MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-11 19:44:09+00:00
Micro-SaaS and digital products. Just figure out a good stack to work with for billing and try to crank out one little thing a week that will be useful to someone.

One of my best projects just sells some pdf files you can submit to the government to achieve a thing you would usually unnecessarily hire a lawyer for.

Another in a similar vein simply offers an easy-to-fill PDF version of a government form that does not exist online, and a nice HTML interface that will help you mostly automatically fill it.

Most of these took less than a day to build and take next to no maintenance. Both of the above earn more than $100k annually.

Just make sure your customers can get in touch with you very easily so you don’t end up with broken websites running on autopilot charging customers for broken stuff, I made that mistake once and ended up having to call a bunch of people to apologise when I discovered what had been happening.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-11 19:44:38+00:00
>Is Apple expanding to the "luxury" fashion market?

Apple has been dealing in luxury fashion goods since at least the early 2000s.

You think they made computers look like that, with a circular mouse, because it was better? You think putting the charging port on the bottom of yet another mouse was about sharp product focus?

Apple sells what it does because it's a Lifestyle Brand.
by metalliqaz | 2025-11-11 19:45:10+00:00
We know that Grok, like other LLMs, is trained on data that is not held to any rigorous standard of knowledge like exists in the fields of journalism or academia.

There is no reason to think that such a system is even capable of determining truth. At best, we might be able to say that it reflects a consensus of opinion, but even that is a stretch given the nature of these systems.

And that ignores the fact that we know that these products are designed to be sycophantic to their users/operators. That is not a recipe for objective knowledge. Especially given what we know about Grok (meddling by Musk).

And to cap it all off, for all of Wikipedia's real or perceived flaws, all of the decision making is done in public view. This is very much not the case with Grok.

It's dystopian and obviously so. Your comment about "Luddite mentality" is farcical on its face. Of you, I might say something like... "techbro mentality", or maybe even something less flattering.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-11 19:45:33+00:00
> If someone had a debt to the IRS or a bad divorce and needed the extra money, do you want them to start taking moonshoots with their companies?

Yes? We need more moonshots.

> I mean, potentially Jensen Huang is terrible at his job and Nvidia is only making half of the money it should but the AI boom is covering for it.

Why exactly do you think NVIDIA was well positioned for the AI boom? Jensen Huang saw it coming long before anyone else did, and oriented his company to be perfectly positioned.

You’ve got causality entirely backwards here.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-11-11 19:45:39+00:00
We are a small team and localize our product into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Japaneses, Simplified Chinese, and Russian.

We avoid pluralization where we can. The localization team taught us a trick, if you flip it around, in many cases its acceptable to simply have single term.

Items Loading: 5

Uploading: 3

User Added: 1

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by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-11 19:45:52+00:00
My next release is focused on having a sidebar UI and launcher that'll probably make some of your issues go away. This would allow you to

- relaunch old tours - open/manage feedback - open help which will (fingers crossed) include some videos and getting started

Really appreciate the thoughtful feedback. Thank you!

Following up:

Double clicking on something you said, "I could only get the MCP to work via Claude, not Copilot or Codex" -- did you mean that getting it to actually connect or having the Agent use the MCP properly after it's connected.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-11 19:46:08+00:00
Dual-income households were already the most common family structure by the 1980s. There hasn’t been an increase in total hours worked by married households since Boomers were in their 30s.

We're a 4-income household because that's the minimum number of typical income earners needed to afford basic bills in a non-major metro market (major metro are more). Given that we don't seem to exist in this economic study, we're probably part of the >1 income household group.

Of note, houses with 4-6+ cars in the driveway (that all leave every day) are common here. The houses aren't especially large.
by DanTheManPR | 2025-11-11 19:46:14+00:00
It's probably not a necessity - I'm sure I could adapt to just using my smartphone if I put the time into learning some of the math apps. I still use my ti-89 for everyday calculations. It's a handy device; more portable than a laptop, and better UI than a smartphone. I don't deny myself from using a tool I like.
by freefaler | 2025-11-11 19:46:37+00:00
> Obviously incorrect, since a company can pay their workers and make a loss.

It's not incorrect, it's a simplified model. For debt to occur this capital should be generated somehow. It's true that you can finance a business by getting the profit from some other entity that has generated the profit. So it's not wrong to assume that the money hasn't just appeared out of thin air to fund the salaries. No profitable business no capital to invest.

> Unfortunately, voters and governments don't actually have to make economic sense over periods of many years.

No matter how long the stupidity lasts that doesn't mean that this model is incorrect. No profits = no taxes in the grand scheme of things.
by Eisenstein | 2025-11-11 19:46:42+00:00
> . You arguing in bad faith here,

I am arguing in bad faith for pointing out historical facts? What bizarro world are we in? Do we not care about facts any more?

