MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-13 18:57:56+00:00
And that's not what I said either (even though I used the word narcissist first), that he has to like the gifts.

Putting yourself above others is what makes your actions ego centrical. When somebody does something nice for you, that's a very beautiful gesture, even if you didn't particularly fancy that thing. Part of being mature is learning these things. That's why we are happy and grateful when a friend invites us for dinner. Not saying: "Hey! Don't cook anything I don't like! And anyway, I prefer eating take-out, so don't invite me!".

It's not about the physical gift, it's not about the food or about the drink. It's about the human connection, and that is a very fragile thing. People forget these things in these hyper-materialistic and yes ego centrical times we live in.

Gifts which you didn't want are easy to get rid off, just give them to somebody else.
by parliament32 | 2025-11-13 18:58:24+00:00
Ory Polis also sounds great, but also suffers from:

> Organizations that require advanced features, enhanced security, and enterprise-grade support for Ory's identity and access management solutions benefit from the Ory Enterprise License (OEL) as a self-hosted, premium offering including: Additional features not available in the open-source version, Regular releases that address CVEs and security vulnerabilities, with strict SLAs for patching based on severity, Support for advanced scaling and multi-tenancy features.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-13 18:58:29+00:00
> I'd think a joint and a glass of bourbon would go hand-in-hand.

They don't. Drunkenness just kind of nullifies pot. I might have a beer when I'm stoned, but only a very tasty one, and only one.

I think that extremely light pot smoking is killing alcohol sales. The tiniest bit of pot is just as pleasing as a mild alcohol buzz, and an alcohol buzz kills the effect of pot. I know I got in the habit for a while of smoking a tiny, tiny bit when I got home, with the effect long gone before I went to sleep. Back in the day (and sometimes still), I would have had one beer, or one glass of wine.
by getnormality | 2025-11-13 18:59:05+00:00
I wonder if your problem is really with capitalism, or what capitalism even means.

It seems some people view capitalism as basically free markets, and others view it as basically amoral profit maximization by any means necessary. I find this mix of meanings confusing. I tend to think both that markets are mostly good, and that we need independent education in and enforcement of moral virtue that restrains us from exploiting others for profit. Am I a "capitalist"? I suspect people will disagree.

And exploitation happens in all political and economic systems, as the communists of the 20th and 21st centuries have showed us extensively, so it seems kind of misleading to associate exploitation so closely with capitalism.
by extr | 2025-11-13 18:59:33+00:00
This is/was a great trick for improving accuracy of small model + structured output. Kind of an old-fashoined Chain of Thought type of thing. Eg: I used this before with structured outputs in Gemini Flash 2.0 to significantly improve the quality of answers. Not sure if 2.5 Flash requires it, but for 2.0 Flash you could use the propertyOrdering field to force a specific ordering of JSONSchema response items, and force it to output things like "plan", "rationale", "reasoning", etc as the first item, then simply discard it.
by zippyman55 | 2025-11-13 19:00:04+00:00
I learned a huge amount from my team members, and they were usually smarter than I was. So, sure, I occasionally corrected them and impressed them, but all the bread crumbs they threw out, I gobbled up and learned a ton. But, they never said stupid stuff! (Ok, maybe about social events, but they were geeks). When team members spout off erroneous stuff and it is not "occasionally" you have to question what you are going to be learning from your co-workers. So, your whole team may be inferior and contribute little to your learning and growth. This extends to management and the decisions they make regarding AI.
by woile | 2025-11-13 19:00:11+00:00
To me it feels like 2 different set of products, what they are showcasing here seems very similar to slack/teams.

Of course, it would be awesome to have a faster and open source slack, and if I can take notes on the same style as my editor great. So I guess, it would be nice to be able to embed zed in another product.

I think this would be appealing for a company that it's core product is code, like zed, but I do wonder if other companies even need this functionality.
by qcnguy | 2025-11-13 19:00:18+00:00
The privatization took years however, it wasn't an overnight thing. A lot of the process was just writing down and professionalising a lot of aspects that were previously ad-hoc, so the benefits started before the precise date drawn on the graph. The law was passed in 1993 but preparations began before that, it was clear this was going to happen even in 1991.
by leviathant | 2025-11-13 19:00:31+00:00
I was kind of surprised by this line:

>Nano Banana is terrible at style transfer even with prompt engineering shenanigans

My context: I'm kind of fixated on visualizing my neighborhood as it would have appeared in the 18th century. I've been doing it in Sketchup, and then in Twinmotion, but neither of those produce "photorealistic" images... Twinmotion can get pretty close with a lot of work, but that's easier with modern architecture than it is with the more hand-made, brick-by-brick structures I'm modeling out.

