MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Night_Thastus | 2025-11-07 20:10:54+00:00
Rockstar has historically always had anti-worker practices baked in, with crunch culture being the obvious one. They aren't your or their workers friend.

They're in it to make boatloads of cash and will do whatever to whoever is needed.

And no, consumers have never really cared in the gaming space. They won't do anything differently because of this.
by joshmn | 2025-11-07 20:11:14+00:00
The typical ones were things like MMA/UFC/boxing, and those I'd say no to because their business model revolves around PPV; things like NCAA sports I said no to because I refused to profit off children (NIL didn't exist at the time) and that the implementation would have required me to "integrate" more than 5 different services just to attempt parity; I'd get the occasional EPL or UEFA requests, too.

I really didn't have any significant demand for these. One of my litmus tests, besides demand, was "okay, can this be as good as the other sports' implementations?" I was always concerned about feature parity—I could have provided radio feeds for MLB but not for NBA, and that would cause people to say "well they have radio feeds for x but not y" and create confusion as to what is what. Being consistent in this regard was important.

The run-of-the-mill IPTV requests came and went, and I just wasn't interested in that. Ultimately I made the site for me so I could watch sports, I just had some other people watching with me.
by sayyadirfanali | 2025-11-07 20:11:40+00:00
i know the title can be a bit misleading but Myna is primarily ASCII.

languages which insist on using full Unicode like APL and Agda have bigger problems (availability of uniform glyphs and inconsistency with monospace design) on their plates. which imo is one reason why full Unicode editing hasn't really caught up.

Myna doesn't use any ligatures though. it would run on almost all terminals and editors.
by jjmarr | 2025-11-07 20:12:26+00:00
He's a retired pro basketball player. He's since made early investments in companies like Hugging Face[1], Coinbase, and Robinhood.[2] If you earn millions in your 20s, didn't spend it, and have a killer work ethic, you can flip careers to professional investor.

Idk why nobody's done a good feature on him.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kevin-durant-investment-portf...

[2] https://parlemag.com/2025/04/kevin-durant-business-ventures/
by simongray | 2025-11-07 20:12:29+00:00
> everyone but the biggest players throwing out a lot of bathwater with very little baby by simply not accepting Danish users (if required).

The biggest players in social media are precisely the ones that this law is targeting.

No one in charge of implementing this law is going to care whether some Mastodon server implements a special auth solution for Danish users or not, they are going to care that Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, etc. do so.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-11-07 20:13:03+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.

You've got to use either Gmail, Microsoft, Protonmail, etc. I don't love them, but Proton is probably the best of a bad bunch.
by jayd16 | 2025-11-07 20:13:12+00:00
I wouldn't call this selling out, exactly. If the issue is endless crunch, its more a matter of having enough money to support it endlessly and an aging workforce that knows their worth and can push back.

The issue is trying to force (or likely, continue) bad practices when they're clearly not working and then lacking the leadership to realize that a retaliatory layoff is only going to make things worse.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-07 20:13:29+00:00
> Valve gives you access to a huge player base and lots of useful marketing tools and such.

So does Apple. Despite this, they are both engaged in rent-seeking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking), which has a harmful effect on everyone but them.

Imagine if roads weren't public, but were built by a single private company. You have a business that moves goods by truck. You can use the private company's roads, but only if you pay 30% of the profit of your goods to the company that owns the roads. It only takes 2% of the profit to maintain the roads; the other 28% is profit (rent) for the road-owning company.

You could choose not to use the roads. But then the only way to deliver the goods is by parachute (which may be possible, but isn't practical). So you use the roads. But this means you have to jack up your prices to make any profit for yourself. Competing is much harder (tighter margins), and your customers are paying more than necessary. Everyone's life is harder, except for the road company.
by kazinator | 2025-11-07 20:13:44+00:00
I don't know what you mean by "core", but using it as a material in the center of an implanted post, such that another material faces the bone, seems like cost for no benefit.

And gold is not a good bone-facing material, because bone doesn't fuse with it.