> You're trying to make an falsely link the democratic party today with the party in the 60's

That you think I am trying to make the Democratic party look bad by saying this is your assumption.

Guess what, Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act which abolished Jim Crow and was a Democrat in the 60s.

This doesn't mean anything with regards to modern politics.

> I call this: intellectual fraud.

I call it US History.

By the way, I hope no one ever treats you even even a little bit like you are treating me.
by gs17 | 2025-11-11 19:46:46+00:00
It's interesting to me that the models often have their "quirks". GPT has the orange tint, but it also is much worse at being consistent with details. Gemini has a problem where it often returns the image unchanged or almost unchanged, to the point where I gave up on using it for editing anything. Not sure if Seedream has a similar defining "feature".

They noted the Gemini issue too:

> Especially with photos of people, Gemini seems to refuse to apply any edits at all
by zahlman | 2025-11-11 19:47:04+00:00
It's not an assumption, it's what the law says. In the US, in Canada and in every other sufficiently advanced nation.

If you disagree, it's because you disagree about what "level" means.

It's as the other poster says:

> There are companies out there literally saying "We need less white people" and listing off every possible demographic as "welcome" except for white men, in the job posting.

When you do this, the playing field is ipso facto not level. When you "welcome" people regardless of demographic characteristics, and refuse to take these characteristics into consideration in the hiring process the playing field is ipso facto level.
by bnj | 2025-11-11 19:47:54+00:00
I've been waiting for solutions that integrate into the artistic process instead of replacing it. Right now a lot of the focus is on generating a complete image, but if I was in photoshop (or another editor) and could use AI tooling to create layers and other modifications that fit into a workflow, that would help with consistency and productivity.

I haven't seen the latest from adobe over the last three months, but last I saw the firefly engine was still focused on "magically" creating complete elements.
by function_seven | 2025-11-11 19:48:02+00:00
I was really surprised to find out that the F-91W was first released in 1989. I had assumed it was even older than that!

I wasn't too surprised to see their blurb leave out it's other (alleged!) known use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Usage_in_terrorism
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-11-11 19:48:32+00:00
Plastic is a hydrocarbon. If bacteria can metabolize it, we have a whole new source of GHG on our hands. It looks like 5–10% of petroleum ends up as plastic, which seems like a decently sized new supply of GHG to worry about. Even if we switched entirely to renewables tomorrow, we'd still have 5–10% of all of our emissions ever just sitting there waiting to eventually be released by bacteria. (Over what time span, I have no idea.)
by kva | 2025-11-11 19:49:15+00:00
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by thrw045 | 2025-11-11 19:49:37+00:00
This is kind of getting into the weeds a little bit but for me and a lot of others luxury items can be fun to own. You can get an affinity for certain designers style, whether it's Gucci, Louis Vuitton or Balenciaga. The items are ridiculously expensive sometimes but it's kind of a tough line to balance because the fact that they cost so much make them more special. So how cheap should they be before they don't feel as special anymore? Is it all a bit irrational? I guess. There isn't a clear definitive defense for luxury items I think other than the feeling they can give. Some people can spend all their income on luxury items rather than other discretionary items because it's the most fun to them.
by andrewstuart | 2025-11-11 19:49:51+00:00
“How dare ffmpeg be so arrogant! Don’t they know who we are? Fork ffmpeg and kill the project! I grant a budget of 30 million to crush this dissent! Open source projects must know who’s boss! I’ll stomp em like a union!”

…. overheard at a meeting of CEO and CTO at generic evil mega tech corp recently.
by derf_ | 2025-11-11 19:50:14+00:00
> ...then they could very well contribute by submitting a patch along with their issue report.

I don't want to discourage anyone from submitting patches, but that does not necessarily remove all (or even the bulk of) the work from the maintainers. As someone who has received numerous patches to multimedia libraries from security researchers, they still need review, they often have to be rewritten, and most importantly, the issue must be understood by someone with the appropriate domain knowledge and context to know if the patch merely papers over the symptoms or resolves the underlying issue, whether the solution breaks anything else, and whether or not there might be more, similar issues lurking. It is hard for someone not deeply involved in the project to do all of those things.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-11 19:50:45+00:00
> establishment that said "trust us" over vaccines was the same establishment that made billions from killing millions by "fueling the current opioid crisis"

Conflating the "establishment" into a false monolith is rhetorically convenient. It's also wrong.

"Purdue Pharma hired Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York mayor and now Donald Trump’s lawyer, to head off a federal investigation in the mid-2000s into the company’s marketing of the powerful prescription painkiller at the" [1]. (The Sacklers disproportionately donated to the GOP [2]. I see no evidence of them continuing that under MAGA.)