As different AI image generators have emerged, I've tried them all in an effort to add the proverbial rough edges to snapshots of the models I've created, and it was not until Nano Banana that I ever saw anything even remotely workable.

Nano Banana manages to maintain the geometry of the scene, while applying new styles to it. Sometimes I do this with my Twinmotion renders, but what's really been cool to see is how well it takes a drawing, or engraving, or watercolor - and with as simple a prompt as "make this into a photo" it generates phenomenal results.

Similarly to the Paladin/Starbucks/Pirate example in the link though, I find that sometimes I need to misdirect a little bit, because if I'm peppering the prompt with details about the 18th century, I sometimes get a painterly image back. Instead, I'll tell it I want it to look like a photograph of a well preserved historic neighborhood, or a scene from a period film set in the 18th century.

As fantastic as the results can be, I'm not abandoning my manual modeling of these buildings and scenes. However, Nano Banana's interpretation of contemporary illustrations has helped me reshape how I think about some of the assumptions I made in my own models.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-13 19:00:48+00:00
Yeah, you need a pretty high population density before you get to the point where rail makes sense. That said, having rail connecting major metros does make sense generally, especially with how often people travel.

In the UK, I had to take a train from Preston England to London (2004ish). It was absolutely packed. A good reason for that is the ticket price was about 60 gbp and the trip took 3 hours (IIRC).

That's where I think the US should both invest and subsidize. There's a lot of air travel that could be replaced with rail travel if the US rail wasn't so terribly ran. It usually costs more than an airline ticket (which is crazy) and often takes a lot longer due to delays waiting on commercial trains. A lot of that can be fixed by regulating commercial rail shipping (for example, limiting train length). But also building new dedicated highspeed lines between major metros. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to make a trip from Seattle to Florida in under 48h by rail and for less than $500.

A train should be cheaper and faster than a car. It should be cheaper than a plane.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-13 19:01:18+00:00
Nothing in the article mentions anything about misandry or societal shaming of men. Instead, the author points to the many and various online addiction-machines being marketed towards men and being built with very little regulation.

I think if we want our boys to grow up and avoid being these "Monks" the author talks about, the key is to help them to avoid addiction and gambling, and to help them to avoid these persecution complexes that come from isolated online culture.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-11-13 19:01:28+00:00
what compels software people to write opinion pieces. like you don't see bakers, mechanics, dentists, accountants writing blog posts like this...

Edit: to everyone responding that there are trade mags - yes SWE has those too (they're called developer conferences). In both categories, someone has to invite you to speak. I'm asking what compels Joe Shmoe SWE to pontificate on things they haven't been asked by anyone to pontificate on.
by bongodongobob | 2025-11-13 19:01:38+00:00
I know I'm personally just tired of trying to converse with people with heads in the sand. AI saves me shit tons of time daily. If they can't figure it out, so be it. The level of absolute denial in HN AI threads is bizarre. One guess is that hacker nerds have their entire personality tied to being a smart haxor. That is being commoditized and they are getting defensive about it. It's telling that the image/video AI threads are nothing like that because it's not their profession being talked about.
by anvuong | 2025-11-13 19:02:01+00:00
Unfortunately the most popular distro (Ubuntu - Canonical) is behaving more and more like Microsoft. I updated to 25.10 last week and it decided to ignore my settings, reset the snap priority and reinstall the snap firefox package, all without my consent. I was fed up when Canonical decided to hijack apt to inject their own proprietary closed-source snap packages, now after having dealt with it again and again after each major upgrade, I just switched to Fedora Gnome a few days ago and I'm not missing anything with Ubuntu.
by ramesh31 | 2025-11-13 19:02:05+00:00
>The party of small government killing a new, billion dollar industry because Mitch McConnell's state beverage is seeing declining sales.

McConnel sponsored the original bill. Kentucky is historically one of the largest hemp producing states. The whole thing just shows how inept the entire administration is. DJT 45 signed the original law himself, after it was drafted and passed by his Republican house and senate.
by illwrks | 2025-11-13 19:03:03+00:00
Building LLM’s. In my mind those engineers are the ones that have more intimate knowledge of the data and input, and can create the LLM’s for their specific tasks. Everyone else is a customer to them.