Titanium is favored for implants because it supports osseointegration.
by kbolino | 2025-11-07 20:14:19+00:00
There are two issues here.

If the CDN is so poorly interconnected with Vodafone that there's one bottlenecked link, then it's not really accomplishing its job, at least as far as "inside of Germany" is concerned. It might have reduced pressure on another bottleneck, like links between the US and the EU, but it still needs to spread out more. If Vodafone is blocking that, then pressure should be applied to force them to open up more connections. I'm assuming this CDN serves more than just Netflix, mind you.

Secondly, the question of responsibility cannot be answered the same way today that it was answered in the Internet of universities. Netflix and Vodafone are not peers. The bandwidth ratio between them is incredibly lopsided. This will never change, there is no foreseeable scenario under which Vodafone has a reason to send anywhere near the same amount of data to Netflix as it gets back. This asymmetrical relationship inherently implies a different kind of business arrangement than traditional peering.

What Vodafone (any ISP) provides to Netflix (any content provider) is access to consumers. This is a service, and services are not free. The natural monopoly ISPs enjoy implies some degree of regulatory restraint must be applied on them, but it does not mean they bear all the costs of all the infrastructure either.

However, my bigger point is that this cannot constantly be reduced to these two-party analyses. Netflix is waning, others are rising, this problem needs to be solved in a scalable way.
by thomasmg | 2025-11-07 20:14:22+00:00
> then the sort order there is indeterminate

Well each programming language has a "sort" method that sorts arrays. Should this method throw an exception in case of NaN? I think the NaN rules were the wrong decision. Because of these rules, everywhere there are floating point numbers, the libraries have to have special code for NaN, even if they don't care about NaN. Otherwise there might be ugly bugs, like sorting running into endless loops, data loss, etc. But well, it can't be changed now.

The best description of the decision is probably [1], where Stephen Canon (former member of the IEEE-754 committee if I understand correctly) explains the reasoning.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1565164/what-is-the-rati...
by physarum_salad | 2025-11-07 20:14:35+00:00
I love GTA/Red Dead but Rockstar really is just another monopoly (in terms of creativity) at this stage. More mid sized studios, like Rockstar when it started/midway, would be better.

Also the narrative and dialogue is ever so slightly overated in Rockstar games because the competition is quite nerdy/square in that department as are most of the audience. The ending of Red Dead II was actually quite trite, especially in terms of dialogue and narrative (in my opinion) even though the game is incredible overall. It is honestly still very far from a Tarantino script.
by martin-t | 2025-11-07 20:14:46+00:00
And this is why "vote with your wallet" does not work. As a consumer there's no way to decide who gets the money.

In fact, even the people who made the game (did the actual work, not managers, advertisers, etc.) don't get to decide.

Correct me if I am wrong but the programmers, designers, artists have already been paid and any money from sales goes to the company and its execs/shareholders.

(And yes, employees can also be shareholders but they almost always own such a tiny share it does not really matter. In a just world, ownership would be distributed automatically according to time_worked * skill_level.)

EDIT: I might have overstated by saying it doesn't work but it definitely doesn't have the same level of effect as people collectively saying "this behavior is wrong and you will be punished for it, regardless if I buy the product" (for example by editing laws). It also doesn't allow any control over how the money is distributed among those who worked on it (compared to for example adding a law that limits absolute/relative spending on marketing - whether you think it's a good idea or not).
by desert-dweller | 2025-11-07 20:15:07+00:00
Not Palm Springs but close enough, reporting in for the curious. I've been wastelanding for a few years now in an unincorporated rural township, lucky to be close to allegedly sweet aquifers, but the utility is definitely mismanaged to the extent that it's pretty doubtful if anyone really knows how much water there is. Gold-mining interests are not far away (hello arsenic?), lithium interests are probably looking for an angle. I'm no geologist but maybe an endorheic basin that collects the sweet stuff is good for that too. Anyone think any of this water is being tested with a dismantled EPA?