To the extent the people who "kill[ed] millions by 'fueling the current opioid crisis'" had a role in the vaccine debate, it's by hitching up to the anti-vaxers.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/22/rudy-giulian...

[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/04/purdue-pharma-and-t...
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-11 19:50:52+00:00
Not that those people aren't here, but I don't think they are the average. I think the average person here is an un/under-employed tech enthusiast who dreams of startups but spends his time here instead of actually working to make it happen. I'm not in that group by the way, I stopped dreaming about startups 10 years ago.

Bored developers are probably another large fraction.
by vintagedave | 2025-11-11 19:50:52+00:00
.Net is also good as a platform for other languages. I recently started working with RemObjects, and you can compile languages like Java, Swift, Go and more (VB, Pascal) to .Net. Then, the whole framework and ecosystem is available. I'm liking it a lot.

They have customers who are startups and the 'got to have tools' folk like having lots of languages since they can onboard people who know anything-not-C# and benefit from the .Net library.
by btbuildem | 2025-11-11 19:50:58+00:00
It's funny, because I find Erlang to be one of the least accessible languages I've ever tried (and my entry into this world of digital wonders was thru disassembling cracktros on a M68k, before internet, in a then-foreign language).

That said, the metaphors are so elegant, the key concepts so well chosen -- yes, the initial onramp may be a cognitive slog, but it's well worth it. It makes everything downstream so much easier.
by jimbokun | 2025-11-11 19:51:26+00:00
AI Coding has the same problem as "self driving cars".

Until the car can be completely trusted to drive itself and never need human intervention, the human has to stay in a weird state of not driving the car, but being completely alert and attentive and ready to resume control in an instant. This can be more tiring and stressful than just driving yourself.

Vibe coding is very similar. The AI can generate code at an astounding rate. But all of it has to be examined carefully for strange errors that a human would be very unlikely to make.

In both cases, it's very questionable whether there is significant savings in the time or attention of the human still in the loop vs just performing the activity completely by herself.
by godelski | 2025-11-11 19:51:26+00:00
My problem with the current environment is that we are too rushed. I think in today's culture no one would have told Dyson to not continue. Or just not care. You got to publish, or perish.

Hard things take time and deep thought. But in our age we seem to not want to think deep. The environment discourages it because it takes longer. It's incredibly difficult to have both speed and quality. They are always in contention.

Mind you, there are a number of Nobel laureates who have claimed they wouldn't have succeeded in today's environment because of this[0]. I'm confident we're so concerned with finding the best that we hinder our ability to.

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/peter-higgs-says-he-wouldn-t-ha...
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-11 19:52:14+00:00
In a drone, how much the controllers eat is straight up irrelevant. Because you already have to keep 20A worth of motors powered or die trying. You aren't going to make a dent in your power problems by going from 40mA to 1mA on the flight controller MCU.

> Lots and lots of useful MCUs that are out there in the real world don't include these functions on-die. That's OK, isn't it?

No. It's embedded, and chips live and die by integration. You either get really good at being an easy to develop general purpose jack of all trades solution, or you get into a lucrative niche and design everything for the niche.

This appears to do neither. It's a specialized piece, but it's not specialized enough. It suggests some very specific applications, but doesn't deliver on being suited to them. Tech demo material.
by pseudalopex | 2025-11-11 19:53:18+00:00
The statistics I linked were Average Age of Automobiles and Trucks in Operation in the United States. The title said in operation not registered. The sources suggested market research not registration records.

How many vehicles are registered but never driven? According to what source?

The statistics said the average age of light vehicles was 12.8 years. The average age of passenger cars was 14.5 years. And Consumer Reports said 32 of 44 brands offered some form of wireless data connection in 2018.[1] This implied 12 brands or more offered vehicles without wireless data connections.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/automotive-technology/who-ow...
by bchasknga | 2025-11-11 19:53:21+00:00
> I say weird because 99.9% of people in the world would consider it on a range of weird all the way to unethical that you spend tens of thousands on pants.

TIL it's unethical to spend a lot of money on clothes. It's not like the sub-thread's OP was spending $10k on a pair of <Insert crazy designer brand name> pants that actually have more form than function. It's a $500 pair of pants. God forbid people spend money on their own preference for their own comfort.

Pragmatically, capitalism brought in more good than bad. Are we arguing that we would've been better off if the world had gone the way of the soviet/pre-80s China way of life?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-11 19:53:50+00:00
> literally the next paragraph

I see it now. That's misleading. It contains a nugget of truth inasmuch as a vaccinated person has lower odds of a SARS-CoV-2 infection turning into Covid, but it's not a guarantee. (Nothing in immunology is, but that's a punt.)