I can tell you how a house is built, that doesn’t make me a builder that makes me informed and opinionated. I can decorate my house however I like but im not a painter/decorator or a tradesman. I can assemble some ikea furniture, but I’m not a carpenter. I’m a consumer and I can tweak something to my liking but I can’t do anything significant.
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-11-13 19:03:07+00:00
> amount of damage to the soft power and influence that the US projected around the world in less than a year.

Has that happened? Give us something concrete a real example of that. Europe seems to be increasing it's dependency on the USA with large military spendings. They bent the knee really quickly during the last round of trade talks....

If this is a damaged USA's soft power what we've really learned is that we've been wildly overestimating other countries.
by niffydroid | 2025-11-13 19:03:35+00:00
Having run a small mongo database and having it hosted in 3 different places at one point. The last point was atlas, yes it was expensive but we got replication, we could have an analytical node, we even had data residency. If I remember correctly you can have your replicas in different providers at the same time.

One of the biggest issues was cost, but we were treated like first class citizens, the support was good, we saw constant updates and features. Using atlas search was fantastic because we didn't have to replicate the data to another resource for quick searching.

Before atlas we were on Compose.io and well mongo there just withered and we were plagued by performance issues
by lpedrosa | 2025-11-13 19:03:35+00:00
Tbh, I much prefer ORY's API first approach. I looked into Keycloak when I was trying to have a multi-purpose auth server that allowed me to peek into the auth flows.

The sheer complexity of Keycloak's configuration and deployment vs. something like ORY's Hydra was night and day.

And the fact that I could intercept the auth flow through a callback and use their RESTful API to drive it was amazing. No more "package this JAR" and hope that it works. Hydra would run on its own and I don't have to touch it, except when I have to upgrade it.
by keyringlight | 2025-11-13 19:03:55+00:00
With Vista it was coming from the failed Longhorn project that was supposed to be transformative to windows and longer fixing up winxp than they wanted, but at least vista ended up as plain old windows then win7 was a polished up release. For the direction MS have taken win11 I can't see them turning it around so quickly especially while they're still driving full speed in the direction they think is right.

Really the question is who are they selling windows to and what do they put in it to try and make it an attractive offering. "Selling" might as well be figurative or literal seeing as they've now completely trained retail customers that they don't have to buy an OS even when before piracy was overlooked, and they'd need to be a significantly better offering than linux which is $0 and only getting better at undermining the core offering of 'running windows applications'.
by golmansax | 2025-11-13 19:04:06+00:00
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by 0xffff2 | 2025-11-13 19:04:15+00:00
Not a 1-1 comparison. For my daily double shot espresso, actual gourmet locally roasted coffee costs me just over $2. My coffee equipment cost enough that factoring in some kind of depreciation for it seems necessary, which would put my costs somewhere in the ballpark of $3 all in with a 5 year full depreciation. Paying someone else $4 for a them to make a coffee doesn't actually sounds that crazy if it's good coffee.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-13 19:04:31+00:00
Yep. And they will ultimately return them or be disappointed when [insert xyz app] doesn't work.

Gamers are only one case that's currently being solved. Devs are already solved (except for iOS). Creatives are a different story entirely.

If anything, Microsoft's decisions are more likely to boost mac sales than they are to create any kind of meaningful normie migration to Linux. Especially if Apple goes through with the rumored low-cost macbook. That thing will sell like hotcakes, and macOS share is already growing as is.

We are many times more likely to see the "Year of the macOS desktop" than we are the "Year of the Linux desktop"
by crims0n | 2025-11-13 19:04:41+00:00
I like it for what it is, a well-built smartwatch with with a SDK, internet connection, and decent battery you can hack on over the weekend. It isn't going to replace your Apple Watch, but it is significantly more refined than some other offerings such as the PineTime, Bangle.js, etc.

(Nothing against those projects, I enjoyed them for what they were as well.)
by plomme | 2025-11-13 19:04:52+00:00
Agreed, children were the original pension scheme and might well become one again!

Jokes aside I agree with you on strengthening bonds with local community, and it's something that many people neglect, not even knowing their neighbors. Especially so for city dwellers. Strong social bonds are an end in its' own right!

On your agrarian note I wonder if we will see a return to the country side as younger people are priced out of cities and more jobs accept remote work. Then again, RTO and "affordable" rentals may nullify that. But as real estate prices grow I keep wondering how anyone has the money to buy real estate in the city any more. Corporations I guess.