Anyway a water bill is about $40/month up to 8000 gallons, $3 extra per 1000g overage. About half of the base rate is claimed as "upgrade surcharge". Since it's practically unlimited for free, does that sound right to anyone? The neighbors seem to be feral ghouls about 200 years old, they definitely don't care much about any poisons or the town drying up and blowing away, so they are always YOLOing a honking great deluge of whatever juice is still left into all different kinds of stupid inappropriate leafy greens but fuck it, you know? The pentagon is looking to restart nuclear testing in the backyard anyway so those of who still aren't irradiated yet can look forward to that!
by anon291 | 2025-11-07 20:15:22+00:00
Nice! I wonder if there's a mathematical theorem to describe the possible shapes for a 2-d venn diagram of N sets or if there's an N for which it is no longer possible (or maybe it's possible for all N!?). Probably an application of graph theory and Euler's formula to determine feasibility and then something else to figure out the shape constraints. Never thought about it, but an interesting idea.
by jug | 2025-11-07 20:15:23+00:00
I personally love Jetbrains Mono; it's been one of a kind for me and my tastes. I like it over Consolas (although this is one is pretty good on Windows), Fira Mono, Inconsolata, Plex Mono. But I can see the effort here and I'm definitely going to give this one a try! I've found that typefaces can change a lot depending on pixel alignment and rendering engines (i.e. ClearType, GDI, FreeType, Quartz... let pixel grid decide or not, or by how much...). So it's hard to tell if this is going to win me over without actually trying!
by skotobaza | 2025-11-07 20:15:25+00:00
In 2025 I expect an online store to have at least some cataloging option (like Steam's tags) and some user feedback (like Steam reviews or Steam community discussions). Yes, most of Steam's features are half-baked, and Valve doesn't really want to improve them (curators, user tags, guides etc.), but it's baffling that no other store gives at least the same amount of those features to you. Even though they could.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-07 20:15:36+00:00
> much lower memory bandwidth

Not really? The A11 Bionic chip that shipped with the iPhone X has 3gb of 30gb/s memory. That's plenty fast for small LLMs if they'll fit in memory, it's only ~1/3rd of the M1's memory speed and it only gets faster on the LPDDR5 handsets.

A big part of Apple's chip design philosophy was investing in memory controller hardware to take advantage of the iOS runtime better. They just didn't foresee any technologies beside GC that could potentially inflate memory consumption.
by delusional | 2025-11-07 20:15:52+00:00
> This is taken verbatim from the proposal that you can find here

You're taking quotes from the preamble which are not legislation. If you scroll down a little you'll find the actual text of the proposal which reads:

> The Coordinating Authority of establishment shall have the power to request the competent judicial authority of the Member State that designated it or another independent administrative authority of that Member State to issue a detection order

You see, a judge, required for a detection order to be issued. That's how the judge will be involved BEFORE detection. The authority cannot demand detection without the judge approving it.

I really dislike you way of arguing. I thought it was important to correct your misconceptions, but I do not believe you to be arguing in good faith.
by engeljohnb | 2025-11-07 20:16:23+00:00
This isn't the first time I've seen this opinion, and while I share the disdain for quicktime events, and I agree many cutscenes in the most popular games don't work, I don't understand being against the whole concept of cutscenes.

What exactly is the right way to tell a good story though a game? The only other ways I've seen are:

1) Text boxes or Bethesda-style dialogue trees

2) Dark-souls style slow-drip storytelling.

Although they can both work, I don't think I prefer either one over cutscenes. (1) especially is more like something I'll forgive rather than like because I know cutscenes are difficult for smaller teams and limiting for games that emphasize player choice.

It's one of the reasons I liked Baldurs Gate 3 so much -- suddenly the cinematic cutscenes don't feel like a tradeoff for sacrificing choice.
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-07 20:16:24+00:00
That's really insightful. I think the goal is faster comprehension for the developer. Whether it's a PR in an area of code you haven't seen in a while and you want a refresher, a bug that you have no clue where to start, or you're onboarding -- in all cases, you can't start without a mental model of what's going one.

