells me I'm competent... How can it be?
by jeffbee | 2025-11-07 20:35:09+00:00
> And this is generically true and always has been about every aspect of GMail?

In principle, but look at all the ways Gmail bends over backwards to keep ancient UI preferences working. You can configure it for different inbox presentations, different densities, snippets or not, images displayed or not, UI icons or text, you can disable and enable threading, you can put chat and meet on one side or not, you can have keyboard shortcuts or not, you can remap all the keyboard shortcuts if you use them, etc etc etc.
by chrisnight | 2025-11-07 20:35:12+00:00
Yes, I have plenty of games from, e.g. the Epic Game Store on my steam deck, even in the steam home page, seamlessly.

Gamescope is even fully open-source, so you could remove the steam deck UI, and still run any game with the same performance benefits of not running it inside KDE. Of course also, you could flash a new OS on the device itself if you wanted to entirely remove Valve’s presence.
by tekbruh9000 | 2025-11-07 20:35:56+00:00
The subtext of the joke is "killing people fosters change." I understood it just fine. You're hung up on specifics of contemporary cultural nature. The joke was not about the in world setup; writers (especially back then) used the Simpsons as a rice cake, a bland vessel to provide cover for the critique of their culture.

Not so much today where media is obsessed with fan service, probably to manipulate their perception of the world and keep them addicted. They need a lot of you's out there sweating the details, coming back for another bump.

"Fancy" citation when such things are commonplace. "Everything" yet more hand wavy melodramatic emotional terminology.

Your posts aren't constructive at all. Ignoring the painting to argue over a couple brush strokes, as they are terribly offensive to your sensibilities. If we were in a room together I would expect you to pull a up turns nose good day, sir!

You might consider going outside as circling trivialities with such emotional conviction is unhealthy.

Just went on a 5 mile walk myself. Feels good man.
by enslavedrobot | 2025-11-07 20:36:02+00:00
You're welcome to post unaudited info from 2024 to support your view but it's not something I consider an investable data point, more like something AI will point to if you ask it to support your views.

I own a hw3 Tesla with FSD. It regularly drives me for over an hour without intervention. It is good enough that a single person cannot drive long enough to know if it's improving or not. I can imagine if you're in Europe you might not understand the difference between different ADAS offerings because FSD is not allowed to operate in the EU.

Reasonable people can disagree on Tesla's ability to execute on their plans. I consider the current 10-20% chance reflected in the stock price today to be accurate. I continually re-evaluate this probability. Major events to look out for in the near future are the removal of safety drivers in Austin, the expansion of the robotaxi service to 8 cities, the commissioning of the "unboxed" cyber cab production line, the demo of Optimus V3, FSD V14.3, and the start of the Semi truck manufacturing line. All these milestones are slated to occur in the next 12 months. They will change the risk weighting on the stock one way or the other.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-07 20:36:15+00:00
Creatine is the closest the supplements industry has ever gotten to actually producing something that helps people. If you are physically active, you could probably see minor benefits from it.

If you eat an American diet, you do not need protein supplements. You do not need the absurd amount of protein per day that mens health influencers insist, and they usually push you pretty close to the actual danger zone, and it's all just a fucking waste anyway.

The current protein trend is just a fad diet for men. It doesn't help. Bulk whey protein is literally the least bad part of that industry though, so eh.

Everything else about the supplements industry is fully scam though. If any of it worked, they would scientifically prove it so they could get near infinite American healthcare dollars. Most of it not only doesn't do anything, but the batch quality is atrocious, and plenty often you can buy a supplement that does not include the ingredient it claims at all. I feel like the fact that it is sold next to the literal "poison a child" homeopathic pills should be more meaningful to people than it is.

That shelf is for things that don't work.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-11-07 20:36:38+00:00
> They also have an internal culture that's been fairly regularly criticized as being pretty uncomfortable for women and minorities.

If they don't like the culture, then they should work elsewhere.

I hear Google is hiring.

Nothing worse than joining a company you contributed zero to building from the ground up, then unilaterally deciding the culture needs to change according to your whims, right now.

You might feel uncomfortable working in a black barber shop. Or a cat cafe with pet allergies. You've contributed nothing to their business, they shouldn't have to change for you.
by themafia | 2025-11-07 20:36:44+00:00
> Forums would likely have gone extinct.

Usenet was a thing. A huge thing. There was zero danger that it would go "extinct" due to the lack of extralegal protections.

> But demonizing 230 just shows a basic lack of knowledge of history, economics, and the reasons it was created.

You're ignoring the context. Section 230 was created when the Internet was nascent and we were trying to encourage broader /business/ investment into the technology.

Now that that investment has occurred and most consumers _prefer_ to do business on the Internet, whereas the opposite was previously true, we no longer need the _additional_ protections for hugely profitable businesses.

Aside from that is there some reason we can't _modify_ the law to bring it more in line with citizen expectations? We're bound to the decisions of the past absolutely? Please...
by blibble | 2025-11-07 20:37:02+00:00
> You can't self-host these days -- your emails will get stuck in every kind of spam filter there is, and you'll always have cause to wonder if your emails are received by their intended recipients, or lost to the abyss.

this is not true unless you end up on an IP previously abused

if you don't want to take on the risk at all, there's email services for pennies / thousand emails