Regarding money being just a number I don't disagree exactly, but it sure feels like my flavor of white collar work might be among the first to be automated. If not, and the stock market flat-lines and taxes shoot up because we need to support the super-centenarians then my investments and cash flow are shot. I don't count on UBI to save me before pretty much everyone is out of a job, and in the meanwhile I will need to exchange money for goods that I'm not certain will plummet in price to match my lack of funds. So that's part of the reason I'm thinking about how to hedge or even gain in a future that might look different from our past.

I feel like a lot of people are vaguely aware of the skewed demography in the northern hemisphere, but I don't feel like there is a lot of talk about how it will affect the way we work and invest.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-13 19:04:55+00:00
Why is the hemp ban shady at all?

Using farm bill hemp to produce CBD and THC is not the intended point of that bill. Plenty of states have set up actual, real legalized cannabis industries that benefit from regulation (like required mold testing).

The products created from this oversight are a dumb loophole. If you want cannabis, just vote for people to legalize it, it's really not hard. The only reason it continues to be illegal federally is the GOP, and most of their voters say they want it at minimum decriminalized. Even my brother who thinks we shouldn't give addicts narcan (let them die) thinks it's dumb that we punish people for smoking weed.

But they vote for people who want to keep it illegal so....
by stopbulying | 2025-11-13 19:05:14+00:00
FWIW, https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/

> Nearly half of the country’s vegetables and over three-quarters of the country’s fruits and nuts are grown in California

How many drivers will they be short as a result of this administration's actions, and how should we expect driver shortages to affect the price of food and other goods?

Did they intend to increase food prices with this action?
by ixwt | 2025-11-13 19:05:22+00:00
This is a rather bizare take. Pebble turned down a massive deal to keep doing their own thing. They sold cheap after they were going down because they had too mich staff, and not enough sales. Which Eric has said many times, and can even be found on his blog.

Then, when they were being sold, instead of shutting down the Pebble store and basically bricking all Pebble watches, they intentionally opened it up to make it possible for community support. Which is where Rebble stepped in.

Bizarre and disingenuous take. That really doesn't take into account Pebble's actions, much less their words.
by axiolite | 2025-11-13 19:05:36+00:00
> These are all better reasons than the one we were given.

Explaining that it costs 4c to make a 1c coin is a pretty clear and solid justification. People know that producing a physical unit of currency should cost considerably less than its face value, and if not, it's a huge problem.

Complaining that one news article, which is just reporting a current event, doesn't give you an in-depth background analysis and context, is absurd. If you care about a topic enough to want that level of in-depth, you can go look for it elsewhere.

CNN pointed me this NYT article: https://archive.is/Ek38I
by fletchowns | 2025-11-13 19:06:09+00:00
> Gaming works astonishingly well on Linux these days

They have certainly made a lot of progress, but there are many of us that will be stuck unless all the new AAA titles are supported. Battlefield 6 is a notable recent example of a wildly popular game that you can't play on a Steam Deck.

Seems like it's really just the anti-cheat that is holding things up. I wish every game studio out there didn't have to come up with their own anti-cheat system. Is this something Valve could solve once and for all with their OS & platform? That seems like something that would make the 30% tax a lot more appealing to game studios.
by Reason077 | 2025-11-13 19:06:11+00:00
Much of the French high speed rail network (LGV Atlantique, LGV Rhône-Alpes, LGV Nord, LGV Méditerranée, LGV Est, etc) was inaugurated in the 1990s and 2000s.

This alone would have been responsible for a big increase in French rail traffic.

UK rail infrastructure certainly received improvements during this era too, but besides HS1 it was mostly just renewing and upgrading existing tracks. Nothing like the thousands of km of new high speed rail that was built in France!
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by Patternician | 2025-11-13 19:06:36+00:00
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by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-13 19:07:20+00:00
I don't want to get bogged down in the politics part, so I will speak to driver capacity. There is never a shortage of CDL/truck drivers in the US, its all about having as many drivers as possible that can be paid as little as possible, so this should be mostly immaterial considering CDL drivers either in or within short haul driving distance of California. Authorized drivers will fill this gap.

Related:

The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37394109 - September 2023

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-perpetual-truck-driver...
by Rogach | 2025-11-13 19:07:45+00:00
Inside a single bank - definitely. But if you have dollars in different banks then they suddenly start having very different value. Couple examples just in case:

1. Spending dollars on US soil from an US bank account won't incur extra fees (at least visible to the person - I know about interchange fees, but they are borne by the merchant), while using card issued by a foreign bank can incur fees for cross-border transactions (at the level of 2-3% usually).

2. Sanctions and KYC concerns also make different dollars have different value. Money in US bank account of an US company employee can be used at face value - money in some less-favored country bank, not so much.