I'm solving may be for folks like me who would prefer to have the guide IN CODE. It's a new experience to me as I've never used an in IDE code tour.

I think what I'm experiencing is it's way more helpful for me to have the guide navigate through code so I can explore a little at each step and get a lay of the land.

How people learn is personal, and what I hoped for when I was building this was more of an experience where I'm walking through with a teammate.

I considered trying to have a voice AI read or explain each step. I also considered allowing another person to drive your IDE through mirroring what they're looking at. Both were cut at the idea phase because it felt it was feature bloat on a concept that I didn't know anyone (but me) really wants

Open to any more ideas or feedback! Thank you so much for dropping in
by kazinator | 2025-11-07 20:16:31+00:00
I wonder whether there is any research into dental implant posts which incorporate flexibility: like some kind of bushing, or spring.

...

Doh, yeah: TSA! Titanium Shock Absorber:

https://bonecare.be/en/

So this entire subthread about implanted teeth rigidly connected to the bone is about mainstream technology, not the state of the art.
by angiolillo | 2025-11-07 20:17:19+00:00
> All that local level stuff doesn’t work

I can't speak to anyone else, but it seems to be working well enough in our town. The overwhelming majority of kids don't have cell phones until high school. That doesn't mean your kids won't beg you for a smartphone, it just means you can say "no" without socially isolating them.

> As soon as a couple of kids have a smartphone

The point is to engage in collective action early enough that you can prevent these situations in the first place. Once a critical mass of kids have smartphones and their socialization and coordination moves to online spaces it becomes intensely isolating to be the only kid in a friend group without a smartphone.
Show HN: Solv – Stateless Offline-capable LiveView – Prototype 03
by phucvin | 2025-11-07 20:17:27+00:00
I like htmx, LiveView, React and Solid. They are great at different points, and this is a prototype trying to combine them.

Solv's main idea is that stateless servers keep client's state in a volatile cache. It enables server components that are also interactive, which is best of both worlds between LiveView and htmx. Then fine-grained reactivity is added to achieve efficient DOM updates + minimal payload size.

https://github.com/phucvin/solv-03

Demos deployed to: https://solv-03.phucvin.workers.dev/ (this uses a free plan of Cloudflare Workers)

You can also run it yourself online: https://stackblitz.com/~/github.com/phucvin/solv-03

Details:

- Counter 01: simple counter work entirely at client.

- Counter 02: 2 counters; increasing is client-side; reseting is a server action.

- Counter 03: multiple counters; adding a new counter is a server action that also renders the component server-side (note that client handles the loading effect when button is clicked).

More details in the repo.

Thanks for reading, and please let me know if this is a good idea to continue.
by haunter | 2025-11-07 20:17:29+00:00
>Wish more people would resist the payday and keep what’s theirs.

Ah yeah unregulated illegal underage gambling, the great resistance. Gabe could shutdown the whole thing with 1 click, all the sites are using the Steam API, but they don't and you know why.

Valve did a lot of things good but they are also the original source of a lot of bad things from lootboxes to skin gambling to the FOMO battle pass cancer of modern gaming.
by mmooss | 2025-11-07 20:17:45+00:00
We're getting pretty far into the weeds because it's a very theoretical issue:

When a judge issues a preliminary injunction, for example, both parties have a chance to make their arguments, and it's all done in public, and the judge issuing the order puts their name and reasoning on it.

Courts do have rules; judges have rules. It's not just 'whatever a judge thinks'; the citizens of the democracy assign certain powers to the judges for the good of the people they serve; the rules of procedure, etc. have a long history. The Shadow Docket rulings aren't judicial process, in many respects, whether or not they get away with it.
by jsheard | 2025-11-07 20:17:47+00:00
Alyx is a bit of an edge case because they needed a VR showcase, and it's unlikely that a PC VR game (even a Valve one) could have sustained a healthy multiplayer population. Regardless of the reasons why it happened, it's the one and only singleplayer title they've released in the last 14 years, which neatly aligns with them discovering the joy of lootboxes 15 years ago.
by dasil003 | 2025-11-07 20:18:01+00:00
Context is everything. Ultimately you have to use your own judgement about what makes sense because no one can see all ends. Generalized advice from someone without skin in the game is at best a weak datapoint for any significant life decision.