It should have been couched, it wasn't, and I can see someone seeing that as lying.

That said, if Biden had used more delicate words, do you think these folks would have taken their MMRs? Are people who make stupid decisions for the next decade because Trump lies about everything sympathetic because they couldn't evaluate source authority?

> Right next to the part you quoted

I was quoting the comment I responded to.
by gorgoiler | 2025-11-11 19:53:56+00:00
The incredible Sensor Watch after-market board is really worth a mention on a thread like this:

https://www.sensorwatch.net/

Joey et al.’s work ports the SPICE astronavigation library to the on board ARM m0 giving you a complete orrery in a classic F91W “Terrorist” watch. It is fantastic!

I really love being able to get an estimate of when and where The Moon will rise, or where Saturn is right now. Timekeeping and astronomy are two of the oldest forms of science we have and I love being in constant touch with them via the newest science we have: computers! (The source is all open and available for you to hack on, including a nifty emulator.)
by knollimar | 2025-11-11 19:54:28+00:00
Is understanding a system not implicitly saying you know how, on a high level, it works?

You'd have to know a lot about transformer architecture and some reasonable LLM specific stuff to do this beyond just those basics listed earlier.

When it's not just a black box but you can say something meaningful to approximate its high level behavior is where I'd put understand. Transistors won't get you to CPU archiecture and transformers don't get you to LLMs.
by globnomulous | 2025-11-11 19:54:43+00:00
> I've worked for several companies where upgrading to a newer version of .NET was always a major pain point,

This was so difficult for the teams I work with that the person who became the team specialist in MSBuild, dotnet, and C# basically punched his ticket and received a couple of promotions. The work is so miserable and challenging that basically no one else Will take it.

I've struggled to understand why .net upgrades are so painful and laborious despite the maturity of the languages and ecosystems. I had assumed that, as with Powershell, C# and .net behind the scenes are undergoing enormous changes as Microsoft attempts to improve or add support for historically neglected platforms and hardware, and so I had assumed also that these were temporary problems, just badly managed growing pains on a path to major improvement, but I gather from your comment that the problem has a long history and is systemic. Awful.

MSBuild has been a huge source of the suffering I've experienced while working on these projects. The documentation is, in my experience, a nightmare: exhaustingly verbose, full of jargon, and uncanny in its ability to talk around an issue, concept, or functionality without clarifying anything conceptually or practically. I find this throughout Microsoft docs.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-11-11 19:54:58+00:00
A human needs to have significant creative choices involved in the creation for a work to be copyrightable. Naruto v. Slater litigated this, where a "selfie" taken by a macaque was ruled to not be eligible for copyright.

U.S. Copyright Office, Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices § 306 (3d ed. 2021)¹ is quite explicit:

> The U.S. Copyright Office will register an original work of authorship, provided that the work was created by a human being.

> The copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the mind.” Trade-Mark Cases, 100 U.S. 82, 94 (1879). Because copyright law is limited to “original intellectual conceptions of the author,” the Office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work. Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U.S. 53, 58 (1884). For representative examples of works that do not satisfy this requirement, see Section 313.2 below.

This has not yet been litigated to conclusion, but it seems likely to me that LLM-generated outputs are not subject to copyright.

¹https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-...
by NicoJuicy | 2025-11-11 19:55:01+00:00
Softbank is the example that you could use against the conspiracy theorists.

They may know more, but not that much more.

> SoftBank has been a repeat investor in Nvidia. It sold off its investment before the AI boom took off and then bought the chipmaker's shares again before divesting in October to double down on its biggest investment bet, OpenAI.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-11 19:55:15+00:00
The F-91W is such a fun watch. Super functional, you're not scared of damaging it, because A) You can't and B) it's like $25.

The backlight is my absolute favorit feature. It's completely pointless. It can barely light up the hours, and only the left most digit and Casio never bothered to fix it. Absolutely delightful.
by colejhudson | 2025-11-11 19:55:17+00:00
The recognition of any "status quo" is political.

Push back, as in this thread, can change which hierarchies are accepted and which aren't.

In particular, the use of "Greater China" normalizes corporate acquiescence to Beijing's explicitly revisionist policy preferences.

Taiwan is an independent nation. It isn't lost. And all free nations should intervene whenever the right to self-determination of another is threatened.

Say hi to the chairman for me.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-11 19:55:18+00:00
+1, it's no accident. The most obvious case is with corporate names, which sometimes get carefully analyzed in translation. Coca-Cola is famously translated as 可口可乐 (Ke3 kou3 ke3 le4, numbers indicate tones), with individual characters meaning "can taste can happy", and intuitively meaning something like "drinkable deliciousness"