That said, let me give mine. Persistence over generally pays more dividends that constantly chasing quick wins. The modern information economy has cheapened success and skewed perceptions of how much effort and luck is behind outlier winners. The success I've had in startups was not quick, was not a straight line, and honestly probably didn't net me as much as if I had joined Google or Facebook early career, but the benefits in terms of broad skills and success that I can credibly claim on a personal level are actually more valuable to me than a larger number in my bank account.
by bloppe | 2025-11-07 20:19:04+00:00
The wishful cynic in me sometimes thinks this might actually lead to a partial reversal of ageism in the workforce. It's almost starting to look like the kids graduating from school with chatgpt are actually handicapped (painting in extremely broad strokes; there will always be prodigies) and those who graduated or worked before 2022 will actually become more desirable to hire.

I'm sure this take is at best oversimplified. Probably mostly wrong. But it's certainly something I will think about while hiring from now on
by krapp | 2025-11-07 20:19:24+00:00
No I haven't retconned anything, I've just read more of King's words than that single part of that single speech. This part of the conversation is always tedious so I'll just post some articles and bow out.

The tl;dr is that we aren't there yet, and pretending otherwise allows the status quo of systemic racism to persist unchallenged.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/colinseale/2020/01/20/mlks-i-ha...

https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

https://theconversation.com/ketanji-brown-jackson-and-the-co...

https://www.aaihs.org/critical-race-theory-and-the-misapprop...
by taylodl | 2025-11-07 20:19:27+00:00
Separate your concerns. Don't throw away your PhD for a patent you may not end up getting anyway. That would be a tragic situation.

WRT to the patent, consult an IP attorney. IANAL, but I suspect their advice is going to be get your PhD, separate from the university, start a company, apply for the patent as part of that company. The university may, or may not, sue you for royalties. Ask your IP attorney now what that means - because obviously there are expenses to running a company and you shouldn't have to give up 60% of your income and pay your expenses from what's remaining.

Don't ask randos on the internet for legal advice. Take everything I've said with a grain of salt - you really need to see an IP attorney.
by symbolicAGI | 2025-11-07 20:19:31+00:00
Evidently US Boomers are fortunate that ultra processed food was less common when they grew up.

For example, I recall drinking lots of skim milk and eating cooked vegetables at most dinners. My grandfather was a route-salesman for Gerber Baby Food and gave us cases of every variety back in the 1950s.

So sorry for Millennials and Gen Z for the mess we left you with the the scientific and effective marketing of tasty, convenient ultra-processed foods.
by Phelinofist | 2025-11-07 20:19:55+00:00
Germanys ID has the technical means to allow something like that (age verification without disclosing identity), but knowing the German Gov and their absolute stasis something like this will never happen. It is absolutely necessary to do something like this, because social media has a net negative influence on society.

A lot of kids in my daughters class (~7yo's) are consuming brain rot content already. They shout "SIGMA BOY" or "SKIBIDI TOILET" like little retards during lessons. Yeah memes are cool and all, but not at this age.

While at it, ban lootboxes.
by tharne | 2025-11-07 20:20:11+00:00
> And no, consumers have never really cared in the gaming space. They won't do anything differently because of this.

Consumers almost never care outside of isolated causes du jour or when it directly affects someone they know. Look at all the self-proclaimed socialists and progressives walking around with iPhones manufactured by Foxconn, a company known for treating its employees so badly there were inquiries into the suicide rates of their workers at one point.

While I have my concerns about unions, they are absolutely necessary in many cases. Companies are not your friend, nor are your fellow consumers most of the time.